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

"Oh come on, we both know I'm not," Zack laughs. "I just need to eat. I don't like feeling super hungry."

And he'd gotten used to it. He wanted to be unused to it.

Angeal smirked but just nodded. "Make sure you do eat." He figured that watching out for Zack wasn't going to be a thing he had to do here, even if Zack stubbornly wanted to watch out for him.

So he walked along and picked up a plate, handing it to Zack. "After you."

Oh man, plate! Zack smiles and takes it, and then is immediately moving to get it filled as much as he can.

Angeal moved out of the way and let Zack go. It was nice to see the other getting excited even if was just regarding food. It still warmed his heart.

So he tried his best to stick next to the Soldier so that Zack didn't get lost or forget where they were sitting. But there were a few times he mentally shook his head with whatever was being piled onto the other's plate.

A little of everything. That was what Zack was going for. A bit here, a bit there, and more in between. Once his plate was mounded he happily moved to an open table, clearly not intending to risk getting back to his previous seats.

"Amazing! So many different things!"

The former First Class just shook his head and noticed that he'd grabbed a huge turkey leg, and some other forms of meat. It'd been a good long time since he'd had such an opportunity to eat so much without worry of being too sluggish to get anything done later.

So he sat opposite of Zack and smiled. "There's a few good looking desserts too, that I plan to get to after this."

hey, he'd gotten vegetables too. And pie. okay he really liked pie so there might be a bit much of that.

"See, I just got them all at once. Efficient."

"Are you going to be able to eat all of that and have room for another round? Or did you work on the efficiency thing to do a one shot deal?"

He wouldn't be surprised if Zack chose to go back for quite a few more rounds.

"Of course I can!" Zack insisted with a smile. Because now it's a challenge.

Angeal just laughed and picked up his fork. "Well let's see what you can do Soldier. If you only have one plate that's fine too."

He really hoped Zack wouldn't make himself sick. But even if he did, Angeal would take care of him.

Wow he wasn't going to make himself sick. But he was smiling now and starting into his mound of food.

Angeal for his part kept eating, but there was this mint chocolate dessert thing that had caught his eye. Another person next to him told him to try the peppermint swirl drink and that it had alcohol in it.

So those were on his list, but food first.

Looking at Zack enjoying his food now, Angeal just smiled slightly. However, when he was looked at, he just shrugged.

Couldn't get caught enjoying the moment with no mission and no sense of lurking or imminent danger hanging over their heads.

Don't worry, Angeal. They'll get through all of the desserts together.

"You should have some of this pot roast stuff. It's amazing."

The former First nodded. "I'll try that."

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maybe move to wrap this one?

Wrap!