( 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.]

[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.]

[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...]

[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.)]

[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.

[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...

[sharplydressed]

That's a pretty good way of thinking about it.

[Or rather, one of the only ways that still allows for someone in her kind of situation to function normally... He can understand that mentality to a degree.]

Most people without the network'll probably stop noticing how weird it is that you're suddenly a different age soon, too. I mean, if they ever noticed anything weird at all, anyway.

[cattack]

[She laughs, pulling the one that was climbing her shoulder off and setting it down near Kashuu.]

Do you want some advice?

[sharplydressed]

I'd love some advice.

[#1 goal in life: get cats to love him. ...Or #2, since #1 is probably more like "figure out what's going on with Retrospec and these wild days of our youth".]

[cattack]

Don't approach them. Let them approach you.

[She tosses a couple of treats his way...]

Get low, be as non-threatening as possible, and don't make any sudden movements. Hold out a hand and let them sniff and investigate you. Don't try to pet them or play with them before they're ready for it, or you'll only scare them off.

[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...

[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.]

[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.

[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.]

[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!"

[complementing]

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

Yes, please~

[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]

H- Here you are...

[aaa cute dog

but you know those thought bubbles

there's one of those over her head now with just a pink scribble of confusion

but she doesn't notice, all she's doing is handing minako a small bag of treats, and the cats follow the bag with their eyes]

[complementing]

[Minako notices it but being the polite girl, she won't say anything (yet), only taking the bag and pulling a treat out. And then, very seriously to the cats:]

Please come cuddle with me.

[cattack]

[if it weren't nearly midnight you would get a bunch of shitty gagtags about the thirstiest cat listening to her

but sadly it is so you will just have to imagine them

the cats are definitely interested, and in fact, she is soon covered in cats.]

They sure changed their tune about me quickly...