❝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

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

I wath the ship. [It's an uncomfortable topic for him, and he looks away from her, but makes himself continue. She deserves to know, and if she's going to help Dualscar even out, she HAS to know.] Hard wired into it, mind controlled by the computer, nothing but a living engine. And weapon. Can't forget weapon. [He shudders] It'th every pthychic'th daymare. The wortht that can happen to uth. It wath my punishment for rebelling.

[floreatnoctem]

[If nothing else, what he says is the first thing to cause a visible reaction in Chidori- eyes narrowing and expression going slightly stormy. If there is anything she hates, it is hearing about people being abused, experimented on and essentially being used for what they can do. It strikes a little too close to her childhood for comfort.]

Such things some are capable of inflicting upon others.

It is regrettable to hear such a thing happened to you. [No matter what the circumstances. Rebellion or no.]

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

It'th why, no matter how bad thith plathe getth, I'm glad to be here. My betht friend ith alive again, and I'm free. But Dualthcar doeth make me a little nervouth, I can't refuthe an order from a high blood.

[floreatnoctem]

I see.

[ANd she kind of understands, really- since here, there's no impending threat of the world ending regardless, and if they die, they only come back.]

Is that so? Unfortunate. I will see if I cannot do something to keep him from ordering you, in that case.

[2nd_dii2ciiple]

Really? [He's surprised. If someone had asked him to describe the type of person he thought Orphaner Dualscar would choose as a moirail, it would not have been anyone like this human. And yet, isn't this exactly what he needs most? Someone to hold him accountable, scold him when he screws up, and pity him anyway?]

[She's definitely earned another smile from him, and the lisp eases a little as he relaxes.] Thank you. It's very kind of you. You theem really nice, I think you'll be good for him.

[floreatnoctem]

Of course. This is not your world anymore. That hierarchy should no longer apply.

[If there's one thing Chidori is good at, it's holding people accountable for the things they do, regardless of how much she does or doesn't like them. She blinks in surprise at the compliment, color rising faintly in her face.]

I... I will do my best.