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RP: YSS Eucharis YE 36's End: Holiday Party

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After many nights on the beaches, the night everyone had been waiting for had finally come, and Shosho Hanako had sent out the invitations to her scattered crew to join together in celebration in the big room at the top of the resort hotel, which looked out on the beaches and oceans. The suit had been lavishly decorated in holly and spruce boughs wrapped in gold-trimmed red ribbons. The air was scented with the smell of pine and sweets. A feasting tablet was covered in fresh fruits, ham, chocolates, and dozens of other foods and next to the fireplace with the volumetric simulated fire, there was a somewhat tall and quite wide tree with dark blue-green needles. It was decorated in an Art Nouveau style in teal and red and was topped with a five-pointed golden star. Around its base were presents...lots of presents. The tree was surrounded by couches for the crew to sit on.

"Everyone, feel free to get some food and grab a seat and we will open presents. After that I also have some promotions to issue," Hanako told the crew members as they started to arrive. "You can put your presents for the others under the tree."
 
Aikiko arrived with her festive wrapped presents and envelopes. After Hanako spoken to her, she gave a respectful nod to Hanako, "Shosho, I'm delighted to be here. Everything looks awesome." Feeling definitely out of place and fidgeted a bit as she spoke. It was obvious that she was nervous and felt out of place.

She moved gracefully in her freshly cleaned yellow skirt and blouse. Sandals graced her feet. Eyes darting around her, taking in the room and occupants. She helped herself to some refreshments that could be easily consumed and found herself a spot on the arranged seating around the decorated tree.
 
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Mitsuko made her way to the top floor from her room, bringing a small pile of gifts with her. They were all wrapped in solid colored paper, an identical tag in the upper left corner of each box marked with the recipient's name in very crisp, straight handwriting. Unsurprisingly, the gifts were packed inside of one larger box that perfectly fit all of the smaller parcels. The Neko, dressed in a blue and orange sweater and slacks, moved to the tree to begin arranging her gifts next to the ones already there. From her darting eyes and hesitation, she seemed to be resisting the urge to rearrange the other presents, finally moving aside with her now empty container. Leaving it nearby, now destined for a new life as a shredded wrapping paper receptacle, she headed for the buffet.

She bowed to the captain and host, murmuring her thanks. The last time they'd had a gathering like this, it hadn't been quite so festive an occasion. Sune had departed the Eucharis, soon to be followed by half the crew. Mitsuko kept her melancholy thoughts to herself as she found a seat, sipping hot chocolate while trying to distract herself with the pile of food on her plate.
 
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Taharial made her way to the penthouse with a bags of presents in her hands all in different coloured wrapping paper with a hand written message for each of the crew it belonged to. The girl was in a white blouse and a short black skirt with seasonal knee high socks as she walks over to the tree and put her presents in one corner happily then turned to see the others, she had gone with the blood red wings again like before but they looked a deeper nicer red then when she joined the team.

She smiled and bowed Hanako thanking her for hosting this event. Taharial sits at the table neck to Mitsuko and grinned happily as she held on to the hot chocolate she had, loving the warmth from it "so how have you been Mitsuko?"
 
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Once everyone who was going to come had showed up and had a chance to dine, Hanako went to the tree and started handing out boxes. "I have gifts for you!" she grinned. Wrapped in shiny gold wrapping paper and giant red bows of lace, Hanako's presents were labelled with each crew member's name.

Each of the Eucharis crew received the following:
  • An exceedingly comfortable and personalized brown bomber jacket, with a soft rabbit fur collar. The jackets also have the Star Army hinomaru on the arm and a removable name badge on the front left breast and several embroidered patches are sewn onto it from the Eucharis and other assignments from each crewmember's history. The back of the jacket has a large image of the Eucharis embroidered onto it.
  • A fur comforter blanket with silk lining.
  • A bottle of limited edition YE 36 Fortified Sakura Blush wine.
  • Star-Army-Blue-colored rolling luggage case and matching shower kit bag with both their name and a large image of YSS Eucharis embroidered on it.
  • A box of assorted dark chocolates from Hanako's World.
 
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She was late, far later then she hoped. Shopping took a bit of time longer then expected, but then she got lost on the way to the hotel. She didn't have those nifty implants all the nekos seemed to have to show her around the city. But tired, frustrated, and starving Tony showed up. She slipped in the door to see the Shosho handing out gifts to every one. She stood there silently and politely until Hanako finished.

She slid a hand into her bag and pulled and a dark mahogany box with a brass engraved plate on the top. "Ma'am i am sorry to be late, I would like to give this to you and lay the rest of my gifts below the tree. Then if you wish I'll leave you guys to your celebration."

The box contained two ancient dueling pistols along with the powder horns and rods to clean them. Laid above and below the two pistols were sixteen balls along with the wadding for them. The handles and mechanics were engraves with designs.

The brass plate on the box read:
Ketsurui Hanako
YSS Eucharis
Boss Lady
~Thank you for letting be share in
your ship~ Antonia Stark
Once she handed the box to Hanako, tony preformed a bow that she had been practicing in her room with the door lock for the past few nights. It wasn't perfect, but it was damned crisp and not totally sarcastic looking.

With a smiled she went about putting the rest of her gifts under the tree before going by the door to wait for the Shosho's decision.

{{Other gifts below}}
Natsume had a box with a custom HHG along with a holster and enough rounds to keep it well feed. under all of that was a note sitting over tissue paper. "Don't look at the rest until you leave the party ;)" below was s frilly lingerie.

