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

[mistsplitter]

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! )

Comments

goes straight for the jugular

[essenceborn]

Thoma! Hello. I would be delighted to help you fill in your card. Do like like being handcuffed?

[ ...blindfolded. It's "do you like being blindfolded," Nen. ]

If you do not, does Ayato? I will put his name down if he does.

[ Nen saw the sex toys in the memory okay THEY'RE NEN'S BEST SHOT ]

please he barely had time to say hello

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Thoma's card nearly falls in the hands as he faces the consequences of asking Nen for card help. Granted, he hadn't expected these consequences, but they are his to handle anyway. ]

I- you don't need to-

[ Goodbye his honor in a very futile attempt to protect his lord's. ]

You... can put me down...

[ These won't be shown to anyone, right? No one will know aside from Nen and that's probably fine right?? ]

peace was never an option

[essenceborn]

Excellent.

[ His name is thus forever immortalized under 'has been handcuffed before', enjoy that when Nen turns their card in later Ayaka!!! Nen might not have the tidiest handwriting or spelling, but that's Thoma's name, right there. In all its kinky glory.

Looking pleased to have crossed off another empty square, Nen fixes bright eyes on poor Thoma once more. ]

Which squares do you still need? I can only offer you two--I have one name, and I am over fifty years old because of a technicality. Do you still need them?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ It'll hit him later that Ayaka is going to look at these, and it's at that later point that he'll die gently in a corner of the teahouse. For now, he's distracted enough by the task at hand to not have that terrible realization. ]

Oh, yes, that'd be perfect actually. I haven't started on any squares yet, so any of them would be great.

[essenceborn]

[ r.i.p future!Thoma, we knew thee well ]

Really? Good. I was worried you might have filled them out already... It seems I am still in need of much more life experience on this bingo sheet. Do you think I should buy a sword? I have a knife.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Thoma is always dying in the past, present, and future anyway- ]

Only if you've gotten plenty of training with a sword first before handling one. They can be pretty dangerous for everyone if not handled carefully.

[ Weapons require training! ]

[essenceborn]

[ LMAO poor Thoma-- ]

Oh... That is a good point. I should ask Ayato if we can train with swords soon. He promised he would show me his "basics", but not his family techniques, because they are a secret. Like the sex portal!

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ And here he thought they were on a safe path only to immediately veer right back into the sex ditch. ]

His... sex portal?

[essenceborn]

[ they never left ]

Yes, the one with the memory. Where you tied him up and did as lot of sex to him. It appeared in our kitchen.

[ While they were making smoothies iirc?? I think that was it. ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

--Is it still there??

[ IS THERE JUST A PORTAL IN SOMEBODY'S KITCHEN THAT JUST REVEALS HIS ENTIRE SEX LIFE? ]

[essenceborn]

[ IF ONLY... Nen would be so happy if there was a portal detailing all of Ayato and Thoma's sexcapades in their kitchen. That would be the perfect finishing decorative touch, really. Sex portal & eggs benny. ]

No... [ Nen looks disappointed ] It went away after we came out.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Sorry Nen but Thoma's overwhelmingly relieved that his sex life is not on display in someone else's kitchen. Or his own. Any kitchen, really. ]

I see... I'm afraid I'm in agreement about those secrets.

[essenceborn]

[ Such a missed opportunity!! Way better than TVs in kitchen if you ask them ]

I don't understand why... But I understand that you both want that, so it's fine. I will still be your biggest "fan." Do you know how to use swords?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Thank you for respecting their lack of desire to be porn stars. ]

I'm nowhere near as good at them as my lord and lady, but I did learn the basics of them.

[essenceborn]

[ And thus the world missed out on the greatest opportunity ]

Can you teach me your basics too? Ayato is teaching me some, but I want to learn a lot of different basics. A larger sample size leads to more accurate results.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

Oh- I could but my basics may be very similar to Ayato's. What I didn't learn from the same teacher, I picked up on the street, so it might not be as refined.

[ Ayato and Ayaka have such elegant styles!! ]

[essenceborn]

...You picked your sword skills up off the ground?

[ When and where did he do that so Nen can go and find some ]

I thought you had to learn them. Did someone lose theirs?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Oh no too literally taken. ]

Oh- I meant more that I learned by watching other people a lot. In uh... less formal fights.

[essenceborn]

[ It's a skill they are working on!! Not only did the researchers rarely speak in metaphor to the Test Subjects in Nen's world, but there's so much from so many other worlds here than sometimes "man I could go for a dragon burger right now" could actually mean they want a dragon-sized burger or a burger made from dragon. You never know. ]

Oh. Fights can be...formal? What does that mean?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Hmm, how to put this. Thoma may not have quite caught on to the kind of life Nen must have led to reach this way of thinking, but he does take requests for explanations quite seriously. ]

Well... there's two kinds of fights that I've been witness to.

One kind is usually some kind of a formal duel, where there are clearly defined rules and an end condition to the fight. Maintaining or gaining honor or reputation is usually what's important there.

The other is more like... a fight for your survival. Without rules, and an unspoken end condition that is more or less a complete defeat either mentally or physically.

[essenceborn]

I only know the second one. Only, it wasn't a fight between two people. It was a fight between a friend and some giant scorpions.

[ And that friend got hurt protecting Nen, which is still quite the sore spot for them. They've worked hard to improve since then so that they don't have to rely solely on someone else to protect them, but Nen knows they still have a long way to go. ]

Is honour and reputation important?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Giant scorpions huh... There's a small nod in understanding, turning his gaze skyward, or rather ceiling-ward, in thought. ]

If it was a beast, it'd be more like the second one, yeah. For them, fights really are a matter of life and death.

For most beings that have the concept of honor and reputation, it can be incredibly important. Some will devote their entire lives to gaining as much as they can.

[essenceborn]

Are honour and reputation that important though? Ayato said that many people back home try to ruin his...even if they have no standing to do so. It seems an inefficient, if it is so easily undone by someone who is mad at you.

[ Politics and the people who use it are so far beyond Nenonen's understanding. They're just too blunt, too upfront, and too logical to see how gaining social clout could be a good thing if it's so easily taken away.

A meritocracy, now...... ]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

Terribly so when it comes to the society we come from.

... It's certainly not an ideal situation, just the reality.

[ If he had some way of changing things to ease Ayato's burdens, he would in a heartbeat, but Inazuma is an incredibly stubborn society overall. ]

[essenceborn]

That is an unfortunate reality.

[ That said-- ]

I am glad Ayato has you for a husband. You are very powerful--you can protect him.

[ FIGHT THE POWER, THOMA. Build a better tomorrow for u and urs ]