Don't Skip Your Flu Shot

[purrtagonist]

Who: Everyone! It's a mingle post for the first week of Struxta sickness!!
Where: All around the temple
When: During the first week of the sickness
Rating PG?? At most??
What: Curry, blankets and pillow forts, and other assorted sick things

[With the Struxta illness sweeping through the temple like a wildfire, and with so many new arrivals trying to get adjusted to temple living, it's probably no surprise that things around the Astoria's little pocket of space have gotten a little hectic. Feeling under the weather? Looking for something warm to soothe that scratchy throat? Just want to curl up underneath a pile of blankets and not move for like, seven hours or so? Never fear! A Mysterious Helper (TM) has you covered]

A. Curry in the Kitchen

[The kitchen smells extremely nice during lunchtime this week, the only meal of the day that isn't pre-prepared by the misty servants. Like the scent of coffee intermingled with complementary spices. Those who take the initiative to investigate will find something pleasant waiting for them. A few pots of fresh made curry and steamed rice; a few pots of miso soup (a. . . little on the salty side, sorry); and some freshly brewed coffee already poured into individual mugs, along with cream and sugar and whatever additives your heart desires. It's all strewn out across the counter tops with a handwritten note pinned against the wall above the stove:]

Help yourself, and get well soon.

[There isn't any sign of the mysterious chef when you enter the kitchen, and if you arrive near the end of lunch hour, some of the food and coffee miiiiight be a bit cold. But hey! This might be a good chance to mingle with some of your new coworkers who are also seeking out a warm meal to help quell some of their cold symptoms. Just please don't sneeze into the curry pot, thanks. . .]

[Lunch will be laid out in the kitchen every day at lunchtime for the entire first week of the sickness. Help yourselves!]

B. The Temple Hallways

[THERE ARE BLANKETS AND PILLOWS EVERYWHERE]

[. . . no, seriously. For some reason, it's like you can't even walk down a hallway without tripping over a bundled up blanket or a pillow. What's up with that! For the most part, they're normal bedtime accessories, although you may find a bundle of pillows and blankets stacked up into an ENTIRE PILLOW FORT if you're lucky.]

[Pinned to the walls of the hallways (not every hallway, but enough of them that it should be easy to find one of the signs without wandering for too long) are more handwritten signs:]

Whoever can build the tallest pillow fort will receive one (1) high five as a grand prize. Good luck. Blanket provider is not responsible for anyone accidentally falling asleep in the hallways and blocking your route back to your bedroom.

[Hm. Well, that's weird. Anyway! You can build a pillow fort if you want, grab some blankets to take back to your room, or. . . nap in the hallways. Or do whatever! They're all free for the taking. Maybe you could even team up with another Circle member to try and win that extremely coveted high five??]

C. Wildcard

[Don't feel like interacting with any of the above? That's okay! Make your own prompt based on the event stuff over here, or just use this post for. . . whatever you want! It's totally and completely open for mingling for new and old characters alike, so. HAVE FUN ♥]

Comments

[oculusriffs]

[perfect.]

[Dave watches the Velveeta settle into the bowl like an off-balance buoy. they're about one heat source away from having curry-flavored cheese dip at this point. which.]

Hang on, not done yet. [CHIPS. they need chips.]

[twitter]

[ she makes an overdramatic show of freezing in place, to show that she's hanging on.

get the chips. ]

[oculusriffs]

[she might be frozen in place for a few minutes, because the chips Dave had to fetch are actually in his room. please continue holding.]

[and when he finally comes back, if Hajime doesn't stop him, he's going to open up and upend this entire bag of Nacho Cheesier into the Velveeta curry.]

[twitter]

[ she doesn't stop him, she just allows this monstrosity to happen.

hajime stares at it, before grabbing a chip and trying to get a good scoop of all of the mess that's in the bowl onto it. ]

Testing!

[oculusriffs]

[man, if he weren't on his last rhyme for the day, he would have topped that off with some Tabasco or something.]

[but he does watch, morbidly curious. he's going to want an entire thesis on every single layer of flavor here.]

[twitter]

[ and into the mouth it goes









hm. ]

Here. Try it.

[ she says nothing of how it tastes. her expression says nothing as well. ]

[oculusriffs]

Nah.

[hell nah!]

I've already had my fill of weird food experiments today.

[twitter]

Boo.

[ she actually pouts.

before grabbing another chip to scoop it again. she seems to, somehow, actually like it. ]

[oculusriffs]

[Dave is immune to pouting!]

[he is not, however, immune to his own curiosity as he watches her. there's ... no way that's actually good, right? that curry's pretty much entirely defiled; he can only begin to imagine the sort of reaction Akira would have to it.]

[... is she gonna finish the whole thing?]

[twitter]

[ she is definitely still just

eating it

as if this is a normal dish. ]

[oculusriffs]

[does Hajime even have taste buds...]

[................

.......

.............

... god dammit.]

Hey, gimme a chip.

[twitter]

[ she wordlessly hands one over








it tastes like what you would expect this monstrosity would. ]

[oculusriffs]

[Dave just. jabs at the last bit of Velveeta block that hasn't melted with a corner of his Dorito, lucky if he even managed to scrape some off, and then dips it in the curry like a 2-year-old testing the temperature of the pool with a toe.]

[sample it properly, you giant baby.]

[twitter]

Ah. If you're going to do it then go all out.

[ dip it properly, dave. ]

[oculusriffs]

[NO.]

What are you talking about, that was a perfectly serviceable sample size.

[but Dave "grossed out by the mere suggestion of someone peeing in his apple juice" Strider does at least half relent, scooping some small sort of lump out of the curry with his chip. it's hard to tell whether it's meat or Velveeta.]

[and he only hesitates for like half a second before just going for it.]

[twitter]

[ hajime watches... waiting for his reaction...


she eats another chip in the meantime. ]

[oculusriffs]

[he ... crunches slowly....]

[...........]





[okay, you know what? Hajime's made her point. it's not terrible, and it probably only gives you slight hypertension. this is kind of counterpoint to his original goal of helping her ruin her dinner, but. whatever.]

Yeah, all right. Throw the whole thing on some toast and it'd pass as a diner special. Probably kill some food critics along the way. [that's a really weird way of saying it's serviceable, Dave. but he helps himself to another chip because this is apparently his dinner now, too.]

[twitter]

[ hajime is definitely pleased by him actually eating this mess of what used to be curry. if you are going to help create a possible abomination, the least you can do is eat it

so she's all smiles while she also helps herself to another one. ]

I'd need to come up with a name for it before putting it on the menu!

[oculusriffs]

[hmmmm....]

Currito con queso, obviously.

[twitter]

Obviously.

[ she pulls out a pen and a piece of paper from her pocket and immediately starts writing on it. it's basically the most... cutesy writing, and it says "currito con queso" on it with lots of heart. she places it next to the plate. ]