It's time to party!

[atailoftwoworlds]

Who: Anyone!
What: After all the shit that went down in August and September and to help the newbies get settled, it's time for a party!
When: 26th October
Where: Outside the Denny
Warnings: Label any relevant warnings in your posts! Otherwise none that I can think of.

[It took a while to organise but it’s finally here! Outside the Denny is a warm fire with dragon meat and all sorts of other meat cooking on it. There is also food strewn on tables and various modern music in the background thanks to Michael’s phone.

Not only that but there are also games on a few separate tables provided by the Denny.

Feel free to bring your own food, drinks and games. Maybe you’re even helping cook some of the food yourself? Or you are keeping watch to make sure nobody causes any trouble! Or are you the person causing trouble yourself? Of course, none of you would dare do that, would you? WOULD YOU???? Or are you having a dance? Or maybe you're that wallflower who is just sitting there drinking and refusing to talk to people? Either way, feel free to come up with your own prompts!]

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[onegreeneye]

[Ginko startles a little, actually having to look around for a moment to confirm that he's being addressed and not just... overhearing someone else's enthusiastic conversation.

Unfortunately, confirming that doesn't clear much up for him. He stares down at Jyushimatsu, his pointed ears flipping back and forward again as he tries to parse that.]

Sorry-- what?

[yakyuuman]

I said you'd make a super sturdy catcher in a team!

[ He makes the gesture of swinging a bat, looking none the less excited that he had to repeat his sentence. ]

You know, baseball!

[onegreeneye]

Oh, the-- the sport? Uh... thanks, I guess.

[Yep, guess what, he doesn't know shit about baseball, but... that sounds like probably a compliment.]

[yakyuuman]

Yeah, the sport! I was praising you! Thanks for thanking me for the praise!

[ If the guy didn't know about baseball he would have been rather offended. ]

If I make a baseball team here I'm gonna hire you!

[onegreeneye]

[Honestly, if this weren't the second interplanar nightmare world he's gotten stuck in, he wouldn't. So, y'know, pretty lucky there.]

Appreciate the offer, but I don't think I'd be very good at it. [Seeing as how he has no idea how to play.]

[yakyuuman]

[ There's a disappointed glint in his eyes, though it hardly stands out when he still smiles the way he does. ]

It's easy to be the catcher! You've just gotta catch balls!

[ It's actually more complicated than that but shhh. ]

[onegreeneye]

[Oh boy this guy seems insistent. Not so much so that Ginko wouldn't normally be particularly put off, but right now he's not sure how much energy he has for insisting that he really should not be put on any kind of a sports team.

He's still... kind of smiling, if it can be called that. It's kind of on the other end of the smile spectrum from Jyushimatsu's in that it barely exists, but he figures it probably counts.] If you're so sure, I guess I could try sometime. Just don't get your hopes up too much.

[...Actually. Unrelated to sports that he doesn't know shit about:] How long have you been here?

[This guy does look familiar - and maybe if Ginko were more focused he could recognize him as looking exactly like the guy who gave him weed. As it is, the attitude might be throwing him off a little.]

[yakyuuman]

[ It's okay, that's a good enough win for him. He raises his arms up! ]

Yaaaaaaay! Once I find a baseball, we should totally play! [ Nevermind the fact there's no possible way a baseball could be found on a wild island. Either way, to what the big guy asks him, Jyushimatsu draws his sleeves back to his chest and muses loudly. ] A week or so ago? I'm very much new and kind of dreading this place but also having fun!

[onegreeneye]

Might need to ask the Storyteller about that. [Assuming he's willing to spend his stories on a baseball, but he does seem really into it.

On the other hand - a week ago. HM.] Do you have... I don't know, a brother? You look familiar.

[No, he has no idea what can of worms he has just opened.]

[yakyuuman]

The talking bun? Maybe I should! I mean, it's just a baseball, that would be fine, right?

[ He's not the best at telling stories but he can try? Though that baseball will possibly have a short life if he homeruns with it.

When questioned about his brother, he perks up like a suddenly attentive dog. ]

Yeah! I know three of my brothers were here, but Ichimatsu-niisan was around the most!

[onegreeneye]

Probably. I can't imagine it'd cost too many stories. [Assuming Jyushimatsu isn't going for some kind of special magic baseball or something.

