[ open: maid cafe fundraiser ]

[at_heart]

WHO: Yuri, Saya, Kantera, Venti, Lumine, and YOU!
WHAT: A fundraiser for office space for Yuri's up-and-coming guild, Brave Vesperia Ellipsa.
WHEN: Late April.
WHERE: Blossomcrown, a karaoke bar rented out for the occasion.
WARNINGS: Cheesecakey fun. Potentially alcohol consumption. All maids offering black menu services will be linking to an additional top-level off comm ♥

ask about bve/the fundraiser | ic menu | request a maid | byotoplevels!

[ When you head to the location of Yuri's GPS ping from yesterday's network post, you'll find a rented-out little karaoke bar with MAID FOR YOU written on a handmade banner that is temporarily covering the bar's normal name, decorated in pink and black on the inside, with a lot of cute little two-chair tables taking up most of the floor space. There are rooms in the back that would normally be for singing karaoke in private, and singing with a maid is indeed one of the things you can do with those rooms today!

The real draw, though, is all of the very cute folks dressed as maids and/or butlers today, who will — for a small fee — wait on you personally. ♥

Take a menu, select a maid, and place your orders... or just ask Yuri what all the commotion's about, he'll be happy to explain! ]


((ooc: Maid cafe fundraiser! Don't worry too much about the coins your character is spending here, nothing is too expensive (though the black menu items are at a premium), we're all just here for the CR.

PLEASE NOTE: Yuri does feel personally responsible for the safety and comfort of all the Official Maids who are trying to help him raise funds here, so he will be actively trying to curb anyone bullying their friends into signing up, and he really doesn't want anyone working for him to be wearing or doing anything that makes them uncomfortable. Adult characters who only want to wear pink ribbons? Characters who want a full coverage maid outfit, or who want to be butlers instead? Excellent exercising of your boundaries, Yuri loves that for you.

You can, however, definitely pay for the "dress up as maid or butler" menu item and use that to bully your friends to your hearts' content. 😉))

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You're all good.

[forgingfires]

I can do omurice and curry.

[A pause.]

Actually, just the omurice. We need a sign if I make anything spicy, or else we can get sued if that's a thing in this world.

I'm Red Son.

[He is quite practiced at making sure things are stocked. The food stall may not have lasted long before the invasion, but he was Dedicated.]

[kingside]

[Okay, cool, making a mental note to never let you make him anything spicy.]

Of course, yes. A pleasure.

[And a slight, slight pause. This is... hardly the time to make conversation, but if both of them can multitask, perhaps he should?]

May I ask what motivated you to join Yuri's guild?

[forgingfires]

[HONESTLY, ITS A GOOD IDEA, do not let the person who can eat literal lava make you spicy food. Sure, the food is good, it will just also melt a human's tastebuds.]

Too many mortals don't appreciate a proper spicy meal.

Recognition that I need help to accomplish certain tasks and making friends is difficult and could be seen as insincere and then I lose the help. The guild has an exchange built in.

[kingside]

[he'd die, no thank you] [... The inclusion of the word "mortals" in this context does not inspire confidence, wow. He may just need to stare into space for a moment.]

I see.

[Yeah, we're just... let's move on.]

"Certain task?" Are you referring to the quests on offer or something else?

[forgingfires]

[Sorry, Lelouch, someone has zero qualms on making his status as an immortal demon obvious. Also like there are mortals back home who AREN'T human, so its just easier to include them.]

Quests, exploring segments. I need information on this world and for that, I need to know about this world.

And whatever it is that's preventing my gate spell from properly navigating so I can get home.

[kingside]

[Not what he'd meant in the slightest, but anyway.] [The usual, then. Fair enough.]

That dark energy Olwen mentioned? Of course it would interfere with something so useful.

[forgingfires]

Maybe. I'm not sure how much I trust vague 'dark energy' as an explanation without some evidence, but either way, it has to be something pervasive to interfere. Most likely something that's working on at least an elemental level, if not a fabric of reality level considering its just been the gate spell so far that's been interfered with.

[kingside]

[Oh, so he does have a brain, and Lelouch may just be perking up the tiniest bit at the realization. Always nice to find one of those in working order.]

Have you questioned the other otherworlders as to which of their powers the alleged "dark energy" interferes with?

[forgingfires]

I'm spoken to a few people about it, but so far, nothing else has been noted to be interfered with.

