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WHO: Tatsuo Kihara (

invocate), & OPEN
WHERE: all over town
WHEN: throughout the month
WHAT: I'm being lazy and mushing open logs for both of them into one post
WARNINGS: n/a

TATSUO

A -- let's paint this town tonight

Finding and painting back into existence his apartment had been priority number one for Tatsuo at the beginning of this month. Shortly followed by the police department and crime lab. That... had taken a while. With both of those objectives met, Tatsuo went in search of the dojo, but it's proving a bit elusive. What he found instead was the pet shelter.

Which he'd almost walked past except he heard the animals inside and couldn't really just leave them there, white and blank. So he spent a good afternoon getting the exterior mapped out, snagging any passersby to help.

"Hey, do you have a minute? It's going to take more than one person to get this done."

B -- wrong color

Someone was kind enough to paint back one of the supermarkets in Tisse, though not everything had been restored to its proper color yet.

Except the bananas. Sitting there, bright yellow in the middle of the produce department.

For some reason, that just irked Tatsuo, so he pulled out his paintbrush and recolored them a mild shade of blue.

Sometimes you wanted blue bananas, okay?

C -- feeling a bit blue

It was about halfway through the month when Tatsuo realized he's not heard from or seen certain individuals on the network. A few he'd bumped into in person on the street or at work, but been too distracted to realize they hadn't still been on the network. Something had felt off, but it took a while for him to put together exactly what.

When he did, it hit a bit hard. He was used to one or two, maybe three people getting reset at a time. But this time it'd been five. And some of them he'd been quite close to. Sure, he could still talk to a few of them, but it wasn't the same. It'd never be the same again unless Retrospec put them back on the network.

That evening he found a bar that's been outlined back into existence and ordered a drink. Liquor still tasted the same, even if didn't have color.

LI-NA

A -- the grass is greener pt 1

Li-Na quickly got the hang of how to paint outlines with her paintbrush, but actually painting things green was a little trickier since it required someone else with a green paintbrush. Maybe you just painted that grass green with her, or maybe you were just walking by after her partner departed, but one of those brush creatures was currently sweeping away said green. And Li-Na was not having it. She waved her paintbrush at the creature, trying to chase it off.

"Stop! Leave that alone! We just finished that!"

B -- the grass is greener pt 2

It was fairly easy to paint back the buildings are ground level, and even a story or two up if you had a good arm. But Recolle had a number of skyscrapers and frankly painting them from the bottom up was a bit daunting if you weren't sure where they ended. So Li-Na loaded up a bag of paint filled water balloons and used her boots to locate the tops of buildings. A few splashes here and there until she located the very top and then lobbing balloons in each cardinal direction to locate the buildings around it.

So if you looked up and spotted Li-Na perched on seemingly nothing, it's just a building she hadn't fully marked the top edge of yet.

C -- is that your real...?

Between repainting the city and sleeping, Li-Na made sure to go to school (the high school having been one of the first locations she helped paint back). Finals were coming up, and even though Li-Na technically did not actually need to graduate from Recolle High, she still wanted to put in the proper effort until the end of the school year. Especially in her more difficult subjects.

But with the collapse of the layers, some of her classmates had taken renewed notice of her hair and eyes.

"There's no way she grew her hair that fast. It was chin length before Christmas." "And who would want to wear extensions that long every day? It would get soooooo heavy." "Do they even make extensions that color? I bet you it's a wig." "How does it never slip? She even wears it in gym class." "She's so weird, wearing a wig. And did you see her eyes? Purple contacts."

Li-Na could mostly ignore the whispering behind her in class. But must they do it during class? She was trying to listen to the teacher!

D -- relaxing cup of tea

For the most part, Li-Na kept herself busy. Painting and school and dance classes once the studio was painted back. One afternoon she found a bubble tea shop and decided she could use a short break. White bubble tea is better than no bubble tea after all. It took almost an hour to properly paint back the interior of the shop, but once it was done she ordered a coconut milk tea. Alas, no jellies, because without color they couldn't tell which ones were which.

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[Derek takes a bit more time drinking his second drink. Savoring the flavor. As He does so, he looks at the drink menu.]

They have red current rum. Want to try that? Or do you want to try butterbeer? It's not alcoholic though if you want to get completely smashed tonight.

Red current rum? That sounds interesting.

[in other words, he's here to get smashed, save the non-alcoholic stuff for another night]

Getting smashed it is then.

[Derek orders to red current rums and slides one over to Tatsuo.]

Try that. And afterwards we can try the mead.

Hmmm. This is nice. Kind of fruity.

[Tatsuo can already feel the two shots of firewhiskey starting to hit him, so he sips the rum a little more slowly.]

Mead is made from honey, right?

[Derek nods.]

With various fruits and spices if I'm remembering correctly.

[Derek takes a sip of his red current rum and hums.]

Oh, this is good. Captain Jack had a very good reason to like this stuff.

You can actually drink this on its own.

[though in the future, he'll probably have it a little watered down if he's not looking to get smashed]

I dunno if what Jack Sparrow had tasted this good though.

He probably couldn't afford it.

[Derek takes a larger sip of his drink.]

Now, isn't this better than drinking that coke and rum concoction? This is much more satisfying.

Hey, I like a rum and coke. Has a nice fizz to it and the coke sweetens the rum a little.

[and halves the alcohol content of the drink]

Rum and coke should not be considered an actual alcoholic drink.

[Derek takes another sip of his drink.]

What are your favorite alcoholic drinks anyway?

There is rum in it. Therefore it has an alcohol content. Therefore it is alcoholic.

[Tatsuo sips his drink as he considers whether he actually has a favorite alcoholic drink]

If by 'favorite' you means, which drinks I order most often, then the Americano or sake in general. If you mean which drinks do I like, then probably just sake.

Sake huh? I used to think the sake you bought was good... until I drank the sake Jirou and Kenta serve. It sucks I can't make that a regular thing I drink.

There is such thing as 'too much of a good thing,' and that sake counts as one of them.

[Derek takes a sip of his drink.]

Ridiculous.

The price certainly is.

RIGHT?!?! Why can't they make sake that for us normal middle class people with normal middle class jobs?

I think those would be the bottles in the $50 to $200 range. $50 for when we're wanting something nice, and $200 for when we're already drunk and someone let us near a computer.

Hmmmm... I have to watch what I spend right now. I have to use most of my money this money towards rent. And then I'm moving the beginning of next month. My roommate took up a new job in New York, so I'm stuck with double the rent. No way I can afford a $200 bottle of sake.

Not right now. But after you move into your new place, you'll have plenty to spare.

[Derek takes another swig of his drink.]

Perhaps... or I could save my money for a bit and get some savings. I'm going to be mostly broke by the end of the month.

[Tatsuo chuckles and finishes his drink]

Savings. I should probably do something like that too.

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