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

Xion [OU] - Open like a lemonade stand on a hot summer day

[attheclocktower]

[Xion can be found... wandering about a little. She's... still not any more the social butterfly than she was at Willow's party - the last one and only other one she's been to. But still... hopefully she wouldn't fall asleep this time, at least. Maybe she should've warned Yu - or any of the other people she recognizes - about that.

Still, the atmosphere was... so much more happy and cheerful than the Tower has been in a long time, it was hard not to sort of... bask in it, like sitting in the glow of the warm sun after being in the dark and cold for a long time.

She can be found wearing a dress that Kanji made, a small pouch tied to her side with a makeshift belt and holding a corsage of white violets. It's all very different from anything she's ever worn before, and she can't help but feel a little self-conscious about it.

So she keeps wandering, whenever she isn't with her "date," Yu, or any of the other people she knows at the party. She smiles sheepishly and waves at those she knows but doesn't have the time or chance to talk to, and embarassedly avoids the gaze of those she doesn't, though she won't be rude for anyone who wishes to speak to her.]

[complementing]

Oh, there you are! [Minako stops beside her with a small tilt of her head.] Xion, right? I'm Minako Arisato, your room mate.

[attheclocktower]

Oh!

[Given that Xion still tends to stay out for a few nights at a time, because of Vanitas, she hadn't... quite realized yet that someone new had filled in the spot that Chi had left.]

Yeah, that's me. It's nice to meet you.

[complementing]

It's nice to meet you too! Are you busy right now? I just wanted to talk to you for a few minutes.

[attheclocktower]

Um... No, I'm not. Busy I mean.

[A tiny bit confused but confused about what this might be about, but... okay let's roll with it. Nothing huge.]

What is it?

[complementing]

Oh, I just wanted to know if you were okay with having a room mate get-together sometime soon. I'd like for all of us to have a girl's night or something like that.

now i'm thirsty

[forceless]

[Ven was currently preoccupied at the food table, but when he noticed Xion waving at him, he took the food out of his mouth, grinned, and waved back.]

Hey...!

[But! He wasn't going to let her get away that fast-- he took the small piece of cake he was currently nibbling on, and crossed the room over to greet her properly, chuckling a bit when he came to a stop.] I almost didn't recognize you without that black coat. How've you been?

/offers apple juice?

[attheclocktower]

[Xion turns a little pink about the... indirect mention of her attire. She's still self-conscious about it, okay? But she smiles all the same.]

Not... too bad. [All things considered, Tower being the Tower, nothing really all that new there.] This party's really nice, though.

How about you?

GORSE YOU KNOW THE WAY TO MY HEART

[forceless]

[Don't worry it was definitely a compliment!!]

I've been good. Mostly just been kind of hanging around. [Unproductive teenage boy has been surprisingly unproductive given his upbringing. Maybe it was that whole, get-a-chance-at-freedom, do-the-exact-opposite-of-what-your-parents-told-you.] But it's better than getting stuck with Killer Toys again.

[pitythefool]

[Oh hey. He remembers you. Narukami's little date, right?

Okay. This could be entertaining.]

Having fun?

[attheclocktower]

[That she is. And... she remembers you! That person who interrupted their "date". She looks around a little - is Yu with him? - bit she doesn't see her friend anywhere nearby.

She glances back nods, smiling a little.]

Yeah. I am.

[It's no secret this sort of thing is much nicer than the kind of things that usually happen in the Tower, and she's enjoying it for all its worth. She pauses.]

Are you one of Yu's friends?

[pitythefool]

Yeah. Something like that. [Big grin.] Narukami and I go way back.

Ah, s-sorry! I guess I should probably introduce myself, right?

[He offers her a hand to shake.]

Tohru Adachi.

[attheclocktower]

Oh! That's good.

[It's always good to have friends in the Tower if only she knew. And that... probably explains earlier too, then. A lot of her worry about the incident evaporates.

She blinks at the hand strangely for a moment before reaching out and taking it. Even with all the new friends she'd made in the Tower not a lot of people had greeted her like that, and back home... well, none of the Organization had ever really held to those sort of formalities with her, given that she was the lowest rank, among other things.]

I'm Xion.

[pitythefool]

[The handshake is both friendly and brief. She's a bit of a weird, awkward one, isn't she? Xion would be Narukami's type.]

So. You and Yu-kun, huh? Is this your first time meeting him, or...?

[attheclocktower]

Oh, um... no, it's not. We've been friends for a while now.

[... come to think of it, only a month or so after she'd come to the tower.]

I'm... kind of glad, actually. He's really nice.

[And she's not sure how she would've handled it if this whole blind date thing had been with someone she hadn't known at all.]

[pitythefool]

You think so? Well, I guess that's not really a surprise. He was quite the charmer when he was still in school, y'know.

[Mess with his date, Narukami? He'll mess with yours.

Stay classy, Adachi.]

[attheclocktower]

[Cue the most confused, wide-eyed look. She's not totally oblivious. She knows what the word charm means (vaguely), though what that has to do with how he was in school doesn't make sense.

Then again she's never been in school before so it's not like she'd know.]

What do you mean?

[pitythefool]

Oh, well, y'know. He was always pretty popular with the girls.

[Not that Adachi really has any way of knowing if Narukami was that much of a gigolo or not. But this, he supposes, might be enough of a wrench to throw into Yu's plans for fun this evening.]

[attheclocktower]

[Or it might've been... if Xion wasn't... mostly a derp about the whole idea of romance.]

Okay... [By the sounds of it, she really doesn't get it though.] Well, like I said he's really nice, so I guess that makes sense.

[In addition to her own experiences, she saw his offer to help Roxas with making a cake in the network, and she hadn't even had to ask him.]

[moontothetide]

[Perhaps it's the fact that Xion is currently holding several short but significant portions of Tara's memory inside herself that draws her to the smaller girl. Perhaps it's just the novelty of seeing someone so obviously even more nervous than she is at this party.

But, whichever it is, she steals up next to the girl and taps Xion lightly on the shoulder to get her attention.]

Um...th-that's a really nice dress. Did you have it m-made? [She remembered the offer for such things that had gone out a couple of days before the party, even if she hadn't taken the man up on his kindness.]

[midgarhorizon]

[After finishing off another thing of punch, Reno finds his young protege after some searching. It isn't hard, he's a tall guy and has a good vantage point near the food.]

Hey, Xion! Great party, huh?