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Weiss's Finest Block Party

WHO: Anyone and everyone!
WHAT: Block Party!
WHEN: August 8th, 2pm-9pm
WHERE: The block between Oak & 8th and Nettle & 8th, both ends of which are blocked off with sandbags to prevent traffic from running someone over.
WARNINGS: Don't pee in the ballpit and don't get burnt. --But no probably nothing?

When you arrive, it's very obvious where the party is. If the sandbags blocking off the street aren't an indication, the large hand-painted signs ("BLOCK PARTY! Come one and all!") in extremely neat writing on the front of them and the balloons going in an arch from one end of either side of the sandbag barrier to the other make it pretty obvious. The arrow-shaped signs going down the streets at every street corner for at least 5 blocks out in any direction might help too.

Various balloons are tied up to the trees on the block and there's a pleasant music of actual MUSICAL SINGING BIRDS courtesy of Fluttershy fluttering through the air. The smell of chickens roasting over a rotisserie spit floats through the air and if you follow it, you'll find a canvas canopy over a couple of tables filled with various FOOD like Himawari's cheesecake, Yuuki's salad, Azula's fruit tarts, Sun's fruit bowl, Ryu's sushi, Weiss's chocolate chip cookies (carefully hidden from Ruby with much effort) and lemonade, water, and more (since it's basically whatever anyone shows up with). There's not a ballpit, sorry, false advertising I know-- but there IS a BOUNCE HOUSE for children and small people. (If you pop it, you pay for it, and Weiss will find a way to hunt you down.) There are plenty of places to sit, including the BEACH CHAIRS ~~that Weiss may have borrowed from their apartment's pool... but she definitely plans on returning them, of course~~ and various PICNIC BLANKETS set out on lawns for anyone who didn't get a beach chair. There's a barrel for APPLE BOBBING as well!

Overall, it's a very peaceful experience. But, just that wouldn't be anywhere near enough to make it spectacular. There's a series of events that will be happening as well:

3:15PM:

4:00PM:

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5:30PM:

6:15PM:

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9:00PM:

Have fun, comment freely, and EVERYONE IS INVITED as long as you promise not to ruin anything!

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"I wasn't going to throw rocks or yell at you even if I was."

That part was definitely true. She was a violent person at times, but it wasn't toward other people unless they attacked her first or.. they were her friends and completely deserved that kick to the forehead. Yuri shakes her hand with a smile on her face.

"Though, I might have to be that Miss that throws you in the bounce house if you're going to call me Miss~!"

She's going to playfully pull Koishi over while they're shaking and try to toss her to a spot with no kids to get the bouncing going.

"Yay! I like you Miss! But I have to call you Miss because I can't remember names. I don't associate names with identities. I associate minds with identities-" She was cut off as she was tugged forward, completely unprepared as she was playfully tossed into another area of the bouncy house, landing on her rear. She was launched a surprising distance into the air, slowing and turning and settling back down on her feet.

Oh, right. Flight.

She was giggling madly, springing forward with every intent of returning the favor. Several tendrils slid from her sleeves, the same deep blue color as her third eye, each one ending in a flat heart-like shape. They were more than strong enough to return that playful toss with one of her own.

That was fine with her. They'd ended up calling someone just TK in her battlefront back when she was dead, it wasn't as though she was horribly unadept with strange names. Though she'd prefer her own name, or the weird nickname that Hinata had given her, she'd gone around calling someone 'Angel' instead of their name. 'Miss' works just as well as anything. Yuri figured it might just take some time.

Thoughts were quickly interrupted by the sudden tentacles.

"Again!?" she shouted as she was suddenly flung by the tentacles. Even if she could easily land on normal ground, a bounce house was a little more challenging to pull off a typical roll landing. Yuri ended up bouncing and rolling right into the side of the bounce house, reaching up to the net to pull herself up. "It looks like this won't be so easy!"

Koishi blinked, tilting her head as Yuri rolled and managed to get herself up. "Wow. That's really impressive miss! Especially if you used to be dead. Most people who used to be dead aren't nearly so spry!" Despite the strangeness of the statement, her tone was impressed so it was probably a compliment. She hadn't retracted her tentacles yet, two on each side, extending from sleeves just barely long enough to cover her arms.

She bent her knees a little, reaching up to straighten her hat, a little smile playing over her features. "It's no fun if its easy. Then there's no reason to win!"

"I used to lead a battlefront, a bounce house is nothing compared to a multiple story building. Even if it's been a while."

Yuri knew she definitely hadn't kept up with practicing firing her gun or knife fighting in a while, even if she made sure to go to a range every once in a while. Yuri smiles at Koishi's last comment, even if she isn't making a move to try to bounce her again.

"That's true. Nothing worth really having ever came easily."

