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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:
hallotween: (must be the season of the witch)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-22 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[DII]

[now, this? this is cool. this dreamfinder guy is officially the only cool grownup in this whole town.

when she concentrates, the dreamscape looks like a small town that really, really digs pumpkins. however, when she doesn't, it sort of... changes. into something more like a child's bedroom. it's clearly frustrating her.]


[PI]

[but, you need to keep an eye on the bad guys, too. which is why Marnie is hanging out near the statue, very clearly trying to surreptitiously start a fire on its leg. there's fire already like five feet away and yet.]
Edited 2018-05-22 02:49 (UTC)
lusito: (let me go gravity)

PI

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-22 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Joshua watches Marnie's actions here with interest for a moment before he speaks.]

What if you tried snapping the leg off, and then using it as a torch with the fire from the garbage can nearby to set the rest of the statue ablaze?

[Josh]
hallotween: (let's go down to the tennis court)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-23 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah! [read: no] But, that would be too obvious. I don't wanna get caught.

[she's being sneaky af rn right]
lusito: (stick it up)

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-23 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Not really, Marnie, but...]

Oh, yes, of course. How silly of me. Please, don't let me stop you from trying to ignite it on fire with your mind then.
hallotween: (I'll see the veins of my city)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-24 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
I am not! [...] I mean, I would, but I don't have that kind of magic anymore. I'm doing it the old-fashioned way; I saw it in a book, once. You just smash some rocks together, and they eventually spark and make a fire. Easy as pie.

[its not]
lusito: (crystals)

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-24 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see! In that case, I'm sure you also know that it requires the rocks to be flint, granite, or iron pyrite for them to be strong enough to make sparks, right?
hallotween: (killin' it)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-24 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
...

[looks down at the random pebbles she picked up]

Yes. Yes, I do. Of course. Duh.
lusito: (oh wait daisukenojo baito would do that)

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-24 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Good! Since you know that already, I guess I won't need to offer using a set of matches instead of using the rocks you've found, since you would have found the correct ones to use here. Please, continue what you were doing.

[In fact he's just going to drag over one of the world's shittiest lawn chairs that happens to be nearby that barrel of fire to sit in so that he can watch Marnie attempt to set the statue on fire with her random pebbles.]
hallotween: (for the throne)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-24 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

Josh, don't be a jerk! I know you wanna see this thing lit up as much as anybody.
lusito: (show me your best set)

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-24 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I do! That's why I'm sitting here, isn't it?

[Josh, you know that's not what she meant.]
hallotween: (my whammy fell on you)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-24 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Joooooooooosh!
lusito: (I NEED MORE CANDY CANES)

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-24 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Fiiiiine.

[It's a good thing he thinks of you as a friend, otherwise he would drag this out longer. As it is, he just offers a pack of matches that he picked up somewhere to give her, because giving Marnie matches is absolutely not a bad idea, we're sure.]
hallotween: (and I am only as young)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-26 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
See, there we go. Light 'er up!

[she's probably way too good at lighting a match for a 13 year old but hey this is our lives now. she looks around real quick, and then tosses the match at the leg.]

... It won't spread, right?
lusito: (little by little)

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-26 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
... You know what, I'm not sure! I'm curious to see if it does, though.

[This is absolutely the wrong response to have here.]
hallotween: (up in flames)

[personal profile] hallotween 2018-05-27 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, even if it does, it's not like it'll destroy anything anyone cares about.

[just. watches the forming flames with an incredibly intent expression.]
lusito: (main wave)

[personal profile] lusito 2018-05-27 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Good point! Besides, I'm sure Rod or someone else that works here will put it out.