In this world, Magic is Everything. All people, all races, are granted with the power to perform mystical and magical feats via grimories, mystical tomes granted to each and every child on their 15th birthday. Those blessed by the mana can have their names written down in legend.
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Thinking about the things he had already seen and done while taking part in the festivities here, Gawain had already taken part in and took the honor of winning the zombie hunt, which had been a contest based purely on skill. Then there was the artistical challenge of pumpkin carving, one in which he had counted his blessings for being considered for the top five as he had honestly never used a knife for anything other than cutting bread, meat, potatoes, vegetables and throats. While he hadn’t been forced to do the latter for quite some years, Gawain was quite well aware of the fact that his hands weren’t meant for artistry but for brutality in all of its shapes and forms. Still, it had been a nice change of pace to try and make a funny looking pumpkin head instead of delving into dungeons or just training for hours and hours on end.
With his clanky armor announcing his arrival and passing to everyone that had ears, he thought about the creature he had faced in the locked building for the locked in game, still finding the shadow creature to be a bit too real to just have been some kind of spell or golem or whatever. Regardless, the game had been incredibly intricate and challenging for him and the other four people that had ventured inside. With two of them being beaten by the spooky ghost monster, Gawain wondered whether the wolf boy and the woman had managed to find their own way out, or if the game had just ended for them when he had beaten the system. Figuring no one would have actually died during a game, he put his mind towards the next thing he wanted to take part in. The dressing competition, the sole reason as to why he had come to this place wearing a heavy suit of armor.
There was a part of him that felt like it had been a better idea to have done this at the start of it all, giving him a wider range of mobility for the remainder of the festival. But that just went to prove that he hadn’t really thought things through all that well, or maybe he liked walking around in armor for a night. It wasn’t every day that he got to do it after all, and part of him had felt rather inspired after defeating the wielder of the sword of heroes along with all of his heavily armored companions. Arriving at the scene of the contest, it seemed that there were quite a few others here. One of them was wearing a very realistic looking swamp monster costume, at least he thought it was a swamp monster. Another was dressed up as a princess or a queen of some kind, while yet another had come dressed up as a skeleton. While he couldn’t really care about winning or losing, the boy at least wanted to take part and see what the judges thought of his cobbled together armor.
Shizuka had no real aim for what she was going to do in this festival cause why should she? It is a festival and she was to enjoy herself from the stresses of a magic knight. Her red eyes looked around at a gathering of all sorts of masked and dressed people going all sorts of things from princesses to swamp monsters, she even saw a walking mushroom. She moved around the crowd before moving into it slowly reaching the front of the crowd near the stage.
"Ladies and gentleman, goblins and ghoul's Welcome to the annual Spirit Festival Contest! I will take four random guests in the crowd to see who will go home as a victor!." Called out a masked clown like announcer on the stage getting the crowd to settle down.
He moved his finger over the crowd pointing to a princess in a purple dress, having the crowd assisst the woman to the stage before he picked a interesting looking swamp monster, seeing the crowd part for it. Shizuka then watched the man move his finger over the crowd before it landed on her. "Oh me!"She asked in suprised as the man nodded holding out his hand as she accepted his help on to the stage moving next to the princess. She knew her costume was plain as she had no real plan to really dress up.
"Now! For our final contestant! How about you! the Knight in armor? Think you can hold up to the many on the stage!"Teased the announcer pointing at Gawain beckoning him on to the stage with him and the others.
Not quite sure how all of these things worked as he had never been to a party or a festival before that wasn’t held in a mead hall, quite literally everything he had done here today had been a new experience. Before his time here in Clover, the ‘festivities’ held in Skjaergard usually were caused by a successful raid bringing in a massive haul of wealth, food, slaves and interesting baubles and relics. To celebrate, the raiders often got drunk, danced on tables and killed those that looked at them wrong. These festivities were quite different, what with there being no bloodshed of any kind and no one dancing on a table while drunk, yet. As he continued to ponder, he watched as the first people were being told to appear on stage.
