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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!
]
scary_music: (Deep thoughts by Ibuki Mioda)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-09 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Who knows, who knows? Makoto-chan could've suddenly hit Ibuki with a plot twist!

Like... whoah! Makoto-chan turns out to be the Super High School Level Antagonist! It's a total shocker! How would the Queen of the Wilds deal with such heart break?!
bulletofhope: This stupid MTB game's harder than I thought. (Give me a moment...)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-09 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
That would mean we would wage war over the fate of the fair Kingdom of Flowers.

Who triumphs? The Queen of the Wilds, or the Prince of Darkness? Stay tuned and find out next episode...

[ . . . wait, this is now a TV series? ]
scary_music: (LEAVE THE FLUFFY HAIR OUT OF THIS)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-09 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, so you are betraying Ibuki after all?!?!

Makoto-chan, you're the Super High School Level Prince of Darkness?!?!?!
bulletofhope: (askjhdgadkakjsdgakjsdgas)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-09 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
No! Maybe? I don't know anymore! Wasn't this your story?

[ A beat. ]

Maybe I'm a triple agent or something?
scary_music: (Too stressful!)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-09 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
T-this isn't a trick, is it, Prince of Darkness-chan?! You're not going to turn out to be a quadruple agent, are you?!
bulletofhope: (askjhdgadkakjsdgakjsdgas)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-09 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
No! Why would I be a quadruple agent? That makes no sense!

[ What even is going on... ]

I'd have an identity crisis if that happened! Who am I, a good guy or a bad guy or a guy as a guy playing another guy?
scary_music: (Ahaha...)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-09 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
This is confusing!

How about Makoto-chan is just Ibuki, and Ibuki is Makoto-chan-

Wait no, I mean the other way around!
bulletofhope: (Siiiigh.)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-09 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
. . . I can live with that. You're you, and I'm me. That works out perfectly.

[ Geez, what a ride... ]
scary_music: (Deep thoughts by Ibuki Mioda)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-09 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The happy ending is achieved! Somehow!
bulletofhope: (*a gentle smile*)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-09 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Good! Happy endings are what we really should be aiming for as far as it depends on us, I think...
scary_music: (Let Ibuki's music sooth your soul.)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-09 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly!

So, so, let's celebrate the good ending with a dance, Makoto-chan! Come on!

[Grabbing for Makoto's hand so she can drag him towards the dance floor]
bulletofhope: (askjhdgadkakjsdgakjsdgas)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-09 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah--?! Already? Not even waiting for the credits to roll first?

[ Ibuki plz...! Naegi's confused enough that he's more or less dragged along to the dance floor now... ]
scary_music: (Yayyyyyyyyy)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-09 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
But the credits are boring, Makoto-chan! There's no sense in waiting through that! Unless the credits are rolling while something is happening! Like dancing!
bulletofhope: (*a gentle smile*)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-09 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... all right, all right. Just a few dances, okay?

[ Ibuki, your enthusiasm is infectious, you realize... ]
scary_music: (Let Ibuki's music sooth your soul.)

[personal profile] scary_music 2015-03-10 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah!

Here we go, Makoto-chan!

[She grabs Makoto's hands and... starts... spinning around with him???]
bulletofhope: (What kind of plot twist is that?!)

[personal profile] bulletofhope 2015-03-11 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Whee, spinning? Naegi's not sure what they're doing, but. He rolls with it? ]

E-eh? A waltz...?!