Important question for you. In light of the unexpected hiatus that the game was on, would you prefer me to expedite the prologue a bit or continue it on its originally planned pace? Bear in mind, my originally intended pace was for about 5 in-game days worth of festival events before having any main plot happen.
I think I too, would like to hear about perhaps some more of the potential events before deciding, though I’m down to skip to the main plot if that’s what we need to do.
To put it simply, the prologue was going to last over the course of 5 days. The Struggle Tournament is on Day 4, the Festival is on Day 5. The 3 days leading up to that was largely going to depend on what you, the players, chose to do. I'll present things, but you would decide if your characters were interested in doing any of things. For instance, the Blitzball game that Wakka is trying to set up is one example of something that can occupy your time for part of the day. The Strugglers in the Sandlot is another example of how your can spend their time. You could also go look around the shopping area, there's places where some extra help is needed getting things set up and you could take part time work helping out to earn a bit of extra pocket munny. And then there's your school assignment. Research the history of the festival and write a paper on it, you could always make some headway doing that as well.