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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: (fist)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-04-24 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
This is the dawning of an entertainment renaissance! I demand to speak to the curator!

[ And she turns. She had been announcing that to nobody in particular, or perhaps to the spygoat next to her -

but oh look, elfnein

that

sure was convenient! ]

alchemists: (Ver was a good scientist at least)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-04-28 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Umm, well that would be me?

[ Most of the books have been donations and the heavens giving her things. So the selection in different areas did vary a lot. ]
priforprince: (berate)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-01 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
What sort of selection criteria are you using?!

[ Hibiki didn’t even pause for breath, there. Or skip a beat. ]
alchemists: (71)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-05-01 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the books here are what I was given when I first arrived at my temple, and the newer ones have been donated by my followers. So in short I don't really have much control over the criteria.
priforprince: (nonsense)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-01 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
A god of wisdom lets the populace determine her temple’s collection?!

[ Hibiki has decided to completely overlook the fact she herself took advantage of Elfnein’s generous collection development policy this very same day. A genius’s donation is a separate affair. ]

There are limits to bigheartedness!
Edited 2019-05-01 23:46 (UTC)
alchemists: (71)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-05-05 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hibiki, you donated books just today... wouldn't that be considered part of that bigheartedness you're having issues with?

[ You can't have it both ways Hibiki. ]
priforprince: (boil)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-06 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
MY BEHAVIOR IS INCOMPARABLE!!

[ So there. ]
alchemists: (Diary of secrets)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-05-14 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a double standard?
priforprince: (fist)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-15 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
What part of prioritizing a genius’s opinion resembles prioritizing an idiot’s?!

[ That is iron-clad - nay, we must forever be top-class - diamond-clad logic! Disputing it is beyond all possibility! ]
alchemists: (fight on)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-05-21 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's a library and it's service area isn't just you but the followers I'm the goddess to.
priforprince: (nonsense)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-21 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Your rules and regulations are unfathomable!

[ Hibiki huffs. ] Goodness. To think populism should have penetrated the Far Shore....
alchemists: (-pouting-)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-05-23 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
If you don't like it then find a different library.

[ Elfnein's not having any disrespect in this library of knowledge. ]
priforprince: (nose)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-25 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmph. Never mind.

[ As expected of a member of CelePara Talent Agency - Elfnein has pride in her work. Pursuing futility isn’t elegant, so Hibiki drops the subject. ]

I’ll perform a thorough collection check to assess any grievous oversights. The unnecessary volumes may remain, to delight the easily-satisfied.

[ Of which, on the Far Shore, there are many. ]
alchemists: (Default)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-05-26 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
I guess that's ok for now.

[ It's better to let Hibiki do her thing and settle down instead of fight it anymore. ]
priforprince: (narcissist)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-26 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ How pleasant it is to understand each other. Hibiki turns back to the shelves. Nothing already written as a script had enthralled her, but.....what of the novels....? ]

So long as true beacons of radiance shine forth, the paltry glitters matter little.

[ Spygoats begin rolling around with more purpose, seeking out any books that may have been pulled from the stacks. A genius is thorough.

...did Elfnein just get free shelving maa-ssistance? ]
alchemists: (cooking by the book)

[personal profile] alchemists 2019-05-29 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She'll have to reward the goats later, they're doing a good job at helping out. ]

Just don't leave a mess when you're done.
priforprince: (populism)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-30 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph.

[ Hibiki. Leave a mess. Absurd. That is what her staa-ff is for: so she may behave as she pleases without negatively impacting the ambiance.

A tome is selected and perused... ]