hoasen: (man these be some dusty hands)
việtnam ([personal profile] hoasen) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-07-03 02:07 pm

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Who: YOU, MY FRIEND & The friendly staff of Thistle Do Nicely, a humble flower shop.
When: IC: 29th January to February 14th (OOC: Starts 3rd July, full month log.)
Where: Thistle Do Nicely, Shopping District.
What: It's nearly Valentine's Day, so there's sales and events! Want to learn how to make chocolate? Look here! Cashing in your coupon for the upcoming Blind Date player event? That's here too! This is a mingle log, so everyone come mingle to your hearts content, and come in anytime, there's no such thing as late.
Rating/Warning: Nothing so far. There might be some future nightmares.



NOTE: There are some forward-dated prompts/part of prompts in this log. This is to coincide with the Blind Date Player Plot this month! More links and updates will be posted here once they come up.

Also if you wanna know how this works, it's just a mingle! An example here, our previous open mingle log. Treat it however you like, open and closed options welcome.

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Welcome to Thistle Do Nicely! Make yourself comfortable and browse the grand selection. In spirit of upcoming Valentine's Day, the store is decorated in pink and red, hearts scattered here and there. Sweet soft toys are on display, and there are bargains to be found. The tea shop is also decked out, but there seems to be something extra special happening on that side too.


A: ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE DISCOUNTED

[Are you here for the flowers? Sure you are, it's a grand tradition that all Valentines must share: the giving of flowers to loved ones. Roses are a definite favourite, but maybe you're after something more unique? Then look no further! Ask one of your friendly staff about it. Or maybe they're coming to you! But if they do, some may have the misfortunate of being told by the mysterious NPC boss to repeat the following: "What can Cupid's assistant do for you today?" Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing.

Or maybe you've bumped into a friend! In that case, buying flowers for Valentine's Day? Are you proud of this, or are you so embarrassed you must hide all evidence.

Alternatively, time has passed and you're now here because you have coupons for an additional price cut on your flowers if you are taking part in the Blind Date event. Blind dates can be particularly nerve-wracking, so let this store make things a little easier for you. You'll thank them for it.]



B: ANYONE WHO HATES CHOCOLATE IS A MONSTER (no we're kidding we still love you)

B.1: KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

[In all walks of life, chocolate is a very popular gift for Valentine's Day. And in some places, even more importance is placed on whether it's homemade or not. A section of the tea shop has been cleared just for this: earthy tables now have small stoves on them and ingredients set out. It's time to learn how to make chocolate. These classes are lead by head chef Shokudaikiri Mitsutada and his (reluctant) chef's assistant Ookurikara, but you can be sure that all the other reliable staff of Thistle Do Nicely are getting in on the action to help out (or learn themselves) too! Maybe Mitsutada and a handful of staff will make this great. The other half...

Everyone interested in these classes will gather round each of these tables, and together you will learn how to make chocolate. It's a team effort, so discuss with each other and work together to perfect it! In the end, you will be given cute little boxes or bags to put your chocolate in so you can give it to those intended. Or yourself, you can eat them too. Alternatively, you were forced into this mess, or have no idea why you're here but you're going to roll with it because it's chocolate.

The classes are free, happening a couple hours a day, but the ingredients require a small donation to keep the classes going. These classes are ongoing, so by the time you've gotten your Blind Date, you don't have to donate if you show them your coupon.]



B.2 CHOCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

[Or maybe you're not here for the classes, you're spending time on the other half of the tea shop where it's still set for customers. The tea shop half of the entire store is not actually that big, so you might be finding it a bit cramped.

That being said, a treats bar has been set out as a complimentary offer. There's a chocolate fountain in the middle of this bar, and you know you wanna dip some heart shaped marshmallows or fruits in that sucker. There's also these flower shaped gummies. No one actually knows how they got there, but maybe for the sake of science, you want to coat it with chocolate and eat it.

Do it.]



C: WILDCARD.

[Because there's so much more to explore! Or maybe you're just here to visit and laugh at them. Or maybe you wanna use the tea space as a PLACE FOR A DATE, AYYYYYY in which the scene from Lady and the Tramp could happen and there will be a cute musical number (look, I'll have it arranged, I'm not even kidding. Too bad I can't get an Okiayu character to do it though, you might have to make do with a loser girl). Or maybe you've MESSED UP THIS ENTIRE PLACE Vietnam will kill you with her bare hands (unless she likes you, then you will live).]
idolater: (mina ♀ a girl who wants my kisses)

[personal profile] idolater 2015-07-08 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[there was an idea... and then Minako's stomach grumbles] Wow! Your date is going to be the luckiest person alive.
journaler: (✿ :D)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-07-08 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Leia's too busy blushing to notice her grumbling stomach. She rubs at her cheeks, giggling sheepishly.]

