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nysalogs2018-12-13 11:45 am
thedarkbond) wrote in nysalogs2018-12-13 11:45 am
[closed] we took the long way around to the future we pursued
Who: Ren Suzugamori (thedarkbond) & people he ended up inviting (so Juno Steel (stuns), Mollymauk Tealeaf (mollymocked), Iskandar (conqueredhearts), Yusei Fudo (planetary_bonds), Allura (quintessent), Diana Cavendish (fiendennor), and Axel (icingonthecake))
What:not another birthday log Ren's 23rd birthday party, a.k.a. a study in cramming eight people into a tiny apartment (mostly).
When: December 12th
Where: Ren's tiny apartment in western Wyver, and then some of the Fyrran-Blessed Waters further out west.
Warning(s): Nudity b/c public baths, but nothing yet otherwise.
[About a week and a half ago, Ren sent out some texts to people he actually knows decently enough here to invite to a party - he eventually caved on his own intent and did actually tell everyone that he was inviting them to dinner for his birthday, but it came with the caveat of only having to bring a present if you wanted to. There's even a bonus shrugging kaomoji there to accentuate exactly how much he doesn't mind.
It's a little obvious once anyone gets there that Ren had to be a bit...specific about the logistics, though, because even eight total people in an apartment this small is going to be an interesting prospect. It's single room and puny, with even the bed lying on a heightened loft since there'd be no room for it on the main floor, with the kitchen beneath the loft and the rest of the room mostly taken up by a couch, a cupboard and some drawers, and a line of shelves that sticks out of the windowsill, a small brown cat lying on the cushioned top of these. There's a table dragged out slightly into the middle of the room with plenty of food all over it ranging from cute sweets like donuts, cookies and dorayaki (many with cat designs or icing), to...more cute sweets, to some actual proper food in-between all that, including sausages cut to look like octopi, some kind of rich soup in a very large self-serve bowl with lots of meat pieces in it (that Ren probably won't mention is tripe unless he's asked, because he doesn't think that's important as long as it tastes nice), and lots of takoyaki. He's playing to his favourites here, really, but it's all made well and it even looks like Ren might be a little tired from making it all (all rumours that he's tired from having fallen asleep in the stasis room the previous night are entirely fabricated). He doesn't have a singular cake, but instead a plate of cute cupcakes of kittens playing with yarn. Each one has a different fruit center, so feel free to trade them around to find out what they all are!
Though, honestly, you're going to be sharing at least one thing anyway, because nobody is getting any personal space around this table. You're going to be pretty much literally rubbing shoulders with the person next to you for the entire dinner segment, so enjoy that.
Thankfully, at least Ren realises that's not really viable for the entire night, so after dinner, anyone who's happy to depart then can leave, and anyone who enjoys a good public bath can follow Ren out further west, down a lengthy and winding path that it looks like Ren himself might not even remember the way down at points (though the fact that there's occasional salespeople offering towels and bath salts and the like is probably a good sign he's still going the right way). What lies at the end of it is a large, but secluded natural spring, water running gently into it from a second spring that lies slightly higher up. It's pleasantly warm despite the cold weather out, and once anyone sinks into the waters, they may find themselves even more relaxed than usual. It's a lovely night, the pool is surrounded by flowers and the occasional overhanging tree, and there's the pleasant buzz that comes after good food and probably some amount of alcohol.
Anyone who can't make their way back to their own home or prefers not to find an inn afterwards is welcome to stay overnight back at the apartment, but the main sleeping options are either the couch, on the floor with all the cushions, or sharing with Ren in the loft, which is not terribly roomy.]
thedarkbond) & people he ended up inviting (so Juno Steel (stuns), Mollymauk Tealeaf (mollymocked), Iskandar (conqueredhearts), Yusei Fudo (planetary_bonds), Allura (quintessent), Diana Cavendish (fiendennor), and Axel (icingonthecake)) What:
When: December 12th
Where: Ren's tiny apartment in western Wyver, and then some of the Fyrran-Blessed Waters further out west.
Warning(s): Nudity b/c public baths, but nothing yet otherwise.
[About a week and a half ago, Ren sent out some texts to people he actually knows decently enough here to invite to a party - he eventually caved on his own intent and did actually tell everyone that he was inviting them to dinner for his birthday, but it came with the caveat of only having to bring a present if you wanted to. There's even a bonus shrugging kaomoji there to accentuate exactly how much he doesn't mind.
It's a little obvious once anyone gets there that Ren had to be a bit...specific about the logistics, though, because even eight total people in an apartment this small is going to be an interesting prospect. It's single room and puny, with even the bed lying on a heightened loft since there'd be no room for it on the main floor, with the kitchen beneath the loft and the rest of the room mostly taken up by a couch, a cupboard and some drawers, and a line of shelves that sticks out of the windowsill, a small brown cat lying on the cushioned top of these. There's a table dragged out slightly into the middle of the room with plenty of food all over it ranging from cute sweets like donuts, cookies and dorayaki (many with cat designs or icing), to...more cute sweets, to some actual proper food in-between all that, including sausages cut to look like octopi, some kind of rich soup in a very large self-serve bowl with lots of meat pieces in it (that Ren probably won't mention is tripe unless he's asked, because he doesn't think that's important as long as it tastes nice), and lots of takoyaki. He's playing to his favourites here, really, but it's all made well and it even looks like Ren might be a little tired from making it all (all rumours that he's tired from having fallen asleep in the stasis room the previous night are entirely fabricated). He doesn't have a singular cake, but instead a plate of cute cupcakes of kittens playing with yarn. Each one has a different fruit center, so feel free to trade them around to find out what they all are!
