paradisalogs | GRAND RELAUNCH BARBECUE

Who: EVERYONE
What: Awesomeness Committee BBQ party
When: Saturday, July 6
Where: Castle lawn and pool

So many days into summer and not a single pool party yet! Today castle residents may hear some noise wafting from the lawn and pool along with that distinct smell of the barbecue roaring. Oh yeaaah, Barney Stinson's got you covered, Paradisa!

The lawn area has been decked out all in colors, with the grills to one side and the chocolate fountain to another. For those more inclined to chill out and soak up the sun, there are picnic rugs rolled out on the green grass among any kind of game you could wish for. The pool itself has a few floating beds thrown in and all sorts of toys, with a changing tent set up just nearby for anyone who decides they want to get wet and wild after all!

All the fun is for forgetting recent horrors the residents have been through. So once the sun goes down, there will be a time to write down all unpleasantness, and set it to fire. But be careful not to stay out too late; the Castle may have a different idea of Cinderella once midnight strikes.

THE BARBECUE | LAWN AREA | THE POOL | PAPER LANTERNS

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Goodness, she was rather bold, wasn't she? He didn't particularly mind. He had legions of fangirls back at home, after all, and it wasn't exactly unusual that he got love letters and the like in the process...

He may actually be scooting over a little to give Rise a little more room. It's only polite, after all. Though the mention of a 'world change' puts a puzzled look on his face.

"A 'world change'? We're not in a castle all of the time?"

What, Ohjiro, you don't like cleavage in your face or girl butt right up against you? Rude!

Rise's okay with that, though. Not as fun as flustering Tsuna, but she can tell he's noticing the attention. So she actually backs off a bit... or at least stops pressing forward. She's still a scantily-clad girl sharing a small pool chair with the boy.

"Yeah, sometimes we get sent places. Last time, I was on a cruise ship..."

She doesn't sound as excited about that as the words themselves would suggest. Mostly because while she was relaxing on the cruise, some of her friends were much less fortunate...

Hey, he was being polite and deciding to share his chair with you! Oh my god, idols these days.

He wasn't one to get flustered or uncomfortable with any advancements. Being famous in the Angelic Layer world brought about its own kinds of crazy fans, after all.

He notices her lack of excitement, but he would assume it's just from her having been on cruises before. Anyone else would get excited over that sort of thing.

"A cruise ship? That doesn't sound so bad."

She seems to realize how her tone must have come across and hurriedly clarifies.

"Oh, the cruise was fun! It's just... sometimes the castle sends different people to different places, and some of my friends were on the island with a bunch of dinosaurs..."

It's a little harder to enjoy a vacation when your friends are fighting for their lives, and all that...

That's when Ohjiro would take on a surprised expression, not to mention having a wee bit of confusion. This whole 'world change' business was a little troubling, but...

"Did... you say 'dinosaurs'?"

She seems to realize she's still sitting mostly on the edge of the chair and scoots over, sliding into place next to Ohjiro. For once, not just trying to get a rise out of him... she just noticed there was (barely) enough room for both of them there now that he's shifted over.

"Yeah... that's not even the weirdest thing that's happened here..."

She pauses for a second...

"... Or the worst."

~~Oops, that was a depressing subject shift... at least there's a cute girl snuggled up to him?~~

Well, snuggling girls isn't particularly new (and not exactly a bad thing), so he won't be trying to move away or anything. He's just sitting and remaining where he is- rather comfortably still, surprisingly.

He'll notice her hesitance, and now the conversation has kind of a weight to it. While he was curious - and maybe a little concerned - over what she means by that exactly, he'll just give her a reassuring smile.

"Well... this doesn't seem like a good conversation for a party. We're here to have fun, aren't we?"

Shifting moods so suddenly might be a teensy bit forced, but Rise quickly brightens up.

"Yeah. Sorry!"

She shifts around a bit to get more comfortable, and wishes up a glass of iced tea. ~~Because she's just too spoiled to get up and go get a drink somewhere else.~~

"So what kind of world are you from?"

He seems Japanese to her, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything here.

Forced or no, at least she was smiling again. The 'world changes' were a discussion for another time.

He looks away from her, glancing up at the ceiling. Hearing a question like that was so odd... it was something he would just have to get used to. Even if it would take a while.

"Well, it's certainly not quite like this..." He gets a sheepish look, "I never thought I'd have to explain Japan to anyone."

"Oh, so you are from Japan!"

It might not be the same Japan, but still! She gives him a bit of a sheepish smile.

"You never know around here... but there's a lot of people from Earth, at least!"

She pauses to take a sip of her iced tea. Even if they are technically from different worlds, it's always nice meeting new people from her own country...

"It's still quite odd to think about, that there are 'other worlds' ..."

He kept his gaze to the ceiling to voice those thoughts before he looked back to Rise,

"I'm sure it's safe to guess now that you're from Japan as well. Where are you from?"

Although there was the whole 'different worlds' thing to factor in, he doesn't really suspect there are different versions of Earth. After all, that assumption would have been silly, right?

Rise just smiles, amused at his reaction. Even when she first came here, she already knew of at least one 'other world', so it wasn't too strange for her to get used to.

"Yep! I'm from a small town called Inaba. Nothing much really goes on there, but it's where all my friends live!"

Actually, she has a random thought at that...

"I get to travel a lot for work, though! Maybe I've performed somewhere around where you live...?"

Again, even if it's not exactly the same version of that place. Paradisa is a weird world...

GRAND RELAUNCH BARBECUE

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