aterat | Winter is not a season

Who; Everyone (don't forget to tag in & tag around!)
What; The Winter Festival
Where; The circus complex and the park
When; Today & lasting for 1 week
Warnings; None, but if something needs a warning, please label as such!

Back in November, Ignis petitioned Halcyn for a Winter Festival. He requested snow, lots of lights, and an in ground hot tub or two or more.

Train/moogles/horses - There's also a small train to go ride around the city, and horses will again appear for sleigh rides. Moogles will be appearing/on hand to give directions to where things are if people get lost. They are also serving as sources of information in case someone doesn't know anything about a festival or activity. Just ask the moogle kupo!

Food/shopping - Ignis also learned of and requested that European style christmas markets (including Japanese ones) so all of the foods for those countries and all of the things/traditions that they are associated with will be available. Whatever country has what, feel free to learn about it, or whatever different world. Recipe books will be available for whatever place too so pick one up while you can because you might want to learn to cook it for yourself! (Sorry folks, Remy not included) Enjoy all the shopping and fooding even if you've never heard of that place, world or food before. So eat, drink and be merry!

Activities/things to do - Skiing, sledding, skating and tobogganing will be available and if you're really tough, maybe archery hunting in skis may appeal. Riding on a ski lift can be a relaxing thing to do as well. Snowboarding is available as well, but a few words of caution on that. There may be sledding moogles as you go, lots of trees to run into, balloons, and if you hit an igloo, there may be an angry moogle that throws a table at you. There are also snow chocobos and snow moogles along that path.

For those not so daring to go snowboarding, the snow moogles and snow chocobos will be around town in different spots so that they're not missed. And while they won't throw snowballs at you, your friends just might! And you can ride a horse to go see a model of a royal library. A word of caution however, as there may be monsters even if they're mostly slimecicles. There may be some Luminous Lamplings or Bongo Fandangos lurking about too.

Other activities/happenings - There will also be events and things for the Chinese New Year, such as lion dances, all sorts of traditional foods, decorations, fire works, firecrackers and kids might get red envelopes. Since it is now the Year of the Rabbit, adorable rabbit decorations of all sorts are everywhere. On the last day of this Winter event will be the Lantern Festival.

Something else to note - If you're feeling adventurous there's a place or two to get married! The Hunting Lodge is always open so you could married there too! Take a walk through some Christmas illuminations for romance, or just because they're pretty.

Other notes - People from home will appear this week too as it's a fourth wall event, so be on the lookout for them! And if all of this stuff doesn't work, feel free to choose your own wintry adventure!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"We had an Arena like that in my world! We didn't get medals for it though," she frowned slightly and tapped her chin. Now she felt oddly disappointed. "We did fight a house though. What kinda things did you fight?"

She fought a what? "Wait, you said you fought a house?" How did that even work?

That was just beyond his imagination and Terra couldn't understand how that was even possible.

"Yup. A giant house that Corneo called the Hell House. It was HUGE and kept trying to eat us. It also threw exploding stuffed animals at us." The entire thing was both ridiculous and weirdly terrifying.

Terra wasn't sure what to make of this hell house that Aerith was describing. "Stuffed animals, and it tried to eat you."

His brain was scrambling to make sense of such a horrific picture in his mind. "That sounds pretty crazy."

"Yup! They also sold the stuffed animals so you could buy them yourself to I guess...explode on someone? But that just seemed too mean. "It was super crazy! It wasn't even supposed to be a round but Corneo cheats."

Of course Terra had no idea who this Corneo guy was, but the name stuck in his head so if the guy ever showed up, he would remember.

To Aerith, he just shook his head. "Exploding toys..that sounds like a horrible idea and time for anyone."

He could only imagine Ven getting hurt by this monstrosity due to the toys.

"Mmhm, that's Corneo's specialty: horrible times for everyone." He was pretty good at it too as bad as that was. "I'd say he should think about investing in a better hobby, but it doesn't matter now." Hopefully. They hadn't been able to fully get rid of him but she was pretty sure they'd at least gotten rid of his power.

"No kidding he needs a better hobby." Terra replied, shaking his head. At hearing it didn't matter now, he took it to mean that the guy wasn't here which of course wasn't a bad thing at all.

"What happened to him?"

"We fought him and then he told us about his nefarious ultimate plan. Which meant we could try to stop it. When his bosses found out they got really mad at him and he had to run away. Unfortunately the second time we found him he escaped." Which meant he could come back. But she really hoped he wouldn't.

"So he's still wandering around back in your world." It didn't sound as if the man was dead but if his bosses were mad, Terra had heard things like that could happen. "I'm sure you'll find him again."

This guy was like a bad penny as he'd heard the expression here.

"I hope not, but I imagine you're probably right. We left the city and I'm sure he's had to as well..." So she supposed it was entirely possible they'd find him again.

He shook his head. This guy sorta vaguely reminded him of Master Xehanort. "So when you find him you're going to settle things up, right?" Somehow he figured she could get this guy alongside her friends. After all he knew a tough lady named Aqua.

"I hope so. I hope if we do run into him again we can make sure he doesn't get away. He can't be allowed to get away with the things he's done." But that might be harder to do than she thinks. Or hopes.

Terra nodded. "Is there someone you can take him to, so that he can pay for the stuff he's done or will you guys take care of it yourselves?"

In his own eyes they could do it, but different worlds worked differently.

"We'd have to take care of it ourselves. Unfortunately he was in league with most of the people that run Midgar." Well, not quite in league anymore now that he spilled on their secret evil plans. "Honestly, actually, maybe if they find him first they'll take care of it for us."

"That would help in the long run, but that won't give you the reasons why he did what he did, right?" But if justice was served and things were settled and the dangerous man had been given what he deserved, that was another thing too and not necessarily bad.

"The reason was just money. That's all he cares about. Money and power." Which made him the worst kind of person.

Terra shook his head. "If he shows up here, he's going to be out of both."

And there was a part of him that wished that guy would show up even if he knew it was better that he didn't.

Winter is not a season

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