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naminé ([personal profile] redigere) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2016-10-14 11:36 pm

open | come bury your toes in the sand

WHO: Naminé and friends; open to passersby
WHERE: Beach near Heropa
WHEN: October 15th
WHAT: BEACH PARTY! Feel free to create a new prompt if the ones below don't appeal to you.
WARNINGS: None for now!

It'd taken a lot of last minute scrambling, a lot of runs to the grocery store, and a lot of help from her friends. But as Naminé steps back from the set up, she smiles. Allows herself a little bit of pride in what she's accomplished.

The home tent is where all the food is. Fold up tables have been loaded with an array of sandwiches, finger foods, and drinks, and a cooler nearby has fish and other seafood goodies to be grilled at the bonfire once someone gets hungry for it. This is also where she'll direct friends to drop off snacks and homemade goodies. Please do not sneak any of the chocolate and marshmallows meant for s'mores later.

Close by is the rest area, which is really just a big spread of blankets and a couple fold up chairs on the sand. She doesn't expect everyone to want to stay standing up all day, after all. Naminé knows she's going to be there for a bit, chatting with friends who are visiting, and she may have started a tiny sandcastle and collection of sea shells at the edge of the blankets as well.

The volleyball net and accompanying volleyball are borrowed from a co-worker, so it definitely needs to get back to her in one piece. There's plenty of space for other sports and competitions though...perhaps a game of soccer? And how could anyone ignore the ocean? She and a few others will likely be waist deep in it, learning and practicing how to swim.

Not bad for her first party. Now all she has to do is wait for her guests.
renamaer: (reassure)

[personal profile] renamaer 2016-10-21 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe we can build next to the one you already made?" Okay, what else does she need... buckets, water. Estelle's going to get right to work fetching water back from the ocean. "If we can build a tower, a flag at the top would be nice!" She calls back over her shoulder. She'll be quick.
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-10-24 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
That did seem like a good idea. They could even accomplish two things at once - using the sand from excavating the moat to build up the tower. "Hmm, we can mark out the space first and decide how tall we want the tower to be. Then we can use the sand from digging out the moat to start building up the tower?" She's going to look over the space and consider this a little bit more...

And she's grabbing another bucket. "If we're digging a moat, we're definitely going to need more water!"

This project might very well get out of hand.
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-10-25 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
She's probably got enough water at this point, so she's going to drop right down into the sand to help Naminé out. "More help would be good but..." She looks determined as she starts widening the moat with gusto. "We can definitely do this!"

It's fun to do something like this, without having to worry too much about getting things done on a deadline, or the final result. Just playing like this was it's own reward. (Though she really did want to get an impressive tower together...)

"Phew. Let me go get another bucket so we can start stacking up the tower..."
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-10-27 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
"So maybe a courtyard in the middle? Or just a wall..." They'd dug out a pretty substantial moat, so it's not as though they're short on space here. It really depends on what kind of shape they want the castle to be in.

"Do you have castles where you come from, Naminé? Should we try to build something similar?"
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-10-29 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, yes a few! I used to live in one..." Since she was also technically a princess. She looks thoughtful as she eyes the sand, but she wasn't really that interested in rebuilding her own home. "Was your world made up of a lot of different kingdoms, then? There usually aren't that many princesses just running around."
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-11-01 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds like a lot!" That also seems like a political protocol nightmare, since that's what she's used to dealing with... "At least seven..." She pauses as she considers how much sand they have again.

Maybe we should just try to build a castle that you'd like to live in. Maybe you can pick the parts that you liked best?"
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-11-10 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"That sounds so nice," Estelle claps her hand together in delight and determination to help make it a reality. "Well...My favorite part of the castle back home has always been the library, but I think that might be hard to build with sand." She's going to settle for lots of fancy designs.
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-11-13 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I know we can find a creative way to figure it out," she says with a laugh. "It's okay if we can't work it in too obviously. With all the castles in your home world..." Well, of sorts anyway, "have their rooms all been different inside too?" She's kind of asking about the libraries specifically, but just wondering if Naminé had also been able to visit inside the places she'd mentioned. So many castles...
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-11-16 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
"There are even mermaid princesses in your home?" That was definitely not what she was expecting. Technically there were mermaids and mermen of sorts in her world, but they were monsters, rather than people who built and lived in castles. "I've never heard of anything like that before..." She starts on Naminé's earlier request of a garden, carefully shaping the damp sand into little walls and hedges that they could fill in later.

"It sounds like you had a lot of variety... Did you have a favorite castle then?"
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[personal profile] renamaer 2016-11-24 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a little bit on the tip of her tongue to say that she doesn't think Naminé is any less beautiful or deserving of a beautiful place to live than any princess, but she kind of gets the sentiment. "Castles do seem to come with some history of their own that doesn't belong to you, right? At least that's how I always felt. At home, I had just started moving out of the castle I grew up in and living on my own..."