Tanabata

Every year, the stars align so that the star-crossed lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi can meet.An annual role-play festival hosted on the Crystal DC.

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"What is Tanabata?"

The legend states that long ago there was a seamstress by the name of Orihime who weaved the most beautiful clothes that shone like the stars as she sat by the Heavenly River. Her father, the Lord of the Heavens, noticed how tirelessly that his poor daughter worked sewing her clothes. It began to take a toll on her emotionally, and so he had divised a plan for her to meet with a cow herder named Hikoboshi.It was love at first sight for the two of them. Their love was so deep and true that they began to neglect their duties and only focused on each other. Orihime stopped weaving. Hikoboshi neglected his cows, allowing them to wander aimlessly into the Heavens. The Lord of the Heavens was enraged by his daughter's thoughtlessness and Hikoboshi's carelessness, and so he split them apart by forcing them to opposite sides of the Milky Way.Though this, of course, did not help. Orihime begged her father to allow them to be together, which he originally forbade. Hikoboshi became so depressed that his livestock suffered. Orihime continued to weave, but the clothes were lifeless and uninspired. Eventually, the Lord of the Heavens felt sorrow for the two. He loved his daughter very much, and Hikoboshi was always good to him.Eventually, he agreed to allow them to meet on the 7th day of the 7th moon, but only then.Just as Orihime and Hikoboshi's wishes to meet again were granted, we Spoken offer our wishes to the lovers in celebration. Colorful slips of paper called tanzaku are written upon in charcoal and tied to bamboo trees, delivering our strongest wishes up to the stars. We also honor the star-crossed lovers by indulging in food and festival games.Many Spoken like to spend Tanabata with their lovers as it is a celebration of the most famous celestial lovers in Hingan history. Be it on a romantic stroll through the bamboo forests decorated with color tanzaku paper or winning prizes for your darling, there's plenty to do.Won't you come join us?

Information

Kakushiken-jinja, or Hidden Blade Shrine, is hosting this tanabata festival to offer their respects to Orihime and Hikoboshi during the Tanabata season in collaboration with vendors and fortune tellers. Perhaps you'd like some festival food? Or maybe a love reading to test whether your romance has a place alongside the star-crossed lovers?

saturday, august 2nd.
starts 5pm pst / 8pm est.

Crystal, Mateus, Shirogane Ward 4
Akenazaka Markets to the Kobun Gardens

Vendor locations are shown here.
Look for anyone with a Looking to Meld sign.

Vendors

Stall 1 ⇢ Shroudrose Teahouse
Stall 3 ⇢ Between the Lines
Stall 5 ⇢ Nikomu
Stall 7 ⇢ Goldfish Scooping
Stall 9 ⇢ Ichigo Ichie
Stall 11 ⇢ empty
Stall 13 ⇢ empty

Stall 2 ⇢ Fanged Crescent
Stall 4 ⇢ Bandee Pakshee
Stall 6 ⇢ Divinitea
Stall 8 ⇢ Fujiwara Clan
Stall 10 ⇢ Empiric Tarot
Stall 12 ⇢ Pachinko
Stall 14 ⇢ Moonlit Den

Shroudrose Teahouse

Food Vendor

Enjoy some refreshments, or buy some looseleaf to brew at home!

Fanged Crescent

Food Vendor

Blessings to our Hingan and Doman cousins! Chef Soichi and Waitress Kuri will be cooking and hawking some special wares!

Between the Lines

Trinket Vendor

Between the Lines offers esoteric books, rare tomes, and enigmatic curios—literature, lore, and lost relics for seekers of the arcane, the obscure, and the forgotten.

Bandee Pakshee

Food Vendor

Thavnairian and new takes on Eastern cuisine! Come taste our famous curry, our signature Gillyburger, and some Eastern-inspired selections!

Nikomu

Food Vendor

Hibachi, sushi, & hotpot booth offering a small selection of bottled drinks alongside a multitude of fresh ingredients, soup mixes, and high quality preparation.

Divinitea by tcg

Food Vendor

Various refreshments and even tea reading services, offered by none other than the illustrious Cabaret Grand! See if you have the star's favor.

Goldfish Scooping

Game

Test your skill (and maybe your luck too) with a classic goldfish scooping game. Don't let the eccentric hosts distract you.

Fujiwara Clan

Food Vendor

Vendor/refreshments
Description: The clan sells a variety of high quality drinks, made from crops grown on Fujiwara lands. Matcha and Sake are the family's specialties. Oboro is also an exceptional weaponsmith, and is able to work with exotic materials.

