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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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[ Naegi, that was an incredibly dark joke, coming from you... ]
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[Wow. Was that even supposed to be a joke, Makoto? Ibuki opens her mouth and then... just kind of slowly closes it. Congratulations, you struck Ibuki speechless]
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[ Well, it's time for awkward silences now, because. Well.
Naegi was partly joking about that, but also partly serious, too... that place changes people, and sometimes not for the better... ]
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[Are those tears in Ibuki's eyes? No, you're just seeing things-okay they're definitely tears slowly trickling down her cheeks. She didn't need a reminder that she'd lost all of her friends from Hope's Peak]
I... I'm amazed at how insensitive you are, Makoto-chan. I-incredible.
... I'm... going to find somebody else to play with.
[She starts to turn away]
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[ Naegi grimaces as he reaches for her hand to stop her, his own expression one of pained recollection as he looks at her guiltily. ]
... I'm sorry. I... I wasn't thinking.
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They're all gone... they're all gone and... and somehow, I'm the only one from my class that made it out. We were all supposed to escape together...
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Naegi can't really say anything, or really do anything much except just stand there in horrified surprise - only her? Really?
At least he had some solace in the fact that several of his classmates at least were still alive before the Bastion happened - and that even then, Asahina had survived too and was here - but for Ibuki to be the only survivor of her own class...
Well, he just feels horrible for his comment earlier. The only thing he feels like he can really do is just pull her into a comforting hug, closing his eyes and sniffling a little as he felt himself tear up. ]
I'm so sorry, Ibuki-san... I... I didn't know...
I don't know what to say...
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[After about half a minute, she pulls back a bit]
... I realized... when I played with Hajime-chan back on the island, how important it is to like... let out all your feelings with people you can trust.
But even then... until I came to the Bastion I... I didn't know how much better it feels to just... be able to cry with somebody like that, too.
Ibuki's memory is too good to forget about everybody that's just... gone, now... I'm not sure I'll ever be able to not cry about it now and then.
... but... I'll be fine now... thanks for letting me cry on your ahoge, Makoto-chan. You need to make it up to Ibuki for activating crybaby Ibuki, though.
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[ Naegi cringes a little at that, but relaxes somewhat into a silent, if not weary, smile as he reaches up to try and wipe away her tears. ]
It's okay to cry, I think.We... don't exactly have very good memories of that place, do we? But... that's why we're here, too. To build better, happier memories here that will help ease the pain of those bad memories.
... just say the word, and... I'll do anything I can. To make up for my thoughtlessness... promise.
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[Not that there's any danger of that, it's not like Makoto is a clumsy oaf]
... ahaha... okay, okay. Ibuki's invoking the word, then. Do a thing to make up for your thoughtlessness.
...
You know, you know, you and Patchy-chan still don't have your instruments for the band.
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[ Naegi just stops with a blank expression on his face, frowning as he realizes that. ]
I could probably get that soon, I just need some more shards first...
... how many shards does it cost to get an instrument, do you think?
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But, but... it shouldn't be tooooooo much?
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[ Depending on if they go with just a keyboard or also get a piano because reasons. ]
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[ Amazing that she would be the first one he thinks of here... ]
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Let's do it, Makoto-chan! Let's be Patchy-chan's Super High School Level Spongers duo!
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--wait, Super High School Level Spongers?!
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I was wondering why a sponge...
[ Naegi... ]
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[ Yes, that is a thing he's seriously wondering about. ]
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[Why are you encouraging her, Makoto?]
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[ NAEGI NO... ]
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Can Ibuki be the Sponge Queen? Can she?
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Sponge Prince? Sponge King?
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