Victory received a bottle of fine grade aged single malt scotch, with a card thanking her for the bottle of whiskey she had given Tony.

The Rest of the crew Tony had purchased Zen Arms .357s for.
 
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Mitsuko sat up straight as Taharial took the seat next to her, pulling her back to the present. "Oh...I have been well, Chasan-Hei. And yourself?" She smiled politely befoer sipping at her hot beverage, not wanting to eat while chatting with the other crew member. "Enjoying this time off, I hope?"

It wasn't long before presents began to be passed out, Hanako's creating quite a pile, as usual. She had already received a set of luggage some years back, so likely didn't receive another, but the other gifts were very appreciated. She had the blanket wrapped around her shoulders as she carefully examined the firearm the Nepleslian transfer had gifted her, carefully packing it back up with the rest of the items. Most of the crew she had not known for long, so she'd also selected fairly generic gifts for most of them. Everyone received a simple leather schedule book for the coming year that had room to track things like expenses and supplies in addition to appointments. It also came with a code for an identical digital app, for those that preferred that over low-tech pen and paper. There's was also another code included for a slightly more personalized subscription to some sort of specialized digital magazine, like Neko of Fortune Quarterly for the infantry, or Popular Stellar Mechanics for the more technologically inclined.

Additionally, a few received more personalized gifts. Natsumi's contained a framed picture of her, Mitsuko, Riko and Misato during a Year-End shopping trip from a few years back, apparently pulled from Mitsuko's memories. It had obviously taken a bit of work to find one 'frame' where she'd caught all four of them in the reflection on a storefront window. There was also a miniature, remote controlled drone shaped like a Plumeria-class ship. Victory had received some sort of specliazed tools and devices that were obviously exciting for the pair, but seemed useless and dull to anyone outside of their field. Tahariel's gift included a glass jar pre-filled with lollipops. Hanako was obviously the hardest to shop for, as there wasn't much she couldn't just buy for herself. Mitsuko had hunted down an actual hard copy of a book written about Ketsurui Uesu for the captain's collection (although she probably knew him personally, so there wasn't much a book could tell her, but at least it would look nice on display). She also included her extremely thorough notes and research about their last few missions, relating to Uesu's fleet, the wreckage and ships they'd recovered or destroyed, and the two alien species they had encountered. Because of course she'd spent her vacation working.
 
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"This is really nice, Antonia," Hanako beamed, looking over the box. Suddenly she rushed over to a box and grabbed something out of it. It was a camouflage T-shirt. "Hey, I got you one of these too. And got a ton made to send to other marines in Nepleslia!" She held up the shirt in the air for everyone to see.

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She took the shirt and opened it up looking over it. "Well Ma'am I'm no Marine, but I appreciate the shirt." Tony smiled and slipped it over her own and looked down at it. "I'm sure it will be received across the board! It is pretty awesome looking." She smiled and heard her tummy grumble in complaint. Looking up she hope the Boss lady didn't hear it.
 
Taharial loved her presents from the Captain and the pistol from Tony and smiled "thank you for these gifts I really like them~" she sat back down and hoped everyone liked their presents that she got them, they were pretty basic as she didn't know what everyone liked but she hoped that everyone liked what she got them.

Taharial had gotten Hanako, Natsumi, Mitsuko, Tony, Tsuguka, Kale and Aikiko a bottle of Wolf Blood Frost each

Taharial smiled at Mitsuko "I have been well, I am enjoying my time off, I got to write a letter home I hope they answer... well anywho what about you enjoying our time off?"
 
Natsumi finally arrived, fashionably late to the party. She had many many gifts with her and set them with all the others that her shipmates were already going through.

For everyone she had brought a box of fancy chocolates and a pair of comfortable fuzzy slippers in blue with the Eucharis badge on them to keep their feet warm

She had a couple personalized gift as well. For Hanako she had a 2 foot long replica of the Eucharis thst lit up. For Antonia she had brought a chrome Type-33/C NSP with several power packs and a leather holster in a fancy box. For her roomie Tahariel and for Mitsuko, soft fuzzy robes with the Eucharis logo over the left breast.

Gifts delivered, Natsumi started on hers, opening the ones from Hanako first. "Thank you, Shosho!" she said with a broad smile on her lips and slipped the bomber jacket on immediatly.

Next she opened the package from Antonia, grinning and laughing as she saw the HHG inside, a very Nepleslian weapon, as much as the NSP she gave Antonia was a Yamataian one. She could not help peek at the other part of the gift and blushed bright at the hint of frilly lace and satin under the tissue paper. She would be checking that out in much more detail after the party.
 
Aikiko enjoyed the gifts from everyone as she tried on the bomber jacket. She looked over the weapon that Tony had given her. On her usually expressionless face was a soft smile as she enjoyed each of the gifts. She even traded out her sandals for the fuzzy slippers. She wiggled her toes in the unusual luxury of a brand new pair of slippers. Her eyes closed and a soft sigh of pleasure escaped her lips her feet felt comfortable in them instead of the usual second hand thread bare, about to fall apart slippers.

She gave quick warm smile of thanks when she made eye contact with the giver of the gifts that she had received. Snuggled in the warm bomber jacket with the bottle of liquor sticking out of one pocket and the grip of the pistol out of the other and wearing the fuzzy slippers. All that was needed was the Blue Flower patch of the UOC PF on the bomber jacket.
 
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