PARTY! at the Onsen

[we_meet_again]

Who: pep!pep! and BAD END=DEAD END
Where: the onsen
When: (forward-dated) Day 97, afternoon and into the night

[Senpai is back! Even if he's on a different unit now, his return is worth celebrating. Or at least, that seems like a good enough excuse to get together, eat some food, and relax!

Things are happening at the onsen:

It's Tokyo's biggest onsen theme park. It has everything you could want from an onsen— a big open air bath, certainly, but baths full of bubbles, one foot bath full of little fish that eat away at dead skin cells, traditional wooden tubs, a lazy river full of small smooth stones to walk through, rock salt saunas, free massage chairs. . . There's even free yukata rentals (exchange out your uniform for your stay, but you'd better return it to get your outfit back!) at the front, and a lantern-decorated traditional festival grounds, with carnival games! Throw ninja stars, scoop goldfish, all of that.


Several tables have been set out, all laden with food. One has a variety of meat skewers, crab legs, sliced steak, grilled fish... the works.

There's also a vegetarian table, set slightly away from the meat for those with lingering meat-related traumas. This table's covered with things like savory tofu dishes, vegetable tempura, buttery sweet potato, and a rainbow of crisp fresh fruits.

There are also a bunch of sweets to snack on like mochi and dango. Sunshine even made macarons decorated to look like fluffy animals.

And, of course, there's an abundance of wine, sake, and beer to enjoy (as well as non-alcoholic drinks like sodas, etc.)

Let's relax and have a nice evening!]

Comments

[we_meet_again]

Just don't let it get to you if he gives you any attitude, haha.

[speak of the devil satan, there he is now]

Everyone on Bad End is pretty cool. Hopefully he'll fit in alright over there.

[wonderlandgirl]

I'd like to get to know them all better. I wasn't aware we had such strong ties to them. Stronger now, I suppose?

[we_meet_again]

Mmm... I don't know if it's that we have strong ties to Bad End in particular, so much as some of us are friends with some of them. But we have connections like that with most of the units in some way or another, you know?

[wonderlandgirl]

I suppose that's true. I've spent a lot of time with Heart Soldier Senshi, and then Levi's on SensitIV, and there are people I know on Baritones and Lilis, too. There's probably a lot of people I'm not thinking of, too.

[we_meet_again]

Exactly. pep!pep! has family and friends from home on Bad End, sensitIV, Heart Solder, future is now, and AlcheME. And that's not even counting all the friends we've made since we got here, either. There are great people on every unit.

[wonderlandgirl]

Oh, I'm sure there are. I don't think I've had a chance to meet anyone much on future is now, though...

Is that Intensity-san's unit? I don't think I can have made the best impression on them.

[we_meet_again]

What makes you say that?

[wonderlandgirl]

Oh, um... he spoke to me after the last game. My last game, I mean. I - think he thought I was being foolish. I probably was being foolish.

[we_meet_again]

...Foolish about what, specifically?

[wonderlandgirl]

The... bargain I tried to make. He warned me of all the same things you did. I... don't think I reacted very well, either.

[we_meet_again]

Ah, about trying to sacrifice yourself... I don't think that was foolish. I think that was compassionate and brave. You didn't know the part about Lilith, and that was my fault, not yours.

If he talked to you about that after the game, he was probably trying to look out for you. He cares really deeply about the community.

[wonderlandgirl]

I probably owe him an apology, then. I... got a bit upset.

[we_meet_again]

...If you think you owe him an apology, then I'll trust your judgement, but from what I know about your sensitivity to others, I'm willing to bet it wasn't as big a deal as you think.

[wonderlandgirl]

Well... I hope not. But I should probably apologize anyway. I... don't think I quite took it in the - spirit he meant it.

[we_meet_again]

You said you got upset at him? What did he say?

[wonderlandgirl]

It was about Lilith. He - well, during the game, he wasn't one of the ones who warned me. He just asked if I was sure, so I told him I was. And I... didn't understand why he hadn't warned me then, if he was worried enough to do it the day after.

I suppose that was selfish of me. They all had so much more to think about, then.

[we_meet_again]

He probably figured I must have warned you already.

Wednesday... you did nothing wrong. I think it's us that need to apologize. I'm sorry we all didn't take better care of you. That was on us, not you.

Don't worry about Intensity too much, okay?

[wonderlandgirl]

I'll try not to. And - I suppose I know now, don't I...?

I guess we should talk about something else, though. We're here to relax, after all.