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 Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:01 am
All women are thought of as delicate and beautiful creatures. These women of the geisha culture are said to be some of the most beautiful flowers that are present. They shine like the metals of a mirror, but their beauty never withers away. Instead, it is as if the metal is bringing them the glimmer of eternal beauty and vitality. The women of this okiya are like Shimmering Metals reflecting back Chinese Bellflowers. As you enter the Kanenokikyou Okiya, the layout seems quite similar to most. You take off your shoes and slide into the slippers provided. The downstairs contains the kitchen, the maids' quarters, as well as where the maiko sleep. There is the room where geisha can choose to take their tea and dine in, as well as two extra entertaining rooms for the purposes of honored guests that come over. As you walk up the stairs, you see five bedrooms where different geisha sleep, as well as the last one to the left where Mother sleeps. The head geisha sleeps in her own room, the room across from Mother's resting place. The other geisha are content to share the other four bedrooms provided. If you choose to walk outside, you will see a wooden pathway that leads to the telephone house. A receptionist is always there to take down the appointments of the geisha, as well as keep tabs on whether they are trying to sneak out inappropriately. Please don't post in okiya other than your own, unless you are granted a special invite from a geisha at that okiya. No maiko may invite another maiko to an okiya. Geisha may invite whomever they please. Keep all cybering and things PG-13+ out of this guild. Thank you!
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:10 am
Mother:
1. (You may pretend you have a mother here until one is ordained. She'll be an NPC character that may be played by all. Refer to her as "Okaa-san" at all times.)
Head Geisha:
1. Sayuri - played by angel_baby_4
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Supporting Geisha:
1. Ao-sagi - played by Cinerea
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Maiko:
1. Miharu Fujiwara - played by +GracefulGeishaMiharuSan+ (taken test)
2. Rie - played by Lotus_Santi (taken test)
3. Amaya - played by Umberella (taken test)
4. Shizuka Chou - played by -+-Kamikaze-+-Domo-+- (taken test)
5. Natsumi Oshiro - played by -[ Over-used Skittle ]- (taken test)
6. Natsu Tsukiyuri (Yuri) - played by Sapphire Lotus (taken test)
Maids: (Must have about 20 good-sized posts in the OKIYA before they rise to maiko)
1. ? - played by Dark_Princess_Raye (taken test)
2. Alicia - played by lovswim (taken test)
3. Sato Miya - played by Miyansha Striker (taken test)
4. Kiyomi Uesugi- played by ColletteBrunel (taken test)
5. Sadamitsu- played by DemonicRaven (test taken)
6. Mutsumi Takahashi- played by babyangelgirl2 (test taken)
7. Reikiya- played by Reikiya (test taken)
8. Kira- played by Kira_Chan12 (test taken)
9. Keimei Faino- played by Disires of Death (test taken)
10. Mishirei- played by Maki (test taken)
11. En'you Anisakeb- played by ~ThornyBlackRose~ (test taken)
12. Kichi- played by Silvyee (test taken)
13. Okumichi Shizuka- played by Taka-fukushu (test taken)
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:58 pm
Mother Profile:
(When someone wants to play the mother of this okiya, her profile will be placed here. For now, though, anyone is allowed to play the mother for various tasks around the household. Especially the geisha.)
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:59 pm
Head Geisha Profiles: -Character Name: Sayuri Hikari
-Your Screen Name: angel_baby_4
-Geisha/Maiko/Danna/Patron (please choose only 1): Maiko (for now)
-Birthday (year optional): June 25...15 years old... (maybe we should specify a year/time period we're in...hehehe)
-Character Description: Black hair, violet eyes. Thin frame with a long/heart-shaped face. Sweet disposition.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Her okiya caught on fire and now Sayuri has no master geisha to apprentice with. She is trying to find a new geisha to take her on and is still new to all geisha experiences.
