Matilda's Bloomers and the Ichiban Koi Club are proud to announce Rhy'Din's 5th Annual Koi Show & Aucton!

http://i.imgur.com/SfmYv1A.jpg Date: Saturday, August 19th Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Place: Matilda's Ideas Cottage, Backyard (adjacent to Matilda's Bloomers flower shop, one short block west of the market square)

Bred for patterns, size, and body shape, koi are considered creations of living art. See the most beautiful fish in Rhy'Din! Over 100 koi (from 6" to 30") are to be auctioned off. All proceeds go to the Rhy'Din Fire Brigade. Tours around the show will be made available throughout the day to educate visitors on the different varieties of koi and to answer questions. Be sure to explore the new products useful for the hobby inside the Ideas Cottage!

((This is a board only event. Please post your reply to this thread. An inventory icon is available for all who participate. No destroying the Ideas Cottage or harming of fish. As always, have fun! :grin: ))

Nile hadn't ever been to the Koi Auction before, but having seen one of the flyers about town, she'd made a point to go.

It didn't hurt that she'd gotten permission to actually build a pond in the family garden, but she wasn't entirely sure it was ready for any fish yet. Still, she went about pelting people who looked like they knew about fish with questions, and got a good look at the fish put up for auction. Not to mention she nosed about in the Ideas Cottage, too.

Eventually, it turned out that there was at least a pair with such pretty colors (or lack thereof, because one of them was black and white) that Nile had to take them home. She was fairly sure that one of her uncles could help make the fish comfortable until the pond was ready...

Now to come up with fish names!

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Niamh hadn't the faintest idea what good she would be at an auction. Wasn't the purpose at an auction to make your presence known and to call out' Particularly strenuous for the mute who loved her invisibility, it wasn't until she heard where the proceeds were going to that she considered it.

She found the sweet and bitter irony that if she bought a fish, the money would go to the Fire Brigade. The incidental Firestarter couldn't help the twitch at her mouth that refused to go further, but it tickled her fancy for dark humor.

But what really sold her? Was finding this beauty among the others, and it was love at first sight.

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It was safe to say, her inability to speak didn't stop her from placing bid after bid to ensure she took it home.

She left with a new friend to stare at for hours on end.

Due to the color scheme, she already knew she was going to name it Hal.

One year later, and convincing Patrick that the inn was desperately in need of a koi pond had not worked out very well. Minoko would bring the topic up once every few weeks, usually causing some form of brief spat. Finally Patrick had managed to convince her it was a bad idea with one simple sentence. "Drunks will piss in it, you know." That was all it had taken to ruin her picture perfect mental image of a nice, tranquil spot that inn-goers could visit. Now all she could see was a group of careless men harassing her poor, poor fish. These concerns were (drunkenly) voiced to her husband, who, much to her joyful surprise, said that they could simply install a koi pond at their home. So to the koi auction they went. Minoko ended up winning three: two for herself and one for her friend Orchid.

http://images.directoryofshareware.com/full/utsuri_koi_wallpaper_desktop_themes-614853.jpeg Orchid's Hi Utsuri, "striped", as she requested

http://gizikita.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gambar-Ikan-Koi-Hi-Utsuri.jpg Minoko's Hi Utsuri

http://azimfishfarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Tancho.jpg Minoko's Tancho