[EVENT] - Valentine's Solstice

[arentweglad]

Who: Open!
When: Monday the 20th through Wednesday the 22nd (Bonfire on the 21st)
Where: Days' End League Hall
Before/After: N/A
Warnings: Violence (Val/Nova), vomit (a few threads??), fireworks, mention of death

[Valentine is hosting a Solstice party at Days' End! Some got invited, and if she ran into you anywhere for longer than two minutes she may have invited you. There is booze and games and dancing and floral wreaths and festival foods and everything. If Val saw you at the party you may well have gotten wreathed.]

[It's a pretty open-invite party though, so even if you weren't personally invited, wandering in off the street is perfectly acceptable. They've got a few random partiers showing up, both Earthers and Zenners, and there are several Earthers residing on the premisis also in attendance, as well as most of Days' End's members.]

[The bonfire gets lit early Tuesday and Valentine and Flambre keep it going through the day into the wee hours of the night (except for around one hour after sunset where she runs off to attend the druid ceremonies). The majority of the loud partying will likely happen on that day.]

Comments

Tuesday Evening!

[firecracker_hopping]

[In fact almost just after Lera and Mal talk!]

[So Lera, having freshly handled business, decides it's time for a little bit of partying. On her way towards the bonfire, she picks up a glass of something amber enough to almost be orange and alcoholic as all hell. She decides she likes it halfway through the drink.]

[And this is when she gets her first good look at Flambre, a flame elemental. She gawks at it a little, while taking a drink from her surprisingly good drink.]

[It's fruity, in fact!]

[arentweglad]

[Valentine caught sight of someone new approaching the fire- Ah, the girl who'd been talking to Mal! Wonder what she'd wanted with him? Probably just making small talk- People seemed to do that a lot.]

[Another Earther, obviously; boring Earth clothes, gawking about like a tourist. Hmph! Least they hadn't ruined the party- getting them drunk seemed to make them at least tolerable!]

[Sashaying her way over, she grabbed a drink from someone on the way, a creamy liquid that looked like it contained milk (though wouldn't taste like any kind of milk on Earth), and thrust it out to the woman with one hand while her other plucked a floral wreath from her neck (she still had five more!) to drop on the woman's head.]

Drink! Dance! Be merry! [Don't be boring!]

[firecracker_hopping]

[Her leather jacket is AMAZING thank you very much!]

Oh--thank you!

[Lera is now double fisting drinks. She looks at them both, with a floral wreath on her head, before she shrugs and has a long drink from the new drink. She licks her lips when it's done.]

What's this? It's really good. Sweeter than I expected!

tuesday evening

[socarnivorously]

[ a little after arriving, alex wanders away from rei. he doesn't stray far, senses attuned in her direction. he doesn't have any protective enchantments, and oddly cares very little about it. there's a bizarre lightness, or freedom, in no longer holding a strong opinion on one's own survival.

someone not involved would be nice.

he wonders where chisaki is (did she find the place?) and where val is, though admittedly less because this is her own celebration... ]

Re: tuesday evening

[unlikelypets]

[Chisaki did, in fact, come here after her jaunt to Omghan. The Earther has a backpack of Zenderean make on -- and sneakers, of course, as the only hint of her origins. She spots Alex and waves, starting over for him.]

Yo. Alex. I got the fireworks.

[socarnivorously]

[ he waves back and waits for her.

chisaki -- does she know what he is? safer to assume yes...

can't bring himself to give much of a fuck. ]

Great! Is that them in your bag?

tues evening

[graveyardmoon]

[why is he even here]

[nova he is not friends w/you anymore, all your plans are terrible]

[the drinks aren't even good]

[(he's on his 4th one)]

[He's definitely overdressed for a bonfire, but like he gives a fuck, he's overdressed for everything, anybody who can't appreciate good fashion sense is just too plebian for him. He's also hanging around sort of at the edges of where things are actually happening, gazing sourly toward the fire while he drinks.]

Re: tues evening

[firecracker_hopping]

[At some point Lera finishes drinking with Val, and then drinking some more, and then drinking a little more, and did you think she's done yet? NOPE.]

