Luceti Projects Mingle

[corps]

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

[endgames]

It's chicken.

[He'll offer that eventually, after seeing the girl look at the skewer of yakitori for a few seconds. Or at least it probably is, since that's the most common.]

[petreefied]

Chicken?

[She'll look back at it carefully. Chicken was a reasonable answer, though she had never seen it prepared like this.]

And you can just eat it off of the stick?

[endgames]

Yup. Easier than chopsticks, or a fork. But have you ever had offal?

[petreefied]

Yes, though not as much recently. Meat of any kind is pretty expensive back home, so if that's all we could afford, that's all we ate. Is there some here, too?

[endgames]

[He nods, picking up one of the skewers with fewer chunks of white meat. Spread out between them are other pieces from the chicken - a darker meat that might be live, along with something grilled crisp that smells great.]

Yeah. It's great, though some people aren't keen on it. [Which is why he thought he'd ask her first, so he could recommend something else if it's not something she'd find appealing.]

[petreefied]

It does have a different taste to it. [Cautiously, she picks one of the mixed meat sticks up. Her mouth is watering at the smell, so she'll go ahead and take a bite, chewing on it thoughtfully before swallowing.]

This is good. This is food from your world?

[endgames]

It's a dish there, though not a common one. There's this yakiniku joint we used to go to that had it. They gotta have it in other worlds too, since that guy made it.

[He jerks his thumb to where ever Rin is.]

[petreefied]

[She follows his thumb, recognizing Rin from an earlier conversation.]

Even if we're in such different situations, people still come up with the same dishes, huh?

[endgames]

Luceti makes a good melting pot.