🥂 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...
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tabularasa_rp2020-08-01 05:06 pm
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...he mentioned ordering.]
What do you have that's stiff and clear? I'm assuming you don't have shochu. If I'm going to do this? I should probably have something at least.
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I've had an idea.
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... [She took his hand with a grunt.]
Fine. Look, I'll play along, on the sole condition that you give me booze as well. I really need a stiff drink to shut up my own head, alright? And don't give me the light stuff either.
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(She can ask Tifa for it. In the meantime, he guides her from behind the bar, giving her a brief explanation of the tea leaves they have available and the improvised way they have been making them, with the hot tap water.)
Here. You can be busy and interact as much as you'd like. Or not.
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[She'd accept that, and as she listened to him explain the tea, she remembered the old ceremony. The expectations. Turn the cup. Inspect the implements. Offer everyone a chance to look at them. Each step a following of ancient traditions passed down like the tea sets, almost heirlooms of their...
Her head shook. Forget that shit. She didn't do that anymore. that was the place of the hostess of a home... but brewing was simple enough, wasn't it? She could just... grind leaves, brew the tea and nobody would say anything about her being weird.]
Offering me a job, are you?
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(It's not that crowded that he can't handle it usually, for starters... But he really just wanted to help her be occupied for a second or two, too busy to socialize and just free enough to strike conversation when she deems of her liking.)
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[He wasn't wrong. As soon as she settled into the task, it was something that occupied her hands, and if she got perfectionistic about it, then it became a focus for her mind as well. It was a lot harder to pay attention to what everyone else was doing if she was busy doing something else.]
What gave you this idea anyway?
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(A lot of time between a successful mission and the results, maybe. It does make one anxious and the solution he has found was to distract him teammates and himself.
He takes one of the cups she made, sipping and humming to the taste - he does prefer coffee, but this is not bad.)
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[She was, very clearly, a perfectionist. Brewing tea was an artform, and she couldn't bear to half-ass it right now. Not because she was truly a perfectionist. It was because it was a distraction and she was going to use it to her end.]
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He watches her for a second, as if it took a while to realize that tea is possibly rather personal to an yokai.
When it does sink, he smiles, pleased by the success of this operation.)
You're good at this.
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I was a housewife once, you know. There were expectations. Some things... you never truly forget.
[She poured it quietly, taking a whiff before offering it to him, keeping her eyes on the set.]
Manual labor and chores... have their uses.
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At last, he takes the tea with both hands to sip, a happy hum coming afterwards.)
Such as?
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[She frowned and sighed a little.]
Can't actually do the ceremony quite like this, but tea's an old thing. Just kid of reminds me of other times. Times I wasn't angry. [She sighed a little, almost wistful.] But that was a long time ago.
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A hand goes to his chin in thought. Maybe doing this more often could help her calm her nerves...)
Would you teach me about it?
(Improve his charm, Parsee!! He needs the stats.)
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[She frowned. He was asking her to teach him the tea ceremony? Kami, she didn't have almost anything. She could brew him a decent pot but she needed a whisk, a scoop, a closed off room. Maybe a hanging scroll. There were...
Sometimes she missed those days.]
I can get pieces together. I'll root through the beach. There might be pieces that are useful. Kind of fitting, brewing tea in a world born out of the trash of our memories in castaways. Heh.
(Ren has gained +1 Kindness! He has come to the WRONG place to get training in charm. HAH.)
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(Albeit... They were much less nice and delicate than a tea set. Most of them were infiltration tools... One time he fixed a laptop, if that helps?)
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Don't you dare ignore them. I'm not going to be at fault if they wake up pissed off at you for forgetting them. [Teapots were the worst.]