seasonsrpg | 🌸 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! )

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Casually:] Oh, the both of us have multiple other lovers, you needn't worry about that.

[He is silent for a moment.

Then another.

Then another.]

...Oh.

[He finally responded somehow.]

...But everyone involved is aware of this, right?

Yes, of course. Everyone has agreed and is aware of each other. I'm good friends with a number of my wife's lovers, in fact.

[Venti included!]

The place we, and Lumine, were in before... had a very relaxed culture when it came to such relationships?

That's good to know.

[In fact he looks visibly relieved.

...Only until Lumine is brought up again.]

Wait, does that mean... that Lumine is in that kind of relationship, too?

[LUMINE, WHY AREN'T YOU TELLING HIM ANYTHING?]

Ah, erm...

[Lumine is in a relationship with Venti who is also in a relationship with Saya so he knows for a fact that the answer is yes, but-]

That seems like the sort of thing you should ask her about directly?

[He can kind of hear "yes" in that answer.]

She doesn't like talking about the place you were before and I accepted that, but... it looks like there's much more she didn't want to tell me about.

...This is my personal opinion, but I believe there's a difference between not wanting to discuss past literal torture and not mentioning one's current and ongoing romantic relationship status.

...What do you mean "literal torture"?

[Gods, what kind of awful place was that?]

I mean literal torture, and I would prefer not to give more details. I'll ruin my appetite for candy that way.

[...]

Sorry. I'm just... concerned.

[You know, it's his sister we're talking about.]

...I do understand. 'Tis not my place to give you more details than she is willing to give herself, but... I can promise you that that part of her life is over now, and she is a very resilient person. She'll be alright, truly.

I know. I really know.

[But it still stings somehow.

Aether takes a deeps breath then shakes his head.]

Let's just... continue with the game.

Ah, yes. I believe it was my turn? Perhaps a dare this time.

A dare...

[He tries to focus on thinking of something.]

Walk up to a random person and tell them a compliment.

A stranger, or is someone I already know acceptable?

Hmm... I don't know how many people you know here, so... anyone is fine. Can be someone you know already.

I've spoken to a great number of people once or twice. Worry not, I won't choose my wife or anyone I'm terribly close to.

[He goes off to compliment Ayaka, then soon returns.]

All done.

[Ayaka deserves all the compliments, Aether approves.]

Alright, then it's my turn now. Give me a dare.

Let me see... I dare you to give someone in here a hug.

[That's the most PDA he'll dare someone to do.]

[That doesn't seem too bad at all! Aether nods and looks around for a target. Preferably someone he already knows so he wouldn't get a punch in the face for a sudden hug.

That target quickly becomes one of his friends. After a quick hug, Aether explains to them what happened, before returning.]

Done.

Very well done. As for me, truth, I suppose?

Hm... What is your biggest dream?

Ah, that is... I would like Saya to be freed from her cycle of hibernation and losing memories. If that dream were fulfilled, I could be happy forever, I expect.

She... loses her memories?

[...]

I'm so sorry...

...Thank you. It is a difficult thing to have looming over her - over us.

[No one wants to forget the ones they love, or be forgotten by them.]

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

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