Guys' Night [OPEN]

[seafloor]

WHO: Dudes, dude. Bring all your dudely Outsiders, bro.
WHAT: Man I sure wish I could tell you Cracking a cold one open with the boys
WHERE: The Onsen
WHEN: 4/11
WARNINGS: Alcohol, nudity, dad jokes... This'll be updated accordingly

[ A few days after the girls have had their fun (cause girls just wanna have fun), another blanket text sweeps over the Outsiders' inboxes. This time, it's from Kaito: and he is proposing a very original idea that all the guys should come by the hot springs in a few days' time. Gossip and bathing are optional, but an empty stomach is mandatory.

Several pictures of newly purchased smokers, grills, and even a fucking pizza oven can be seen at various points throughout the message. There are also mountains of stacked beer and soda cases. Kaito's apparently going to be cooking enough to feed the whole base, or so he purports.

Where did he get all the money for this? Whatever, it's free!

He also adds in no uncertain terms that if any girls try to show up and sneak a snack, he will send them home with a stern warning and a bottle of water.

If you take him up on the invitation, welcome! It's a spring cookout and Pitmaster Kaito Nagano is going to be serving up enough barbeque to temporarily turn the onsen area into a Texan territory within Japan. Seriously, there's gonna be a metric fuckton of food and booze, and the hot springs will be right there when you're ready to get hot and hungover.

There are absolutely no plans after food. Feel free to stick around and socialize, but you will not be publicly shamed for just yoinking a plate and dip setting. Probably.

Aside from the barbeque, there are some horseshoes and cornhole boards set up (google it, it's safe, this is not a bit it's just a funny name for an american game) for dudes to try their hand-eye coordination at after having one too many drinks.

If you're feeling particularly brave, Kaito's got an ice box full of artificial fish (all the meat's artificial, let's be real) that you can try to attract a feral cat with. Good luck. ]

(( ooc: hello yes i didn't want The Boys™ to feel left out so feel free to make top levels and just get some general cookout social time in with your boyos. make it as friendly or awkward or awkwardly friendly as possible. go nuts. get naked. cause a ruckus. [ insert toxic masculinity here ] ilu ♥ ))

Comments

[gimu]

[ an entirely normal and reasonable unit of measurement among fellows, surely.

choso must consider these ‘boosts’ for a moment, imagining taryon zooming along like a water-running gecko. ]

What sort of ‘boosts’ are these? The robots?

[likemybooks]

Not the robots. They're my conduits that store magic. Apart from my spells, I could drink a swift step draught and activate my Boots of Haste, and then I can get pretty fast. Assuming that I have all the ingredients I need...

[So many of his potions can't be done without the fantasy herbs.]

But if I want to cast magic on other people, I can do it right there or - this is much cooler - I can enchant something small, hand it to you [he mimes handing over a small coin to Choso] and you activate it when you need it most. Like that speed boost.

[He moves his arms back to rest on the edge of the onsen.] I just think roombas that move on their own makes more sense with all these people. So instead of making sixty coins before a fight and handing it to all of you guys, I just enchant one roomba and he travels to whoever needs it.

[gimu]

[ nonplussed, choso cannot help but to finish the pantomime of accepting a small thing, blinking at his empty palm while he runs through the possibilities. like a potion effect in those video games... ]

And the roomba enchants someone else?

[likemybooks]

You can put it that way. You still have to draw the spell from them, they're not makes.

[He wonders if he could actually do that back home — automatons programmed with a set of spells to assist adventurers in combat.]

[gimu]

Do I… touch the roomba? Is there a process? [ he’s looking around now, as if in search of A Roomba to try it on ]

[likemybooks]

[Water is dangerous for roombas, so Kalimac is as far away from the onsen as possible, sadly.]

You touch it and think about drawing the magic. I don't know how to describe it. Like, accepting it mentally. I suggest coming up with a cool catchphrase.