of knights, dogs, and yakitori

[beathollow]

( another week, another palace- and far be it from us to deny tradition. through bickering, wandering and other shenanigans, the group from argenti's palace will find themselves at an agreeable izakaya- not entirely meals, and they definitely have to make an argument for the younger teens, thank you izou, but the atmosphere is light and more importantly, this bad boy can fit so many customers at one group table. it was a hard battle- so now it's time to rest hard, too.

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please consult here for menu ideas. this is not a dennihop. )

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[goei]

[Izou passes along a plate of karaage, but as he does, nudges Eli,]

Oi, I ordered a pot of tea cause it comes with cups that ain't clear glass. If ya wanna drink, grab a cup and I'll pour somea mine in for ya.

[YOUR LIQUOR LAWS CAN'T STOP ME, SUNSET CITY]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Eli takes the plate and a piece of chicken and passes it... along... wait, what? The look he gives Izou when he tells him that is one of such adoration, it's ridiculous, truly. ]

Well, damn, guess I'd better have some tea, huh?

[ Excuse him while he grabs one of the tea cups and ignores the tea entirely. ]

[goei]

[ADORATION... ELI IT IS JUST ALCOHOL]

Heheh, that's right! Do ya want green or black tea?

[He points to the 40 of beer he hasn't fully poured into his own glass for "green" and an unopened bottle of sake for "black". "He ordered both??" he was prepared to distribute alcohol to the minors.]

[fullmoonmutt]

I'll try the green tea.

[ YEAH? ADORATION? HE'S TOLD HIM ABOUT HOW BAD ALCOHOL IS BACK HOME. ]

[goei]

[YOUVE LITERALLY ALREADY HAD ALCOHOL HERE!!!!

Anyway Izou pours beer into Eli's cup. It's probably a standard Japanese lager like Sapporo or Kirin Ichiban. Smooth and easy to drink!]

An excellent choice. They say it's good for yer health, y'know.
[Izou your metaphor is falling apart.]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ THAT DOESN'T CHANGE HOW GRATEFUL HE IS EVERY TIME HE GETS TO TRY GOOD ALCOHOL, IZOU?!?!? ]

Ha, yeah. Here's to healthy green tea.

[ He'll raise his cup of "tea" in a toast to Izou before taking a drink. He can't help but give a snort afterward, lowering the cup again. ]

Shit, how come no one back home can brew anything this decent? It can't be that hard, right?

[goei]

Well y'see, brewin' good alcohol's actually a very complicated art. [That he knows nothing about] Ya gotta have like... carefully controlled conditions.

Probably harder ta achieve when everyone's just trying to survive, right?
[It may in fact be that hard, Eli.]

[fullmoonmutt]

For real?

[ So, yes, it is difficult. That's disappointing but... ]

I guess that makes sense, if it's an art. Figures. Maybe we're just stuck with crap booze until things get better... I just really wish that weren't the case.

[goei]

Yer tryin' ta help fix things, ain't ya?

[He's not sure if Eli ever said that, but... he seems the type.]

Just another motivation, ain't it? Maybe you can even become a... what do they call em... Beersmith?

[No.]

[fullmoonmutt]

Uh, brewer, or something. Kind of like farmer.

[ Maybe? Though, the suggestion just seems to get Eli down. If only. ]

I'm probably too stupid to figure that out, not to mention no one would want a lycanthrope having his grubby hands all over something they're drinking. I can't do that... I ain't allowed to join up official-like with the military. Got fired from construction because of my "attitude problem" or whatever that bullshit was. Doubt they'd even allow me to go join the farms in the southwest...

[ That's a long list of things he isn't allowed to do, wow. ]

So, trying to start a brewery? Even if I knew how? That's definitely not happening.

[goei]

[Oh no. He biffed it. He made Eli sad!!!]

Well you know what it's actually called so yer already doin' better than me!

[But. Hm. Prejudice... He's only got one solution for that.]

Guess you gotta start yer own Sonnou Joui movement and revolt.

[fullmoonmutt]

[ Look, he has very few career options back home, that's just life. He'll get over it. ]

My own...? What? Izou, I don't even know what the fuck that means.

[goei]

[No we will change Australia to suit Eli's needs.]

Like the Kinnou-tou. If the government ain't workin' fer you, change it.

[fullmoonmutt]

Oh, that. The whole Tosser Kinny-Toe thing from your palace.

[ Eli, Mafuyu warned you about this! ]

Ehh, I mean, we've barely been cobbling together actual leadership for a year now... I'm pretty sure an uprising would destroy what we do got. Right now it's just the military, and that military is just a bunch of groups that came together to form an official one, and...

[ Ughhh, how does he even describe it? ]

It's pretty messy, that's all. 'sides, I don't want to revolt against my own mom? She's a part of it...

[goei]

[ELI HE LITERALLY JUST SAID IT.]

To-Sa Kin-Nou-Tou!
[ENUNCIATING EVERY SYLLABLE CLEARLY.]

But if revolutions is outta the question I don't got any ideas.

[fullmoonmutt]

Yeah? That's what I said?

[ Okay, now Eli is just fucking with him on purpose. ]

Mm. It's hard since I don't got any ideas, either. I want to do something... but... It's almost like I'm not allowed to?

[goei]

Yeah. That's kinda how it was fer me an my brother.
[Including him now since Argenti's palace put him to the front of his mind.]

Like, fer me, I like swordfighting. I'm good at it and I enjoy it. I'd probably have joined even if I had other choices. But fer Kei... it was that or just waste away in the sticks til our parents kicked the bucket.

[fullmoonmutt]

You have a brother?

[ Fun historical facts with Okada Izou. ]

Huh... Did he not like fighting? Wanted to do something else?

[goei]

[That was the only historical fact, now Caitie makes stuff up.]

Mm, it's not that he didn't like it, hell, he wasn't even bad at it. Just he wasn't as good as me. Drove him up the wall.

Still, he was always way smarter than me. Hopefully he was able ta survive the revolution and settle down.

[fullmoonmutt]

[ If it were him, he'd go after whoever killed Izou, but... ]

Yeah. I hope so, too. Is Tosa far away from where it happened? Mafuyu mentioned it was a place...

[goei]

[Eli, Izou was executed by the government, who would you kill???]

Mm, Tosa's on the island of Shikoku and most of the fightin' was on the mainland in Kyoto and Edo. Course since we were involved, we were there too, but...

[WHO'S TO SAY...]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ He would kill the government???? Hello???? ]

So! Yeah, he was probably fine. I mean, couldn't you just look it up or ask a historian if you're some summoned spirit guy now?

[goei]

[THE WHOLE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT??? BUT YOU WON'T EVEN OVERTHROW YOURS!!!]

Maybe I could if we weren't stuck on a base in Antiarctica with the rest of the world destroyed right now.

[fullmoonmutt]

Oh... [ Right. ] Shit. I almost forgot it was that bad where you're at. They ain't got no historians at all up there? Then how do they make sure all the heroic spirits are comfortable?

[goei]

[Eli just not correcting Izou's mispronunciation of Antarctica is why they are best friends.]

Huh? If anyone's not comfortable they'll just go complain ta Fujimaru or Moonyear [Not his name] or Gordy and they'll make the changes.