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[voideity]

WHO: Roxy Strider, and you!
WHERE: Various places in Recollé.
WHEN: Between the third and tenthish, probably.
WHAT: A lemonade stand, a sandcastle, caroling, an obstacle course, and a wildcard option. Basically, a bingo catchall.
WARNINGS: F-bombs aside, Roxy is fairly PG.

july 6th. lemonade, feat. beyonce

[ lemonade stands. a summer staple for young girls across 'merica. for some dumb as reason since lemon is pretty tart and not really refreshing?? but whatever.

if you're at the park today in viea village, you will find an almost decent LEMONAIDE STAND *ade $2.50 in a nice shadey spot. but instead of being run by some cute, small children it's run by a 20yo woman wearing a a crop top and blasting beyonce from a bluetooth speaker shaped like a cat. but there is lemonade! one of those pitchers with spouts is full of the yellow stuff. there is a second one with pink lemonade, as well. there's a stack of white paper cups.

at passerby, the "aren't you a little old for a lemonade stand?" woman is saying, ] Lemonade! Fresh homemade lemonade, made with the FRESHEST of actual lemons that were just dancin' this morning! Get it here folks.

[ beneath the table one can fairly easily spot the box of crystal light drink mixes. there's also an 80% chance she used the drinking fountains for water... listen, she's drinking it? it's safe?? ]

july 7th. sandcastles in the sky

[ are you at the beach today? is your eye drawn to odd sand-structures? then you're in luck, because there is a girl in a pink bikini and short shorts trying to build a sand... something

a castle, maybe? it looks like roxy has taken some design tips from picasso. being that she's 5'6, the piles of sand seem to be reaching that as well. the trouble is apparently making it look like a castle. there's also patches of beach that are clearly missing sand. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO BUILD A 5'6" SANDCASTLE?? ]

july 7th, evening. never gonna let you down

[ do you live in a nondescript apartment building somewhere that I'm being vague about so as to allow for wiggleroom in who replies? then you might not want to answer the door this evening when you hear a knock.

but if you do answer it, you will find a young blonde woman. she's holding a a sheet of music. she begins to sing. ]

We're no strangers to looooooove. You know the rules and so do I do I. A full commitment's what I'm, thinking of. You wouldn't get this from any other guy.

[ her voice is actually decent, but she goes a bit high and a little... someone singing the national anthem at a football game is comparison. she's really putting in the soul??? THE PASSION. will you let her even get to the part everyone knows, person? ]

july 8th. obstacle course

[ at the park again? then get ready to wonder why there are a fuckton of pumpkins and green gray cubes covering a section of grass. like, somewhere between 300-500 of each, uh. they appear to be organized into some sort of... obstacle course.

the course features: a few cube walls to be jumped over, a pumpkin hopscotch, cube stepping stones, a pumpkin-and-cube staircase leading to the monkey bars, the entire playground is apparently an option to run through before you hit a waist-high wall of pumpkins and cubes sturdily stacked agaisnt a bench.

and you may approach just in time to see a blonde girl try to dramatically leap over the final wall... only to miss and catch her foot on the bench sending it all, and herself, crashing to the grassy knoll below. ] MOTHERFUCK--

[ roxy there are CHILDREN around holy shit ]

wildcard

[ or hit me with something else. roxy's own bingo card is here, so if you'd like a square hit me up at mercurialfelines. ]

Comments

sands

[wordcarvings]

[ Today, Koutarou is at the beach with some of his family. Whom he wishes to avoid, because things are not good between them. Anyway. He spots her trying to make a very artistic sand castle. Though she seems to be having some trouble with it? ]

Would you like any help?

[ She's about his height too, and he needs to build a sand castle for the bingo card as well. ]

Park

[truedetective]

[Oh, a lemonade stand! Oh, it's... being run by a grown woman. Naoto looks to the left, and looks to the right, and sees no kids making a beeline for the stand. But the misspelling...] Are you holding the stand for a sibling of yours, perhaps?

july 7

[splinten]

I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand—

[He raises his eyebrows and shows her this one on his bingo card. Might as well get it done here.]

[voideity]

[ roxy glances up just as one of her attempts at a tower begins to crumble. ]

Oh, I dunno, are you a licensed sand contractor?

[ she's joking please help her her sand contractor license expired. ]

[wordcarvings]

[ Maybe she's trying to make this endeavor more complicated than it has to be... Though he doesn't disapprove of trying to make it artsy. ]

I'm afraid that the only sculpting I have done is in clay. But if you would be fine with that being my only experience...?

[ Being able to sculpt a little in clay is far different from building sand castles, but that doesn't matter, does it? ]

Off to the beach!

[yamagishi]

[It really shouldn't surprise Fuuka that things were getting a bit interesting as of late. Now that she heard about these bingo cards, it feels like she should be ready for just about anything that might come her way!

Although, the moment that she saw patches of sand missing? And seeing a young woman trying to make a giant sandcastle?

Obviously, there was one conclusion!]

You're really ambitious, aren't you?

Rick Roll - Oh God I'm laughing so hard right now.

[totallynotanoni]

[ Katherine just stands there, completely caught off guard by this girl caroling Rick Astley at her door. Kai is barking in the background, alarmed by the sudden singing.]

