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Progress City Mods ([personal profile] progressmods) wrote in [community profile] progresscity2018-05-18 11:56 am

EVENT LOG PT. 1: Dueling Festivals

Who: Everyone!
What: EPCOT's Dream Festival and Plankton's Plankton Festival.
Where: EPCOT!
When: May 18th to May 25th.
Warnings: Plankton.



DREAM FESTIVAL
DI.

(Imageworks.)

The Dream Festival is held at EPCOT's Imagination Pavilion, largely held upstairs. The downstairs area is is dedicated to the ride itself - a ten-minute look at the wonder and joy of Imagineering, while the theater next door is some sort of documentary about a figure named Captain EO. But the real excitement upstairs, is in the newly revamped Imageworks Pavillion - The Junior
Imagination Station.

Billed as an escape to worlds that were, that could be, and those of fantasy and reality, the Imageworks is designed to get people interested in Imagineering, and as such, is filled with exhibits designed to boggle the mind. This includes the Rainbow Corridor, a tunnel featuring colored lights that assigns each guest a color that follows them as they move through it, among other things. A giant wall-mounted coloring book that gets filled in with electric "paintbrush guns", a series of floor panels that can be stepped on and make sounds, a giant pin screen, you name it.

DII.

(Dreamscape Room.)

One of the more ambitious new add-ons to the pavilion is the Dreamscape Room, a room that is set up to configure to one specific person's desire. Whoever's in control of the Dreamscape Room at the moment (each visitor has a time of five minutes within the Dreamscape Room before it's passed on to the next person)
is able to shape and form a new world within the room, one that will disappear as soon as they leave. This is displayed in photorealistic light and sound, allowing for you to bring anything from your imagination right in front of you.

How will you use your time? Bringing to life a new creation, or perhaps showcasing your home world to others? Living out an old fantasy - a memory? You have a small amount of time here, and you should make the best of it.

DIII.

(With apologies to Cosmographia.)

Just outside of the Imagination Pavillion is a garden - series of colorful flowers and a Figment topiary. It's not explicitly advertised as being part of the exhibit, but there are a rainbow of flowers here, and they seem to be just as much a part of the festival as anything else. For, you see, picking a flower will make you feel a certain emotion for up to an hour, or until another flower is picked. This will depend on the color of the flower chosen. Below is a list of all the different ones!

PLANKTON FESTIVAL
PI.

(Trashfire.)

Meanwhile, directly across from the Imageworks Pavillion, this shit is happening I guess?

The primary attraction of the Plankton Festival is a statue of Plankton made out of what appears to be popsicle sticks. Surrounding this is a foodcart selling lukewarm chum on a stick, terrible yellow balloons that feature a cartoon eye (+the above horrifying balloon animals, a stall selling Chum Bucket Bucket Helmets, and a throne set up for Plankton himself. Much like Santa Claus, you can get a picture of him sitting in a throne with you either standing incredibly far away from him or being directly on top of him.

There's also literally a garbage can that's on fire. This is considered the highlight of the festival by many.

PII.

(Ballpit.)

At some point, it is decided that the festival needs a new attraction. So, they bring it in:
marryapanther: (10)

[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-19 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
What? I'm not Plankton- has he been going around disguised as me, again? I swear...

My name is Bagheera, and I'm not the mayor. Unfortunately, the bastard with the eyepatch is.

... That's... normal? That's a good thing. You're supposed to have sympathy for others, generally speaking.
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-19 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhh so you're a REAL cat and not...a furry? Going around as a cat?

Isn't that identity theft? You could sue him.

[Sighs.]

I was afraid of that. Normally I wouldn't give a shit but now I feel guilty for all the horrible horrible grifting I put several countless unnamed people through.

Only a little guilty though.
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-19 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know what a furry is. Or what a "sue" is.

...Or what "grifting" is.

[He's a wild animal, and he's only been given a crash course on some human concepts, not all. Have fun trying to explain any of this to him, and try not to make any pop culture references. :)]
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-19 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh god is this what his life is coming to? Explaining furries?]

Well let's just say when Mayor Octopus pretends to be you, that's being a furry.

[Ordinarily Mike would just fall over and forget, but this sympathy thing is giving him the energy of a half awake squirrel.]

Sue is when you hire a guy to take some other guy's money. Grifting is that but illegal and you're the guy. Thanks for coming to my Talk.

[...falls over again.]
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-19 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Bagheera tilts his head to the side.]

So... being a furry is disguising yourself as someone else? Why is it called that?
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-19 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Because they're weirdos. Desperate, sad weirdos with too much money.

[Is this intentionally slandering the new Mayor and calling him a furry? Perhaps.]
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-19 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
What does money have to do with it, exactly? Plankton's able to disguise as me for free, with that damned card.

[Bagheera is gonna figure out what fursuits are one day, it might as well be today.]
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-19 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's your funeral, giant talking cat.]

Oh that's because most people don't have magic nerd cards. So they gotta use money to buy their animal suits.

They dress like animals. Even though they're people. Animals. Furries.
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-20 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
... But, why? Camouflage?

And what if they dress as an animal without fur? Like a bird, or a snake?
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-21 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
God no.

If anything it's to stick out more.

....huh you know I never saw a bird furry. Or a snake furry. A birdy? A...snake...y?
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-21 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
Going by the fact that "furries" are defined by most mammals having fur, it might be more like... "feathery"? "scaly"?

What would a frog be? ... "Slimy"?
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-22 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god.

The fact that there is very logically and plausibly people in frog outfits makes me regret humankind entirely.

I'm sorry you had to learn the horrible truths of people, talking magical cougar.
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-22 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, it's certainly odd, but I don't entirely see what's horrific about it. I mean, what are they doing exactly, while dressed as animals?
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-22 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[All around me are familiar places, worn out faces worn out faces...]

You know...

Flaunting it. In public. And that's it.
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-22 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
I don't quite understand. It sounds like the practice is harmless?

[:)]
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-22 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Please don't make me do this.

I can't go on.
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-22 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Bagheera is incredibly confused, now. What's so mysterious about furries? What are they doing? Why is this guy refusing to tell him?]

If you don't tell me now, then I'll have to ask around and find out from whoever's willing to give me the truth. Especially if you're correct in believing that Plankton is one. And especially because I am one of the animals they might be pretending to be.

[Curiosity killed the cat...]
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-22 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even when he's forcibly made to be sympathetic by a magic flower he just fails. He fails. Guess Mike has to rip off the bandaid with this wild lynx or whatever!]

They boink!!! They make out! They do it while wearing the suits, are you happy now?!
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-23 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Hooray! You did it!]

... What does. Any of that mean?

[... Or not. Absolutely none of this terminology is commonplace in the jungle.]
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-23 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Absolutely depressed and defeated:]

They have sex, okay?

Do you feel any better? The Pandora's box is open and we can't unshut it now.
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-23 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
...............................................

Tell me. You seem to be a reasonable sort. What is wrong with humans?
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-23 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Mike...reasonable...ha.]

It's all the crap we put in our mouths. Just endless, endless crap.

[Said after eating like five chumsticks.]
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[personal profile] marryapanther 2018-05-23 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
I really, truly hope you don't mean that literally.

[He has no idea anymore...]
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[personal profile] whatarenext 2018-05-24 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's just processed chemicals we get from a factory. That's all we ever eat now.