Oh, I don't know that I'd go that far... haha. But I'll sure try my best.

[How things will turn out is another story, so we'll see how lucky this mystery person is...]

What about you? Did you sign up?
aslyfox: illust_id=51378073 (42)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-08 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ YES. Do it, Kashuu. Join Kogitsunemaru in Flavor Town and/or Hell! --- though he hasn't tasted one of those flowers yet either, so he'll join the other sword in sizing them up.

Do they have little smiley faces, too? Wow, they're so cheerful and colorful. So yes, eating them must happen. ]


I'll try one if you do.

[ They can't possibly taste that bad. They're innocent flower gummies! ]
idolater: (mina ♀ place them in her eyes)

[personal profile] idolater 2015-07-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Sign up? [she blinks, and then waves her hands] Oh, no! Not me. I'm kind of sort of already seeing someone.
journaler: (✿ move along now)

[personal profile] journaler 2015-07-08 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[!!!!!

Leia perks up almost immediately, inhaling a gasp as a hand covers her mouth.]


You are?! It sounds like you're the lucky one!
adornmental: (bzzt wrong answer)

[personal profile] adornmental 2015-07-08 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He'll pluck a second one right up and hold it out to Kogitsunemaru, in that case! If they go down, they go down together.]

Here!

[AND SO HIS FATE IS SEALED but honestly, he'd take a smiley-faced, brightly colored flower gummy over a tofu pocket any day. So he's picking out a skewer, jamming the gummy onto the end and then dunking it into the chocolate. He can already predict one thing...]

This is gonna be way too sugary.
senseandcecilbility: (That's not what you think)

[personal profile] senseandcecilbility 2015-07-08 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Things on Kevin Cecil's not to do list: get his bosses incinerated.]

The management and I merely talk about flowers, sir! And tea.

[However, it takes a yan to know a yan. And so Kevin's whole behavior changes. He releases the firefighter's wrist, looking mildly surprised.]

...Oh dear, you are trying to protect us.

[What an unexpectedly warmhearted fellow, even if he is clearly murderous.]
souredsweet: jackandtink (you've got some tuberculosis on you)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-07-08 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaoru is here for that... Here to make things harder whether it's intentional or unintentional. What a great pal!!]

It gives you the ability to truly tailor your bouquet, at the very least. Does she like any particular colors?
souredsweet: jackandtink (that's nice dear)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-07-08 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Even demon money has a place in the economy...]

How very true. It's a good thing for this shop that she took up work here; I couldn't imagine it doing as well without her.
masakados: (even though i’ve realized the truth)

[personal profile] masakados 2015-07-08 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
...Yellow? She wears it pretty often.

[SO HE ASSUMES. And, on that, another assumption,] Maybe bright colours in general, though I haven't heard her say she doesn't like any.
snakebait: (for the most important one)

[personal profile] snakebait 2015-07-08 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maybe he should buy some of every shade of pink and purple. ]

She's the most amazing woman in the universe. She's beautiful, strong, intelligent, sweet, tough when she needs to be, tells me off when I'm too stupid.
keep_hope_alive: (smiling)

[personal profile] keep_hope_alive 2015-07-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm?

[He looks over his shoulder as he tucks his guitar into the case, putting it down then turning to face him when he finished.]

Ten years in the music industry will do that. [Totally not tooting his own horn.

He extends a hand to shake.]


Trevor Grant. You a fan of cheesy love songs?
perfectstrike: (you... |本当に信じてるの?)

b - 1

[personal profile] perfectstrike 2015-07-08 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a little later by the time Peko finally drops by; she'd had to be released from the hospital, and then make sure that she wouldn't strain her stitches too much by moving around. She still can't quite use her left arm to its full capability, lest she risk tearing said stitches, but hopefully making chocolate won't be too strenuous?

She is kind of watching everything with a bit of a nervous, concerned air. That's... okay, first of all there's milk, which is potentially a problem, and then second of all, there's chocolate liquor, which may also be a potential problem for the person to whom she absolutely is not intending to give chocolates to.

She did not think this part through.

Instead of her usual school uniform, she's wearing a plain blue yukata; it's much easier to put on and take off without moving her left arm. The chocolates, though, she has yet to start on, still kind of just looking among all the ingredients with an air of intense Concern.]
ineptus: (4 ❤; Aηɗ ѕυвтƖє ναяιαтισηѕ σf вƖυє)

Let's do this!

