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).]
birthmarkless: (cerulean)

[personal profile] birthmarkless 2015-07-22 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thanks. ]

Then embrace the Melonslasher. [ A small chuckle, although it's fading soon after. ] That will never stop being funny, you know.
birthmarkless: (anger of the earth)

[personal profile] birthmarkless 2015-07-22 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Then get a lot of that one. [ He points at... daisies. ] It's cheap. Unless you want to play specific flower, which I don't really give two shits about.

[ How is this guy work in the flower shop again. ]
fallingsakura: (Giggling)

[personal profile] fallingsakura 2015-07-22 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[That comment only causes her to laugh. She was glad he never had to encounter it before, that was a welcome comment. Still she wasn't sure if they were of the same world. That would be a big factor.]

Doutanuki? ...Sailor? Is he not a sword? [Botan watches the sword as he laughs, he was a happy one wasn't he?]
fallingsakura: (smiling)

[personal profile] fallingsakura 2015-07-22 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Tenka-dono, the Kumou family in general, is like that, though I do worry about it at times. Kagemitsu-dono was the first Kumou, he's here as well, he is a kind person...I consider him my family. [They were like siblings in her eyes as well as his. It was hard not to become like that when you spend so much time together.]

Then I'm glad you have family here as well. Perhaps I may get the chance to meet them both. [Family was family, even if blood wasn't involved.]
dragonofoushuu: (先の戦、雑魚どもをあまた討ち取ったわ)

[personal profile] dragonofoushuu 2015-07-22 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[As much as he would help him escape, it is what his sword signed up for (willingly?).]

Not really, I'm here to check out this place. Might as well see how you are doing at work. It's part of taking care of one's own swords.

[Because someone's getting turned into swiss cheese if he finds out his old swords were mistreated.]
gossipboy: (pic#7571769)

[personal profile] gossipboy 2015-07-22 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[ And, you know, just to mess with him, he adds; ]

Come here often?

[ He's not really flirting. If he was, he would know. ]
heiwana: (Default)

yesss

[personal profile] heiwana 2015-07-22 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
...yes you are right. Everyone within the apartments as well as others. [ That's a lot of cards and money. But honestly Kousetsu doesn't particularly care about the money if it's for people he cares about being happy with what he buys. ]

It would not be. Tenka-san would enjoy them, I believe.

[ Because here Kousetsu is firmly believing in the fact that Tenka will return. ] ...he will return to try them.
heiwana: (㊉㊃)

[personal profile] heiwana 2015-07-22 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...Poko. [ He will continue to pet him then if it's fine with the tiny raccoon. ]

He is very well behaved. ...have you had him for a long time?
aslyfox: illust_id=564025 (32)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-22 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure if you have a good enough reason along with your purchase, they might add something nice with it all. Who knows? [ He certainly doesn't know, but he knows some of the folks who work at the shop! A few sword spirits, a nice country... ]

I hope someone comes by soon. Fresh flowers are certainly a great present. [ He idly taps his foot, then his other foot... and back and forth. ]
aslyfox: (56)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-22 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He looks sheepish, mainly because he feels a little bad that the guy seemed like he was pretty busy and he was kind of being dumb... but it doesn't mean being rude is the answer. It's common sense that being a jerk is a terrible business practice. ]

Well, he said something about industrial equipment and renting and really expensive... and that most soups probably wouldn't work in it because the thickness of the liquid is really important. Oh! And something about food temperature.

[ So there is some good information, it just sucks because it ruins the beautiful possibility of helping their master. Also, no randomly dipping things into chocolate or whatever they'd put into it.

Kogi is probably the most disappointed about the last bit. ]
firstcloud: (50)

[personal profile] firstcloud 2015-07-22 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Poko is family, and I have known him since I was little. He lives at the shrine and keeps an eye on the rest of the family for me. [ With lots of love, through all the generations. ]
aslyfox: (21)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-22 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
He is a sword spirit! He has a very interesting job at a doughnut shop. [ Truth be told, most of the tsukumogami had professions in various places. Heck, some of them even worked in the flower shop!...

... which is why it was easy for him to come here, mess around with the chocolate, and sort of be silly for a while. ]


Where do you work, Botan-san?
reprizesal: (Stare - ...)

grant mercy

[personal profile] reprizesal 2015-07-22 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[The money thing is what Sayo worried about. The chocolates he made here are free, so that would leave the cards. He would work hard at the gardens to make up for it.

