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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[halloflamer]

Don't worry! That's their problem; if Tifa-chan decides to cut them off, she's the boss.

[Blue gives Cloud an 'OK' sign with his fingers; does being cut off include Blue??? It's definitely going to, you get the sense.]

[But see, you get him, Cloud. Blue plucks a drink from the tray for himself, and takes a slow sip.] Me, I have really no idea what's going on in this place, so I mostly came to meet people. That's more fun than thinking about whatever zillion things could have caused this....

So how about you, pal? Name, age, --um, occupation? [It's usually not occupation.]

[memorate]

Cloud. Twenty-one. Mercenary.

[ He nearly said "male" anyway. Who asks for age and occupation unless they're security?! ]

And I don't think everyone here is gathered for the fun of it.

[ Cut to cheers in the background as somebody scores a bullseye at darts. Moving on... ]

You really don't wanna figure out a way home?

[halloflamer]

[Blue wasn't exactly expecting a straight answer to that, but he'll take it. Hmmmm, same age.... a little too pretty and blond for his tastes.... Nice shoulders, though.....]

[Blue sighs out into his glass, keeping his meandering thoughts to himself. Oh well!!]

Maybe they should be!

[He sets his glass back down again and hums thoughtfully. It wasn't disinterest, but...] I wanna go home as much as anybody, pal, but what's the point in being gloomy about it? Nobody's figured out anything about this place so far that actually explains anything, that I've heard...

[He raises a finger into the space between them, and cheerfully declares,] So I'll focus on morale, instead! That's important too, right?

[memorate]

[ is blue checking him out??? ]

Great, so we got a cheerleader to get us through. Or did you have a different job before all of this?

[ Nothing wrong with a little morale, Cloud supposes. He wouldn't put too much stock into it, but it's better than doing nothing. ]

[halloflamer]

[He SURE IS, but luckily for Cloud, Blue decides that the merc isn't really his type. Not that he'd turn down some flirting........]

[Blue grins at the jab, but takes it in stride; he's certainly been called worse things.] Not the cheerleader, the coach! I'm called a 'trainer', but I've gotten the sense that people don't really know what that is....

Ummm, simply put, I train creatures. People here seem to call them 'animals', we call them 'Pokémon'.

[memorate]

[ Right... somehow Cloud already knew he was going to hear the word Pokémon seconds before Blue uttered it. This isn't the first time he's heard of it, which is good for Blue, which means he doesn't have to explain it to a stranger for once. ]

I know what they are, I've met a bunch of you trainers already. You guys all know each other or something?

[ It feels like there's a lot of them around. ]

[halloflamer]

Oh! Good. And yeah, mostly.

[He's a little relieved!! Thanks for taking one for the team, Lance, he assumes.]

[It sure as hell wasn't Red.]

Except Galar boy, but he's alright. [Which is a PRETTY BIG seal of approval from this guy. He should be thankful!]

Mine is-- [Blue suddenly realizes he ...doesn't know where Eevee is, and swivels his head around until he spots the little brat curled up on the bartop, being cute at Tifa for free food. He points.] ....ah. The con artist, over there.

[memorate]

Huh. Your con artist is doing better than most guys at getting her attention.

[ That's because most guys usually try to give her things, rather than ask her for something like free food. Little Eevee has figured out the game! ]

[halloflamer]

Heheheh. He's a natural, right?

[You don't have to look so proud, Blue.]

Well, when you're pretty, it's only natural that you'll get a lot of attention... [He would know!] ...That's rough though, buddy. My condolences.

[Blue slaps a commiserating pat to Cloud's (non-pauldron) shoulder.]