The woman with the purple dress, the man or woman inside of the swamp monster attire, which made it quite difficult to figure out what exactly was going on underneath. Then, the skeleton got brought up on the stage, followed by a girl in red clothing. When finally the finger got pointed at him, the question was posed whether or not he felt like he could compete with the people on the stage. To be fair, when he looked at the swamp monsters, he was quite confident that no one was going to be walking out there winner here today aside from said contestant underneath all of the muck, fishy scales and goo. Something about the outfit made it seem almost lifelike, just like the wolf boy he had been in the locked building with.
“Probably not!”
Yelling back to the person dealing with the announcements, Gawain made his way over towards the stage, clinking and clanking with every step due to the heavy plates of the armored suit. Standing next to the swamp monster, he could actually smell something fishy, as if the suit had actually been partially dredged out of a lake and slapped onto a person to make them look this outlandish. Still, it all added to the overall theme of the suit. In his own case, most of the plating had been taken straight out of one of the last dungeons he had ventured into, the tomb of Charlemagne, the lord of the sword. Due to the sheer amount of knights he had to fight his way through, taking a bunch of plates to sell on the black market hadn’t been all that difficult.
Initially, his goal had been to claim the actual sword of heroes that had been wielded by the man. However, all those years of being exposed to necromantic energies had left it deteriorated and rusted, not to mention the fact that it had actually ended up getting shattered by his magic in the end. Taking what he could salvage for the sake of earning money, it now served him as a makeshift suit of armor that would last for all of the festival. The moment he was done here, he was going to take them to the black market and take whatever he could get for it. Maybe it’d earn him enough to pay for food for the next couple of weeks.
The Announcer smirked watching the knight make his way to the stage as he even assisted the man the best he could before looking over each contestant before looking out at the crowd " Well Well Well what do you all think of our contestants. Nice selection huh?"Asked the announcer getting a mix of applause and boos as he laughed " Now Now no being spoil sports. "He teased before motioning to the swamp Monster "Alright what do you think of our swamp monster. Thing is very scary and really good in my opinion. "He spoke hearing quiet a bit of applause of support.
"Alright, Alright, Not bad not bad."He spoke calming the crowd back down before motioning to the princess " Now how about this beauty! Larger then life gown, Gems to weigh one's ego and pouch if you get my drift. Oh boy, Her dad must pay a fortune for that dress alone. What do you say?" Asked the announcer as the crowd cheered loudly letting out whistles as the female opened a fur lined fan hiding her masked face behind it in slight embarrassment of the crowds cheers,
"Calm down, Calm down, Poor lady might faint from your applause, how about the eastern beauty next to her. So simple in look but such an eye catcher, Makes me wanna learn her language and life if you ask me."Spoke the announcer immediately moving to Shizuka as her Red eyes watched the crowd getting a decent amount of cheers and acknowledgement. She kept a soft smile on her face knowing the right mask that was needed for the situtation. She was only here because she was asked, They did not know her or the work she did so she could be whoever she wanted, however she wanted without backlash. She lifted a hand waving nervously before opening a fan of her own hiding the lower half of her face.
"Daw you made her blush!" Chirped the announcer acting to nearly falling backwards only to twist and turn ending next to gawain as he leaned against the man in the suit in armor " Now this big boy. My god you gotta have muscle to handle such a heavy looking suit, how are you not sweating up a storm?!" Asked the Announcer curiously as he moved around gawain trying to get a better look at the armor tapping on it as he whistled " yep real metal but man that looks amazing!" He spoke before holding his hand out " What do you say ladies and gentleman, any woman want a knight in armor? I got one right here!"joked the announcer getting claps and applause before looking over at the judge panel.
After a few mintues he came back with a piece of paper. "After some look over I am happy to announcer the winner." He spoke clearing his throat before taking a deep breath " It is none other then Ms. Princess Herself!"He Spoke signalling to the Princess like costume as the crowd cheered.
Shizuka smiled clapping for the girl before she headed off the stage, she had fun but it was time to enjoy the festival elsewhere.