Though, honestly, you're going to be sharing at least one thing anyway, because nobody is getting any personal space around this table. You're going to be pretty much literally rubbing shoulders with the person next to you for the entire dinner segment, so enjoy that.
Thankfully, at least Ren realises that's not really viable for the entire night, so after dinner, anyone who's happy to depart then can leave, and anyone who enjoys a good public bath can follow Ren out further west, down a lengthy and winding path that it looks like Ren himself might not even remember the way down at points (though the fact that there's occasional salespeople offering towels and bath salts and the like is probably a good sign he's still going the right way). What lies at the end of it is a large, but secluded natural spring, water running gently into it from a second spring that lies slightly higher up. It's pleasantly warm despite the cold weather out, and once anyone sinks into the waters, they may find themselves even more relaxed than usual. It's a lovely night, the pool is surrounded by flowers and the occasional overhanging tree, and there's the pleasant buzz that comes after good food and probably some amount of alcohol.
Anyone who can't make their way back to their own home or prefers not to find an inn afterwards is welcome to stay overnight back at the apartment, but the main sleeping options are either the couch, on the floor with all the cushions, or sharing with Ren in the loft, which is not terribly roomy.]
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I don't think so, no...I've only seen the stars just around this planet. Maybe even Nadril can't see out that far past here. [It would make sense that there'd be a limit to even that technology.] Though it'd be pretty cool if it did, right? I wonder if there's any other planets nearby with people on them.
[Given the subject, his tone is as innocently curious as it ever tends to be when he's talking to her, even if he's been much less careful about maintaining that face than usual tonight.]
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And yeah, don’t think she hasn’t noticed the mismatch in demeanor throughout the night. Especially by this point in the evening (since, presumably, he’s been openly acting out with all of the other guests by now). It’s less that he feels particularly duplicitous — most people put on difference faces for different people — but it still brings some of their… earlier interactions into a different light.
But he’s lucky that her interest in the star chart supersedes her skepticism (for now). Although she can’t help but be a little disappointed at its scope.]
If it did, I would hope that maybe I could find any constellations that were familiar.
[A slim chance since the universe is a mighty big place, but the hope is still there.]
Was it a gift for your birthday?
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I got it from Nurray-san a little while ago for helping her with something, so it wasn't a present, just a reward. I don't know if you'd be able to find something like this here normally, even in Nadril...
[He rubs the back of his hair with a slight frown, a gesture complicated by the fact that his hair is currently in a bun of truly colossal proportions. They do have more technology than the rest of the planet, and it does seem slightly odd that a place built off old Natha technology wouldn't have star charts like this in more wide use, but he goes up towards Nadril to buy things every so often, and he's never seen one of these in a shop up there.]
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Nurray seems to have access to an assortment of interesting trinkets.
[Said like someone who has some familiarity with doing tasks for Nurray and maybe gathered an item of her own. But if Ren’s hoping that she’ll explain further, he’s out of luck as silence settles between them and she turns her head from the device, to its mirror in the sky. She’s spent plenty of time looking since her first arrival, first out of hope that she would find something familiar, later because it was the only view from their little planet they called home.]
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Ren follows Allura's gaze upwards a few moments later, letting the silence hover for a respectful few seconds before breaking it, slightly softly.]
Do you miss it? Being out there?
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I have never been... grounded for so long.
[Even on Altea, being from a space-faring people, they were always zipping here and there across the universe. As far as she was concerned, the stars were her home as much as any planet.]
Maybe that is why it has taken me so long to become... accustomed to this planet.
[Nysa had it's own charm, just as Olkarian, or Arus, or any of the planets in between, but she still felt like an outsider.]
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[Ren's unfortunate "grounding" is more of a mental thing than a physical one, but it sets him uneasy as well. He's never had silence from Cray for this long...or the units he can speak to. He can feel that they're still alive, but as long as they're in stasis, there's no answer.]
I think there's people who'll want to try and make it so we can travel further out than here.
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It is natural, to want to explore beyond your horizons.
[To be content just staying and being satisfied with the small space of land they've been given — no matter how large it truly was — was more unnatural to her than the opposite. Even civilizations in their youngest years had people wanting to know more, craving knowledge and experience,]
If I ever can reunite with my Blue Lion, I would be interested to explore the area around this planet. I don't recognize any of the stars nearby from any star map I've seen before.
[Then again, space is a very very very big place. There would always be more places that she didn't know about, no matter how far out she explored. Stars, before Lance and the others came to her castleship, she didn't even know about Earth's existence.]
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[It's almost definitely not literal, but still, he has a hard time beliving anything that can be described as a "lion" would be uncool. Cats are good, and even bigger cats are even better.]
I think it would be pretty interesting too, though. I never left my own galaxy, but that's because we couldn't really do it easily in my time.
[Well. He technically hasn't left his own galaxy, but his spirit probably doesn't count for the purposes of this conversation. He can't even say he's never left Earth, since he went to the moon that one time.]
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[He probably didn't need that spelled out, but there's been confusion in the past before about it. And she's always happy to talk about the Lions. And it is very cool.]
The earthlings — my friends — the earth that they came from was only beginning to explore the edges of their solar system. It is hard for me to imagine.
[Travelling the stars was as common to her as... sailing a boat, or driving an automobile is to other, simpler societies.
She looks back at Ren- just for a tick before she remembers that he is all but naked, and she very quickly turns her eyes to the sky again.]
Would you want to leave your galaxy, if you had the chance?
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The Earth she's familiar with sounds a bit like the kind of time he's familiar with, or maybe a bit further on. Nonetheless, he nods a little in understanding, glancing back to her when she looks to him (and perhaps smiling slightly in amusement when she turns away so quickly).
The question of galaxy travel is...an interesting one for Ren, but one he has an answer ready for.] Of course. I think there's definitely more interesting places to go to out there somewhere.