Snake prepared himself for the festival in the privacy of his own home, a converted warehouse, overlooking the bay, the city of Hong Kong behind him.<br/><br/>In a city so cramped as Hong Kong, it might be a little bit overdone to have an indoor tennis court in your own house, or a swimming pool, but he enjoyed those things. He walked past his library, to his living room and he picked up the invitation to the Festival. He lets the card slide into his jacket pocket, a black business suit, with just a slight hint of green, gold woven into the fabric, making it occasionally shimmer as the scales of the snake, and a high closing neck.<br/><br/>A smile graced his angular face, and his deep set emerald green eyes twinkled with amusement. Before he was chosen to become the Snake, he was merely a very succesful businessman, who had featured on the cover of several magazines, now he was so much more.<br/><br/>He shifted his perceptions into the mythic world after closing the door and then he smiles at his house. "Take good care of yourself, my friend." he said and laughed at the soft muttered response, before he left and turned around into the alley right behind his house, and he disappeared from sight.<br/><br/>He looked around in the Locus and with his hands in his pockets he casually strolled through the streets towards the core where he would likely meet his associates. His smile turned a bit darker and he stopped, looking around and he slowly raised his voice a little bit and announced: "I will give my blessing to the person amongst you who shows to me he .. or she is worthy of it. However, I will only give one person the opportunity, and I will not condone any violence in deciding who that person will be. And I wish you all a wonderful Festival."<br/><br/>He threw his head back in his neck and laughed heartilly, as he just turned the Festival very interesting for all. The tasks to find and decide on someone required nearly every single trait he himself governed, and so he would benefit from it.