[All of which is a nice way to say that SOMEBODY, by which we mean Lera, is puking her guts out at the edge of the celebration and not that far from Artemis.]

[And then, loudly:] Aw, fuck, it's on my shoes!

[graveyardmoon]

[his expression sours further]

[he doesn't even spare her a glance, he heard enough to know what just happened tynm]

Tuesday evening! [open]

[transfer_student]

[this is an important day!!

his very first day as a berserker. It is so thoughtful of the world to facilitate his celebration by having the solstice and all of the booze and merriment that goes into it.

He has been drinking a bit more than is a good idea for him, and THINKING DEEP about what it MEANS to be a berserker. His alchemy is gone, can't look back! Have to own this!!

All he can think is that he needs to do things that are TOUGH and DARING??? yeah, that sounds about right...

...also get into a fight maybe?!]

[socarnivorously]

[ alex SLAPS HIS HAND on nova's shoulder from behind

behind because it was easy to recognize that head of hair, but not the... getup.

or the lack of a backpack with supplies... ]

Nova! I'm going to make a guess momentarily, and if I'm correct, you will owe me something.

[ when nova turns around he will see a dark brown bottle of jack daniels in alex's other hand. ]

[transfer_student]

[WHO THE FUCK IS THAT

should he FIGHT him

wait no it's just Alex]

What's your guess!

tuesday night

[winterwhite]

[ the party is in full swing but rei is content to sit on the sidelines and watch. alex left her some time ago to wander. not that she hadn't, in a sense, been looked after. she'd been wreathed at some point, and she kept the circlet of flowers carefully balanced on her head, though it had caught in her hair clasp and would remain where it was even if she wasn't careful. drinks had been provided, and having no reason to refuse them, had drunk each as they'd been given to her, not by any one person in particular, but various others who thought her distraught or not enjoying herself, and one that had been given to her so that the previous owner could do and dance.

the bonfire was quite a spectacle, and while heat was not something she enjoyed, the fire itself was of great interest to her. it was huge, and easier to understand than... pretty much everything else.

maybe she could make it different colours.

maybe she should try...

getting up from the ground in her skirts and with several drinks in her was a bit of a challenge, though. ]

Re: tuesday night

[unlikelypets]

[At some point, Chisaki lost track of both Alex and Nova, and that meant she was here by herself in a very real sense: she didn't know anyone else here. She also has had just enough drinks to feel a little goofy, without so many that her anger streak comes out completely unbidden. Being pissy is hard.]

[Of course, Rei gets a glance as she walks along, taking drinks from a bottle she picked up from somewhere. It was some kind of bourbon that one of the French people here brought, probably. The merges are good for something.]

Hey, you. [She notices Rei trying to stand up. Chisaki tries to smile politely which looks weird, like her face isn't put together right.] You need a hand or anything?

[winterwhite]

[ she looks up at the voice, her own expression blank. if she notices something wrong, she's good enough not to say anything, though it seems she hasn't noticed anything at all. there's a long pause before she decides on something and she lifts a hand up. ]

Up.

[ that's it. the vocabulary of a two year old. she's not getting up on her own and alex isn't anywhere. well, that's fine, so long as he comes back. and she can't waste the night thinking he won't. sometimes people go away for a little bit, but they come back, don't they?

she ruminates on this line of thought to herself, arm still outstretched. if chisaki does take it, it's cold like ice. actually, the whole area surrounding her is a little on the chill side. ]

STILL TUESDAY, leralex!

[socarnivorously]

[ so alex takes a break to check on rei, except he sees she's getting along quite swimmingly with chisaki(!)... ah, chisaki, chisaki, what is he going to do with you...

alex leans against a table and sends off parcels to acher and ravindra, glancing up every now and then at reilanin, and smiling at her intoxicated manipulation of the fire. as he's replying to acher (lol), a sudden thought occurs to him--

lera! that stupid bitch wrote to him (to akhi...) while drunk. turnabout's fair play!

... except the dragon his postage stamp summons slaps him across the face with its tail before pointing to the left and disappearing in a cloud of smoke. it doesn't take the letter with it.

oh.

much in the same way he approached nova, alex comes up behind lera and drops a firm hand on her shoulder. he dips his head, lips inches from ear, and quietly asks, ] Silicone or plastic?

