zenderael_mmo | [EVENT] - Valentine's Solstice

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[EVENT] - Valentine's Solstice

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.]

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Were you drunk then, too?

When I sent you the beer hat? [uh, wasn't it obvious?]

You can't even remember correctly.

[ he's referring to mailing the duck the following morning (and being a jackass about it). ]

No! [She does kind of guess, at least! Unfortunately, that just makes her mad.] I had a dead animal in my hands, I was terrified and angry!

Scared of dead poultry, too? You're on a roll, Lera.

Fuck off. I don't have to impress you! [She hmphs and folds her arms again, looking away.]

You do, actually. [ he takes the shot glass from the waist of his pants and tips the whiskey against its rim, filling it. ] You need to impress me enough not to tell Acher where you are right now.

[ he holds out the shot to her, his smile hard. ]

[That remark hits home. Her eyes go wide, and she looks down at the shot glass, her expression changing from anger into fear that she can't quite erase from her face. She doesn't want to admit that he's right, that she doesn't want to have Acher know exactly where she is.]

[She gets a cold feeling in the pit her stomach and grabs the shot. She slams it back in one drink.]

[Nothing is said, though. She doesn't trust herself to speak at the moment.]

[ he takes the empty glass and pours one for himself, likewise throwing it back in one shot. then he pours her another.

lera has the excessive misfortune of being the first player alex has met in person. the spenta and the ahura don't really count -- he hardly knows them, only that they were players -- but lera, she initiated contact, and he is in contact with the man she created. she was ballsy with nothing to back it up.

he wonders how many shots it'll take before she starts vomiting. ]

Edited 2013-01-20 22:51 (UTC)

[To Lera's perception, the liquor doesn't seem to affect Alexander. With her panic, though, she wouldn't have noticed. She doesn't trust him in the slightest; she isn't convinced that he won't try to kill her when this is done.]

[Nevermind the fact that the alcohol won't help her aim. She isn't thinking clearly and is upset enough to know it. She takes the second shot, looking down at it for a moment, before she lifts it and drinks it down too.]

[ who knew fire spirits didn't like being purple? reilanin didn't. though maybe it wasn't just purple, it was blue and orange and green and pink too, in random order. it'd been interesting while it lasted but they hadn't thought so. she'd even had a druid come up and try to give her a stern talking to about elementals' rights but she'd silenced him and wandered off. spoilsport.

if she wasn't allowed to play with the fire, there wasn't much more of interest for her to do here. maybe they could go now? she went in search of alexander, though she realized it was difficult to do without either her enchantments on him- she'd been able to trace her own signature, but if it didn't exist, well- or without his being in the house. yes, most definitely, they were not in the house.

a flash of red hair- alex? no, nova maybe? ah, but there was alex with him, so it must be nova. she went in that direction, not noticing a passed out someone or other by them. she trips on a limb and can't quite catch herself. well, except to put an arm out to the back of nova in front of her.

it's a decent push. it also keeps her mostly upright! bonus?? ]

[ he's in the middle of pouring the next shot for himself (call him what you will, but at least he drinks with the person he's antagonizing even if that's probably negligible given his state) when rei stumbles over and he is, momentarily, at a loss of how to address her sudden presence in this scenario. that's enough for rei to knock lera into him.

not expecting that, alex stumbles backwards and onto his ass, spilling the contents of the shot glass and some from the bottle, too. the landing also kicks up dirt from the ground! ]

[Oof! Lera isn't Nova, but she has something in common with him: she is really, really drunk right now. When Reilanin's hand presses into her back she stumbles forward, falling right into Alex. His shot glass spills on her, too, soaking her shirt and pants with whiskey.]

[She's briefly on top of him, which is the polar opposite of where she wants to be, and quickly rolls to the side and falls onto her rear. She looks at Alex, surprised and worried, and then up at Reilanin.]

Oh--sorry! My balance isn't so great right now.

[Nope, Rei, definitely not Nova. She's a girl. Even if the difference isn't that much.]

[ she stands over both of them, looking very much surprised at what's just happened ]

Oh? Oh, well... you're not Nova.

