🌸 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

[abnormalizes]

I do! I think they're super cool, much more interesting than us humans.

[noodleboi]

[That sounds familiar.] Do you know Saya? What's your name? I'm MK, by the way.

[abnormalizes]

I do know Saya, we're friends! [Who sleep with each other.] My name's Evangeline.

[noodleboi]

Nice to meet you, Evangeline. Saya told me a little about you. Said you were nice and a good friend. Guess it's my turn. I pick truth.

[abnormalizes]

Aww, that's sweet.

Let's see, truth... What's the weirdest part of living in Ellipsa compared to your home?

[noodleboi]

Oh that's a hard one. My world is super weird. So it isn't that different here. Um...I guess being a weremonkey now, to be honest? Like the whole underground crime families giving people pills to turn them into were-things. That's probably the biggest thing right now.

[abnormalizes]

Oh, is that why people were transforming? Dang.

[No wonder she didn't get a cool transformation herself.]

Truth.

[noodleboi]

I guess so? That would make some sense. Okay. What is your favorite kind of monster?

[abnormalizes]

Oh, gosh, there's so many good kinds... I guess I'm most partial to shapeshifters? You can have a lot of fun with that.

[noodleboi]

Oh. So like transformations? Cool. [He can transform into things but maybe he won't say that. Yet.]

My turn. Truth.

[abnormalizes]

Let's see... What's your favorite part of the city?

[noodleboi]

Ooo. Good question. So far...I think it's a tie between the people and I kinda love the Coliseum. It's fun. Great place to blow off steam.

[abnormalizes]

The people are pretty great, can't argue with that. I feel like every time I go to the Coliseum someone's overworking themselves, though.

Truth for me?

[noodleboi]

I'll make sure I don't overwork myself then. Hmmm. Alright. If you had to get rid of one color forever, what color would it be?

[abnormalizes]

Huh... I guess orange? I don't have a lot of orange in my wardrobe and it feels like it's not as nice of a color as red or yellow.

[noodleboi]

I walked into that one. I love orange but I get it. Heh. At least red and yellow get to stick around in this new world.

Okay. I choose truth this time.

[abnormalizes]

Do you have any powers? Besides the seasons magic stuff everyone gets.

[noodleboi]

Yeah, I do. Sooo, I'm the successor to the Monkey King. I have all his powers. I'm strong. Fast. I can lift his staff. I have 72 transformations. And I might...uh...have a monkey form now I can't control.

[abnormalizes]

[Strong and fast is fine, but he gets to the 'transformations' part and her eyes light up.]

Seventy-two? Can I see?

[noodleboi]

Um sure!

[He focuses. In a flash of yellow light and smoke, he suddenly is a tall gorilla version of himself.]

Tah dah!

[abnormalizes]

Oh! That's so hot.

[I am sorry if you were expecting subtlety.]

[noodleboi]

[The gorilla blinks in surprise. He stares.]

...It is?

[abnormalizes]

Yeah, of course! I just said I was into shapeshifters like two minutes ago.

[noodleboi]

I mean...I guess yeah. I...guess I didn't think gorilla form would count? Okay. Uh...

[Suddenly he shifts into a falcon and flies in place for a moment then back into human form.]

How was that?

[abnormalizes]

Very hot. I'm probably going to be into all seventy-two of them, I'm just telling you now.