[open mingle] close your eyes, feel the present

[revolutionfalcon]

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.

Comments

[priforprince]

The skills of a creature of such pedigree are not to be taken lightly.

[ In response to this merping, the creature of such pedigree myowls and licks its own armpit. ]

[smilingbullet]

[ That's not very friendly. Murp. D2 thinks it's amusing though. ]

Oh no, I'm not taking your friend lightly at all.

[priforprince]

[ ...there is an implication here that irritates Hibiki enough that she keeps bragging about her cat to try and get her mood back the way she likes it. ]

This particular breed can trace its lineage back to the cats owned by Priopatra.

[ Or so she has chosen to believe. Done with the licking, the cat decides it is time for climbing. Up Hibiki.

With a nice, firm grip. ]

[smilingbullet]

[ Oh, she caught that, huh =D ]

Prio...?

[ Oh, considering her love for P's... ]

You're the only one I know who'd call Cleopatra Priopatra. Watch it or your skin might tear.

[ The cats he's playing with are not as much for moving right not. Mostly they have decided to sleep. ]

[priforprince]

This puniverse has disrupted even the name of the first Divine Idol?!

[ That is more distressing than the claws. She no longer appears to feel them. She is completely dismayed by this information.

Up goes cat. It shall survey its slumbering domain from an even Better Perch. ]

[smilingbullet]

[ He knows she must mean universe but, BUT ]

Oh! I get it! You live in a world where everything has to be a joke!

[ Here is D2, making fun of Hibiki and ignoring her question, all in one breath. ]

[priforprince]

To think the Near Shore could be this depraved...

[ She's. Not listening. She's lost in her horror.

She's also now wearing a cat on her shoulders. Or rather, this cat is wearing a Hibiki beneath its paws.

That's as it should be. ]

[smilingbullet]

[ Ah. She didn't break, did she?

Not that she doesn't like to pretend she's not listening. ]

Oh yeah, totally, it's super broken.

[ His tone of voice is full of sarcasm. }

[priforprince]

Such an outrage cannot be countenanced!

[ Hibiki turns to head for the door. Suddenly. Which makes the cat yowl and dig in on its perch. Hibiki's face spasms, but she isn't deterred. ]

I'm going to lodge a complaint!!

[smilingbullet]

With what management?

[ The Heavens have some management, of course - technically - but it does suck. And it's not like they're in charge of things like place names or names of historical people. ]

By the way, God Apollo, have you signed the papers to adopt that cat?

[priforprince]

Hm?

[ That does make her pause, and look back over. The cat swats at her ahoge when it boops said cat on the nose. ]

What papers?

[ She's never had to consider that sort of thing for herself in the past. ]

[smilingbullet]

Oh God Apollo...

[ That is not unexpected, though. ]

The papers you need to fill out so they know that the cat's found a home nad not just run off out into the street where it might get hurt.

[priforprince]

I'm unaccustomed to such mundanities.

[ She hates having to do this, but, he owes her for all the time she spends talking to him when she could be doing literally anything else. Hibiki pats the cat on the top of its head. ] You procure it.

[smilingbullet]

Of course you are...

[ You realize that he's covered in cats??? ]

It's right over there.

[ He points toward the tables where people are lined up to help making adoptions official. ]

[priforprince]

All the simpler for you, then.

[ The number of cats occupying your person is immaterial! She is very busy!

Appreciating the texture of pedigreed fur! ]

[smilingbullet]

But something so simple shouldn't be a challenge for you, right? I'm sure the people handling it would love to see how the Great Hibiki smoothly deals with such a common situation.

[ Calling her Great and by her real name, that feels weird. ]

[priforprince]

Whose tastes run so absurd?!

[ And yet. She desires this cat. More than that - she must rescue this cat! If it's left here, who knows what sort of unsuitable lodgings it will be forced to occupy....for surely none who can appreciate its lineage as well as she will ever cross its path again. This cat is a damsel in distress. It requires a Prince. A Revolution!

Yet, since he's not budging, Hibiki looks across at the adoption table with a distinctly displeased expression on her face. Must even this revolution require sacrifice......? ]

[smilingbullet]

You mean it's in bad taste to expect you not to be lazy and ignorant?

[ Hibiki. Every revolution requires some sacrifice. Picking up a pen and signing some papers is far from the most terrible one. ]

[priforprince]

I provide an elevated experience....

[ What do you even do over there? Hibiki stares, trying to make it out. She.....must....mustn't she? Even if she were to entrust this man, he's an idiot. He'd do it wrong. And this cat deserves perfectly-filled-out paperwork.

The cat needs her. To fill out the forms.

Hibiki reluctantly rallies in hopes of conquering her inerta. ]

[smilingbullet]

Of course you do.

[ Or rather, he knows she thinks she does. ]

Good luck~

[priforprince]

Hmph. [ Hibiki mostly has herself sorted out now, and that haughty sniff seals it. She can do this.

She stalks, more than walks, over to the table, and presents the person working there with her bundle of elite excellence. ]

I'm commandeering this animal! I'll have you prepare the forms.

[ The cat is placed on the table, where it blinks, yawns, and begins pacing all over the papers, tail waving as it places its paws every single place the volunteer is trying to tug a paper. ]

[smilingbullet]

[ The cat is behaving exactly as D2 imagines Hibiki herself would act, were she a cat.

A match made in heaven, truly. Hibiki and her newfound comrade truly are alike. D2 sighs. ]

That'd go faster if you helped out a little, Hibiki.

[priforprince]

Why should I do something so beneath me?

[ The only time she does that is if someone is incompetent!

So she does it a lot. But, right now, she is content to be waited upon.

The poor cafe helper finally gets the adoption papers together and hands them to Hibiki to sign. Hibiki places them on the table, pulling a fountain pen from her pocket.

The cat sits on the papers and begins playing with its own ears. ]

[smilingbullet]

[ Man, cats are just so much just cats. They're amazing. ]

Beneath you, huh? So you don't want to make sure everything goes right?

[ Hibiki is absolutely the type who'd sigh and mutter "do I have to do everything myself" because she thinks everyone else are hopeless. ]

[priforprince]

[ Hibiki is absolutely positively that type. Hibiki is also the type to not think something merits her attention and then get smacked in the face with negative consequences. There's a whole grab bag of tricks here in Hibiki Land. ]

Silence. I'm busy.

[ Busy trying to get this pen around this tail. How can she...convince this beautiful lady....to vacate....? ]