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Eʀᴡɪɴ Sᴍɪᴛʜ ([personal profile] corps) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2014-03-28 08:01 pm

Luceti Projects Mingle

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!)
generalflirt: (Mac and Devin)

[personal profile] generalflirt 2014-04-04 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Eeesh, and I thought I sounded paranoid.

[ With a wide smirk ]
deathsdoctor: (Neutral | hn think what you want)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2014-04-04 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[A very soft, very wry chuff. There's a moment when the pirate looks very distracted. Thinking about something else.]

It seems to be in the air tonight. Maybe it's catching.
generalflirt: (Haa~ah)

[personal profile] generalflirt 2014-04-04 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Masaomi sighs and folds his arms behind his head. ]

It's a shame, really. I don't even know why it's so off to me, I've been two weeks at the MSF boot camp. Guess they didn't beat the punk out of me.
deathsdoctor: (Neutral and Serious | Pensive)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2014-04-05 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Don't think that's quite enough to beat the punk out of anyone, really.

[Or maybe it is. Who knows. It wouldn't be enough to beat the pirate out of him, though.]

But maybe there's something else other than the militaristicness of this that's bothering you. Could be that's why you can't put your finger on it.
generalflirt: (Where or Why?)

[personal profile] generalflirt 2014-04-06 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, maybe. After all, I am Japanese.

[ He says this with an amused sort of tone. It's truthful, but it's also ironic ]
deathsdoctor: (Neutral | huh... what.. yeah)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2014-04-07 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[And that went right over Law's head.]

Japanese?

[What does that have to do with it? Is it some sort of national/cultural/social thing going on that he's not getting?]
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[personal profile] generalflirt 2014-04-08 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Huh...? Oh. He smiles ] Japan hasn't had an army since the last big war [ unless you count the JSDF which is a defensive force. To the mind of a Japanese person ] - Which is to say, not since my grandfather's time.
deathsdoctor: (Neutral and Serious | Pensive)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2014-04-09 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
That's... a long time. [He's trying to imagine how that works. He's getting since there was a big war, Japan must have been the losing side. Maybe they were asked to give up their army. But that begs the question of just how they can protect themselves. Unless someone does it for them. Like some version of the Marines.] ... so since then organizations based around warfare have been frowned on... right?

[He's thinking back. There was a journal entry from an anonymous person once upon a time asking about why Luceti hadn't formed a military. Haruhi had had some interesting opinions. He wonders how common they are.]
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[personal profile] generalflirt 2014-04-09 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Japan's it's own people and it's own nation, there's no need to be aggressive and invade anyone else. The police and the JSDF can work as a protective force against whatever problems we might have. [ And he sighs, shaking his head as a wry smile comes on his lips. Thinking back to the "gang wars" he grew up around, and how even their actions - hell, even the actions of the Awakusu - completely pale in comparison to anything he's experienced here ]

Nothing like here.
deathsdoctor: (Neutral | Showing my back)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2014-04-15 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
... yes. And even here... well...

[Okay, now he's getting it. Some of the unease that's being generated.]

We've still been for the most part defensive and reactionary, have we not? This isn't that, military or not. ... this is far more... [what word does he want here] ... proactive than anything we've had for a long while.
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[personal profile] generalflirt 2014-04-18 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Hoooh. [ Maybe that is it. He's not even sure himself. ] Yeah, there's truth in that. Who knows though, maybe that's just what is necessary.