🌸 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

[at_heart]

[ ...yeah, don't mind if Yuri has some. Preconceptions about you, he's gonna try not to let any of them get in the way of a decent first meeting. ]

Isn't that why we're all here?

[ For the record: he checks a lot of bingo squares. ]

[startraveler]

[Aether just smiles at him. He did hear about Yuri before! But he doesn't know this is Yuri.]

That's true, but that doesn't mean you have to agree to playing with anyone who asks. Or you could be here just for the tea.

[He knows some people who showed up here but weren't too keen on games.]

I'm Aether and when it comes to the bingo, there's quite a few squares you could put my name on.

[at_heart]

[ Flips his card, so Aether can see his progress. ]

It's an ice-breaker, right? Good for getting to know people.

—And I'm Yuri.

[startraveler]

[He takes a look at the card! Then looks up from it when he recognizes the name.]

Oh, so you're Yuri. I heard about you from Flynn.

[And that reminds him...]

You live with my sister and Venti, right?

[at_heart]

[ ...You know, for all that he usually thinks of Flynn as being everyone's favorite, it's a little unusual for someone to know him through Flynn instead of the other way around. Huh. ]

Heh, I sure do. They're... great.

[ Someone less prone to tsun would probably have said they're all important to me. Venti and Flynn especially. But he is what he is, and the closest you'll get from him is that he fingers the little 'pendant' on his neck. It might be a ring. ]

Been here long?

[startraveler]

Only "great"?

[He smiles a little, head titling as he watches Yuri fiddle with a pendant on his neck. The traveler can get the picture that he's dealing with someone who isn't good at being open about his feelings.]

A few months. It doesn't feel like so long, but at the same time a lot has happened.

[at_heart]

Were you expecting awesome? Amazing? Spectacular?

[ Other words that don't actually convey any kind of sentiment? ...Because you're not wrong. ]

I arrived at the end of February. Seems to be when this — uh — influx started.

[startraveler]

None of those are telling me anything in particular. Also "amazing" or "spectacular" are not words I would use to describe Venti.

[He laughs. The archon is a gentle soul, but he's also lazy and loves drinking. Those traits are hardly spectacular.]

I just wanted to know what you think about them. Are you good friends? Have you known them for long?

[As a big (twin) brother he is curious about the people his sister lives with!]

1/2

[at_heart]

[ —it's possible, possible, that he might have reddened. Just a little. ]

[at_heart]

[ But he clears his throat and whatever red might've been there is gone! ]

Met them both — I guess it's probably been around a year ago now? During our previous kidnapping. The last place was a lot less hospitable, by the way. The fewest possible number of stars. Ellipsa's way better.

[startraveler]

[Now that's an interesting reaction. Aether grins a little.

...But his expression quickly falls when he hears just how long the other has known his sister and friend.]

I've heard about that place.

[His voice clearly says that he's heard only horrible things about it. Another person who had to survive a nightmare...]

You're here now... That's good.

[at_heart]

Tokyo-F. If I never see that place again, it'll still be too soon.

[ Blandly, though. Can't be traumatic if you don't let it! (That's not how anything works, Yuri.) ]

...But yeah. Glad to be here — glad they came with me.

[startraveler]

[Aether nods.]

But... what about your home? Would you like to return there eventually?