I am so bored. Someone come down to the bar and get me some drinks! [stuff tastes way better when someone else gets it for you. she briefly looks away to the side where there just might be a few broken glasses on the floor, but let's ignore that!

looks back to the camera and gi~ggles~] You know what? I bet I could drink anyone here under the table. Come on, try me!
[V-sign! 5ft tall 17 year old girl > you. search your soul and you know this to be true]

LETTER RECIPIENTS

• Nakama: a letter from MOMO, and another from the Wayward Vagabond.
  
• Tohru Adachi: a letter from Kitty Pryde (Evolution).
  
  MASS MAILERS
  
• To Everyone Sasha knows by name: Valentines gifts from Sasha.
  
• To Josak's friends: personalized Valentines from Josak.
  
  PACKAGE RECIPIENTS
  
• Kamui Shirou: a package from "Kamui" (Fuuma) anonymous!

[Today is a bright new day for the postal service, with the introduction of... uniforms. PM sent a message to the post office volunteers to pick one up at their convenience. She already changed into hers. It is the most beautiful thing she has ever worn.]

[Since valentines deliveries have been staggered out, she can handle the route with the help of her new volunteer:]



[Haro rides along on the front compartment of her mail cart, with a uniform hat taped carefully to the top of his head. He can't carry much and isn't the best conversationalist, but PM appreciates his company and enthusiasm for the mail!]
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[Sakura waves at the screen with her pompoms. Yes, pompoms.] Hello! It's been a while since I last asked so - [shifts and smiles]

Would anyone like to join the cheerleading team? We don't meet every day - just three times a week! You get to cheer for Yuuri-san and Suzaku-san at the baseball games too. And you can wear the cheerleading uniform! [like the one she's wearing]

All you have to do is ask me or Josak-san and we'll let you join. [you can even approach her in person down at the baseball field. She's not doing baton work today, just cheers and some easy gymnastics. It's nice to do something distracting. :) ]

[Things have been a little crazy, and Josak knows he's neglected the Boutique over it. But not today! He needs the distraction and sewing up a few new designs if just the ticket.

It looks like a few other people haven't showed up lately either. How many have gone home? Oh well.

Anyone who spots the white-stone building with the blue awning will also see the name Trés Magnifique painted on the window and lovely dresses and suits looking out over the street.

Inside there are rose petals sprinkled around some of the mannequins, the tablecloths and doilies are red, white, and pink. There are even heart-shaped cushions on the couches and lounge chairs. On each table is a vase with small bouquet of flowers in it, each representing a form of love or affection. All in favor of Valentine's Day.

Interested enough to come take a look?]

{OOC: This is an open post for anyone interested in checking out the Boutique, getting some nice clothes for Valentine's Day, or even becoming a contributor. Feel free to use this as an event-style post for people who wanted to do some shopping together, too, I don't mind. Just let me know.}

Valentine’s Day here will never be as fun as it is at home.

Kaoru and I are supposed to be showered with gifts.

It should be easy to figure out where the problem lies.

[Sniggers]

So what are you guys going to do to fix this?

It's getting warmer. We should really start baseball practice again soon. [He usually sounds more excited about baseball stuff, doesn't he? It's been a rough few days...week...weeks?]

Ughhhhhhhhhhh. Oooooooooooooooh.

Hmm? Oh, and this is Morgif. [He holds up the sword with the moving face.] I guess he wanted to say hi too.

[The young king moves his hand to hit the private button. It's not hard to private a conversation. Just hit the right button and then make sure it tells you it's private. Yep, definitely not hard. But he hit the map button instead and isn't looking at the communicator, so one not so private message coming up!]

Fai? Um...I'm really sorry about what happened at the costume party with the...blood and you know. I hope your neck is feeling better. I wasn't really me. I mean I was me, but I wasn't me-me. But I'm still really sorry!

(OOC: Backdated to earlier.)

[Last night was all kinds of weird, Josak thinks, but somehow it was still fun. Just what he had needed to take his mind off...everything. He'd almost forgotten how great it felt to be someone else for a little while.

