( closed ) team absinthe party

[maskreant]

WHO: TEAM ABSINTHE
WHERE: Catmosphere Cafe
WHEN: September 17th
WHAT: Team "I lost my finger" Absinthe unwinding with some kitties. We mingle, we pet cats, and we threadjack all we want.
WARNINGS: Also cat puns.

WELCOME TO CATMOSPHERE CAFE!


Akira pulled some strings to reserve the entire place for the evening just for his teammates from Team Absinthe. He will still be dressed as a butler for the sake of keeping the Royal Servant theme. The cafe is decorated appropriately with a couple of grand thrones and curtains to fit. Unfortunately, he couldn't bribe his coworkers to help him, so command him as you will.

The menu includes an assortment of cat pastries, sandwiches, and cat-themed drinks (capurrcinos, kitteas, the list goes on). There's also salad and fruit for the health conscious, of course. There are gluten-free alternatives as well. Food and drinks must be picked up in the kitchen (we don't want the cats making a mess) or served by yours truly.

All cats are available today dressed in their royal garb and will be wandering around the cafe. The team may feed these little fiends some cat treats provided by the cafe, but they may swipe some treats off your plate if you dare blink.

If you even care about music, the cafe is playing songs along the style of these numbers: 1, 2 and 3.

Comments

The Fingercutter Herself Arrives

[storytelleroftime]

[Maggie shows up... surprisingly well dressed, all things considered. She's wearing a dress, sleeveless, a dark shade of purple that fits tightly and goes down to her knees, with a black vest over it. Of course, for most of team Absinthe, what might catch their eye is not her fashion choices, but how smaller she looks. Not in terms of height, she's not that much shorter, it is largely a proportion-related thing, but there is a visible age difference and Maggie, who already looked kind of young, now looks even younger.

[She draws absolutely no attention to this fact herself, in fact, she's tired of doing so. She simply grabs some cat treats and takes a seat in one of the thrones, letting the four fingers of her left hand idly tap on the arm of the seat.]

[sharplydressed]

[Well, there's no real good way of bringing this up... No delicate path to approach this at all. He does approach himself, though, carrying a fat and sleepy cat in his arms that he's wooed over with treats.]

...S'this what you were talking about?

[There's plenty of room there for her to either answer directly, or to dodge out of answering if it's not a topic she wants to get into.]

[storytelleroftime]

[It takes her a moment to figure out what he's talking about, until her mind drifts to the obvious.]

"Yep. So... how do you think I look?"

[Absolutely terrible is what her mind autocompletes to, but she doesn't actually fully think that. She's used to it by now, and she thinks she looks passable, if rather young at this point.]

[sharplydressed]

Young.

[That's absolutely a no-hesitation first impression and an honest answer...]

...I knew someone else who had to deal with something like this too, but I'm assuming this is kind of a permanent thing for you?

[Which wasn't the case with Akinobu...]

[storytelleroftime]

"Yeah. Been two weeks at this point, if it wasn't permanent I think I would be aware of that by now."

[And that it was permenant was honestly just why she had adjusted to it. Or well, why she made herself adjust to it. If she was never going to return to normal, than embracing the new normal was the only sensible option she had.]

"Still, just means things have to change. And if I let a little change completely destroy me then... what kind of person would I be?"

Re: The Fingercutter Herself Arrives

[commandertoolbelt]

Queen Maggie!

[ Flourishing one hand, Leo gives her an exaggerated bow. When he looks up again, he’s grinning and leans down long enough to scoop up a kitten to offer her. One cannot approach a queen without a gift or whatever. ]

Too bad we couldn’t keep that crown, huh? It’d suit you right now.

[storytelleroftime]

"You really think so?"

[With a bit of hesitation, she takes the kitten from him and puts it on her lap, almost possessively, in fact.]

"But yeah. I deserve that crown after last month. And, if nothing else, we all deserve this gathering!"

[commandertoolbelt]

Might be a little big for you now, but that’s nothing we can’t fix! Obviously if we have more than one monarch running around here, we’ll need a high queen. Maybe you’re the one we’re looking for!

[ There are plenty of kittens to go around, so he leaves that one to Maggie, opting to grab a toy and dangle it in the air for one of the others. ]

We were already kind of planning on dropping by sometime, but I’m kind of glad Akira beat us to the punch, you know? Otherwise we wouldn’t be getting the royal treatment.

[complementing]

Bored of us already?

[Minako is walking over, but the smile on her face is amused, her own plate piled up impossibly high with sweets.]

[storytelleroftime]

"Well, duh. I'm way cooler than you all."