-Character Picture (SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by Nitta or preferably Mahika b/c Nitta knows nothing about pic sizes): Sayuri
-Okiya/District Location (Will be told to you.): Kanenokikyou Okiya
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): Water
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:04 pm
Geisha Profiles: -Character Name: Ao-sagi (means Blue Heron)
-Your Screen Name: Cinerea
-Birthday (year optional): 21. March
-Character Description/Personality:
Silent dreamer, peaceful but fierce when cornered;
unusually tall with waistlong black hair and grayish eyes.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!):
Aimlessly wandering the streets of Kyoto... knowing nothing but a name... *is it my name?*...going through memories, feeling as if sifting trough someone elses belongings.... so alone....
-Character Picture:
Maiko1
or, if not approved:
Maiko2
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal):
Wood (the moon is my mistress, though)
-Anything else:
Dreamer, a bit confused, equally likely to excel at difficult tasks and miserably fail at easy ones...
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:06 pm
Maiko Profiles:
-Character Name: Miharu Fujiwara
-Your Screen Name: +GracefulGeishaMiharuSan+
-Birthday (year optional): January 12
-Character Description/Personality: Polite, mysterious, kind, shy, fun-loving.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Her background is very elusive. Not many people who know her know even where she is from. She makes kimonos and writes poetry and creates paintings. It's been rumored that anyone who has bought a kimono from her befalls misfortune the first time they wear it. Whether or not this is true is inconclusive.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member): http://tinypic.com/erblvk.jpg This looks the most like how I picture her. =x
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): Earth
-Okiya/District Location: Kanenokikyou Okiya
-Anything else: Thanks for letting me join. ^^; <3
-Character Name: Rie
-Your Screen Name: Lotus_Santi
-Birthday (year optional): July 7
-Character Description/Personality: Talkative, and frank, Rie has the right charms to put anyone at ease owing to her geisha training. It is only up the one to find out if she is being truthful or merely being polite. She knows how to entertain, to use and seduce, and have fun all at the same time. Easy to piss off when questioned over and over about the "painkiller" powder she snorts, or when forced to do something she does not like (and she will say when she doesn't like it). Tends to stick to the logical, factual side of things. Displays loyalty to only a few people, particularly not the ones she meets on her missions.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Rie's past is but another story like all the other children of feuding guilds. Suffice to say she has been alone by choice, having learned early on that there is no one who will look out for her aside from herself.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member):
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal):
-Okiya/District Location: Kanenokikyou Okiya
-Anything else:
Maiko Profile Submission Form:
-Character Name: Amaya
-Your Screen Name: Umberella
-Birthday (year optional): September 5
-Character Description/Personality: Very shy and quiet
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Naive and just beginning but very eager to learn the musical talents of maiko and geisha. Needs help in social skills department. Can be lazy.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member):
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): earth
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else: Good heart...body and mind need serious training. Saving up for kimono at the current time.
Maiko Submission Form
-Character Name: Shizuka Chou
-Your Screen Name: -+-Kamikaze-+-Domo-+-
-Birthday: February 10th
-Character Description/Personality: Shizuka is quite shy, though very smooth once she gets use to her surroundings. You'll often find her with her hand to her mouth and her cheeks rosey red from embarassment. She can adapt to most environments quite well even if they're hard to work with most. She loves humor, but she can still be serious when she feels like it.
-Character Background: Her family came from a fish village, she lived with her father, brother, and two sisters so not many things were nice. She was sent off to live somewhere else due to the lack of money and food in the family.
-Character Picture: Shizuka
-Favorite/Preferable element: Water
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else: N/A
-Character Name: Natsumi Oshiro
-Screen Name: -[ Over-used Skittle ]-
-Birthday: 1988, 24 December
-Character Description/Personality: For the most part, Natsumi is a callous being, believing that �Nothing equals nothing� when it comes to life and love. Though she was tossed into the hands of fate by her parents, she still upholds these truths to be valid. She tends to be stubborn and head-strong, and often speaks very little which in turn is mostly a short, crude, sarcastic, single-worded sentence.
-Character Background: Born in Kyoto to a semi-wealthy family of honorable stature, her father and mother had wanted a son, but this �poor excuse for a baby� wasn�t enough for them. Once she was of age, they shipped her to a nearby Okiya where they paid her off, disowning her.
