seasonsrpg | 🌸 sunshine, she's here, you can take a break

🌸 sunshine, she's here, you can take a break

WHO: Everyone!! :D
WHAT: A get-to-know-you-together!
WHEN: end of August
WHERE: shinrin-yoku, Sunwaning
WARNINGS: None for now!

[ The past week, Ayaka and Aether made an announcement on the network, inviting everyone interested to make friends and meet new people to the shinrin-yoku teahouse the following weekend. Well, this is it! The time has come! ]

Welcome
🌸 shinrin-yoku seems like a simple tea house upon entering, with a large wooden sliding door that's already opened for guests to enter.

Ayaka will be the one to personally greet her guests, offering three possible areas for seating– the traditional Inazuman set up, the space for where you can let your legs down and not kneel while seated, or outside in the gardens. Familiar faces may be abound, and guests may like to walk around and see the interior, perhaps even say hello to the manager who is walking around and sniffing people here and there.

For future endeavours, Ayaka informs guests that they may use the shinrin-yoku for business gatherings and meetings. Members of Ayato's committee are more than welcome to use the shinrin-yoku, and may even become a place for exchanging information and the like. The tea house promises to be a safe place to all.

And for this particular gathering, Ayaka is not only serving tea, but also sake. It never hurts to make things more fun!

Konpeito, Truth, or Dare
🌸 All guests, upon entering, will be given a small clear glass container. They will also be presented with a giant bowl containing konpeito. They must take at least one, and as many as they could possibly want, and put it inside their own container. They are told not to eat any for now, but no one's really stopping them from doing so!

At some point during the occasion, a game is announced. Everyone is told to check their konpeito and count how many they have! Now, they must pick a partner and play a couple of rounds of truth or dare with them. Every time they get a turn, whether they pick truth or dare, they can eat a piece of candy! ~~Or eat three or five at the same time~~ Once they've had five rounds, though, then they have to choose another partner and start over until they've finished their konpeito bowls.

There is an added rule to the konpeitos, but not necessarily required to be followed! A white konpeito must have a truth or dare related to family, green for a "favourite", yellow for love or sex, orange for childhood or childlike-ness, and pink for "hate".

Ringo (Ayaka's Eevee) and Taroumaru will be watching people and make sure they aren't cheating! Though sometimes, they may not be looking, and can even be bribed with snacks. Participants who can finish their konpeito in an hour (which we'll conveniently handwave) will receive a box of sakura mochi to take home.

Introduction Bingo
🌸 Guests are given bingo cards to fill up at some point during the afternoon! Pens are also provided, or if they have their own, then that's cool!

Participants may put someone's name twice on any of the squares, but more than that, and it won't count. The objective is to get a blackout by filling out names of people who fit the description! How one does this is completely up to them. They could even slip it into their conversations during the truth or dare games, or just randomly walk up to people and ask them things.

Two Twists and a Lie
🌸 A card is given to participants for them to write two truths and one lie on it, then they have to pin or stick it to the back of their clothing. When someone wants to play, they must first challenge you to a game of janken. If you win, you get to turn the game around and guess which is the lie on their card. If they win, then they're entitled to one guess! If they get it wrong, you have to play janken again.

So, what happens when the person gets it right? The person can now make a rule that the other person has to follow. Whether it means they have to call you "Master", end all their sentences with "yes, please", or some other rule that you can think of! And in case you can't think of anything, there's a box nearby with cute props that you can make the loser wear: cat ears, a cat tail, bunny ears, a bunny tail, a raccoon kigurumi, and some goofy glasses.

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( OOC: Feel free to play around with the prompts. Get creative! )

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Can Oryou dare you?

[She did say she wouldn't dare him to do anything too bad...]

Yeah, go for it. But please don't embarrass me.

[He'll face a thousand enemies on the battlefield, but not again public humiliation! He got eaten on camera, his statue was shamed, and just the other week the local fairies gave him pig features!]

...Is singing embarrassing?

[She doesn't think so, but...]

Singing's okay. What do you want me to sing?

[This may just be more of a punishment for everyone within earshot, but he'll do it!]

Love song. Pick your favorite.

Okay... okay. Here we go..!

[He clears his throat and then gets started on one of the Gintama opening songs (~~cover version for convenience~~). This is totally a love song, just listen to the lyrics! He progressively gets more into it despite having a rough voice and not being able to hold many tones.]

