We're Gonna Party Rock Till The Day Comes Up!

[animusmods]

Characters: EVERYONE
Setting: Floor 38
Format: Whatever you feel comfortable with. Prose, action, it's all good.
Summary: The giant party is finally here! Mingle, Blind date and strange things ahoy!
Warnings: WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.

Floor Thirty-Eight. Normally just a simple lounge, it was now Party Central.

It was clear Eikichi had put all of his heart into it. Say what you wanted about him, but he was a good manager and organizer. The place didn't look the same, with the flower bouquets strewing in odd corners, the bright pieces of tissues hung around like garlands. They had no balloons so they made with. A few banners hung into the air, the words crudely painted with Maya's name and wishing her a happy birthday. There was also a few others with the names of the birthdays Eikichi had managed to get.

At the entrance, there was a a few large baskets filled with corsages that Jun had prepared - acacias white (friendship and chaste love), yellow (secret love) and pink (friendship), white violets (Purity; Candor; Modesty; Innocence; Let's take a chance on happiness) and pink roses (Perfect happiness, please believe me; Friendship) expertly woven pieces of stems and grass meant it required no other materials than the flower themselves.

Of course, the meanings were not written. You just had a few to chose from. Then you could offer one to your date to wear on their hand...if you wished.

As Eikichi had said, no pressure.

...Except for coming, of course.

Those that were part of the blind dates had each been given a small piece of paper with a symbol.As they entered they could see a small sign instructing to try and find the other person with the same symbol. This would be their 'date' of the night.

On the farthest left to the entrance, they had dragged in a gigantic music system, with an area for a DJ to run (Tatsuya had helped with the wiring). Some large pieces of metals had been lined up to cover the floor, making a fake stage and on top of that, he had placed various instruments - along with those of his band, of course. The stage would be open for them to play later, regardless.

The main area reserved for food was a few tables that had been dragged in here, covered with whatever tissues they had found and filled with all the food they could take - some of it was typical stuff found in the cafeteria this week (but no gross stuff - Eikichi didn't want living maggots in his cheese today), the rest had been made by those nice enough to help with the cooking. There wasn't that much typical 'party food' as creating your own sweets and chips does take a while, but the jerky meats, the hot soups and the vegetables more than made up for it. The drinks were placed right besides it and who knew how many trips they had needed to set it all up.

There were also cakes on the next table, enough to feed at least everyone in the part a generous slice. Considering the ingredients and the people involved they ranged from the very simple to baked pies using the available fruits, and a single cake which appeared to have more work than the others. They did with what they had, and it was fantastic they had so much at all.

All the chairs and bags found in that room normally were tossed in a corner facing the central area so that people could sit down if they felt like it, but the central area was reserved to talk, mingle and dance once everything REALLY got underway.

It would soon too, once the crowds started to get bigger and bigger.

[OOC - Hello and welcome to the party log! Let's mingle and have fun because the tower doesn't let us have much of it. You can start a brand new thread when you are blind dating and mark them (EIKICHI AND MIYABI ), or if you want to do something like "JADE DJs A FEW SONGS FOR YOU" and people can reply to that. You can make multiple threads to a reply to, so if someone wants to talk to Eikichi, then someone else does later. Just make sure any closed threads are marked with [CLOSED] so other people know they can't pop in! Otherwise...it's free game.

The following are links to the sections to faster reading, and will be updated:
Entrance (Coming in)