Ah, that tracks. Ginko's ears prick up, and he gives a brief nod of sudden understanding.] Ichimatsu - that's who you reminded me of. I saw him around a couple times, he gave me some plants.

[yakyuuman]

[ Jyushimatsu lightens up, very glad to hear of Ichi's popularity around here. Quite a few people knew him! ]

He gave you what? Plants? [ Head tilting like a confused dog: ] What about them?

[onegreeneye]

Apparently he'd been given some marijuana plants - but he didn't really seem to want them. I was helping him identify the plants he'd ended up with, so he told me to go ahead and take as many of those as I wanted.

[yep, it was weed.]

I took a few, but left the rest... I assume there was a reason he was given those to begin with, but I guess I can't really know if he actually tended to them.

[yakyuuman]

[ ... His immediate older brother is a drug dealer.

Somehow, that doesn't surprise Jyushimatsu any bit. It would be one of the paths in life Ichimatsu would take if he had the chance to. ]

Do you know who gave them to him? Or if he asked them at all?

[ Even still, it's weird that Ichimatsu would just ask for weed. He didn't really smoke any at home... unless he did it and nobody noticed - but Jyushimatsu could clearly tell from the smell if that was the case???


... He's overthinking it. He shakes his head. ]

Doesn't matter, I guess! I hope he was nice to you!

[onegreeneye]

He said he found the seeds on one of the islands that popped up a while back... he didn't choose to grow them, though. There... used to be what looked like a wolf trapped here with the rest of us, but I'm not sure that's what she really was. In any case, she was the one who grew the plants.

[You know, a thing wolves generally can't do, right up there with "constantly being wreathed in flame" and "having a mirror fixed to her back that not everyone could see".

To his credit, Ginko keeps from snorting at that. "Nice" seems like far too strong a word, but...] It went fine.

[yakyuuman]

Ohhh... well, that was kinda nice of her? I really can't imagine a wolf growing weed!

[ He shrugs, not asking further questions that might just confuse him more. ]

I'm happy to know it went fine with my brother! He can be very shy to strangers and stuff!

[onegreeneye]

Neither can I, unless the wolf was a god. [Which is what he's got to assume she was, frankly. It seems to him like the most likely explanation for an animal having powers like that.]

I did get that impression... seemed like he didn't really want to be talking to anyone at all, but he needed help identifying some of what the wolf grew. Fortunately, it was pretty quick.

[yakyuuman]

[ A wolf God is absolutely someone he's gotta meet... he's putting it in his bucket list.

After doing that, with a loud KACHIIIINK! that he only hears in his head, Jyushimatsu mentally rewinds and registers what Ginko tells him next. ]

Haha, he's like that! Won't talk to anyone unless he needs something from them! But I promise he's just really shy!

[onegreeneye]

Well, I can't very well fault him for that. [Ginko likes people in general just fine, and likes to interact with them when he can, but they do sometimes make him very tired.] He seemed like an alright guy, after all.

[yakyuuman]

He is! People just don't understand how shy and anxious he is! At least he didn't do anything weird like poop on a table!

[ That is, indeed, something Ichimatsu would do in extreme cases of social distress. ]

[onegreeneye]

That's... a hypothetical example, right?

[He hopes so much that it's hypothetical.]

[yakyuuman]

Depends on how realistic you think it would be!

[ Being vague on purpose for the sake of ~mystery~ and a bit of... trolling the troll. ]

[onegreeneye]

I... don't think I knew him well enough to determine that.

[So he's going to assume it was hypothetical, and exaggerated, and would not happen, because he doesn't need to think about that right now.]

[yakyuuman]

[ He laughs at that. ]

You should have gotten to know him better then! Maybe he's a bit too shy, but he's actually a very kind guy who loves cats! If you like cats then he would have been a good friend to you!

[onegreeneye]

I guess I'm not very good at getting to know people to begin with.

[He's smiling as he says it, even though it's not really a joke. For all that he gets attached to people, getting to know them is different.]

Anyway, I don't know that I have very strong feelings on cats one way or another. [Despite having thoroughly adopted a tigerlily cub that started following him around.] So I guess it's hard to say how we would have gotten along.