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Aoi Asahina ([personal profile] amphibian) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2015-02-01 02:56 pm

lap eight // day 271 (open) // IT'S PARTY TIME

Who: EVERYBODY
Open: Open
When: 271
Where: In the empty space around the monument!
What:

PARTY MINGLE GO
Format: DO AS YOU PLEASE AND FOLLOW YOUR HEART
Warnings: If anything comes up, put it in the subject lines!


[As everyone wakes up bright and early this morning, it isn't going to be hard to miss what's changed in the empty space around the monument Just in case, though, signs with indicating arrows line the campground where the Bastion's newest guests are staying, reading, in Ura, "This way to the party!"—wait, party?

Oh yes. Anyone Aoi had managed to grab the day before ought to be prepared for this. A great big banner stretched on two poles over the monument reads "Welcome to the Bastion!", written in Ura again; there's a little variation between the handwriting, since Zanya wrote some and Zahi wrote others.

Every last piece of the area that can have something hanging from it does: Zuko's lanterns hang off all the nearby trees, and her streamers, mostly red and sometimes gold, line absolutely everything, including but not limited to all the chairs and tables Ryu got together and helped arrange. Other things you're apt to find everywhere: flowers. Between the Psiioniic, the Disciple, Ghaleon, and Crona, there are more flowers than anyone could ever figure out what to do with. Aoi's best has been done, though: garlands are hung up around furniture, tied around tree trunks, woven through branches, strung between the branches of adjacent trees, wrapped 'round the monument, and so on and so on. A lot of care has been put into making sure they look good instead of just being thrown every which-way.

A few mismatched vases sitting on the tables have some flowers sticking out of them, too—perhaps exactly enough in each to make a flower crown, hmm? There are no party hats, so some improvising will have to be done.

There's all manner of tasty treats placed on all the tables, of course: a platter of picked donuts is to be expected, given Aoi's hand in all this (and thanks to Naegi, there are plenty to go around and they're arranged almost elaborately), but Rin, Zia, and Mirielle have provided all manner of homemade goodies that aren't just Aoi's favorite desserts. Bon's made a cake that Aoi has proudly placed in the center of one round table and surrounded with the rest of the desserts.

Instead of food, one table has a chalkboard propped up on it instead, with a box of colorful chalk beside it. Aoi's already written a small message in the corner—Thank you, everyone! with a smiley face beside it—and doodled a couple of flowers around the edges. The board's five feet long and there's plenty of chalk to go around, so there's certainly room for collaborating on something!

Not far from all the food sits the enormous stack of Legos Aoi purchased at Ibuki's suggestion. Legos. Please keep your shoes on, for the love of god. Some of them have already been arranged to form half the outside of a floor and a chunk of wall up to Aoi's chest so everyone has an idea of what's supposed to be done with things, but there are more than enough to start new projects. On the other side of the monument, closer to the collection of shop buildings than the gazebo, the soccer nets Otoha and Takamura built out of Skyway scraps have been set up (flowers have been woven in and out of the netting, of course). Aoi's brought out not one, but two of the soccer balls given to her during the festival, just in case of a soccer ball malfunction or if the game gets big enough that everyone decides rules are for losers and the only way to play soccer is with multiple things to kick. In the absence of paint, Aoi has decided to use more streamers as field markers.

At the gazebo not far off (naturally, it's covered in streamers and flowers as well), there's a set of speakers and an amplifier ready for use—Ibuki's, of course, and the little note Aoi's written that reads "For Ibuki-chan!" (with the wrong characters for her name, but points for effort) confirms it. Her equipment from Colin has all been set up, too: the spotlights on the top and bottom of the gazebo will shine in all sorts of colors when Ibuki turns them on, and there are some additional bits and pieces to the sound system to help make everything that much noisier. Aside from hanging decor, the space in front of the gazebo has been left empty so that there's enough room to dance!

To the side of the gazebo and just behind it is the unreasonably long rope Shing somehow managed to scrounge up. Like absolutely everything else, it has a chain of flowers wrapped around it. A streamer's been tied around the very center of it in a bow, and hopefully that makes its intended purpose as a tool of tug-of-war obvious enough.

