[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]

[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.

[graveyardmoon]

[sigh]

[long, exasperated silence]

Maybe you should cut your hair.

[transfer_student]

[WELL NOW HE'S KIND OF DEPRESSED ABOUT IT, THANKS ARTEMIS

that face was still worth it, though]

I think I'm going to go get another drink.

[graveyardmoon]

Here. [offers his own]

[transfer_student]

...

[actually he meant it as an excuse to get away from Artemis for a bit after this exchange, but that seems almost like an invitation to stay?

does Artemis do that

or maybe it's just a prelude to Artemis saying he's giving up on the party and leaving

he accepts it and takes a drink from it nonetheless]

...did you really tell her we were friends?

[now he'll definitely leave]

[graveyardmoon]

[it was, in fact, and invitation to stay]

I might have made a mention of it. Why?

[transfer_student]

You're usually quick to dispatch it when somebody gets the idea.

[graveyardmoon]

Don't be absurd, you must be misremembering. All that berserkerness has gone to your head.

[transfer_student]

[this gets a grin that Artemis will probably find embarrassing]

Oh, of course.

[graveyardmoon]

[hmm artemis is not sure how he feels about that smile]

[he takes his drink back]

Get your own.

[transfer_student]

[still happened

leaving before you ruin it more though, bye]