❝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

[mutab1e]

[Right, of course. Mage of Doom... coincidentally, he's had both a Mage and a Doom player in his session as well, though they were Eridan and (shudder) Terezi respectively; nowhere close to Sollux or himself. He did have marginal involvement with those interests, hacking and programming, though it was more to support the apiculture networks than out of any real interest.] I was... a Prince of Space, myself. I never really got anything done in the Land, because I was too busy catching... [He shudders.] ...frogs.

[thekidsare0kay]

Woah, you did the frog thing? Kanaya did that for uth, and I guethh KK helped a lot. I jutht hung around mothtly with Feferi in my land.

[mutab1e]

[KK, that had to be Karkat.]

[But Karkat... helped? And Maryam actually succeeded at something? What sorcery is this?!]

Yes, I did the. 'Frog thing'. It was... terrible.

[He shudders again. Oh god, so much mud...]

[thekidsare0kay]

[What the hell] What wath tho terrible about it?

[mutab1e]

I... there were so many of them... and everything was slimy and dirty and covered in God knows what, and I tried to eat the flowers and... [He apparently can no longer go on. The disgust is too great. But at least one of these things is true; the lotus flowers that populated his Land were actually powerful hallucinogens.]

[thekidsare0kay]

You ate the flowerth? Wow, you are weird, man. [He laughs, patting him on the shoulder] Want to play a game or thomething?

[mutab1e]

The scalebeasts said it would be a good idea! [Oh god, Equius, you're just digging your hole deeper and deeper, aren't you. --And he kind of jumps when Sollux touches him.] --Uh. Sure.

[thekidsare0kay]

Tho what happened when you ate them, egthactly? [He's way too amused by this guy, and he grabs a deck of cards, but doesn't deal them, looking expectantly at Equius]

[mutab1e]

[Better amusement than anger, eh? Maybe now would be a bad time to mention that he didn't just eat them... he baked them into cookies.] ...They... they caused hallucinations. [He shook his head firmly, as if to make quite sure that the visions were gone, even though they had long since been out of his system.] I had to just sit there for hours and wait for them to wear off...