The Absolutely Gorgeous Lantern Festival Map!

Went to check out this ridiculously gorgeous map together with Sophia,

and it was seriously such a fun time~

This time in-game, we used a lighting mod that Xun Cao never normally uses~

and the second it kicked in, the whole world looked completely different~

Gorgeous in the morning, gorgeous at night too, just adorable all around~

The moment we walked in, we were floored by the view!!

Absolutely stunning~

We followed the signs toward the main venue~

and along the way found a spot where you could harvest bamboo,

so A-Ya and I gathered a ton of it~

Right as we were in the middle of harvesting, a staff NPC suddenly showed up!!!

We panicked thinking we'd overharvested WWW

but turned out they were just there to hand out lanterns~

and those lanterns were beautifully made, seriously.

Continuing on~

we found a spot for harvesting sugarcane too,

so we grabbed a bit of that as well~

and A-Ya ended up accidentally falling into the water,

which turned out to have an amazing view looking up from underwater~

Further along, we found a spot to craft sky lanterns —

four bamboo poles and four sheets of paper make one lantern.

I made six of them in a row~

did a full six-lantern blessing run~

and threw in a blessing for all the VTubers who dropped by my stream too XD (thank you to Sakura and Yinfei for stopping by my stream QAQ)

After that we just needed to find the spot to release them~

Further ahead was the market area~

At first we were wondering how to even get the in-game currency for the festival~

but as we kept wandering, we found a bunch of game booths

where you could earn festival currency by playing~

First one was a lantern-fishing game~

A-Ya kept thinking the game master was hitting her?

and she kept trying to start a fight with the poor NPC

Took forever to figure out the actual rules XDDD

Next was the firecracker god game,

where we grabbed firecrackers and went wild throwing them at the fire god~

That's when we ran into Old Li and his group~

and ended up tagging along with them~

Living up to her reputation, Mrs. Li

immediately dragged us straight to the roulette gambling table~

Xun Cao had pretty good luck~

pulled 12 lanterns' worth in one go~

A-Ya wasn't quite as lucky though W

she pulled five times in a row and got "better luck next time" every single one XDDD

Nearly lost her entire fortune XD

By then it was almost 9pm, time for the lantern release~

and we were still wondering what we hadn't explored yet~

so we split off from Old Li's group for a bit~

to go explore on our own~

We found a Lantern Festival Trivia Tower~

and went in to solve puzzles together~

but we got stuck partway through,

until a staff member noticed we were struggling and came over to help point us in the right direction XD

By the time we finished the puzzles, it was almost time for the lantern release,

so we rushed straight to the release site,

and sent our wishes up into the sky.

The whole scene was so beautiful

that A-Ya and I just kept taking photos over and over

And after all that photo-taking~

we realized there was still one activity we hadn't tried — the lantern riddle game!

So we rushed off to go find it~

and finally tracked it down tucked away in a little corner.

We were doing fine solving the riddles at first~

but I think A-Ya just got a little too excited~

and ended up literally ripping the riddle board clean off the wall XDDD

Truly embarrassing WWW

We wrapped the night with bubble tea from Cynthia while the staff worked hard to fix the board~

and that was it for the night~XD

Thank you all for spending the Lantern Festival with me and A-Ya~

We had such a great time~