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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] freedom_engineer 2015-02-03 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It tried that a few decades ago. I choked it and came back out. We're friends now.

[Nope, not at all put off by her reactions.]

Enjoying the party?
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-03 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Only you could make friends with your ego.

[ Rolling her eyes at you now. How big is your ego, anyway? Takane shrugs a little. ]

I was thinking of going back and sleeping for a bit, but I know Haruka would make puppy eyes at me.
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-03 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I can try, at any rate.

[Colin gives a soft chuckle at her observation, and he nods.]

He is good at that. Anyway, there's no need to push yourself too hard. But some mingling is probably a good idea.

Who knows, maybe I can drag you out on the dance floor in a little while.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-03 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a glare now. ]

I'm not dancing.

[ That is final. Haruka might be able to get her to dance with a lot of work, but nobody else can do that. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-03 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You are no fun at all.

[He's teasing her. It's really pretty easy.]
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-04 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I can only handle so much fun before I pass out.

[ Okay that's not really true, she'd stay up on her video games for quite a while. She can handle quite a bit of fun when it's on her own terms. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-04 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
See, now that's just playing dirty. I approve.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-04 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not really playing dirty if it's the truth, right?

[ Physical Activity kinda makes it worse sometimes, she supposes, so it's not a complete lie ... ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-04 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
If that's the truth, then I'll wear a bra tomorrow.

[Called out.]
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-05 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you even own a bra?

Wait, don't answer that. I don't want to know.

[ Don't wanna know what you do with bras in your life, Colin. Nope. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-05 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just gonna borrow one of yours.

[She can dish it out, so Colin will occasionally lob one back. Meanwhile, bracing for impact...]
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-05 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
What?! I've only got like one! Plus, your chest is bigger than mine!

[ MY BRA WOULDN'T FIT YOU, FUCK YOU MAN. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-05 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
All the more reason to be more honest then, hmm?

[Yep, he's positively evil sometimes.]
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-05 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't even a complete lie!

[ evil brat :T ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-05 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Just enough of one that I caught you.

[Smug!]

Gotta be more clever to get one over on me like that.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-05 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, whatever. You're still not getting me to dance.

[ She's not budging on this. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-05 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe not today.

Maybe not tomorrow.

But when you least expect it...

BAM!

We'll be waltzing and turning heads in the finest dance hall in the galaxy.
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-05 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not dancing. Not with you.

[ Maybe Haruka, though. Someday. If he makes enough puppy eyes. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-05 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Whatever you say, Takane. Whatever you say.

[Nope, not believing her in the slightest. Colin's got a looooong memory, and plans within plans. And you just told him "No" on something he'd like to do.]
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-05 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Glare. ]

You're such an ass.
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-06 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You're just now realizing this? I've been saying that for months now to everyone here.

[He smiles at her just the same.]
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-18 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, I didn't just realize it. I knew the whole time. I just have to say it aloud sometimes and remind you of what an ass you are.

[ Not that he seems to need the reminding. He's perfectly happy with his status as a complete and utter ass. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-19 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't gotta remind me, I know full well that I'm a top of the line ass.

The important thing is that I'm an ass about teasing, and otherwise, I'm happy to help you out.

[He gives her a wink.]
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[personal profile] headphoneactor 2015-02-20 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She can't deny that, but she doesn't want to admit to that out loud. Fucking hell.

She's just gonna grump a little more because she's good at that. ]
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[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2015-02-20 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Colin beams, taking the silence as a victory. Then he reaches out to tussle her hair a little, 'cause he's an affectionate ass.]

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