Region: HK

Server Number: 1369

In-game Name: 藍馬雪鳥

UID: 300004908471724

To be honest, I didn’t really plan to join the event this time as I already shared my group’s journey during Christmas. My server is relatively stable, so groups didn’t change much over the past few months. But last time I decided to join the event quite late, so when I asked my friends to take the photos, it was late at night and a lot of members already went to sleep. Then when they woke up the next day and saw the chat history, and then the forum, they were a bit sad. So I promised that I’ll definitely invite the whole group in advance for photo taking when the next group photo event comes out, regardless of whatever it is. So here I am, posting a photo but having no idea what to write.

As you can see, the photo we took for “festivities” has quite a weird festival. In fact, it’s not a single festival. As there are 12 of us, to make things interesting, we did a lucky draw to assign each of us a random month of the year, and we’re to each transform into a ninja to represent a festival inside that month. The difficulty of the task depends on the month we got, but as long as we’re able to come up with a reasonable explanation for that transformation, it’s allowed, so there’s some interesting “festival” here.

We positioned ourselves according to the numbers on a clock, so it’s not hard to see the results. Here’s the festivals in order:

January - New Year

February - Valentine’s Day

March - Easter (me: well, she is wearing bunny ears…)

April - Water Festival

May - Labour Day

June - “Exam Festival” (cause “exams are as important as festivals”)

July - Firework Festival

August - Ghost Festival (in the east)

September - Mid-Autumn Festival

October - Halloween

November - Double 11 Shopping Festival (I was gonna go for Single’s Day, but that’s depressing for some so)

December - Christmas

We had much fun for several days discussing which festival to use and who to transform, as some members have interesting ideas while some would like inputs and opinions. And after all those, it seemed too short to just stood in a circle, transform and take a photo, especially since everyone carefully arranged their schedule to come together at that time. So we decided to play a game afterwards.

A game of Ninja Transformation Solitaire was quickly designed: we take turn in the clockwise direction, the ninja we transformed into has to be related to the previous order player’s ninja somehow. Of course, rules are lenient so we accept it as long as there’s a logical explanation. After a few cycles, some members started to make lengthy descriptions of hard to spot relationships and things turned out to be quite funny (eg kakuzu who loves money, and naruto who fails exams).

We had a great time, and would have played for longer if it hadn’t been time for war, which we won. That doesn’t happen usually, so it was a nice conclusion of our day.

Now that I look at it, it seems that I have successfully written something that may have fitted the requirement of this event as a “memory”, so hope you like our little story.

Thanks for reading :)