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thenearshore2019-02-19 11:42 am
unlucky7) wrote in thenearshore2019-02-19 11:42 am
Open!
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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cordially!]
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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Honestly, compared to some of the people that have come through, Hibiki is a breeze to deal with.
Hopefully the show pleases her as well. Ginia has enough time to join the other maids and confirm what song they're performing before taking her place at the front of the stage, striking a cool and mysterious pose, a copy of the person standing on the stage behind her. As the song begins, Ginia follows the arm movements and the dance, deviating only as the lyrics start and she has to sign along. She signs with a smile, signing with energy and cheer, a message of love and joy for everyone!
It's her second performance of the day, but it's still exhausting work staying on beat and signing along with the fast song, making sure she's smiling and not getting caught up in focusing on everything. Major respect to all those that perform regularly. Sure is fun though.]
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And her expression betrays nothing. All around her, people join in the cheers - be it verbally or signing - getting into the fun, visibly having a good time. But the Prince sits in silence. She simply absorbs the spectacle before her. All aspects. This is genius at work. This is her style. And that fixed gaze is extra attentive upon Ginia.
There is, ah, one drawback to being this intent upon making personal assessment of others' abilities one's Style, however. Does this show happen to, um,
"nya"? ]
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Let's watch the sky together.
Take my hand (oh no, I'm blushing!)
We'll go on a journey together, you and me!
1-2-3 count the stars with me!
4-5-6 sparkling joy with every star!
Hearts singing together!
Shooting through the sky on a rocket of amore!
[Thankfully, no.]
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Hibiki is absorbed enough in watching the performance that she doesn't give too overt a reaction to the word "amore" popping up in this song, either. She simply snorts, then settles back to watch the rest of the presentation.
She'll leave all her satisfaction inside her mind, where a million purple flowers are blooming in a sunlit valley, thank you very much.
...Her ice cream is melting into her tea. ]
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After a glass of water, she's out making the rounds and checking on her customers. After taking pictures with her guests, ringing out their checks, and bringing out a few drink orders, she finally makes it back to Hibiki's table.
Well?]
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[ ...When did this become a cream tea? Ah well. Hibiki sips it, now that it is sippable. She has deigned to make more leeway on her pancakes, as well. (She is leaving the crown part for last.) ]
But, as a brightening of the atmosphere to complement the fare served, it's palatable.
[ There are no trumpets sounding as the Prince gives her judgment. Not even as an illusion.
Feel free to imagine them, all the same. This is that majestic a moment. ]
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Glad you were entertained! Is there anything else you would like? Don't forget you can have your picture taken as a memory of your visit!
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But as this cue causes something to occur to her, she puts down her now-empty teacup. ] Then, as an exclusive service....
[ This is the way she lets things trail when she has a Grand Idea. Boy oh boy. ]
Produce the photographer.
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Ginia curtsies and leads the way to the cute backdrop, a shelf of various props (animal headbands, stuffed animals, cute heart props) nearby. Okay, Hibiki, do your thing.]
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[ Hibiki waves a hand, and the booth is overlaid with the image of the front hall of an opulent mansion - exactly the sort of place you'd expect maids to stand upon the master's return from a hard day away from home, all greeting her in unison. So much for the backdrop.
She turns to Ginia. ] I'll have all the employees gather. Such a tableau requires the proper scale.
[ Plus...
This is her present to everyone for exceeding her expectations. She doesn't wish to leave a single maid unblessed by amore. ]
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The last maid in sets the timer. Everyone Nyan Nyan!]
1/2 you decide what's funniest here, i'm torn since both are good!
Hibiki smirks, striking a dashing pose for the camera with a wink. She's ready to blow a kiss when the shutter flashes, activating simultaneously a glorious illusion of flowers and diamonds -
When - ]
2/2
[ SAY IT ISN'T SO!
If they don't say it - or are slow to say it - she'll manage to execute her flawless photo op, generating a picture worthy of her autograph (and then a picture frame, provided by a spygoat currently nudging its way into the shop). But if they -
if they -
Well, Ginia, you just might get the ultimate rarity depending how this plays out. You might get a...one of a kind...photo of Shikyoin Hibiki. ]
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Nyan nyan!
[It's fate - or perhaps Hibiki's impeccable timing - that that chorus of nyans come after Hibiki's flawless posing. It's a beautiful picture, Hibiki in the center, surrounded by a bevy of beautiful maids, flowers and diamonds adding that perfect sparkle to the photo!
However, perfect as the photo is, Hibiki is still not immune to the surround sound nyans.]
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Because it's the sound of Shikyoin Hibiki tipping over in the middle of the crowd, like a log someone cut and then backed away. Which begs the question:
if a celebrity faints in a maid cafe and everyone is too excited about something else to see it,
does she still look like death warmed over? ]
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As it turns out, a celebrity can still look like death warmed over. This is, perhaps more concerning than it currently feels. Ginia simply sweeps Hibiki into her arms in a careful carry. Yes, here it's time for the prince to be carried by the maidly princess.]
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[ Hibiki stirs, valiantly attempting to regain consciousness despite her wan hue. This can't...it can't be the end.
She hasn't autographed the picture yet.
Are the sentence enders....gone...? ]
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It breaks the rules slightly, but Ginia pulls her phone out of a pocket and types and plays a message.]
Your fans await your encore.
[Aka wake up, Hibiki.]
1/2
[ Fans? Hibiki blinks. The animation staff throws their entire budget into one close shot of her fluttering eyelashes, because that's the priorities of this operation.
Her....
.........fans? ]
2/2
Ta-da! ]
But of course. I'll inscribe my name on their hearts, as well.
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"Thank you for your visit!"
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[ Hibiki opens the folder to survey the photo. That's acceptable.
Then she pulls what looks like a cross between a Sharpie and a fountain pen out from her pocket, flips it over her fingers in a single twirl, and signs the picture with a flourish. (It is even...stamped...with a rather official-looking business seal.) And then the envelope is presented right back. Albeit with grandeur! ]
This is your shop's once-in-a-lifetime memory. Enshrining it for all to witness is best.
[ Meeting the staff member's gaze, she winks. Do this favor - just for her? ] So its sweetness remains eternal, like never-melting ice cream.......
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Ginia rolls her eyes at the sight, but it's harmless infatuation. Is this how Hibiki gains followers? She can't imagine Chris doing anything of the like and love falls under her domain.
The maid, still clutching the photo to her chest, runs off to find a proper frame and place to hang it up in. Ginia smiles at Hibiki and curtsies, adding a signed "thank you."]
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[ The shining light is her. Of course.
A handful of maids who aren't waiting on tables at the moment fall over each other to line up on either side of the door, the better to bow to Master on the way out. Hibiki smiles. In-character to the end.
The "maid cafe" is a salvageable bit of absurdity, perhaps. ]