<div align="center">(http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/0/5322/455336-disc4_0023fueno.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Fueno, Evening...</strong></span><br/><br/>The city was buzzing.  Pyrotechnics filled the sky and poured their magnificent light over the entire bay in a display that could be seen almost to the main land yet carried virtually no sound.  Tourists poured into the streets, inn's were filled, and taverns ran free.  The primary centerpiece to the whole thing was a display out on the water itself that the port and the surrounding hills were able to over look complete with an elaborate magical set up for a great deal of visual and auditory enhancement.  Music powerful enough to fill the city resonated from the platform.  This was the Merfolk Festival.<br/><br/>The world had been put through a social upheaval after the destruction of the moon that never sets.  Winglies long thought extinct started to fill the world and likewise the more adventurous humans had ventured to the now welcoming wingly settlements.  The opportunity this provided allowed other endangered races to make a rise again with widespread persecution now openly shunned by most governing bodies.  Among these races were the once perceived primitive and animalistic Merfolk race forced to live in the dangerous sea and caverns.<br/><br/>This entire weak long celebration had been instituted as a national holiday for the first open and peaceful interactions between these two peoples.  As a group unarmed and trusting the merfolk had come to the outlying town rather than the capital making this the ideal place for the celebration.  At least it was kept under some degree of control even if the local guard--some provided from the capital under request thinking they could get some vacation activity from it-- were a bit more lax than normal.<br/><br/>Most seats in public areas were free.  The shore however was the nose bleed section thanks to that fact.  Private rooftops maintained tickets or by invitation only while taverns and inns had of course drink or patron minimums.  The best and most expensive seats belonged to the vessels floating out in the sea though inactive still had great positions.  Some of which even allowing the merfolk to join them on the ships or some humans, winglies, giganto, and minantos to join them in the water.<br/><br/>