🥂 HEAVENLY BLANC VOID PARTY 🥂
Who: Everyone!
What: Heavenly Blanc mingle and info exchange
Where: The Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café
When: "August 1"; but really, what is time
Content Warnings: N/A
Maybe you heard through word of mouth, or got an invite from the barista and barkeep directly, or spotted the handwritten paper invites hung up around the area, but there is a gathering happening at the Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café TODAY! So feel free to stop by, hang out, have some drinks, and share some stories.
🍺 DRINKS: Coffee will be served by Ren, and Tifa will be handling the other drinks. There's a wide variety behind the bar, ranging from alcoholic to the non-alcoholic, with delicious cocktails (yes, including virgin ones for the minors) to pick from. And before you ask - no, if you are underage, you may not have alcohol. Tifa will be very strict about it, and anyone who tries to bypass her imposed law will be subject to room temperature tapwater for the rest of the party.
🎲 GAMES: Various boardgames that came along with Le Blanc will be made available for all to play, including a Shogi board for the strategically inclined (and whoever knows how the heck to play it). Along the side wall are two pinball machines, and while they don't light up and make sounds, the mechanisms inside them still work, so they aren't completely out of the picture! Next to them, between the jukebox and the door is a dart board. Please do be mindful when throwing darts, as the light filtering into the bar through the front windows is very minimal.
🤔 INFORMATION EXCHANGE: The important part! When all are gathered inside the bar, Tifa and Ren will make a small announcement for everyone:
 "Now that we've all had the chance to take a look around and get our bearings, I wanna encourage everyone to exchange what you know, or what you've found. Even share it with the rest of us! Locations, ideas, theories - anything that could be useful in helping us all figure this out. We all come from different worlds, but we're stuck here, so we're in this together until we're not, yeah? Let's make friends and play nice, and most importantly, have fun today! Oh, and if you're coming and going, make sure to close the door nice and tight behind you."
"It's nice to see everyone. Since we're stuck here together, let's cooperate well."
☕ OOC NOTES ☕
This is the open mingle post for the Heavenly Blanc void party! Please feel free to top-level and tag around.
There is a top-level included here for you to post OOC notes of what their characters have discussed on the log, as well as their own thoughts about the world. If there is anything important that people should know, please reply to the top-level with the information, so that it's easy to find for everyone. General info posts about what your character will be talking about are fine as well. Just please try to avoid multiple edits if you can as you thread if you are going that route! for the sake of my dw inbox...
Because this is an info exchange/mingle post, we encourage thread-jacking. However, we know that not everyone is into that kind of thing, so if you are okay with others hopping into your threads, please be sure to indicate it in your top-level.
Questions about the log can be directed to the ooc post.
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tabularasa_rp2020-08-01 05:06 pm
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That's better. Thanks. [ she can at least drink it now! ] Kind of crazy your bar came with you here. Do you have any idea why that might have happened?
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No, I don't. Been asking myself that since I got here.
[And since they're here to share and spread some information, she wonders if this next part is at all important, so she continues, more hesitantly, mostly because it's difficult to talk about.]
My bar was destroyed the night I came here, so it's a little strange to see it standing again like this.
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How are you... feeling about it?
[ ahsoka doesn't think she could be in here, if she were in tifa's shoes anyway. ]
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The question forces her to actually think about her feelings—something she's hardly done since she walked through the door. Something sharp pangs in her chest, and it hitches her breath mid-laugh, and so Tifa has to pause to pour herself a glass of water.]
It's a little strange, [she admits, although that's an understatement, and she knows she's probably not fooling anyone.] It's kinda nice to have something here I know so well, but...
[It's hard sometimes.]
We all need a place to go when we need to think, or relax, y'know? It keeps me going.
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Maybe that's why it's here then. To give you a place in this world. [ nothing happens by chance. it's one of the few lessons she was taught that she still very much holds to. ] Do you need any help? With upkeep I mean.
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[She likes to think that's the reason, simply because she's always been an optimist at heart, but the more reasonable part of her hasn't tossed away the possibility that this could all be just a dream, or a consequence of them trying to change fate. Even a punishment from Sephiroth himself. Until there's an explanation for it all, she's going to continue to weigh those options carefully.
Tifa's eyes roam around the bar again.]
I wouldn't ever say no to more help, but I think between Ren and I, we got it covered. When it's only the same twenty-eight people who come and go, it's pretty easy. Most are real good at cleaning up after themselves. [Lest they want Tifa's wrath to descend upon them.] Why? You looking for work?
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[ it's what she hoped she could do before the mandalorians stepped off that ship to ask for help, and before everything around her crashed to the ground. she wishes she had... well, not this bar, but a place to claim as hers. ]
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Things just seem to go on forever.
She can sympathize...
After a thoughtful hum, she brings a finger up to her chin.]
Well, what kinda things do you like to do?
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[ which might sound sad, but it's kind of the way life was with the jedi. you followed the path made out for you, and explored interests within it. she liked going on adventures, the thrill that battles could bring, and helping other people, but that's not really quantifiable.
she mulls it over. ]
I'm good with my hands. I did a lot of repair work on starships and hoverbikes. I know how to fight with my hands, and with a sword. And -- acrobatics? Like athletic training.
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Well, I can't exactly offer up anything for the repair work, or the fighting—unless you're looking for a spar partner...! [She tacks that last part on as an afterthought because she wouldn't say no to that.] Buuuut... We could always use more hands around here, specially with cooking. Even prep would be good.
[If she's good with a sword, then she'd be good with a knife, right?
But another thought dawns on her after a moment, and her expression droops.]
Not sure what we could do with that yet... What with us all not being hungry.
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You know how to fight? [ hm! she noticed tifa was muscular but she didn't want to make assumptions. a grin perks up. ] I'll have to take you up on that. Not sure how many other people here I'd be able to spar with truthfully.
[ not that there aren't other fighters, sure, but she doesn't want to put a lot of strength behind her throws if the other person can't take it. ]
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[Everything Tifa knows, she took from Zangan, and sadness ghosts her features. How is he doing, she wonders... She never saw him again, after the incident in Nibelheim.]
I wouldn't mind some sparring partners, honestly. I've been needing something to shake things up around here.
[She loves being a bartender, and enjoys what she does, but even that gets old after a while when there's nothing else beyond it.]
I'm guessing that means you do, too.
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[ a little longer if she factors in her training as a youngling, but frankly? little of it prepared her for what the real deal was. ]
Yeah. I... got into fights a lot, before this. [ she drums her fingers light on the countering, thinking how much she should open up. it's still a sore subject. ] I fought in a war. Close combat training was required before I could go out on the field.
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[In her experience, most of the Shinra grunts she's seen used guns, but then there were SOLDIER, and they were a different story, as far as she knows. Which is why she asks:]
You mean with weapons, or more along the lines of martial arts?
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[ this is where it might get complicated. may be better to skip anything mentioning the force. ]
The other side mainly sent waves of battle droids. We used swords that could deflect their beams, and used martial arts in cases that wasn't an option.
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[If they could deflect magitech beams. She's pretty sure that Cloud's could do it, too... act as a shield of sorts, so there are some similarities! She's following.]
If you have your sword with you, I wouldn't mind practicing with that, either. I don't really know the first thing about fighting with them, but I have fought against them.
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I lost it. [ on purpose. ] We'll just practice with our fists. Best tool to use, right?
can probably wrap this one up!
Most convenient, too. Don't have to rely on having a weapon with you.
[Best part about being the monk in the party! She doesn't have to lug a heavy sword or gun around.]
There's a nice open spot behind here we can use. Just say the word and I'll be there!