What?

[voideity]

Nope! All mine. Why, don't I look like your standard lemonade proprietoress?

[ she knows damn well she doesn't. she could have lied and said yes and made up a six-year-old sibling but she's proud of her work even if that work includes... a misspelled banner by a grown ass adult in college. ]

[voideity]

[ is it still caroling is the carolee is also singing. OH WELL, twin duet!! maybe she will just drag him around to his neighbors to be Serious Carolers. ]

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you dooooooown. Never gonna run around and desert youuu.

Sandcastles in the sky

[burlyheart]

[Peter is too new to this Retrospec business to get a bingo card. He went to the beach to prove something to himself, to really burn it in. As soon as he steps out of his car Peter can see all the way to the horizon the expanse of grey ocean. He already knew that would be true, but the sight makes for a deeper impression.

Now that he's here, Peter thinks it's a waste to leave immediately, and soon he's talking a walk with a popsicle from a broadwalk vendor. He only intended to walk by himself and let the seabreeze go through his hair, but Peter stops and looks with curiosity at the strange mounds of sand across the beach.]

Excuse me, young lady, are you practicing abstract sculpture?

[Peter doesn't even realize his accidental diss.]

[splinten]

Never gonna make you cry, never gonna SAY goodbye, Never gonna tell a lieeee, and hurt you!

[This is very serious. They're very serious kids.]

for ami

[voideity]

[ insert a boardwalk joke here, because that's where roxy is. listen, it's summer and summer is supposed to be about beaches, boardwalks, and staring dejectedly at your fallen ice cream when you inevitably drop it to the boardwalk ground when trying to get the Perfect instagram picture. ]

Ya'd think they'd learn to make, like, spill-resistant ice cream by now.

[ ami will likely recognize roxy from her retrospec userpic (which is a selfie) or just from. kind of looking like an older, female dave strider tbqh. ]

[livingdeadgirl]

[Ami recognizes her for both those reasons! She herself may be a little harder to identify, though, since for some reason (bingo. bingo is the reason) she's eschewing her usual goth aesthetic in favor of a lighter look. She even wore her hair down and wore makeup that isn't black! Seriously who is this kid, she looks completely different]

Oh nooooo! [D: That's a sad sight. Perfectly good ice cream, wasted! Let us observe a moment of silence for-]

Yeah, I think the best you're gonna get for spill resistance is waffle cones, unfortunately. Or just getting it in a cup, but where's the fun in that?

[truedetective]

[Blink.] No, you don't. [She feels like she's being pranked. She looks at the sign.] You misspelled "lemonade."

Though, uh, I see you corrected it at least.

[voideity]

I wouldn't have to be so ambitious if I was like, three feet shorter.

[ she smiles, then thinks about it for a minute. ]

Or, well, I guess it wouldn't, cause being two feet tall building a two foot tall sandcastle would be just as hard? Perspective, or whatever.

[voideity]

[ these is no more serious kids than this set of strider twins, singing an 80s pop ballad. ]

We've known each other for so long. Your heart's been aching, but, you're too shy to say it.

[splinten]

Inside we both know what's been—going on. We know the game and we're gonna playyy it—

[It's genuinely horrifying how straight-faced he does this.]

[voideity]

[ roxy just continues, grinning and belting out the lyrics. ]


I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling, gotta make you understand.

Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you doooown, Never gonna run around and deseeeeert you. Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna saaay goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you!

[ now she's just. adding an air guitar solo. ]

[voideity]

[ roxy definitely hears the accidental diss, and even if she would normally give an older handsome man a creepy wink because she's. roxy. instead she just sort of gives him a are you kidding me look. but it disappears quickly because ok yeah her castle sucks. ]

It's supposed to be sculpted like a fricken' castle, but this shit is way harder than it looks on TV.

[ it seemed like it would be so easy?? just shape sand like a castle! easy! turns out: not easy. for a novice with no building skills, anyway. ]

so sorry for the lateness on this!!

[voideity]

[ the silence is definitely observed. honestly she's half considering picking up the scoop and just, eating it, but it's Not Worth It. ]

Man, that's just sad. Cups suck. Unless they're like, a cone cup? Like if they made a cup out of the cone stuff, that'd be cool.

[ she glances over and doesn't quite recognize ami, but has the vague idea that she looks familiar?? it's a small city, who doesn't look familiar. ] Nice outfit.

no worries!

[livingdeadgirl]

Waffle bowls are a thing, actually! I know Baskin Robbins has them for sure.

[Ami glances down at her borrowed outfit and smiles sheepishly.] Thanks. It looks pretty preppy, right? Normally I'm all goth all the time, but it's for bingo...

[yamagishi]

I don't know though, it still seems like it'll take a lot of work simply building a tall sandcastle!

[She said before walking a bit closer]

But would you like any help with that?

Still laughing.

[totallynotanoni]

[It takes a few more seconds for her to recover from the initial shock, but when she does, its still pretty damn awkward.]

Um, pardon, but could you please stop singing? Your riling my dog up. [Kai is still going ballistic in the background, eagerly scratching at the doggy gate to get a closer look at the interesting new lady. Its less territorial aggressiveness and more playful curiosity, honestly, but riled up is still a pretty good word for it.]