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Romeo ([personal profile] myblueskies) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2019-03-28 09:29 pm

Book Party [ota]

Who: Romeo, Elfnein and literally everyone in the heavens. Even if you weren't personally invited every invite came with a +ALL YOUR FRIENDS and there's also a sign. Strangers are just friends these two haven't met yet.
When: 29th April. Afternoon onwards
Where: Temple Smol (Gegute's library)
What: Just the cutest book party the heavens has ever known! Bring your best book!



Arrival

You might have received an invitation, or perhaps you are just passing Gegute’s library but there is an brightly painted sign outside.

Book Party today!

Everyone welcome! Bring your best book or dress up!

Lots of tasty food!


The doors of the temple are open and once you arrive in the lobby there are more bright arrows pointing the way into the library. If you are still stuck mister Goat is at the help desk, he’ll direct any one who needs it!

Activities

The layout of the library hasn’t really changed at all, except a few tables being moved to accommodate activities and all the comfy reading cushions have been brought to a central location. All the shelves are decorated with colourful paper chains and streamers.

Romeo had really enjoyed Yuna’s birthday party with the activities to do so he had copied the idea for Elfnein’s book party! On one table there is material for making bookmarks. You might want to recut the card strips, they are a little wonky. There is ribbon and glitter and colouring pens and glue.

On another there is a cardboard box puppet theatre, painted in a riot of colours with colourful strips of material as curtains. There is some felt and other material, as well as scissors, glue and wool to make puppets with. A sign reads in childish Hirigana. Show your best book!

Food

The invitations had promised lots of tasty food and there sure was a lot! A whole table filled with tasty treats, Romeo had been very very busy! There was a whole tray of chopped fruit, another of vegetables like carrots and cucumber.

There was bread and cheese and two bowls of pasta with different sauces. Another bowl of noddles with meat and vegetables. There was a huge bowl of rice too with a tray of grilled fish and a bowl of broccoli and asparagus.

An entire part of the table was taken up by apples and things with apples in them, apple turnovers and even an attempt at an apple pie, it was a bit smushed but probably tasted fine.

There was a tray of very misshapen cookies with messy icing and another of even messier cupcakes with far too much buttercream. There were also churos and a chocolate Gateaux, these seemed to have been bought rather than made, Romeo hadn’t even known where to start it making them!

There was an attempt at making books and other shapes out of rice and vegetables packed in the two bento boxes Ebisu’s temple had given him for Christmas, but they were a bit crumbly, misshapen or just plain strange. In the centre of Romeo’s bento attempts was his magical bento box, every time it was opened there were different fancy bento creations, if the children’s attempts left a lot to be desired.

Have fun!
priforprince: (greet)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-04-18 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Knowing they come with such a recommendation, I long to dwell upon every page.

[ See? Agrias. This is the sort of thing you say to a lady you Admire.

THE PRESENCE OF A GENIUS IS ETERNALLY INSTRUCTIVE! ]
cleansingstrike: do not use (13)

[personal profile] cleansingstrike 2019-04-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Agrias, for her part, is much less thrilled to see Hibiki here. Their previous... conversation, was still fresh in her thoughts.

For the sake of not ruining the evening for Ovelia, she puts in an effort to at least remain civil.]


Should the lady wish it, his works would available for you or anyone to read.
priforprince: (recognize)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-04-23 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps I shall. They appear quite inspirational.

[ Hibiki, for her part, bears neither of these people any ill-will and may find this situation mildly hilarious, if only because she enjoys Knowing Something Other People Don't Know. Wishing this couple well doesn't preclude her from being an ass about it.

Hibiki! ]


What might be the story behind your characters.....?

[ please be deeply, inextricably intertwined with each other's backstories

please ]
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[personal profile] ofnovalue 2019-04-25 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Many of Ser Montblanc's adventures involved dragging his younger siblings along. Milady portrays one of them, Ser Hurdy. Milady is fond of the color blue, so I chose the moogle most famously associated with that color for her.

[ Probably a deeply unsatisfying answer for Hibiki. Or just a weird one. ]
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[personal profile] priforprince 2019-04-25 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ....well, a direct parallel was likely too much to hope for. The rest she could follow right up until "moogle", and she has a feeling she doesn't want to know. ]

You are consideration itself. Such attention to detail belies the esteem for her within your heart.

[ Hibiki and Ovelia vs Hibiki and Agrias may be...two different conversations. ]
cleansingstrike: (5)

[personal profile] cleansingstrike 2019-04-30 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Though meant to be a night of merriment and festivities, Agrias simply finds herself on edge with Hibiki in the immediate area. She wishes not to once more hear the same outrageous claims from earlier.]

The lady and I have been bonded together as shinki and god for some time, now. I trust her with my life, and she with her own.

'Tis only natural.
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[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-02 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
All god-shinki pairs should aspire to that level of closeness. Of course, mine are also without fault.

[ ...when it comes to fulfilling their shinki duties. The less Hibiki has to contemplate D2’s personality, the better.

Here is tea. Hibiki lifts her cup. A spygoat carrying what just happens to be Agrias or Ovelia’s favorite drink on its tray rolls up alongside each lady, if they care to join the toast. ]


To splendid couples.

ofnovalue: (Default)

[personal profile] ofnovalue 2019-05-02 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
How wonderful! [ And... strangely convenient. While Ovelia wasn't nearly so suspicious of Hibiki as Agrias was, she did have her own understanding of the other's eccentricities, and this was definitely pinging more as "hibiki's weirdness" than "hibiki's kindness". All the same, she accepted the offered drink, raising her glass. ]

To splendid couples. I am certainly blessed to be with such a wonderful goddess as milady.
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[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-03 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That you are.

[ Hibiki sips, which helps her hide the fact that her self-satisfaction is rapidly burgeoning to undisguisable levels. ]
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[personal profile] cleansingstrike 2019-05-12 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Agrias takes the teacup merely to dissuade the idea that something would be amiss between herself and Hibiki.]

Aye.

[And yet, a response as brief as that one could certainly reinforce that notion.]
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[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-13 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ What a thoroughly enjoyable toast we are sharing, Hibiki and the....happy pair. ]

My protege has assembled a variety of top-class literary diversions. If you explore, you’re sure to discover a new shared passion.

[ Her Majesty hasn’t tired of this joke yet. So she shall continue leaning upon it until her amusement has run its course.

All eternally arranges itself, you see, to the benefit and entertainment of Shikyoin Hibiki. ]
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[personal profile] ofnovalue 2019-05-13 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
A new book to read together would be lovely, would it not, milady? [ Ovelia turned to Agrias, only then noticing, even feeling, the tension the other had. Her eyes reflected immediate worry, but said nothing. ]
priforprince: (sip)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-13 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oho? The game might just about have run its course. Hibiki says nothing, watching Agrias as well over the top of her teacup

....but, for the record, Ovelia seeming concerned is not helping with plausible deniability any. ]