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[syckophant]

This is Tenshouin Eichi, His Majesty the Emperor, also known as Bordeaux. I'm so terribly sorry I couldn't get to you in time, but if you leave a message I am sure to get back to you~ ♪

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[artisticliberty]

Well, if neither of us succeed, I can try to steal the prize anyway. I am a thief, after all.

[fox picks up one of the balls, rolls up his kimono sleeve, and takes a swing! ... it hits the cup but bounces off the rim]

[syckophant]

[Eichi watches carefully, committing the movement to memory, but then Fox fails... Now he has to try to think if he'd seen anyone successfully do this before. He picks up a ball, holding it got a moment and looking at the cup, seemingly trying to calculate something before his first try... which mimics Fox's exactly.]

I should be able to get it, with any luck. Unless you get it first, then I'll be able to get it, easy.

[artisticliberty]

[that's weird, normally eichi is the one doing the puppeteering...]

Let me try again.

[fox reels back, adjusting his stance just slightly, and throws! ... the ball ping-pongs around the rim a few times before falling off]

Drat.

[syckophant]

[Hm! Interesting. Fox's shift and throw changed but the result was the same. So Eichi won't get what he needs by just copying him. That's hard, though.

So Eichi tries a little on his own, shifting his stance similarly, but not so dramatically, and then when he makes his second shot...

He overshoots it, and doesn't even hit the cup.]

Oh... Hmm. It's harder than it looks.

[artisticliberty]

[watching how eichi tries it, fox takes his third ball and does a few practice swings to try and aim properly. he throws! ... the ball lands in the cup!!!

AND THEN BOUNCES OUT.]

What?! Impossible!

[syckophant]

[Excuse Eichi while he's dumbfounded for a bit.]


...

!!!

How is it supposed to stay, then?

[artisticliberty]

[fox narrows his eyes and then leaps over the threshold (it's not like anyone works here) so he can peer at the cup, and then he makes a "tsk" noise]

There is an automated spring inside the cup. What an unfair challenge!

[syckophant]

Hmmm!

I hereby declare this stand to have falsely advertised the challenge, and as such, it should recieve the punishment of handing over its prizes to us.

[There. That way he can fully say that he wasn't being complicit in a crime! Emperor's orders!]

[artisticliberty]

Hmhmhm... that is an exercise of power I can agree with.

Which one do you want?

[he gestures to the array of prizes]

[syckophant]

Get me a lucky cat~

[He makes the face and paw motion. You can't stop him. No one can.]

[artisticliberty]

[... oh

that's cute

three of fox's fluffy white tails emerge and sway about as he retrieves the lucky cat plush for eichi. it's so soft and squishy]

Here you are. Since that one was unfair, shall we try another?

[syckophant]

We could. I have never really been to one of these. Well, once, but as an idol, it's hard to experience such events the way people normally do.

[He'll cling to the lucky cat happily, thank you. It might not glow but surely it'll stave off the darkness.]

[artisticliberty]

[cat will protecc u]

I suppose you would not have much time for such revelry.

[fox is going to head to an adjacent stand where there is a kiddie pond full of goldfish that you can try to catch]

Oh, how lovely... what beautiful creatures. If only there were crabs, too... or even lobsters...!

[syckophant]

Not really. Between being an idol and running the industry, and my own health besides... I spent so much time in an office or in the hospital...

[He follows along, looking at the goldfish.]

Ah... Do we take them if we catch them...?

[artisticliberty]

[fox wants to say something to that first part, but he's going to let those thoughts linger first while he focuses on FEESH]

I believe so, yes. As a pet or as food.

[don't eat goldfish, fox. he kneels down with his little net]

Taisho has a pond with koi fish in it, so I could give some of these fish a nicer home, perhaps... though I will admit my primary desire for catching them is so that I can paint them.

[syckophant]

They make terrible food. Even not thinking about the amount of meat on them, they are small and so you'll be getting more scale and bone than anything, and fins are awful to put in your mouth, as lovely as they look in water.

[Even Eichi will not eat a goldfish, thank you.]

Can you not paint them without catching them here?

[artisticliberty]

[fox just shrugs. he's eaten weirder things in the name of staving off hunger]

I can, but I prefer live models when I can afford them. My pieces always come out better than if I used a photograph or my mind's eye.