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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► If you get hit by levitating rubble or eat a food that wasn't meant for you, please let us know here.

Comments

Seto Kaiba | Feast | OTA

[allthecards]

[Seto was not a party person. If it had just been him he'd be stubborn enough to skip the food just to avoid everyone. But it wasn't just him, and there was no way he was going to deny Mokuba this treat or let him go by himself. So here he was at the party eyeing the food with suspicion.

He sighs and puts on his business function face. That was the only way he'd survive being around this many people. He'd suffered through enough business parties before, he could do it again. After all, if he was stuck here for the foreseeable future he would need allies.

He forced himself to remain away from the wall like he would have preferred. He's just standing there eating his bite-sized pieces of steak, and using them as an excuse to not have to start a conversation.]

[blueeyesbond]

[Mokuba is ecstatic at seeing all of the food here after having to scavenge for things for a while. He will happily put together a full plate to dig into but he may have dessert first because once he sees they have chocolate parfaits... Yeah, he's definitely setting his plate aside and grabbing at least two of them.

Mokuba comes practically bounding up to Seto, one parfait in the crook of his arm while holding one in his hand and his plate in the other, utensils dangling precariously on the plate due to how full it is with a fork about to take a swan dive soon if he's not careful.] Niisama, look what they have!

[allthecards]

[This was why Seto had agreed to come. He could put up with a few hours of being uncomfortable if it made Mokuba this happy. He took grabbed one of the parfaits and the fork off his plate before either could fall to the ground. He didn't comment about starting with dessert, why wouldn't that be okay?]

I'm sure it will still be there if you take less at a time.

[blueeyesbond]

Better safe than sorry! Do you want one? I can go get one for you. [He starts setting the extra items around him so he can dig into one of the parfaits first. One for before and one for after!]

[allthecards]

[Sets the parfait he took and utensils down next to all of Mokuba's other food. If they weren't in public he would have been smiling.]

No, I have everything that I want.

[He never had much of an appetite, and didn't intend to have more than his single plate.]

Besides, then there'd be one less for you when you decided you need a third.

[blueeyesbond]

Hmmm... [He glances back at the table like he's seriously debating grabbing a third, but... no, he thinks better of it and sits down to eat what he has now.] I wonder how long this stuff is going to last. It'd be great if they could keep it showing up indefinitely.

[allthecards]

[Kaiba recognizes that look. Really kid? Eat at least one of the ones you already have first.]

Hn. The apartment has a refrigerator. There's no reason not to talk as much as you want back.

[How did Mokuba get spoiled? It's a mystery...]

[blueeyesbond]

[Christmas has come early to Hadriel because Mokuba's expression lights up like a Christmas tree.] We're gunna need a box to carry them all. [Omg, he will have like one a day until they run out, he is so happy about this.]

[allthecards]

[Oh no, what has he wrought? He doesn't see any boxes around.]

As much as you can carry. We're not spending all night running back and forth.

[Maybe if he distracts the kid...]

Is there anyone here you recognize? Anyone useful?

[blueeyesbond]

[That sobers him up a little and he looks around.] Uh... [He ends up giving a little shrug instead, trying to be nonchalant about it.] I didn't really get to know anyone very well when I was here before. I talked to Yusuke and Atem the most?

[allthecards]

[He nods accepting the nonchalance and brief information.]

This is an opportunity then. Everyone is gathered. Even if talking to any of these people is most likely a waste of time.

[His posture shifted into how he looked only at corporste dinners or meet and greets. How he hated those. ]

[circumitus]

[While not much of a party person herself, let alone the most social of butterflies, Rey can't say she isn't enjoying this a little. Having been in this damned city for so long, she nearly forgot how amazing it is to finally have some good fucking food.

[And dim sum? Is fucking amazing.

[Unlike Kaiba, however, she doesn't let a full mouth deter her from comment:]

Either someone marinated that cow you're eating in piss, or you don't actually want to be here.

[At least she can string together a coherent sentence with a mouthful of bao this time. Which aren't her only uncouth dinner etiquette on display at the moment, with her elbows on the table and one foot propped up on a separate chair with her other on the floor while she eats. Goddamn barbarian woman.]

[allthecards]

[Kaiba raised an eyebrow at both her comment and her table manners. He could appreciate good sarcasm while in business-mode. He wasn't impressed at all by the sprawl, but he was making an effort to be polite. If he didn't look at her, he could ignore it.]

If they did, it's the best piss I've ever eaten.

[circumitus]

[That's okay, Rey can totally be the rude one. It's not much different from normal.]

Wow, so it must be some Grade A gourmet piss. Sounds like the shit you'd normally find in this pit. [She's just going to wash down the sweet bun with some bourbon, like you do.] Beats when they were trying to serve human meat once, though. But knowing some of the people here, you might still want to be careful what you eat.

[What a nice bombshell to drop on someone who just got here.]

[allthecards]

[It was enough of a bombshell to make him pause before taking another bite. There was no way, he would have noticed if this was anything other than cow. Still, he didn't trust a single person here so it was worth getting more information. ]

Human?

[He could handle it, but who knew what Mokuba was putting on his plate. </small]

[circumitus]

Yes. Human.

[With a piece of potsticker crammed into one side of her mouth, she points towards one of the other side of the table with the end of the remaining piece of potsticker.] You do know that's human brain, right? Some people here can only eat shit like that.

[Never mind the fact that one of her friends for a while could only sustain herself on human meat, Rey wouldn't be surprised if there are others with similar deals. She's been here too long to find cannibalism to be remotely surprising anymore.]

[allthecards]

[Kaiba took a closer look at the table. While before he had taken it for eccentric plating, he was now wondering if it all actually was what it looked like. Or worse, if the things that looked normal actually weren't.

He was too practiced at the "business face" for any of that to show beyond a slight widening of his eyes. Good thing he never had much of an appetite to begin with.]

So they do these things often?

[Business mode - I talk about these things all the time. I'm not shaken.]

[circumitus]

If by "these things" you mean forced cannibalism, not really. They tend to try to change shit up to keep us on our toes or whatever.

[She shrugs a shoulder, taking another long drink of her bourbon.]

One minute it's a week-long obnoxiously loud party, the next it might be a parasitic hellscape with monsters and nightmare fog.

[In a way she almost preferred that to the reverse version of Silent Hill, where everything became the Lisa Frank Experience. Rey will take killing zombies over that any day.]

[allthecards]

Hn [Nods in understanding]

You've been here awhile then. How long?

[circumitus]

[That is always a sort of depressing question to answer:]

Been over two years now. Twenty-eight months, to be more exact.

[Because she's absolutely keeping count.]

[allthecards]

[You have just been upgraded from 'uncultured pleb' to 'potentially useful source of information']

That's a long time to be play thing for the so called "gods."

I'm sure there have been escape attempts.

[circumitus]

[She's seen shit man. She has seen so much shit.]

It takes effort, but it's possible to fight their influence, regardless of what others might tell you. [This fact she's tried to stress to others when they foolishly start hurting one another. Rey has been around long enough to know when her head is being messed with.]

There have been more murder attempts than escapes, since it's not like there are many places to go.

[allthecards]

[He has to smirk at the mention of murder attempts]

If they're that annoying, killing them off first would make finding a way to leave easier.

[hot_mes]

[oh. it's that guy again. At least Law knows his name now.

He drifts by with a handful of onigiri, giving him the ol' manly nod, just a tip of his head. 'Sup.]

[allthecards]

[If Kaiba wasn't treating this as a business function he would have ignored the greeting entirely. He returns the nod of greeting. All he knew about him was that he knew Yugi and had a stupid hat.]