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[unlucky7]

Who: Ginia and YOU!
When: April 11th - April 14th
Where: Around the Near Shore
What: Work never ends when you work for a God of Fortune. Come help out (or not) Ginia with prayers all around the Near shore.



[A. Maid Mayhem]
[A popular maid cafe is putting on an event for tokyo's Deaf community with all of their regular services provided in Japanese Sign Language along with Japanese. With multiple prayers begging for the event to go well, Ginia and some of her coworkers are keeping an eye on things and lending a hand. However, with the cafe crowded as ever, news stations covering the event adding to the crowd, and tensions running high, plenty of help is needed.

1) Help out at the cafe. You don't have to don a maid outfit; there's also cooking in the kitchen, making sure the light and sound equipment is ready for the stage show, and helping the media crews with filming.

2) Fend off ayakashi. The place is a hotbed for minor ayakashi seeking to cause some trouble. Throw up some borderlines, rend some ayakashi, just keep the place going without making a mess!

3) Or maybe you're here to enjoy the cafe. The food and drinks are cute and great, Ginia is happy to greet with a smile and a heart made with her hands as you're seated in her section.]

[B. Baker's Dilemma]
[A bakery in a shopping district is struggling with a new bread. Everyone who has tasted it either thinks it's the most delicious bread they've ever had or the most disgusting, inedible thing with no middle ground. Sometimes disagreement comes from two people trying the same loaf!

Ginia and her coworker, Hidemi, stand a few feet away from the store. They're wearing matching black suits with dark green ties. They're having a quiet discussion, Hidemi holding a loaf of bread that's had a few pieces torn from it. A third opinion is desperately needed and they're quick to flag down anyone that feels like they're from the Far Shore. You! Yes, you! Come over here!]

"Excuse me, can you try a sample of this bread and let us know what you think?"

[Delicious or disgusting? There's no middle ground.]

[C. A Horse of a Different Coat]
[Spring is a great time to go to the zoo and Uneo Zoo is hosting some mini programs aimed at children. When the person originally assigned to help with the zebra program falls sick, Ginia quickly steps in to help. There's only one problem. While Ginia, dressed in a zebra costume is busy entertaining kids, it means she can't focus on borderline duty like she intended. With mild ayakashi swirling around, drawn by children and shinki alike, Ginia looks around for anyone who can help out. Wrangle those ayakashi as the program continues, but don't let the kids see!]

[D. Wildcard!]
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[dredefulchilde]

Joscelin had heard about the maid cafe event whilst hanging around Ginia in Ebisu’s temple, and on the day of he felt bored enough to pay a visit. The food, at least, looked sugary enough to hold his attention. A cheerful young woman greeted him in a cutesy mix of Japanese and JSL and sat him at a small table in a corner of her section, which offered a mostly unobstructed view of the proceedings.

At least enough to see a particular, exceptionally tall, maid currently carrying a tray of cutesy food.

He laughs so hard acid green melon soda starts coming out his nose.

[unlucky7]

Ginia towers over most people most days and she's no exception here. At first, she felt a bit apprehensive about standing out so much. After a few hours of walking around in the maid uniform and being exceptionally cute, she's grown used to the surprised stares.

(She's also figured out the surprised stares is how her legs and chest look in the uniform. She looks damn good, that much she can admit to.)

Ginia is crossing the floor with a cute omurice meal when she hears distinctive laughter. Curbing the response to snap around and look, Ginia forces herself to turn gracefully and glance. Eyes widen a little as she spots Joss at a table.

Making sure he sees, Ginia smiles and gives a cute curl of her hand into a paw and tilts her head in a cutesy "nyan nyan" pose. Right. Napkins to that table once she delivers the food.

[dredefulchilde]

That nyan nyan thing is just too much. Joss splutters on his soda once again and mops up his face with a handkerchief. Ginia is not exactly what he would consider the nyan nyan type. Seeing her act in such a patently ridiculous way is simultaneously alarming, hilarious, and endearing.

He rapidly signs “take a break” at her and then begins to attack his sleeping teddy bear-shaped katsu curry.

[unlucky7]

Oh, Joss, if you only knew about your surrogate big sister's fondness for J-pop and arcade rhythm games aimed at children. Her fondness for cute things isn't a secret, but it's not as overt given her tendency to dress for the office or for a fight.

It's fifteen minutes before Ginia gets a break from her other customers. If she's on the floor, she's working, but at least Joss will hassle her a little less than others. She comes bearing a gift too; a tall ice cream parfait with alternating layers of whipped cream, cornflakes, vanilla pudding, chocolate sauce, and a few scoops ice cream. There's a cat cookie garnish (have to keep with the theme after all). One scoop of ice cream is decorated with a chocolate sauce face and hair, carefully placed chocolate sprinkle freckles, and two tiny chocolate chip fangs. There's also a small paper umbrella shading the ice cream.

It's a vampire no-sundae!

"How's the food, nyan~?"

[dredefulchilde]

That sundae--or, well, "no sundae"--is impressive. Ginia surely knows the way into the heart of a small vampire who craves sugar almost as much as he craves violence and chaos.

"I take it that's meant to be me?" he asks, shaking his head in a combination of amusement and disgust.

"When you said you'd be helping out, I didn't realize it was going to be so...literal."

[unlucky7]

Ginia nods. It's a fair attempt considering she's only been decorating food with squeeze bottles for all of one day. Having a steady hand helps a lot.

"Why not? I'm fluent in sign language and can handle orders." Her expression is the face of innocence. No one is paying any attention to them, but she angles her body to hide them from view save for Joscelin. Can't have anyone noticing she's a little off-script.