Day 309 [Open]

[dontyoujustwish]

Who: Anya, Ibuki, Patchouli, and anyone else!
Open: Open! Mostly.
When: Day 309
Where: All over the Bastion
What: SNOW!
Format: I'll match
Warnings: It's Anya.

[For Ibuki and Patchouli]
[Sometime after lunch, Anya takes off to look for two of her best lady friends with a spellbook under her arm and some key ingredients in her pockets.

She's quite cheerful about it, a little oblivious to whatever else might have been going on lately. Cheerful, and insistent. She will track you down.]


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[Later in the day, Bastionites may be surprised to look up and notice that... it's snowing. Not only that, but the temperature has dropped.

At least in the more southerly parts of the Bastion. The farmlands might get a few sporadic flurries, but it isn't cold enough there to stick.

So if you've been missing snowmen or snowball fights or any of those activities that require winter to happen, now's your chance. It's probably not going to last very long.]

((OOC: And feel free to just use this post for mingling!]

Comments

[darkshooter]

[she nods in acknowledgement of the greeting.]

[her eyes still question you, however.]

[scary_music]

Ummm...?

[Ibuki is a very auditory oriented person, so she has a bit of trouble figuring out what BRS was-wait, the strange newcomer hadn't started staring until the snowball, right?]

The snowball? It's a game! It's a thing where we throw snowballs at each other!

[/3]

[darkshooter]

actually [2/2]

[darkshooter]

[Shooter bends down and threads her fingers into the snow. She attempts a snowball...]

[...]

[...but she actually doesn't have an easy time of it. She creates these clumpy things, but they don't resemble what she saw everyone else using.]

[Dissatisfied, she tries again...and again. None of her attempts go much better.]

[scary_music]

[Ibuki approaches!]

Hey, hey, let Ibuki show you how to do it!

Liiiiiike this!

[She'll crouch down next to BRS and carefully, slowly form a snowball and making sure the newcomer gets a good look]

[1/2?]

[darkshooter]

[watching.]

[...]

[2/2]

[darkshooter]

[...attempting it again, with the aim to emulate Ibuki's approach.]

[It's partly successful. She gets about 45% of the way through before suddenly stopping in place. she may've forgotten exactly what to do next.]

[scary_music]

Almost, almost!

[She'll invade BRS's personal space to just kind of guide the stranger's fingers herself... actually, that might not be helping much.]

[darkshooter]

[!]

[Yep, that sure was a quiet sound escaping her. Her fingers tense up at the unexpected contact.]

[She doesn't resist, but now seems even more at a loss.]

[scary_music]

Hmm... that's not helping! Whoops!

Okay, Ibuki will just try to show again! Watch veeeeeeeeery carefully!

[And she forms another snowball]

[/3]

[darkshooter]

[Sorry, she still hasn't gotten over the finger contact thing. Not just yet.]

[And unfortunately, this causes her to miss most of what you did. By the time she resumes attention, the snowball's already mostly formed.]

[...]

[darkshooter]

[she rises to her feet...]

[darkshooter]

[...her head bows, and she shakes it slowly. Shooter now actually looks kind of downcast.]

[scary_music]

Huh? Huh? What's wrong?

[darkshooter]

[...gestures toward the snowball Ibuki made.]

["I can't."]

[wow, a fighter-type like this getting discouraged over such a trivial task - who'd have thought, huh?]

[scary_music]

Whaaaaaat? You can't give up already! You barely even tried! Now come on, come on, again! But with more feeling!

[/2]

[darkshooter]

[darkshooter]

[wordlessly, Shooter gets back down on her knees and places her gloved hands into the snow again - but once there, her eyes go straight to yours.]

["Instruct me."]

[scary_music]

That's the spirit! Okay, another try!

[And this time she'll try verbally walking BRS through it while forming another snowball]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4 [/2]

[darkshooter]

[trying again, trying hard...]

[darkshooter]

[nope, not yet. better, closer -- but we haven't succeeded.]

[frustration...]

[scary_music]

Keep at it! Eye of the tiger!!! Ibuki believes in you!

XDDDD i died, well done [1/?]

[darkshooter]

[!]

[going at it again, with feeling!]

[darkshooter]

[closer and closer! we're almost there!]

[more failure, but the gap's getting narrower...!]

[3/3]

[darkshooter]

[there!]

[It's not quite put together as well as Ibuki's, but at least it won't fall from flight halfway. It's passable!]

[She abruptly looks up from the completed snowball to look at you, face very much like this. Master - did I succeed??]