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.
swordofzero: (I'm not crazy ALL the time)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-16 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku is fine. [After all she had only given one name, it felt weird for her to call him Kururugi.]

Everyone has been very helpful. Things are a little confusing but I am learning and hopefully will get the hang of everything soon. [Things were already less confusing than they had been when he first arrived so he hopes they will continue to get less so.]
kagenonadeshiko: (harmless; kind eyes)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2018-04-24 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Suzaku-kun... Got it.

[Ayumu nods, still smiling.]

It gets easier with time, I think. Is your goddess helping you adjust? I think it's tougher without that extra support.

[Which Ayumu tries to give as much as she can but sometimes she still gets easily overwhelmed. There's just so much a shinki has to learn. Their new duties, who they are and what they can do, and still somehow find time to make sense of it all! And still find time to enjoy life.]

And if not, well, it helps to call on your fellow shinki. If nothing else, they understand what it's like to be in your position best.

[Or so it's been the case with Ayumu's experience. She pets the cat in her lap, suddenly looking a little sheepish. Really, she hadn't meant to go off into a lecture.]
swordofzero: (pic#732312)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-24 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He didn't mind the lecture and stood silently as she gave it, only moving to pet the cat who was still hanging off his finger. Lady Grell had been patient and explained things to him. It just seemed that every time anyone answered a question he had five more questions appeared, summoned by the extra knowledge he had.

He was trying his best to adjust as quickly as possible, from what William had told him he did not imagine Lady Grell's patience would last for long. He did not want to test it.]


Thank you for the advice. [He smiled at her] Have you been a Shinki long?
kagenonadeshiko: (genuine; at ease)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2018-04-24 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's been a couple of months now, I think.

[Ayumu laughs a bit, taking a moment to gently extricate the cat from behind her neck and relocate him onto the arm of her chair. As cute as he is, her neck and shoulders are starting to ache with the strain of maintaining his perch.]

It feels like it's been much longer. I think you might find that a lot can happen here in a short period of time sometimes. Experiences can vary quite a bit.

[It's not any sort of magic as far as Ayumu can tell. It's more a combination of the fragile state she'd arrived in and a side effect of the company she's kept. If two months or so can feel like three times as much time has passed, perhaps she should reevaluate who she spends her time with.]

It depends on who you know, though. Have you met many people yet, Suzaku-kun?
swordofzero: (hope)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-04-25 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yes it feels like a lot has happened already [Though a lot of that is that before two days ago there is... nothing. So his whole knowledge of existence only spans two days and it seems a long time indeed, he's learned a lot and met people and been given a lot of information.]

I have met a few people. Kairi and Ginia helped me with borderlines, I've seen them both today as well. Adrien was also very helpful as were Mr Spears and Mr Hakkai.