-Character Picture: http://static.flickr.com/33/62517197_8c0b813282.jpg
-Favorite/Preferable element: Water
-Okiya/District Location: (Will be told.)
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:09 pm
Maid Profiles: -Character Name:Alicia
-Your Screen Name:lovswim
-Birthday (year optional):september 5, 1991
-Character Description/Personality:Energenic, smart
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): I am 14 yrs old. I live in Fernly, NV.
-Character Picture: http://www.gaiaonline.com/profile/inventory.php
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal):Water
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else:Thank You
Maid Profile Submission Form:
-Character Name: Sato Miya
-Your Screen Name: Miyansha Striker
-Birthday (year optional): Febuary 8
-Character Description/Personality: Very shy and reserved, Miya prefers listening and observing when learning, rather then asking questions. Although she is quiet, she has a firey personality that will emerge when she is passionate about something. Although making friends is hard for her, she is very protective of the ones she does have, and will fight to the death, if need be, to keep them safe.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Abandoned as a baby, Miya was placed in an orphanage until she was 15 and ran away. For three years, she did odd jobs whereever they were avaliable, and travled around the world to learn about other cultures. Now, at the age of 18, she decided it was time to settle down and learn the life of a Geisha, the profession of her mother, as she was told at the orphanage.
-Character Picture : Miya
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): air
-Okiya/District Location:
Character Name: Kiyomi Uesugi
-Your Screen Name: ColletteBrunel
-Birthday (year optional): Dec 24th, 1990
-Character Description/Personality: Long blonde hair that she doesn't like putting up. She doesn't speak often and when she does it's very soft and barely anything is said.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): She was born to two loving parents but they were both killed in a fire. After their death, she decieded to become a geisha.
-Character Picture: N/A
-Favorite/Preferable element: Air
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
Character Name: Sadamitsu
-Your Screen Name: DemonicRaven
-Character Description/Personality: Average height and weight, long jet black hair usually rolled up on top of her head, beautifully collored red kimono with golden cherry blosom leaves flying from top to bottom wih a black obi. Personality- Calm yet works at a rapid pace with a smooth style to it.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): A beautiful young woman growing up poor finds nothing more fascinating than geisha. Finally leaving her home she trys to become the geisha that she aways dreamed of.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member): no image at the moment
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): fire
-Character Name: Mutsumi Takahashi
-Your Screen Name: babyangelgirl2
-Birthday: August 10th
-Character Description/Personality: Upbeat and optimistic, though she has her moments when she manages to convince everyone who is around her that she has multiple personalities or is completely physcho. But she�s mostly a very calm person.
-Character Background: Daughter of a foreign dignitary. She�s a rather bright girl who has tons of time on her hands while her father works, she has decided to become a geisha out of curiosity rather than necessity.
-Character:Mutsumi
Favorite/Preferable element: Water
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else: Extremely clumsy, though it usually doesn�t show until something that requires dexterity is involved.
-Character Name: Reikiya
-Your Screen Name: Reikiya
-Birthday (year optional): August 7th
-Character Description/Personality: Split personality/nice,caring,sweet,helpful/if she gets mad then..Really mad
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Reikiya's father died when she was young and her mother had disappeared when she was 11.She lives by herself,yet has many friends that help her out as much as they can.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member): Blue,waist length straight hair,blue eyes,black kimono with red trim,tall and slim
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): Water
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else: Reikiya loves swords and wants to be a samurai o.o -Character Name: Kira
-Your Screen Name:Kira_Chan12
-Birthday (year optional): August 6th
-Character Description/Personality: Kira is a happy-go-lucky blond haired green eyed girl thatis happy to do just about anything.
-Character Background: Left alone as a child she had to fend for herself. THough one day she met up with a monk and his wife, they tought her that obedience, kindness, adn friendship are the most important tings that she could have in life.