[ this has caught her off guard about as much as suddenly having the both of them on the ground ]

Ugh... [ he sits up, not amused, thinking to right the bottle after a second. he looks up at rei. ]

You're looking for Nova? He's here... [ ugh dust in his eye! stupid lera! he instinctively rubs at it-- ] Somewhe-- FUCK!

[ WHISKEY ON HIS HANDS

WHISKEY IN HIS EYE ]

[If she was sober, Lera'd know to restrain her response to this because seriously, that's Alex, he's dangerous. But she's drunk and he did that just now.]

[She starts cackling. She reaches a hand up to wipe her eye and--]

[MOTHERFUCKER, WHISKEY IN HER EYE]

OW! OW! FUCK!

[ o...kay... this is... this is a little more bizarre than she'd bargained for... she's tempted to just back away and wander off again to avoid whatever... whatever this is?...

instead she (more carefully) picks her way between them and crouches beside alex (having to hold a hand out to the ground to keep her balance), taking his face in her hands to inspect his face a bit before catching up her wide sleeve and offer it up so he can rub his eye with it ]

Are you sure Vepha didn't show up again...?

[ it's a little bit too late for that. the tearing in his eye is already flushing out the dirt, which feels significantly less of a problem in the face of alcohol in one's eye, but on some level alex appreciates the effort and doesn't resist. ]

Does it look like I have tits?

[ he glances at lera, one eye open, the other squinting ] You Xumurdamn moron. I can't believe you did that.

You literally did it too. [It's said sourly instead of angrily, though. She reaches down into her pocket and hastily pulls out some hand sanitizer, squeezing some on her hands.]

[She extends the bottle out towards Rei and Alex both. She doesn't care which take it.]

Here. It's a cleaning solution. It'll get the alcohol off your hands.

[ there's a brief pause where she has to take a glance down to double check ] No... [ maybe a little disappointed? she blinks, turning around to look to lera, having no idea what the two of them are arguing about. more than usual she has to stare at things before actions follow suit and she reaches out to take the bottle, taking one look at the instructions and ingredients on the back before dismissing it all summarily because there's no way she can read that in this state lera jeez, and settles herself on her backside a moment while she tries to figure out how to get the lid off before offering it to alex ]

[ he affords a brief glance at the bottle before dismissing it ]

You saw me do it. You really don't have a lot going for you, you know that?

[ no rei why are you taking that, that's from the enemy!! he takes it from her, then immediately gives it back to lera. WE DON'T NEED YOUR PESKY PLAYER EARTHER HELP, PESKY EARTHER PLAYER.

with that, he gets up (not without a brief sway!) and holds his hand out for rei to take. ]

[Lera frowns when it's handed back to her. She looks down at it, then she shrugs, and stands back up. She wipes at her lips with her sleeve and stares at Alex for a second.]

Okay...

[There's a guilty glance at Reilanin. Does she hate her too? It would make some sense; Alex could have told her about Lera and Acher. Maybe Akhilendra could. Even if not, it's awkward.]

[This is exactly what she wanted to avoid.]

[mumbled, maybe even a bit defeated] Sorry for falling into you.

[ what- but- alex ): bottle of stuff! she watches it get passed back to lera, and she takes a moment to give her a good look.

you're in luck, lera! reilanin has no idea who you are. as alex gets up, she already has her hands in the air, making no move to try and get up herself. why should she? this whole getting other people to pull her up business, she kind of likes it. when he's ready, she grabs on to his hand and gets up, automatically grabbing around his waist to make sure she stays that way ]

Chisaki Andrews said that Nova is here, but I haven't seen him yet... is he avoiding me, maybe?...

[ rei hanging onto him is genuinely surprising. he wraps his arm around her, then starts off without another word or glance to lera.

the shot glass is left on the ground.

snubbed! sorry, lera!! ]

[Lera looks down at the shot glass, then back at Alex and Rei. At least there didn't seem to be any animosity in Rei's look at her, but Alex walking away proves only small comfort.]

[He may well tell Acher where she is, forcing her to deal with that. She has a plan, if a selfish one, that could put the Amber Gaze in danger. It doesn't stop her from taking the risk, but the idea of it coming up doesn't make her feel better.]

[She walks away after a little bit, making her way back to another part of the party and looking for another drink. She could use it, she thinks.]

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