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Aerith Gainsborough ([personal profile] cetrary) wrote in [community profile] aterat2022-06-25 01:47 am

It's a Watts party! (Just don't tell him)

Who; Aerith + YOU
What; Potluck party
Where; Gray building's downstairs common room
When; Sunday June 26th; after 4pm
Warnings; None


Aerith co-opted the common room of the gray building starting on Saturday when she began the process of decoration. The most important part of any decoration (especially for Watts) was the flowers and Aerith had put together a few center pieces for tables. Each flower that she'd chosen had symbolized friendship in some way and they were set up in the center of small tables that had been brought inside. Of course she wasn't the one that moved those tables, she had a trust bodyguard for things like that, but she did the decorating!

And the cooking! The main attraction was a pretzel bar in the center of the room. Please, thank Cloud for bringing it in and Jacob for making the pretzel rack at Aerith's request. The soft pretzels were premade and there were plenty for everyone who may come through to have several (if not more). In addition to that there were also several dipping sauces to choose from including cheese, caramel, cinnamon sugar, honey mustard, and a spicy ginger sauce with chili flakes (eat at your own risk).

A table next to it had Materia Xiaolongbao. Yellow is crab flavor, black is soybean, blue is pork, green is cilantro, and red is spicy shrimp. Next to those are tiny moogle sweet bean buns. They fit in the palm of your hand but some of the moogles look...a lot better than others. She did her best!

There was another table with a few drinks set up for people to grab including a materia bomb cocktail with a bit of alcohol and different flavored materia ice (peach, strawberry, and blueberry) and bright green bubble tea with pop bubbles in the bottom. The green tea is flavored like something very different than one might expect it to be, it's a bit bit bitter and yet also a bit sharp, almost biting. It's meant to be the flavor of wind, whatever that's supposed to be. The pop bubbles are extremely sour and explode in the mouth with the sourness. The drink is also somehow fizzy, don't ask how.

A third table was empty save for the friendship bouquet at it's center. There was a little handwritten note on the table saying:

Leave your dishes here! Complete with a heart.


Aerith herself can be found wandering around and paying close attention to the drink table, making sure to run back to the kitchen quickly to grab more drinks if they run low.

OOC: Feel free to use this log as an open thing for anyone to mingle and get to know each other. Characters are welcome even if they didn't bring a dish themselves, but the more dishes the better! Anyone is welcome to come even if they didn't know she was throwing this party, it'd be pretty obvious that there was something going on in the Gray Building and she'll be leaving the door open with a small table that has a friendship flower bouquet on it. Please have some fun!
kree_soldieress: Lauri-Ell from Captain Marvel (Default)

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-09 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but is it a story you would tell?" she asks, looking excited. "I do not cook much, I have never cooked actually. But things like this would be perfect for eating at the forge!"

And she wanted to have good lunches.
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-10 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I ain't a cookbook, there's steps." He breathed a sigh. "You gotta know how to make rice, first. Can you do that?"
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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-11 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
What? Oh no, she looks rather ashamed to be asked that.

"No, I do not. Is it hard?"
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-14 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
He did not have the time or the patience for teaching someone how to cook.

"Yeah, it can be. Might want to get a rice cooker instead, then there's types of rice."
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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-15 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
That was heartbreaking. She looks so upset over not knowing how to make rice.

"Different types. Oh. I... I did no know this."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-18 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
He didn't say anything for a moment, nodding instead. "Yeah. You don't look like you're from my neck of the woods." And it would be foolish to think that all places had things like rice.

"Don't worry about the recipe right now, just enjoy the party." It would be easy enough to ask around and find out about where the large, blue lady lived. She could expect a book from the Historium in the next few days on varieties of rice, along with a handwritten recipe for sushi rice, and basic onigiri, with no return address. "What kind of stuff do you eat where you're from?"
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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-18 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I have never been in woods before," Lauri-Ell said. Yes, it was reasonable to say that she was not from there then. Of course, she didn't know metaphors, sorry.

"ALright," she says, voice a little sad. Though she would be so happy when the things arrived.

"Kree... eat nutritional rations in the military. I did learn about pizza when I visited my sister's apartment in New York City. There was a lot of cheese."
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[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-21 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
He blinked at that response. It had, of course, been metaphor, but he could also roll with it.

"Not even the woods here?"

It was off topic, but he was starting to find himself interested in this giant blue lady.

"Wait. Yeah, okay, but what about...Kree who aren't in the military? What do they eat?"
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... Shinjiro without a hat just made me FREEZE.

[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-22 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not even the woods here," she agreed. "To be a blacksmith is to be very busy. When I take time for it I am either tending the greenhouses, or learning things. Or helping to fight something weird."

Like giant evil plants. As for his question, she looks thoughtful for a long moment.

"I admit, I do not know. I have not spent social time with other Kree."
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It is something of a facet

[personal profile] castoredux 2022-07-26 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
She sounded like someone who liked routines to him, and he could appreciate that. Most of the time his preference was being left to his own devices, but that didn't mean he didn't have his own habits.

"Shit, that's sad. You should take some time to yourself."
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[personal profile] kree_soldieress 2022-07-27 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, routines are very useful. They can make things that are scary very easy to understand. One could face the worst in the world if you had a routine to fall back on.

"I have weekends and evenings off. I use that for my learning," she says brightly.