[open] It's a (very belated) birthday log!

[queenofminiskirts]

WHO: Kaoru, Shiho and friends
WHERE: Town hall
WHEN: Last week of February
WHAT: It's Shiho's birthday
WARNINGS: None probably.

I: Food!

[What is a party without food? Kaoru can't cook but she happens to know people who can! There's even a cake! She may have borrowed a table from another house for the purpose of keeping the food.

Though, oddly enough, there's also a small card (all of them different colour and sizes, some of them looked like they'd been gently folded then ripped along the fold) beside each dish with a number on it. There's also a list (all handwritten in pink), with the same numbers all listed on one side and lines beside it like something you should fill out.

On the top it says: Guess Who Made This Dish!

Are you here to play or are you just here to eat?]


II: Games!

[There is a hastily written sign on one side that says: NO DANCING.

But every party needs entertainment so beside there is a sign with game suggestions like: Truth or Dare, Never Have I Ever...or maybe you'd like to take your list from the food table and see if you got more correct than the person beside you!]

Comments

[holycurse]

Should I mind? I can understand if you don't wish to take a turn, though...

[???]

[good_ideas]

You need to care about your own safety more. [Shiho what were you going to make him do]

That's what dares are for, you know? Making people do humiliating things their reputations will never recover from.

[holycurse]

It's a good thing I don't have any reputation to recover then! [Ahahahaha.]

So demand whatever you like, and I'll do my best to fulfill it! It's your birthday, after all.

[good_ideas]

[Xie Lian........]

Whatever I like, huh? That's almost too much freedom, you know? So if I set some hoops on fire and asked you to jump through them, you'd do it? What if I said I wanted you to break into people's houses and steal things?

[Neither of these things are acceptable dares, Shiho.]

[holycurse]

--Ah, well...I'd be happy to do the first, at least! Stealing might be a little difficult though.......

[Scratching his cheek awkwardly, as if she'd just suggested he go act out Lady Godiva or something. He might've been willing to steal under different circumstances? Not gonna say that out loud, though.]

[good_ideas]

...You really don't take care of yourself well at all, huh. [Which is very worrying, Xie Lian.]

Why exactly is it difficult though?

[holycurse]

It's fine, I'm quite sturdy. [that's not the point]

Well firstly, it's wrong to steal, as I'm sure you know. Secondly, this is a rather small town, isn't it? And we've yet to find a viable way out of it. So if I were to steal something here, it's highly likely the culprit would be discovered sooner rather than later, and I would be unable to avoid the consequences of that.....so I'd rather not risk what little luck I may have, if that's alright with you.

[good_ideas]

[But is it still wrong if she just calls it "prolonged borrowing"?

(Yes, it probably still is.)]

I'm not going to make you take any actual risks or put you in any danger, you know. Besides, it's not like there's anything we can steal here. [Since things generally are either freely shared or have sentimental value and she doesn't want to steal either of them.]

[holycurse]

[So the jumping through flaming hoops wasn't an actual option then?]

I suppose you're right on that point...this town does seem rather poor, large though it is. [Though the town itself is foreign enough he'd consider a lot of things collectable regardless...oh well.]

Well, I suppose I could pick truth instead, for a change. Do you have anything you'd like to ask?

[good_ideas]

[Where is she getting all these hoops, Xie Lian...]

We're rich in experience then. [Or something like that.]

And I've never had to ask about that sort of thing. How about... [Something that doesn't have to do with the city she'd found in his heart. That seemed like a potentially touchy subject...]

...Your most embarrassing memory, then. What is the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?

[holycurse]

[You could probably make hoops from old barrels or something...]

The most embarrassing thing I've done....that's a tough one. [Thinking!!

Everything he does with Wei Wuxian is pretty embarrassing.

......] I overindulged in wine once, years ago...I'm told I caused quite a lot of trouble then, too.

[good_ideas]

[Has he done a lot of embarrassing things...? Xie Lian...]

It's always wine, isn't it? [You'd think people would have learned at this point.]

Did they tell you what you did? Or was it so bad that they changed the subject?

[holycurse]

It was only ever the once, I promise.

[Unless Wuxian spiking the porridge that one time counts? Maybe that counts.

Gods are allowed to keep secrets.]

Well, it was a long time ago, but if I remember right it was mostly things like destroying street stalls and attacking people.

[good_ideas]

It better have only been the once. You're a god or something. [You need to be a good role model, Xie Lian.]

You're actually kind of violent deep inside, huh. [She remembers what you did to that puppet!]

[holycurse]

Ahaha....well, I'm a martial god, after all! Fighting is my job, you could say.

[Just look at this muscle arm! It's skinny but !!!]

[good_ideas]

Is that supposed to be impressive?

[It takes more than a muscle arm, Xie Lian!]

[holycurse]

...I'm stronger than I look?

[it takes a whole muscle body, is that what you mean]

[good_ideas]

That's what everyone says. I can say it too, you know? I'm stronger than I look! [But she has a gun in her pocket.]

[holycurse]

Er, does everyone say that? I'm not quite sure what you think would make a martial god impressive though, besides strength--ah, though other martial gods are more impressive than me regardless. [He saw a gun once....it was loud.]

[good_ideas]

Hm... tons of muscles? And maybe you could be six feet tall with a really angry expression? [...She's definitely imagining someone else as she says this.]

But I guess you'll do if you can pick up a house or something.

[holycurse]

I've certainly seen depictions like that before...though never of me, I'm afraid. [He maaaay be thinking of Feng Xin...]

And a house might be a little too large even for me. My arms are only so wide, after all. [The width might not necessarily be the problem here.]

[good_ideas]

What, don't gods get publicists? [He deserves his giant muscular depictions of himself too, okay!]

And I'd also accept it if you could only lift a tiny, light little corner of a house.

[holycurse]

Publicists? Ah, well my believers are long gone by now, but a good number of them were there more for beauty than for muscles, if I remember right.

How about something that isn't embedded in the ground? Like furniture, maybe.

[good_ideas]

That's not what a publicist does. And what's with all this discrimination against muscles, huh? [Muscles can be beautiful too!!]

Though I guess if you managed to lift an entire bookshelf in the library that could be pretty impressive.

[holycurse]

There are plenty of other gods with well-defined depictions, I assure you. [He just got advertised as the prettyboy type, is all.]

A bookshelf shouldn't be too difficult! Aside from the chance of books falling out of it.