[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

[graveyardmoon]

[leans back from her slightly, as if her words are a physical force]

[slow blink]

Fiancee. Not wife.

You can't get anything right, can't you.

[transfer_student]

[your rant, Lera, did not have precisely the effect you were going for, at least on Nova]

...You told her all those things?

...And that we're friends?

Who ARE you when I'm not around?

[firecracker_hopping]

[Lera gives Nova a sharp look.] And that it was a tragedy he's your friend.

[Then she looks back at Artemis, her eyebrow twitching, but she's feeling really embarrassed now and not wanting to explode like that again. She takes a few deep breaths.]

The detail isn't fucking important here. The overall point stands.

[graveyardmoon]

[glance @ nova] Drunk, apparently.

[back to lera] Your overall point is as ridiculous as you are. No wonder you chose hair like that.

[transfer_student]

...Ah. She isn't my player, anyway.

My player invented this. [vague handwave that seems to be intended to encompass himself, Artemis, and their entire situation]

I'll get your drink. [yep he really does it]

[firecracker_hopping]

What the hell is this!

[Lera just looks between them like they're insane or maybe speaking a language she's never heard before. Then she throws up her hands and walks off. PEOPLE ARE WEIRD]

[transfer_student]

[in a bit, he returns with a new drink for Artemis]

Ah, she fled.

[he'll have to interrogate her later for more of this ILLUMINATING conversation with Artemis she apparently had]

Maybe I'll cut my hair. Alex said it would get in my way in training, anyway...

[graveyardmoon]

[Artemis just sort of stares after Lera like he's not quite sure whether to be offended or annoyed.]

[He's still deciding when Nova hands him his drink]

Thank you, Nova.

Training?

[transfer_student]

... ... [stunned tbh]

Did I forget to tell you?

[graveyardmoon]

Tell me what, precisely? [drinking]

[transfer_student]

I'm a berserker now.

[graveyardmoon]

[pause]

[his face looks like the drink was way too sour for him (it was not the drink)]

[he swallows it and takes a second to consider the information]

[nope, doesn't compute]

Pardon?

[transfer_student]

[smile]

I'm a berserker!

There's reasons of course, but you wouldn't care about them, so there it is!

[graveyardmoon]

I must be more drunk that I thought. It sounded like you said you're a berserker.

[transfer_student]

That's what I did say!

How many rounds do we need to go?

[graveyardmoon]

[stare]

[nova isn't...joking...?]

[. . .]

Why did you become a berserker?!

[transfer_student]

[omz Artemis that face it is amazing]

My player became the Khshathra.

And I have a lot of things going on you might know about if you took an interest in my life!

[or if, y'know, he didn't actively conceal them]

[mostly he's just smug about shocking Artemis

worth it just for that]

[graveyardmoon]

[There's a moment where he is just gesturing vaguely, trying to wrap his head around it. Nova! Not an alchemist! what even--?!]

But your life is so nonsensical! This--[suddenly serious]--this qualifies, Nova. You haven't changed my opinion.

[transfer_student]

What opinion was I supposed to be changing?

[graveyardmoon]

The opinion that your life is nonsense.

[transfer_student]

No, I agree, really.

You can go on thinking that.

But there is some cause and effect...

[graveyardmoon]

But a berserker, really. What do you intend to do?

[transfer_student]

Fight people?

[graveyardmoon]

Forever?

[transfer_student]

[haven't got forever anymore, Artemis]

...I don't know.