❝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

[verymuchalive]

Oh yeah. [She giggles at that] I'd almost forgotten about that.

[touchofgenius]

[He giggles right back] Yeah, that was pretty hilarious to listen to I have to admit. I bet Willow would've loved it too, with the whole witch thing.

[verymuchalive]

Oh yeah, maybe. It's almost a shame I can't pull clones from that far back.

[touchofgenius]

Wait you can pull clones from different times? That's... New. What do you do, flap your wings and cause a butterfly effect that creates a rift in time or something? [Little does he know...]

[verymuchalive]

[More giggling]

Not exactly. I could do that before I became God Tier. But since I got here, I can only clone from within the tower's timeline.

[touchofgenius]

I see... Maybe it's because the tower exists in its own alternate reality or something. That'd be pretty cool.

[verymuchalive]

I suspect that's probably it. It definitely feels like a different timeline.

[touchofgenius]

Nooo kidding. Hell, I think it's a completely different reality, which is something I am way too used to. Shame there's no way to worldhop out of here though. It'd make any daring escape plans about a thousand times easier.

[verymuchalive]

[More confusion]

What's a worldhop?

[touchofgenius]

Oh! It's, uh... [How to describe this to someone who's never experienced the community before...?] Um. Well, basically, it's the method of transportation that gets someone from one universe - or "world" - to another one. People have had a whole bunch of ways to do it. One friend of mine had an earring that could let him to it; another one had the ability to make televisions appear out of no where that would take you where you wanted to go... And I think there was a guy who had a flying limo? And this kid with a giant fucking key could do it too.

[verymuchalive]

That sounds complicated. You must know quite the interesting range of people.

[touchofgenius]

Trust me, hun. You have no idea.

Aaaanyway... Nice party you and your slightly-eccentric big sis put on. We all really needed the break, I think.

[verymuchalive]

Oh you heard about that, huh?

[She doesn't seem too perturbed by the reminder, more curious that there's someone other than her and Willow who knows]

Well, that's what we thought. Too much dying and weird power stuff happening, not enough fun and friendliness.

[touchofgenius]

Yeah, 'Low asked if I'd seen you and the conversation sort of sprouted from there.

[He sighs.] The weird power stuff isn't so bad in the grand scheme of things - especially for me because a) I'm used to it and b) I personally have no powers of my own to get fucked up - but the dying is just depressing. And I say that as someone who's seen quite a lot of death in his life.

It's nice of you guys to think of everyone else stuck here like that.

[verymuchalive]

Makes sense.

[She shrugs]

I guess it could have been worse. I mean, there doesn't seem to be any permanent damage and the clones have been taken care of. And the dying's nothing new...but even so, having something positive helps. And if we can help other people too, all the better.

[touchofgenius]

In my experience, when stuff like that fucks up, sooner or later it'll put itself right. But in the heat of the moment, everyone still panics, and unless there's something to help us all cool back down, eventually someone's going to have a heart attack. And I don't trust myself as a medical doctor to fix that sort of thing.

[verymuchalive]

You're a doctor?

Yes, I suppose you're right...I don't understand the panic myself but a lot of people seem to do it.

[touchofgenius]

Yeah, I study viruses. Not computer viruses, but the ones that make people sick. [He's just. Going to avoid the fact that he technically makes them and his viruses turn people into zombies. Usually not the best way to make a first impression.]

Panic is a very typical initial reaction to a lot of things. I... I panic a lot, honestly. I panic before I do anything else. For example, my, uh... Moyrail - is that the word? - made me panic like none other, though in fairness, he was a very scary bastard.

[verymuchalive]

Oh. Well that's good. You must be very clever.

Oh you have a moirail too? I didn't think humans had those but a lot of you seem to be using that term.

[Well okay, maybe two or three. Still more than she expected]

Doesn't sound like he was a very good one, though, if he made you panic.

[touchofgenius]

Nah, he was pretty bad at moirail...-ing. I was the one who was doing most of the... Actual moirail duties.

[verymuchalive]

[Frowny face]

Well that's not right at all. Proper moirails support each other.

[touchofgenius]

Yeah, he's... Yeah. He's one of those people who never got the memo that relationships were a two-way thing.

[verymuchalive]

But he's still your moirail?

[touchofgenius]

And has been for years. I guess with certain people, I'm just really forgiving. Too forgiving, probably, according to most people.

[verymuchalive]

Hmm. Well, you know him better than I do. But I'd be tempted to agree.