KINYOBI is open for business!

[erogappa]

Who: Gojyo and anyone!
What: Drinking, fighting, insulting this disgusting bar...
When: Any time from August 9th through the end of August
Where: KINYOBI, in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Warnings: Please put warnings in the headers of your comments as they become relevant.




1. Friday nights at Friday's
Kinyobi is a small, dark bar, located on a street that was never nice, not even when the plant across town was open. This is an industrial area, and this used to be a blue-collar, industrial bar -- the floors are permanently sticky, there's dents and gouges and names carved in every wooden surface, the restroom is a horror movie, and the booze is either watered down or rotgut, depending on the day of the week and the mood of the bartender.

Still. It's home.



2. Shinki Sundays
Gojyo looks up when the bell on the door chimes, and smiles broadly at the newcomer. "Hey, come on in!" he calls. "You're shinki, right? Lemme see your mark."


3. Wildcard?






And some images to give an idea of what the inside of Kinyobi looks like:


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Edit as of October 6th, in-game: there is now a bar dog.

Comments

[erogappa]

As her shinki... as opposed to whatever their relationship was before they came here? Is that what she means? Gojyo raises an eyebrow, her second question going more or less unheard as he weighs his options. Is she really talking about his past? Really? It seems unlikely.

"I only met her a couple months ago," he says carefully; his grin is still big and friendly, but there's a set to his shoulders that's anything but. "How'd you two meet?"

[genkireaper]

When there are gods who disappear and people who gain new ones or get named by those who need them, the length of time one is a shinki compared to being a friend doesn't have to always be the same. Which basically means that Gojyo is looking too far into what it means. But oh, how they met was certainly something else.

"I might have flown into that barrier she has around the temple," she says with a shrug. "I've been learning and practicing some things that I can do, so I was going through the whole Shore. So when I was about to pass over the land while in the sky..."

She makes the motion of smacking right into the surface with her hands. Hey, it's not like she was about to knock over the glass- it was still half full. "Then it turned out that she knew and seemed to be friends with the god I had at that time."

[erogappa]

He can't help it -- she mimes smacking into Sharak's barrier and Gojyo bursts out a laugh. He can totally picture it, too: Botan, flying along (on a broom, his brain decides, and he runs with it because why not?), and then wham! Right into the barricade like a bird into a window.

"She does like it when guests drop in," he puns, his grin self-satisfied. "She pretends like she doesn't, but she's fooling nobody."

[genkireaper]

That laugh just meant she had the right intended effect. Of course it's not so funny when you're high up in the sky and falling, but the young spirit knew how to take a bit of a laugh at herself. Oh, but she's holding back a laugh from that pun, though Gojyo could probably hear the dying snerk in her throat.

"I mean, I'm pretty sure that she was ready to pull a weapon on me," she says before taking a sip of cider. Somehow, this didn't actually bother her too much. "I can believe that everyone who's met Sharak knows that she's as kind as she is intimidating."

[erogappa]

Hey, she survived to tell the tale and she's not in a cast or anything, so it's fine to laugh.

"No, I'm pretty sure she's about six times more intimidating," he chuckles, pouring himself his own drink (of cola, with a bunch of lime wedges -- it's still early, after all). "At least six times. That fuzzy center is buried pretty damn deep!" Nope, this drink definitely needs more limes. Why is cola with lime so good? "I'm surprised she didn't try to shoot you!"

[genkireaper]

"Wait, is she actually armed?" That had somehow managed to go completely past Botan's head when they had originally met. Which may have something to do with smacking straight into a divine-ish barrier, or Botan not feeling like she was in any particular danger at that time.

Maybe she should have?

Also, was there more lime than soda in that glass? Well, to each their own. "I still don't see her good side being that buried away. Talking to her normally brought it out easily enough."

Then again, Botan more or less rambled theory about the barrier at Sharak. She might've gotten a surprise hit on the Sanzo.