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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!
trustheart: (265b)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-04-26 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
... I'm putting plenty of time in, Shikyoin. Into my music, into my friendship with senpai, into my actions as a god.

[She shook her head.]

How about you tell me about your personal life, now? Anyone in your life feeling "the pure amore love" at the moment?
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[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-01 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The entire Near Shore, imminently.

[ Hibiki pulls out a magazine advertisement and hands it to Chris. The magazine page has been carefully laminated for safekeeping, and the table of contents on the reverse reveals it’s this month’s issue of a fashion magazine from the Near Shore.

The ad itself is a glamour shot of Hibiki. Supposedly, wearing this cologne makes you this irresistible. Or as close as mere mortals can ever come.

True romance and amore are discrete categories, you see. ]
trustheart: (061)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-05-10 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
... Uh... huh.

[Dangit, she didn't take the bait. Nevertheless, Chris takes the magazine and looks it over for a minute.]

This is all well and good, but... won't they forget you once you're off the stage or your music isn't playing or they're turning the page or whatever? That's kind of what happens to us down there.
priforprince: (smuggest)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-11 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
My charms aren’t so easily set aside.

[ There is almost a grimace here as she considers the whole.....issue......of interacting with mortals. But never let it be said Shikyoin Hibiki can be conquered! Not by invisibility, by a scrap-heap puniverse, nothing! When her attempts at honest payment fall flat, SHE DONS A MANTLE AND PLUNDERS WHAT SHE WANTS! This is what is called “genius!” ]

Though this puniverse boorishly prevents bathing in my presence to their hearts’ content, the flame of worship, once kindled, is unquenchable.
trustheart: (264)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-05-14 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Chris purses her lips. She suddenly doesn't want to banter with Hibiki... she seems off course, and it'd feel mean doing it.]

If you're sure, I guess. I just, uh... don't want you setting yourself up for disappointment again, alright? If it doesn't work out, you'll be fine, right?
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[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-14 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Such concern is unwarranted.

[ Tea shows up, because of course it does. Hibiki sips.

She certainly seems to have completely reinflated from her last great disappointment, if that reassures. ]
trustheart: (084)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-05-17 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
... Alright. But you can't blame me for being concerned, can you?

[That's as close as you're ever going to get to her admitting you're her friend, Hibiki.]
priforprince: (brag)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-21 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I don’t bother with wondering how the likes of you spend your time.

[ So, be assuaged! Shikyoin Hibiki does not blame you - for that would involve your personality being worthy of her contemplation!

What an immense relief! ]
trustheart: (070)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-05-25 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chris has to actively bite her tongue here. Ohhhh the face she makes. It could curdle milk.]

Yeah, yeah. Just accept that people care about you, geez.
priforprince: (tilt)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-26 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph. [ How fortunate, then, that Hibiki takes her beverage of choice undoctored.

She does, however, decide now is optimal timing to segue back onto a topic where she possesses the upper hand. ]


Of course, I’m counting on you, as well.
trustheart: (012)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-05-30 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Chris paused and tilted her head to the side.]

Huh? Counting on me for what?
priforprince: (emblem)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-05-31 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to disappoint.

[ SMUG TEA DRINKING ]
trustheart: (295)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-06 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
... Heh.

[Chris folds her arms, looking smug.]

I've already got that well in hand.
priforprince: (bangflip)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-06-06 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You’ll leave all such assessments to me.

[ SMUG TEA LOWERING ]

Well, compared to CelePara Talent Agency, all songs are like snowflakes melting in a warm spring wind.
trustheart: (031)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-13 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Chris doesn't let this affect her.]

Yeah, well, one of your members thinks I'm improving more and more each day. And where I come from, she's the biggest star in the world.
Edited 2019-06-13 00:36 (UTC)
priforprince: (lothario)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-06-13 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I’m intimately acquainted with the Queen’s talents.

[ A less clever person wouldn’t lilt the word “intimately” in such self-satisfaction.

How pleasant, to not be a less clever person! ]
trustheart: (233)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-14 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Somehow, the word "intimately" in regards to Tsubasa makes Chris briefly puff up like an angry cat.]

Not as much as I am, I bet. I've harmonized with her in battle, you know. You can't get closer to understanding someone than that.
priforprince: (1!)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-06-14 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Then, how will you prove your case?

[ She’s waiting. Best have a reply! ]
trustheart: (084)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-24 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll have to wait for our next battle, then. Or maybe senpai and I'll decide to do a show together.

[Chris paused for a moment.]

Or maybe... maybe I'd like to ask you to give me a chance. Through your talent agency.
Edited 2019-06-24 23:53 (UTC)
priforprince: (chili)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-06-25 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Now that is a surprise. Hibiki’d had her pinned as rival material, but now.... ]

You? Join CelePara?

[ Give her a moment to assess the likelihood of this yielding higher radiance than the alternative, and of Chris’s worthiness of the honor. Or keep making your case. Your call. ]
trustheart: (015)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-29 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I said, isn't it?

[She huffed.]

Why do you sound so surprised? You know I love music. It's time I started trying to take what I want out of life than be dragged kicking and screaming into it.
priforprince: (throne)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-06-30 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
And you believe the path to brilliance can only be found by my side.

[ This is immensely understandable logic (or a willful misinterpretation to deliberately be a pain, take your pick). Hibiki nods, comprehending. Back in PriPara, the number of performers per show is limited. But here - here, where exceptional ability is so rare, she can’t risk squandering any if she’s to achieve her goal....

This is all, of course, a rationalization. Shikyoin Hibiki does what Shikyoin Hibiki wants. This alone is a primmutable, puniversal law. ]


Very well. I’ll craft you a customized audition. Should you succeed at coming within a stone’s throw of impressing me, I’ll consider your request.

[ A grin: bring it on. ] Is that satisfactory, Yukine Chris?
trustheart: (166)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-30 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
If that's what you want to tell yourself. I'm just taking an opportunity that's in front of me.

[She crossed her arms.]

Anything you throw at me, I can handle. Bring it on.
priforprince: (master)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-06-30 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I’ll issue an invitation very soon. Accepting it is best.

[ What neither of them know: Hibiki is about to get distracted by being asked to run a training. But, no matter.

Chris’s audition shall be all the more spectacular for the wait! ]