Heavenly Blanc Void Party

[starshower]

🥂 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. Have fun!

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[bridge_princess]

Forgive me, but that laughs sounds like it suits you better. Comes easier to the throat.

[She gave him a vicious little smirk. Look, she might not have any plots or plans, but she wasn't a nice person deep down. She didn't make any pretenses there.]

Any time you get them together, humans are naturally greedy, rappacious things. Tokugawa. Meiji. Sakanoue. Names change. Shit still smells like shit. It just comes with the territory.

how's this? You fake a politician's smile well.

[simulatio]

Hm.

[His smile doesn't quite go back to what it had been, accepting her compliment for what it is and consciously choosing to swap masks, at least for now.]

Now that, I will take. People like people who look like them, after all, and what's the saying about keeping your friends close?

[It's one of the more honest things he's said since arriving here, but he thinks Parsee will appreciate it.]

[bridge_princess]

Oh there's a story behind that line, hah. But I haven't earned it. I know that much about social interaction still. [She winked at him.] Yeah, that's what they say, and it's usually very true.

[Yeah, she appreciated that sort of frankness quite a bit actually. So he was more than he seemed? Well, good, he was honest about that.]

Well, around here it seems we're mostly supposed to be friends. supposed to be anyway. I'm willing to play along, but I have a hard time trusting that.

[simulatio]

[If anything, the corner of his lip only quirks higher at the frank assessment. She's absolutely right, on every count, and he can respect that. Their confidant rank isn't nearly high enough to unlock his backstory! And certainly not in a place as crowded as this.

He leans back and nods, resting a hand on his hip and gesturing to the crowd.]

Unfortunately, I agree. For now, working together toward an as-of-yet-unknown goal seems to be the highest priority, and yet will it always be so...? I have my doubts. It's a situation that will require careful monitoring, for sure.

[bridge_princess]

Call it a hunch. The tigers will show their stripes when this world's table enough that we're not all just surviving the lurches forward all the time. Molding our own little empires or trying to get home.

That's when the tone might change.

[simulatio]

As a demon, are you looking forward to it?

[It's a simple question, but one he's honestly very interested in hearing the answer to.]

[bridge_princess]

Yes and no. I do get a sort of perverse kick out of being proven right as often as I get to see it. There's something to being able to predict the shitty outcome before it actually happens.

[Gruuunt]

But I don't actually enjoy the experience. It still usually sucks.