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.
pure_radiantics: (convo] how nice.)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-04-14 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Without knowing the full situation, Kairi just shakes her head 'no' and replies back slowly, since she intuited the word for 'temple'. ]

We had a wooded area at our temple. The cats were okay because we fed them. They only played with each other.

[ That she could see. ]

They scattered when the temple disappeared. The deer too. I keep wondering if I'll see one of the cats here today.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Wonder)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-17 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if I'm seeing the same deer.

[Ginia cracks a smile at the idea. With all the wild forests around, there's plenty of space for wildlife, natural or brought in with the temples otherwise.]

What did they look like? I'll keep an eye out.

[Because hey, you never know, but more importantly, it's a topic Ginia can seize onto that isn't about her and her problems.]
pure_radiantics: (convo] shocked)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-04-21 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kairi looks genuinely confused, ceasing her hand gestures.]

Can deer look different? All of the deer I saw were brown - light - with some white spots.

[Kairi doesn't mind talking about them, but she's not sure she can be more specific than that.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Cute)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-04-25 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
I think most deer are brown, but they can come in all sorts of sizes!

[As it turns out, animals are one of the things Ginia gets genuinely excited about very easily. She grabs her phone and does a quick YouTube search, pulling up a video of the smallest deer in the world to show Kairi.]

Isn't it cute?
pure_radiantics: (convo] mild surprise)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-05-31 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
What? No way! That's too small to be a deer, isn't it?

[ Kairi does a quick search as well, and comes up with a slightly different answer. ]

It looks like some people are saying that Mouse-deer is more mouse than deer... and this pudu thing is the smallest creature in the real deer family.

[ Which she says slowly, clearly reading off the information, as it was not at all something she'd have known on her own. ]