Baby, if you're by my side it doesn't matter what happens next
My dreams could turn to grey, they could fade away
Let me be the one to share the tears in your eyes
Baby, I pray and I believe--

[It's almost 5 minutes long. Good luck, Oryou!]

[...this is bad singing, but she's now deeply invested in this. Will he actually lose his voice entirely before he finishes the song? She has to find out.]

[It gets and worse and worse, with his chain smoker voice getting hoarser and hoarser, but he manages to finish it! He takes a deep breath, then pours a crapton of konpeito into his mouth again and promptly chokes on them. After a little coughing fit he somehow manages to force them down his throat.]

Ugh... sorry, Oryou, I need another drink. I'll be right back... or, actually, can I dare you to get me one? Sake, okay?

[He already had one... does this count as day-drinking? What is this, a karaoke bar?]

Good job, you finished. Oryou will buy you a drink for that.

[Off she goes, and soon returns with sake. Here you go, for impressing her.]

[He pretty much downs it in one go, but he's grateful!]

Thank you. Hm... it's my turn give you a dare, isn't it? But I can't think of anything. I suck at this game, honestly.

[No joke!!]

You can pick anything. Oryou isn't scared or embarrassed by anything.

[Does that help?]

[It kind of does! But despite Oryou's reassurance, Hijikata doesn't want to cause a ruckus by making her do something that might disrupt the get-together. If he were daring an enemy, he'd ensure that they get mortified, but Oryou is a friend! (Also never mind that he's apparently not counting his "dare" to fetch him a drink after all...)

He thinks for a moment. The point of this mingle is to get to know new people, right? He hasn't been doing a great job at that so far, feeling a good deal more shy than usual, but Oryou has no such inhibitions. He should make an effort to give her a proper dare, really.]

Alright - when you talk to someone you haven't met before here, take a drink from their cup or glass.

That's easy. Oryou definitely will.

[RIP to Wanderer, it's now retroactively Hijikata's fault she drank his gross tea instead of just her being naturally annoying.]

[Sorry about that, Wanderer... but hey, maybe it was for the better!]

Do you want to give me one more truth or dare? I think I'll manage to eat the rest in one go!

[Who except Oryou would have tolerated him wolfing down so much konpeito at once each time? Thanks to her he'll get out of this stressful game quickly and be able to secure some mochi for his mentee!]

It should be a really good dare for the rest of the candy...

Oh. Tell the sun king something you like about him.

[m e a n]

Really..?

[He doesn't want to butter that snooty pharaoh up; his ego is big enough as it is! But he has helped Medusa, and while his punishment of Hijikata has been humiliating, it hasn't been cruel. He lets out a deep sigh.]

Okay, I'll do it the next time I see him. I give you my word as a samurai.

[With that, he pours the rest of his konpeito down his throat. He doesn't even like candy... the things he'll do for people like Ayaka who leave him vaguely nice messages after a big fuck-up!]

[Thumbs up! You did it!]

It's not a good dare if it isn't at least a little hard.

That's something a sadist would say!

[He exhales, but smiles again.]

Thanks for helping me finish off all the candy. I'll go get a mochi box for my mentee while they've got some left! You should get one too.

[She finished her konpeito as well... right?]

[Yep! All gone.]

Oryou will. Did your mentee not want to come?

He's got a busy schedule. I think today he's standing in for a colleague at work.

...

He's shy, too.

[But that's all the more reason to attend a mingle like this, isn't it? Perhaps the next time he should drag the boy along.]

What about Ryouma? Is he busy, too?

[Someone is behind on the news...]

[Oh.]

...Ryouma disappeared from Ellipsa. He went home. But Oryou is still here.

[That's... really sad to hear, actually. Somehow Hijikata didn't expect a loving couple like Oryou and Ryouma to be separated like this. His consolation is the knowledge that they'll be reunited safely in their homeworld (at least for all he knows).]

I'm sorry.

...

You've got enough people to touch, right?

[With other people he's use a euphemism such as "charge up", but surely Oryou won't tease him!]

Oryou is fine there. Don't worry.

[She has people who know to expect her draping herself over them.]

[He thought she'd be fine, but he had to make sure!]

That's good.

[He smiles, trying to not let the mood get bogged down by the reminder of Ryouma's absence.]

Let's get our mochi before they've got none left.

[There'll be enough, though. Each of them gets to take a box home as a reward for their konpeito gluttony!]

! We need to hurry!

[the thought of not getting her promised mochi is too much to contemplate!!]

Edited 2023-09-04 22:48 (UTC)

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