❝friendship affirmation party❞

[guiltapalooza]

Characters: LOTS OF PEOPLE just look at the tags, gosh. Start your own threads, hop into others, and generally be free with your tagging decisions.
Setting: Floor 4, the one with the big glass windows and lots of couches.
Format: Action tags!
Summary: Clearly what the tower needs right now is a party, and Willow and Aradia have thrown one.
Warnings: Nada. Good clean fun.

[It's never exactly a clear day around this floor of the tower, but the billowing clouds outside the floor-to-ceiling glass windows are maybe a bit lighter and fluffier. There's a positive atmosphere spread across the whole level, mostly from the colorful lights sprinkled here and there, magical in nature and of all different colors. They glow like small fairies.

But the biggest pieces in the room are the couches and armchairs, strategically laid out in different circles, with tables in the center. Snacks and drinks stolen from the kitchen are on the tables, so nothing too spectacular-- but there are several batches of baked goods that Willow's made, cookies and brownies and so on. There's also some board games and decks of cards placed here and there, the obvious Earth ones included and some not so obvious other ones that she hadn't recognized.

Anyone who wants to is welcome to show up, whether invited or not, whether they know Willow or Aradia or not. Fun is going to be had, darn it. However, everyone on the floor, just for today, is privy to an anti-violence ward that will prevent any motions toward violence from completing. A punch won't land, psychic powers mysteriously won't do anything if they try to cause harm, and so on. As the tower is not fond of being affected in any way, this is an effect the characters have put on them from crossing the threshold from the stairwell, and it will be automatically removed when they leave. It is not noticeable unless they try something or are particularly sensitive to magic.

It also won't last forever, so if you really want to get into a fight, do it while the party's winding down. Willow's wards are good but they aren't up to altering-the-tower-without-major-consequences level, and she's made them mild enough to wear off on their own after several hours.

You're really here to have fun, though, right? You knew where to go because of the network post.]

Comments

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

[Ψiioniic has NEVER been a big fan of crowds, and wow there's a lot of people here. He's seriously reconsidering his decision to come, no matter how many of the people he knows and likes are here.

For the moment he's just lurking in the quietest space he can find, looking awkward and uncertain and very, very shy. Tall, skeleton-skinny, with his eyes sparking a bit from nerves - he doesn't exactly do a great job of blending in with the wall paint, however much he might like to.]

[wwaterboy]

[Eridan can't help but spot the tallest yellow-blood in the area. It's so weird that he looks like Sollux, but he vaguely remembers him being really shy and submissive, the one time they spoke.

He walks over]

I remember you. No one can do vviolence in here, you knoww.

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

[Oh, god. Which Dualscar-clone is this, now? There are so many versions of everyone running around he can't keep track of them all. This one has a purple streak in his hair and fins, so still a sea dweller, but isn't there a sea dweller running around who thinks he's a LOW blood?]

Maybe not. But will it thtop a highblood from ordering me to follow them out of here and to a plathe where they CAN hurt me?

[wwaterboy]

...No, probably not. But it'll alloww you to tell a fuckin' highblood to fuck off. [He frowns] Is that likely to happen? There ain't a lot a highbloods in here, at least...unless you count Her Lumi-- I mean, Aradia.

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

Aradia? Aradia'th okay. [He likes Aradia, at least the one he's met, though he didn't know she considered herself a highblood. Or maybe there's another one around somewhere he doesn't know.] I'm more worried about Her Imperial Condescension. Or... uh... well... your Ancethtor. I can't jutht tell them to... to do that. Go away, or leave me alone.

[wwaterboy]

Oh, yeah. I mean, she's real nice. [He scowls a bit] You can't say that, because you'vve been trained as a slavve?

[mutab1e]

[HEY PSIIONIIC, I think you and Equius should be friends. After all, you have the same interests!]

[...well, no, you're both kind of sitting in a corner and looking really terrified of the whole ordeal. And you happened to find somewhere very dark, dark enough that Equius found it appealing too. So he basically walks right past you as if he didn't see you at all -- which, come to think of it, he probably didn't -- and leans his forehead against the wall. Hello headache.]

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

[Whoa, what the hell is this? This troll's got a yellow sign, but in NO other way does he resemble &3936;iioniic or his descendants. Well, maybe the glasses, but he can't tell if they hide bi-coloured eyes.]

