❝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

[wwaterboy]

Right, yeah. I get that. [Awk...ward]

[verymuchalive]

[Which Aradia is going to push through if she can because hey, she's getting used to these awkward Eridans now and she's determined to win them over]

Did you try any of the food yet? I guess you might have if Willow gave you a preview...but still, it's not going to eat itself.

[wwaterboy]

No, I havven't had any tonight. [Food, yeah. Food sounds okay] But I am pretty hungry. Wwould you like anything?

[verymuchalive]

[Aradia grins]

I don't know. How about we go over together and see if anything appeals?

[There's a slight emphasis on the together part because it's weird when other trolls treat her as above them and she's determined to squash that idea where she can]

[wwaterboy]

Oh yeah, okay. [He sort of assumed he would bring her a plate, but going together sounds better. He smiles at her awkwardly and heads for the tables]

[verymuchalive]

[Aradia follows, soon distracted by the choice of food available.]

I think I need to ask Willow how she does this. Everything looks so good.

[wwaterboy]

Oh, did Wwill make all a this? Must a been magic.

[verymuchalive]

You think so? I don't know, she seemed pretty set on actually making them...not that I'd be able to tell either way.

[wwaterboy]

Oh, wwell I don't knoww. [He starts filling a plate, glancing at her sidelong] Maybe she made them in the cafeteria?

[verymuchalive]

Maybe.

[Aradia starts loading up her own plate, even as she's too excited and determined to socialise to really have much of an appetite]

I'll ask her later.

[wwaterboy]

Yeah, wwe can ask her. I bet evven if she didn't make it, she could a made it through magic.

[verymuchalive]

Probably.

[She nods in agreement, unable to resist the playful smile]

At least you actually believe it exists.

[wwaterboy]

[Wait, what's she saying. Why is she smiling at him like that??]

Wwell, uh, she's demonstrated it pretty positivvely. So really it's got a be real, and maybe some kind a science wwe don't understand, but wwe might as wwell call it magic...

[verymuchalive]

[Because this is way too hilarious coming from someone who looks like Mr Magic Is Fake]

Well I'm glad you think so. You'd think that logic would be enough for anyone but you'd be surprised at how stubborn some people can be about accepting stuff like that.

[wwaterboy]

Wwell, I'm capable a admittin' if I'm wwrong about somethin' wwhen it's demonstrably the case.

[verymuchalive]

That's a good thing. That's how everyone should be, but not everyone gets it.

[wwaterboy]

Wwell, a lot a people are fuckin' arrogant goldbloods wwho can do no wwrong. [He sideeyes her a little, telling himself that she shouldn't take offense.]

[verymuchalive]

[Nope, she just giggles at that]

You know, I could say the same about a certain purple I know. Two, actually, though one of them isn't here.

[wwaterboy]

You mean the other vversion a me? And Dualscar? [They're educated guesses, and he snorts faintly] They only look like me. I'm not like them! Evven if I wwanted to be.

[verymuchalive]

[She nods]

I know you're not, and I like you all the better for it.

[wwaterboy]

[He completely purples]

Wwell, that's...good, then.

[verymuchalive]

I'm glad we agree.

[She's not oblivious to the blush so much as she is consciously ignoring it soas not to make him feel more awkward]