Now he sits at a table in the club, waiting for his "competition." He wonders if Wolfram will even show. He did make the wager under strange circumstances. If he doesn't, Josak won't let the good drinks go to waste.]

[the first thing that is heard when the video switches on is a loud scream of rage and the welcome basket is flying up and through the air to vanish out of sight]

IZYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[growl pant huff and despite screaming he still has the cigarette clamped between his teeth.] I KNOW YOU'RE INVOLVED YOU FLEA! SHOW YOURSELF! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD!


[This is followed by him trying to rip apart his restraint, oddly enough straining just to pick it up a little as he chants....] killkillkillkillkillkillkillkillKILLKILLKILL....

( action/not open to anyone. it's just here. without meaning. )

Now listen up. Zinda here didn't survive the war and all those crazy missions that are too classified for me to blab about just to end up in a prison. I've put my life on the line so e'reybody else could be free and go about their dandy time. And I get stuck in an underwater prison.

If King Shark's around here, tell him I'm gonna bust his front teeth in for messin' with me. This stuff would be right up his little old alley.

First boy to get this thing off my leg gets a kiss! On the cheek- don't get too excited, though we might be able to work somethin' out if you're charming and a good ol' boy.

[Just as evening starts to fall, one of the parks in Sector 4 has been festooned with streamers, bright lights in a variety of colors, a big upraised dais, tables of refreshments, and music. It looks like a perfectly normal party from the outside. Optional masks are provided in little bins beside the dais, but you're responsible for your own costumes...!



...And if you're dressed as a character, the moment you step onto the dais, you will believe yourself to have led that character's life for your whole life. This effect will last until "midnight", in this case Sunday, even if you leave the party.]

Attention everyone!

I'm sorry to interrupt your dinners if you're eating dinner now. Or whatever you do afterward if it is now after. If you haven't eaten yet you should try the ramen place. It's really good.

Oh, um, but...I have something very important to tell you all!

Diva is dangerous, and you should stay away from her! She might turn you into a vampire! ...Or lick you.

Okay, I think that's all. Oh! Except she's got long dark hair and blue eyes and pale skin and she's kind of pretty.

[As promised, he hasn't gone near her!]


(OOC: Backdated to evening.)

[ Jade is in a wide open park, running through his artes. he's been doing this every day, feeling out the boundaries of the "seal" placed on him by Acumen and... pushing at it. he believes he's starting to get a handle on its exact composition, though he has to give it many props; he managed to undo the last seal placed on him much more quickly... so far, he's not even completely sure he's making progress.

so, this amounts to him making big, splashy magical displays, for anyone in the area to notice.

a little bit later in the morning, he pauses, taking a break in the exercise to turn on his communicator and murmur, only slightly breathless from all of the exertion ]

The limitations imposed by this place are rather frustrating, aren't they?

[ even though the words should be irritated, there's a little curl of amusement in his voice; on some level, he's enjoying the challenge. ]

[It's late, ridiculously late, but not actually as late as the timestamp would indicate but there is a young half demon king still awake—still thinking.]

...I need your help.

[Just this.]


[Voice | Private to Saya | Added 15 minutes later]

Saya...

Can I talk to you about your sister?

[Conrad's always been a morning person, first by nature and then necessity of his profession. Morning patrols, training, preparations. Even now that he doesn't need sleep, he tends to leave Diva's bed earlier than she would like. Habit, really.]

[Except this morning. He's wandering the park areas before heading to the dojo -- stalling. It's been days, and if he doesn't tell his brother and Yuuri, he knows that Suzaku or Zero or someone will. He can't afford to wait any longer. And... there was one other who needed to know, as well.]

[Voice - Private to Wolfram]
Wolfram? I thought you might like to spar with me this morning.

[Difficult as that call was, the next he must make was not a bit easier:]

[Voice - Private to Josak]
Josak. I need to meet with you later. [his tone says it all: it's important.]

