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Music is in the air and sharks in the sea [Mingle]
Date: 24 August 2019
Characters:OPEN
Note: Like all welcome mingles, this is a SoL free-for-all mingle meant to get new characters involved by centring around something relevant to them. Without further ado, please welcome Celestial Ray Jones,Sacrament Lucas Jones and Torin Byrd!
The summer is drawing to an end, but not without one last big event: A day-long music festival that's spread out over the Greens and the nearest bits of the shoreline. One stage sits just below the tideline, so sometimes there's water around it and sometimes there isn't and one stage sits higher up on the Greens. Many bands and singers have come from both the local and wider area, and the festival has even has managed to acquire two big-name headliners: Bryan Adams and Busted, so all ages are catered for. The general music styles range from rock to pop, nothing extreme on any ends but still a wide enough range to not be boring.
The entrance fee is cheap and there's family discounts, so there's a lot of locals but also a good deal of people from further away, and due to the scenic location there's even people from further away than London in attendance. Especially since the weekend is blessed with perfect weather, just overcast enough for people to not get too many sunburns and heatstrokes but sunny enough that there's no worries about rain.
It also helps that the festival is fundraising for a cause that unites all ages, classes, and any other disparaging groups: Dinosaurs. Who doesn't love dinosaurs? Exactly. We all come together for dinosaurs. Or that is what the organisers say in the opening speech. Fact is, the kids' corner of the festival is dinosaur themed, a few people in dinosaur suits hang around, there's dinosaur themed food, and there's a group of party tents explaining what the fundraiser is for. And, more excitingly, displaying some dinosaur artefacts - bits of a skeleton arranged to make it clear where in the dinosaur they went, a fossilized egg, and a stone with the imprint of a dinosaur in it. Because this is what the fundraiser is about: The town museum has managed to successfully campaign for an additional room in the context of the renovations necessary after the controlled WW2 bomb detonation last year. And the director of the museum has been working closely with a paleontology professor from the local uni to dedicate that room to what they can reasonably call dinosaur ages. Well, and everything else that came before the time that the up-until-now "oldest" room in the town museum covers. But mainly dinosaurs.
They even have a very specific thing they're fundraising for, the two explain when they're on stage in-between acts: One specific full dinosaur skeleton that was found in Mossgate during the Victorian age which has been in private hands up until now will be auctioned off in a couple of months, and of course Mossgate's town museum has a very special interest in acquiring that fossil.
All in all, it's a typical festival: Drinks and food can be bought, the music alternates between the two stages to give the next showact time to set up, and such. There's more security than there would be normally, and the bag checks are more intense, but with the things that have happened in Mossgate in the last year that's maybe not surprising. ...And when Busted plays on the sea stage at high tide, there's sharks circling the stage. They don't attack anyone, just circle, so everyone just writes it off as a publicity stunt. After the first song, the band even says that they brought mascots, so all is fine, right?
And they make sense, a band member quickly supplies. After all sharks are very closely related to dinosaurs, closer than almost any other reptile!
Characters:OPEN
Note: Like all welcome mingles, this is a SoL free-for-all mingle meant to get new characters involved by centring around something relevant to them. Without further ado, please welcome Celestial Ray Jones,
The summer is drawing to an end, but not without one last big event: A day-long music festival that's spread out over the Greens and the nearest bits of the shoreline. One stage sits just below the tideline, so sometimes there's water around it and sometimes there isn't and one stage sits higher up on the Greens. Many bands and singers have come from both the local and wider area, and the festival has even has managed to acquire two big-name headliners: Bryan Adams and Busted, so all ages are catered for. The general music styles range from rock to pop, nothing extreme on any ends but still a wide enough range to not be boring.
The entrance fee is cheap and there's family discounts, so there's a lot of locals but also a good deal of people from further away, and due to the scenic location there's even people from further away than London in attendance. Especially since the weekend is blessed with perfect weather, just overcast enough for people to not get too many sunburns and heatstrokes but sunny enough that there's no worries about rain.
It also helps that the festival is fundraising for a cause that unites all ages, classes, and any other disparaging groups: Dinosaurs. Who doesn't love dinosaurs? Exactly. We all come together for dinosaurs. Or that is what the organisers say in the opening speech. Fact is, the kids' corner of the festival is dinosaur themed, a few people in dinosaur suits hang around, there's dinosaur themed food, and there's a group of party tents explaining what the fundraiser is for. And, more excitingly, displaying some dinosaur artefacts - bits of a skeleton arranged to make it clear where in the dinosaur they went, a fossilized egg, and a stone with the imprint of a dinosaur in it. Because this is what the fundraiser is about: The town museum has managed to successfully campaign for an additional room in the context of the renovations necessary after the controlled WW2 bomb detonation last year. And the director of the museum has been working closely with a paleontology professor from the local uni to dedicate that room to what they can reasonably call dinosaur ages. Well, and everything else that came before the time that the up-until-now "oldest" room in the town museum covers. But mainly dinosaurs.
They even have a very specific thing they're fundraising for, the two explain when they're on stage in-between acts: One specific full dinosaur skeleton that was found in Mossgate during the Victorian age which has been in private hands up until now will be auctioned off in a couple of months, and of course Mossgate's town museum has a very special interest in acquiring that fossil.
All in all, it's a typical festival: Drinks and food can be bought, the music alternates between the two stages to give the next showact time to set up, and such. There's more security than there would be normally, and the bag checks are more intense, but with the things that have happened in Mossgate in the last year that's maybe not surprising. ...And when Busted plays on the sea stage at high tide, there's sharks circling the stage. They don't attack anyone, just circle, so everyone just writes it off as a publicity stunt. After the first song, the band even says that they brought mascots, so all is fine, right?
And they make sense, a band member quickly supplies. After all sharks are very closely related to dinosaurs, closer than almost any other reptile!
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Which means, since he spots Ray at a distance, he can approach without squinting. He grins at her ramble. "If I wanted to hear somebody gush about bones, I'd have found Torin first. Hey, kid."
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The verbal text-walling is probably not anything new for Sam, but it's very emotionally intense. Girl has some real passion for fish.
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"Well- who doesn't like learning about dinosaurs and stuff? I might've had a weird childhood but I still got to watch Torin Dinosaurin' and it was awesome." No comment on the bands. But she still wraps an arm around his waist and hugs her self-appointed-grandfather back. "I'm surprised you made it down, though, they sure didn't seem like things you liked."
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"Hah. I sure wouldn't know what that's like at all. Nope." Like she hasn't done that while cramming for exams.
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A large frappuccino is totally a valid and healthy breakfast.
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