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thenearshore2018-03-21 10:48 am
revolutionfalcon) wrote in thenearshore2018-03-21 10:48 am
Entry tags:
- d2 | alive,
- ginia | original character,
- hibiki shikyoin | pripara,
- kairi | kingdom hearts,
- saber (mordred) | fate/apocrypha,
- shun kurosaki | yu-gi-oh! arc-v,
- suzaku kururugi | code geass,
- yuna yuki | yuki yuna is a hero,
- ω ain | elsword,
- ω emizel | disgaea 4,
- ω mikleo | tales of zestiria,
- ω misaki yata | k,
- ω saori nakagawa | original
[open mingle] close your eyes, feel the present
Who: Everyone! This is an open mingle log, so feel free to toplevel and thread between yourselves as much as possible.
When: October 27th
Where: Calico Cat Cafe, somewhere vague in Tokyo. An address was posted on the BBS a day prior.
What: Cat adoption day - come bring some (or a lot of) new friends home, take advantage of the no entry fee to spend a day hanging out with cats, or volunteer to help out the somewhat overloaded staff.
An adoption event needs no small venue, and Cat Cafe Calico provides that much, visible as soon as anyone walks in the front door, pane glass with a little bell to ensure no cats walk out undetected. The area is spacious and welcoming, warmly lit with smooth and modern decor, and of course, plenty of posts for the cats. The cafe area itself is on the lower floor, along with various stools, cushions and lounges for people to sit on and spend some time with the plentiful felines. Most of the adoption services have set up along one wall down here, but it's plenty easy to avoid them and just play around with the cats unless you intend to adopt. They've got plenty of waitstaff available, and the cafe is testing out some new and unusual styles and flavours of tea, coffee and milkshakes, as well as seasonal fruit based cakes and tarts. For those without as much of a sweet tooth, there's savoury snacks as well - or maybe you'd prefer to just buy some snacks for the cats, which is an option too.
Upstairs, there's also a video game area with plenty more seating and plenty more cats...though good luck getting them out of the way of the screens, or occasionally off the consoles themselves. Quite a few of the cats are lounging around by the large window, either between cushions or on an impressively-sized play frame, and some are even up near the roof on mounted walkways. There are no guarantees they won't drop onto the occasional passerby. The upstairs also houses a few enclosed areas for people to socialise with specific cats or groups of them to see which ones they get on with best.
Volunteers will be thanked profusely, and some of the staff may even approach visitors to ask if they might help, offering compensation of food and drink prices or similar. There's a lot of adoption paperwork to be done, and with the waitstaff run off their feet, there's few people left to supervise interactions between visitors and cats to make sure all's friendly. Of course, this is an excellent excuse to just surround oneself with any available cats and let others approach as they please.
There's a steady stream of kittens being let out into the mingling cats throughout the day, most of them kept to enclosed areas under staff supervision. Whenever more come out, it might be possible to catch some whispers from the waitstaff, as if surprised at something - listen closely enough, and it sounds like they're talking about an employee, one who they barely see and rarely talks, yet finishes work promptly and slips away before anyone notices except the cats, who all seem very comfortable around him...
Whatever the reason for being here, there's plenty of cats to go around, plenty of activity, and ample opportunity to take home a new friend! Or two. Or ten, if you can convince the staff you can handle it.
When: October 27th
Where: Calico Cat Cafe, somewhere vague in Tokyo. An address was posted on the BBS a day prior.
What: Cat adoption day - come bring some (or a lot of) new friends home, take advantage of the no entry fee to spend a day hanging out with cats, or volunteer to help out the somewhat overloaded staff.
An adoption event needs no small venue, and Cat Cafe Calico provides that much, visible as soon as anyone walks in the front door, pane glass with a little bell to ensure no cats walk out undetected. The area is spacious and welcoming, warmly lit with smooth and modern decor, and of course, plenty of posts for the cats. The cafe area itself is on the lower floor, along with various stools, cushions and lounges for people to sit on and spend some time with the plentiful felines. Most of the adoption services have set up along one wall down here, but it's plenty easy to avoid them and just play around with the cats unless you intend to adopt. They've got plenty of waitstaff available, and the cafe is testing out some new and unusual styles and flavours of tea, coffee and milkshakes, as well as seasonal fruit based cakes and tarts. For those without as much of a sweet tooth, there's savoury snacks as well - or maybe you'd prefer to just buy some snacks for the cats, which is an option too.
