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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[crystaltower]

[The Exarch, of course, has opted to have nothing alcoholic and is just as covered as usual even though the wind has already exposed his face before.

Having been inside a little too long, by his reckoning indoors for too long, he steps outside for a moment, and the boy catches his eye. Hm...]

An interesting project you're working on. Is this some manner of game?

[forethinking]

Yes.

(Ren holds out the pieces, allowing Exarch to pick one to see if he so wishes.

Hopefully the wind doesn't destroy the game...!)

It's called Shogi. Have you heard?

[crystaltower]

I’m not familiar, no. What manner of game is it? I might like to learn.

[He takes the piece to look at, turning it over briefly in his hand before handing it back.]

[forethinking]

Strategy.

(For explaining purposes, Ren had already written the rules on a piece of paper so that whoever is learning can refer back to it. Handing the rules out, Ren smiles at the other. First time for everything, right?

[crystaltower]

[The Exarch takes the instructions and begins to read over them, his smile not fading. There is a certain familiarity about the rules... and it would be a good idea to find some way to pass whatever qualifies for 'time' here.]

Introducing people to a game from your homeland strikes me as an excellent idea. Would you mind terribly if I borrowed this for a short time, that I might be able to play against you when next we meet?

[forethinking]

(It's pleasing to see that Exarch is interested, seen that it is an incredible game of wits. The question itself was a surprise, but he didn't feel like it would be an issue. It sort of belonged to the bar now.)

Just have fun and don't worry about it.

[crystaltower]

Thank you.

Perhaps I ought consider introducing a game I am more familiar with... there is a popular card game I know of, wherein cards are arranged on a three by three grid.

[Quite why that particular card game exists both in Eorzea and Norvrandt, the Exarch really doesn't know. He didn't bring it in, like he introduced gil and gremlins. It's something of an oddity, all things considered.]

[forethinking]

Is it easy to create?

(See, in this case, Ren would not be useful at all. If drawings come with it, they'd be doodles if Ren had any part in manufacturing.)