Week 5, Thursday - Ice Cream Party!

[withsadness]

[Who knows when they're going to have an ice cream Parlor and a working McFlurry machine in the same week ever again. Since...their numbers are going to be slimmer in the morning, Mary devised a plan! Everyone currently still playing in the Reaper Game will at some point within the earlier half of the day find themselves given a hand-drawn invitation to come have fun in Mint to Be before curfew. Even Max gets an invite, somehow! She'll make it happen.

Everything is basically normal here, except that she has spread glitter on the tables for dramatic effect (yes she's been holding onto this all month) and has posted a hand drawn sign that proudly proclaims PARTY HERE!!! So come get ice cream, share, have fun! Let's celebrate the magic of friendship and probably cry!]

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[feminitis]

[This is too cute, wtf. Seizaburo hasn't actually worked up the nerve to eat from the ice cream parlor until now, but this seems fine... so, time to taste a scoop of the reddish-brown stuff.]

...oh! It tastes like azuki beans!

[DELICIOUS.]

Everyone, come try this!

[tosa]

Which one?

(He's a child in a candy shop. Or an ice cream shop, rather. But look, he's already sticking a spoon in Seizaburo's ice cream while shoving his own over towards him. Look, it's chocolate.)

[withsadness]

What what what? What's an azuki bean?!

[But she gets a spoon and goes in for a taste. It's...tasty?! But all ice cream is tasty by nature, probably. Still, she squeals happily when it hits her tongue. A happy Mary!]

[warmyyarny]

Really? Lemme see.

[He's pretty sure he hasn't tried the reddish-brown one. Not bad, not bad]

You weren't kidding, it's azuki beans. Neat! [You sure seemed excited about this, Seizaburo. Kanji smiles a bit] What, you never had azuki bean ice cream before?

[soylentprotag]

[Lenka's already whisker-deep in what looks like... actually, it's green bean ice cream, because I make way too many jokes about green being his character color. Anyway.]

There's a lot of bean ice cream, isn't there?

[Come try the different beans, too.]

[shinssin]

[Here is Assassin eating a very tall strawberry parfait.]

I'll let you try mine if you let me try yours!

[But before you can accept, he's reaching out to get a scoop of your ice cream anyway...]

[feminitis]

Oh, s—

[and assassin is already going for it

well. seizaburo will counter by going for a scoop of his strawberry parfait!]

Hah!

[conquerorofwaves]

Well - hey!

[Sinbad exclaims as Assassin reaches for his lemon and rosewater sorbet. Of course it'll be tart, but there's a sweet, floral taste to keep it from being too sour]

...You could've waited to see if I said yes first.

[withsadness]

[Mary pounces her way over to Assassin, beyond excited. She moves her hand out of the way, dodging his greedy fingers. Not so fast! leaning up on her toes, she makes her demands!]

Open!

[She has a spoonful of ice cream ready to feed him.]

[byjove]

[Despite being able to fuckin' teleport, Hermann is Too Slow.

But the joke's on Assassin, because he's apparently mixed mint and coffee flavors. Is he even human??? Enjoy that.]

... Which side haven't you eaten off of?

[soylentprotag]

... I didn't think you were a strawberry kind of person.

[Lenka's got... toffee? Some strange mixture of toffee and nuts and maybe chocolate. It is very chocolatey and totally delicious, because he is totally a cat who can eat chocolate. Perks of being a horrorcat.

He's not too bothered by Assassin going after his ice cream -- half his own blood must be ice cream now after this week -- but how is he... going to return the favor.]

And, uh, can you scoop some out?

[Unless you want him licking your parfait, that is.]

[lightdecrement]

[ He has a mickey mouse shaped ice cream sundae with strawberries and chocolate syrup. Instead of eating it, he seems to be spacing out. Staring off at nothing in particular, while jabbing at the ice cream.

Bug him? He'll eventually snap out of it in a moment. ]

[withsadness]

What's wrong?

[She's throwing this party she can't just let him mope.]

Do you have a tummy ache?

[soylentprotag]

[... shows up!]

Did you have too much ice cream again?

[He finds Vanitas spacing out with ice cream a lot, huh.]

[tosa]

A. Dogs Eating Lemons Compilation

(Mutsu is helping himself to one of the Spark Lemon Sundae because of course he hecking is. Did you expect him to settle for a basic ice cream flavor when he has a whole sundae menu in front of his face? Nah.

He'll take one bite of it and all's good and fine until--

This was a mistake.)

B. Important Poll

Hey, hey, hey! What's your favorite flavor so far?

(He needs to try something else after that lemon disaster.)

a.

[lightdecrement]

[ There's a chocolate disc in his mouth when he sees Mutsu.

Nearly spitting it out as he laughs at him. Thanks for being an amusement dispenser. ]

A

[warmyyarny]

Man, you look like you made the biggest mistake of your life!

[You could at least not sound amused, Kanji, geez]

B

[chaoticlootral]

[Crunching . . . gems.]

Kinda like it. Something of a challenge.

B

[soylentprotag]

Uh... I don't know what this is, actually.

[Lenka's staring down at like... five wildly different flavors in different cups lined up in front of him. He didn't ask for any of them, having spent the entire week eating ice cream already (help), but apparently it's just one of those days where people keep giving him more food for no reason.

The only one that has a bite taken out of it looks like good old vanilla. But...? Try it for yourself?]

b

[bladeisme]

Chocolate.

[He offers Mutsu a spoonful of his ice cream - Which is Rocky Road.]

Want some?

[allsetfree]

[ Alex couldn't pass up a party being thrown by Mary!! But... She's also been offered pity ice cream by like 4 or 5 separate people over the course of this week, so she's kind of over ice cream. just for today. ]

You know what I could really go for, though? Pizza.

[tosa]

... What flavor is that?

(Explain. What's a pizza.)

[withsadness]

Pizza party! Pizza party! Pizza party!

[Maybe that can be next week. God willing.]

[feminitis]

I don't know what that is, but maybe if we pool our resources, we can get the ingredients to make it...?

[Mini-mission: make a pizza for Alex!]

[warmyyarny]

[Ice cream is always nice, and Kanji wouldn't want to hurt Mary's feelings, so he's here. He's eyeing the bar of ice cream before finally taking some McFlurry. May as well check what's so good about them. Kanji takes a spoonful and...]

...that's it? This is the thing we had to do all that buncha stuff for?

[He's unimpressed. He expected something tastier, after being denied for so long a McFlurry because the machine was broken]

[conquerorofwaves]

[He moved on from a lemon and rosewater to a pistachio and honey]

Honestly, the place here makes the 'McFlurries' seem bland - I wondered why people were so hyped about it.