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[rekindlenpcs]

[Irene turns on the video feed, and while she looks just as put together as ever, her office looks a bit messier than usual – you can see her desk in the background, covered with notes and unorganized papers…which is pretty normal for a desk, really, just not for Irene’s desk. Has she been distracted?

She seems to be in a very good mood, though! Her smile looks more genuine than her usual calm, customer service face.]

Everyone, I wanted to ask you a few questions. Now, we have a lot of holidays here in Saeng Seong. Several of you were here for our last festival, and we’re going to have another one coming up at the end of this month… [oh!] which I’m not sure we’ve notified you about yet, but we’ll have more details later.

Our city – our world - has a long history, but I’m also sure that your worlds do, too. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m curious – what are some of the important traditions from your worlds? What holidays do you celebrate?

[She was going to end the video there, but she stops, reconsidering.]

On another note, regarding the fall festival I mentioned earlier, we’re currently open to suggestions if you all have any. I’ll be keeping track of comments here myself, and I can pass on information to the committee.

Comments

[hamburgerhero]

Well maybe you could try to sum up the religious back story or... Surely there's a historian or cultural figure in the city who could introduce us visitors to the traditions of Saeng Seong. Learning about the culture of the place you visit is always good. [He's hoping he can make the idea of sharing as appealing as possible.]

Uh. By the way, just how "cold and miserable" does it get here?

Traditionally people wore scary costumes like ghosts and evil witches and stuff but over the years there's a lot more variety. A lot of kids dress up in funny costumes or as their favorite characters. Sometimes adults dress up in costumes too for parties.

[rekindlenpcs]

There will be someone there during the festival. They always are.

It can sometimes drop below freezing during the rainy season, but it's rare that we get snow.

[She seems to be taking note of that.]

Costumes? That's certainly something we don't normally do, but it sounds like fun. Though I would be careful of calling witches "evil" here; one of the resident priests is a practitioner of magic.

[hamburgerhero]

Magic? Huh so there's magic in this world. Is it a part of the local religion or something?

Oh yeah speaking of, that shrine over in district 4- does that go with the religion here or is it more of an... agnostic place?

[rekindlenpcs]

I wouldn't say it's part of it, but most magic-users today are religious.

...That would be the shrine Avana and Akasha, the twin goddesses.