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BONUS AC
AC for the current month must be completed before requesting bonuses for that month. For new characters, AC must be submitted in lieu of the check in.
Each bonus is submitted as a bundle of three threads, which cannot be used for AC and must have a minimum of five comments from you. Threads have no expiration date and can be banked for the future, but each character is restricted to five bonuses each calendar month.
Bonuses must have an impact on the character, which can be as simple as a favorite food, or as poignant as a memento from a loved one. They cannot be a living creature. Bonuses can be common items (such as food, clothing, and tools) which are ICly requested by the character, or canon specific items (owned by the character) which are OOCly requested. Once general NPCs are unlocked, characters will ICly submit requests to the town head, who will work to acquire resources either from within the town or to be imported via train. Canon specific items will appear in a variety of ways.
Please use the following form:
Each bonus is submitted as a bundle of three threads, which cannot be used for AC and must have a minimum of five comments from you. Threads have no expiration date and can be banked for the future, but each character is restricted to five bonuses each calendar month.
Bonuses must have an impact on the character, which can be as simple as a favorite food, or as poignant as a memento from a loved one. They cannot be a living creature. Bonuses can be common items (such as food, clothing, and tools) which are ICly requested by the character, or canon specific items (owned by the character) which are OOCly requested. Once general NPCs are unlocked, characters will ICly submit requests to the town head, who will work to acquire resources either from within the town or to be imported via train. Canon specific items will appear in a variety of ways.
Please use the following form:
Thread one: link (number of comments)
Thread two: link (number of comments)
Thread three: link (number of comments)
Bonus request:
Impact: motivation for requesting said item, emotions that would be evoked by the item, etc
Thread two: link (number of comments)
Thread three: link (number of comments)
Bonus request:
Impact: motivation for requesting said item, emotions that would be evoked by the item, etc
not me sliding these in last minute, happy almost new year...
Thread two: 5
Thread three: 5+
Bonus request: Sukiyaki ingredients
Impact: He wants to celebrate New Year's with some... coworkers! A very normal thing to wish for in a very abnormal setting. Please let them eat.
Thread one: 5+
Thread two: 5+
Thread three: 5+
Bonus request: His skincare products/makeup
Impact: An idol must stay on top of his routine and not let this harsh winter affect his beauty... He gets antsy going without it too long, anyway. Please put him at ease again!
Thread one: 5+
Thread two: 5+
Thread three: 5+
Bonus request: A CD of Crazy:B's songs, which is only like, 10 tracks rn
Impact: He'd be happy to hear his own music, of course, and even happier to share it with those who don't know it — or just don't remember it.
Thread one: 5+
Thread two: 5+
Thread three: 5+
Bonus request: Sugar, again. Please more than two packets please Lark aren't we cool now
Impact: The sweets club will have their will to live extended by an amount proportionate to the amount of sugar they receive
approved!
[ We've got an hour before midnight here, it still counts. Lark, for his part, looks a little happier than usual— which is to say, he's grateful that these packages are all small light ones. These are all delivered at different times and different days:
In the first package, HiMERU will receive 1/2 cup mirin, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 1/2 cup soy sauce, 1 block firm tofu, 7 shiitake mushrooms, 1 small bag enoki mushrooms, 1 head napa cabbage, 4 scallions, 2 bundles shirataki noodles, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1.5 pounds beef, 3 cups dashi stock, 1 cups uncooked rice, 4 eggs (makes roughly 4 servings of sukiyaki)
His skincare products/makeup come in a separate package, and can include a bag or whatever he typically stores them in.
The CD come in another package, which includes all 10 songs except Crazy Roulette is repeated so it's an 11 song track.
And the last package consists of three(3!!) Splenda packets. They're the yellow ones.
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Oh, there you are. If HiMERU didn't know any better, he'd have thought he's gained a secret admirer here, what with how many anonymous gifts he's been receiving.
