EVENT - DAWNBREAKING PARTY

[thewatchers]

DAWNBREAKING PARTY
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The sun has risen on a new year - a year closer to Daybreak’s ultimate confrontation, but a new year all the same. Instead of the customary welcome assembly and speech for students in January, the administration has decided to celebrate the students’ achievements of thwarting two Heralds, and thus ensuring that the sun can continue to rise at all.

Soleil’s local amusement park, the Radiant Carnival, has been reserved for the Academy’s use on January 10th - which means free, unlimited reign of the park’s features and amenities, often with some further magical twists.


A. Welcoming Feast
Those who have attended the Academy before will by now be familiar with the kind of lavish spread Daybreak puts on for their start-of-year banquet, and the fare is as sumptuous as usual. The presentation comes with a twist, however - given that the party is hosted in the amusement park, the food has been laid out as an extensive buffet that students and staff can visit throughout the day, changing to new selections at certain hours to match the time of day.

The usual selection of drinks - both nonalcoholic and not - has also been made available through a combination of serving staff (for alcohol) and enchanted self-serve machinery (for anything else), allowing the possibly-inadvisable decision of mixing as many drinks as you can possibly get your hands on.

B. Amusement Park
For those who haven’t been to the Radiant Carnival before, it’s a colourful and magical sight - due to support from the Academy and the profit it turns from being one of the few places where the veil is more loosely enforced, it’s perpetually a bright spot, even in the winter landscape. Offering everything from the high-octane thrills of rollercoasters and drop towers to more sedate attractions like riverboat rides and merry-go-rounds, there’s no end to the entertainment that the Carnival provides - if an amusement park ride is reasonably common, the Carnival is sure to have it.

If amusement park rides aren’t to your tastes, there are also alleys and corners where people can gather for more traditional carnival games or - for those who prefer more technological pursuits, an arcade with everything from crane games and photobooths to high-tech game cabinets both enchanted and not. For those who want something more quiet, there’s space to sit and admire frozen water features, peaceful winter gardens, and even a castle to explore made from ice.

There’s bound to be something for everyone at the Radiant Carnival - or, at least, it aims to reach that standard.

C. Fireworks Show
As the day draws to a close and the sun sets, fireworks begin to burst in intricate patterns and vibrant colours in the darkening sky. While seating and rugs have been set up for convenience in the best places to watch the show from, those who are more daring might very well be able to secure a chance to set off some of these special fireworks themselves.

Or you can just bring your own and fire them off from somewhere else within the park, if you find the Academy’s selection lacking - though the administration will likely frown on it, if you’re caught.

D. Wildcard

The Radiant Carnival is open and free, at least for the day, to all of Daybreak’s attendees. Why not take advantage of it?

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Comments

[silksoul]

[ She doesn't miss that fraction of hesitation when he climbs in, either. She simply shakes her head and climbs in beside him, following the instructions to lock themselves both in safely. No point disobeying such things when it's for safety. ]

What an odd machine. [ She resists the urge to run her hands over the metal, wanting to see what it's made of, how it fits together. ] It's as if someone cut the ceiling off a tram, and put the rails on the bottom instead of the top.

[adjectiveprince]

I've never seen anything like it, to be honest.

[He looked around as the car was towed up to the top of the first hill.]

Not in the underworld, anyways. Everything up here is strange and new.

[silksoul]

Nor have I. Harnessing this sort of technology for the purposes of entertainment isn't something Hallownest ever conceived of. Even to ride such a thing was considered a privilege.

[ Even as the cars pick up speed, Hornet finds it more of an interesting diversion than anything else. She certainly likes the wind blowing rapidly past, at least. ]

But the people here have made much of themselves and their civilisations through mechanical aid and effort. They seem obsessed with it.

[ Oh, a loop is coming up. Interesting. She leans forward. ]

[adjectiveprince]

I don't know how you can think about that kind of thing while we-

[Whups he lost his train of thought as they went upside down. Zagreus, too caught up in the ride, didn't really have anything else to say until they came to the end. He did whoop and scream along with the rest of the mortals, but it was hard to tell if he was enjoying himself.]

[silksoul]

[ Hornet sits stoically as ever through the ride, the wind making a mess of her hair as they rocket through several loops, bends and twist. She leans forward or back occasionally, minute adjustments, but nothing more than that.

Eventually, they come to a stop. Hornet fusses with her hair, putting it back in place. ]

Was it to your liking? [ She sounds vaguely curious, for once. Slightly out of breath, too - it was fast, no doubt about that. ]

[adjectiveprince]

Less intense then fighting that damn hydra.

...More fun, though.