Blind Dates
Yusuke & Sayaka ║ Leon & Kafuka ║ Ryoji (AU) & Chihiro ║ Rod & Yuko ║ Lelouch & Fi ║ Yosuke & Kyouko ║ Reno "Sparky"& Vriska [OU] ║ Naoki & The Disciple ║ Mondo & Amaterasu ║ Karkat & Xion (AU4) ║ Gamzee & Wriggle ║ Taro & Homura ║ Dave Strider & Jin ║ Siira & Ryoji [OU] ║ Lina & Ganondorf ║ Reno "Rusty" & Ronald ║ David Lalonde & Beat ║ Equius [AU1] & Link (LttP) ║ Yulin & Jade ║ Selene & Rude ║ Riku [AU] & Aphrodi ║ Eridan (Jade) & Cloud ║ Xehanort & Veigar ║ Tara & April ║ Jirou & Cross ║ Luke & Soma ║ Futomimi & The Dolorosa ║ Haruna & Sora (AU) ║ Rhyth & Marty ║ The Signless & Xue'Kol ║ Tifa & William ║ Riku & Naminé ║ Monobear & Makoto ║ Lisa & Adachi ║ Kidou & Urotsuki ║ Koujirou & Feferi ║ Kuja & Zidane ║ Gimli & Legolas ║ Kanji & Naoto ║ Xion (OU) & Yu ║ Sora (OU) & Kairi ║ Eriko & Naoya ║ Eikichi & Miyabi

Individual Threads (For Mingling)
Eikichi Mishina ║ April Sinclair ║ Dave Strider ║ Jade ║ Tara Maclay ║ Jun Kuosu ║ Gamzee Makara ║ Ken Amada ║ Momotaros ║ Emmett Brown ║ Gandalf ║ Legolas ║ Sayaka Miki ║ Mami Tomoe ║ Minako Arisato ║ Yu Narukami ║ Minato Arisato (OU) ║ Maya Amano (Birthday Girl) ║ Minato Arisato[AU] ║ Ishtar[AU] ║ Jade Harley(AU) ║ Link (TP) ║ Naminé ║ Aphrodi ║ Chidori Yoshino ║ Enoch ║ Lelouch ║ Hei ║ Asakim Dowin ║ Professor Hojo ║ Tohru Adachi ║ Ryotaro Dojima ║ Sauntering Snowstorm ║ Zelda ║ Xion [OU]

Activities
Dancing ║ ELVISH SINGING

Comments

Futomimi <- ❀ -> The Dolorosa

[animusmods]

[foreseeing_one]

After picking up a white acacias corsage for his date, Futomimi looked at the instructions sign explaining how to find his date, then at the little card in his hand. Find the person with the same white flower symbol? That would be easy for a foreseer like him. He closed his eyes, let out a deep breath, and concentrated.

A few minutes later, he approached a tall woman with grey skin, black hair and orange horns, dressed in a jade robe. "Excuse me. Do you have a card with this flower on it?" he asked, showing her his card.

[mamadonna]

Dolorosa had spent the better part of a five minutes considering the flowers and what to do with them. They were all nice colors, but without seeing her date's outfit, she couldn't hope to successfully coordinate. She settled on the white violets before moving out into the party itself. The whole idea of a blind date made her a little uneasy, and she almost wished that whoever had put her name into it hadn't, but she may as well try.

She hadn't expected the man's approach, and flustered a little as she dug out her card and showed it to him with a nervous smile. "Ah, it...appears that I do, yes." She placed a hand to her heart and gave him a bow. "I am The Dolorosa, and it...appears we have been assigned each other's company for the evening."

[foreseeing_one]

Futomimi bowed in return. "It seems so. My name is Futomimi, and I am honoured to meet you." He had to look up to see her face, but that was okay with him. She seemed gentle and polite, a little like him, and he was enjoying the meeting.

"I brought you some flowers," he said as he showed her the corsage he had chosen, "but it seems you have already picked some for yourself... maybe I misunderstood the tradition?"

[mamadonna]

"Ah, no. I, well..." This is what happens when you've lived 80 sweeps and never gone on a date. Trying to figure out the workings and miscommunications is a hassle. She holds out the corsage for him. "This was actually intended for you. Perhaps we are meant to accomplish an exchange?"

