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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2015-01-21 12:35 pm

[EVENT] THE SHANGPAR RACE

Characters: ALL!
Date: January 20th to January 24th
Location: Various.
Situation: It’s time for the Shangpar Race!
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

The day is here, the day is here, the day is here! Though not every shop is closed and not every kedan is on the streets, it’s a near thing. The race is slated to begin early in the morning, and the city rises for the occasion. Shops open late and workplaces allow for a late start to the day to give everyone an opportunity to watch the starting festivities.

It begins with something almost like a parade. The riders -- there are fifty-five of them, thanks to negotiations during the forum -- are escorted from the shangpari holding pens to the starting line just outside the city, using the most circuitous route available in order to take the riders through every sector.

The starting-line is located just outside a set of the city’s gates, while the finishing-line is at the set on the opposite end. It leads off away from the city, traversing through several of the shell’s terrains, from burgeoning woodland, across a ‘river’, to an area of wasteland leading into mountains, and then down to the shores of the shell’s edge.

While the usual daily processes continue during the race, there are runners at supply checkpoints who, thanks to the efforts of Stark Industries and a handful of Foreigners, are able to report the race statistics via audio directly to the consoles. Groups of children hired as criers run from place to place without access to consoles to carry those reports to the rest of the city. In this time the kedan already begin preparations for the feast which follows it, regardless of who the actual winner might be.

The winners begin trickling in on day four to a crowd already prepared. Thanks to the runners, the residents of Keeliai already know who’s in the lead and when, roughly, they will arrive.




LINKS
Parade | Betting booths | Starting line | Finish line | Feast


OOC
In the related forum thread the family leaders were open to the idea of Foreigners participating in the race as long as they possessed no abilities that would provide an unfair advantage and were able to front the cost of 500 juulan. If your character has no such abilities and would have wanted to participate, and you feel you have reasoning for their being able to finance their entry, please PM the mod journal so we can work out the details.

No Foreigner who enters will be able to OOCly apply to win the race -- this event is about the cultural experience, not the winning or losing! More details regarding the race are available on the itinerary here.

Please also do remember that IC actions will have IC consequences. This is a huge, huge cultural event for the kedan; disrupting it in any way will cause a negative reaction. That's not to say don't do it -- but do be prepared for the consequences.
raavashing: (shock: you on your feet)

[personal profile] raavashing 2015-02-13 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I've never even thought about trying to bend metal. It's not earth. It's not stone, you know," he said, feeling like a whole new world of possibilities was open to him now. "I wonder if I could do it."
theideaguy: (lazy)

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-02-13 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Sokka shrugs a bit at that. "Well, Toph says it's like earth. Something about a lot of little pieces of earth being inside the metal or something. I really didn't pay attention though." Not really important to him at the time. "You could always try."
raavashing: (Shock: I will carry you with me)

[personal profile] raavashing 2015-02-14 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Wan grinned, "Yeah! I could! Oh! is your boomerang made of metal?"
theideaguy: (panicked)

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-02-14 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Sokka takes his boomerang out of its sleeve and shows it to Wan. "Of course it is. Perfect Water Tribe crafts... man... shhhhhhare you going to bend Boomerang?!"
raavashing: (smile: sang no oh oh oh)

[personal profile] raavashing 2015-02-14 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Could I try?" He was practically bouncing on his toes in excitement.
theideaguy: (terrified)

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-02-14 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Only if you can bend it back! Boomerangs are carefully balanced so that they come back!"

For a brief moment, Sokka is look around everywhere for some other piece of metal to bend that isn't his boomerang. But unfortunately, they're out in public, and that's... not as easy to just... find easily.

So finally, and with intense regret, he offers it.
raavashing: (Smile: A little touch of a heavenly ligh)

[personal profile] raavashing 2015-02-15 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Wan really wanted to take the boomerang, but he didn't know that he could put it back just right if he did bend it. He didn't know anything about boomerang balance and he knew Sokka was very attached to the weapon.

He held up a hand, "Don't worry about it. I can find some metal to practice on later. It's not important right here and now. But thank you."
theideaguy: (sad)

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-02-16 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
There's actually a sense of relief as Wan eventually declines Sokka's not quite non-offer to borrow said boomerang. It was important to him, after all. "Thanks. This was given to be by my dad before he left the Water Tribe to go fight the Fire Nation to try to end the Hundred Year War," he explains. "It was all I ever had to remind me of him for the few years while he was away from the tribe, and so I'd practised with it every day while he was gone. Granted, I've seen him since, thankfully, but at the moment I don't know where he is, if he managed to escape capture or even alive, so... I keep it with me in hopes it'll bring me back to him."

He looks up to Wan and smiles wanly. "We can find some other metal for you to practise on after the races start though."