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

[amphibian]

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!]

Comments

OTA please do come bug her

[headphoneactor]

[ And here we have the most wallflowery wallflower to ever wallflower. Takane isn't really one for parties, but she still finds herself at these events whenever they happen. She's awake. For now. She looks a little tired, though. Damn you, narcolepsy.

please, please come bug her. ]

[freedom_engineer]

[How does he keep sneaking up on people like this? ROGUE LEVELS, that's how!]

Decided to come and see how much food Haruka could pack away at another party?

[headphoneactor]

[ CONGRATS YOU'VE STARTLED HER. ]

W-Where the hell did you come from?! Sheesh, don't just sneak up on someone like that!

[freedom_engineer]

I come from everywhere and nowhere. I am a walking mystery wrapped in silence.

And annoyance. I'm wrapped in a LOT of annoyance.

[headphoneactor]

Annoyance is right.

[ That was a murmur, but it was loud enough for him to hear. ]

You do know that your ego is going to swallow you whole someday, right?

[freedom_engineer]

It tried that a few decades ago. I choked it and came back out. We're friends now.

[Nope, not at all put off by her reactions.]

Enjoying the party?

[headphoneactor]

Only you could make friends with your ego.

[ Rolling her eyes at you now. How big is your ego, anyway? Takane shrugs a little. ]

I was thinking of going back and sleeping for a bit, but I know Haruka would make puppy eyes at me.

Re: OTA please do come bug her

[twinked_witch]

[Megaera sees a tired person, and comes over, honestly a bit worried.]

Uh, are you all right?

[headphoneactor]

[ If Takane looks like she's glaring at you, it's not intentional. That's just her face. Most of the time. She looks at Meg and shrugs. ]

Fine, I guess.

[ Just a narcoleptic, no biggy. ]

[twinked_witch]

... You guess?

[Megaera settles into a more steady standing stance, less offput by Takane's response than one would think at first.]

I mean, if you're missing rest or something...

[headphoneactor]

I'm always like this. I sleep for 15 hours and I'm still tired all the time. I'm used to fighting my own body.

[ No, really, this is normal. ]

[twinked_witch]

That... Sounds pretty bad. Like, some kind of curse bad.

[headphoneactor]

Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate. I'm just sick.

[ But Haruka is worse off than she is, so she tries not to think much about how bad her own condition is when his is just so much worse. ]

[daughterofursa]

Too much for you?

[They are picking up a decent crowd.]

[headphoneactor]

[ She shrugs a little. ]

I'm really not one for social things like this.

[ Her boyfriend is just really good at making puppy eyes at her when he wants her to step out of her comfort zone. ]

[daughterofursa]

Yeah.

It hasn't been that bad though. Besides Ibuki screaming half the time.

[headphoneactor]

Oh, is she the one screaming? I've been trying to tune her out for the last fifteen minutes.

[ people are annoying. but this one seems pretty nice, all things considered, so ... ]

... How have you been?

[daughterofursa]

Me, too.

[Ibuki's all right but she is damn weird. She's probably screaming over something trivial.]

I've- been busy. But it's good, I think.

How about you?

[headphoneactor]

[ She shrugs again. ]

No better or worse than the last time we met, I guess.

[bedheadstyle]

Ta~ka~ne~!

[So you totally wanted your hyperactive hyper-happy boyfriend to bother you then, right?

RIGHT?

Well too bad it's happening.]

[headphoneactor]

[ Haruka, you're met with a bit of a stare from your girlfriend.

Whadduyawant, Boyfriendo. ]

[bedheadstyle]

[He wants to show you his drawings! Which is why he's holding up his sketch book with a proud grin.]

[headphoneactor]

[ Awww Haruka. But really, she knows you're talented. ]

You drew people.

[ State the obvious more, Takane. ]

[bedheadstyle]

I've been drawing everyone I can get to!

[Come on, Takane. Humor him.]

[headphoneactor]

I guess it's a nice change from you drawing me all the time.

[ .... We're sorry for your girlfriend, Haruka. ]