lucetilogs | 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!)

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[After the upheaval of the past few weeks, it's almost a relief to deal with something as mundane as flirting. Her eyebrows raise a bit, but the faint smile never leaves her lips.]

Uh huh. Enjoying yourself?

Oh, but of course! If I'm in a room with a woman as pretty as you, I'm pretty sure the surface of the sun might be considered cool by comparison!

[ That might have been two mixed metaphors. Oops ]

[She chuckles]

I've never heard it put that way before. Luckily, no one's combusted by walking past me today.

True! It would be a shame if I were to simply light up, even if I do feel a fire in me!

Yeah, it's not that kind of party. It'd probably put a damper on things.

So are you part of the organization or are you just here for the food?

Eeeeh, I wasn't here for either! I was here so that I might meet you.

[ No, he's with the organization. But he's playing dumb for a joke, and he lets the joke sit there, waiting for the blush or the laugh because clearly that was Amazingly Funny. In Masaomiland ]

[Yoruichi doesn't blush or laugh, but she does look amused, lifting her eyebrow as she speaks.]

Did you, now? Who knew I was the bigger draw?

[She does chuckle then]

I'm Yoruichi.

I know, it's such a twist. [ And he theatrically puts a hand on his heart to confirm: ] Masaomi Kida.

So now that we've met, I hope the rest of the event doesn't disappoint you too much.

[She likes you, kid; the theatrics remind her a bit of friends from home, Urahara especially.]

Not that I've gotten past the food yet. Do you know what's going on outside?

If you mean outside the building, there's a set up for people to spar. Probably standard for a function at the barracks. If you mean outside the food, that's going to be a bit more of an elaborate answer... but also a boring one, or I'd be giving it to you in order to spend more time right here.

Outside the building, yeah. I've got a pretty good idea of the rest.

[She snickers]

Good call. You only meet someone once, so you better make it count.

[Yoruichi's not nice enough to stick around if someone's boring her to tears. She does make a note about the sparring though, deciding to head out there later to get a peek at what her fellow inhabitants are capable of.]

Then yeah, sparring, weapon racks. We're a military minded people it seems, which explains a lot. [ He sighs dramatically. ] Personally, I've always been more a lover than a fighter.

[ If that's true or not is debatable. He's got on a relatively baggy hoodie which obscures it but he has trained long and hard and been a street punk fighter since he was thirteen and in the time he's been in Luceti pushed himself harder still to be able to keep up in the drafts that they send people in on. Either way, he presses on, ]

Still, going by the smell, there's also a bonfire out there, so maybe there'll be stories and dances, later.

[She snorts.]

They do seem to favor bringing people here who have experience fighting, don't they?

[Yoruichi has been fighting for longer than most humans have been alive, and in fact, had just come to the end of a war in her home. Unlike Masaomi, her clothes don't hide much of anything, and anyone observant would notice the toned muscles of someone in excellent physical condition--Yoruichi's not here to help run ocmmunity projects.]

[Still, she's not...especially happy to have been dragged into someone else's fight, but she's adjusting as best she can.]

I'm not much of a bonfire person, but I may have to check it out. It'd be interesting to hear stories from other worlds.

You'd think that, but I suspect it's simply that those sorts of folks stand out more, actually! Particularly when it comes to a gathering like this.

[ He says this a little sheepishly. Bt there is a bit of a bitterness to this. Namely, a bit of frustration about how this was proposed and about how some previous drafts have gone ]

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