vatheon | Chocobo Races

[It's a lovely climate-controlled day in the bubble on Sunday, the perfect day for a chocobo race! Participants and spectators alike, it's time to gather in the stadium that's been set up in the amusement park quadrant!

Before the races the janitor is looking for help in setting things up properly and cleaning up any bird poo on the tracks so the area is nice and pretty once the event begins. Feel free to join in or just to laugh at questers scooping poop.

During the races, the stadium will be packed with the locals! Racers are encouraged to arrive early and calm their bird, the chocobos aren't used to quite so much noise. Spectators can just kick back and enjoy themselves. Poor unfortunate questers who have been wrangled into helping the janitor again will have to hand out food and clean up spills.

After the races, people looking to gather points are encouraged to help the poor janitor clean up the pigsty the locals have left behind. Hopefully everyone had enough fun to make it worth it!]

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*Given how much time Selphie spends at the chocobo barn, she's a bit of an expert with these creatures, and she knows how to handle them well. Even if for the sake of the event she doesn't have one of the ones that she has trained and named, she feels very at ease with the birds, and that in turn has a calming effect on them.

Only, Selphie appears to be giving her bird a pep talk, striding up and down and pointing her finger at their competitors*

Eyes on the prize, eyes on the prize. There's only gonna be one real winner today, and it's going to be you. This is war, cadet, and there will be no casualties, only trophies and triumph.

[One of those very competitors nearby, Tifa can't help chuckling at Selphie's speech. Her approach with her own yellow chocobo seems to be quite different, just grooming and calming the bird.]

Come on, don't stress him out before the race has even started.

*Selphie raises a brow at Tifa - hey, Selphie basically ran the chocobo barn, she knew what she was doing*

He's not stressed, he's ready! Look!

*True enough the chocobo gives a steady nod of the head, his feet patting at the ground*

How bout yours?

Oh, he'll be ready.

He's the high-strung type, I think. Doesn't get along so well with the other birds. But he'll do just fine.

Aww...

*Selphie smiles as she looks between the two chocobos*

I bet he will, especially if you're looking after him. Not everyone knows that chocobos got their own personalities.

Well, of course they do.

[Tifa gives her bird a fond scratch at the neck.]

And the people who don't get that aren't going to be much competition. I'll have to watch out for you.

*Selphie whistles softly at her chocobo and pets up at its beak, giving it a wink*

Well, that'll be easy, since we'll be ahead of ya!

Just until you tire yourselves out. It only counts if you're crossing the finish line.

*Selphie laughs at this, smiling and shaking her head - it's been a long time since she's heard this kinda fighting talk*

Right. You keep that in mind.

You're lookin' real fuckin' pumped up at this shit, sister.

[That little comment comes from gamzee, though his good natured tone indicates that he is more amused by it than that he thinks it is silly of her. Behind him stands a big green chocobo. Pounce is more or less his. Well, Equius', really, but Equius also has Darkleer to ride (the chocobo, not the ancestor) so Gamzee settled happily for Pounce himself. He was cool with it. Him and Pounce were good buddies, after all.]

Yup! We're both in battle mode now!

*Selphie smiles brightly at Gamzee, tilting her head as she wonders how he's been affected by the curse*

Cute chocobo! Is he yours?

*She pouts a bit, definitely not enjoying that she wasn't given one of the many she'd given names to*

[Oh, he is very much affected. His normal clothes have been exchanged for a... whatever that trainwreck of an outfit is. He has got a cheerfully painted ukelele slung onto his back too, denoting his class pretty easily: this dude is a bard.

He smiles, reaching up to pat Pounce's neck.]

Sorta, yeah. Mostly my feathery chicka does all get to belonging to my motherfuckin' babe, but he's got his own to ride, so me and Pounce are gonna up and try our fuckin' stuff at this together.

*Yay! Cute outfit, Gamzee. The purple sure suits him well. Selphie smiles at him, more so when she notices the instrument on his back*

Aww! Well, I guess that's a pretty good deal then.

*She's about to say that she'd rather ride another chocobo, but her bird is watching and listening, so instead she just pats it*

Good luck to you, then, for the race! How about a song before we go?

Fuck yeah, good idea!

[He reaches around back to grab his ukulele, letting go of Pounce's halster with not a care. She never had been the kind of bird for running off. Darkleer did yes, but Pounce was a good bird. Besides, despite having been raised by him, she somehow had recognized a dumb, hapless chick in Gamzee and preferred to hover close by just so he wouldn't... do something incredibly stupid even to her birdbrain. Which, to be fair, does happen.]

Got anything in specifically what you would like a brother should to be filling your hearducts at with?

*This is exciting, because Selphie's usually the one with the guitar doing the requests. She smiles and claps her hands together*

Something...fast and fun! To inspire the chocobos!~

Chocobo Races

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