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thenearshore2018-03-21 10:48 am
revolutionfalcon) wrote in thenearshore2018-03-21 10:48 am
Entry tags:
- d2 | alive,
- ginia | original character,
- hibiki shikyoin | pripara,
- kairi | kingdom hearts,
- saber (mordred) | fate/apocrypha,
- shun kurosaki | yu-gi-oh! arc-v,
- suzaku kururugi | code geass,
- yuna yuki | yuki yuna is a hero,
- ω ain | elsword,
- ω emizel | disgaea 4,
- ω mikleo | tales of zestiria,
- ω misaki yata | k,
- ω saori nakagawa | original
[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.
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.
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[Kairi's happiness is infectious and she can't help but smile. And it's certainly easier to manage the kittens. The pair in her own box sit up a bit, clearly curious about what's going on.]
Shh, shh. There'll be plenty to look around and see when we get you to our new home. There's monkeys and all sorts of room for you to play. And I can make you all sorts of toys...
[She speaks with the tone of someone who spends more time talking to animals or plants than other people. Once the kittens settle back down, though, she turns back to Kairi.]
There's a shrine... to the east? I think?
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Oh no I think a bug got into this box and I didn't notice - and now they're trying to pin it down while I'm jostling the box. Poor things!
[ She chuckles a little since she's not about to take their 'toy' away, and for all she knows it'll escape out the top. It looks like a fly after all. ]
Alright, east it is.
[ And she holds the box against herself in just such a way she can punch the pedestrian walk signal with a firmly extended elbow. ]
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[Maybe not so much for the fly but it did go into a box with kittens. There's hazards involved with that. Her own pair seems to be pretty content with just trying to keep out over the edge of the box. So long as they don't try to jump out at the intersection, it should be fine, right?]
I hope they'll have fun at home, too. There's lots of monkeys for them to play with and Sanzang and me. There should be enough that they'll never get bored.
[It's a very nice environment to be in, Ayumu thinks. Free roaming monkeys and occasional bouts of theft and 'helping' with various chores aside.]
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[ Kairi laughs. ]
The monkeys should be fine too, right? They've got to be really active, if they're anything like the monkeys I'm thinking of. Lots of room to run around should make for plenty of long games of chase.
[ She's imagining a small pile of napping kittens, not unlike how a few of them ended up here at the cat cafe. ]
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[Ayumu chuckles. She chases the monkeys fairly regularly herself, mostly after they've run off with one of her belongings or something she's using in the kitchen. The kittens should be good for keeping them on their toes, though.]
I think it'll be good for the kittens, too. The monkeys are nothing if not energetic.
[She's sure they've been worried about Sanzang, too, spending too much time alone in her room. But surely the kittens will make her goddess smile again. They're kittens.]
I think the shrine's around the corner of the next block.
Wrap for me, or close to it
[ She quietly thinks of her own 'family' so long gone now, but is only glad that the kittens will get to experience that kind of feeling. Maybe she will get to again some day.
She gently shifts the box in her hands, even as it jostles from activity within, and then looks over at Ayumu again. ]
Can't wait to see them in their new home!