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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 please do come bug her

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Megaera sees a tired person, and comes over, honestly a bit worried.]

Uh, are you all right?
headphoneactor: (ɪ'ᴍ sᴏʀʀʏ ɪ'ᴍ ᴀ ᴄʟᴏsᴇᴛ ᴏᴛᴀᴋᴜ)

[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-03 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 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: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
... 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: (ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴍᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ)

[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-03 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
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: (So where'd that pit come from?)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That... Sounds pretty bad. Like, some kind of curse bad.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-03 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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. ]
twinked_witch: (Veluna what did you just do)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
... What I wouldn't do for a decent Cleric around here. My magic's no good at healing that sorta thing...

[She's not actually sure cleric magic would help with chronic conditions - she doesn't know how that fluffy sorta magic works.]
headphoneactor: (ʙᴏʀᴇᴅ ɴᴏᴡ)

[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-03 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yukio's been trying to help, but there's really only so much that can be done about this really.

[ YEAH Magic would be nice. If it worked. ]
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-03 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Megaera's magic DOES work! Just... Not for healing and diseases and such.]

I don't have a lot of training in healing... Just not what wizards are good at, after all.
headphoneactor: (ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ɪ sᴀᴡ ʜɪs ᴜɴᴅᴇʀᴡᴇᴀʀ)

[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-04 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
So there are people from your world who can do all of the magic healing things?

[ She's only ever seen that in RPGs and anime. ]
twinked_witch: (Fu fu fu~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-04 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
... There were, yeah. Plenty of 'em.

[They were often annoying gits, though.]
headphoneactor: (ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ɪ sᴇᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏᴍ)

[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-04 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
... How is that even possible?

[ Explain it to a girl who comes from a relatively normal version of Japan pls. ]
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-04 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
The in-short of it is that, where I'm from, there's two main forms of magic. Arcane magic is the manipulation of the natural aetherial energy present in all things. Divine magic is basically praying to one or another god and pointing their miracles in one or another direction.

Divine magic requires gods to work, though. Arcane magic, not so much.
headphoneactor: (ʙᴏʀᴇᴅ ɴᴏᴡ)

[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-04 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
So I'm guessing your magic is Arcane?
twinked_witch: (Oh hey friendlytimes!)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-04 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. The good stuff... Well, for a lot of things.

Bards apparently can do healing with arcane magic somehow, but I've never been able to make sense of how it works. Their casting's still Arcane, but kind of intuitive rather than properly learned.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-05 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
So what kind of arcane magic can you cast? Like, you can make fire and stuff?
twinked_witch: (Fu fu fu~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-07 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm only able to get up to third-circle spells. Gotta figure out a way to work on that. But that includes a bunch of attack spells - including, of course, fireballs. Summoning magic, but that doesn't work here, and even when it did it was only for a matter of minutes. Various defensive enhancements, creating things from thin air for a bit...

Really, a pretty wide works.
headphoneactor: (ʙᴏʀᴇᴅ ɴᴏᴡ)

[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-18 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're pretty well-versed in this stuff.
twinked_witch: (Oh my~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-19 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
As any great Wizard should be~
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-19 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll have to show me sometime.

[ Will believe when seen. ]
twinked_witch: (Fu fu fu~)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-19 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Hrm. Gimme a kind of trick you'd want to see. Preferably something not dangerous in a crowd, for obvious reasons. I do NOT need to cause a mass panic here.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-20 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't you know the limits of what's dangerous and what's not better than I would?
twinked_witch: (Oh hey friendlytimes!)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-21 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but I don't know what'd be most interesting to see.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-22 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I really don't know that much about what you can do, though.
twinked_witch: (Hrm.)

[personal profile] twinked_witch 2015-02-23 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
... A catch-22. Perhaps something a little simpler will do.

Prestidigitation.

[As Megaera speaks, her glove seems to glow just a little...]

Name a color.

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