05-11-2017, 07:55 PM
FESTIVAL!!
It's spring, and Ginger Town is going to make sure everyone knows it!!
The town has been transformed for the Festival. Plants now occupy every cranny of every building. The doors of every business are wide open, and people are milling in and out to collect free food and giveaways. Brightly colored decorations are everywhere, and the streets are paved with confetti. A single red and yellow streamer stretches from one end of town to the other, proclaiming the 350th Spring Festival held at Ginger Town, over and over in sparkling colors and glitter.
The Pokemon are on their best behavior. A Camerupt gives slow rides around the festival grounds. Three Snivy in tuxedos and bowties trot here and there, offering informational pamphlets to people. Hoppip, in groups of four, have been lashed together with soft netting and streamers; they float about like balloons. For $500, you can get a message hung from these attractive living decorations. A troop of Butterfree is tasked with keeping the Hoppip visible from the city and not letting them float away. The pink Pokemon just smile down on the proceedings.
Vendor booths are assigned a color at random, so no two stalls look alike, and all form a brilliant mosaic of brightness. They have tents and stalls and tables, and not a few RVs like Trax. None are so battered or so customized, though. There's a fortune teller with his Slowpoke. There's a trainer selling berries his Aipom and Zigzagoon have collected. There are deals to be had - with a little shopping around, you can find any basic trainer item for 20% off. Ginger Town also has a specialty item to commemorate their events. It's called a Flash Ball ($200), which takes a beautiful 3D hyperrealistic photograph of wherever it is thrown, in a blinding flash. No detail is left unrecorded.
The crowd is vast, and must be entertained. There's a puppet show starring an all-Pokemon cast of fake characters. There's a husker playing the shell game with three "cups", which are actually Shellder. "Win a little pearl! Just guess where it is!"
Or you could play the Magikarp Game, $500 per player. You and another player draw a live Magikarp out of the tank, which you get to keep. Each has a number painted on the side - if the numbers match, that's a prize!
There are competitions for each attribute - swing a hammer to test your strength, walk the tightrope to test dexterity, guess the number of plastic Berries in a jar to test Insight, and a contest to see who can hold their breath longest underwater (Vitality!)
As you look around, a trainer comes up to you and asks if you'd like to be put on the mailing list for the Pokemon Running, which should be happening in a few weeks to a few months.
Oh yes, there's plenty for trainers to do. There are several stations set up for trading, with big boards announcing Pokemon sought.
There are designated battle arenas, naturally, with a few participants. But the battle arenas are overshadowed by the vast Shuckleball arena!
"Shuckleball, Shuckleball, SHUCKLEBALL!!" calls the Master of Ceremonies, Mr. Pins.
His low walls surround a large area, filled with random obstacles from rocks to bouncy cushions to living Pokemon. As you watch, someone's Machop is lining up a shot, and sends Shuckle bouncing around toward the goal areas.
Hopefully, Machop will win a prize!
It's spring, and Ginger Town is going to make sure everyone knows it!!
The town has been transformed for the Festival. Plants now occupy every cranny of every building. The doors of every business are wide open, and people are milling in and out to collect free food and giveaways. Brightly colored decorations are everywhere, and the streets are paved with confetti. A single red and yellow streamer stretches from one end of town to the other, proclaiming the 350th Spring Festival held at Ginger Town, over and over in sparkling colors and glitter.
The Pokemon are on their best behavior. A Camerupt gives slow rides around the festival grounds. Three Snivy in tuxedos and bowties trot here and there, offering informational pamphlets to people. Hoppip, in groups of four, have been lashed together with soft netting and streamers; they float about like balloons. For $500, you can get a message hung from these attractive living decorations. A troop of Butterfree is tasked with keeping the Hoppip visible from the city and not letting them float away. The pink Pokemon just smile down on the proceedings.
Vendor booths are assigned a color at random, so no two stalls look alike, and all form a brilliant mosaic of brightness. They have tents and stalls and tables, and not a few RVs like Trax. None are so battered or so customized, though. There's a fortune teller with his Slowpoke. There's a trainer selling berries his Aipom and Zigzagoon have collected. There are deals to be had - with a little shopping around, you can find any basic trainer item for 20% off. Ginger Town also has a specialty item to commemorate their events. It's called a Flash Ball ($200), which takes a beautiful 3D hyperrealistic photograph of wherever it is thrown, in a blinding flash. No detail is left unrecorded.
The crowd is vast, and must be entertained. There's a puppet show starring an all-Pokemon cast of fake characters. There's a husker playing the shell game with three "cups", which are actually Shellder. "Win a little pearl! Just guess where it is!"
Or you could play the Magikarp Game, $500 per player. You and another player draw a live Magikarp out of the tank, which you get to keep. Each has a number painted on the side - if the numbers match, that's a prize!
There are competitions for each attribute - swing a hammer to test your strength, walk the tightrope to test dexterity, guess the number of plastic Berries in a jar to test Insight, and a contest to see who can hold their breath longest underwater (Vitality!)
As you look around, a trainer comes up to you and asks if you'd like to be put on the mailing list for the Pokemon Running, which should be happening in a few weeks to a few months.
Oh yes, there's plenty for trainers to do. There are several stations set up for trading, with big boards announcing Pokemon sought.
There are designated battle arenas, naturally, with a few participants. But the battle arenas are overshadowed by the vast Shuckleball arena!
"Shuckleball, Shuckleball, SHUCKLEBALL!!" calls the Master of Ceremonies, Mr. Pins.
His low walls surround a large area, filled with random obstacles from rocks to bouncy cushions to living Pokemon. As you watch, someone's Machop is lining up a shot, and sends Shuckle bouncing around toward the goal areas.
Hopefully, Machop will win a prize!
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Tabletop RPG PokeRole: http://pokemonuranium.co/forum/showthread.php?tid=789
"I encourage Sceptile to branch out."