[She jokes, as she reaches forward and steals food from Minako's plate, beginning to eat it.]

[complementing]

[The nerve. Well, there's plenty more, so she can't be too put out. She's definitely going to hold her plate out of reach now, though.]

Coolness is subjective.

[cattack]

[Since her adventures with Team Absinthe, Cleo has since grown a tail. Which is probably a bit weird, but do you dare comment on this to the girl who has a sword?

On the other hand, this is the happiest Cleo's looked in a while, since as soon as she sits down, she's absolutely covered in cats. A few of them seem to be going for her pockets, where she keeps cat treats, but otherwise they just seem to like crawling on her?]

They're friendly ones, huh?

[sharplydressed]

Wow... What's your secret, huh? I've been trying to get these cats to like me for hours.

[He probably hasn't even been here for hours yet?! But look, he wants cats to love him too and tragically he just gets Aloof Cats who want his snacks and nothing else.]

[cattack]

I suppose it's that I'm partial to cats.

[she twitches her cat ear in emphasis.

... it's a pun. because she's part-cat. get it. get it.

(this is as good as her sense of humor ever gets and i'm sorry.)]

[sharplydressed]

[PUNS... But he can appreciate them honestly, and ends up covering a laugh.]

I guess that probably helps, huh? [He's also like the very last person to judge cat people considering he's a sword person, himself... Pulling out the remainder of the treats he has on him, he'll crouch down near a cluster of cats.]

The rest of us are just gonna have to bribe them with food like usual. Picky little guys...

[complementing]

[She laughs as she walks over, Koromaru lifted in her arms like a big baby.]

Yeah, they don't mind Korochan at all. Though they look like they love you. I wanna cuddle some of them too!

[cattack]

[oh god it's minako

OH GOD DON'T FREAK OUT]

I think it's because they can smell treats on me... Here, I'll lend you some if you want to steal a few of them.

[complementing]

[Minako flops down next to Cleo and settles Koromaru at her feet.]

Yes, please~

[complementing]

[If anyone bore witness to Minako's heavy grief at the beginning of the month, all of that is gone now. Sure she still has dark circles under her eyes, but her smile is back, and both she and Koromaru are communing with several of the cats throughout the whole night.

Wanna play with Koromaru? He'll be happy to join you, so long as you're careful not to step on all his new cat friends!

Minako is humming and hip popping to that second song on the tracklist while she tries to coax one of the cats out from his cat tree hidey hole. You can find her doing that...or find her after the cat has used her head as a platform to spring away from her to another cat tree.]

I guess he doesn't like me...

[sharplydressed]

[He might've missed Minako's grief, but the news of a death had certainly swept through the city, and being the Millennial he is, he'd seen a lot of the resulting drama sweep across the network. It's good, then to see that she seems to be in a pleasant mood!

Even with cats springboarding from her head and vanishing into the cat tree ether... Look at it go, so agile, so impressive!]

Maybe he likes you just fine! As a trampoline, but y'know, we can't win 'em all.

[complementing]

I guess so...

[Even though she loves cats, she's definitely a dog person...you can almost see the droopy ears and tail as her shoulders slump.]

I would try to tempt it with more treats, but I've fed it at least four before this. He's way too smart, eating them when I offer them but not coming out at all.

[sharplydressed]

[He would definitely say she seems more like a dog person than a cat person, even just knowing the scant amount about her that he does... He glances over toward the crafty treat-stealing cat, and then gestures to a different climbing toy.]

How about we try over there, instead? There's a really fluffy cat under there named Hamburger that lets you pet him even if you don't have treats. He's my faaavorite, so far!

[AND INDEED if she looks, there's a bushy white tail sticking out from around the side of the base...]

[cheetahsenpai]

[Kuramochi stifles a yawn as he walks in. He finally managed to get some sleep after their crazy adventure and everything that followed. He wonders if that's the same for everybody on his way to the cat cafe. He walks inside and takes a seat at the nearest table to look at the menu. There are a lot of different food and drinks with cat puns. He's amazed at how many they could make on one menu.

While he deciding on what he wants, he looks down at one of the cats that brushes his leg. He grins as he leans down to rubs their head.]

Hey there, what do you think I should order?

[sharplydressed]

Hm? Well, if you like sweet things, definitely go for the caramel meow-cchiato. That pairs super well with dry biscuits too, like the bean-toe biscotti! But totally go for an Earl Grey or Red Rooibos kittea if you don't want something super sugary.

[He doesn't even work here... But look, once a barista, always a barista. Matching food and drinks is his forte!]

[cattack]

Order a cat.

[she's just gonna set one on his shoulder...]