RYUKI

[ballies]

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[ballies]

[ she knows he is being sincere but she feels patronised all at the same time.

THUMPS a blue marker. ]

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Okay I get why this is popular. It must be great when you’re stressed out. [ POST MY COMMENT DW ]

[unsync]

[ Dreamwidth is suffering. ]

I don't use it for stress relief...

[ Tap tap tappity tap. ]

[ballies]

Maybe they should market it that way. You get the music, and to smack sticks on a drum.

[unsync]

[ Tama it's a kid's game. ]

You can make it your reason if you really feel that way, but since when did you have so much rage inside of you?

[ballies]

[ smack smack smack ]

Everyone’s got a bit of pent up stress.

[unsync]

You know, the cafe with the flowers looks pretty nice if you're really that stressed...


-- Oh! We have to sync with these!

[ Here come the linked beats! Realistically they wouldn't be able to even hear each other over how loud taiko games are. ]

[ballies]

What’re flowers gonna do, this is way more cathartic—

[ OH SHIT PSYNCING TIME (no) LET’S GOOO ]

[unsync]

[ BAM BAM BAM don't they feel better when they're in perfect (p)sync?

Anyway the song is finished. ]

And then for two players, they tell you your synchronisation rate at the end!

[ Should we just d100 it. ]

[ballies]

[ let’s go for it. both roll and we pick the higher number? or lower. whichever is funnier. ]

So you could keep doing it to improve your rates— which means you keep coming back for more.

[unsync]

[ 89!! What a good score. ]

That's pretty good.

[ballies]

[ lifting her hand for a high five do not leave her hanging ]

Teamwork!

[unsync]

[ This he has no problem with. Hi-5! ]

Yeah!

[ballies]

[ they do it again on hard and it plummets to like 50 ]

Pretty good for a first try, but we do have an unfair advantage.

[unsync]

[ To be fair hard difficulty really is hard. ]

We do?

[ballies]

[ yeah i got wrecked the first time i did it. embarrassing. ]

We’re already a great team.

[ obviously. ]

[unsync]

O-oh yeah, that's right!

[ Ofc!! ]

Did I hear you diss flowers while we were playing, though?

[ballies]

Just erase six years of my life, Ryuki.

[ boy. ]

It wasn’t a diss. It’s like when people take up boxing for stress relief — smacking something non-sentient is a lot more relaxing than… I dunno, flower arranging.

[unsync]

[ It's more that he takes it to be so obvious that he doesn't think about it a lot. ]

Well, I like being in nature. [ Yoyagi Park... Ikume Shrine... ] A little break of fresh air is always nice. And they serve some really nice iced coffee there.

[ballies]

We can go to the coffee shop, Ryuki. I just wanted to smack a taiko first.

[ he does love his nature. ]

Do they actually do flower arranging there…? You’d probably enjoy that.

[unsync]

I've never actually tried that, I don't know if I'd be any good at it...

[ Does Tama want to egregiously get into various latte blends? ]

[ballies]

You never know until you dive in feet first and try, right?

[ do not dive in feet first into the roses.

also please i think she needs to be hyped up on coffee at least twice. ]

[unsync]

I think it requires a certain sense of... well, sense. I'd give it a try if they offered courses for it though.

[ If you are diving feet-first into a rose bush I don't think you know what flower arrangement is. ]

So? Want to go another round or do you want to try the cafe?

[ballies]

Maybe you have that sense, you’ve never tried it! How could you know otherwise?

[ this is how tama arranges flowers AND faces. ]

Leeettt’s… do one more round and then we can check out the cafe.

[unsync]

Okay. Let's try... this one.

[ Makes them play to the Oshi no Ko YOASOBI track I guess, the alternative is Megalovania for no reason.

How's our score this time? ]

[ballies]

[ popular music tanked their teamwork factor.


anyway, there’s probably some yelling as she tries to hit the beats. ]