[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

[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.

[good_ideas]

We're not talking about them. It's about you. [And how no one wants to give him giant muscles.]

You and the fact that when you lift one of those bookshelves, you're not allowed to drop a single book or else we'll fine you.

[holycurse]

[Is she that into muscles...he looks down at himself. It's not like he lacks muscles, he's just the lean type? And he's been well-fed since he came to Chroma so really he'd like to think he looks okay--

Then again you can't exactly see anything with him being fully dressed, and he isn't exactly planning on stripping. Just gonna mentally shrug there.]

That would probably make for quite a lucrative performance, if there were any sort of venue to perform it on...or anything to earn out of it.....regardless, I'll try my best. [And maybe he can think of a way to do something similar when he leaves this place! A new mantou-winning strategy.]

[good_ideas]

[.....she does appreciate muscles, especially when it's just the right amount. Mostly though what she appreciates is a good joke and she's definitely enjoying herself by teasing him right now.]

Well, it's not like you can perform it in the library... what about if we just stole-... I mean, borrowed a bookshelf? Or made one out of solid steel and then filled it with rocks!

[.....Is that even a bookshelf anymore??]

[holycurse]

[That...doesn't sound like a bookshelf.....]

Er, while I realize the shelves may not necessarily belong to anyone in particular, stealing them still wouldn't be particularly appropriate...and I'm not sure how you'd go about building a steel bookshelf to begin with, in this place.

[If you can even call that a bookshelf???]

[good_ideas]

[Wow rude it's totally a bookshelf?]

It's not stealing if they don't belong to anyone. If anything, we're just moving the furniture. It's practically recycling. And I don't know about the steel one either, but maybe one of us could wish as hard as we can to get one.