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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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polariity: (worry II Hit the bottom and escape)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-08 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Something about his expression seems to shift at that, and he gives a slow almost uncertain nod.]

[Right. Whatever he decides is for the best. Maybe?]

[Either way, he brings down another plate of food down from the table. For no reason- because he's certainly not eating it- but just because he can.]
cyan_maid: (Goodness gracious me!)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-09 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[The nod is at least something to go off of.] Yes! We're all, um, kind of here through some sort of luck anyhow, aren't we? So we've got to make the most of it however we can! That is, uh, when we're fit for it, because there's no sense in overexerting yourself when you aren't feeling well...

[And there she is, rambling on. Thank goodness Psii decided to show off with his plate-getting skills.] - Oh! Are you hungry still?
polariity: (nomph II I woke up under a table)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-09 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[A shake of his head, and he just unpeels yet another orange to stick into his mouth. He'll eat these until he's sick, thank you.]

[No, the plate is instead offered to her.]
cyan_maid: Jane and Lil' Sebastian (Hey Lil' Seb!)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-09 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Psii, it's not going to be fun if you're throwing up citrusy things....]

Me? Well, gosh, thank you...

[It'd be rude not to take anything, so she'll just take a little bit from the plate and nibble on it.]

You really love oranges, huh?
polariity: (fiine II Turn me on to phantoms)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-10 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a firm nod and another image. A much tinier figure now, but it has two sets of horns. There's lots of something in little half circles- bowls? probably- and the stick figure has a frowny face with a tongue sticking out.]
cyan_maid: (Default)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-10 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's just going to take a stab in the dark here:]

You didn't like a lot of other foods when you were younger?
polariity: (I think if you made a shrine)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-10 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Not quite! A shake of his head before he points to his mouth and mimics gagging.]

[...Fortunately, not yet real gagging.]
cyan_maid: (What's that now?)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-11 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Gosh no don't actually throw up, Psii, that's not cool.]

Other foods...made you sick?
polariity: (guys pls II In the deepest ocean)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-11 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[A pause, and he makes a 'sort of' gesture. Close...]
cyan_maid: (I really don't...)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-11 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
They still make you sick?

[Ugh, Jane, why you keep striking out?]
polariity: (fiine II Turn me on to phantoms)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-12 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Nah you know what]

[There is now a little Disciple stick figure with a stick figure that looks suspiciously like Jane does, with little speech bubbles coming from them.]

[Talk to his grubsitter.]
cyan_maid: (Just about fed up)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-12 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Aw dangit.]

Oh - um, talk to Miss Disciple about it? Okay...I'm sorry I couldn't get it...

[She's really trying hard, Psii.]
polariity: (morose II I'm sitting in class and)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-13 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[A relaxed shrug is the answer and he gestures to his throat again. It's fine- he knows his issue is a pain in the ass.]
cyan_maid: (A tiny longing)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-13 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Aww. Sadface.]

When do you think your throat will get better? Have you seen a doctor for it?
polariity: (intrigue II Who the fuck did I sell my)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-13 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a pause as he tries to figure out how to word his next reply. It's tricky. Soon, he points to his throat and gives a thumbs up. The throat itself is actually fine.]
cyan_maid: (Eerm)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-13 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Let's see...points to throat, thumbs up. Points to throat, thumbs up...]

Your...throat is already better?
polariity: (nope II The cop asked you if you)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-14 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[A nod.]

[And then, before she can ask 'what the hell then', out come the stick figures.]

[The first a familiar trollish one and a large speech bubble coming from it, filled with all that Alternian gibberish. Above them, a single line.]

[Besides that, something very much the same, but... are there just a couple lines missing from the blurb? Two lines above this.]

[There's three lines above the next, also the same, and this one is certainly with a smaller bubble. The pattern repeats up to the figure with six lines above it, which only has a single tiny little line in an even smaller little bubble.]

[The seventh one is 'saying nothing' at all. Maybe it's just a coincidence that the position of the horns makes it look like it's staring down.]

[The same for the eight. And the ninth. All the way to the twelfth figure, which is where he ends it.]
cyan_maid: Jane doesn't know what the fuck is going on (What is even going on?)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-15 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Jane watches all these figures, eyes narrowed. She...really doesn't understand how to put together all of this information. Is it hard for him to talk a lot all at once, or has he been losing his voice despite his throat being okay? It's a little confusing, and probably another thing she'll have to ask Miss Disciple about, which is a shame because he's obviously doing his best to explain...]

Er...
polariity: (aloof II Dude skip the party. It is a)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-19 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he tried. He thought, sequentially, it might make sense but that's what happens when you're in a foreign place where the majority doesn't speak your language. He gives a shrug, letting the figures fade away as he goes back to picking at his oranges.]
cyan_maid: (Just about fed up)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-19 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe it's just a little too early for her to make sense of it.

Jane deflates a little.]
I really am sorry...
polariity: (guys pls II In the deepest ocean)

[personal profile] polariity 2015-02-19 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Another shrugs it off before his psi nudges a donut into her hand again. Don't worry about it.]
cyan_maid: Jane staring blankly into the abyss (Darnit.)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-02-20 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bluh, fine, Psii. She sighs and nibbles at the donut.] Thank you.