Holiday Reminder

[senpaidol]

Hey guys! I started trying to figure out the date again and realized something important. Since we had that month of Liminal weirdness that changed the Jaunt schedule, it shooould be about the middle of February. As much as that means anything here. You know what that means!

...well if you're from modern Earth, you know what that means. If you're not, it's Valentine's Day! It's a holiday for spending time with someone you love and sharing candy with them. Also with friends and family but maybe that's just a Japan thing. Either way, we can do it here.

Anyone who wants to try and make some chocolate, come meet me in the Workshop kitchen. Or...if no one's interested, can I at least get someone who can make ingredients? I need to make a lot of chocolate this year...

Anyway, go out and celebrate with people you love! If you don't have someone you love, celebrate with your friends! If you don't have any friends, I'll be your friend! Let's give PSYCHE-chan one more celebration before we start the next round, okay?

((Did a physical mingle here as well!))

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

... I am always in favor of new chocolate and willing to enable people to make it. I can totally delay my own announcement to Valentine's Day with everyone.

[shiroganeheir]

I cannot make ingredients, but now that I think about it, I likely need to create some chocolate as well. I can certainly help.

[senpaidol]

We can make it a team effort.

[senpaidol]

Hee, sorry to pre-empt you, Thorne-san. Don't let me stop you from saying something important.

[truerevelation]

...

...

You can have chocolate supplies.

[Kanji's mental voice is ... surprisingly tense and heavy.]

[senpaidol]

Thank you so much, Kanji! I'm going to try to make some for all the guys from Inaba at least, so think of it as an investment.

[Listen to this sweet and innocent mental voice. She would never ask Kanji for anything weird.]

[truerevelation]

Not sure if that's a thanks or a punishment...

[thornsofmalkav]

Nah, it can wait until after I make Alcuin some chocolate. And... possibly explain Valentine's Day to him."

[senpaidol]

I think it's his kind of holiday, as far as I know him. Maybe a little light on the plays.

[senpaidol]

What a thing to say to your friend when she's offering you a gift. Honestly, Kanji.

[photonicfighter]

Oh! That's a holiday from where I'm from, too! And it sounds about the same.

I'd be happy to stop by and make some ingredients. Is it hard to actually prepare the chocolate, though? I've never done that before.

[shiroganeheir]

I think between us we can come up with something.

[Hopefully something not terrible.]

[truerevelation]

Did your timeline have more cookin' lessons than mine?

[private]

Sorry. This shit ... I know you're just tryin' to give people a bit of somethin' fun and hell, we need it sometimes. But ... I ain't feelin' the season.

[senpaidol]

...mmmmaybe?

[Private]

Yeah, I know. Yukiko-senpai's not here, and you just got done with...all of that. I'm really sorry, and I don't mean to bring it up, I just...

...I know you don't like Lovers, but she's my Persona's Arcana, you know? And I just feel like I should make up for people not connecting in the game by helping them connect when it, you know, makes sense and people haven't been murdering each other.

Private

[senpaidol]

Hee...we always do, don't we?

We should definitely make something together for Souji. I'll want some privacy to make mine for you so it'll be a surprise, though.

[senpaidol]

Well, the basic way to do it is just melting chocolate bars and re-shaping them. You could probably even do pre-made chocolates, too, if you're giving them to friends. Working from scratch is more a thing you do for your boyfriend in Japan. Actually, I don't know if they even do that anywhere else...

Still private

[truerevelation]

[She started the Automata, Kanji tries not to say or even let sneak into his thought stream. She watches people's private times a whole lot more than any other Arcana, she decided to marry off Travellers for good for her amusement... he can't do things in her name so happily or easily. Instead, there's a soft mental sigh as he tries to avoid dumping his own feelings about Lovers in Rise's direction, given her own motivations.]

...I get you.

But yeah. Things are ... kinda fresh in my mind.

[fridgeninja]

I'd better get working, too. If we're here for Valentine's Day, we'll be in the middle of a Jaunt on White Day.

[senpaidol]

That's completely up to you, but I've never been disappointed by getting a gift early.

[fridgeninja]

That's what I thought.

And maybe we can make something together for Naoto?

[senpaidol]

I know. If you need to talk about it I am here and definitely concentrating on something else so I don't accidentally read anything out of your mind.

I think you should take some time to hang out with Naoki-kun and Chie-senpai, though. Do a friend date.

...us IT folks can come too, if you want.

[She's assuming he's going to turn that down, but she is willing to drag herself away from private times if it would help.]

[senpaidol]

Wow, I...huh, this being public bothers me more because it's gonna be harder to surprise her now than because I might have to explain it to someone else. That's weird. In a good way.

[fridgeninja]

Oh.

I'm glad it's in a good way.

[truerevelation]

[Oddly enough, the fact she's distinguishing between 'IT folks' and his team is ... helpful. Wanting to be part of a group? Sure. Wanting to have that group imposed on him, especially when he's not sure how he feels about their cross-timeline shared roots right now? There's a difference.]

Heh. Yeah, hangin' out with the old gang would be good. Feels like the only time we do shit as a group is dungeon crawling sometimes.

And ... might take you up on the talk later.

[loyalrebel]

You can make chocolate?