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

🌸 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! )

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[ 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.

[ 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?

[ 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.

[ 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.

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!! ]

...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?

[ Oh no too literally taken. ]

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

[ 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?

[ 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.

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?

[ 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.

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...... ]

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. ]

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 ]

Husb- W-We aren't married yet!

[ He cannot claim that title yet it'd be rude of him to do so without proper etiquette?? ]

[ Clearly it's time to give them a giant cake and a contract. That's all you need, right? ]

Do you have to be married to be husbands in your world? That seems inefficient. You should just be husbands if you never want to be parted from one another.

[ He has no idea how Nen's mind is working right now, he can only fumble his way through his own explanation for things. ]

Yes, that's how it works for us.

And I suppose the marriage is to... let everyone know that you are devoted to one another?

Isn't that what wearing a ring is for?

[ It lets everyone know you're "off the market", as it were. It's like a big 'Taken!!' sign.

Maybe that's what they should get Ayato and Thoma for their birthdays. That seems a completely normal and appropriate gift. ]

Well, yes, but people can wear rings for other reasons as well. And a ring doesn't necessarily clarify who your partner is, unless they're matching?

[ Oblivious to Nen's plans, Thoma is stuck in the philosophical land of marriage, somewhere he really didn't expect to be. ]

......

Rings sound like a very ineffective symbol when it comes to marriage. Are they that important?? They were mentioned in every courtship and relationship book Chipp got for me.

[ Back when Nen was still learning about relationships and what sorts of behaviour were appropriate for a paramour versus and poor, unsuspecting friend (r.i.p Yuuto Yumeno, 2023), Chipp had procured a nunch of reading materials that they'd all but absorbed. Rings was just one of the concepts they latched onto in that time. ]

Yeah- I guess they're just traditional? I can't really think of something that would be a good replacement for them, at least.

[ No one's really questioned why a ring, at least to him, so it'd not something he's given much thought to himself. ]

They're not terribly disruptive in your work to wear, they're light, and they don't require modifying your body in any way to wear one?

....Why would you need to modify your body to signify marriage?

[ THOMA???? Why would you even say that ]

Oh! Sorry- I was thinking of piercings.

[ He brushes back a bit of his hair to show off the earring on his ear. ]

I've heard of people exchanging earrings before, but you kind of have to pierce your ear in order to do that...

Oh...

[ Nen's shoulders visibly relax from where they'd gone tense. They were thinking of a much more...erm, involved form of modification, one that involved a limb or two. It's a great relief that he only meant a piercing, although Nen's still not sure why anyone would want to poke holes in their body and fill them with metal if it didn't serve a practical purpose.

Nen lets out a small puff of relief. ]

Does that mean you can exchange any piece of jewellery to signify marriage?

Sorry for worrying you, I should have been less vague about it but I've heard of people doing things like tattoos as well so I thought it might be better to be more general.

[ Who knows what else other people were doing from other worlds, but tattoos and piercings were all he knew. ]

Hmmm... I think you probably could? Rings are just what's traditional to me. But if it's got all the same meaning to you, I don't see why not.

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