Witch Rebecca spends spring break on the moon
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She doesn't recognize the species immediately, but there are a lot of moth species and there's no obvious magic happening.

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It's cute.

She winds her way through the whole arboretum and then sees herself out. What's next?

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What's next is that she heads to another city by portal, picks up some snacks if she's hungry, and goes to see her first Lunabellan theater show. (She doesn't need to present a ticket, the clerk has Identify and a list of names.)

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Yaaaay!

Is it theater-seating-style or can people hover on their brooms?

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It's a semicircular set of tiered benches, mostly, but there are a few people on brooms way in the back.

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Do they have to be in the way back? Is there a sign about it?

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There might be, but it's not in English.

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She will take a seat as good as she can get then.

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She's entitled to a decent-ish seat, if not the fancy box seating.

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As long as nobody tall is in front of her.

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The seating here is designed with assumptions that someone who trips on the stairs will not demand particularly expensive compensation and that theater guests will sometimes be over 3 meters tall. The view is fine.

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yaaaaaay ~*~

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More attendees file in.

An artificial hush falls over the theater. Rebecca could focus past it to hear the sounds of her neighbors, but that's probably not what she's here for.

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It super is not. It's nice that she won't be distracted if somebody opens a Snickers.

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She won’t even be distracted by sounds from her own food.

The play begins. It is not one of the ones with convenient English subtitle options, but she can get some sense of what’s going on via visuals and tone and such. She also knows from the website that the play is about a dramatic falling-out between two Hespatian families.

The singing is very good.

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Eeeeeeeee!

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Some of the special effects seem only feasible with magic. Other special-effects seem weirdly low-tech, which is presumably stylistic.

A fair number of witches are conjuring snacks during the play.

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Yeah, she's heard moon people can do that. She can't but she has some snacks in her hat; she pulls out a Snickers.

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And indeed, her neighbors are not distracted.

It may be a bit weird for Rebecca to be watching a play in Greek in an 'open-air' semicircular theater in which characters have firearms and are almost entirely played by women, but hopefully it's a good kind of weird.

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It's a great kind of weird. Mostly for musical reasons and not for firearms reasons.

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Eventually a lot of the characters have died! This is not actually the end of the play. The living characters go after their slain enemies' resurrection methods with varying degrees of success, the Lilin has some kind of interaction with a demon, and then she and some other characters who previously did not appear execute a successful raid on everyone plausibly involved in instigating the mess.

Now it is the end of the play.

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Rebecca's not sure she likes it being shown in the media that summoning demons works out fine and advances your goals but the music is really good and she claps.

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Oh, it's not implied to be a happy ending for most of the main characters including the more sympathetic-seeming ones, but Hespatia's work with Hell sure seems to work for Hespatia as an organization, so depicting Hespatia and Hell as teaming up on damage control made sense at least to the playwright.

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Yeah, the Hespatians are fucky.

What is next on her whirlwind tour of the moooooooon?

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She's got another show to see in around 45min. In the meantime, she could swing by this fountain, or this arts and crafts gallery/market, or go to the open-performance stage and try to get some mana that way.

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