[OPEN] Avengers Assemble

[socialbutterfly]

Characters: Members of SEES, new and old, as well as anyone who wants to stop by.
Location: SEES HQ, sort of under minor renovations.
Rating: I want a clean fight, guys.
Time: Dinner-time/Evening
Description: SEES has been without leadership for a while, so it's time to talk about that and other things. Over dinner.
Further Reading: OOC Post 1, OOC Post 2, Network Post 1

The SEES HQ is a humble, unadorned office in the process of renovation. There is scaffolding on the outside (really a continuation of the arcade expansion happening next door) and buckets of paint on the floor inside, stored until needed.

The arrangement of desks in the middle and chairs along the outside give it an almost conference room feeling, except that each seat has a dinner setting of plate and utensils (and chopsticks), and the middle of the table is covered in Kanji's generous dinner spread.

((Action or Log, your choice. Just have fun and let's talk about some baskets.))

Comments

Pre-Meeting

[socialbutterfly]

For those of you who are here early, Minato's at the door ready to greet while Kanji is likely setting up the table.

The Meeting

[socialbutterfly]

"Hi everyone... It's good to see everyone here who could make it."

Minato's going to keep this meeting simple because it doesn't have to be complicated.

"This meeting is about how to keep SEES going. As Seta-san and the other Arisato-san have gone home, SEEs is now my responsibility again. It is a responsibility I want to share with all of you because it is your efforts and ideas which really define SEES and make it special."

He smiles at everyone at the table. Really, thank you for being here.

"Allow me to share with you my vision for the future so that I may entrust all of you with it."

((The essense of what Minato is going to say can be found here. Please feel free to discuss it with one another or with Minato. For the open forum, look one thread down.))

Open Mic Night

[socialbutterfly]

Raise your glasses, raise your toasts, and raise your concerns all here. If there is something you want to bring up for the team that you want to field for discussion, here's your spotlight, your time to shine.

Opennnn.

[topgun_textiles]

[That he was. He tried his hardest to make enough for 20 people like he promised, but considering Minato the bigger eaters that may arrive or are standing at the door with their hands in their pockets, it was more like 15. He didn't really consider that number, a little too preoccupied in just getting everything on the table ready to roll.]

[shiromadoushi]

Luckily, one person had also brought baked goods and was approaching with a large pastry box. He still had no idea much about club activities to figure if you brought something or they did, so had gone by the usual rules of visiting, multiplied out for a large group.

Meaning he'd made a good 40 anpan earlier. Only 30 were in the box, however. There was no way he could have gotten away with baking without putting some aside...

He shifts the box to one arm to give a small wave. "I brought some snacks, where should I put then?" he called.

Oh, I should make my own thread too. [OPEN]

[socialbutterfly]

[Minato is standing outside, ready to direct people to the HQ. With the renovations, it isn't as obvious as it could be...

If he sees anyone looking around, he'll wave them over.]

[OPEN] Q&A!

[socialbutterfly]

[After all that.]

Any questions?

[bookpapers]

[And Lavi drifts toward the table, suddenly reminded that he skipped breakfast this morning. Unfortunately he's probably in Kanji's way!]

Woah, this looks great. [good thing he didn't invite Allen! poor guy would probably eat this all for himself]

/pounces

[bookpapers]

[Maybe he should have asked for directions, but he's seen a couple of people enter the building so...]

Hey, is this the meeting place for S.E.E.S?

Eep

[socialbutterfly]

It is. [Since it's still dark early this time of year, Minato leans forward to get a better look in the lamplight...]

Oh... you're someone new. [He smiles warmly.] I'm sorry the directions weren't better...

:)

[bookpapers]

S'fine. I found it, didn't I?

[Lavi's ready with a smile of his own as he shuffles forward, taking a good look at Minato.] The name's Lavi.

[topgun_textiles]

"Put it wherever. I don't give a shit," he answered distractedly, pulling off covers and crushing tinfoil into a ball in his hands to be disposed of once he finished.

He glanced over in the direction of the voice, then off to find some kind of space to put that box. There was a space over with the desserts.

[topgun_textiles]

Yeah well, you can eat when I'm done puttin' it all on the table. Move your ass!

[Because this tray was unwieldy as hell. You're right in front of where he needed to be!]

[bookpapers]

[Smoothly steps to the side, grinning, except now he's peering at the tray Kanji's holding.]

Did you make all of that?

Re: [OPEN] Q&A!

[scatterflower]

Nope. I think you handled all of that pretty well.

*Chika's smiling, grinning quite a bit as she's looking over at Minato. But then something comes to her.*

Oh, actually, I think I might have a question after all. The whole Team Building thing... should we also try resonating with each other to see who we can work together with and go with that person on missions, or what?

[topgun_textiles]

I did. [In a very 'got a problem with that?' tone as he set the tray down and started moving this and that, making room for another before he looked back and checked his progress. Did he have room for those last ones...?]

:3

[socialbutterfly]

[Minato's not much to look at. It's his aura you have to look out for.]

I'm Minato. I'm glad you've decided to come tonight, Lavi-san. [Wow, you just have one eye...] Not sure who else is coming... The notice was short.

[socialbutterfly]

[Minato looks around the table first before replying]

We can try. If we gather together during training like the Watch does, it'll be easy. However, I'm more interested in building an overall team... one comprised of different partnerships and unpartnered members that is capable of working together effectively during an emergency. Support, assault, healing... anti-Madness...

:M more of a private concern than a question for the entire team--

[ih8spiders]

Isolation did funny things to him. Back home it made him vicious, gave him the strength he needed to cut off distractions in the form of human contact. Here it made him think odd things, such as missing people he should not be missing, and deciding to foster a dog, and now chasing down the last remaining links Kuroro Lucifer had in Death City--even if it meant approaching people who made him uncomfortable.

Minato Arisato made him uncomfortable. He didn't trust anyone who could so easily get along with Kuroro, despite having nothing in common with the man--except maybe their ridiculous appetites? Anyway, Minato wasn't like Sephiroth, or Jonathan Crane, not like China, or Prussia--they had certain traits Kurapika could pin down and say, that was what drew Kuroro to them. Minato was simply an oddball, with a personality Kurapika couldn't pin down--and Minato had so gleefully jumped on Kuroro's mocking of his appearance. Kurapika still hadn't forgotten (or forgiven them both) about it.

That didn't explain why he was now slinking into SEES HQ, with only the vaguest idea of what he wanted to do. He had questions he wanted to ask, and maybe he'd get straight answers now that Kuroro wasn't around to muddle things up.

[bookpapers]

[He whistles in appreciation.]

Need any help in setting up?

Re: :3

[bookpapers]

[Wait till he tells you the story of how he lost it.]

How long has it been since the last meeting?

[topgun_textiles]

Huh? [He furrowed a brow. Another pair of hands would get this all finished up...]

A'right, I guess. The stuff on that table's the last of it. Put 'em wherever it makes sense, yeah?

[More tinfoil balled up to toss. He knows Minato told him the rest would just be leftovers, but...]

[bookpapers]

Sure thing. [He'll start moving the trays nearest to him.] So are you a newbie here?

[scatterflower]

*She nods.*

I guess that makes sense, but well... are people who aren't partnered going to really be much help in that situation. Most Meister abilities need to be used during a resonance, right?

derp derp almost forgot to tag into this

[diedforyoursins]

[aaaand have a conspicuously albino kid wandering up and down the street for a bit, eying all the buildings before eventually coming over to the kid standing in front of the one under construction.]

Excuse me, do you know if this is where the S.E.E.S. meeting is taking place?