[Day 212] Well it woulda been coulda been worse than you would ever know... [OPEN]

[hellpyre]

Who: Everyone!
Open: Open
When: Day 212, evening
Where: in front of the Distillery
What: No one died during the horrible plague scare! That's reason enough for a feast and a mingle log right?
Format: Any!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any but will adjust if needed

[Someone has been busy today. The kitchen and Distillery has been noisy and bustling, a departure from the much more quiet days when the illness was spreading through the Bastion and survival was once more on the uncertain scale of things. Somewhere around the time that the night cycle begins, when the sky is more of an orange-ish glow fading in to blue and purple, a large spread of food has been set up near the Distillery with glass lanterns hanging overhead.

Just like any other time there has been a feast be it random or planned, there is a wide selection of food on the covered, decorated tables. There's even meat this time! And yes, Aoi, your doughnuts have been transferred from your trees to a platter on the table. There's even a section for Paar, complete with massive amounts of bbq'd mammoth meat! You can thank Colin for that.

There's really no announcement for the feast, but chances are if you're outside at any point today you'll see the progress towards the set up, or smell the delicious scents wafting over the Bastion. (There might even be music playing, if Colin finds a way to provide it!)

Either way, come dusk food will be ready and mingling will be had!]

(ooc: Standard mingle log right here. Throw your threads up, poke other people's threads, and eat all the food!)

Comments

[bulletofhope]

Trees with... doughnuts...

[ Naegi had yet to actually see them, but he'd heard enough whispers about them that he'd had an inkling as to who might have been involved.

With how Skyla was speaking, though... yeah, he was pretty sure he knew who got those trees now. ]

... somehow I feel like I should be apologizing for that, because I might have an idea who was responsible for those...

[ Asahina plz ]

[magisperica]

Apologize?!

[ and that finally gets Skyla to now only grin at him, but to laugh, a huge bark of laughter than makes her shoulder shakes. ]

Are you kidding me? Those things are fucking hilarious! Like, who's the genius who came up with it? Did they think "man, donuts take too long to make, I'll just grow my own!"?

[ still laughing. sorry naegi. ]

Man, whoever bought those things sounds like a goddamn riot! You gotta introduce me to 'em someday.

[bulletofhope]

Ah... sure? I can point them out to you, if you'd like! Of course, if they're not here I can't do much about it...

[ Or he could, once their at a higher-rank Free Time event. Right now their rank's only just started, after all.

... as mean as it is to Asahina, though, he can't help but join in laughing with Skyla, a smile breaking out on his face. ]

... I won't lie, though. Donut trees do sound like something she'd wish for, really...

[ Especially since she's had strange ideas before, if their free-time events are any indication of that fact. ]

[magisperica]

Nah, s'fine. Save it for another time. They're probably either stuffing their faces or in a food coma. S'the only thing this party seems any good for.

[ ... says the girl who's spent the entire time doing basically nothing but stuff her face with the food laid out.

she's nothing if not shamelessly biased. ]

Can you actually eat those donuts, though? Like, are they actually donuts or just fruit fucking shaped like donuts?

[bulletofhope]

Yeah... oh, well. More for us, right?

[ Naegi can't help but shrug, grinning wryly as he approached the plate full of donuts from the tree itself and picked up one. ]

Well... I guess now we'll find out, right?

[ And down the hatch it goes! ]

[magisperica]

[ STARE

is he going to like

start choking

or go green

is he maybe even going to die

she's waiting, makoto ]

[bulletofhope]

. . . they're real.

[ SUDDENLY, A THING--

... no, Naegi doesn't keel over, but he does blink in surprise at the donut as he reaches for another one and then breaks it in half to show her. ]

I don't know how she did it, but they're actual donuts that grow on trees. Not donut-shaped fruit, actual donuts.

[ HE'S NOT SURE HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS... ]

[magisperica]

...

What.

[ HOW THE

ASAHINA, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU ]

Is that even physically fucking possible? Like, it's not just plain doughnuts but those fucking things are iced and everything. Actual fucking doughnuts.

Jesus Christ, Asahina.

[bulletofhope]

Yeah, they're actual donuts. With frosting and sprinkles and everything...

[ ASAHINA-SAN...

Though honestly, he just knew she had something to do with the donut trees. With that confirmation, Naegi's just so stunned at this that there's really only one reaction he can do right now.

Which is to just sink into a convenient chair behind him and start laughing. ]

I knew it... if there's one thing Asahina-san loves as much as swimming, it's her donuts. Apparently enough to somehow conjure donut trees into existence...

[ He's yet to figure out the whole shard system considering he's broke at the moment... ]

[magisperica]

You know, every fucking day I think to myself that this place can't get more ridiculous than it already is, and every fucking day, it proves me wrong.

[ she lets out a long suffering sigh and drags a hand down her face, the very picture of a girl who is done with the world. ]

You know what? Fuck it. Let's go nuts. Why stop at donut trees? Let's have cake flowers. Bacon crops. The more ridiculous the better.

...

Shit, actually, bacon crops isn't that bad an idea.

[ SKYLA NO ]

[bulletofhope]

... well, I do know that you can wish for pretty much anything if it's possible, so it could be possible?

[ Naegi, no, you're not supposed to join in on thinking of what else to add to Bastion. Aren't donut trees and bushes enough? ]

... not really...

Oh, but what about those things? Those chicken bites wrapped with bacon, I think... I've seen some of those arranged to look like flowers, maybe that could work just as well?

