Be a great wall that towers over all.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Who: Issei (unknownrival) and everyone else~
Where: Ace Karaoke, a karaoke bar.
When: 7:30 PM of September 20th and onward.
Summary: Singing. It is happening. You can't stop it.

The karaoke bar is well-lit, in good repair, and is generally a nice establishment before some people get into it. There is a stage with several microphones on it and a karaoke machine. You select the song you want to play from a book, enter the numbers in the machine, and it starts playing the instrumentation (and backing vocals) while showing you the words you should be singing.

If you don't like any of the selections, you can connect a laptop to the karaoke machine and select a karaoke track from elsewhere for the machine to play.

Food and drink are available, and not all of the drink is alcoholic. Customers who get too rowdy will be asked to leave, but everyone gets a little braver with some drink in them, and sometimes that's needed to get up on stage and sing like you don't know how terribly you're singing.

Comments

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I go beyond that into 'snoop' territory, I'm afraid.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as you mean well. And if your friends aren't shy about setting boundaries everyone will win.

[A beat, a grin.]

Well, depending on how far you push those boundaries and the reaction to said pushing, anyway...

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't do anything bad. Just nag a lot, really.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I tease, I tease. I didn't expect you do much more than that, truth be told.

[Again, a beat.]

Your friends all thick-headed types who tend not to listen, too?

[Spoken in the tone of someone who's friends all are that type.]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

How did you guess?

[Damn those thick-headed types.]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Leeeet's call it a hunch. The resonance of those who suffer a similar fate, maybe?

[A hunch, having met Emiya, and having heard Issei's heart-to-heart broadcast during the "let's be open" full moon. Extrapolating some from there from there; she feels for ya, kiddo.]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I have so much empathy for you.

[He needs that.]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Hey, those types make pretty damn loyal friends. Still, same to you.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I like to think I'm a loyal friend without being hard-headed.

[He's wrong, but let him think that.]

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

The only hard-headedness I'm seeing right now would be someone being a bit hard on themselves.

[ssh it makes sense trust her. And it's not like she knows any better, anyway.]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps that's true.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Just calling it like I see it!

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

A monk should prize honesty.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I'd argue that everyone should, myself. Can't say that's a thing with much chance of ever happening, though.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I don't think you can get 'everyone' to do much of anything.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Ain't that the truth. You put up some grand idea like "a cure to all sickness" and there'd still be someone who'd argue against it.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder how we got so far.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Healthy doses of ignoring nay-sayers and stubbornness, I'd imagine.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Then I might accomplish something after all.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

People accomplish things every day. Even if it's just little things, stuff they don't even notice... what's it called again, the butterfly effect?

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm full of thoughts and ideas. Some of 'em are bound to be decent.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

That's the way of things.