adventureic | Leap Day Dinner Party

WHO: Velvet Vespertine, Adzuki Yamashita, Adrian Flyte, Cyprien du Voy
WHEN: Thursday, February 29
WHERE: Unit 207
WHAT: Roommates have a holiday gathering, which unfortunately is the same day the Society has turned all of them human.
WARNINGS: Food, alcohol, questionable theming.

LEAP DAY DINNER PARTY

Velvet spent an entire week preparing this dinner party between roommates(-in-law), and they will not be cancelling just because of the human body hell situation. The catered dishes have been magically transported to her and Adzuki's apartment, and the entire evening is reserved for getting to know each other. No one is allowed to leave early. 😈

The dinner table, decked with a red velvet tablecloth, is lit with tall candles and adorned with roses. Anatolia has been provided with a special high chair and a goose-appropriate kid's menu.

As they're celebrating the leap year, Velvet attempted a compromise between her usual gothic vampire aesthetics and appropriate holiday theming. (She doesn't immediately explain that it's themed—at what point do you catch on?)

Charcuterie: Dark fruits, decadent sausages, red beet chips, charcoal crackers, with a wheel of brie topped with blood orange syrup.

Appetizer: Cuisses de grenouille à la provençale, which the French will recognize as frog legs fried with butter, garlic and parsley.

Soup: Light rabbit stew with white wine and mushrooms.

Salad: Red kale with blackberries, pumpkin seeds, feta, and a blackberry shallot vinaigrette.

Main Course: Miso-ginger glazed salmon on white rice.

Dessert: Cricket macarons, made from cricket flour and garnished with gold-painted crickets.

Wine: Irresponsibly copious, given that none of them have supernatural constitutions anymore. Both red and white are available.

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Has never played this before, is maybe going to die, it's fine.

"Do you have nine lives?"

Adzuki ponders this, staring up at the ceiling as though it has some answers for her. "I think I only have one, BUT it's like super long so maybe if you added it all up it'd be nine."

"Did you ever have a home, where you were a pet, as a cat?" (He does not know how this works exactly, and is perhaps suffering still from guilt of keeping a mythical creature as also a pet, but that's context no one needs to know.)

Adzuki is very excited to answer this question and is very animated as she explains, "Yes! I was just a regular cat for like, fifteen years, so I lived with my dad and I was just a cat and it was AWESOME, and then my tails split and I ended up like this but I didn't want to leave even though the OTHER nekomata in the mountains were like: hey Adzuki, come live in the mountains! But I was like: NO I love my dad I'm going to stay here and keep being a cat so I did, but then he got old so his kids moved him here so that's why I live here." She drinks throughout this chatter, and is clearly tipsy even at the start.

Leap Day Dinner Party

TRUTH OR SHOT: Adzuki

TRUTH OR SHOT: Adzuki

TRUTH OR SHOT: Adzuki

TRUTH OR SHOT: Adzuki

TRUTH OR SHOT: Adzuki