imeeji_frontstage | live: maid to serve!

live: maid to serve!

Who: Weary souls and maidenurses (nursemaids?)
Where: Next to the hotel
When: Day 410/onward

[ If you pass by one of the abandoned buildings near the hotel, you'll be able to see a big sign outside—♥ Maid to Self-Care Healing Cafe ♥—or maybe you'll catch the announcement being Live broadcasted.

Venti addresses the camera first: ]

Attention citizens of Tokyo-F~! Are you feeling tired? Stressed? Did you die a lot? Maybe kill a lot? Well, this is the perfect time to relax and care for both your body and mind! For the low, low price of starting at 100 points, you can join us for an afternoon of rest and relaxation~ Plenty of ☆ cute maids ☆ are waiting to serve you, whether you seek food, drink, or entertainment! There are even some very special services available for those willing to pay a little more, ehe~~

[ Eirene: ]

The nominal fee will benefit improvements to our medical care services, of course, as well as quality of life improvements for your care providers—which is to say, us. Among other things, we'd like to be able to purchase an ambulance for emergency use. We'd be grateful for your patronage!

[ And Izanagi rounds it off, waving cheerfully with both hands: ]

Some services are a liiiiiittle more involved than others, so make sure you read the sign carefully ♪ After all, we’re putting our whole ♥ hearts ♥ into serving you!

[ Inside, the first floor of the abandoned building has been transformed: one half has been draped with sensitIV pink cloth, decorated with cute squishmallow pillows and cute ribbons; the other half is draped with black cloth, with similar squishmallows and ribbons. Both sides are divided by hospital-like partitions. Closer to the door are a few tables that have definitely not been stolen from the dining room (please do not look to verify!) and chairs that have definitely not been stolen from the lobby (please believe us!) to set up like a café, with an even distribution of tables and chairs between the pink and black.

Farther back are what seem to be lounging areas—in the pink corner there's a massive pillow fort, and in the black corner there are a few opaque tents, also divided by hospital-like partitions, and are surely meant for sleeping and not anything else, absolutely.

A door on the pink side leads to a hallway, at the end of which is a room with a television and portable karaoke set. Across from that room is the makeshift kitchen-slash-break room, where there are a few chairs and coolers for the foodstuffs, as well as a side entrance for the employees. Some AlcheME! chefs might be hanging out over here.

A door on the black side leads to another hallway, which has smaller cubicle-like rooms with blankets and pillows, where drunks can go take naps if they need, or where the sinful can get more privacy.

Every maid has either a pink ribbon and bow wrapped around their waist and/or a black one—from how the menu looks and from how the floor is divided, it's clear that pink-ribboned maids are doing pink activities and black-ribboned maids are doing black activities (and maids with both ribbons are doing both). Each maid is also equipped with a cute bag that contains a number of potion-filled syringes.

Notably, right next to the door is a printed paper following payment options: 100 points for the pink menu and 500 points for the black menu. There's a QR code with each payment option; scanning it automatically takes out either 100 points or 500 points, depending on which you pay for, and each maid has access to a list of paid guests that updates upon payment. ]

[ ooc note: this is a lowkey live despite the production; please feel free to tag in late if you're dead in the face cuz we, too, are dead in the face.

(final numbers to change; current count: 11 units participating [missing taisho], 8 units hosting [sensitIV, AlcheME!, ☆ZRAEL & future is now, LiliS, pep!pep!, BARiTONES, WILD CITY])
Maids take home: 2,000 points
Sponsors (other Live hosts) take home: 2,000 points
Non-maid sensitIVs, AlcheME!s, and ☆ZRAELs take home: 1,550 points
Customers from the same unit as sponsors take home: 1,550 points
Non-sponsor affiliated customers take home: 1,300 points ]

IC MENU | FOOD DESCRIPTIONS | ADDITIONAL LIVES | PAY FOR MENU HERE | REQUEST A MAID/CHEF | DEAR CUSTOMERS, PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN TOPLEVELS

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Looking good is important! We're idols, after all. Though the Production seems to have already picked people who clean up nicely to begin with ♪

[ HOW IS IZANAGI SO AT HOME WITH ALL OF THIS and so casual about everything,

will he ever be able to obtain power like this?? ]

[ can’t Okitsu just change his personality?? can it work like that?

he’s got nothing! why does he even have shame? why is he embarrassed? why SHOULD he have shame?

why is taking a compliment so HARD.

why is he THINKING SO MUCH???

blank slates are supposed to be blank canvases and yet here he is, overthinking. which he might do a lot?? what the hell is this shit.

(sorry Izanagi he might be making a lot of confused expressions and flustered because of being, well, himself.) ]

[ okay. okay. yes. change personality, become power. he can maybe do that.

it’s just like doing another job! another fetch quest.

but this time, WITH FEELING- ]

Yeah! You’re absolutely right!

[ complete with an overemphatic pose and everything. he’s REALLY TRYING. ]

I have a plan! I’m going to go out there, offer to sell ANYTHING I OWN, and see if people might be more interested in hiring me if I have alcohol on board! I’m going to earn this!

[ GOOD, UNHEALTHY, LET’S GO, he’s definitely trying to rush back out there— ]

Thanks for the talk!

Hey- wait a sec!

[GRABBING HIS ARM, OKITSU, PLEASE??]