Maybe he should consider another job, if he can?

He nods.
]

Alright, I'll make some for Tenka-san.

[Sayo will label it clearly and tell everyone to avoid Tenka's share.]
adornmental: (but have you considered not)

[personal profile] adornmental 2015-07-22 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spare him, he's but a sad uchigatana alone in the world.

GROSS, THOUGH. His smile shifts into a mildly disconcerted expression... Even if it's not because he's actually threatened. Rather, it's because--]


Hearing that from you is totally creepy. [Rudeass kid.]
adornmental: (he's judging someone's underwear)

[personal profile] adornmental 2015-07-23 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Ugh... Rude worker, why do you have to have sensible points!! Not that Kashuu knows just how sensible or not they really are, but they sound all science-y and stuff which usually means it's legitimate.]

Sooo, I guess that plan's a no-go, then. We'll have to look for something else.

[Suddenly this has become mission: help Haruji by making his life easier.]
primulas: (Prunus)

[personal profile] primulas 2015-07-23 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I think you and I have differing ideas of what makes us happy.

[because being all lovey just isn't her thing.]
primulas: (Bellis)

[personal profile] primulas 2015-07-23 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[she huffs.]

I don't exactly got time for that.... and I don't care enough, either way.
masakados: (desire in my hand)

[personal profile] masakados 2015-07-23 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
Some places still have 'em, yeah, though I can't say I've ever been to one.

[Because he's secretly a homebody and likes doing quieter stuff like going to the shrine and then going back home to eat the traditional New Years foods.]
snakebait: (for the most important one)

[personal profile] snakebait 2015-07-23 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Like more flowers?

[ He's pretty sure he's gotten at least a bunch of every kind when it came to those colours though...

Cashier? Well, once someone comes he'll be ready to pay for all of it. ]
aslyfox: (31)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-23 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder what he likes or what he needs? Maybe it'd be better to just ask him. [ Is Kogi bringing the common sense? He might try to, after all, an attempt must be made...

NOPE. ]


Or, we could just borrow the fountain? Surely Vietnam-san and the others wouldn't mind if we took it for a while, right? [ Better to ask one of them instead of that pleb of a worker. How dare he mock the two brightest, shining examples of all of the sword spirits? ]
littlestbaskerville: you should've put a ring on it! (Default)

[personal profile] littlestbaskerville 2015-07-24 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Poor guy...He doesn't look like he's happy.]

You know you don't have to smile if you don't wanna?
aslyfox: illust_id=49692976 (2)

[personal profile] aslyfox 2015-07-24 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He scratches his head, running a hand down his hair to smooth it out. ]

I mean, I suppose...? Guess you can't have too many flowers for whatever it is you're gonna do, huh. [ He's getting a little annoyed, what kind of customer service is this?... oh, it's probably because there's another chocolate making class going on and everyone's really big into that.

Eventually, some random employee will find that they're not doing their job and will start to count every flower that Hirari is buying. ]
adornmental: (overturned leaves)

[personal profile] adornmental 2015-07-24 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't be as much of a surprise if we did that, though. Maybe we can get someone else to ask...

[That would make it like .5% more surprising!! Maybe...!

He's not so sure that borrowing the fountain would be a good idea, though.]


Probably not, but that'd be kinda lame, yeah? We'd have to give it back when we were done. [Yes, Kashuu, that is the definition of "borrow".]
souredsweet: jackandtink (still water)

[personal profile] souredsweet 2015-07-24 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Gosh, Naoki, get out more!! Socialize with fellow demons...]

They were always a little ostentatious, to be honest. I'm surprised that the custom hasn't died out yet with many of the other more excessive ones.
espersions: (see ya)

[personal profile] espersions 2015-07-24 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ No one with anything resembling self-preservation would cover their face in front of him, and so he is sorely tempted.... but as the man is a fellow Person with Powers and a bit of an oddball, he resists his eviler urges.

Cheerfully: ]


Nope!

[ Instead, he simply levitates a flower crown from a workbench and settles it very, very gently onto Penguin-san's head. Simultaneously, he shoves the fire extinguisher into Kevin's hands. Hopefully he won't drop it this time. ]

Well, don't worry. I'm done here. I've seen all I need to.

[ The location of the cash register, for starters. ]

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