[open] TIME TO GET SWOLE

[emotive]

Who: emotive & hoasen and ANYONE who wants to hop in!
When: IC: 8/11 | OOC: 7/22
Where: THE MACHO CAFE
What: It's a mingle log! Appliances and machines aren't working as they should, Vietnam and Ai Thao have turned to the Macho Cafe to use their STRONGER and BETTER kitchen. And then they ended up with muscular volunteers because they couldn't say no. Vietnamese chicken porridge for all plus a few fun games from the scary dreamy muscled employees!
Rating/Warning: Really strong, muscular waiters, a lot of food.

[ It was about that time again where Ai Thao and Vietnam wanted to share their culinary passion with the rest of Cerealia. Since their pho dinner went pretty well last time and there's yet another influx of new arrivals, they wanted to cater to them again! Problem is... The usual equipment sure hasn't been heating up or chilling their food well. But that problem seems to have been solved.

If you pass by the Macho Cafe, there seems to be a fun event going on involving a delicious special on chicken rice porridge (free bowl for every customer including new arrivals). The savory aroma wafts throughout the cafe and out of the door hopefully enticing new customers.

You'll probably spot Ai Thao and/or Vietnam walking around the tables taking away plates and asking how the food is and totally not staring/looking away at the masculine workers nope. There's a bit more to do here other than get free food though.

Ai, here waves cheerfully at new people who come inside. ]

Hello! Please come in and enjoy yourself! Um, we should have more seats than we do at the Sanctuary and there will definitely plenty of chao ga to pass around.

Oh, and I think one of the guys might have set up some games? They were really excited about it...

[ Looks like there's more to do than meets the eye!

a. EAT AND DRINK

Sit down, have a drink, and free chicken porridge. The muscular workforce is all too eager to pull you into a chair thrust a bowl at you, oops, hope some hot porridge didn't spill on you?! Other then that, you might be seated across from someone you know, your best frienor someone completely new! Chat it up, see if you can make heads and tails of Cerealia if you're new, or discuss Athena's Timeline Document. It's more fun over food after all.

b. MO' FOOD MO' PROBLEMS

There is a humongous bowl of steaming hot porridge sitting menacingly at the biggest table. In fact, it's so big, it nearly takes up the whole table, it might as well be a huge pot. There's a sign in front of it:

"FINISH IN 1 HOUR!!
GRAND PRIZE: 350 CREDITS!"
Ai Thao Kha is banned from the contest

c. DEM GUNS

Here's another sign at another table! With a lot of the handsome muscular men who flex at you as if daring you to come close!

"ARM WRESTLING.
DEFEAT ONE OF OUR SERVERS.
BEST 2 of 3
FREE CHICKEN SALAD."

So do you dare for the chicken salad!? ]

((ooc: MINGLE POST. Feel free to make a top level and tag each others threads!))

Comments

OPEN

[reprizesal]

► A. Sudden Seating Arrangement
[Considering Sayo's small size, it's not hard for one of the muscular workers to pick Sayo up and seat him at a random, available table.

Before Sayo can properly retaliate, he's not sitting in a table and facing a fairly big bowl of chicken rice porridge. Maybe they think he needs to eat a lot to grow big and strong?!

He looks up to see someone else sitting opposite to him. Or about to be seated, just like him earlier.]

... Hello. Are you here to eat as well?

► B. Arm Wrestling?
[There's another challenger for the chance to win FREE CHICKEN SALAD.

So there's one tiny boy walking over towards the table, looking up at the big, muscular men. Emphasis on "small" for the boy and "big" for the macho men.]

I'd like to try the challenge.

[sayo... no...]

A

[powertotearer]

[Well, that's got to be embarrasing. But then, Eiji had been a little manhandled himself into the chair.]

Yeah. My name's Eiji. It's kind of...interesting around here, isn't it?

Re: A

[reprizesal]

[Probably a little embarrassing.]

... I'm Sayo Samonji. [Hi. He glances around.] A little. I wasn't expecting them to be... that eager.

Re: A

[powertotearer]

Neither did I, but I guess maybe it's not that bad?

[At least when you're pretty sure you're not going to ever have your non-chicken eating friend want to eat here.]

Re: A

[reprizesal]

[He nods in agreement.]

Yes. I've been here before. [Imagine that, a little kid in the Macho Cafe.] And their food are nice.

Re: A

[powertotearer]

Really? That's good. It's the first time I've been here.

[He reaches across the table to offer his hand.]

I'm Hino Eiji.

Re: A

[reprizesal]

[He blinks at it, before Sayo slowly holds out his hand to accept Eiji's.]

... I'm Sayo Samonji, Hino-san. If you have any questions about here, I'd try to answer them.

[Food-wise. The MACHO MEN appeal is lost on him.]

Re: A

[powertotearer]

[Works for Eiji; he spent a full minute blinking in shock at the guys when he first walked in.]

