Midsummer Bash

[puppy_lancer]

Characters: Lancer, the people he invited to the party, and everyone else who wants to stumble in
Setting: Floor 25, July 5, afternoon
Format: Open
Summary: Lancer throws a party for midsummer, since the Tower obviously needs a breather.
Warnings: None so far.

[To be honest, Lancer wanted to have the party in the evening, sometime around twilight. That would have been the most romantic time for it. Unfortunately, when in the Tower, one had to account for things like monsters. As a result, he had to hold it during the afternoon. But it wasn't too bad of a compromise.]

[This was, of course, a more simple affair than Diarmuid's birthday. For food, he had hauled a couple of tables up here and lined the table with dinner food. The centerpiece was a cake which had a heart drawn on it in red frosting. In one corner of the meadow, he had used some boxes and tarp to make some sort of booth where people could hide from the sun (and steal kisses off of each other). In the center of the meadow, he had piled a large stack of wood, perfect for lighting a bonfire by the party's end. The structures had all been surrounded with wreaths made from the meadow's flowers.]

[As soon as he's done with the setup, Lancer will sit down next to the firewood pile, waiting for people to come.]

Comments

Mingle

[puppy_lancer]

[Of course, people are welcome to mingle with each other throughout the party. They can enjoy the sunshine and each other's company.]

[pinnaculum]

[Sephiroth isn't one for parties. Not at all, in fact, but he had been invited, and accepting the invitation was the proper thing to do. Now that he's here, he might as well be polite. For that is what one does at parties, and he has been well-schooled in manners.

He hasn't been spending much time around other people lately, having given up social interaction in favor of killing monsters following recent events, but he is nonetheless willing to speak to others.

He's not particularly friendly, or the least bit warm, but that doesn't stop him from formally inclining his head and addressing those he comes across.]

Hello.

[sicharia]

Ah! Hello, Sephiroth.

[Claudia knows he isn't a normal child, but she speaks to him like he is regardless, leaning over slightly as she does so. The truth is, she's surprised to see him here, but she isn't unhappy about it.]

It's been a while since the last time I saw you. How have you been?

[heroicprinciple]

[ Shirou had heard about the party from Saber, and naturally, felt like it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to drop by and see how things are going.

Mingling cheerfully enough, with the occasional glance over at the food table and its cake! If somebody comes over to him, the teenager has the good manners to nod a greeting. ]

[puppy_lancer]

Yo.

[Lancer shoots the child a quick greeting.]

Someone bring you, or did you just follow your nose to the food?

[myblueskies]

The first thing Romeo had done when he got back from his dead world, after reading Ruana's note was go and check his mail box. There were two letters there one from Zo and from Enoch inviting him to a party and when he worked out the date it was today!

He had, in typical Romeo style pushed the memories of his dead world out of his head and was just glad that Ruana's month was over and she wasn't hurting any of them any more.

So he went and found Ken and told him about the party and that they should go, he arrived pulling Ken along, Pinocchio on his head.

A flicker in the glamors as they entered the meadow spoiled the affect a bit but Romeo punched the air and smiled at Ken. "It looks really fun!"

A moment later he let go of his friend and pulled something out of his shirt. It was a puppet of Dike, spear in hand. "I missed your birthday because of the bad people but I had made you a present! So happy late birthday!"

[miseris_socios]

Ken stared at Romeo for a moment, before carefully taking the puppet and smiling. It was... strange, to do that, but he found he didn't really mind.

"I didn't get you anything for your birthday... I'm sorry. But thank you very much."

He bowed his head a little, before reaching over to clasp Romeo's hand tightly with his free hand. It was the best he could do that wasn't really a hug.

open

[vermicompost]

[He's glad Lancer decided not to throw this party for him and Claudia in particular. Especially with so many people here, and people he doesn't know. That would have been more than a little awkward. This way, he can just be a regular partygoer. It's odd, he gets invited to so many more parties here in the Tower than he did at home.

He's glad to be here with Claudia, and he still feels warm and happy about the fact that they're dating, but he's more than willing to socialize with the other people here. It's nice, after all the recent stress, to see these people calmly enjoying themselves in the meadow.

He is self-conscious about his arm, which was removed at the elbow after he was attacked by a monster, but he's in such a good mood, he's hardly thinking about that, more than willing to smile and greet the others he sees. He never was very good at parties, but he thinks he might actually be getting better.]

Re: open

[puppy_lancer]

Hey, Kari--

[Lancer's words catch in his throat.]

Kariya, what happened to your arm?

[fionnuisce]

[Waver raised a hand slightly in greeting--he rather liked Kariya, which put him several ranks above more than half the Tower.]



Good afternooooh holy shit, are you alright?

[And that made him a little less tactful out of concern which was far more blatant than usual.]

[undefines]

[Oh, it's the guy with the weird face. Nue realizes this, and then she realizes one of his arms is half-missing, so she promptly breaks from her patrol at the outskirts and zooms into his personal space.]

What happened to your arm?

[She doesn't sound particularly concerned with his well-being.]

