(OOC: What Pervy just said is the kind of C&C I've been looking for. How come I didn't think of something like this earlier?)
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from the Journal of Merayver Glarencite, 25th day of Falisara, 1303))
The hostility toward Banlix seemed to have calmed down today. For some reason I have yet to understand, the few festival days we have seem to calm everyone down... and I DO mean everyone. Even Banlix, who's supposedly part of the 'prophecy', has discarded his anger today.
Today was the Sun Festival, our means to celebrate the end of what we know as 'the season of ice'. Basically, kobolds, as a whole, recognize two seasons - the season of warmth and the season of ice, each being half a year in length. The beginning of the season of warmth incites probably the biggest festival of the year - so much occurs that it would be hard to describe everything that goes on during the day. However, the part of the festival that occurred during the night has even more events going on.
Banlix stayed with his friends throughout all of the festivities. The candy that was sold at the festival - the vast majority of which came from outside town, but maybe two or three kinds made right around here - seemed to draw the most attention from him, especially the lemon sticks. The 'lemon sticks' are basically pieces of chocolate about the size of a finger - the size of one of our fingers, that is - mixed with the juice of a lemon and then coated in some other form of candy. A favorite candy among kobolds, and even though it rarely finds its way outside our community, when it does, it tends to be well-liked. Only a select few in the community dare to attempt making candy like this, for varying reasons, and they don't attempt it often - usually only in preparation for festivals. The other activities didn't seem to interest Banlix at all, however, which surprises me.
The final event of the night involves the few illusion mages gathering together near the center of town. After several minutes of debate, they decide what kind of visually appealing illusion they're going to show - usually the illusion takes the form of a fireworks display. That's how it was this time, but in addition to the normal displays, there was the illusion of a large dragon flying just above the heads of those of us that had gathered to watch. It creeped Banlix out, who had a tight grip on Iange during the whole display. It was the first time I had seen such an event in my life, and I can only guess at two reasons why this one was there. Either they're venerating the dragon they knew that had died, or they're honoring Banlix.
I have a serious hope that it's the latter of those two thoughts.
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