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.
yoshinocherry: (Making waves)

[personal profile] yoshinocherry 2018-08-24 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Hug accepted, and returned with a laugh.] Ahh, I'm really glad you think so! [Having a friend around definitely makes most things easier, honestly...! If she can make an outing more enjoyable than it is stressful, then that's a total win in her book!]

That sounds like a lot of fun! I wonder if my shinki would enjoy coming out for a shopping trip like that sometime... [Saber can be kind of difficult to read, but Yuna finds herself surprised at what she does enjoy, sometimes. Maybe it's something worth asking her about.

The drinks are whipped up in no time at all, and called off at the drop-off point,]
Oh, that's us! [Excellent, Yuna grabs them both, offering Kairi's up for her to take.] Let's go find somewhere to sit.
pure_radiantics: (convo] uhhh ohhh...)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-08-28 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Do I know your shinki? I don't think we've ever talked about--

[ But there's their drinks! She accepts the drink and follows Yuna until they come to a good place to sit down. ]

So, ah, your shinki's name is...?

[ Kairi has to wonder if it's somebody she already met on a previous shopping excursion. ]
yoshinocherry: (And feel the tones)

[personal profile] yoshinocherry 2018-08-29 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Saber-san! We're the same height, but she's blonde with green eyes.

[She would also not put it past her shinki to meet someone without ever giving them her name, so a visual description is probably a good thing to have, too. Just for the reference.]

She hasn't mentioned meeting you before, but she doesn't always talk about the kinds of stuff she gets up to on her own, either.
pure_radiantics: (convo] huh. interesting.)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-09-05 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kairi makes a little puffed 'Huh' noise. ]

I don't think I've met her, no. That's only happened to me one other time now - I'm normally so good at meeting people when they first arrive! Although, there's been a few people I didn't meet when I first arrived, so that was a bit of catch-up too.

[ She sips her drink a bit. ]

I take it she's pretty quiet? Maybe I'll look out for her when we're all together again.
yoshinocherry: (I know)

[personal profile] yoshinocherry 2018-09-10 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
With so many people coming and going, I'd think a few people slipping by unnoticed isn't too far-fetched.

[She can't imagine how much work it'd be to stay on top of greeting most of the newcomers, let alone all if them. Thoughtfully, she takes a sip of her own drink.]

She's definitely not quiet, but I think she does like to keep some of her personal endeavors to herself. I don't want to push too much out of her if she isn't willing to share, you know?

[If it's something important, that's a different story, but daily minutia and things like 'who did you hang out with today' aren't really pressing matters that need to be open in god and shinki partnerships.]
pure_radiantics: (convo] how nice.)

Wrap for me, or close to it <3

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-09-28 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if she and I are ever at one of those big parties together, point me in her direction and I'll say hi, sound good?

[ That's the most important thing. She can't change the past, but she can try to make new friends going forward. ]