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EVENT - DAWNBREAKING PARTY

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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Ahhh. No.

Not those- well. "...He always feels like he wants to know things?"

Reira seems entirely oblivious to the fact that that's kind of what Her feelings are, most of the time. She's a bit pot kettle here. Anyway.

Woah. Real plant.

He smiles a bit at that and nods a little. "Of course... he's only been around for about a year, there's a lot to learn about. And we can make more things, the more we know." He explains.

"If we didn't know foxglove, we couldn't have made that..." He offers by example, pointing to the plant.

Immediately, and without hesitation-

"They're a baby?" ~~NO!~~

"...Is that what it's called? ...I just called it poison flower..." There are a lot of those, but this one was one that got the sprites rather insistent.

"Well, I wouldn't exactly call him a baby... he is a part of me... so he's kind of as old as I am, but also only a year old like he is." He said, but that question made him look at Gold Experience again, and wonder if he was a bit like a baby.

"Well, that's the common name for the flower. But you aren't wrong, they are poisonous... Still they can also be used to make medicines for people, so... there is some good and some bad with them." He said, smiling gently.

Reira squints a little.

That sounds fake.

But the flower is more important she supposes. "...How do you make a medicine with it, if you can't eat it..?"

Is this where the line for poison is drawn!?

"Because you don't eat it to use it for medicine... you have to pull out the specific part you need, and mix it with other things, to produce the right medicine." He explained.

"There are quite a few times when the same thing that could be poisonous, or venomous, is also something that can help cure things. Snake and spider venom is actually a key part to their own antivenom."

"Oh, you have to mix it..."

There is a pause, and-

"...So it's definitely still poison normally then..." Reira! "...I guess it makes sense that adding things would stop the poison part though."

"Yes, it is still poisonous normally." He agrees with a smile and a nod. "Do you want to know more about plants?" He asks, while Gold Experience reaches out once more and this time grows single rose plant, with a few buds showing on it, before they start to bloom, showing a soft color of blue tinged soft purple-pink.

"Mnh? Umm...Yeah okay." She doesn't sound especially hesitant, but maybe just a little wary- which is perhaps silly but that's just how she is.

"Mostly I know which ones are okay to eat, or which ones can grow into something to land on...mnh..." Oh, this one is...

"...oh. It's the one with blue inside...it can't be all blue, but it's trying," she adds, looking around it somewhat curiously. There's no reaction to how fast it grew, or similar.

It's not like That part is new after all.

"That's right... it's called a 'blue boy' rose." he explains, touching one of the roses gently with a smile. "I think they are very pretty. Did you know that you can eat a lot of a rose? The petals, and this area, the rose hips." He adds, gesturing to the general areas. "And many types are very strong and resilient... unwilling to die even if most of the bush is cut off." His smile is soft, almost tender.

Reira nods. That might be concerning. "Yeah. I ate a lot of roses once. Some were really blue, but Flowers said there aren't roses like that here." In the outlands you eat what's available really.

Hmmmmm. "...I don't think I could eat a whole bush though, so it shouldn't worry about that."

Good on them for that resilience though!

He cocks his head to the side slightly as she talks, nodding a little bit. "Yes, the very blue ones I know of would only be possible by feeding a bunch of dye to the plant, to change the color, which isn't healthy for the plant, or for anyone eating it." He admits with a bit of a smile.

"Oh, I wouldn't try and eat this one... you see... this one was made by Gold Experience and anything he makes, will protect itself with all it's strength. And that means any attempt to injure the plant is reflected onto the one who tried." He adds, with a cautioning tone.

"I'm not gonna eat this one," she huffs in protest. "There's nicer things to eat here now, like candy." Very important.

"I don't think dye existed where the blue roses were. Colours were just different there and sometimes not colours I guess." Nothing about that statement really works, but Reira doesn't appear to clue into that, which happens when the sights of the Outlands comes up.

She is, however, curious. "...It can do something instead of just shouting for animals?"

She...may be referring to the chemical response some plants make to attract predatory animals...

"Well... I suppose that does make much more sense... I just thought I'd warn you." he offers, smiling a bit and allowing himself to seem like the silly one in this conversation. It wasn't worth defending himself if it could even possibly send this kid away... she is oddly good company in his opinion.

"The ones that Gold Experience and I grow can, at least. Though it wouldn't surprise me to learn that there are others able to grow plants that can do more than they seem." He explained, and very carefully he took one leaf between two pinched fingers and went to make a small tear on the leaf, but rather than it tearing, as would be expected, the skin on the back of his hand tore, just a short bit, but enough to display the idea. "This is the power that comes from these plant's will to live." He explains.

"There are other plants as well though, that actually feed off insects and sometimes even tiny fish." He adds.

"Mnh?" It's a good warning, she wants to say. But now there's a demonstration, so she's watching that. Carefully, with wide eyes.

Woah-

"Woah." Woah. "That's a lot..." It Sure Is. "I don't think I ever saw a flower do that...and I saw flowers do lots of things, before I came here. Everyone says that's 'just the Outlands', but the Outlands have a lot more different places than here, so that doesn't feel fair. I didn't see flowers eat fish here though..."

That's because none of those ones are native to France.

He presses his hand over the wound, it'll stop bleeding soon enough. "That is why the plants he and I make aren't safe to pick or eat until they are no longer living." he offers, gesturing to Gold Experience. The Stand reaches out and with a golden glow, the bush is unmade from what he created it from, but he is also quickly breaking away a single rose, before it is completely gone. It was a bit of a trick, but one that had taken a little practice on both their parts.

"As for the ones that eat fish... those are most often pitcher plants, and they don't grown naturally in France. Much like their name they form a pitcher shape, with walls that are hard to get back up out of, so when small fish, or bugs, get trapped inside, they can get their nutrition from them." he explains, Gold Experience turning the rose into a single stem of a small pitcher plant, showing off one flower.

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surprise fresh grass smell is ATHREAT

Surprise indeed!

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