Event Log: A Hope for the Future

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Hope for the Future event
Where: All over the city!
When: April 15th-April 19th
Warnings: Stealth Rock

It's finally time to reap the rewards you've earned from all that hard work collecting and returning the Hope orbs! Be careful walking the streets during the small earthquakes, but feel free to admire the scenery as your beautiful city reassembles its way back into its former glory.

There are new houses where the destroyed buildings once were, and they're perfect for a single person or pair of lovebirds. In addition, you'll find that the electricity to these new houses, and all other homes and shops in the city is restored. The food is better, the monsters are gone- hey, this city might be livable again!

To cap it all off, we've got a feast waiting for you on the 19th! Come one, come all, and enjoy all of your favorite foods, drinks, and party games. It's been awhile since we've all gotten together to celebrate something good, so get your party on and toss all your troubles away!

► This log covers April 14th-April 19th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
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► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you get hit by levitating rubble or eat a food that wasn't meant for you, please let us know here.

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[evocation]

Worse. I'm only horrible because you're too tall, and I'm not using magic to cheat.

[But whatever! She gives up and grabs her plate of sushi again.]

Have you ever tried sushi?

[hardwearing]

[ Is she really giving up? He seems wary for a moment longer, before dropping his straw back into his beer and shaking his head at the question. ]

I haven't.

[swiftlet]

"Can you?" Such bravado, Seel, like Swift didn't already know it was. Still, he gave Seel a mischievous grin right back and leaned over to kiss his cheek. He was still trying to be gentle, but now he didn't even know if that's what Seel wanted. Or needed.

"It'll have to be good to make up for it. Do you really think you can?"

akira kurusu | ota

[jocoeur]

CURRYING FAVOUR.

( seeing all that delicious food laid out just for them? this is more than akira could have hoped for. things had been bleak the last few weeks but this... was nearly doing the job of lifting his spirits and when he laid eyes on that large simmering pot of curry... there was a slightly dis-believing— ) Uwa...?

( to mark his surprise. he can't help but approach it, leaning in... glasses fogging up in the process as he hovered over it. ) Could this really be...?

COFFEE N' COFFEE.

( when it came to the beverage table... he could smell it before he could see it. maybe it was the help of his third eye, detecting prize items even in the most hidden locations...! only, this isn't hidden at all. it's laid out, almost perfectly drip-brewed... and he's already poured himself a cup.

hugging it in his hands, he takes a big, long whiff, and closes his eyes. it's almost... like he can picture leblanc. but it couldn't possibly taste the same, right? so he takes a sip, he has to know! he has to make sure... and... )

It's... good.

WILDCARD!

( akira is available on any other day for your wildcard needs! other than admiring the re-buildings and avoiding earthquakes, he's quite the mingler at the feast in general come the 19th. )

[uptightness]

No, I haven't.

[Although she also hadn't gone looking for it either. Assuming that she actually had one, she isn't certain that she wants to see what it actually has. Nor is she certain that she actually wants to eat what would be there. No one seems to be keeling over or foaming at the mouth, but accepting hand-outs from strangers really isn't on her list of acceptable things.]

Have you had one?

[Which does come out a little more paranoid sounding than she means it to. Her team knows her quirks, her issues, and to varying degrees, what she has been through. Not that she shares everything, although they might hear her at night, moving around.

Yet she does reach out, taking one of the cookies and giving it a careful look over.]

[fadeling]

Cole listens--he's good at that--in silence, unmoving. Supernaturally still, even. He can hear the hurt in it, but it's a good memory too, hard to untangle. People are too complicated, sometimes. He only has to be one thing.

"She loved you."

[evocation]

[She offers him the plate.]

Try it. Wait, pick it up with the straws, though.

[braveoff]

[ Come on, Carolina, it's safe. Everybody's fine, see? Drake doesn't give her a hard time, though, just smiles gently and waits for her to take a cookie before setting the plate back down. Feel special he shared, he's probably never getting these again. ]

Yeah, I did. Tastes like home.

[ He hesitates a little, smile faltering as he realizes she most likely doesn't know that. Maybe she does? It's not like he knows how much they've talked amongst themselves about people here. About him. ]

Did Tucker tell you....?

