The festival is known as the Desiderium festival, which is a word meaning an ardent desire for something that has been lost. The fruit, which resembles an Australian fingerlime, ripens at around this date every year. This citrus fruit is tart, yet sweet, and crumbles into 'caviar' when removed from its rind.
The ethnic group that throws this festival, the Lamaria, makes paper from the rinds of the fruits, which is the only proper paper for the notes to be written on. As fitting the occasion, people wear special finery to present the notes to their friends and relatives, and to wear to the grave sites where they leave the notes for the dead. These tend to be burgundy and lime colors, like the fruits, and are shot through with gold (I can't draw anything for this but I'd like this culture to fit into the solarpunk aesthetic from my suggestion post).
They don't decorate the city itself as they are just a smaller ethnic group from among the population, though their own local neighborhoods may be decorated.
The fruit has no special effects on the eater, but pairs nicely with alcohol for after-hours consumption.
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The ethnic group that throws this festival, the Lamaria, makes paper from the rinds of the fruits, which is the only proper paper for the notes to be written on. As fitting the occasion, people wear special finery to present the notes to their friends and relatives, and to wear to the grave sites where they leave the notes for the dead. These tend to be burgundy and lime colors, like the fruits, and are shot through with gold (I can't draw anything for this but I'd like this culture to fit into the solarpunk aesthetic from my suggestion post).
They don't decorate the city itself as they are just a smaller ethnic group from among the population, though their own local neighborhoods may be decorated.
The fruit has no special effects on the eater, but pairs nicely with alcohol for after-hours consumption.