Imeeji RP Community

[ LiliS, BARiTONES, and invited guests are directed to the 9th floor terrace of Mitsukoshi Ginza, which has been decked out in a modestly fancy party. Most notably, though the sun is out, the balcony has a dome-like roofing of vines and leaves, little ambient lights and flowers hanging from above. The balcony's gardens are decorated with a few green-and-claret reflective streamers, and there's lace tablecloth for every table, but other than that, it's rather humble, with naught more than a "CONGRATULATIONS" sign hanging over the graduation door that sits in the far back of the balcony for Sunny and Cypress to leave when they're ready. There's no red carpet, no microphone, and the music that plays is a soft piano melody.

Though the venue is humble, the menu is not—the variety is strong, ranging from Japanese to Mediterranean to American to Italian, and it's all easily restaurant-quality. The menu's strongest point is easily the desserts, both in variety and quality—and LiliS might notice that the menu and flavor profiling tends to skew to their preferences. The food might even taste familiar. ]

[ Good morning, idols! It's. . . it's morning, right?

Even though your clocks are correct and it is the AM, the sun isn't out in the sky yet. More than that, the stars are shining ever so brilliantly today—you can see the entire Milky Way system here, in fact so clearly that it feels like you could reach out and touch them. This time, however, something pierces the sky's darkness, shining like a connector to the stars—it would be the ever-present chain of light to Heaven, of course.

For the most part, the Milky Way like this might be a familiar sight to some of you idols, though there's no message that accompanies your phone. Instead, there's an out of place notif that the themes have changed to HEAT and MOUNTAIN.

In the hotel lobby, rather than stacks of boxes, there are instead rows and rows of potted bamboo trees—there are enough pots for every idol, and each stalk is at least person-sized, though some are taller depending on the idol's height. Each bamboo tree has a number of paper strips already tied to them, or otherwise envelopes tied to the base with red ribbons. Some strips are blank, and some strips are regular pieces of fanmail (or letters from some friends!). Some strips are wishes from fans, anything from the innocuous "I wish Thing #2 would have a nice day" to the, less innocuous. Creepy. Shippy. Angry. Everything in-between. There are smaller boxes too, for whatever presents people might be getting from fanmail. And of course, all the bamboo plants are just, in the way of getting out of the hotel. Do your best to get out.

Step through any given doorway outside of the dorms—the elevators for example, or the lobby doors—and you might find your clothes mildly transformed: the style and colors are still the same, but white constellations and stars glitter the fabrics, twinkling like the night sky. (If you're wearing white, the stars have a black outline, still twinkling against your clothes.)

This will likely persist throughout the day, although depending on the doorways you go through the constellations may change. (When the clock strikes midnight, the constellations will no longer move or twinkle, though it's player choice if they want to keep the clothes transformed to have unmoving stars.)



Outside, you'll find a lit-up pathway to Shinjuku Gyoen from . . . anywhere you are, honestly; the pavement seems to reflect the sky above to make a river of stars that run down to the park. There, you'll find a wooden platform lined with white cloth just outside the park, as well as a few fold-up chairs and cloth-lined group tables—you know, the long ones. There's nothing on them, though. The place looks primed for a potluck, but only if you're the ones bringing the food!

Lining this side's edge of the park are tall stalks of bamboo, with a wooden plaque hanging from one of the stalks. It has this written on it:

Long, long ago, the Sky King's daughter began to weave him a beautiful cloth. He loved it so much that the Weaving Princess would work diligently every day in order to please him—but her weaving left her in solitude, alone and loveless. Seeing this, the Sky King arranged for her to marry the celestial Cowherd. The Weaving Princess and the Cowherd fell in love, happily spending their days together ☆

However, in their love was tragedy. The two were so enamored with one another that they forgot their duties—the Cowherd his heavenly cows, and the Princess her weave. Displeased by this, the Sky King separated the two across the heavenly river—but at the behest of his daughter, he promised that the two could meet each other once every year should she finish her work.

And so, we celebrate Tanabata, for the two's reunion. When we celebrate the day when the two lovers can meet once more, we also ask to be granted a single wish! Write your wish on a paper tag and tie it to the bamboo tree; it very well may be granted to you.

The paper tags are neatly placed in front of the bamboo, several inkwells in the ground—that is, the cement seems to be dug into in order to fill with ink—and some bamboo stalks lend to disposable one-time use brushes that start to dissolve once it's written a tag, although if you want like, you know, nicer writing implements to write with or more space on the paper you can always hit up a Taisho.

The first tag is already on the bamboo: STOP BREAKING MY HOTEL . . . Goodness. This person really just has one wish, don't they?



At the various eateries, the decorations inside have been replaced with Tanabata-themed items: bamboo stalks, star wallpaper and flooring, and black-and-white spotting on the seats and tables like they're for cows. For today only, the outer walls have fencing as decoration too, as if the eaters are cowpens.



There are various vending machines to be found today only, both in the arcades and just around: 50 points for a broach or lapel or hairpin themed Tanabata, taking form of one thing or another: a little cow face, a constellation, weaving instruments, kimono, or other things. You know, just stay in theme. There's no option to select anything, just a little scanner where you can beep your phone and you'll get something random out of it. In other words, it's a gacha.



Nothing to be heard from the Producers today, it seems. It's quiet. It's nice, isn't it? ]

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