-Character Picture: http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c335/Kira_Chan12/FKAlt09.jpg
-Favorite/Preferable element: Fire
-Okiya/District Location: Kanenokikyou Okia
-Anything else: nope
-Character Name: Keimei Faino
-Your Screen Name: Disires of Death
-Birthday: April, 21
-Character Description/Personality: She is very perky in her personality, and is usualy always happy. She is kind of short, but she'll get taller with age. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. Her body will develop nicley, and she wil become very beautiful.
-Character Background: Keimei was pulled out of her mothers arms and brought to a Geisha Hall. She is only ten, and is very diligent in her work. She wants to become a Maiko, then progress to a Geisha. Though she knows it will take many years of work.
-Character Picture:
Maid-
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/winterlady_1990/anime girls/girls with kimono/anime_kimono_fav02.jpg
Maiko-(the blonde one)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/winterlady_1990/anime girls/girls with kimono/anime_kimono_fav09.jpg
Geisha-
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/winterlady_1990/anime girls/girls with kimono/412847268_l.jpg
-Favorite/Preferable element: Fire
-Okiya/District Location:
-Other Inofrmation: Keimei is exceptionally intellegent, and loves to read whenever she has the chance.
-Character Name: Maki
-Your Screen Name: Mishirei
-Birthday: 1/24/89
-Character Description/Personality: Coy and playful, but willing to please. She will try her hardest to perfect whatever she's working on, and is quiet unless spoken to. She loves to hear stories. She can be opinionated, but will curb this for the opprotunity to become a geisha.
-Character Background: A small-time yakuza's daughter, Maki decided to leave the criminal world for a more refined one. Maki is an assumed name, so her father's thugs, who are still looking for her, will not find her.
-Favorite/Preferable element: Maki has an affinity to metal, and loves to look at weapons, and likes the sounds of bells.
-Character Name: En'you Anisake
-Your Screen Name:~ThornyBlackRose~ *May change*
-Birthday (year optional): 11/22/1992
-Character Description/Personality (no more than 5 sentences, please!): I'm usually very quite and do what I'm told. Just never get me angry...you'll be sorry...I promise.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!):Was sold to this okiya by my parents to pay of debt. Came from the island of Osaka. Never had very much.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member): http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Emmerz76/anime/geisha.jpg
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): Air
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else: Hi! mrgreen
-Character Name: Kichi
-Your Screen Name: Silvyee
-Birthday (year optional): July 24
-Character Description/Personality (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Kichi is a thoughtful girl, who enjoys doing things for others. She approaches problems cautiously and step by step. She has always loved entertaining her friends and acquaintences.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Kichi has always been fascinated by Geisha but had not settled on the idea until she tried to make her way in the world. She knew she wanted to care for people, but the sight of blood made her faint. She knew she wanted to be a performer, but recitals were too stressful. One day, while practicing her flute, all the pieces fit together and she thought to seek apprenticeship. Her family is not entirely supportive of her choice, but it is an artist's family and they could not much argue.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member): Picture
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): Wood
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else:
Maid Profile Submission Form:
-Character Name: Okumichi Shizuka
-Your Screen Name: Taka-fukushu
-Birthday (year optional): November 1st
-Character Description/Personality (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Despite her name, Shizuka is loud and bold. She has been told several times to act more proper and ladylike, but is fiercely loyal to those who gain her trust and dedicated to her ideals and morals. She does not like overly-serious occasions, and has devoted herself to making more people laugh. Shizuka is very fun-loving, and a very firm believer in taking 'breaks'.
-Character Background (no more than 5 sentences, please!): Shizuka was the daughter of the Chief Bodyguard of the lord in a small province. Due to her high status, it was easy for her family to send her to an okiya to 'straighten out her character'. She is slightly resentful about the action, but is looking forward to this as a new experience and to meet new people.
-Character Picture (Not required. SMALL picture or put a picture link. If it is an image here, though, its size must be approved by a crew member): Shizuka has long black hair that reaches about halfway down her back that she likes to play around with. She has a plain-looking face but her multicolored eyes have been commented on as beautiful.