Upstairs, there's also a video game area with plenty more seating and plenty more cats...though good luck getting them out of the way of the screens, or occasionally off the consoles themselves. Quite a few of the cats are lounging around by the large window, either between cushions or on an impressively-sized play frame, and some are even up near the roof on mounted walkways. There are no guarantees they won't drop onto the occasional passerby. The upstairs also houses a few enclosed areas for people to socialise with specific cats or groups of them to see which ones they get on with best.
Volunteers will be thanked profusely, and some of the staff may even approach visitors to ask if they might help, offering compensation of food and drink prices or similar. There's a lot of adoption paperwork to be done, and with the waitstaff run off their feet, there's few people left to supervise interactions between visitors and cats to make sure all's friendly. Of course, this is an excellent excuse to just surround oneself with any available cats and let others approach as they please.
There's a steady stream of kittens being let out into the mingling cats throughout the day, most of them kept to enclosed areas under staff supervision. Whenever more come out, it might be possible to catch some whispers from the waitstaff, as if surprised at something - listen closely enough, and it sounds like they're talking about an employee, one who they barely see and rarely talks, yet finishes work promptly and slips away before anyone notices except the cats, who all seem very comfortable around him...
Whatever the reason for being here, there's plenty of cats to go around, plenty of activity, and ample opportunity to take home a new friend! Or two. Or ten, if you can convince the staff you can handle it.
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But since this guy got to the kitten before he did, he supposes he can elaborate slightly, and his gaze flicks briefly back to the decoration.]
People like that piss me off. Cats or not. [Shun's not explicitly denying being involved with things here, but like hell he's going to come clean about it easily either, so he's framing it as if it was more annoyance with the people than defense of the kitten.]
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[Adrien smiled faintly.] After all what are we here for if not to help the cats and we should defend the defenseless, animal and human alike.
[He's shifting the kitten tucking him into the crook of an arm before extending his hand.] Good job.
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[Which is a more general way of saying that Shun wouldn't have given a damn if he'd said it or not. If he wasn't already being standoffish enough, even if he agrees somewhat with Adrien's statement about what they're here for, he eyes off the proffered hand like it's some kind of vaguely offensive gesture. Or in this case, an inoffensive gesture, because Shun is a whole lot more uncomfortable with those. Offensive ones are just fine.]
That's unnecessary. [He'll occasionally bite on introductory handshakes, but this one seems too much like a gesture of thanks for him to accept it.]
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[He laughs softly at himself. When Shun doesn't take his hand he's just going to bring it back to cradling the kitten - lightly rubbing behind a little ear.]
Still I'm certain this little guy is grateful. I mean I assume. I don't exactly speak cat and I'm not see if he was as upset by it as we were.
[But the kitten does seem to have calmed a bit and is shaking much less - either from being settled into Adrien's warmth or because the loud kids are gone.]
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But then Adrien gets into exactly the sort of thing Shun doesn't want to hear in situations like this, and he gives a somewhat dismissive sound and starts to turn away.]
You don't need to put your being grateful for unimportant things on the cat. There's enough people who insist on it already. And "upset" isn't what I said anyway.
[To Shun, "upset" and "pissed off" are very different emotions, and one of them is one he doesn't typically admit to unless pressed - and also one he wouldn't describe this situation as anyway. It takes a lot more to actually upset him.]
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[Yeah, Adrien doesn't get that. He's glancing down at the kitten. Does Shun really not think that animals feel things like gratitude? Okay maybe not gratitude so much as relief or calm now - that certain did seem to be what had happened if the dozing kitten in his arms was any indication.]
Yes, well - Pissed off I equate to there's about to be an actual fight going down. Destroying a set of cables and dropping at plastic cat doesn't seem like much of a fight to me.
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[Outright angry Shun is a relatively rare sight here, and not one anyone really needs to see close-up. He's not kidding about the ambulance thing even slightly, as is probably evidenced by the utterly flat and straightforward way in which he says it.]
Calling it "upset" sounds stupid to me because that's sadness, not annoyance or anger, and you'd have to be soft as hell to get sad over something like this.
[He says that in a rather dismissive manner.]
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[Adrien is just arching a brow at that before shrugging his shoulders.]
Upset is a state of being unhappy - not specifically sad. Then again there's something to be said about being soft - If you're soft you can bend and not break.
[His fingers rub over tiny bare ears.]
Let's go fill out the paperwork for you little guy. I'll take you home with me.
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Shun gives a faintly derogatory sound at Adrien's description of "soft", since he finds soft people break far too easily, but it seems like the kid's determined to find some kind of positive to it, so it's really not worth arguing over.
Since he's clearly planning to go do something else anyway, Shun turns on his heel and starts heading back towards the stairs. There's no sign of farewell, or further talk - he just figures from Adrien's comment on going to do the paperwork that that's the end of the conversation.]