[firecracker_hopping]

Eh?

[That not particularly graceful sound is all Alex gets at first because without context, the question doesn't quite make sense. She does roll her shoulder back in a practiced movement to try to dislodge her hand, learned at more than a few parties. Then she turns around.]

[Recognition still takes a couple of seconds though. She looks at Alex like he's insane for a second, until her eyes shoot wide open. Wait, this is--]

What the hell are you doing here!

[...wait]

Oh, um, obviously, you live here. [fuuuuuck!]

[socarnivorously]

[ he lifts his hand automatically, feeling no need to keep her rooted to one spot right now.

his brows rise. ]

That might be the stupidest thing I've heard all night.

Also still Tuesday! - When drunks collide

[arentweglad]

[Being drunk was fun! Val kept her heals in reserve to make sure she stayed juuuust drunk enough to find almost anything entertaining but not so drunk as to be unable to walk, because that would suck and wasn't as much fun. She wanders the party with a fresh bottle of Velindin in her hand, not paying much attention to where she's going. A bit of a stumble here, a wobble there- hmm, her balance is off. Oh well! Not badly enough to need a heal yet!]

[Not even when she stumbles right into someone. Someone with really red hair!]

H-hey! [Accusatory, as she fumbles with the bottle to not spill any- or at least not much.]

[transfer_student]

[Nova has no such finely tuned system to hone his level of drunkness to some middle-of-the-road ideal; he has overdone it and walking is a true challenge for him atm

regardless, he was doing SO WELL AT IT until THIS GIRL CAME ALONG

he stumbles a step back and then grabs onto her shoulders to either right himself or take her down with him]

PLEASE DO NOT WALK INTO ME WHILE I'M TRYING TO BALANCE.

[arentweglad]

HEY! [Raising voice- Was he MANHANDLING HER??? ...He's a man, right? It's so hard to tell sometimes (like when drunk and confronted by a long-haired redhead in what looks like a skirt)]

[She gives him a firm shove with both hands, forgetting one's holding a bottle which promptly spills- oops.]

Wednesday: Chisaki 'nd Nova

[unlikelypets]

[Chisaki wakes up after all the partying, having finally passed out somewhere along the edges. The first thing she does is throw up, then get some water to wash her mouth out, and then throw up again. By now she looks like shit; she is hungover enough that her head is thundering and the only good thing about her stomach is it's empty.]

[She starts off after she makes herself look like what she thinks is presentable (note: NOT PRESENTABLE) and ambles about until she finds Nova.]

Fuck everything. [Chisaki-ese for "Good morning!"] My head feels like it's been in a vice.

Re: Wednesday: Chisaki 'nd Nova

[transfer_student]

[okay so maybe he's not an alchemist anymore, but why couldn't he have at least BROUGHT some potions?!

In addition to the headache and the nonstop nausea, he has a nice bruise coming in on the side of his face

he'd probably feel better if he threw up, but he's in a bit of a rush trying to get out of here; he was too drunk to want to bother going home last night, but considering what he did, he doubts he's... welcome, exactly

oh, it's Chisaki]

I was just leaving, I kind of tried to kill the host of the party last night.

FOREVER TUESDAY alex/nova/rei

[socarnivorously]

[ it's getting late and his run in with lera had went from excellent to grumbly in the span of a few minutes. he really did want to make her sick, but whatever. not enough to go back and continue, especially not with rei the way she is... (wow.)

so he does walk with her around the bonfire, searching for nova, but alas he is missing. to his surprise, he notices artemis, but he sure as fuck feels no reason to engage, so he doesn't. maybe nova's off being sick in the bushes?

he picks up nova's scent and the distant sound of ... movement further in the wilderness. uhhhh maybe he really IS off being sick...

... should check on him...

he does and... ]

What the fuck is this...

[transfer_student]

[so we have here Nova tied to a tree, struggling to get free

which is, admittedly, weird

but not as weird as the fact that he doesn't even seem to have registered Alex's presence, and there is a wild look in his eyes that is Not Right at All]