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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!
hypomeneo: (But we own nothing)

[personal profile] hypomeneo 2019-04-19 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Precisely.

Just as Mister Garry said.

[What does secret passages have to do with it, though?]

I want you to keep that in mind as we go through the story. The heroes will do bad things, things you may not understand, but will think they're necessary. So we're going to talk about them and see if they really had to do those things.

Now about mum... you said he was rude to her? Tell me about that.
hypomeneo: (A lesson learned)

[personal profile] hypomeneo 2019-04-19 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Waver nods - that's about what he expected.]

Do you know why he did that?
hypomeneo: (Keep it in your heart like a stone)

[personal profile] hypomeneo 2019-04-19 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
He didn't want to appear weak in front of the suitors. That would have been very dangerous.

Especially as he's the next king.

[Here we go... time to explain rule]
hypomeneo: (An egotistical acrobatic master of conce)

[personal profile] hypomeneo 2019-04-21 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
A little bit of that. You're on the right track.

[Hmmm... perhaps Romeo doesn't understand the context of the situation here. So... before they get into anything else...]

But... I want you to tell me what kind of situation he's in right now. It is very important in understanding why he said what he did.