-Favorite/Preferable element (Water, earth, wood, air, fire, metal): Metal
-Okiya/District Location: (this will be available to you, once you've taken the test)
-Anything else: Shizuka is always looking for excitement; so much that she sometimes sees plots where they don't even exist.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:10 pm
Definitions of the Okiya Mother, Geisha, Maiko, and Maids:
1.Okiya Mother: The Okiya Mother, or Okaa-san as you are REQUIRED to call her, is the head of the okiya. She paid for each maid, maiko, and geisha in this okiya. She is the head accountant and has the last word on everything that goes on in the okiya. Anyone who goes against her wishes may be thrown out of the okiya at a moment's notice. Don't disappoint her.
2. Geisha: Geisha are not prostitutes! In Japanese, "Gei" means "arts" and "sha" amounts to the "ist" of a profession (ex. Dentist, artist) which therefore makes a geisha an artist. What arts? A geisha is trained in the arts of dancing, singing, musical instruments, a variety of ceremonies, and conversation. They are expected to entertain at high-class parties as well as at public recitals. Geisha only have to answer to the Okiya Mother.
3. Maiko: Maiko are apprentice geisha. The word "maiko" translates closely to the term "dancing girls" and indeed they do dance, but their primary duty is to watch and learn from their elder "sister" geisha on how to behave and perform their arts. Maiko must do as the Okiya Mother and Geisha request. You are also expected to attend the Maiko Training School and take TWO classes
4. Maids: Maids are on the lowest end of the totem pole here. That means, you must do any request that the Okiya Mother, the Geisha, or the Maiko request. Of course, the maiko would be more sympathetic with you, since they themselves were maids first. So, you may even still be friends with some of them. Do your work and you will be rewarded.
Duties/Rules of Okiya Mother, Geisha, Maiko, and Maids:
Okiya Mother Duties:
Accounting: You must do the accounting for the okiya. That means, keep up with the treasury. Most of your posts in the okiya should deal with encouraging the geisha, making sure the maiko are on track, and working the maids to the bone. After all, they are all here to make you money. From time to time, you may be asked by a crew member to tell a maid she has proven herself and is now ready to turn into a maiko. These are your duties.
Geisha Duties:
Studies: Everything from shamisen to flower arranging, a geisha is expected to always be learning. They are artists, so be sure to show this throughout all of their actions.
Housework: No geisha is too proper for cooking and cleaning. They will help out in their okiya.
Entertainment: All customers are to be welcomed and made to feel at home. Discussion, humor, singing, dancing, and helping to serve food are all proper ways for a geisha to entertain a patron. Geisha are not expected to bring the tray in, but to call for the maids to get the food. Men are not allowed to pour their own drinks, so a geisha must pour it for them.
Okiya Etiquette: Just as you would not enter another person's home without permission, no geisha may enter an okiya that is not their own without a special invite. If this happens, the geisha will be put on probation and will not receive payments or patron points for that week she is on probation. If a geisha's maiko enters another's okiya, the geisha will be punished as well. So please, keep your maiko in line. Her actions reflect upon you.
Maiko Duties:
Apprenticeship: A maiko is expected to call her sister Onee-chan, which means Older Sister. You must watch your geisha carefully. If you misbehave, your geisha will be punished as well. She may decide to drop you at any time, if this happens. Dropped maiko will have to start from scratch with patron counts.
Studies: Everything from shamisen to flower arranging, a geisha is expected to always be learning, so a maiko is in training for this. You are also expected to attend the Maiko Training School and take TWO classes
Housework: No maiko is too proper for cooking and cleaning. They will help out in their okiya. You are more like maids, who are training to become geisha. Though your studies are tough, you are expected to do all that is in your power for the geisha in your okiya. You will be the ones to help clean up after them. They are very messy and you are expected to learn their ways, as well as clean them up.
Entertainment: All customers are to be welcomed and made to feel at home. Discussion, humor, singing, dancing, and helping to serve food are all proper ways for a geisha to entertain a patron. Maiko are expected to help out, even if it means bringing over trays of food to the patron. Men are not allowed to pour their own drinks, so a maiko must help pour it for them.