[He pauses, tapping his chin.] Though may a survey on the network would get results. Surely there's at least one other person with some dimensional travel power. I could potentially find a commonality between how the powers work beyond just the outcome that might tell me at least if the dark power is elemental or fabric.

Or a third thing I haven't figured out as being able to apply. Some things can be unorthodox and those are always hard to account for. [He thrives on doing that himself.]

Either way, narrowing the spectrum of where to look would be valuable.

[kingside]

[Nothing else that anyone would admit to, at least, or perhaps they, like Lelouch, were actively avoiding using their more destructive/disruptive capabilities? He'll keep this thought to himself, of course, but.]

A survey would be a good start. Granted, it could very well invite backlash from our seasonal overlords, but I doubt they'd do so publicly if they were intent upon maintaining a benevolent facade. At the least, we could also prepare ourselves for such a thing and know to raise the alarm should there be any suspicious consequences.

[forgingfires]

They can come for me if they want, they'll just make it clear what I should be doing. I haven't decided if they're little recruit plan is a cover story, or simple incompetence for how random their selection process must be to pull who they do for this place.

They might be strong with the seasonal powers, but I've been an elemental for centuries, I can do things with fire they could only dream of.

[kingside]

[Nice to see his ego's intact, thought the hypocrite. That could be a hindrance later on, but for right now—]

Survey it is. Will you be needing help developing the questions for it?

[forgingfires]

[If there's one thing Red Son was confident in, it was his prowess with his fire.]

[Mostly because his mother made sure he was that good in case he ever made the fire that could literally burn through the fabric of reality again that he wouldn't, you know, do that by mistake.]

[He does raise an eyebrow at Lelouch at that.]

Not really, no. Once I have a subject in mind, I'm fairly good at figuring out the right questions to ask. Its an important part of curse breaking.

I'm surprised you haven't asked before if you're interested in the answer.

[kingside]

[Again a good question. He shrugs.]

Wouldn't it be better coming from someone who knew what they were talking about? Everything about "Darkness" interfering with powers from home is purely theoretical to me.

[forgingfires]

[That]

[Gets a long pause.]

[Red Son just studying Lelouch with a fairly blank expression.]

Did you know about the darkness interfering with some powers before now?

[kingside]

[... Wow, really? Deadpan:]

Olwen mentioned it during his introductory speech.

[forgingfires]

[He shrugs.]

You may not have been paying attention.

And the way you said all that certainly read as 'let this person take the repercussions for asking potentially dangerous questions.'

[kingside]

[As if he hadn't mentioned dark energy immediately when Red Son said his gate spell wasn't working or the fact that a survey like this could have consequences? But this so-called elemental isn't precisely wrong all the same.]

Would you like me to do it, then?

[Lelouch hadn't been lying, though; Darkness interfering with powers is purely theoretical to him.]

[forgingfires]

[Red Son was more interested in seeing if Lelouch would lie when asked like that.]

Would you say you're a popular sort?

There is also the factor of who would get more responses.

[kingside]

[Red Son is getting a Look for that.]

Popularity has little to do with it if the topic is engaging enough. I trust you remember that "Hot or Not" post?

[forgingfires]

Hot or not?

[????]

Why would there be a post about the temperature of things?

[kingside]

... As in physically attractive.

[Are you just selectively stupid, he needs to know for reasons.]

[forgingfires]

Physically attractive...

[Math lady meme face for a few beats.]

Another one of those silly party games....?

[Listen, when you're obsessively trying to break a curse that is supposedly impossible to break, some things fall by the wayside and a social life is what fell to the wayside.]

[He's just used to his mother so despite his lack of social interactions, he's real good at picking up manipulative language.]

I'm no one, it's me, I forgot. Lelouch didn't. no burned pancakes, he'd throw a *fit*

[kingside]

[oh no] [Lelouch sighs faintly, now very definitely focusing on getting this stack of pancakes all nicely decorated/with toppings on and no one forgot that they needed to be flipped or anything and they're definitely off the griddle now wow.]

At a very basic level, yes. Your question was if I'm popular, however, and I don't believe that I'd describe myself as such here. Would you?

All good, pancakes are definitely in one piece

[forgingfires]

I told you I joined the guild because making friends is difficult to do. [He's just saying.]

I have asked questions on the network before, about powers and our supposed benefactors and did not get many to respond.

[He is tossing the boxes for whatever supplies needed to be open and refilled.]