((OOC: Conrad will be wandering the park areas, heading to the dojo to crush Wolfram's spirit;;;, then jogging with Yuuri and afterwards... wandering more and looking for Josak. Feel free to run into him anywhere between early morning and noon-ish.))

[The cold hasn't kept Saya off the beach tonight, where she's settled with a large blanket thrown over her lower half. A foot away rests a thick book, old and tattered, the pages and cover spattered with soot. On the cover, engraved on a gold seal, is the name "Joel Goldschmidt" and the year 1833.]

[Now she knows. Everything. What she is, where she comes from -- and Diva. Pages and chapters and decades of it all.]

[And all she can manage to do is sit and stare into the sea and wonder what she's going to do now.]

[Jennifer has a camera full of pictures and she's not afraid to develop them! So she's just gonna spend a few hours in the photo lab at the education center looking through them all and picking at the best ones to send out later. So much to do! So little time. Especially with all the pets in danger at the pet cafe!]

((ooc: You can catch Jennifer between Sectors 2 and 4 before and after the photolab too if you'd like.))

PACKAGE RECIPIENTS

• Dean: an anonymous package, signed from "a friend."
  
• Sakura: a bouquet of flowers from Tear.
  
• Lacus: a package from Tear.
  
• Conrad: a package from Tear.
  
  MASS MAILERS
  
• From Nunnally : little gift boxes to all her friends.
  
• From Alma : individualized presents for Castiel, Sam, Fou, PM, Sakura, AOA!Kitty, GIR, Fuuma!Kamui, and Road.
  
• From Rayflo : gifts each for Sakura, Lacus, and both Lelouch & Suzaku; also, presents for all the cute lolis!
  
• From Josak : gifts for Yuuri, Jennifer, all the Designers and Shopworkers of Trés Magnifique; also, small packages to all of Josak's other friends and acquaintances.
  
• From Miranda : packages to Cross, Axel, and PM; also, decorative tins to everyone Miranda likes and/or talks to.

[It's rather amazing to PM that no one has mailed letters today. It's all packages! She wheels her mail cart throughout the asylum, the packages carefully arranged in the bags and pockets for the best possible balance and safety for the contents of each package. All these presents feel good to deliver, that's for sure!]

((OOC: I'm so sorry this is late. My trip to visit my parents threw off my schedule and I forgot yesterday was Friday. And I also just woke up. HOORAY.))

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I think I've kissed more people in the last two days than I planned to kiss in my entire life.

[Granted, kissing Shinji already put him one over that total, but let's not go there.]

Who's behind those robots, anyway? They've got a very strange sense of humour. [But judging by the laughter in his voice, he shares it.]

[It's been over a day since he was found in the snow, and after a full day of rest at the hospital, his headache was mostly gone and the full range of his arm had almost returned. He still wasn't sure what had happened, but he... knew things now.

They had all... died for him.

He wasn't certain how he was supposed to feel about that.

But that was no reason to continue hiding. He had to leave the house sometime and after the headache had faded, the nausea had as well. Hei was nearly famished for food. So, wrapped up in his coat and a scarf, Hei's walking to the ramen stand. Food first, then groceries. But... flicking on his network device, Hei clears his throat.]

I, uh... What do you know about regaining memories you... don't remember having? I seem to have acquired some.

[His smile is embarrassed. He feels like he should know these answers already from previous examples, but none of it made any sense, still.]

((ooc: Throwing this up while I can, but I'll probably head to sleep as soon as this is posted. If you wish to action it up for a kissing-bot, please say so somewhere in the tag or a subject heading or ping me if you want it in the event post. Thanks!))

Acumen's systems tick over to midnight, and somewhere in the depths of the holding facility, dozens of little silver spheres shiver and come to life. They rise up into the air, dangling little bouquets of mistletoe, and hover in waiting for the door to open again. And when it does, they swoop out and work their way into the dome proper, making it out just in time for daybreak.

Now they're scattered all over the dome, Anissina's gifts and Eggman's souvenirs. They're seeking out people to bring together in the holiday spirit...

Whether they like it or not!


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