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deercountry2022-12-22 02:14 pm
imaglyphwitch) wrote in deercountry2022-12-22 02:14 pm
Bookstore of Light!
Who:Luz, Lexi and Big Open to all!
What: Luz is keeping the bookstore open to celebrate Hanukkah
When: back dated from the 18th and ending the the 26th!
Where: Bookstore (Willful Machine)
Luz was adamant she get this right, so she obviously would ask Lexi a few questions before she finally started keeping the bookstore open starting the eighteenth. She had a menorah in the store window, lighting each candle as each day passed. They usually closed at five on the weekdays, but Luz changed it just for this week: they were open until 8, or at least until everyone decided to leave.
Luz had the kid section now with books about the Maccabees and how they were able to reclaim the temple so they could rededicate it. to symbolize this, Luz had a few carefully rearranged "debris" that you could start building into forts to symbolize the temple's return to form. She'd also arranged tables and chairs so that people could sit and have the Latkes with applesauce with Sufganiyot on the side. Luz had luckily picked up on frying with Reaper's help, so she made sure to have a new batch each day!
Luz had also small classes on how to make clay Dreidels on the second day, and set to showing kids how to make some of their own, taking time to show them the symbols and how they were etched into the sides and what they meant.
Luz also had geldt! Well, chocolate ones, obviously, but the chocolate was real! She'll pass that out in the middle of the week, with a small present!
She'd also set up a little tin to collect for the orphans in Trench, but that would be up all week. Luz would make sure to turn that in to Shiro later on.
On all days though, Luz would take thirty minutes to talk a little about the holiday, reflecting on what it meant to have a place of worship to call home, and how much that meant. Just because you weren't particularly religious, Luz argued, didn't mean that a simple place like a reading nook wasn't your own private temple, and you cherished it the same way!
[[OOC: Feel free to add your character in on ANY day. They could pop in to have a Latke, say hi to Luz and Lexi or whomever, and hey, you're still in a bookstore! Take a moment to read in the corner or watch the festivities!]]
What: Luz is keeping the bookstore open to celebrate Hanukkah
When: back dated from the 18th and ending the the 26th!
Where: Bookstore (Willful Machine)
Luz was adamant she get this right, so she obviously would ask Lexi a few questions before she finally started keeping the bookstore open starting the eighteenth. She had a menorah in the store window, lighting each candle as each day passed. They usually closed at five on the weekdays, but Luz changed it just for this week: they were open until 8, or at least until everyone decided to leave.
Luz had the kid section now with books about the Maccabees and how they were able to reclaim the temple so they could rededicate it. to symbolize this, Luz had a few carefully rearranged "debris" that you could start building into forts to symbolize the temple's return to form. She'd also arranged tables and chairs so that people could sit and have the Latkes with applesauce with Sufganiyot on the side. Luz had luckily picked up on frying with Reaper's help, so she made sure to have a new batch each day!
Luz had also small classes on how to make clay Dreidels on the second day, and set to showing kids how to make some of their own, taking time to show them the symbols and how they were etched into the sides and what they meant.
Luz also had geldt! Well, chocolate ones, obviously, but the chocolate was real! She'll pass that out in the middle of the week, with a small present!
She'd also set up a little tin to collect for the orphans in Trench, but that would be up all week. Luz would make sure to turn that in to Shiro later on.
On all days though, Luz would take thirty minutes to talk a little about the holiday, reflecting on what it meant to have a place of worship to call home, and how much that meant. Just because you weren't particularly religious, Luz argued, didn't mean that a simple place like a reading nook wasn't your own private temple, and you cherished it the same way!
[[OOC: Feel free to add your character in on ANY day. They could pop in to have a Latke, say hi to Luz and Lexi or whomever, and hey, you're still in a bookstore! Take a moment to read in the corner or watch the festivities!]]
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My girlfriend's Jewish, and this event marks the time where her people rededicated their temple after resisting a tyrannical monarch back then.
[Which sounded more than a little familiar].
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S'good... [the drink, the occasion.]
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Glad you like it! Would you like something to snack on too?
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Oh, right, my apologies! I'm Luz, Luz Noceda! Nice to meet you!
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just a couple uncertain seconds pass, and Luz will get a ping on her omni, with a text message from username 'yuuki':]
He says to thank you for your kindness
And that he is sorry that he cannot talk well
It is a coldblood problem this month
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[She meant that too. Whatever was preventing him from talking, she just wanted to try and make this as comfortable for him as she could].
Oh. OH! Man. I'm so sorry. I know how those afflictions can be. I lost my senses a few months back, it was the worst!
Can I help with anything?
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[he considers that with a few thinking sounds before glancing toward Magnet.]
He was curious to see
If there were good books in here
For his friends
As surprises
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Now you're talking! That sounds like a great idea! If you need any recommendations, we can help with that! Also, if there's something you're looking for that we don't have, we can do our best to order it for you!
[It was really fortunate Luz actually had three ways to travel through Trench with relative ease].
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Mn. Please. Yeh.
He wants to find something about gardening for jun
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Jun wants to start an herb garden
So a book about herbs
Ryunosuke and Kazuma like to read a lot of different things and so he is not sure what is best
But they both practice law
He is wondering if there even any law to practice in trench
He is not sure
But he wonders if there are accounts of such things that can be kept
Instead of just borrowed from the archive
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As for law, I can either come up with a few books that deal with law in a fictional setting, or something that comes directly from Trench. They have a few books on how certain laws came to be, and some that were famously broken.
How's that sound?
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still, he nods.] Yeh-yeah. Yes. Please.
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Heh, great! Did you have anything in mind for some casual reading for yourself?
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without warning, the Omni goes off at the same time Magnet sneezes:]
He is not a good book reader
Because he falls asleep when he tries
[not knowing his omen's ratted him out, Manabu's just scratching at his cheek and thinking up what to say...which is not that. which means:]
He also wished to not say that
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[At that reply, Luz had to suppress a giggle, but she was smiling].
No kidding? I sometimes do that in school, don't tell my girlfriend! But that was because I didn't really find the subject stimulating. Maybe you just need to find the right book.
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he shoots an exasperated look over at his omen before refocusing on Luz, looking a touch embarrassed.]
Uh, meh, mm-maybe. Dunno...'bout...that...eheh...
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Ok! Well, I'll get those books you wanted, you can just look around, see if anything in particular catches your eye!
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Mn. Yeah, tha-thank you.
[Magnet gives a little bark of approval.]
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[Luz loved all of this, but one of her favorite things WAS the fireplace there where she could curl up and read a book for a bit. Best. Job. Ever].
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it's fairly cozy, he thinks.]
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[Lexi also had comics, so there was always something for the more casual people. Luz, meanwhile, had some more reading for kids to do].
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...huh. there is. Manabu is genuinely surprised by this. not only is it something he hasn't thought about since he was, like, ten...but it's...common enough to be something familiar beyond his own world?
baseball, ramen, manga: the three biggest constants he's discovered across realities so far.
guess he's got something to do until those books he asked for get pulled. Magnet, meanwhile, is going to go check on this whole kids situation. kids to hang out with? yes, please - very good dog activity.]
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