Potluck Mingle: Welcome Party

[musketea]

When March 2nd Where Blossomcrown Central Park
What Potluck Mingle/Welcome Party

About.

What had started with Mami stress-baking far too much cake and offering to give some away, had lead to a number of other offers to bring food, and soon she had ended up in charge of a substantial potluck mingle. Well, she supposed it would make for a nice welcome party for everyone else who had been dragged into this strange new world with her!

And so, a number of small tables and picnic blankets had been set out with cakes, cookies, hot dogs, burgers and other sweet and savoury treats that her and others had been brought along. Mami had even taken the time to decorate the table with little flowers that she'd gathered as well, just to add to the atmosphere that the cherry blossom trees already provided.

Hopefully it would be a relaxing, pleasant afternoon.

Notes.

OOC: Feel free to make your own TLs, mingle, interact with each other and all of that stuff! I'll add a comment at the top for people to add what they're bringing along for reference (but contributions are of course not mandatory).

CODE BY MARWOOD

Comments

[musketea]

You've been through this before? What...was the other world you were brought into like?

[Hopefully not a scary one.]

[musketea]

[Warm thoughts always appreciated!

Come to think of it, as the sea of her thoughts started to settle...]

Ah...I never did ask your name, did I? How rude of me.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

Weirder... how?

[ He knew it was bad at all, but... he is a bit curious about what happens. ]

[kerontribution]

Oryou is very interested in learning. She'll surprise her husband with it.

[at_heart]

It happens.

I'm Yuri.

[sangreine]

[ Sadly it was the scariest, sorry. ]

It wasn't very nice. Pretty terrible, actually. This one is much better so far. So I'm grateful to have been brought here.

[fiorello]

[ He nods, almost too quickly.

And then he says it, plain and simple: ] I don't want to go home.

[snekeyes]

[She hadn't thought of that! Could her sisters really be brought into this world alongside her, someday?

...She wanted to believe in that possibility.]

That would...that would make me happy.

Is there anyone you are waiting for?

[kerontribution]

Oryou waited for Ryouma, and now she's with him again.

[So she doesn't need to ask for anyone else. But...]

Oryou's Master being here wouldn't be too bad.

[at_heart]

[ —well, fuck. ] [ Yuri pauses, then settles down next to him. ]

...They might let some of us stay here, even after we've fixed whatever's gone wrong.

[at_heart]

And that's what they're willing to admit to us.

[ Yuri's not... well, no, he absolutely is kind of paranoid, ]

[at_heart]

[ And then he made a frog-shaped ice cream, definitely not in any way related to this conversation. ]

Do you like green tea?

[at_heart]

[ Welp. ]

More, uh, intense? Think like a static shock except. Well.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

So more like being hit by lightning?

[ As if that's a normal if bothersome thing to be hit by. ]

[at_heart]

[ Waving a hand dismissively which is probably not gonna do much to dispel that impression, lbr. ]

I don't really plan on letting anything they did get me down.

[ And yet, if pressed even a little, he would agree that that would be a wildly unfair thing to expect of anyone else. You can't control what does and doesn't get you down. ]

—But yeah. I can see that. [ Half a smile. ] At least this isn't the sort of place where you have to feel too guilty about other people being here.

[kerontribution]

Oryou likes it now. She lived in Japan, so tea is everywhere.

[at_heart]

Have you ever had it as ice cream?

[kerontribution]

Oryou hasn't. But Oryou wants to try it now.

[kingside]

[Yeah, Yuri is getting a Look for that, but Lelouch is inclined to let it go. It isn't his responsibility, so.]

It wouldn't make sense to feel guilty about it regardless. It's hardly anyone's choice to wind up in a place like this.

[fiorello]

[ His eyes widen as he turns to look at Yuri. ]

Really-? Can I really...? [ He has no idea how unsafe this world actually might be. But with how much he's lost recently at home, the prospect of making a new home is very appealing. ]

[at_heart]

They should.

After all, we're all doing them a huge favor, right?

[at_heart]

It's sweet, but not overly sweet. Kind of mild.

[at_heart]

[ Um. ]

Wrong kind of more intense.

[at_heart]

Right, because that's what human feelings are famous for: rationality.

[kingside]

[Fair, and his head tilts, conceding the point.]

I do seem to recall Kantera mentioning that we could use a therapist.