[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

[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.]

[transfer_student]

Gaah!

[already having trouble staying upright, he lands flat on his back

in retaliation(?) he kicks her while he's still on the ground; this was maybe meant as a sweep to trip her too, but he's not composed enough for that and it winds up just a kick in the shin]

[arentweglad]

[...did he just]

[OH NO HE DIDN']

OW!

[She stumbles back and hops on one leg because THAT FUCKIN' HURT and also drunk- wait she has heals]

[Healin' that shit, yup]

[Then she turns on him, glaring down, looks at the bottle still in her hands- ....nah, that'd be a waste of booze.]

[She summons a little earth spirit under him instead, a worm-like thing that doesn't do much more than wriggle and writhe about while trying to get free]

[transfer_student]

[WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MOVING UNDER HIS BACK, CREEPY

he hollers and bolts up and brushes his hands around trying to find it, although he probably just left it on the ground]

[arentweglad]

[Yes, perfect]

[Val doubles over with laughter, pointing and cackling. The spirit, now freed, burrows into the ground to disappear]

[transfer_student]

[eventually he is confident that there is nothing still attached to him, and is sitting on the ground glaring up at her]

WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT

[arentweglad]

[nope still laughing. she just points at him, points at the ground, gives up and keeps laughing like she's going to choke on it]

[transfer_student]

[okay THAT'S IT

he wobbles up to his feet and THROWS A PUNCH although it's just at her shoulder (maybe because of what Alex said earlier?!)

but there is some added momentum because he is also basically stumbling into her again]

[arentweglad]

[oh shit incom-

she has just enough time to lift the bottle up out of the way, though it is losing some of its contents from all of the flailing WHAT A WASTE

and then she reaches out to drunkenly grab at his wrist while stumbling back, tripping, and landing on her arse]

[transfer_student]

[getting his wrist grabbed only ensures he goes down with her

although tbh that was probably inevitable either way]

That's what you get for laughing at me!!

[arentweglad]

[one-handed shove GET AWAY FROM HER]

[though it is half-hearted b/c she is laughing at him again TAKE THAT YOU CRAZY REDHEAD]

[transfer_student]

[he's shoved back omz you're the one who dragged him down with you in the first place!!]

CUT IT OUT!

[arentweglad]

[...she just laughs louder THIS GUY IS HILARIOUS]

[but she does hold the bottle out as an offering???]

[transfer_student]

[swats it out of her hand, dead serious.

WHAT. NOW.]

[arentweglad]

[...noooo her Velindin :(]

[she stares at it sadly while the liquid dribbles out of the bottle, only thinking to scramble after it and snap it back up after much of it has already gone into the ground]

[...well at least the earth got to have some?]

[stares at the bottle, mostly empty, shrugs, chugs the rest of it down-]

[-and then whips the empty bottle in Nova's direction, awkwardly]

[transfer_student]

[he watches it go kerplunk]

You missed.

[arentweglad]

[she watches it, too.]

Yup.

[fingers waggle, she manipulates the bush near where the bottle landed, roots pulling up to fling the bottle towards Nova again. It's kind of an awkward flop though, not a whole lot of force behind it.]

[transfer_student]

[that time it clonks him right in the head

not very hard at all

but the INDIGNITY

oh the glare you get Val!]

[arentweglad]

[She just looks SO SMUG]

[At least she's not laughing at you]

[transfer_student]

SHUT UP!

[tho she didn't say anything]

[arentweglad]

[...]

[there's the laughing again]

[loudly]

[transfer_student]

I SAID, SHUT UP!! [he launches forward, throws a punch


misses

crashes down next to her and looks kinda miserable for a minute

Then tries to recoup his losses by PULLING HER HAIR]

[arentweglad]

[the sudden lunge has her arm flying up, prepared for-]

[...not that]

[she lets out a loud hoot of laughter, which cuts off in a shrill scream when he pulls her hair]

[...]

[she slaps him across the face. or. in that general area.]

Tha's cheatin'!!! [HUFF!]

[transfer_student]

[his head whips to the side with the slap

Is it cheating? wtf is with these secret rules everywhere

THERE'S EVEN RULES TO ATTACKING STRANGERS and he doesn't KNOW them

zdi Nix!!]

[throwing another punch; this one might connect if she's not careful]

[arentweglad]

[there are SO MANY SECRET RULES you have NO IDEA-]

[she was so not expecting him to try again so soon]

[she flinches back, but he hits her in the shoulder, and it actually hurts more than she expected.]

[rubbing her shoulder]

Tha' fuck!

[she throws a heal into it- man he is seriously killing her buzz here. course this means she's sobering up and he's less fun and... he ruined her booze. hmph.]

[she stands up, glaring down at him. flips her hair back, weaves her hands together. her hands glow a faint green, and a bunch of small wind spirits start to appear- like tiny little tornados whipping about above him- six of them, which descend upon him and start tugging at his hair, little sharp tugs before letting go and flitting around for another dive.]