[personal profile] ineptus 2015-07-08 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Vietnam! [Hey gal pal! She'd give you a hug but you are working and she knows the importance of being professional on the job!]

It's for a dating event I'm gonna be doing! A big blind date thing, where I send a bunch of people out on blind dates so they have someone for Valentine's Day! I want to make these jars for each date, that has a flower and conversation starters in it to help get things going if they need it, sooo...

Um. A lot. I have to do some math to figure out how many. [She hadn't thought about that part yet.]
idolater: (mina ♀ make her fair)

[personal profile] idolater 2015-07-08 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Minako takes a second to think about that. hm...]

Yeah... My partner is really smart, strong, passionate, and extremely beautiful. So I guess I am pretty lucky. [chinhands]
oneirism: (You are only getting stranger)

[personal profile] oneirism 2015-07-08 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Good, since Lapis is gonna make all of her friends chocolate. Which also includes Vietnam, but Lapis wants it to be a surprise.]

... Thank you. I wouldn't want to give them anything that's less than perfect. [Another proud huff. Her friends deserve only the best, after all.]

Though I think I'll try to learn to make different shapes and stuff too.
aslyfox: (28)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-08 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. [ Num num num. By themselves, the gummy flowers actually tasted alright--- straight up sugar, but with floral and wooden notes. They were probably placed as palate cleansers more than anything, especially when faced with fruit and chocolate.

As he eyes the tofu, he lights up. That's a familiar food. He fights the temptation to just go right into the bag and eat some... neutral flavors will save him today. ]


Ah. It's nice to meet you, Nanoha-san. I am Kogitsunemaru. [ The fox sword bows slightly. ]
aslyfox: (21)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-08 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ride and die together. Bam. A fist bump would be pretty darn appropriate right about now. When Kogitsunemaru and Kashuu get together, it's like the air is filled with bad ideas and mistakes and HONESTLY IT'S PRETTY AWESOME...! ]

No regrets. It's not like sugar can kill us. [ He'll stab his flower in the face and dip half of it into the chocolate. No way the glaze will harden on the gummy, so he'll just make sure it doesn't drip on his clothes. ]

We'll be fine. [ And it'll probably taste one hundred percent better than the choco-tofu experiment. He took one for the team. Someone's team, somewhere. ]
aslyfox: (31)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-08 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Wow, that'd be really good for the flower shop! Imagine them being completely vacant of pink and purple flowers! Actually, that'd probably be bad. Also that's a lot of flowers... is there thing as too much of a good thing with those? ]

Well, when you put it that way, she seems perfect. You're very fortunate. [ Orange tulips... hm! ]
snakebait: (for the most important one)

[personal profile] snakebait 2015-07-08 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No, since she's not allergic there's no such thing as too many flowers. ]

I know. Sometimes I can't believe that she actually loves me back.

[ What about this one? He has no idea what most flowers are called, but it's a pretty shade of purple... Matches Botan's eyes. ]
lovemguns: (:=))

[personal profile] lovemguns 2015-07-09 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose't might do that. [ Ten years working solely with music? ] People can do that these days? That's cool.

[ He clasps the hand with one of his work and weather worn ones. ]

Roy Maxwell. I dunno, what d'ya consider cheesy?

[ Is there a modern music genre that's about love for cheese? ]
adornmental: (lame af)

[personal profile] adornmental 2015-07-09 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[IT'S ONLY AWESOME BECAUSE THEY MIRACULOUSLY HAVEN'T DIED YET which is honestly awesome in and of itself.]

Yeah, yeah, but it might not taste good.

[Even if anything would probably taste better than choco-tofu. Except maybe like, green beans or brussel sprouts or something... But with his hand cupped under his own gummy to keep the floor safe, he glances over.]

On the count of three?
aslyfox: illust_id=50199417 (15)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-09 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP. ]

Can't hurt to try. I can't imagine our master repairing us after sugar-related injuries.

[ At this point as long as it doesn't try to kill him, everything will be great. A vegetable would be nice to eat right about now... as long as it's not covered in chocolate. That'd be a new level of gross that Kogitsunemaru is not prepared for. ]

Alright, on three. One... two... three!

[ ... he is now aware of his teeth. ]
espersions: (my 100's of kids don't count apparently) (everyone has a happy family)

1/2

[personal profile] espersions 2015-07-09 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ His eyes slide to one side and he grimaces, reclaiming his wrist and shaking it out. ]

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