The Great Chihiro Festival

## Premise

Bob, Sandy, Gille, and Mersel finally have arrived at Ghibli, just in time for the **Great Chihiro Festival!!** They may as well take the time to see the festival together. And the bathhouse is said to be one of the finest places in the empire...

## Cast

* Whis (DM)
* Gille Trebble (Heartless)
* Sandy Sweet (Sotoro)
* Bob (Fable)
* Mersel (Vamp)

## Notable NPCs

Rad the Red Radio (Fable)

## Plot Summary

Gille, Bob, Mersel, and Sandy step out of the boat onto the docks at a Ghibli port, and are immediately faced with the swarm of people that is the Great Chihiro Festival. They are given a parting gift of four Gold Banquet Tickets from the Jhotos Governor by their ship's captain, before spotting a small frog holding a sign bearing Bob's name. He was a worker for the Bathhouse, and was there to collect their luggage.

After the question is raised if they are happy with a mixed bath, the party decides that yes, they will be wearing swimsuits in the bath, and take to the town market to purchase some.

After making their purchases, they move towards the Ornamental Gardens. They almost lost Mersel in the crowd of people, but before too much longer they arrive at the three large domes that had been set up on the west side of town.

The first dome inside was akin to a cottage terrace, with hot tea waiting for them. And cats. Many, many cats. Everyone (except Gille) seemed particularly pleased with this turn of events.

The second dome was like a redwood forest. There was again, tea, and instead of cats, there was many foxes. This also pleased everyone.

The third and final dome was a tropical rainforest, with coconut drinks on offer, and lots of birds. This seemed to go down very well, though Bob discovered that birds were a lot less polite with their food than the other animals.

After leaving the Ornamental Gardens, the party moved on to the grand stage. They had missed the last performance for the day, however Rad the Red Radio and Sandy put on an impromptu performance of their own, much to the pleasure of the crowd.

Finally, they headed to Main Street, where there was a long strip of stalls set up. Bob was introduced to many different foods via the enthusiasm of his friends, before they started looking at the various party games.

Trying their hand at the rope pull lottery, they won a few prizes of gold, and a few different small prizes, and Sandy took the top off the Strength Test with her lollypop.

They were drawn to a dunk tank by the occupant of said tank relentlessly using vicious mockery at anyone within earshot, which raised Gille's ire. After a few unsuccessful attempts at getting the tank to dunk, Bob fixed the mechanism that had been rigged in the house's favour. Gille then proceeded to dunk the old man for all he was worth, winning the party a hefty 100gp, which Gille split between them.

The sun started to go down at this point, which prompted the party to head up to the bathhouse. Relinquishing their Banquet Tickets, they were taken to the grand banquet. After a few moments of awe at the sheer scale of the food, they started loading up their plates.

Sandy accidentally bumped into another of the diners, spilling her food all over her, who left in a huff, even after Sandy apologised and cleaned up the mess. Not much to be done for it once she left though, and the party then finished up their meal, before being shown to their private bath area.

After being shown how to operate the bath, the party changed into their swimsuits and got ready to enjoy. As Gille was filling the bath, he noticed some writing on the back of the tokens they had been given, but no one was able to work out what it meant. They put the thought aside and enjoyed the bath, until the announcement that the fireworks and parade was about to begin.

They were led by an attendant up to their room, and watched the festival finale from their room's balcony.

The party then shared some ice cream (again, via Mersel) before heading to bed.

When they woke up, however... something was wrong...

## Notes

The Land of No Mans games were announced in the aftermath of this game!