[@Vulkan] Basically, everything started with the avatars registering for the festival, some of whom (the ones around when things started) happened to arrive at the same time. Germaine caused a scene when he arrived through a portal, which ended up escalating to a point that [i]nearly[/i] became violent before Seras defused the situation to protect the civilians from an avatar battle. After registering, everyone went their own way off-screen for a few hours (in which time other avatars may have registered) before meeting again for a formal dinner between avatars that was mentioned in a leaflet that everyone recieved when registering :)