Sorry Kariya. Have another person staring at your arm... X.x

[oathshackledbird]

[When Diarmuid sees Kariya at the party, his first thoughts are to approach the man and to give his condolences on Sakura's loss. He had learned just a few days ago from Rin that the girl had been sent from the tower, and Diarmuid knew Kariya well enough guess just how hard that had to be for him.

Those thoughts are pushed away, though, when he notices the state of Kariya's arm. His eyes widen and he pales slightly.]

Kariya! What happened? Did one of the monsters do that?

here, a thread that isn't about his arm

[sicharia]

[Claudia has been making her own rounds as she socializes, but she still returns to Kariya's side periodically. She sidles up to him, slipping her hand into his as she does so.]

[Teasingly, she says:] You look like you're in good spirits. Is it safe to assume you're enjoying yourself?

and now we're back to threads about his arm

[angramaintsu]

[ Oh look, it's an uncle of her's. What little excitement Rin may have felt at recognizing him was gone by time she bounded over to him. Something is off, way off, and her temper flares once she realizes it. ]

Who did that to you?! [ Yes, his niece is going to make a scene right here, right now. ]

[sicharia]

[Claudia hasn't had a lot of practice socializing at parties like this. After her marriage, there had been no time; during, she had been too unwell to do so (not to mention her husband's lack of inclination); and before, it had been both.]

[...But, it seems like it would be rude not to do so now, when she doesn't have the excuse of only having come to attend to other business. So, in spite of her inexperience and her uncertainties, she does her best to chat with the other party-goers, as kind and polite as ever.]

[puppy_lancer]

Yo, Claudia. Enjoying this?

[Lancer is beaming at her. Did she notice the heart on that cake?]

Lets try getting this right this time... X.x

[oathshackledbird]

Good afternoon, Claudia. I hope my brother invited you to this much more honestly than he invited you to the last event we both were at.

[Diarmuid is, of course, referring to the 'blind date' his brother had set them both up on about a month ago. He hasn't had the chance to talk to Claudia since then with everything that has been going on, but he has gotten to talk to his brother about the blind date business and gotten him to promise to lay off on it.

Hopefully, it's a promise the other servant will remember to keep.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko had received an invitation from Enoch, and while she had come here, since she did enjoy parties and fun, she wasn't quite sure what to do here. You danced in ballrooms, but here, it seemed that there was only a huge bonfire, a large table of food that she couldn't taste anyway, and a few booths that people were using to try and steal a few..private moments with other people.

While Tohko could have danced around the bonfire, she didn't want to trip and fall into the flames, and while she could have eaten..she..didn't quite feel like putting on the mask just yet. However, when she saw anyone, be it friend or random stranger, she would smile and speak to them.]

Good morning! Are you enjoying the party?

Open

[snowdriftassassin]

If there was someone who was easily approachable and happy to be in somewhere possitive for once, it was the trolless. She could be found just about anywhere in the party, from eating and enjoying the food and striking up conversations, to bothering those who seemed a bit too shy to join up the group, ecouraging them to enjoy life, it's rare to have a good time like this!

So feel free to approach her, or simply get infected with her good spirits, either way, chances are she'll bump into you or you'll bump into her!

[no_longer_a_king]

It was the voice that drew her to her. The voice with the distinctive accent she recognized from when the Tower's power had gone out the previous month. She never did thank the woman for being so levelheaded and she certainly wished to know what the trolless actually looked like.

So Saber catches up with her at one point and introduces herself.

"I am Saber of White. I believe we spoke last month when it would be much harder to recognize one another."

[chevalier_mal_fet]

[True to form, Lancelot is neither precisely mingling nor hanging back, drifting around the periphery of the gathering crowd. Conscious in the usual, constant way of the presence of his Master and those of the other Servants known to him, he lets his thoughts drift-- nodding occasionally to those whom he knows.

In his boyhood among the Faeries, he always had enjoyed the Midsummer festival with its dancing and lights-- and later, the Fire.]

[puppy_lancer]

Hey, Lancelot.

[Lancer steps close to the other knight.]

How's it going? Heard from Kariya that you guys ran into a monster or two a while back?

Thread with Kariya and Claudia

[vermicompost]

Lancelot, there you are. [He's seen him not that long ago, but this is different. Now he has Claudia with him, her arm in his.] I wanted to introduce you to Claudia, finally.

[He's glad to have the two of them meet, at last. They're both important to him.]

Claudia, this is Lancelot. Lancelot, Claudia.

[bowandblade]

[Having somehow managed not to be kicked off the floor as soon as he was discovered near the party, Archer is enjoying himself with a bottle of wine he had managed to procure from one of the upper floors long before the actual party. He wanders through the little knots of people mingling, smirking easily the entire while.]

[chevalier_mal_fet]

[Lancelot eyes the wine with something akin to jealousy. This occasion is proving a bit cloying for him on several levels, not least of which has been the lack of anything he would fancy to drink.

As the Archer glides past, a few feet away, he catches the man's eye and gives the other Servant a nod of his head.
His Master would most certainly prefer for him to have anything to do with the Archer-- but his Master is not in evidence, very likely having secluded himself nearby with his lady.]

Archer.