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

[polariity]

[After bringing all these flowers, you bet your ass that the Helmsman is going to make sure they're put to good use.]

[So whatever you're doing, hope you're ready for a flower crown to be telekinetically placed onto your head.]

[scary_music]

Uwah!

It happened!

Ibuki has been crowned Queen of the Wilds!!

[polariity]

[Just for that, Ibuki gets a particularly large flower thrown at her face.]

[no]

[scary_music]

[She just laughs in response, and throws it back at him]

[polariity]

[!!!]

[okay no now it's war of the flowers]

[you wanna go OKAY WELL HERE'S TEN MORE BEING FLUNG AT YOU]

[scary_music]

Yahooooooooo~!

[She's just laughing happily. She'll happily engage in any wars of thrown soft objects! She'll throw them all back!]

[... one by one, anyway, because she doesn't have telekinesis]

[polariity]

[And for every one she throws back, she's getting two more flung at her! Telekinesis sure is handy]

Hi Psii

[cyan_maid]

[Okay first there's a random party going on (Jane, please, it's not random, it's obviously been planned for some portion of time) and now there's something on her head, what the heck -

Oh. It's just flowers. A flower crown, specifically. Where'd that come from? Jane looks around, then tentatively upwards, lest there be something air-dropping the festive headwear onto unsuspecting folks.]

hi squishy thing

[polariity]

[Nope, nothing up there! Well, nothing physical at any rate. Jane will be able to spot a somewhat familiar crackle of red and blue, however, before it fades away.]

[cyan_maid]

[Ahah! Red and blue, the telltale sign of Mister Psiionic. What sort of shenanigans is he up to today? Jane must know.

She looks around with sharper intent now, hoping to spot grey skin or a set of horns somewhere to give her a starting point.]

[polariity]

[Well, Disciple is certainly lurking about here somewhere, but that's not the troll Jane is looking for! In fact, it doesn't seem like the Helmsman is floating or sitting about anywhere in clear view.]

[But the crackling of psionics do seem to be more in the vicinity of some of the food tables more than anything...]

[cyan_maid]

[Hmmm. Well, they ARE very distinct cracklings. As Jane wanders closer to the food tables, she can start to make them out, and decides that if she doesn't see the troll she's looking for, he's obviously hiding somewhere...

...


...Behind the tables?]

[polariity]

[Nope, not behind. But this close, she should be able to spot a glare of yellow beneath them...]

[freedom_engineer]

[Well, that was a bit unexpected.]

[Colin glances up at the flowers on his head, and then he smirks slightly.]

All right, Sparkles, where you at? There's no other TK here but you.

[polariity]

[Hey. Hey Colin. Remember when you took those psi restricting bio-goggles off of him?]

[Guess who can make you flip yourself off now at full strength?]

[freedom_engineer]

[Wow. Rude. So rude. Still, he rolls with it. He'll just have to whip up a quick psionic projection disruptor later...]

First you propose to me, then you tell me to fuck myself. Wow, it's like we're already married.

[Where are you at you little squirt?!]

[polariity]

[Well, judging by the gross amount of sniggering coming from beneath one of the food tables...]

[freedom_engineer]

[Why use sensors when you can track people by demented snickers?]

THERE you are... All right, Sparkles, come out from there.

If you're gonna pop the question, you can at least gimme a dance first.

[One hand on the table, he leans over and looks under it intently.]

[polariity]

[The Helmsman stares right back, and makes a particularly obnoxious suck on the orange slice sticking partially out of his mouth. He seems to have made quite the little hoard for himself too, made primarily of citrus.]

[A complicated gesture is made Colin's way. Considering past interactions? Probably vulgar. But hey, now it's a greeting.]

[hellpyre]

[That sure as shit is not something Rin was ready for or expecting. It doesn't help that she's distracted by that whole "new people keep staring" thing, so having something suddenly land on her head is reason enough to let out a barking yelp and wheel around with fangs bared.

Which causes said flower crown to shift askew atop her head, alerting her to what it was. Defenses down, she takes it off and stares at it curiously, blue eyes blinking rapidly.]

... huh?

[polariity]

[A pair of mismatched eyes narrow at her from beneath the food table and, stubbornly, another flower crown is levitated on top of her head.]

[No, they dicked around for hours worked hard to get all these flowers. You are wearing one, Rin.]

[hellpyre]

[Well that sure is unsettling.

It wasn't that she didn't want to wear the crown, she was just utterly confused as to where it came from and why it was there.

But now she knows.

... it's not helping her confusion any, but at least this crown stays in place.]

... how'd you do that?

[polariity]

[It's like you people have never seen a psionic before.]

[There's just a hint of that exasperation on his face, however, and he holds up his bone thin hands- or, rather, they're hold up by a thin glow of red and blue. He's still not quite at that stage of recovery where he can move his limbs physically.]

[Between spread out fingers, psi energy crackles.]

[hellpyre]

[Sorry, nope. To her you just look like an odd demon, but she's not going to make the assumption that you are one.

The show of energy gets a surprised blink and a quiet "Ohh..." of wonder at the display. Nice to know she's not the only one here with awesome glowy powers.

Of course her's are a bit more on the destructive side, but details...]

That's so cool...

[amphibian]

[Aoi is...sleeping. Every time she's woken up, she sits down again and her body goes oh, right, I'm sleepy, and she's done for. This time she's back at the snack table!

She's too busy being asleep to even acknowledge the flower crown now adorning her head. Wow, rude!]