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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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twinked_witch: (So where'd that pit come from?)

Re: OTA

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[After a few minutes, Kohaku finds a redhead looking at the blocks.]

Wait. What are these?
spiria: (⌠ blessed ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-03 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Some kind of building block toy! It's a lot of fun. I've never seen these before today.

[ She gestures to the seat next to her. ]

You should give them a try!
twinked_witch: (Oh hey friendlytimes!)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
... Huh, that actually does sound pretty fun.

[Megaera sits down, examining a couple of the toys a bit.]

I'm Megaera, by the way.

... Huh, so they're just sized to fit each other?
spiria: (⌠ liked ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-03 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Kohaku! It's nice to meet you, Megaera!

[ She nods a little. ]

It seems that way. I've just been stacking things on top of each other. I'm not all that experienced with this just yet, I'm just having fun.
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun's a perfectly good reason to mess with something... Unless it's dangerous, I mean. Sometimes even then.

[Megaera nodded in turn. Oh, hey, she's put two pieces together... Wait, they actually stick? How does that work? The surface wasn't tacky or anything...]

...

[She may be distracted examining the connection closely now.]

What kind of technological trick lets this work???
spiria: (⌠ higher ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-03 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, I think ... if you look at the bottoms, and then at the tops, they're shaped specifically so that they connect really tightly. See?

[ She shows a bottom and a top of two legos to her. ]
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
... So it bends only enough for...

Huh. Quite interesting, this technological work. Sorry, I'm a wizard, so a lot of the things around here just are new and different and... Well, yeah.
spiria: (⌠ bored ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ She nods. ]

I understand, a lot of the things here are really new to me, too.
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-04 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
You're from a more magical world too, then, I'm guessing?
spiria: (⌠ curious ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-04 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well, more magical than some of the worlds people here come from, I guess ...

[ Nobody here had heard of a spiria, or soma ... it was strange. ]
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-04 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Different worlds, different natures... I must admit, it's one of the more fascinating parts of all of this.
spiria: (⌠ fond ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-04 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
It really is interesting, hearing about other peoples' worlds. It's such a neat concept, that there are other worlds out there! Us all being here proves it!
twinked_witch: (Veluna what did you just do)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-04 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
True... Though I wish I could show people some of my world.

[Not much, though. And not her actual world, but the one 'next door'.]
spiria: (⌠ discomposed ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-04 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish I could show people mine, too. I miss home.
twinked_witch: (So where'd that pit come from?)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-04 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
... Erm, so.

[Megaera desperately attempts to change topic on the spot.]

It's kind of going to be nice to have more people here...
spiria: (⌠ fond ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-05 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so, too! It's that many more people safe from the Calamity, and I think that's great.

[ Sad that everyone has lost their homes, though. They're doing a good job of making a new home here at least. ]
twinked_witch: (Fu fu fu~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-06 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. One step closer to a real city... A place where people can honestly survive.
spiria: (⌠ comfortable ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-19 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
We're doing a pretty good job of surviving so far, I think ...
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-19 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
This is true... But survival alone is just one piece of it. It's about rebuilding, and being able to support more people, and a civilization beyond that... The arts, for one.
spiria: (⌠ curious ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-19 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
True enough. We seem to be working toward that, though. We've got to take things one step at a time.
twinked_witch: (Fu fu fu~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-19 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. But for now, it's about doing things.

[As Megaera speaks, she's quickly pulling Lego pieces together and building... Actually, it's pretty abstract and weird. Like it's just some reflection of her subconscious that doesn't carry any particular meeting. If you tilt your head it looks like a duck.]
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[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-20 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm!

[ That's an interesting something Megaera is making ... Kohaku soon returns to her own wall. It's just a wall. Nothing special. No windows or anything. No doors. ]
twinked_witch: (Fu fu fu~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-21 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hrm. A wall, huh? Any particular idea it represents?
spiria: (⌠ conflicted ⌡)

[personal profile] spiria 2015-02-22 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. It's just a wall. I'm not being very creative with it.
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-27 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
That's okay, too. Just curious, is all. It seems like a toy like this could be used to really explore people's minds more... So it's a curiosity for me.

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