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.
lookingforhead: (Let me be clear)

[personal profile] lookingforhead 2018-06-24 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm fine. My hands don't really fall asleep in the same way other people might but it's still a bit tingly. But I'm fine. Thank you.
water_meebo: @kagaminokakera (❄ ʜᴜʜʜʜʜʜ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ?)

[personal profile] water_meebo 2018-06-25 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I see that's good-- I think?

[ He's not sure if that's the right words to use either. ]

You're welcome. What... should we do with the kitten in the mean time? Is there perhaps a place we should return them to?
lookingforhead: (Moe)

[personal profile] lookingforhead 2018-06-25 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Celty thinks about it for a moment. They could just put him someplace comfortable and let him do as he will; he did belong to this cafe after all. On the other hand, no pun intended, she'd grown a soft touch of stockholme syndrome as she was kept captive. And the kittens we're up for adoption.

Gently, she takes the kitten back from him and settles it into her lap. Now that she's in a more comfortable position he shouldn't be as much of an obstacle as he was before.

Her helmet bobs in a satisfied nod at this solution.
]
water_meebo: @starswirl (❄ ᴍᴇʀʀɪ ᴋᴜʀɪsᴍᴀsᴜ!!)

[personal profile] water_meebo 2018-07-21 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mikleo stifled a soft laugh at her antics. People were definitely fascinating. Especially, the ones he met recently. After all, she requested to have him take the cat off her hands, only to have it placed back in her lap. He couldn't help but find that a little silly. Though, in a very polite way of course. ]

I see, well I suppose this works out if that's what you were aiming for.

[ He puts a hand to his hip, smiling still. ]

Do you need any assistance with anything else?