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

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[Friends, but different. That Ginia can pick up and he wonders if it has anything to do with the conversation they had by the river. But there are times to push and times to pull and now isn't the time or place for either. So he'll get her silent understanding.]

Do me a quick favor? I haven't been able to get away from the bar yet. Mind grabbing me some fruit kabobs?

[generalflirt]

Oh, sure. [ He snaps out of his reverie, and nods ] Any other requests?

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

Some cookies too? Any kind will do. Thank you.

[generalflirt]

You got it, Ginia-san.

[ He said this with one more glance-over, and leaving his drink there he heads over to the food. He probably shouldn't be leaving the drink there but he didn't even think of that oops. But he mock-salutes before heading on over. He'll be back with the goods ( a small plate of cookies and some fruit kabobs ) within a minute or three ]

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[No worries. Ginia moves his drink behind the counter where it'll be safe, returning it once he's back. She accepts the plate with a wave and she takes a few steps back to wolf down a fruit kabob. Standing on her feet all day, serving drinks, listening in on conversations, observing people, it's hard work.

She gives Masaomi a thumbs up as she starts on a second kabob.]

[generalflirt]

[ He gives a thumbs up back, but after reclaiming his drink he looks at her with a curious expression because he has realized something - she can't respond while she's eating, at least not in this setting. Their stint at the bar had allowed for it, but that was a different set of circumstances. How odd ]

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[It'd be different if he could sign, but that's a different matter. Though once Ginia finishes off the second skewer, she sets the plate aside somewhere safe and wipes off her hands and returns.]

Thanks, I needed a snack. It's hard getting away being the only bartender.

[generalflirt]

[ And he needs to lean in to see it, and nods all the same ] Yeah, I imagine so. Probably should have recruited one or two more.

[ And hr shrugs a little at that, taking a sip of his drink, pausing, and then taking a sniff of it ]

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

Maybe, but it doesn't seem like there are too many bartenders in the village.

[Granted, anyone can serve drinks with a bit of practice, but it's another thing to mix drinks and having a full catalog of drinks off the top of her head. She has her points of arrogance and pride and bartending is one of them.]

[generalflirt]

Yeah, only a few of them at Good Spirits, like that redhead and Norma-chan.

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

I saw a call for help at Good Spirits. I'd offer, but it's bad form bartending at two places. I hope they got more people helping out. I admit I haven't been back there in awhile.

[generalflirt]

They lost Buffy-san a while ago... So I can see where they would be shorthanded. She was the best known of them all anyway, if you ask me.

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[Buffy... Buffy... the name sounds familiar and her fingers tap against her phone as she tries to remember why she knows it.]

She's mentioned in the guide. Defeated the General, right?

[generalflirt]

Ehehe, yeah, that's her.

[ He waves a hand a little, smiling as he takes a long sip from his drink ] Unassuming woman who was probably, oh... maybe eight or so years older than me. But she's apparently really strong despite being social and a bit of a busybody. Go figure.

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

I would have liked to meet her. She sounded like an interesting person.

[generalflirt]

Eeeh, maybe little. I didn't know her well.

[ With a shrug. Hell, he actually just got chewed out from her, so.. ]