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thebastion2015-02-01 02:56 pm
amphibian) wrote in 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!]
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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Okay, okay, forget about the thing, then!
[And she turns it to some slow dance music]
Later we'll have to rock out to something cool, but now, but for now, let's slowdance, Ippo-chan! Since it's your first time! It'll be easy to start with! Easy peasy!
[she grabs for Ippo's hand to lead him toward the front of the gazebo so they can dance]
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Well...so long as you know what to do, I'll follow along. I learn pretty quick, or so people tell me.
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[While she speaks, she takes Ippo's hand and puts it on her hip, before putting her own on his shoulder]
That is, um, um...
[With her other hand, she takes Ippo's free hand and raises it up into the standard slowdance position]
This is... actually Ibuki's first time slow dancing with anybody.
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Well...then I guess both our first time, huh? I'll do my best though!
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You'll do fine, Ippo-chan! You got the cool footwork of a Super High School Level Boxer to keep you from stepping on Ibuki's toes!
[And she starts leading him through a simple slow dance. Even if it was her first time, she did see a few videos when she was researching music]
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U-um...so...like this?
[Just ignore the color of his face, he's just absolutely sure eyes are on him right now and he was about ready to bury his face into the nearest available surface in an attempt to get away.]
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Close enough, close enough!
Someday, Ibuki will have to teach you some cool dances, though, and then we can really go all out! We'd blow them all away with our mad skillz!
[After a bit of thought, Ibuki moved Ippo's hand she was holding down to her waist so that she could wrap her arms around Ippo. ... now it was pretty much like they were just hugging each other, now, while swaying and looking kind of vaguely like they're dancing with each other]
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What even was his life right now?]
I-I'm not sure...I'll ever have any...dancing skill...z, I think just this...is fine probably...
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Shameful! Music and dancing go hand in hand, you know! Even if you can't dance while beating up the drums, we can always blast up a tune with the sound system at the venue and just dance!
It's settled, then! Band practice now includes dancing lessons, Ippo-chan!
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I'd...just like...to dance with you privately...if that's okay...I'm not a public...kind of person with things like this...
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[...]
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s-sorry...
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Anyway, anyway, if Ippo-chan reaaaaaaally does want a private dance with Ibuki...
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[Just not out in the middle of a party in FRONT OF EVERYONE HE KNOWS. That'd be absolutely fantastic. It's going to take a while before he gets to being even half the social butterfly you are Ibuki.]
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Ippo-chan is surprisingly shy, too.
[She'll awkwardly lead the way to the music venue, though still ... latched onto Ippo so it's kind of awkward and silly looking. Somebody else can take over the sound system when the song ends]
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[His laugh was nervous...and muffled by hair, but he was just happy to be lead away to...somewhere else. He couldn't tell WHERE Ibuki was taking him at the moment but if it was off the dance floor he could at least relax a little.]
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Here we are, Ippo-chan, here we are! Away from all the staring faces! You can relax now! Maybe!
But it's okay if you want to keep cuddling your face into Ibuki's hair.
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Yeah...sorry about all that. I'm not really used to doing stuff out in front of people...I mean boxing sure, but I have to focus on not getting beaten up there. I'll definitely work on it though.
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So, so, since we're here with less nervous feels, we can do something more advanced. We can learn... to tango!
[... is Ippo really ready for that?]
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[Ippo had only ever vaguely heard that word used a few times, he had absolutely no idea what sort of dance it was.]
What kind of dance is that? Sounds...kind of like a fruit almost.
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... wait, no, I mean...
Here, follow Ibuki's lead!
[She suddenly grabs Ippo in the standard tango dance position (kind of like slow dancing position, really), except dipping him briefly before pulling him close, before leading him across the venue's dance floor in the tango fashion. Keep up, Ippo!]
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[That was a sudden start! Good thing Ippo was so good at keeping on his feet and now that he wasn't so worried about people watching him, he was moving at a pretty good pace while letting Ibuki guide him. It was a lot easier without the whole anxiety thing!]
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[And... lots more tango-ing! Though, there sure is a lot of Ibuki pressing up against Ippo throughout the dance... can Ippo keep his cool through that?]
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Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
We did it, we did it! Our first tango dance, Ippo-chan!!! Iyan!
[Why is she acting like it's more than just a dance???]
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