Um. Are you... okay?

[mutab1e]

Nnn?

[Wow, that was a very undignified noise. He hadn't even realized there was anyone there. Even though the wall felt cool and quite nice on his skin, Equius pulled into a standing position and leaned against the wall. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this is a yellowblood, just like him; interesting. He knew there were others in this tower, but... he was an adult... and... you know what, he doesn't want to deal with this right now.]

...My head is aching. That's why I'm here. [He doesn't really... know what to do here, to be honest. Guess who's never been to a party? This kid. And since no one has told him he's allowed to come and go as he wishes, he now thinks he's stuck here until the whole thing dissolves, who knows when that will be.]

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

Oh, um... I can sometimeth help with that? [Hesitant offer, but hey, it's a fellow yellow blood, and it doesn't seem to be one who thinks he's a high blood. And nobody understands the suffering of headaches like the Ψiioniic.]

[mutab1e]

[What.]

How?

[floreatnoctem]

How interesting.

[Chidori doesn't bother to hide her curiosity, and peers at him at a slight angle from behind her sketchbook. One of her fingers is flicking over the pages in what seems like an idle maneuver until she suddenly opens it and poises her pencil over the blank page she's opened it to, looking up at him again, expression mild.]

Do you mind?

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

[Ψiioniic is pretty used to being stared at. He was considered a freak long before he came to this place full of aliens. He blinks nervously at her, then shrugs.]

Um, I guess not? Do you need me to do anything?

[floreatnoctem]

No, unless you want me to draw you a specific way.

[But even as she speaks, her pencil makes quick, careful strokes across the page, trying to capture the carefully withdrawn expression as best she can. Chidori doesn't consider him a freak- she just finds him interesting, especially since none of the trolls she's seen have eyes quite like that. She wonders if all trolls eventually grow to be so tall though...]

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

I don't think I've ever been drawn before, tho, you can do what you like.

[His eyes flip every time he blinks, the blue on the left, then the right, then the left again. But she doesn't seem to mean him any harm, and doesn't seem to be affecting him in any way, so he slowly relaxes a little.] Can I... thee it when you're done?

[floreatnoctem]

Very well.

[She does make a note of the changing colors, and decides to try and emulate the blue being on the right for the time being as she sketches, gaze flickering up to him over her book every now and then.]

Of course you can see, if you would like to.

[guiltapalooza]

[It takes Willow a bit to notice him even so, but when she does she comes right over, curiosity and good spirits warring on her expression.]

Oh, hey, it's you. [It's not hard to guess who he is, despite having never met.] I'm Willow, we spoke on the net before? How are you doing over here?

[She can't help the last question, based on how he looks. Willow is nothing if not concerned for the people she likes.]

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

Oh! Yeah, about the flying lethhonth. [Here Willow, have the first shy smile of the night. Ψ doesn't give them out easily, especially when he's this nervous, but he liked you.] Hi. I'm okay, jutht... I'm not uthed to tho many people in one plathe. Or, you know, at all.

[guiltapalooza]

[Willow does feel accomplished to have gotten a smile, and immediately smiles widely back.]

I can see that. This party's pretty tame, though, so I think you'll be okay. Good on you for coming! You'll be used to it in no time.

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

Thith ith tame? [He looks faintly horrified by the prospect. If this is tame, he devoutly hopes things don't get wild. He's already on the verge of cutting and running.] Thollukth invited me, tho I came, but... it'th... crowded.

[guiltapalooza]

[She refrains from saying that there's no alcohol involved, so it's automatically tame, but stops when she sees his expression.

Her expression becomes worried, and sympathetic.] I'm sorry it's making you anxious. Could I do anything to help? Cause, I am glad to see you, in person! I don't want you to be scared off.

[verymuchalive]

[Oh look, it's Sollux's ancestor who Aradia hasn't seen since she arrived! She makes her way over, smiling brightly]

Hey. Long time no see!

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

Oh, Aradia! [Oh good, someone else he knows well enough to relax with. And he hasn't seen her in a while. She gets a shy smile.] Tho thith ith your party?

[verymuchalive]

Well, mine and Willow's. Are you enjoying yourself?

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

Um. It'th very... crowded. I'm not uthed to tho many people in one plathe. Or, you know, at all. [He can't help but look uncomfortable and nervous, even though he's happy to see her. Crowds are very definitely not his thing.]