[ BUT HE’S GOT IT NOW SENPAI HE JUST HAS TO ABANDON TRYING TO “BE HIMSELF”

AND JUST DITCH THAT GUY, WHOEVER HE IS,

until he earns enough to buy bits of him back or whatever. ]

I’ll check back in later, I got this! No problem here!

[ speechcraft check: probably failed ]

Just keep doing what you were doing before you saw me!

[STILL HOLDING ON.]

No, wait, wait, wait. Do not start down the road of just selling yourself to make a quick buck around here.

[ fine, fine, he stops trying to pull away so intently if Izanagi’s going to insist like this. ]

Isn’t that inevitable? We’re entertainment, right? I was digging pretty deep to sound that enthusiastic about it, but—

I'm the performer type, so putting on shows is fine with me, but if you aren't, you don't have to do that kind of thing.

Even if you don't remember anything, you still have your own preferences and fears, right? It's not like you're nothing just because you've lost your personal memories.

Don't be so eager to destroy yourself to please the demons watching us.

[ and there he had been, trying desperately to reach for an easy answer. ]

Yeah, I can see that. You’re good at it. If you told me you were an actual idol before, I’d buy it.

But I want to be good at this, too. This is the expectation, yeah? So I want to be better.

And if I could just change my personality a little, then maybe—

[Newbie why are you so immediately concerning on multiple levels.]

Who's expectation are you trying to meet here? Because I can already say now, you aren't going to meet your unit's expectations like that. Not even a little.

[ letting out a sigh. ]

… Listen, I didn’t mean for things to get like this. [ because the truth is, he doesn’t have a good answer. he wants to be of use, but why? for whom? ]

I’ll go for a walk and be back in a while, alright? I swear I won’t try selling off my stuff. It was… it was just a stupid thing I came up with in the moment. I think I panicked?

Just forget about it.

Fat chance. Ignoring my unitmates' problems would make me a bad unitmate.

...You had to learn a lot of new things, and very quickly. You experienced some of the harshest trauma this place has to offer, and you haven't even had a chance to stop and process it all.

Don't try to decide who you are when you don't have enough of a foundation to go off of. The rest of us - well, most of us had to figure out who we are over time. Hell, I doubt all of us even stopped with what we have now. So don't go rushing off eagerly trying to make yourself a utility instead of taking the time to figure out who you really are.

Nah. I told you I was stepping out, you’d just be honoring the request.

[ a weak defense, but it’s what he’s got as he shuffles a little closer to the door. not enough to actually exit, and he’s not intending on ditching, but.

he’s not sure if it’s more worrying out there or in here after that display. ]

Clearly I didn’t do well with the mood change, and I’m fumbling like an idiot. That’s all it is. I’m gifted at imagining dumb scenarios. You’d probably laugh if you could see it, too…

So go out and keep having fun for a while? I’m not going to go far.

Fumbling around in an environment you aren't used to is just natural, isn't it?

[Imagining dumb scenarios? Though??? H u h.]

...Go take a break, and if you can't handle the rest of the Live as a maid, you can always switch gears and help support us, you know? There's more you can do than just shove yourself into a mold you might not fit into.

To a point, sure, but…

[ this is. this is different. ]

There’s fumbling, and there’s getting it in your head that the dorm kotatsu might be sentient or hiding a demon spawn point! Or that if you don’t perform well enough, you’re going to rank last in an easy thing like this and the powers that be will turn your consume your soul or turn it to eternal flame for being a terrible pick, and everyone will vote you out—

[ you see the problem here. past trauma + racing thoughts = bad ideas. ]

I’m gonna go..!

...If you have questions about hell, isn't it easier to just ask everyone who's been here a while now?

Hell is pretty unpredictable. And sometimes we might not have a full answer, but at the very least, we can help you navigate between your worries and reality.

This is a decompression event, right?

[ speaking over his shoulder as he lingers on the door handle. ]

So, isn’t it fine to just hold onto thoughts like that for a while longer and let everyone have fun..? [ not when it leads to potential self-destruction no, probably— ]

It's a decompression event, but that doesn't mean you're banned from decompressing, too. The fun part should be mutual, not one-sided.

[Going to grab a breakroom chair and pull it out, patting the top.]

come here and sit.

I’m not trying to ban myself from it. Sometimes I’ve even managed to do something that feels like I’m doing something right, and it feels— it feels okay. Normal, even. Whatever that is.

[ hesitating… he had been trying to see himself out.

but, slinking off to get time to think loses out to working this thing out, so he does comply. ]

Alright, alright…

[Placing his hands on Okitsu's shoulders, how tense does he feel?]

So, tell me more about all this stuff you keep imagining.

[ shoulders? shoulders are totally overrated, solid stress concrete is all the rage right now. ]

I’m not going to get into all of it, it’d be a waste. I don’t think the furniture is going wake up and devour someone anymore, so…

[ progress? progress! ]

I don’t even know how to say it. They come and go... Sometimes it’s.. as if I’m hanging? I’m hanging, just waiting to be dumped into the void. If someone’s going to go, it’ll be me. Everyone agrees I’m the weakest. It’s strategically the right choice, so even though I’m terrified, I shouldn’t object to it…

But then I think, “if I can just fight a little harder or be a little more self-sufficient,” then maybe that person I imagine, that “me”— could be worth trying to save.

Who agrees you're the weakest?

[Voice calm and level. He may be in a maid outfit, but he's also been giving out massages, and he'll start on one now, not too harsh to start with - mostly a firm touch on those shoulders with the added (hopeful) effect of helping to ground him.]

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