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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.
(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.
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!
(Ballpit.)
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.
(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:
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Well, given my normal status, there's not much else he could have done that would have had an effect on me, even in a fight. He was lucky this happened during the one time I wouldn't use a method to cheat death here.
["Wouldn't"... not "couldn't"...
"Life's little crossroads are often as simple as the pull of a trigger"
There's a countdown from ten. Neku raises the gun to point at Joshua and then... brings it back down. He just can't do it. Joshua, however, shows no such hesitation, shooting the other boy. Neku collapses, people in the room appear or shout in reaction, before they suddenly vanish into thin air. It's a moment, before Neku vanishes too.
The past Joshua is still there though for a moment, before turning their head to look at the chair that the present Joshua is sitting in, no longer smiling and expression now unreadable, before they too vanish and the memory ends.
It's a long moment before Josh speaks.]
My apologies. I hadn't meant for you to see that.
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It's not as bad as the executions he's seen in the past couple months, though, on the plus side. There's no music, no commentary on the victims--the scene simply disappears as quickly as it had appeared--and then there's awkward silence.]
It's--don't worry about it. I wish I hadn't seen it, but it's not like I couldn't have left.
[Speaking of, he's doing that right now, getting up and leaving the room. Joshua's turn in the simulator's probably almost over anyway.]
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I was going to erase Shibuya from existence. That was the decision I had been planning on making at the time of the duel.
[Finally, Joshua slides out of the chair here, back on his feet.]
The soul of a city is affected by its people. It's survival is dependent on the livelihood and emotions of the citizens. However, if the people living in it feel only apathy... then it poisons the soul. Sickens it until it's rotting from the inside out. And the longer it stays in that state, the less likely it seems that anything will ever change.
And Shibuya was in the same state, once.
[Joshua stares up at something above the chair, the odd towers flanking it.]
So I set up a game. I gave myself a month to be convinced not to erase the city and be done with it all. And I picked someone to take part in the game in my place, to keep things fair. Someone that, based on the information I had about them, I felt would stay the same by the end of the game: apathetic, not caring about anyone but themselves, incapable of change and proving my point that the people of the city were too far gone to be saved.
[And then he actually smiles a little.]
I may have won that duel, but in reality, I had lost the game. My proxy ended up proving me wrong, having changed to become a more caring person by the end of the game. Willing to fight for his friends and reach the end, even if it meant risking his own soul.
So I decided to leave Shibuya as it was, and gave him his life back. He deserved it after all he had gone through... for choosing not to give up on the world like I had.
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And he's not sure what to think of it. He knew Joshua was apparently less concerned with death than many, but putting the fate of hundreds of thousands of people in the hands of a teenager was a whole other level of--well, not necessarily horrible, but...]
That's a lot of responsibility to put on one person's shoulders. I'm glad he ended up changing...but if he hadn't...would destroying Shibuya have destroyed you as well?
[If he understands correctly how deeply a city and it's Composer are connected.]
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Yes, it would have. Upon the erasure of the UG, I would have been erased completely from existence as well.
[No longer able to interact with the living, or the dead. Just gone, completely. As if he had never been there.
And that may have kind of been the point, at the time.]
Bravo, for piecing that together.
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[He trails off, opens his mouth like he's going to continue, and then ultimately decides not to.
And then he actually does leave after that awkward couple seconds of silence. Follow?]
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