[foreseeing_one]

"That sounds perfectly logical." A gift exchange to begin the date seemed just right. He hands over the corsage he has picked for her, then take the one she has picked for him and pins it to the long sash wrapped around his waist. "Thank you, they're beautiful. It's my first time seeing flowers, actually."

oh whoops i switched tense on us, sorry

[mamadonna]

She finds a good place on her own, just in the center of her mantle where it won't conflict with her cape, then gives him something of a pitying smile. "A shame to hear. It has been long sweeps since I have had such a privilege myself, but they are always pleasant on those occasions one is allowed to enjoy them."

s'okay

[foreseeing_one]

"Indeed they are," Futomimi agreed, assuming 'sweeps' was some unit of time measurement. "May I ask where you are from that you have had flowers?"

[mamadonna]

"Well, Alternia is the name our planet was known by." She glanced around the room to see how many other horns she could spot at this party. "There's actually a considerable number of residents in this Tower from that same point of origin. I may be surprised if I'm the first you've encountered. Flowers aren't exactly common there, but they could be encountered in places where they have not yet been determined to be 'unnecessarily aesthetic'." Of course, she hadn't seen them regularly since she was young. The Marquise might keep them on occasion when Dolorosa was her property, but the details of that period can be cloudy, and she was never fond of dwelling on them.

[foreseeing_one]

"I must say you are the first of your people that I see, but I've arrived only recently and I've been busy trying to see the future, with little success I might add. If all inhabitants of your old planet Alternia are as pleasant as you are, I will be looking forward to meeting them." From another, this might have sounded like a little sleazy, but Futomimi was simply being honest. Regardless of origins, he needed more nice people in his life.

"Forgive me if I assume too much, but I'll suppose that, if you speak of your planet in the past tense, it is no more?"

[mamadonna]

She clasped her hands in front of herself and cringed a little, sometimes she despaired her species. "Unfortunately, our company can be somewhat mixed. The majority of those I might call compatriots are young, and there are some unpleasant examples among those closer in age to myself. It may serve you better to regard them with some caution."

"But yes, regardless of what news our wardens share upon arrival, I have been assured that my planet has died, some indeterminate number of sweeps following my own lifetime. The children bore witness, sadly, but were among the few survivors."

[foreseeing_one]

Futomimi nodded at her words. "Thank you. I will heed your warning."

The Dolorosa had an interesting story. One that much reminded Futomimi of his own world and its cruelty. He decided to ask, hoping for the best but fearing the worst for those survivors.

"Have you ever heard of a Vortex World?"

[mamadonna]

She was quiet a moment, as if trying to recall something she hadn't known to begin with. "I do apologize, but I cannot truthfully say the name is familiar to me. Should it be?"

[foreseeing_one]

Futomimi was relieved. "Not necessarily. I'm glad your world, though gone, doesn't play by those heartless rules. May I offer you something to drink or eat?"

[mamadonna]

"I, well, certainly." Though she wasn't especially accustomed to being served, and the sudden change in subject took her by surprise. "What heartless rules would these be, exactly?"

[foreseeing_one]

Futomimi first took care of the food, soon returning with a glass of punch and a piece of cake for his date. It also allowed him to organize his thoughts and all the pieces of knowledge he had acquired or been born with in his homeworld.

"The Vortex World," he began, "is a world between the death of one world and the birth of the next. Everything in it is organized around allowing the handful of surviving humans to each establish a Reason, which is a philosophy according to which each believes the next world should be built around.

"Of course, those are pretty words to mask that the survivors will be left on their own without food or water in a world overrun by demons, most of which are more powerful than them and hostile to their presence. The will of a Reason bearer is forged from the shards of his shattered mind, to say nothing of the state of his heart, soul and body."

He squeezed his lips briefly there. "Each of the Reason bearer will then attempt to summon a god to sponsor their philosophy. This is accomplished by offering the gods a large amount of magatsuhi, life energy, which can be found in small quantities in each living being. This means indeed that countless are sacrificed to the Reason bearers' goal.

"At this point, the trials have still barely begun. The new world will be created according to a Reason; however, only one of these Reasons will be chosen. Again, an euphemism to hide that the Reason bearers will engage in a merciless war from which only one of them can emerge victorious. If they simply massacre each other, then the world will never be born and the Vortex World will eventually fade away.

