Luceti Projects Mingle

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Who: Anyone and everyone interested in Luceti Projects.
What: Luceti Projects meet-and-greet!
When: Backdated to the 22nd. Begins at noon, lasts all day.
Where: The barracks.
Summary: A few LP members have organized a get-together at the barracks for those with an interest in Luceti Projects to talk, eat, and relax while socializing.
Rating: PG

[ Quite a bit of thought and elbow grease has been put into preparing the barracks for this event. A banner is tacked across above the entrance that reads, "Welcome to Luceti Projects Opening Celebration!" in green paint. It's not exactly the sort of arts and craft masterpiece it could have been had they enlisted the help of one of the kids (such as Ikki), but it's better than nothing.

Just before entering the main festivities is a table with a sign-up sheet, manned by different members of Luceti Projects on a rotating basis, to answer questions or encourage sign-up.

Through the open doors of the barracks' largest hall, long wooden farmstyle tables have been set in rows to encourage mingling, placed adjacent to tables filled with food and drink that hug the walls. A wide range of different appetizers, snacks, and larger entrees have been set out for attendees, with plenty of plates, utensils, cups, and napkins. As a way to encourage more cultural exchange, the cuisine, catered by Okumura Rin, includes a little from different worlds -- cheese and crackers; sushi and yakitori; pasta and roast chicken; salads and other vegetable dishes, including a vegetable and potato stew, heavily featuring corn. A few sweets, such as cookies and a few cakes, sit alongside the savory dishes, next to which sits a very large bowl of non-alcoholic fruit punch (courtesy of Ms. Ginia). There is plenty of water, soft drinks, teas and coffee, and milk.

For those interested in trying out a more communal dish, placed about every five feet of table is a hot pot, specifically for sukiyaki, inside which vegetables, mushrooms, tofu, thin-sliced beef slowly simmer in a delicate broth of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. Under these simmering ingredients is a base of udon and shirataki noodles to soak up the broth. Small bowls, utensils, and condiments such as soy sauce and eggs for the sauce, sit alongside each pot to encourage communal sharing.

On the other side of the hall is a wet bar (wo)manned by Ginia, with plenty of booze and an alcoholic variety of punch. Coolers filled with beer sit on the floor behind the wet bar. Martinis and other mixed drinks will be served in biodegradable plastic cups.

The smell of charcoal and wood burning wafts through the open back doors, from the glow of a respectably sized bonfire built behind the building, alongside which a long table is set, its surface filled with an assortment of graham crackers, chocolate, marshmallows, large sausages, kabobs with different meats and vegetables, and skewers for roasting.

A few yards away are the outdoor training grounds where a rather large array of weapons, both lethal and non-lethal of the wooden variety, have been set out for anyone who would like to spar. Some dried-out logs have been repurposed into a spectator area. The only rules posted: no use of magic or anything else that could critically harm opponents or spectators. No guns, except in the target practice area. Absolutely no killing. ]


(OOC: Assume that your character will be served drinks by Ginia at the bar, so use the bar area to mingle with whomever else, unless you’d like a thread. If your character would like to man the sign-up area, feel free to just drop them in on anyone. If they don’t know how to answer a question, just have them direct anything to either Erwin or Kakashi. Most importantly, have fun!!

Also, if your character hasn't voted about the LP leadership structure, the poll is still open over here! Even if they don't want to make a comment on the post itself, they can definitely still vote!)

Comments

Bonfire

[tea_lover64]

[Iroh quietly sits beside Saleh as he meditates by the fire. It was something he was quite accustomed to, and that sort of meditation happened all the time in his home land. He takes a small breath in and out, the fire rising and falling as he does so]

[mountain_sage]

[Saleh feels the heat from the fire, and he sees the brief brightening, which momentarily breaks his meditation. He glances over at Iroh...curious. Then again, the elder man was very well acquainted with fire, to say the least.]

...Is that you?

[tea_lover64]

Yes, it is.

[Fire benders effected fire quite naturally all the time]

[mountain_sage]

I see. It's as though the fire responds to your mere presence. Interesting...

Have they made it to their B conversation or are they at C?

[tea_lover64]

Well that would be why they call us fire benders you know.

[He grins at that]

I think C? IDEK

[mountain_sage]

[Fire benders. Apparently there is more to this "bending" than simply utilizing the elements.]

So is fire like...a part of you then?

[tea_lover64]

Fire is part of everyone. Fire is life.

[mountain_sage]

Hmm...that is true.

Then could you explain exactly what "bending" is? I am still under the impression that it is different from the magic I study.

Oh zen talk

[tea_lover64]

Well bending is the manipulation of the elements through the martial arts. It is something which you are born with, and need to develop over time. You must realize the connection that exists in order for that connection to exist.

[mountain_sage]

[...It sounds somewhat similar to his own discipline, but with one major difference.]

Martial arts...is that like physical combat?

[tea_lover64]

Yes, precisely.

[mountain_sage]

I see. We don't quite have a discipline like that where I'm from. In Magvel, people fight either strictly with weapons, or with magic.

[tea_lover64]

Yes, it is necessary to be able to do the necessary motions for the bending to work.

[mountain_sage]

Hmm. The same could be said of our magic. It takes careful studying to correctly decipher the chant in order to tap into it.

[tea_lover64]

Well, as with many things in life, proper form and practice are important to get the results you wish to achieve.

[mountain_sage]

That would be a good thing. It would reduce the chance of such things being used carelessly.

[tea_lover64]

Yes, fire bending requires even more control than other elements, it can easily rage and consume a great amount with hardly more than a flame in the wrong place.