Ichigo Ichie

Divination

Tarot readings, tengenjutsu, herbs, gems, tanzaku and o-mikuji.

Empiric Tarot

Divination

If you ever wonder what fate has in store, or wish for insight on what troubles you most, look no further than our master diviner and tarot reader.

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Pachinko

Game

Test your luck with a classic gambling game of pachinko! Do you have what it takes to win big? Stop by and find out!

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Moonlit Den

Divination

Have your fortune read from bones, stones, or tea. You can also write down your fortunes and toss them in fire so they may come to pass.

Can't find the stall you want?

Check /yell chat! Vendors will be shouting intermittently to advertise along with their location.Don't forget to visit the bamboo forest to hang up your wishes!

DISCLAIMER: All wishes should be IC as this is an RP event. If you make an OOC wish, it will be deleted for the sake of immersion!

Syncshell

➸ Free temporary Wi-Fi for the event will be provided for the festivities!
➸ We ask that you don't use any flashy VFX that are disruptive. If you have to wonder whether or not something is too flashy, it's best to play it safe and turn it off.
➸ Please come dressed appropriately. No gratuitously sexual attire nor anything too egregiously NSFW is allowed. Once again, if you're wondering if it's appropriate, it probably isn't!
➸ Be courteous of your VRAM usage and triangle count! On the other hand, use your own discretion when joining the syncshell; if you don't think your PC can handle it, maybe you should opt out!

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Rules

➸ This event is open to players of all walks, and thus, it should be expected that newer players will be present. Please be responsible for your conduct as a fellow player and keep MSQ spoilers out of chat.
➸ This event is crucial in upholding its position as a place for any and all to enjoy. No harassment, bullying or otherwise unneeded drama will be left at the door.
➸ FFXIV is a T-rated game. Please do not bring NSFW topics to this event in any form.
➸ Please be kind to one another. IC ≠ OOC, communication is key.
➸ No hatred or bigotry, this should be a no-brainer. if you can't interact with your fellow players without saying something insensitive, see yourself out.

Goldfish Scooping

Two attendants of Kakushiken-jinja are running a time-honored staple of any festival, Kingyo-sukui — or Goldfish Scooping. Before you is a kiddie pool filled with little goldfish swimming about. The object of this game is to use a thin paper net to catch as many fish as you can without tearing the net. Take care, though — those nets are fragile!

Participation is 100 gil* per person. Upon starting, the player will do a /random 100 roll to determine whether or not they scoop any fish at all. The thresh-holds are as follows:

➸ 1 - 49: Your paper net breaks and all of the fish you have scooped break free! Unfortunately, you won't be going home with any goldfish. Maybe you could try again?
➸ 50 - 74: Your paper net holds relatively steady and you manage to scoop out a single fish. It's an average, run-of-the-mill Copperfish.
➸ 75 - 84: Your skill and care nets you a sturdier paper net than average. You manage to fish out a few fish, one of which is a silly-looking Bubble Eye.
➸ 85 - 94: You are a little too good at this. Somehow, you manage to scoop several fish and your paper net seems to be in tip-top shape. The most notable of your haul is a Doman Bubble Eye staring up at you with its big ol' eyes.
➸ 95 - 100: You must have been a Goldfish Scooping savant in a past life. With ease and dexterity previously unheard of, you manage to scoop up so many fish. Someone should erect a statue of you holding up your new Domakin in a bag. You've won the grand prize!

* IC gil only. Feel free to tip the stall runners if you like them, though!

Prizes

Copperfish
Bubble Eye
Doman Bubble Eye
Domakin (minion)

Pachinko

What stands before you is a contraption of home made quality. Bright lights and funny little chirps and blips all distract from the true function of the machine. 'Catchinko' or better known as Pachinko is a game all about luck, you have three balls and four goal boxes.

Drop a ball from the top of the machine and watch as it runs through a course of buffers and pins to fall into one of the 4 points boxes at the bottom.

Participation is 100 gil*, upon starting the player will be asked to roll /random 100 three times. This can be done all at once or over a period of RP posts as these random rolls will indicate where the given ball is dropped in the machine.

Please note that due to limited prizes we can only accept one play per person as each play guarantee's a prize of some kind.

The goal boxes are divided as so:

➸ 0 - 25
➸ 26 - 50
➸ 51 - 75
➸ 76 - 100

When all 3 rolls are cast the total will indicate what level of prize the player will have won.

➸ 0 -140: Flower accessory
➸ 141 - 290: Minion
➸ 291 - 300: Mount or clothing item

* IC gil only. Feel free to tip the stall runners if you like them, though!

Prizes

Flower Accessories
Minions
Mounts
Clothing Items