[ NAEGI, NO ]

[magisperica]

... kid.

[ she's just gonna grab your shoulder there, Naegi. ]

Kid, I like the way you think.

[ skyla he is pretty much the exact same age as you, stop calling him 'kid' ]

I think we need to make this happen. They'll thank us for this later.

[bulletofhope]

Wait, really?

[ NAEGI WAS JOKING but with how seriously Skyla was taking it, he's kind of hard-pressed to say as much... ]

... well, if we can figure out how to make it happen, I... don't really see why we can't do it, right?

[ Besides, there's also the practical consideration to think about, too. ]

If nothing else, it's food, which we could always use here...

[magisperica]

Exactly. Do you know how long it takes to manufacture chicken and bacon?

[ a pause. ]

Good, me either. But I bet it's longer than it'd take to grow the things. If Asahina can get donut trees, I see literally no reason why I can't have chicken and bacon trees.

[ she's not just considering this, she's actually going to do it.

What have you started, Naegi. ]

How many Shards d'you think it'd take?

[bulletofhope]

Yeah... I heard that we have a few people who can make it directly, but I'm not sure if I want to trouble them so much if I wanted chicken and bacon, for example...

[ Because he generally doesn't want to bother people if he can help it? The question about the shards makes him pause, though. ]

I'm not sure, actually... I'm still trying to get some shards myself, but I'm not sure how to get them...

[ Naegi sighs quietly, frowning a little. ]

It'd probably cost a lot, though, if we want them to be a permanent feature here like the donut trees...

[magisperica]

You don't know?

[ snort. ]

You gotta get your ass stomped out on the Skyway. I mean, you get Shards for killing shit out there, right? So either you gotta be good enough at kicking ass to be able to actually take them down, or you gotta let yourself get stomped and just hope you can kill a few of 'em and get at least a few Shards to make it worth your time.

[ guess what skyla's preferred strategy is.

Just guess. ]

But you don't really look the fighting type, kid. How old are you, anyway? Fourteen, fifteen?

[ A pause. ]

Thirteen?

[ S K Y L A ]

[bulletofhope]

Oh... I see...

[ Well, that was kind of... yeah.

Naegi sighs quietly before looking down at himself; he's definitely not the kind of person who can fight. There's a frown here; that would explain a lot. Either way, he just... kind of cringes at the choices Skyla explains; he can pretty much guess what route she's taking.

... either way, he just stares at her in confusion before looking away in embarrassment, sighing quietly. ]

I'm not that young, I'm fifteen! And it's not kid... my name's Makoto Naegi...

[magisperica]

Don't look all offended I was only like, two years off.

[ skyla that is NOT THE POINT ]

Ma-ko-to Na-e-gi, right? So you're from Japan.

[ she pulls a face suddenly. ]

S'weird, though, I can understand you just fine. Unless you're actually speakin' English.

[bulletofhope]

[ SKYLA NO THAT'S NOT THE POINT sob why does this keep happening to him... ]

Yeah... I was from Japan before, uh, this happened...

[ "This" being Bastion, but everyone already knew that. ]

... maybe it's just something about this place that allows us all to understand each other? Because there's a few people here that haven't even heard of Japan...

[magisperica]

... Never even heard of Japan.

[ look at the face she's making, naegi -- that's the face of a girl who's completely and totally done with the world and the idiots that inhabit it. ]

You know, I'm a pretty ignorant myself, but at least have pride in the fact that I have heard of Japan.

... though I guess it's excusable if they come from somewhere Japan doesn't actually exist or somethin'. You'd be surprised by how many worlds there are where it's just missing.

[bulletofhope]

I think it's more the latter... I'm kinda surprised there's so many worlds aside from our own, to be honest.

[ It's rather mind-boggling, to say the least. ]

Much less one where Japan's not there... I won't lie, it's kind of interesting seeing how many of them there are.

[magisperica]

You get used to it. It freaked me out for a while -- kind reminds you how tiny you are. It's one thing to be a single person on planet Earth, but when you find out there's billions of other Earths and a fuckin' billion others yous, kinda screws with your head.

[ those are... definitely the words of a girl with a little more experience with this than Skyla's short life in the Bastion so far would suggest. ]

But s'not like you can do shit about it. So you just get used to it.

[bulletofhope]

... sounds like you speak from experience about this, huh.

[ It's nothing accusatory - Naegi's actually kind of impressed as he stares at her in awe before going silent, glancing up at the sky and closing his eyes.

Eventually he lets out a quiet sigh, smiling a little as he felt his own spirit being lifted. Not moving forward unless he could accept that, really. ]

You're right, though... why dwell on it too much? Just gotta focus on what you can change instead, otherwise you just freeze up and do nothing otherwise...

[magisperica]

That'll be because I do. S'not the first time I've ended up somewhere that's not mine.

[ though if the whole 'apocalypse' thing has any truth to it, it'll probably be the last. ]

I mean, s'not like there's all that much we can change here, but, eh, throwin' a few Shards around and getting ourself a fast food point won't hurt.

[ optimism! ]

[bulletofhope]

Really? Wow... so you're like one of those worldhopper characters from those manga that Yamada-kun talks about...

[ Pretty much, yeah. Though Naegi-kun can't help but laugh because heeey, there's a smile on her face! ]

That's true! Gotta take what we can get here, right?

... I'm glad, though. That's a good way to look at things...

[ A pause as he looks away in embarrassment. ]

Also... I know this is really random and all, but... you have a nice smile...