Twenty-Fourth Shooting Star - video;

[risingwinds]

[Today we have one grinning young man waving at the feed. It hasn't really dawned on him that he's gonna be turning eighteen soon. That's way too weird to think about. Besides, it's summer, and he's got other things to talk about! Starting with...]

Hey, guys. I see we're getting lots of New Feathers, so I thought I'd go ahead and say welcome! Hope Luceti's not too crazy for you. Believe me when I say it gets better the longer you stick around.

Anyway, since it's summer and all, I was wondering... See, before I came here, I went to this world called Disney Town, and they had all kinds of cool games. There was this one called Ice Cream Beat where I got to shoot scoops of ice cream to the beats of this really catchy song. A while back, Roxas and I thought about doing something similar here, but since he left, that idea's kinda been sitting around, collecting dust.

[He pauses for a moment, rubbing the back of his neck. That's kinda his fault.]

Anyway, I was wondering if there's anyone who could make that kinda machine for real. I've already got something running in the battle dome, along with a Fruit Ball court, but I dunno. It might be fun to set something up in the square someday. Maybe when it's not so foggy. If anyone's got giant pieces of fruit lying anywhere, we could probably put up Fruit Ball too, but I've got a feeling that'll be even tougher.

[Heh. And one last point...]

By the way, I know I mentioned him before, but if you guys see someone named Kohan, could you maybe say hi to him? He still doesn't have a lot of friends, and I'm really trying to fix that. And uh... like I said before, he's got silver hair, black streaks, kinda grumpy sometimes, but I swear he's a nice guy.

Comments

[dangerouswind]

Sounds like a waste of food.

[risingwinds]

Aw, it's not that wasteful! I mean, you do shoot the scoops at cones, so you could eat 'em later. The stacks just tend to get really tall, so it's a lot of ice cream for one person.

[dangerouswind]

That's... odd.

[risingwinds]

Maybe a little, but once you get past the weirdness, it really is fun! Plus, Disney Town's just kinda eccentric in general. It's bright, colorful, and packed with talking animals, so...

[i_speak_softly]

... You want a machine that shoots ice cream.

[risingwinds]

Yup! Can't run the game without one, unless I stick to simulated stuff.

[i_speak_softly]

Please tell me you have permission for this.

[risingwinds]

Wait, I'd need permission for something like that?

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[fellpool]

That's... [Wow, he can't even compare that to the amusement parks he's been to.] Those are definitely some unique games. They sound incredibly messy.

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[risingwinds]

Well, Fruit Ball does get kinda messy if you hit too hard, and one time I accidentally nailed Dewey with an ice cream cone to the face...

[Cue some shaky laughter.]

But what's wrong with a little mess? It's all in good fun.

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[fellpool]

I guess it depends on how often these games were running. Can you imagine trying to clean up ice cream during a heat wave like we had the other week?

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[risingwinds]

I guess that would be kinda tricky. Wonder how many hoses they've got around here...

[Hmm, a hose would definitely help.]

But as far as I can tell, they had those games going every time I dropped by, plus another really cool game called Rumble Racing.

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[hero_of_smiles]

[The voice almost sounds familiar, almost when Cross tunes in. But, it's instantly replaced by curiosity at this Ice cream machine this boy's talking about.

Making it huh? He needs more details.]

Are we talking making this machine for real, for real? Or battledome real?

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[risingwinds]

Well, I got the battle dome covered already. I was hoping for something that's really real.

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[hero_of_smiles]

Hmmm, in that case...

[He places a hand to his chin as he thinks. Could he even make something like that? Doubtful. But, effort's worth the try right?]

Well, if we could find plans for it and the parts necessary, I can give it a shot. I'm not an expert but I've had some practice building some stuff.

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[risingwinds]

Man, this'd be easier if we actually had some blueprints. I'm not really sure how they pieced together the one in Disney Town, but there's gotta be a way.

[It's like a cannon that fires scoops and stuff. How hard can it be?]

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[selphie_t]

[Selphie likes games but... those are certainly some unique games to her. It also sounds like a perfectly good waste of good ice cream but still, maybe it's only something designed to look like ice cream? She's not entirely sure there.]

Why shoot ice cream when you can just eat it? Same with fruit.

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[risingwinds]

I dunno what inspired the games, but I learned to stop questioning things too much when I became friends with mice and aliens. Some worlds just have their own style of doing things, and if it's fun, why worry?

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[selphie_t]

Because we're wasting food!

Mice and aliens huh. A talking mouse sounds like they might be pretty hard to hear.

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[risingwinds]

Not really. Queen Minnie was a few feet tall, so she was way bigger than your average mouse! And Jaq... well, I got shrunken down to the size of a mouse when I dropped by his world. 'Course, Cinderella had no trouble hearing either of us.

[Voice]

[distressedude]

[Ven, if you do that without a filter, Kohan's gonna get mad...! Not that filtering behind his back was any better. Hmm.]

Perhaps that's something we could work together to fix?

[Voice]

[risingwinds]

Hey, I'm up for it if you are! If the two of us put our heads together, I bet we could work something out.

[After all, how can Kohan say no to two of his best male buds? And well, he and Ion have a thing going anyway.]

[Voice]

[distressedude]

Actually, I did try convincing him to attend that speed dating night a few weeks ago. There were many people there looking just to make friends, after all. But he wasn't very interested...

[He wasn't much of a crowd person, after all. Which was probably part of the issue here.]

[Voice]

[risingwinds]

There was this one time where I took him to a party, and he wasn't too happy about that, either. I wish I knew why.

[It's hard for Ven to really imagine being so introverted. The outlook's just so foreign to him.]

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

You shot scoops of ice cream? Why would you want to waste ice cream for that?

[OH THE HUMANITY. Ice cream is for eating, not playing with!]