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WHO: OTA
WHAT: Eglaf Annual Earth Day Extravaganza
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 2020 - Sunday, April 19, 2020
WHERE: All over Historical Downtown Eglaf
WARNINGS: The whole premise of Friday's event is dub-con, so...you know. There's that. If you feel your thread should have content warnings on it, please say so in the soonest possible comment subject line.

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone?

Every year, the weekend before Earth Day, the city of Egalf has a three-day festival to celebrate centered largely in Historical Downtown. Eglaf was one of the first cities in Florida to pass Go Green laws and they're proud of their attempts as a city to reduce their carbon footprint. Each year, the line-up of events is about the same.

Friday night is a fundraising theme costume party, usually attended by any and all, featuring local celebrities and registered Displaced Supers along with raffles, meet and greets, autograph sessions, photo ops with Displaced Supers, local vendors, and more, located in Downtown Pride Hotel's ballrooms. This year's theme is "Getting In Touch with Nature." Party-goers will be turned away at the door if they're not in costume. No exceptions. Tickets can be purchased all week at the hotel or at the door. General admittance is $10 and admittance with dinner reservations is $25 per person. Group discounts are available; please call the front desk at Downtown Pride Hotel for details.

NOTE:This event is where things might get a little hinky this year. The portal being reawakened in January has been causing little issues around town, but the government mostly has this on lockdown. Unfortunately, it would appear that something new has made its way through. Earlier in the week, a small group of playful and mischievous fairies slipped through the portal. Learning of the Earth Day celebration and wanting very much to carry on its message, on Friday morning, locals and Supers alike might notice a sort of shimmer in the air. Spoiler alert: it's their version of fairy dust. Exposure to said fairy dust will have residents of Eglaf under the fairies' spell. They'll feel compelled to reduce, reuse, recycle, and be at the Earth Day fundraiser with bells on.

When the clock strikes eleven, though, that's when they'll decide to have a little more fun. Anyone still in their costume and within a five-mile radius of the hotel will believe themselves to actually be their costume or, in some cases, they will become their costume. So, if someone comes to the party dressed as a tree, they should be prepared to stand very still and be very silent while swaying in the wind for the hour during which the spell will take hold. This spell will last anywhere from 1 to 24 hours.

Saturday, there will be a parade featuring giant balloons, floats built by local businesses, and Displaced Super appearances. The parade will begin at 10:00 am and will follow the usual path down all of Main Street from Historical Downtown up to the upper east side before returning back to Historical Downtown. Typically, this parade runs two to three hours in its entirety. Then, Saturday evening will kick off the Earth Day Film Festival, where locals and Displaced Supers alike are invited to the Downtown Green, weather permitting (or the Oakdale Theater, if not) where the stage will be hidden behind a giant screen onto which Eglaf Community College short films will start things off at 7:00 pm and, by 9:00 pm, everything from nature documentaries to summer blockbuster films will be played back to back until the last movie is scheduled to end around 11:30 pm on Sunday night.

All concessions purchased at official events this weekend will go toward furthering technological advances toward making Eglaf run on clean energy.

Come one, come all! Have a great time!

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Eddie Kaspbrak | OTA

[riskanalyst]

COSTUME PARTY (OTA)

The government official with whom Eddie had been corresponding had been amenable to Eddie's conditional volunteering for the meet and greet, so bolstered by the fact that no one would be touching him, Eddie had gone costume shopping. Richie asked whether Eddie wanted him to come along to keep an eye out and, given Richie's experience with this sort of place and this sort of event in this sort of place, Eddie didn't see how he should answer anything other than yes, absolutely.

He does feel kind of stupid, though, when he walks in wearing his costume, half chosen because it covered most of the skin most people probably wanted to touch when meeting a celebrity anyway — their word, not his — and the other half because it seemed like a good idea at the time. He's the only one wearing so many clothes, from the looks of things. In his defense, being originally from Maine and then from New York, Eddie's still very much adjusting to the normal weather down in the South. He wouldn't have felt uncomfortable in a getup like this on an April evening in either of his previous home states but, in Florida, he's practically sweating only a few minutes in. It's going to be a long night, isn't it?

Well, maybe not. Richie's advice is to do his hour with the meet and greets and get the hell out of here. Since Eddie trusts Richie, that's Eddie's plan. Hopefully, with a bit of luck, that plan won't go awry.

PARADE (OTA)

Not that Eddie's feeling particularly in the mood to ride around on a float waving at a bunch of strangers and pretending like he gives a shit about this whole thing, to his credit, Eddie does plaster on a smile while he does it. Laura's right about one thing, he'll say that for sure: giving the people what they want when all they want is to see someone they — inexplicably — adore is not actually taking an awful lot of effort on his part.

That and, well. He really should get out into the world more and meet people. Do something with his life this time. He's free to make his own decisions. He's free to take up knitting and make a living of selling his shit on an Etsy store if he fucking wants to this time around. Not that he wants to, but if he did, he could. There's nothing holding him back; no mom and no Myra worrying needlessly over every last thing he says or does. No stress-induced asthma symptoms constricting his chest and throat any time things get too hard. He's got Richie, Ben, and a sixty thousand dollar salary he earns by doing exactly nothing beyond living and breathing in this place.