[ ...actually, this probably isn't the best time. ]

[hardwearing]

[ What. ]

With the... that's not going to work.

[ He kinda knows how to use chopsticks but has absolutely no practice with it, and straws are a little bendy.... ]

[evocation]

Come on, just try.

[It'll be fun, Wash!]

[hardwearing]

[ He is a buzzkill, hasn't Tucker told you so? ]

Can't we just skip the failure part to me picking it up with my hands?

[evocation]

[Kyna laughs, rolling her eyes.]

Oh my God. Give me the straws.

[hardwearing]

[ Leave his straws alone!!! ]

You already have chopsticks, why do you need to contaminate my straws with raw fish?

[evocation]

You're so lame, Wash.

i was going to make that curry pun if you hadn't--

[proselytise]

No, it's just an illusion.

[ Here he is, it's absolutely nobody's best friend, Charles Eyler!

...which Akira might or might not be able to tell, considering the fact that his glasses are all fogged up. ]

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[abyssalarcana]

So is that why you're so useless, then? You just sit and wait for things to happen to you? That's remarkably pathetic, even for a human, and they tend to be pathetic.

[Surely he must want something in life. Otherwise he's just a waste of space. Free blood should she ever need it for a ritual, maybe. Should chain him up somewhere and he can enjoy living out his life in the misery he apparently expects.]

party

[jocoeur]

Ah—! ( it's a good thing that akira is as agile as he is, and it's those quick reflexes of his that avoid a potato-salad on the floor disaster. managing to catch the bowl in one hand, he's in a bit of an awkward position, eyebrows raised up as he looks at komaeda. )

Some more of that good luck, I take it?

[abyssalarcana]

Oh, I see. Well, I don't mind spicy, there was someone earlier -

[Caedra looks around to see if Rita is within pointing view, but no.]

Well. Someone who had... I can't remember what she called it. Really hot stuff, burns up in your nose. That was fun to try. Beef, though, I'll pass I think. Never been my preference.

[proselytise]

I was speaking in a more general sense, though I appreciate your concern.

[ Although there was only so much he could do in the House. ]

19th

[jocoeur]

( ah, there he is. akira is almost unwilling to disturb ignis at first, noting that he seems to be enjoying whatever steaming beverage of choice he managed to get his hands on. it reminds him of some of the regulars at leblanc... and a pang of nostalgia resounds somewhere within him.

finally, after what was probably an appropriate time for the brew to have worked some of its magic, he leans in from behind, smiling pleasantly. )

Looks downright enjoyable, just from your expression.

[proselytise]

Reassuring or true, you can only have one.

[ ...though that might depend on who you ask. ]

im so glad.......

[jocoeur]

Ah—?

( as akira looks up, it's over his rims thanks to that delicious smelling steam. and he smirks. )

It's the best smelling illusion to reach my nostrils in awhile, in that case.

[so_dark_a_road]

That's the point of childish insults and mockery. They get results. He smiles again when she sets her utensils down -- nice, he's made her think of attacking.

And no, he can't be targeted as she wishes. "Elves and evil fays" cannot, not in his world and apparently not in hers. Their spirits are too strong to be so trapped. And it would certainly not be easy to remove Curufin's head, much less keep it for a trophy!

The temptation to keep pushing her is almost overwhelming, but he pauses to answer her question, for it is very pertinent to the situation.

"The sewing shop lady has a name -- she is not just demon fodder. She is Lady Margaery Tyrell, and she is dear to me and to my family. We regard her as we would a sister. Yes, she's resurrected, but why do you speak of death as a minor inconvenience? Did you find it so, yourself?"

Because he's fairly sure his brothers slew Caedra when they found her.

[abyssalarcana]

I was too until you decided to defend such a miserable point of view as "easier". Only someone who thinks that way would act like it's a good thing.

[She's never even seen this kid show any sign of emotion other than grim acceptance and what might also just be general boredom. What would it take to make him actually angry? Not that it's even worth trying, probably unless she herself becomes that desperate for entertainment and that's hard to picture.]

i'll just have to curry-ate a better joke then. ...no, that was bad

[proselytise]

[ It looks pretty good too, he'd have to admit. ]

But not the first one, I take it?