Okiya Etiquette: Just as you would not enter another person's home without permission, no maiko may enter an okiya that is not their own without a special invite...from a geisha only. If this happens, the maiko will be put on probation and will not receive payments or patron points for that week she is on probation. Your Onee-chan will be put on probation, as well. If you don't want to be dropped from apprenticeship, I would expect you to behave.
Encouragement: You will be assigned a maiko, to whom you will be responsible pm'ing when she does not post. If the maiko resigns her position in a pm to you, alert a crew member immediately through a pm. We need to keep the profiles up to date and, if a maiko resigns, then we need to take that profile down.
Maid Duties:
Posts: Number your posts, so that we can see how many you have
Cleaning and Errands: Clean your okiya. This is what the majority of your posts should pertain to. When the Okiya Mother, a Geisha or a Maiko asks you to do something, ask no questions and do as you are told. You are a lowly maid who has just joined the okiya. Respect them, because all three positions are over you. Though, report any abuse that happens to your Okiya Mother or Head Geisha.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:49 pm
Miharu makes her way through the doorway and removes her large platform wooden sandals, pulling up her kimono slightly to slide on her soft cushioned slippers. She walks downstairs and lays down to rest in her Maiko sleeping quarters.
3nodding
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:52 pm
((OOC: You can post in the Teahouse, as well. ^^ Let me know if you want to help out with any of the ninja/samurai missions))
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:56 pm
angel_baby_4 ((OOC: You can post in the Teahouse, as well. ^^ Let me know if you want to help out with any of the ninja/samurai missions)) ((OOC: Ah, I'll let you know if I'm interested. n.n))
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:59 pm
Sayuri enters the okiya with hope in her eyes. She had just turned into a geisha and had been asked to come to this newly built okiya. The paint still smelled new, as well as everything in the house looked vivid and lively. Sayuri made her way around the okiya in awe. It was a quite lovely place to live.
Sayuri began to unpack her things that had been placed in the room across from Mother's. She wanted to tell Mother that she had arrived, but the maid at the front door had said Mother was taking a nap. Instead, Sayuri would have to wait until she awakened so that Mother could take a good look at her and tell Sayuri what was needed.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:11 am
Amaya enters the okiya and a maid shows her to the room where she will be sleeping. The maid leaves and Amaya rolls out a mat on the floor. "Better nap now, busy days are ahead from now on." Amaya says quietly and lays down her head on a cushion.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:53 am
The geisha Rie entered like any other maiko of the okiya, inconspicuosly and only eager to settle in her rooms. She wondered who would be assigned maid duties...and desperately hoped it wouldn't be her. She had other things to worry about, like her music and her calligraphy, as well as scouting out patrons.
In any case, she cooped herself up in her room like all the others, deciding tha tif she was needed she would be sent for.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:16 pm
Sayuri noticed that mother had gotten up and asked the nearby maid to help Sayuri perfect her looks. She waited for mother to tell her to come inside before Sayuri entered the dimly lit bedroom.
"Konnichiwa, Okaa-san. I thought that it would be best to greet you and see if there was anything that I could do for you," Sayuri greeted the older woman. Mother smiled roughly before motioning for Sayuri to come closer.
Mother's voice was low and rough, since her vocal chords had been been nearly destroyed in an earthquake accident 5 years ago. Truly, it was a miracle that Mother had survived at all. "You need a kimono from our okiya. I will have my maid choose something appropriate for your parties. Please earn our okiya more money. I spent a fortune on buying you, so you owe a lot. You may never repay it and I don't expect you to. After all, there are few who leave the okiya this early. Respect me and I will treat you well. Teach our maiko as well as you can. Take an apprentice soon, as well. I expect you will treat them well. Now, get to work and bring me our maiko so that I may look them over."
Sayuri bowed lowly before leaving the room and went into the hallway. The woman was gruff, but at least she spoke the truth.
"Rie-chan," Sayuri called outside of the maiko's room. "Are you in there?"
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