Koishi's body coiled up like a spring and launched forward, laughing as she tried to tackle Yuri. Not that it would hurt at all landing on such a soft surface. Not to mention how tiny the youkai was. Fortunately she wasn't using her tentacles this time.

Successful or not, the smile never left her face. "I really like you miss! You're so much fun. We should play more sometime. We could visit my home and play with the animals or go exploring or have a picnic! Or I could teach you to danmaku! I bet you would be good at it!"

Edited (I can't spelling/grammar ;A;) 2014-08-19 00:45 (UTC)

Yuri was more prepared for the tackle this time, actually managing to catch the girl as she leapt forward, but since the ground was hardly solid, it was only a brief delay before she lost balance and was sitting on the floor of the bounce house again.

"Well, I guess we could do that sometime. What's 'danmaku' though?"

Her eyes seemed to light up at the question. "I'll show you later, okay? I bet you'll enjoy seeing it. It's a type of dueling. It's non lethal so that humans can fight really powerful creatures on equal ground and so really powerful creatures can settle disputes without killing and destroying everything. It's a lot of fun too. A duel of beauty and cleverness!"

She sat up, waving her arms. "You make lots of magic bullets and make them move in pretty patterns and try to dazzle your opponent and hit them at the same time. The shots hurt but hurting isn't the same as dying so its okay."

"That actually sounds like it'd be pretty useful."

Yuri had sort of let herself get used to just being able to push someone off of a building or shoot them and they would get better where she was before this. She's been avoiding really hurting anyone (with a few exceptions) since she arrived in Genessia since the rules had changed, even if she on occasion wanted to deal with stress by kicking someone's ass ~~or face~~ when they said or did something stupid.

"It sounds fun, too."

"It's very fun!" She hopped to her feet, bouncing in place, her third eye bobbing freely. "It's all so pretty. I like making heart shapes. They're really nice and kind of confusing to dodge so it makes my patterns more effective. I also like roses. Because they have petals and smell nice. I know how to make my danmaku smell nice too!"

She threw up her arms, glowing petals fluttering from her sleeves and dissolving in the air, accompanied by the distinct scent of roses. "It's the best!"

Yuri's gaze moves to the third eye for a moment. After hanging with Betelgeuse, honestly, most things didn't surprise her. It didn't mean she wasn't going to look at it at all though.

The roses were more of a surprise, though mostly because there weren't many people she'd seen who had a distinctly rosey style besides one specific person.

"In one of the worlds I spent time in, there was a huge rose garden, but it was raining all the time so we could never really smell them very well. It's weird to smell them now since I got used to just smelling rain all the time."

She was making a point to sniff though. It was pretty refreshing to actually be able to properly smell the roses.

It certainly was a strange thing. It was bit smaller than a softball and with a scar the size of a nickel on the top left. It seemed content to stay closed. It also seemed to have a mind of its own, weaving from side to side, bobbing along with Koishi's bouncing. It was unquestionably a part of the little youkai.

"Ah? A huge garden? That's amazing! I want to see a huge garden sometime! Sis has a big garden but its not HUGE!" She bounced up higher and twirled around, releasing more rose petals. "Rain isn't a bad smell though. It's quite lovely and refreshing. I never got to smell it much in old hell. It never rained there. Only snowed sometimes, so rain is a real treat for me.

"I thought that first, but when it never stops it's easy to get sick of it."

Especially since more often than not it ended up mixing with blood somewhere, even back in the afterlife. Koishi didn't need to know that though.

Yuri stood up properly, moving to bounce lightly in the spot she chose.

"I wonder if there's a huge garden somewhere around here?"

"The only one I know of is my sister's. It's back at home in the green archway place underground where its wet and there are a lot of scary things. But that's okay. They can't hurt us." She bounced higher and did another twirl, followed by a flip, landing on her rear and laughing.

"Miss! This is the greatest thing ever! It's so bouncy! I love it! It's so much fun. I want to get one for home so I can bounce all day. The panther can't go near it though. His claws would break it!"

"Aren't you a youkai? There are things even youkai are scared of?"

A lot of the fairy tales she's heard about youkai and similar creatures involved children getting murdered or eaten or drowned or weird bathroom stall ghosts that want you to pick some colored paper. Having experienced being dead, Yuri had assumed the last one had to be some kind of demon because dead people were weird but not that weird.

"You can probably buy one if you save up enough mon-- wait you have a panther!?"

"Of course. Everyone gets scared sometimes. I'm not scared of the scary things though. They can't see me if I try to hide. But they're scary to a human for sure!" She stood up, wobbling a little as she resumed bouncing, almost losing her hat once and having to move to one side to avoid hitting a kid that had hopped nearby. It seemed that the children could see her okay.

"I suppose youkai are normally the ones being scary so its understandable I guess that you might think that we don't-" A pause. "Yeah. We have all sorts of pets. You should come and meet them all sometime!"

