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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!
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Pouting)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2019-05-26 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[RUDE. Ginia frowns and clutches a hand to her heart, staggering dramatically as she pouts.]

That's it, I quit this kids' anime show. I'm moving to a shounen show where I can have a good heroic sacrifice.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2019-05-30 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Chris just raises her nose into the air, snootily, as she crosses her arms.]

You act as if those shounen shows don't have stuff like that one karate monkey alien telling kids to obey their parents and stuff. Also, you're a girl, stupid shounen series never let them do anything important.

That's why magical girls and seinen are better.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Your funeral)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2019-05-30 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Correction. I'm older so it means I get to be a revered figure in canon. Ex-mentor, leader of another squad that usually isn't in focus, assistant to a leader. I'm allowed a scene or two before I'm killed off or side-lined for the main characters half my age.

[Hey, she knows how it goes. Some characters are simply too cool for the series they exist in.]

I'm with you on magical girls and seinen though. But I might be too old to be a magical girl. I think I'd be a teacher? Villain that has a redemption arc? [Ginia grins and snaps her fingers before typing away.] Former magical girl that mentors the new ones.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-02 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
It could be like that, or they'll make a bunch of jokes about how you aren't married yet.

... But yeah, I could see some of those.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Don't look at me)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2019-06-02 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Fair point. And it'll likely come with Christmas cake, or whatever the equivalent is , jokes or about how the right man hasn't bested me in combat.

[Beat]

Or woman.

[Beat]

How the right person hasn't bested me in combat.

[A pause lingers as Ginia shrugs.]

Maybe I'll pass on the anime life and stick to this one. It's not so bad.
trustheart: (142)

[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-06 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Because our life is nothing like an anime already.

...

Oh god. I'm becoming this one girl from my school. She compares everything to anime...
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Cute)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2019-06-06 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Ginia pauses, a soft laugh escaping as she realizes something.]

I think Tsubasa mentioned her. I might have commented on how life felt like an anime a few days ago.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-13 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
She's... a character alright. She did this huge performance in cosplay once, and she wrote a song about beef stroganoff.

[Chris shakes her head.]

Still don't know what to think of that.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Amused)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2019-06-13 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't question the performance in cosplay, to be honest.

[As someone who has already performed at a maid cafe and helped with various promotional events in costume, Ginia has no ground for judgment at all.]

Jury is out on the beef stroganoff. Can't say I've ever had it.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-14 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
... It's not bad. Maybe not song worthy, but pretty good all the same.

[Chris has to admit, at least to herself, the song is catchy at least.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Smiling)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2019-06-18 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I need to see if Kimi knows how to cook it. Or find a place on the Near Shore.

[Ginia grins a little.]

If I find a place, want to come along? You can compare it to the stroganoff you've had.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2019-06-24 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
... I won't say no to free food.

[There she goes assuming it's going to be free for her.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Content)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2019-06-25 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even if Chris makes a fair amount from working at Ebisu's temple, Ginia won't pass up an excuse to spoil her god.]

I'll make sure the place has good dessert too.