stick with me baby, i'm the guy that you came in with [closed]

[sweetdeath]

Who: Tsuzuki Asato, Jae-Ha, Kija, Gojyo and Ronald Knox
What: Poker night!
When: May 1, evening
Where: Tajimamori's temple
Warnings: Booze, gambling and probably stupid arguments?

[Looks like it's a buffet style dinner! Some of that food over on the sideboard looks like Tsuzuki got it from a supermarket deli and reheated it. The deep-fried sugar-glazed sweet potatoes, on the other hand, are too burned and the sauce too drippy for them to be anything but homemade. And nobody would deliberately sell that gorgonzola spaghetti he's got in the center of the spread.

There's a couple of six-packs of beer in the fridge and a battered flea market poker set in the middle of the kitchen table, and Tsuzuki's hovering by the front door ready to greet his guests. Kija's going to have a fun night out! Tsuzuki'll make sure of it.

And hey, with any luck, the rest of them will have a good time too.]


[ooc; feel free to make top-levels and tag around mingle style! it's a party: go wild.]

Comments

[bighand]

kija no
[Kija has never played poker before! He doesn't even know what poker is!! But Jae-Ha invited him to come out and Have Fun, and he happens to like both fun and Dragon Brethren Jae-Ha, so he thinks this is a perfectly great way to spend the evening.

When he arrives at Tsuzuki's temple, his Big Hand(tm) is mostly wrapped in bandages (but still obviously Big), and he's holding a... convenience store sponge cake?? Literally the moment anyone tries to greet him, he will say the same thing:] This is called a "sponge cake" and I hope you are able to enjoy it!

[He's not nervous why would anyone think that??]


wow
[Other things Kija is doing at this party at almost any given time:

a) being terrible at poker and showing everyone his hand to ask what he should do,
b) trying to discuss the finer points of batteries,
c) drinking something alcoholic when Jae-Ha is too distracted to stop him and near-immediately putting his head down on the table, tipsy as hell

FUN STUFF]

[razzledazzles]

[A lot has been happening lately, but he's gotten most of it out of his system earlier in the day. He's at least ready to focus on keeping Kija cheered up! He's even dressed for the occasion, wearing more modern clothing with pants and shoes that still cover his legs. He's made for social situations like this, so it's easy to get right into the mood. Poker was something he hadn't learned until recently, but with Hazel as his teacher he's learned just enough to know how to win with some effort, and he's always been great with bluffs. So, maybe he'll play it off like he doesn't know at all from the start.

He'll introduce Kija to everyone he knows, introduce himself and Kija to the man he hasn't met, and jumps right into things! At various times during this little hang out, Jae-Ha can be found:

a. quietly trying to slip some of Tsuzuki's burnt gross foods in the trash.
b. pretending he doesn't know much about poker but still probably winning quite a few hands and being irritatingly calm and cheery about it.
c. excitedly mentioning things he's read about on the internet, like bladeless fans. very exciting.

Unlike his poor dragon friend over there, he's going to keep drinking nonstop and never seem even a bit tipsy. But well, if his antics aren't enough for conversation, perhaps him leaning into your space and slinging an arm around your shoulder will be.]

Would you like to play a little side game?

[erogappa]

[ Oh, he's been here before. This is the place with the weird-ass talking cats, isn't it? Thankfully there aren't any to be seen when Gojyo appears in the front yard, a very large box of clanking bottles in his arms. Talking cats are just too strange. ]

Oi, hope you didn't start without me! [ --he hollers, letting himself in and following his nose (is that burned sugar?) toward the rest of the party. ] Somebody come give me a hand with all this wine!