"I should probably be scared of the scarey things, but I got used to only being scared to certain types of things."

It came from being dead for so long, being unable to die again. All of the 'scary things' became curiosities while some of the things that normal people could manage on a daily basis seemed like something frightening, like caring for other people. She'd worked through a good number of those things, but right now she could probably stand to get some of the normal fears back before she ended up doing something stupid and landing herself in the hospital.

And she did have a tendency to do stupid things.

"The only youkai that I knew about were pretty powerful and I never saw them scared of anything, so I just assumed. I'm definitely coming over to meet your pets though!"

"I guess its good for you to not be scared of things. But you need to be careful. Sometimes its good to be scared of things. Because humans are very fragile." She hopped forward and landed on her stomach with an "oof," bouncing a few more times.

"A lot of youkai are very powerful. But that doesn't mean they aren't scared of anything. Youkai have fear too. I can get scared but I don't feel fear. But that's because I can't feel a lot of emotions because my head broke. But that's okay. I have all sorts of other powers now."

She sat up, crawling over to her and sitting down next to her. "I bet you'll like my house. We have so many pets. Don't feed scribbles anything though or he'll never leave you alone. He's a greedy little raccoon and if he tries to steal crumbs you tap him on the nose and tell him no."

"I know. It's hard getting used to remembering to be scared of things. It used to be I could jump off of a three story building with confidence that even if I screwed up, it wouldn't be a problem. I can still do it, sure, but if I screw up I'm probably going to end up in the hospital."

Yuri bounced lightly a few times after Koishi came to sit over. It wasn't anything that was going to send any kids flying, but it was keeping the movement going at least.

"Your head broke? Tap him on the nose? He doesn't bite?"

She'd never met a friendly raccoon before, but she honestly sounded a little excited about it. The rash of questions probably was a result of that.

"That doesn't mean you have to be scared you know. Being cautious and being scared are different. You should just be cautious. Then you wouldn't ever have to be scared." A brighter smile. "And you should learn to fly. That way you wouldn't have to worry about falling."

Koishi blinked at the sudden onslaught of questions. "No. Scribbles doesn't bite. Well he doesn't bite hard. If you try to tickle his chin he'll make little sounds and try to nip your fingers but not hard.

She reached up to remove her hat, pulling up her bangs to reveal a very old and severe looking scar above her left temple. It matched the one on her third eye. "See? My head broke a long time ago. Now my focus sometimes goes slantways but that's okay. If that happens I'll find my head again and everything will be great."

"I don't think humans can learn to fly, unfortunately. Even if it'd be fun."

She didn't have any special powers or magic, after all. When it came down to it, she was just a normal human now. It was hard to deal with sometimes.

Yuri leaned in to look at it a little closer, not seeming to be put off by it. She was dead, a scar isn't going to shock her.

"Ouch! That looks like it hurt. I'm glad you made it through it."

"Of course humans can fly. Where I come from everybody flies. Some people are better at it than others. The grumpy shrine maiden is really really good at it. You don't even need to be all that magical. It's a very easy spell."

Koishi blinked. "Oh. Yeah it did hurt. But it didn't hurt as much as it did before I pulled it out." She reached down and touched the scar on her third eye. "The connection was feeding back so much. It would have killed me if I didn't cut it. So I pulled it out. But It's bad that it wasn't clean. But I'm okay now."

"Maybe in your world. Unfortunately, I don't think it's the case with people from mine. There's someone who I know would've learned to fly more than anyone else if it were."

Because she kept kicking him off of rooftops-- but regardless, Yuri's just smiling at the thought.

"You should probably make sure that doesn't happen again."

"Oh... I could probably put some flying ability in an object. You would have to power it with your own strength though, Miss. I'm not good enough to give it its own magical charge. That way you could fly!" A smile. "You need to fly to danmaku anyway usually."

At Yuri's second comment she tilted her head to the side, pursing her lips. "It can't happen again." She touched one of her looping arteries for emphasis. "I ripped out the connection between by eye and my head. So don't worry, okay?"

"I'll try that then! Is that how things like flying carpets or broomsticks happen?"

That sounded more than painful, but Yuri's had her fair share of painful experiences. There's nothing quite like taking a sword to your heart and still having to get the only people you have out without losing any more limbs than they already had. Or that time the stupid bunny girls from Battler's world strung her up. At least, those were the most physically painful things that Yuri remembered going through. There were a lot of other more psychological and emotional pains, but she wasn't counting those.

"I meant the injury that made you have to, that's all. The whole thing sounded like it hurt though."

Weiss's Finest Block Party

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Oh noes! Tentacles!

Oddly not the first tentacles Yuri's encountered in Genessia...

Probably the only ones attached to an adorable girl though.

Right you are.

Congrats! You made friends with a clingy, affectionate ball of tentacles, nightmares, and cute :D

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