[Though he did put in the requests for the foodstuffs, the other belongings were entirely unexpected. The CD in particular was a surprise, not only for its contents but the extra content (a repeated song) that gave it more the feel of a bootleg copy of their discography, which he would feel somewhat insulted by if not for the hilarity of it all.
Anyway, he's stifling a laugh at the three measly packets in his hand, but faces Lark with a genuine smile.]
Thank you for these, sincerely. For your troubles, would you care for a cup of tea again? Sugar, no sugar? We have options now, for all of three cups' worth.
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[ It makes him wonder whether secret "admirer" is the correct term for somebody who responds to requests for sugar with three measly packets of fake sugar, and Lark recalls similar deliveries in the past. ]
However... You have precious little sugar to spare, do you not?
[ Wouldn't the rest of the sweets club tear them apart for wasting the sugar like this? ]
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[He leaves the door open for Lark as he wanders back in towards the kitchen, preparing the kettle once more. Hopefully the man isn't traumatized by the very room after his last visit here. HiMERU does have to chuckle over the sugar situation, though.]
That is true. Hiiro had previously requested sugar and only gotten two of these. HiMERU wanted to try his own hand at it, and while three is an improvement, it's... still not enough to do much of anything with, unfortunately. Last time it was such a paltry amount that no one had the selfishness to claim it for their own greed, and HiMERU imagines the same would repeat should he present these three as well.
[A handwave, to dispel any of Lark's concerns.]
Thus, it truly isn't a problem. It's too little to make a significant difference for a group, but just enough for an individual cup of tea. So, sugar or no sugar? HiMERU won't tell if you don't.
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...no sugar.
[ Even with HiMERU's assurance and even though he can't spot anybody else lurking in the shadows, he'd rather not risk it. He feels awkward enough as it is to be accepting tea, as it's a waste when he's what he is. ]
It makes you happy, yes? The sugar, I mean.
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Well, to an extent? It isn't everything, of course. But even the little things, the mundane enjoyments scattered from day to day can make even the most dire of situations [sorry to call your hometown dire Lark] just that much more tolerable. We've been doing... alright, but HiMERU can already count a number of people on his fingers whose entire months would be brightened with just one decent dessert. Alas, the wait will just have to continue for them.
[A pause, and then a smiling tilt of the head.]
What makes you happy, Mr. Lark?
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He fidgets with the strap of his mailbag, head bowed in thought. What makes him happy...? It feels like it's been a long time since he's been happy. Maybe because he hasn't had dessert in a long time, or because he's never gone sledding or gardening or any of those simple, mundane things he observes the other people around town doing, smiles on their faces that would look— feel— so strange on his.
Still, his expression softens, when he settles on the closest thing he has to happiness. ]
...when I sleep... sometimes I dream about my little sister. Death drove us apart many years ago... but in my dreams we are both there, as we were in life.
[ That's his happiness. A bittersweet happiness, one of mourning, of longing, of fear that one day this memory too will fade away. It's nothing anybody else can provide him, nothing as simple as a packet of sugar. ]
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HiMERU has only just learned about family, himself. What it means, how far he'll go, how deep his love can run. New though it may be, it's not so difficult to understand. Harder to imagine, though that may be due in part to the fact he's been actively avoiding imagining that kind of future with his newly-found little brother.]
... You must love her deeply, even now. That's beautiful.
[He speaks softly, threading his fingers in his lap. Condolences do not seem to be what Lark is going for, so he does not offer any; this is the man's happiness, and he has no intention of pitying that in any regard.]
Do you think her voice, too, is among the others?
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No... her is not among those here. I would not wish that of her.
[ Though he can't say he doesn't wish he could hear her voice, or that she were here with him, but those would be cruel wishes, for himself and for her. ]
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HiMERU tilts his head, glancing off to the side as he envisions the graveyard again, and the fog full of voices. How miserable they must all be.]
Did you live somewhere else with her, before you came here?
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...I should be going. Thank you for the tea.
[ they have not had tea yet but ]