Thanks. Are the portions usually this big here?

Re: A

[reprizesal]

[Sayo nods in response, looking at his big sized bowl of noodles.]

Yes. They want everyone to have plenty to eat.

[And stay around a little longer, for some reason.]

Re: A

[powertotearer]

[He looks at the bowl, still mostly oblivious to why they might want him to stick around a while, even while the MACHO MACHO MEN are flexing around him.]

I could feed a small family with this.

Re: A

[reprizesal]

[Sayo looks at Eiji's bowl for a moment, not really paying attention to the flexing MACHO MEN.]

If you can't finish it, I think you can take them home as leftovers?

b

[emotive]

[The STRONG men look down at Sayo looking amused to say the least. Ai here looks worried.]

A-Are you sure?!

Re: b

[reprizesal]

[Look at this face. He looks over from the STRONG men towards Ai.]

Yes, I'm sure. I'd like to give it a try.

[emotive]

...

[He's so small, but there's something in Ai that she can't hold him back. There's determination, there's spirit...!!]

Um...

[Ai nods at him and gives him a thumbs up.]

Do your best! I'll be rooting for you!

[reprizesal]

[Sayo nods and looks up at the STRONG men for their answer. Although they look amused, one of them NODS in approval!

Encouraged by their acceptance, Sayo quickly climbs and sit on the challenger's chair. He holds out his hand, which get COMPLETELY covered by the opposing strong man's hand. And they get ready, Sayo's eyes looking very focused and determined.

Meanwhile, the STRONG man figured it might be okay to use enough power to win without hurting the kid's arm.]

I'm ready. Please start counting down.

b!

[adornmental]

[HERE'S ANOTHER CONCERNED SOUL. Kashuu's just here for the food and to say hi to some familiar punks, but he'll definitely stop when he overhears that. Sayo...]

D'you want the chicken salad that bad?

[LORD.]

Re: b!

[reprizesal]

[But the question is, is Kashuu concerned for Sayo or the muscular workers...

Sayo did pause at that question, before he glances over at Kashuu.]

Not exactly, but...

[Look, look, it's free food and it's worth a try? If he can't do it or get rejected, he can always buy it?!]

[adornmental]

[A little of column A, a little of column B...]

But what, huh? If you're not dying to have it, isn't that a lot of extra hassle for no real reason?

[He'll just buy Sayo the chicken salad himself, okay!!]

[reprizesal]

[Ugh, stop using logic on him! That's his thing!]

... I just thought it'd be interesting to try winning one for free.

[Ah yes, the true motive. Free food.]

[adornmental]

[The tables have turned!! What now, Sayo...

Kashuu doesn't have a whole lot of logic at his disposal though, okay. He ends up just SIGHING, because it's not like he's about to tell this poor kid no even though he really should.]

If you really wanna try that bad, then have at it, I guess.

[reprizesal]

[He needs a Kasen again to exert his senpai logic...

Someone's going to get disappointed. But who. Sayo gives a nod and goes to sit at the challenger's seat. The STRONG MEN all look amused by this, but the one sitting down hold out his hand, completely enveloping Sayo's tiny one.

Even if Sayo can do this, the visual contrast still stands out like a sore thumb.]

I'm ready, sir.

[Someone, start the countdown.]

[adornmental]

Good luck...

[IT'S DEFINITELY HIGH CONTRAST and that's drawing more people over to the table who are clearly ready to see some poor kid get his ass whopped. Kashuu is still pretty evenly divided in his concern, though...

ANYWAY, HERE'S THE OFFICIAL EMPLOYEE who's working as the official countdown person. They raise their hand and start counting down at three! Two! One...!]

[reprizesal]

[For a moment, Sayo seems to be holding his own for a moment, as his opponent seems to be trying to push his hand down. He seems to be having trouble against this kid? Sayo just looks focused, as if analysing and measuring his odds...

Thud.

In an instant, Sayo pushes his opponent's hand down against the table. His opponent looks surprised by it, looking at their hands with confusion and some... respect? The countdown person blinks, before declaring the winner to be SAYO SAMONJIIIII.

The crowd around them breaks into chatter, wondering if the man just gave Sayo his victory. Meanwhile, Sayo looks up and simply states.]

... I won. [WELL, YEAH]

[adornmental]

["WELL, YEAH" about sums it up... But hey! The guy walked away without any broken bones, so he's considering this a good victory.]

Good work.

[Reaching out to pat the top of his head and everything!]

Ready to go get your prize?

[reprizesal]

[No broken bones or blood. A good victory for Sayo, all things considered.

Sayo looks up at Kashuu. Ah, headpats after a victory. There's almost nothing quite like it. He nods.]

Yes, I'm ready.

[BUT FIRST. Sayo looks at his opponent.]

Thank you for the match.

[aw yeah, polite manners.]