Spring Garden Day(s)!

[wewillwewill]

Prior to April 1st/next platform day, Elidibus will be aiming to gather a collective of people to turn the rock garden car once more into a seasonal display. Provided nothing about the mission conclusion changes things that is! While not yet discussed with mods, will be requesting this to last about two to three IC days.

Update! Has been approved by mods along with having it run multiple days.

Update II An overview and a list of ideas presented.
The basic groundwork will provided; earth to plant/grow things in, protections to make sure the regular features of the rock garden that aren't converted for the setting will be preserved (memorials, existing crafts and cards, etc) regardless of the 'weather', a pseudo climate and seeds for the desired flowers/grass/trees/bamboo(also a grass iirc?)/etc. Ideas and activities, both pre garden days, during and even post so far offered are listed below. Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

Flower pots- People who have personal flowers bringing them for display. Or harvesting some of the flowers to place into pots (if available) for a memory if people like.

Spring Decorations (arts and crafts)

Potpurri/extracts

collecting petals and drying them/making extracts/etc after the three day Spring Day is at an end (or doing it!)

Netting/mesh around the carriage for many of the decorations, etc.

Holographic Displays, possibly to make the garden seem more 'extended' beyond the walls. Or for other things!

Blankets, pillows, picnic atmosphere and food.

A selection of books on a covered table so people don't have to go to the library.

Growing fruit trees (cherry, peach, plum, oranges for example) and maintaining their grow so they go from flowering blossoms to pickable fruit to harvest on the final day. (probably modest amounts given size of car/etc but probably enough that everyone can have a bit of something!)

growing flowers, especially spring-themed ones (daffodils, primrose, tulips, etc)

Garden arrangement/flow/zen! (Suggested by Sanzo with willingness to teach about it!)

Roland is willing to sort of head/suggest/ICly implement egg painting and possible egg hunt, easter style.

The possibility of chocolates and candies being ordered/baked/etc.

Roland's higgledies will be helping to maintain the grounds, etc (so that things like over-traffic don't turn things to mud/etc, maybe collecting fallen petals for later drying/extract?) May or may not be seen.

Supplies for sketching or painting while in the spring garden will probably be brought in.

Music! Either someone bringing instruments from the music carriage and doing impromptu stuff or playing music on devices!

If I've missed something in this list, it's probably my bad memory or I missed it. Please let me know!

Snow Day Garden was something I assembled in haste in a couple days before the Platform Day. This time Elidibus will have more IC time to preplan and I also want to include more people who might be interested, particularly some of our plant ability/nature/weather themed folk!

Edit! Just to be clear, anyone's welcome to participate, not just plant ability/nature/etc themed folk! Sorry if I didn't make that clear earlier! See: Tidus's ideas for folk with nonmagical contributions! There will also be a pre-planning IC log going up post mission if anyone wants to scene something about the preparations.

Because he is still recovering from events during his trip home, he will be doing a more supervisory/assembly role this time. But he will approach the people he knows that can help him set this up and can learn of/network/connect with others ICly.

The theme will be Spring. I have loose notions of fusion of cherry blossoms, picnic spots, fresh new grass, daffodils, tulips, and primrose. A weather 'climate' of 'sun and light breezes' with a hint of rain as if it recently rained or is going to soon (though don't look up at the 'sky' too long, it only diminishes the presence of the kaledioscope of voidspace and its built-in rainbow, not completely covers it.

Also any ideas would be fantastic!

Please reply below if you're interested, what you could contribute, any ideas you have for the theme. Even if you can't participate ICly in the setup, feel free to add ideas of what you'd like to see!

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Questions!

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Examples:
Q: What is the base setup going to be like?
A: Like the snow day, the physical size of the carriage won't be changed. But rocks will be converted to earth, the streams will be largely as-is and certain character additions will be safely moved and/or warded to protect them from deterioation (such as weather!). Once the event is over everything will be converted back to 'as it was' e.g. the rock garden's standard description. There will be a climate, a combination of weather and something like a sun ('real feeling' but technically artificial). Basically it will feel extremely close to an outside, sunny spring day with a light breeze. There will be various effects (weather, 'sun', some sort of wall projection perhaps) to diminish, but not completely remove the kaleidoscope of the void. Basically don't look at the sky or walls for TOO long but it's okay to do so for a time. Anything that absolutely can't persist in a spring environment even with warded protection will be temporarily rehomed and restored later. There will be a small protected area reserved for Najaran's Woodfolk who make their home in this carriage.

Q: Timeframe?
A: This announcement goes up the evening of Quicksand 13 (after everyone's been back on the train post mission for a bit). Quicksand 14-15 will be for various preparation and organization but the rock garden will be prepared for additions by morning, Quicksand 15. The Garden will be 'fully operational' Quicksand 16-18 (three IC days, March 31-April 5). Everything will be returned to normal by Quicksand 19/April 6.

Q: Elidibus doing all this by himself?
A: Nope! And he didn't last time either. Emet-Selch will be talked into the lion's share of creation magic and climate conditions this time (setup). Weather provided by someone else. And of course the open invitation for people to become involved if they want to.

Q: What will be provided?
A: Seeds (grass, orange tree, flowering sakura, peach tree, plum tree, bamboo and various spring flowers- daffodils, primrose, tulips). Other spring seeds are welcome, these are just the basis of what's provided for the growers. Fertile soil that's properly packed like it's ground and is lightly hilly (small bumps). The fountain and streams will remain as is (stone fountain in the center, streams travelling to the corners of the carriage). A path or so will still wind around the new setting but some of the path space may be removed to make more room for nature stuffs. As a reminder the rock garden has some artificial weather controls now so rain can be turned off and on if water's needed to help with the growth. But there will be a weather pattern independent of this system too! Other requests will be considered but these are the default things one can expect to automatically be present. Most other items will be sourced from the train supplies/other cars, or the crew's ingenuity.