kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)
Chikusa ([personal profile] kokuyoyo) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-05-09 07:54 pm

won't you take me

Who: The Li Tieguai clusterfuck
What: Well, we're out of a shitty haunted forest, who wants dinner?
When: November 16, evening
Where: Li Tieguai's Temple

Usually, when there's some big nonsense in Heaven, Chikusa can be found out cold or "away" in his own head for most of the following couple of days afterwards... but that apparently only counts for event which involve people. Spending an entire day trekking through a possessed forest filled with violent plant-life and cultists is manageable.... somehow.

No matter how exhausted or injured anyone in the temple is, food still has to be made, and Hakka is in no condition to make it. Thus, dinner is being arranged by the other cook in the house, and invitations have been sent out to the relevant people Chikusa thinks care- namely Nanako and Ayumu, along with anyone they seek to bring. That doesn't mean people checking in on the Li Tieguai temple can't just waltz right into the dinner as well....

There's a lot to do in the time leading up to dinner, after all, depending on when people show up (or, you know, realize there's smells coming from the kitchen). Bon, the resident enormous Tibetan Mastiff, demands attention in the form of bodily flinging himself at people. There's a goat in the garden, tied away from all the important medical herbs. At least four different nekomata wander in and out of the temple ground whenever they please, including Pookie, the most permanent resident, and never shut up.... Not to mention that a Kung-Fu movie has been put on the television for people to watch.

There's also a sign on all entrances to the kitchen that says: CHO HAKKAI IS NOT ALLOWED TO COOK. Presumably Chikusa put it up while making direct eye contact with him.

Either way, mess around until dinner, have dinner, crash in the living room where another kung-fu movie has been put on again... Have fun.

Oh, and before it can be forgotten.... The dinner menu for the night is fritto misto, meaty Amatriciana sauce with bucatini noodles, and all the garlic bread in the world apparently. For dessert? Cannoli again. That... might be all he knows how to make on the dessert front.
kagenonadeshiko: (attentive; nonthreatening)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2018-06-20 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[She perks up a little.]

How fun. I'd like to see it.

[Some of the terms Chikusa's using are a little unfamiliar to her but she gets the gist easily enough. And the confict of trying to live a normal life certainly fees relatable to her somehow.

She's falls a bit silent, unsure of what else to say to carry on the conversation. Even on the best of days, she struggles with conversation and the day after losing her goddess is one of the worst she's experienced on the Far Shore.]
kagenonadeshiko: (content; just listening)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2018-06-27 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I'll do that.

[Maybe once things calm down for her, after she's had more time to catch her breath and recover from everything that's been happening lately. Her time as a shinki has been full of many ups and downs; the sudden loss of Sanzang is just the most recent. But a trip to the theatre gives her something to look forward to.]