foxrightsactivist: (hi welcome to chili's!)
Kaden | Nishiki | ニシキ ([personal profile] foxrightsactivist) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-03-31 10:13 pm

a lobster and a fox walk into a bar [SEMI-OPEN]

Who: Ryoma, Kaden, and YOU!
When: Morning of October 30th
Where: Aeon Mall in Narita
What: See Kaden and Ryoma. See Kaden and Ryoma try to interact with the modern world. Please help them. They have no idea what they're doing.

[ closed to Ryoma ]

[Modern day Japan is its own special brand of urban jungle. There are masses of people, moving vehicles, bright lights, big moving pictures on sides of buildings, and lots and lots of noise. And while it was strange noise, and annoying at first to boot, Kaden found he rather liked the bright, flashy human lifestyle. It was shiny and beautiful, and best of all, it lit up at night!

But nighttime isn’t now, when he’s standing here in front of the place that he and Alex had gone to look for clothes. Some place called a ‘mall’. Aeon, by the name of it, or so Alex had told him - he’d found that he had trouble reading the more complicated kanji here, let alone English. It had been an interesting trip before, but it had left him desperate to go back and explore on his own without feeling bad for dragging Alex all over the entire place.

And better yet, he’s run into a friend! That hair is unmistakable, and he’d recognize it anywhere.]


Hey! Ryoma, right? Fancy running into you down here!


[ open prompt A: kaden’s happy fun foxtime fashion romps ]

[The concept of pet stores is lost on Kaden… or, rather, he’d never really thought of such a thing being a possibility. Stores where you buy animals? It’s a weird prospect. But stores where you buy things for animals makes more sense. Or it would, if he’d ever seen such a thing.

Too bad he doesn’t realize that Aeon Pet is, in fact, one of those stores. He can’t read English. He just knows it says Aeon.]


Wow, hey, check out these brushes! This is a really good selection!


[ open prompt B: ryoma -- lobster samurai vs expensive hipster coffee, a love story ]

[Being a shinki came with several downsides--some people would argue the negative connotations of the inability to recall one’s life, or being a literal object to be used at the behest of another person’s will…

Ryoma was more concerned with the fact that he was always hungry. It was more of a passing grumble than an out and out ache, most days, and while he’d eaten before he’d fled Ler’s temple as Hak plunged into some sort of dark baking ritual with far, far too many boxes that’d promised cakes… cake was not supposed to come out of boxes. There were few things Ryoma was certain about in this unlife, but that one of the things that truly stuck in his head.

Also, he hadn’t quite finished picking the fake webbing out of his hair from Hak’s decorating adventures in the proceeding days, but that was neither here nor there because Ryoma was hungry now, and he had no idea what half of these places that boasted food were. Some of the writing made sense, or was easy enough to squint at until he could puzzle out its meaning, but others… others were eldritch, incomprehensible.

What was a Starbucks? Why did it smell enticing?]


[ wildcard ]

[Something you want to do that isn’t a prompt here? Feel free to use this option!

You have two idiots in a mall that really shouldn’t be on their own. Somebody is gonna end up doing the Bus Scene from Enchanted, mark my words, and it’s probably going to be Kaden on a golfcart.

If Ryoma had a sword, it’d definitely be him doing it though.]
hakingitup: (Default)

[personal profile] hakingitup 2018-04-08 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Incredible. Just incredible. He didn't know you were so old.]

They're all cooling now.

[Are you upset with him, Ryoma?]
lightninglobster: (s. tan: grumble grumble)

[personal profile] lightninglobster 2018-04-10 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryoma has been 56 years old since the age of 12, and he's only gotten older with each passing year.]

Have you tried anything to see how it tastes yet?

[Not because Ryoma is hungry or anything. Or because he suspects that Hak might've switched the sugar for salt at least once.

He's not upset with Hak--he's upset with the world and the cell phone and... whatever the hell a KFC is.]
hakingitup: (Default)

[personal profile] hakingitup 2018-04-16 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to try it with someone first.

[You. You're the one he's going to try it with.]

When you're done, just come back. Not much work is left to do.

[But first, tea. And maybe KFC.]
lightninglobster: (seriously what his his hair doing)

[personal profile] lightninglobster 2018-04-24 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope it came out well, for you and your test subject.

[Please, no. He's too young to die again. ... then again, maybe they could feed any salt-cakes to Hibiki?]

If you had need of something, we can go. I was just-- [trying to be self-sufficient, trying to avoid more dubious stains, trying to not breathe cobweb fiber for an hour or two] trying to fill my time.
hakingitup: (Default)

[personal profile] hakingitup 2018-04-28 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'll need you to try it too.

[Yeah. Not getting out of this one.]

Nope. You can take some more hours off. Just come when you're done.
lightninglobster: (s. tan: i have two hernias named for you)

[personal profile] lightninglobster 2018-04-28 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[No, please. Ryoma is such a good person.]

I'm not really an expert on how things are supposed to taste, I'm afraid.

[Roll a charisma save and pray, boy.]

Are all places in this world so noisy and... bright?
hakingitup: (Default)

[personal profile] hakingitup 2018-05-05 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
You can say if it's good or not.

[That's a lie.]

No. There are quiet places. You just... went to a mall.