🌸 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

[acquirement]

The outcome may have been rather destructive, but your reasoning for it doesn't seem entirely selfish. There are people I work with on a day to day basis who wouldn't even try for forgiveness until a knife was at their throat and only then.

[nilhilistic]

But you think I'm not selfish?

so sorry for the delay! i had to emergency hiatus for an operation...

[acquirement]

Did you do everything you did for yourself and yourself alone?

no worries!

[nilhilistic]

. . . More or less.

[acquirement]

I wouldn't consider survival in awful circumstances the same as doing it for power and to control others.

[nilhilistic]

After he died, I had no excuse.

Perhaps such awfulness is within me all along. There is no absolving it.

[acquirement]

I see. { though there is a look of confusion on his face now. } So what made you stop? At least, you haven't been attempting it here.

[nilhilistic]

Nel.

Her suffering made me choose otherwise.

crawls back here late again sorry recovery has been a bitch

[acquirement]

Hmm. Then wouldn't you think that shows a turning point? Apologies, but the people I know who really would wish harm would not have taken up work in a bakery and tried to do the right thing, especially in a place like this where their consequences would not follow them home.

all good!

[nilhilistic]

I have changed. I can admit that much. What has driven me is long past.

But what I've done is vast. It looms over me.

[acquirement]

I can't say otherwise regarding that, considering I don't know the state of your world, nor the people from there. But not everything is simple good or evil, white or black, right or wrong. Somewhere, the lines blur.

[nilhilistic]

Considering they're all dead, what can anyone say?

[acquirement]

Even Nel? And from personal experience, even if you think you've finished someone if they're the type to be like a cockroach they may live on.

[nilhilistic]

I was very thorough.

[ nel though . . . ]

Nel is different. I brought her back to life.

[acquirement]

{ that makes him pause, as someone who has been through that here. }

Does she remember?

[nilhilistic]

She does. All of it.

[acquirement]

{ he hasn't forgotten why this conversation started, but he does want to clarify something here and now: } Is she alright? Knowing... it all?

[nilhilistic]

[ a pause. ]

She seemed fine. Dragons are hardy.

Why do you ask?

[acquirement]

{ for a moment he stays quiet, there's nothing really on his face that shows his thought process, but... }

I can't say I understand how a dragon differs, but it's quite a... difficult experience to remember.

[nilhilistic]

It probably is.

But she would know best. I can only say so much on her behalf.

[acquirement]

Then what drove you to make that choice in her stead?

[nilhilistic]

Regret.

[ a brief pause. ]

She died to end my pain. Our cycle of violence and grief. It brought me back. So I had to do everything in my power to bring her back. And it took a thousand years of nothingness to do so.

[acquirement]

{ he stays quiet for a long moment after that, hand raised to his mouth with a fairly blank expression on his face, ensuring his composure doesn't break. }

Were you worried you would relapse when you succeeded?

[nilhilistic]

No.

All I did was hold her hand each day, transferring my power and hoping. If not today, then tomorrow. I did nothing else.

[acquirement]

{ it's a sad tale, though somehow relatable. he isn't sure he'd be able to focus on anything else if something happened to ayaka.

for a long moment, he stays quiet, that thought laying more heavily than rafal may realise. }

Then I'm glad you were able to revive her after all that time.