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Eunie ([personal profile] medicgunner) wrote in [community profile] kaisou2023-08-23 05:02 pm

2; THE BEACH EPISODE

WHO: Everyone!!
WHERE: Starting on the network, then The Beach!
WHEN: Forward dated to the last weekend of August
WHAT: Beach Episode!!
WARNINGS: None hopefully??



[With no context, no preamble, no nothing. Early on the last weekend of August, Eunie greeted the network with a message.]

text; un: fortuneclovers

hey
Eunie here, changed my un
so this month was fuckin awful
im goin to the beach. Maybe have a little fun there to get the mind off all the bullshit
if you’re seein this youre invited too. come on and lets have a good time, bring what you want

Oh yeah
im bringin a volleyball for the nets
anyone who wants a game come at me. >:)


🌭 getting grilled

[So ended the text one humble weekend morning. Eunie didn’t have specific plans for this, she just sort of ran off and invited the whole app to the beach without considering the logistics. She did say to bring what you want but she was social enough to arrange some things for a bit of a beach gathering.

It wasn’t a lot, a few coolers and BBQ grills people can hand around and either loiter or cook at if they have the capability. If they don’t though they will be removed from the grill. But maybe that’s part of the fun.]


🌊 ocean owned

[Aside from the coolers, there’s obviously the beautiful sea people can surf or swim in all they want! The water is fine, a little cold but in a way that felt refreshing from the hottest days of the last legs of summertime. The tides were even and there was no real risk of drifting away, but don’t go too far out unless you’re a strong swimmer. There are lifeguards on duty but we’ve had enough trauma this month, we don’t need a drowning scare. Or do, I’m not your mom.]

⛱️ avoid the burn

[Not a swimmer? Well then catch up on your tan under the share umbrellas and towels laid on the sand. Or your sunburn. It is a bright and sunny weekend after all so no matter what you’re catching up on, get your sunscreen on too.

It’s also just as good for a little break from the swimming and the music to steady yourself before you head out or head back into the water or some piers you can walk down on your own for the same experience to just catch the sea breeze while staying up and about.]


🏐 bolleyvall bapped

[That being said, Eunie was not joking about there being volleyball. There are a few nets on the beach for a few different games to go on at once. Organize a tournament or just play casually. Remember though that there are normies on the beach and any Earth Shattering volleyball spikes might cost some property damage claim money. This isn’t death soccer, people.

Who am I kidding, this is going to turn into a disaster either way. Go ham, challenge the bird girl or just watch the chaos unfold and place your bets, kids.]


🎇 bonfire lit up your life

[As the day winded down and night settled on the beach, some folks were headed home or have gone there already to get the sand out of their shorts. But those who stuck around will get the pleasure of sitting by a bonfire not me as they bid a fond farewell to the summertime and summer vacation.

Or get in touch with their inner arsonist in a less destructive way.

Sit, relax and socialize, take in the ambiance of the twilight by the fire, roast some marshmallows or hot dogs. Maybe decide to camp out for the night. It is a pretty peaceful time, and it’s these small moments of calm with friends and loved ones we have to cherish the most when in recovery, right?]
incendiarize: (Who's gonna help us survive)

[personal profile] incendiarize 2023-09-17 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Spits 'em out on its own.

...So, same deal. I guess maybe you hold onto it until one of us might need it?
incendiarize: (I will be ready to die)

[personal profile] incendiarize 2023-09-17 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Sure can! It's a little tricky and not everyone has a candy thermometer, but they're not too complicated.

[He retrieves a couple bags of different-colored marshmallows.]

Alright, for fruity I have strawberry banana, mango passionfruit, key lime pie, peach, and apple.
Edited 2023-09-17 01:19 (UTC)
incendiarize: (A hero's not afraid to give his life)

[personal profile] incendiarize 2023-09-17 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe I am!"

He doesn't mind looking stupid. It's all in good fun, right?
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[personal profile] whiteshroud 2023-09-17 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Jun is quiet for a moment, listening to what Vash is saying and sorting out what to say to that. Especially to the idea of Vash being his anchor. He likes Vash a lot, but ... ]

...Mm. I've no doubt he cares about you a great deal, and being in each other's lives is good for both of you. But... I think your own roots need to be a bit more settled before you can be an anchor.