"If one succeeds, however, the Vortex World is destroyed and a new world is born in its place. Needless to say, all inhabitants of the Vortex World, who are forbidden from creating a world, die."

[mamadonna]

She accepted the food gratefully, but only sipped her punch as he spoke. It didn't seem polite to divide her attention like that as he was speaking. "I wasn't present during the event, personally, so what transpired in the aftermath is beyond my awareness. I have heard some mention of a meteor, but little else."

His familiarity with the rules and frequency of this process left her with a question, however. "What was your role in this Vortex World?"

[foreseeing_one]

Futomimi frowned slightly. "I... do not know what a 'meteor' is. Is it a weapon to destroy worlds?"

"I am the leader and prophet of a people called the Manikins. Because we are created to resemble humans and have emotions, we are the prime source of magatsuhi in the Vortex World. Needless to say, we have been enslaved and tortured to produce the precious energy by feeling fear and pain. I tried to establish a Reason were everyone would be equal, using the magatsuhi stored in our sacred birthland, but..." he lowered his head. "I failed."

[mamadonna]

"They are celestial bodies, perhaps debris from shattered planets of the past. As for its weaponization, I imagine it would be devastating if it were to collide with a planet, but how one could employ such an object for that deliberate purpose is beyond me. Many will be far too small upon impact to do any kind of damage." Much like the one she originally found her Signless in. Of course, she couldn't know that this same meteor the children had taken refuge in was the one remaining piece of the belt that had been used to destroy her planet, but there are a lot of things about those events she didn't know.

What really took her aback was the familiarity of Futomimi's tale. It could almost be her own, her Signless', any of those who followed alongside them. To witness the injustice inherent in the world around you, and rising against hopeless odds to change it...only to be ultimately unsuccessful. She knows that story all too well.

Her face weighed with empathy and memory as she placed a hand on his own. "And your fate was then sealed, I expect. The punishment dire beyond comprehension."

[foreseeing_one]

"An object in space... I see..." Having lived on the interior surface of a world, it was hard to imagine such a thing. He supposed it might look like a star.

He was a bit surprised when she touched his hand, but one look at her face made Futomimi's heart swell, as much as remembering these dire days hurt. She understood. He could only nod at her last words, not having the strength to retell the tale of the massacre, not even wanting to think about it. Not tonight.

"You too?"

[mamadonna]

She had her freedom for only a few months now, but that freedom had put her in this Tower. It wasn't a topic she was very fond of speaking on regularly.

"The caste divisions in my culture are stark and vicious. We made our attempt to have them dissolved, to encourage our neighbors to look beyond their shackles, but those who benefit the most from such configurations do not look kindly on those who would have them made equal. We never stood a chance."

[foreseeing_one]

Futomimi put his other hand over hers, understanding far too well. Through the worlds and universe, others have tried, like he had, to rise for the weak and the oppressed. Even if her story ended in failure, like his, it gave him hope that somewhere, someone would succeed.

"I apologize for making you recall. Despite our tragic stories, I'm glad we have met tonight. It gives me hope. Perhaps someone like you and I, in another world, will successfully free the weak of their burden." He smiled at her, soft but genuine.

[mamadonna]

She had heard so much about doomed timelines from the children that she couldn't say whether that result would be alpha or not. For all she knew, if the children were correct, hers may have been the doomed offshoot to begin with. "I suppose it is possible."

She clasped his hands in both of hers with a sad smile. "I am likewise delighted to have made your own acquaintance! Just having the awareness of such like-minded individuals, even despite our unpleasant mutual setting, eases my worries somewhat as to the purposes which can be accomplished in this tower beyond simple survival."

[foreseeing_one]

Futomimi nodded. "Indeed! We must not give up on our ideals, especially not here. In the meantime, though, since we are in the middle of a joyous event, shall we enjoy this birthday celebration?"

[mamadonna]

She smiled and cut off a piece of her cake with a fork. "It is perhaps too light an occasion to allow such inappropriate discussion to weigh it down. What manner of activity did you have in mind?"