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spiritarrows

Fourteenth Choice - [Voice/Action]

Jun 10, 2010 23:26

I will be making chōchin for the Tōrō nagashi on Obon. Does anyone else want one?

[Regardless of whether there would be a proper festival of course. And Doumeki can be found in the barracks today, practicing his archery. But anyone that has seen him practice before his death will notice that most of the arrows are off their mark when Doumeki's ( Read more... )

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voice; pathtoseele June 10 2010, 15:55:24 UTC

What's that?

voice; spiritarrows June 10 2010, 16:02:21 UTC

Hm? [It's a 'which one do you mean' sound.]

voice; pathtoseele June 10 2010, 16:06:20 UTC

Any of it. Chochin? Toro nagashi? Obon? I've never heard any of those before.

voice; spiritarrows June 10 2010, 16:41:54 UTC

Obon is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of the deceased, particularly those of family members and ancestors. People generally return to ancestral family places and gather with their family to visit and clean ancestral graves. Spirits of the deceased are also believed to return to the world of the living during Obon.

Tōrō nagashi is the custom of lighting chōchin, which are Japanese paper lanterns, and floating them down rivers. It's supposed to symbolise the return of spirits to their world.

[You know what? This is probably the most he's spoken in one go.]

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[Voice] sanzu_watashi June 10 2010, 17:43:00 UTC

[People actually celebrate that here? Baiken's impressed.]

Oi, put me down for one.

[Voice] spiritarrows June 10 2010, 17:49:48 UTC

Any calligraphy?

[Voice] sanzu_watashi June 11 2010, 17:50:57 UTC

Naw. Just plain. [She's always done it that way. Her own calligraphy is pretty terrible.]

...'preciate it.

[Voice] spiritarrows June 12 2010, 12:46:10 UTC

It's what I've always done near this time of the year.

[Voice] skyparasol June 10 2010, 18:15:03 UTC

[ The camera here only shows the ceiling of an apartment! ]

It's that time already?

[Voice] spiritarrows June 11 2010, 02:15:56 UTC

Shichgatsu Bon will be in one month. [He just wants to get a head start in case there are many people who want them.]

[Voice] skyparasol June 11 2010, 03:01:10 UTC

Shichgatsu Bon, huh?

Can I have one?

[Voice] spiritarrows June 11 2010, 03:07:46 UTC

It depends on when the majority have it in their worlds. Shichigatsu or Hachigatsu. [Kyu Bon Shouldn't be common here...]

With calligraphy?

no_use_running June 10 2010, 21:11:08 UTC

I want it.

spiritarrows June 11 2010, 02:19:06 UTC

Mizuno-san. Any calligraphy?

no_use_running June 11 2010, 02:22:43 UTC

No. It's just to take part.

spiritarrows June 11 2010, 02:24:37 UTC

So a plain one?

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[ action ] inheritsfate June 11 2010, 01:56:53 UTC

[ This isn't a place Watanuki goes but he may or may not have followed Doumeki with a little cloth butterfly. He watches for a bit as he leans against the wall sipping on his pipe. ]

[ action ] spiritarrows June 11 2010, 02:24:07 UTC

[See him frown at his cut up fingers. Now that hasn't happened in a long while...]

[ action ] inheritsfate June 11 2010, 02:29:09 UTC

[ And he's staring at them too, then the target. ]

You're pretty useless like that.

[ He closes his eyes for a moment and then opens them again, slowly stepping up beside Doumeki. He leans in so that his face is next to Doumeki's a hand pressed lightly to his shoulder. ]

Try again.

[ Sharing his sight? Not that it'd make Doumeki any less useless. ]

[ action ] spiritarrows June 11 2010, 02:51:10 UTC

[Blinks at both the gesture and the sudden addition of one eye's worth of sight. Will aim and let loose the arrow that hits near the center of the bull's eye before he turns his head slightly so he can see Watanuki. The shopkeeper was standing at his blind side after all.]

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