Which that's okay, it's usually healthier if a person's anchor isn't a single person.

[That's the gentlest way Jun can phrase it.

He continues to listen, and luckily he's able to understand what Vash is getting at with the different universes. So the Wolfwood Vash knew back home turned to God like Jun did for his anchor, but the one here in Kaisou did not. ]


I see... well, I think I understand that, given his past. After I escaped Krusnik, my father would take me to church and it was through the clergy's kindness that I found my own faith. But for the other survivors... they're much less religious and found their own ways to heal.

[...]

Though, even if this Wolfwood doesn't believe in God, from what I see, he still have the same charitable center.
prunedworlds: (let's be friends)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-17 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not actually forever, even if it kinda looks like it, you know."

She's sure he knows, but sometimes it helps to just hear it, too.

"Though it doesn't matter anyway, since you don't have to go any deeper than you want to."
bebest: (Til you can shout out)

[personal profile] bebest 2023-09-17 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, TOTES!" he claps his hands together excitedly. "I mean, Spooky Season is not that far away. We can have a GREAT party for it."
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[personal profile] ornamentals 2023-09-17 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[stop using so much product in it, nerd.]

I want to come back here again. [over and over, during the different seasons and times of day-] And I want you to come back with me.
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[personal profile] lowestclass 2023-09-17 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ his gaze is out at the ocean--the glow of a nearly full moon casting a silvery stripe over the quietly lapping waves of the ocean in front of them.

Once Lapis has a piece of the melon, he's pulling up a sizeable chunk for himself as well; taking a bite of it and --honestly, Lapis is right: it's way better like this. ]


Haven't done this since I was a teenager. But it's just as good now as it was back then. [ he tips his head towards Lapis--cutting her a long, soft grin as he turns his direction out to the ocean again. ]

I've gotten used to not being able to be out in the sun. But.

There are some things I miss, I think.
I bet it was beautiful out here during the day, too.
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-17 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It takes about half a second for Ritsuka to realize that by 'spooky season' he means Halloween, given that it's still an entire month until October and that was not even something she'd been thinking about yet. When she does make the connection though, there's a very, very brief moment where her expression can only be described as a thousand yard stare, though she almost immediately recovers.

"Oh, yeah, that could be fun! Do you usually do something for Halloween?"

Please tell her there's no idol-wannabe dragons involved.......
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[personal profile] doubledollar 2023-09-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ he... kind of knows it's a terrible idea to be someone's anchor. especially given vash himself isn't even sure about his own two feet being steady. last thing he wanted was to fail yet another person just because he talked bigger than he could act. time and time again.

His eyes sort of cast down with a guilty look before he snaps back, waving a hand with a loud, jovial laugh at Jun--nodding his head twice with a bouncy motion as his shoulders come up with a shrug. ]


Probably not the greatest idea either, given the whole--uncertain thing of this world and its gates and such! I could disappear tomorrow for all we know! Hate to leave Nico in the lurch like that.

[ but then his hands go to his face, tapping his cheek as he gives a little sigh. ]

It's good to find an anchor like that where you can. I ... might never believe in god myself, but I think that the idea of god can be good for others, if only because it gives them something to hope for. [ he's begged for god's help for too many years and gone unanswered--there was no real hope for his own faith, but... ]

Oh, he loves kids. You should see the way he's treating Eve these days. She's like a duckling, and he's a proud father goose, it's embarrassing.

I think, if he could accept freedom and comfort, he'd make a really good babysitter. Daycare... runner...?
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[personal profile] doubledollar 2023-09-18 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Where I come from, you can walk across the sea of sands that look--just like that--except its all desert and grit as far as the eye can see. And It'd look like you haven't gone anywhere for days.

It might as well be forever."

He huffs.

The water just goes on and on and on, with no land or islands in sight...

"I can't imagine how deep it gets, all the way out there."

Scary.

He looks down at his feet, though and--oh god, when did he get down into it to just over his ankles? WHwhahkhljfd.

"It... it's not so bad.

