revolutionfalcon: (through the eyes of birdness)
Shun Kurosaki ([personal profile] revolutionfalcon) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-03-21 10:48 am

[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.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Attentive)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-31 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[An interesting duality. Ginia makes a mental note to look up 'Kali' later simply because reading about the origin of different gods is interesting. She also tucks Grell's away as a general note. It's good to keep tabs on who is around.]

What do you think about her? Like her?

[Given their earlier conversation on loyalty, Ginia doubts he has anything negative to say, but you never know.]
Edited 2018-03-31 05:17 (UTC)
swordofzero: (lost in thoughts)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-03 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[That was a question. It's a difficult one to answer. He's not sure he even has an answer and it's definitely not a question that matters. He will do his best to serve her regardless.]

We are still getting to know each other.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Watching)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-10 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Completely understandable, it's only been two days after all.]

I hope you two end up getting along. [For his sake as much as her's. Though Ginia worries even if they didn't, he'd stay in her service anyway.]

Are you her only shinki?
swordofzero: (pic#732312)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-10 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
She has another, Elicena. She is a soulless shinki [He frowned] I don't really know what that means though. [How did someone not have a soul? Yet still be a person?]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Stoic)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-10 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ginia's heard the term before - knew Nona had one, though they never met - but she frowns a little as she tries to remember if she's heard anything else. Right, there'd been some posts on the BBS about soulless shinki, though they seemed a bit callous.]

There are shinki with souls and shinki without. Presumably, we're ones with souls while ones without serve their gods without question.
swordofzero: (determiny)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-12 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
Without souls... [It just sounded wrong] Do you know why there are two types?
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Sympathetic)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-13 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure. Perhaps it's a way for gods to defend themselves. [After all, a god without a shinki is defenseless. Better to have one willing to serve with no question than no shinki at all? At the same time, soulless shinki seemed more like objects more than shinki like them. Or maybe that was based off the gods in question.]

You'd probably have better luck asking your god. Sorry.
swordofzero: (arthur)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-13 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
[He just nodded] I'm sorry, there's just so much to know [It seems every time someone answers his questions another three questions are created.

The kitten, impatient that the humans were talking among themselves and not paying attention to him bit his thumb, making him wince. He pets it's head again letting him chase his fingers around, which the kitten seems to think is a great game.]


Are you thinking of adopting one? [He nods at the softly growling cat in her arms]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Quiet)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-13 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
No need to apologize. I'll try to clear up what I can, but I'm still pretty new too. [It's so much easier being forgiving to someone else than to herself. But there is a lot to learn and Suzaku's only been around for a few days.

Ginia snuggles the kitten in her arms before setting it down. It immediately begins to attack the laces of her boots, tugging at the strings with tiny teeth.]


Maybe in time, but not today.
swordofzero: (slight smile)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-13 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I know [He smiles, he's not blaming her for not knowing. She's just... less intimidating than his god. He knows he will figure everything out eventually.

He watches the kitten attack her boots]
It's probably sensible to wait.

unlucky7: (STATUS :: Smiling)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-16 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Most likely, especially with her current god/life situation in a bit of a shift. Still, it would be nice to have a pet one day.]

With how things are going today, I'll be surprised if there are any cats left by the end.

[A joke, but it is encouraging to see how well the adoption drive is going.]

Have you tried the food here? I still have an open food or drink offer if you haven't and want something.
swordofzero: (happy and with friends)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-17 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
It does seem to be a popular day. [Hopefully all of these kittens will find good homes. Or at least most of them. He reached down to try and encourage the kitten to at least switch hands if it wasn't going to stop biting him altogether.]

I haven't, but I wouldn't want to take it from you.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Hopeful)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-18 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, I've already had plenty to eat. If you like sweets, the cakes and milkshakes are really good.

[And if you like savory... well, the sandwiches and soups are probably still just as good, but since Ginia has a major sweet tooth, that's where her interests and knowledge lie.]
swordofzero: (I'm not crazy ALL the time)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-19 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you [He smiles at her, it was very nice of her to give him her voucher. Even if she had had plenty to eat.]