[ SEMI-OPEN ] talk it through as a crew

[krakened]

Who: Ed + Staff
When: Sometime in early August
Where: Ed's Inn & Tavern & Fine Gift Shop
What: It's a staff meeting....of a kind
Warnings: Canon warnings.


A Little Notice
Who can say what brought this on. Might he have heard Tifa muttering about people drinking on the job? Did a customer mention a small wind that keeps sweeping through the place and sending napkins aflutter? Has an ugly demon statue scared the shit out of a toddler?

(Possibly, it could be all of the above, but no one's actually taken notes around here.)

Whatever it is, the dedicated and underpaid (okay, fine, fully unpaid) staff of the inn will find a notice pinned to the inn's door. Yes, it's been stuck there with a dagger. It appears about a week before the meeting, with a date and time and, you know, all the necessary information people need to know to show up. Maybe. If the notice is missing details, you'll have to track him down and ask him yourself.


Meeting Day
To avoid offending the good people of Solvunn (he needs their reviews), Ed holds the meeting during off-hours in the morning when most people are asleep or haven't checked in yet. The bar/kitchen area is decently quiet, and it's got plenty of stools and chairs, which seems...like a pretty good spot? Yeah, it'll do.

• He's got the usual refreshments, courtesy of Himeka. Marmalade is definitely included somewhere and it's probably a, frankly, fucking insane amount of food, but that's alright. That's not a problem. Himeka is a madwoman wielding massive cheese wheels and a frying pan. Massive respect.


• There's also a big bucket of fish in the corner. It's technically for Nanaue, who may or may not show, but if you're very excited about the prospect of shoving raw fish into your face, Ed won't stop you. Someone else might, but Ed won't. Just, uh, don't eat all of the big guy's food, he's a growing shark and he's apparently raising a child now.


• Most important, of course, are the comment cards. In theory, they're anonymous, as in, you haven't got to sign your name or anything, but, well. That's about all the steps you can take to remain anonymous. Good luck.

Some handy dandy links: OFFICIAL MEETING THREAD || CREW WREATH || COMMENT CARDS


OOC
Feel free to mingle before and after the meeting! Threadjacking encouraged, and be as chaotic as you want. Just don't destroy the inn itself, Ed will be sad about that. The comment cards are real, and yes, they will be brought up in the meeting as they get added. Ed will read them out and address the concerns, as every effective boss should.

Characters who are not part of the staff are welcome to drive by!!

Comments

CREW'S WREATH

[krakened]

Pick some flowers, twigs, or shells, and build a giant wreath together. You can add whatever you want to it. He's got a couple of buckets of paint leftover when he painted the inn (in shades of pink and purple), ribbon scraps, and bits and bobs from "offerings," which are free for use. Art from the heart.

When it's done, he's gonna hang it up outside the inn. :)

[nomnoms]

[ Nanaue sits on one side of the wreath circle, busy at work. At either side of him are a pair of feety fish (what appear to be grouper, now given their own pairs of human-like legs) and Baby, the bipedal baby seal. For his part of the wreath he's winding a piece of old, tattered netting like ribbon around the base, while Baby messily paints over it in pink with a brush. The feety fish are... not really helping so much as darting around, confused.

Suddenly, Nanaue coughs, then hacks, then spits into his hand a fleshless fish skull - presumably from the fish bucket in the corner. He offers it to Baby, who offers it to whomever is next to it, staring at you with its wide, black eyes.

How could you not accept this gift?? ]

[suplexer]

[ Tifa's heard a lot about the shark man. It would be hard not to, when he's such a presence, and she'd seen him when they'd all been packed into that ritual site together. This is their first time interacting. She hasn't actually gathered what he does here at the inn, if anything, but he's here so... it must be something. Right?

Even stranger are the fish with human legs that follow him around, although the baby seal is pretty cute, she'll admit. She hasn't said anything to either of them yet, not sure how to break the ice, so she's just been focused on weaving some flowers together for the wreath. Aerith showed her once when they'd made a flower crown for Cloud, although he hadn't been willing to wear it in the end...

Then, the little seal is handing a fish skull to her, like it might be something she needs. ]

Oh. [ The word comes out more like a cough. ] Umm, thank you. [ Her gaze darts from the seal to the shark and back again. ] Should I... add it to the wreath?

[nomnoms]

EHH....?

[ Nanaue stops messing around with the netting and looks from Baby to the new woman and the skull he'd only just handed to Baby. ]

NO WANT? [ He asks this to Baby, who doesn't seem to respond other than to start playing with some bits of shell on the ground. Nanaue grunts, then turns to Tifa with a solid nod. ]

OKAY. YOU ADD. [ And then, because he is attracted to pretty, colorful objects... ] FLOWERS NICE...

[ It's been like a whole day since someone's made him a flower crown! ]

[suplexer]

[ Tifa assumes the little seal is a child, and kids can be pretty particular about what they do or don't want. She doesn't really mind that the skull has been passed off onto her. She's not sure skulls and flowers really go well together, but when she remembers that Ed is a pirate(!), she figures she might be able to make something work here.

At the shark's observation about the flowers, she glances down at the variety of colored petals with a smile. ] They are, aren't they? There's so many around here — it's wonderful.

[ She places the skull onto the table and starts to arrange the flowers around it, trying to find an orientation that looks aesthetically pleasing. ]

We haven't really met, have we? I'm Tifa. What do you do here at the inn?

[nomnoms]

[ Nanaue nods, while Baby sticks bits of shells in its mouth and spits them out. There's so many flowers, all different colors and sizes and shapes. ]

TEEFA.

[ Like TEETH. He will remember.

Nanaue points to his own chest. ] ME NANAUE - [ then points to the inn's sign, which he helped with - ] ME ARTIST. YOU LIKE ART?

[ He is actually very famous for his art. ]

[suplexer]

[ Oh. The more that the shark man talks, the more that Tifa realizes that his language skills are closer to that of a young child. It's a complete 180 from how Red speaks, which is why it throws her off for a moment.

No doubt a lot of people expected that Red would talk like this when they first saw him, only to be proved wrong. Tifa takes a moment to adjust, then glances up to the sign when Nanaue points to it. ]

Oh! Of course I do. [ Most people like art, don't they? And while the sign is quite amateur, it's also charming. ] No wonder you're helping out with the wreath, then. I think we'll be able to put something really nice together.

[ She shifts the flowers around so they're in a color gradient and centers the skull, head tilting as she tries to decide if it looks good or not. ]

What do you think?

[nomnoms]

[ Nanaue examines her work for a long, long moment - extended his large hand to touch the flowers. His bulky, webbed fingers are gentle as they stroke the petals in the direction of the gradient. Baby mimics him, doing the same with his less dexterous flipper. ]

NICE LOOK. ME LIKE! [ He blinks at her. ]

YOU ARTIST?

[ Like him? ]

[suplexer]

[ Despite the fact that his fin hands(?) don't look like they can be gentle, Nanaue takes the utmost care with stroking the flowers. The little seal mimics him, and it's all incredibly precious, she has to admit.

At the question, though, Tifa blinks owlishly and shakes her head. ]

No, no, not at all. I'm... uhh... more a fighter, I guess.

[ What does it say that she thought of that first when trying to describe herself?

Though she then glances toward the bar, gesturing at it with a sweep of one hand. ]

And a bartender! That's what I'm doing for the inn.

[ But hmm. Do sharks drink? Somehow she doesn't think giving Nanaue alcohol would be a good thing... ]