I. I think I can see a crab down there."
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[personal profile] doubledollar 2023-09-18 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh! the look of surprise that pops up on his face is... animated. His eyebrows going way up. ]
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[personal profile] doubledollar 2023-09-18 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
...I think I can agree to that.
If you like it here that much, we can make it a trip me make every now and again when you want to.

...So long as I don't have to go swimming every time.
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-18 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess in the middle of the ocean it could seem like that, but unless you got out in a boat you won't see it."

But hey, he's this far in and he's doing fine, so that's progress, at least? That said...

"Oh, where?"

Now she wants to see!
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[personal profile] ornamentals 2023-09-18 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[kni is still idly pushing back errant locks of blonde and black hair, thoughts drifting on the backs of waves.]

Is the water really that scary for you?

[he asks without an ounce of teasing, looking away from vash out towards the ocean.]

I wonder why it's different.
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[personal profile] bebest 2023-09-18 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ritsuka is about to learn how very much Halloween is a beloved time of year.

"Uh yeah! It's basically Gay Christmas!!! It's second ONLY to Pride for the must-have in any calendar," he's clearly excited as he bounces from hoof to hoof. "I always have a BIG party and we have a bunch of shows on- Rocky Horror is always a big one, everyone LOVES that."
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[personal profile] crisantemo 2023-09-18 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She is absolutely doubting him, and the look she's giving him makes that all the more clear.

Then she hums, taking off her hat and just... Plopping it onto his head. There, some protection from the sun you pale emo nerd. ]


I'll be back in a moment. [ Time to get him some water and maybe a fruit skewer to get his energy back up. ]
prunedworlds: (cheeky grin)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-18 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
She'd appreciate it much, much more if she could actually have one where things didn't get weird. And didn't maim her poor eardrums.

"That big a deal, huh?" That sure is some palpable excitement there. "I don't think I've seen a Halloween party like that before..."

Please don't ask her what her last several Halloweens were like. She'd rather continue not thinking about it thanks.
prunedworlds: (cheeky grin)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-19 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Weeeell, if you're really sure..."

Last chance to back out!
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[personal profile] doubledollar 2023-09-19 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
It's probably a good, welcome distraction, but--

Vash is gonna point with his metallic-looking arm, down in the water near Ritsuka's feet.

"...Hold still, it's..."

And he's gonna crouch, just a little... move his hand down and...

....Yank a whole goddamn crab out from under the sand, where it was damn near invisible just a moment before.

He lifts it up and grins at Ritsuka.
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-19 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
That was... definitely not a sight she expected to see!

"Wow, I totally didn't even see it there..."

Clearly Vash has some eagle-level eyesight, or something.
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[personal profile] doubledollar 2023-09-19 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
It's...

[ hm. ]

It's not that the water on its own is scary. I suppose.
Like I like going in the river, I like bathing.

I just... know myself. I guess.

If I get into water too deep, I'll sink, and sink...
And then I'll be trapped way under there, you know?

I might not have to breathe for a long time, but.
I'll actually need to eventually...
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iii

[personal profile] lowestclass 2023-09-19 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't such a mystery that Jinwoo only shows up once the sun has gone down. Truth be told, he wanted to go MUCH earlier--an invite from Eunie was one he really didn't want to ignore.

But with the ever-haunting orb that hangs overhead, Jinwood decides not to risk it. Knowing his bad luck... he'd just end up getting hit with a volleyball or someone might trip up in his robe and...

Yeah, no. He shows up when the fires are being made, and one of the first sights he sees is ritsuka.... trying very hard to toast a marshmallow.

"...You seem very focused there..."
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-09-19 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh??"

She was indeed quite focused, so much so that she startles at first when he speaks to her. But then a moment later she realizes who it is and is all smiles.

"Oh, you made it!"

... Might wanna keep an eye on that marshmallow, though, it's dangling awfully close to the fire while she's distracted.
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[personal profile] unreachableside 2023-09-19 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Blade looks absolutely ridiculous all dressed like he just missed the AFI concert but with a sun hat on. He grasps the brim so he can look up at her. Where is she off to now?]

... Fine. [He really is in no shape to protest. Even one little fight with his unwanted head-roommate can take so much out of him.]

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