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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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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2015-02-23 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
I know he won't.

[N's power to speak to Pokemon might not extend to the creatures of the Bastion the way it does for some one like Rin, but he can still get a good sense of what they're feeling. Upset clearly doesn't equate to violence in this case.

He gave a nod to Crona and the Squirt, looking back to Darumaka to make sure she wasn't as ruffled as she had been a moment ago.]


We can take food back to the table together, alright?
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[personal profile] blackblooded 2015-02-23 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Crona holds the squirt carefully, running a hand over it to try and calm it down.]

It's okay, little one. It's okay.

[The meister nods at N, just sort of agreeing because there isn't much that Crona can say to that. Crona's going to follow along, because that's the best thing to do.]
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2015-02-23 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Two awkward people being awkward with their pets.

Sounds about right.

N doesn't think about the fact that he's being followed until the plates are set down, several other Pokemon coming over to get what Darumaka has brought for them.]


Where did you find him?
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[personal profile] blackblooded 2015-02-23 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Crona holds the squirt, and it calms down, wiggling into the meister's hands until it's just a sort of soft curled up bubble.]

I found the little one on the Skyway. It was hurt. I, um, I don't like it when things are hurt. So I gave it a bandage and took care of it.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2015-02-27 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[N reaches over to give it a gentle, short pat on the head. He doesn't want to upset it further, but it looks like it could use a bit more reassuring contact.]

That was very kind of you. It seems very attached to you now.
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[personal profile] blackblooded 2015-03-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[The squirt hisses, just a little bit. Crona nods.]

I think that um, if you save something's life, it's going to be attached to you.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2015-03-02 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
That's very true.

[N gestured to Zoroark, who was happily getting food from Darumaka now that they were back at the table.]

I helped Zoroark when shortly after he was hatched in the wild, and we've been together ever since.
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[personal profile] blackblooded 2015-03-04 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know Zoroark came from an egg. It doesn't look like something that comes from eggs.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2015-03-08 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
All Pokemon do, though their original forms are often much smaller until they evolve.

[N pointed some distance away, to where Hilda was with the still-young Zoura.]

That is the original form of Zoroark, Zoura.
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[personal profile] blackblooded 2015-03-09 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. It's cute. It's really cute.
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[personal profile] unwrittenformula 2015-03-14 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
[N doesn't think of things as "cute" very often, so he really doesn't know how to respond to that outside of an awkward smile.

Zoroark, however, is nodding enthusiastically. Of course he was cute then!]