If Aoi has anything to say about it, this is going to be the best goddamn welcome party ever.

Enjoy the festivities!
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OTA

[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-03 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Patchouli isn't a party person by any means. So, having taken a moment to observe, she's already claimed a drink and has made her way back away from the party -- still close enough to observe, though.

What this also means is that she's pretty much close enough to come over and talk to. Which someone probably should so she's not just horrifyingly boring the whole time.]
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[personal profile] scary_music 2015-02-03 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Patchy-chan, Patchy-chan!

What are you doing?

You can't be a wall flower during a party! There's not even a wall here to plant yourself into!
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-03 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm?

... are you sure about that? You seem like the only person who's really noticed yet.
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[personal profile] scary_music 2015-02-03 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Being the first doesn't mean Ibuki will be the last!

Wait, what does that even have to do with this?!
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-03 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
... I don't know what first and last really have to do with it. Especially last.
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[personal profile] scary_music 2015-02-03 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[She laughs a bit at that]

Well, Patchy-chan, let's forget about that! Let's worry about the party!

So, so, quick! Patchy-chan! Pick a thing to do with Ibuki!

Or else she'll drag you to do something! Ten seconds!

Tennineeightsevensix-
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-03 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
H-hey! It's not right to put me on the spot like that! I need time to decide!
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[personal profile] scary_music 2015-02-03 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay!

Then, half a minute!

Thirty seconds of normal speed to decide, Patchy-chan!

AlsoIbukiistotallydisappointedyoustillhaven'tgottenyourbassguitaryetPatchy-chan.
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-04 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Certainly. Now, let me see...

[She... actually considers things. There will probably be legos in the future, though, let's just say that.]

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Re: OTA

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Megaera, for her part, sauntered in a few minutes after Patchy - she'd been pouring over a book, and only moved to catch up a few minutes later.

She quickly hugged Patchouli from behind.]


Hey there.
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-03 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. That was unexpected, but it certainly wasn't an unpleasant surprise!]

Hello, Megaera. How are you faring today?
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[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Megaera chuckled a bit.]

Well enough. Glad to see this is turning out nicely...
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-03 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good to hear.

As am I; though, parties aren't... really something I tend to enjoy too much.
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[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Megaera smiled warmly... This was definitely an attitude she understood. While she had the added confidence from the whole became-not-human thing that made it easy enough to enjoy these parties, she was still a natural introvert, after all, and they certainly hadn't been her thing when she had been human.]

That's okay. Just do what you're comfortable with. If you want to try heading around and being more social, I'll gladly cover for you to help out a bit. Or if not, let's just stay out here and relax a bit.
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-03 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... I guess I'd rather just stay back here with you.

[Likewise for Patchouli. She's decently confident, but probably doesn't come across as such. She's mostly just... not interested.]
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[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Megaera laughs a little.]

And that's okay. Just a few people's a lot easier, after all.
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-04 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly. It helps me keep focused -- very important, as you, I presume, well know already.

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[personal profile] kyotoprincess 2015-02-04 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[NOPE sorry Patchouli you don't get to sneak away.

Bon himself is an awkwardturtle at parties, but if he can't sneak away then neither can you.
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Not interested in any of the fun?
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-04 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Not terribly, but I don't mind observing.
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[personal profile] kyotoprincess 2015-02-07 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can understand that, at least.]

You better watch out then, Ibuki might drag you in to this mess.
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-08 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I think I can deal with that by now. I know how she acts. ... sort of.
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[personal profile] kyotoprincess 2015-02-22 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Sort of".

[She doesn't sound so sure to him there.]
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-22 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well, she can be pretty unpredictable.

["Can be pretty unpredictable" meaning here, of course, "I have no idea why the hell she does what she does."]
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[personal profile] kyotoprincess 2015-02-22 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I think the term you're looking for is 'a known-unknown.'
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[personal profile] heptagram 2015-02-22 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I think that describes her quite accurately.

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