So sure. He can stand on a float for a few hours waving at strangers and throwing handfuls of candy at the children lining the streets. It's not hurting anything. Why not?

Afterward, though, he might be more approachable and accessible. Neither of those things tend to be his preference, but there it is all the same. Once he's off the float, he's on the same level as everyone who'd been watching the parade go by. He's in good spirits, though, so there is that, at least.

WILDCARD

(( wildcard; not into either of those starters but still want to play with Eddie? I'm totally fine with whatever you want to throw my way! ))

(( ooc: and please feel free to throw something during either of those events at him. Even if there's no starter, I'll roll with it. Just note that he probably won't be around for the 'everyone turning into their costumes' part of the costume party since he doesn't plan on staying that long. ))

COSTUME PARTY

[passedthedoor]

In stark contrast to Eddie's Robin Hood get-up, Sally's embraced the heat of Eglaf with her costume, thematically and logistically, coming to this costume party as a full on mermaid, complete with ridiculously blue lipstick and hair on top of it. Sure, she's probably not gone quite this before with a costume in the past because Danny, in particular, would hve thrown a fit, but Danny isn't here. And with the long skirt to rep the tail Sally doesn't feel like it's quite so bad. Still, she can't help herself when she actually spots Eddie, whom she definitely hasn't managed to forget from her grand introduction post. And that's the exact reason that she approaches him during a lull.

"Sooooo, on a scale of one to swamp how much are you melting in that?" Sally asks by way of greeting, with a wide smile pulling at her mouth. She certainly remembers just how much Eddie was struggling with being here from before, so if she's being honest there is a part of her that is surprised that he's even here - that he showed up. In a good way, not a bad way, obviously. Given how long she literally had to sit in the house she died in, unaware of the fact that she could leave when she'd been a ghost, and the time that she spent ghosting around here in Eglaf before she decided to even announce her presence she wouldn't have blamed him for staying as far away as possible from any sort of gathering like this.

And no, she may not know Eddie, but that doesn't stop Sally from speaking to him familiarly - she has talked to him before and that's enough for her to go off of, especially considering it isn't like she has any of her old friends here. She's got to make new ones. And Eddie, unfortunately for him, already put himself on her radar, so she can't help herself.

[riskanalyst]

Some people's costumes, like Eddie's, were clearly grabbed at the last minute from a costume shop or ordered hastily online somewhere, but then he can't help noticing that some people seem to have actually put in a little effort — or, in some cases, a lot of effort — putting together their own costume. The make-up and costumes he's seeing around here are kind of, honestly, giving him a little more anxiety than he'd like to admit. He's not sure why it makes him think so much of Pennywise, but he's really trying not to.

When Sally approaches dressed like a mermaid, her costume appearing more like the latter than the former type of costume, it takes Eddie a second to match the name with her face. He recognizes her and remembers talking to her, but he only just recalls the name Sally to attach to it all when she asks how hot he must be in the costume. The way she words it surprises a laugh out of him.

"Uh...total swamp, actually. I'm from Maine. I'm still adjusting..." he confesses with a sheepish look. "You look great. Man, I fucking feel like I really dropped the ball on this shit, the more I look around. You all look amazing."

[passedthedoor]

"Oof!" Sally grouses, sympathetically, for Eddie - though the smile finds it's way back to her face all too easily because she's having fun, the environment, and...okay it's a little funny that he chose to admit it and be (what she figures) truthful. "You're in for some fun times adjusting to the weather here, then." She teases, cocking her head to the left and her temporarily blue tresses flopping with whte movement. "I'm from Boston, but lucky for me I've done the Florida thing enough times to be wise about my costume." She gestures, vaguely, to the shell bikini top with a snort.

"Next costume party poke me and I can give you a hand." It's a genuine offer, but her tone is still joking, afterall, she's not sure if he'd actually take her up on it, so she doesn't want to be too serious about it, honestly. She likes Eddie, though - something draws her in from the conversation that they had on the network, anyway. "I've got the style and I know how to dress appropriately for the weather down for the most part." She laughs, definitely appreciating the compliment.

"I think the fact that you put in any effort counts, though, it did get you in the door - even if you're melting. If you get desperate you could always lose the sleeves, see if that helps you cool off any." Sally suggests, offhandedly.

[riskanalyst]

"Yeah," he agrees with a laugh, reaching up to scratch the back of his head under the hood only to then push the hood off entirely. "Consider me jealous of the steep learning curve you've already experienced," he replies, only half-joking. It'd have been nice to have realized just how uncomfortable he was going to be in this costume before buying it, that's for sure.

He smiles a little at the offer to help him next time. "You think they'll have more?" he asks, partially because he's curious and partially because he's mildly wary of the idea of doing this more often. Richie's warned him that parties like this always go wrong if you stay too long and the only reason he's come at all is that he'd already signed up before Richie mentioned it. He doesn't plan to stay past the obligation to which he's tied in order to keep his stipend. "I wouldn't hate the help if there's a next time," he agrees with a grin and a shrug.

Shaking his head, Eddie laughs. "I'd be lying if I said that this costume wasn't partially strategic. I'm not staying long anyway, to be honest. My friend says you gotta be careful at things like this in places like this because it always goes wrong somehow. I'm not looking to stay long enough to find out if he's right," he confesses.