Happy Birthday, Ryoji

[puppy_lancer]

Characters: You know the drill. Lancer puppy_lancer, Ryoji notsogrimreaper, the people they invited between the two of them, and everybody else who just happens to stumble into the party.
Setting: Floor 25, November 17, morning-evening
Format: Open, anything goes
Summary: It's Ryoji's birthday, so Lancer is throwing him a big party. Anyone is welcome in! (And nobody is gonna kick out those who aren't so welcome)
Warnings: None for now

[It's been a long time since Lancer had thrown any parties. Therefore, he's making this bigger and grander than the last two parties he's thrown. It's a good way for him to distract himself from all the emotional turmoil that had popped up during the battle with Sephiroth, if anything.]

[There's two tables laden with food over at one side of the floor. The centerpiece for that is a big double-tier cake with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYOJI" written over the side of the bottom layer. The top layer is little more than a glorified candle holder, as several handfuls of candles have been jammed all over that second layer.]

[Over on the other side, there was a variety of party games. They're all old favorites like pin the tail on the piggy (pinning spiraling paper tails onto a "pig" with Ganon's face), apple bobbing (various fruits in a water-filled wooden barrel), and everyone's favorite--the pinata (a scarecrow with a berry-filled paper mache head supposed to represent Jason).]

[In the center of the floor, there is a stage nailed together from wooden boards. A ways behind that, a pile of wood stacks into a bonfire pyre. A turnip lantern leers at the party goers from one corner of the stage.]

[For decorations, there are black feathers and crude little paper doll cutouts resembling angels scattered around on the ground or in the corners of the dining tables. There are also a few more turnip lanterns.]

[And of course, Lancer, like a good host, stands on the stage, dressed like a hobby horse, waiting for people to show up. He's feeling pretty relaxed, if only because the major unwanted guest, Sephiroth, was locked up and in no danger of crashing this party.]

Comments

[puppy_lancer]

Pretty much. And it's especially true since everyone is a different sort of knight.

[chainsawn]

Then what's your knight name?

[puppy_lancer]

Oh, well, back in my day, I got called the Hound of Ulster or the Hound of War. And uh...here, I'm either the long haired Lancer or the blue Lancer

[chainsawn]

.. Somehow those last two don't sound as cool as the first two.

[ Even Urotsuki can catch onto that, sorry. ]

[puppy_lancer]

...They don't?

[He scratches his head.]

Guess they don't have the same ring to it.

[chainsawn]

"Hound" sounds pretty ferocious. Like something that could rip you apart. [ AND THIS IS A GOOD THING, UROTSUKI..?? ]

But "blue" is.. just that. Blue.

[puppy_lancer]

Hm...so you think I should try and get everyone to use the Hound title more?

[He scratches his head again.]

Wouldn't be as annoying as having Archer be the only one who uses it.

[chainsawn]

Uh-huh. If you want, I can use it. And if other people hear it from me, then maybe they'll start using it too.. then it'll spread really, really quickly.

[puppy_lancer]

Alright, go for it, Chainsaw Knight.

[There's a moment of silence.]

And come up with names for the other knights too. I think they're also a little tired of being known by by their colors alone.

[chainsawn]

How many knights are there? [ She's already near-frowning, like she's trying to come up with some as we speak.. ] I'll have to make sure all the names are different.

[puppy_lancer]

Uh...well, there's me and Diarmuid and Lancelot and Saber and Archer. And then this other girl with an axe. And Suzaku too. Pretty sure there's also a fair number of knights that I don't know.

[chainsawn]

That many knights..? It seems like a lot for one tower. [ She frowns a little bit. ]

Are that not too many knights for one round table?

[puppy_lancer]

...Actually not all of us were with the Round Table. Only Lancelot and Saber. I'm actually with the Red Branch. Diarmuid is with the Fianna. So yeah, all different knights.

[He pouts a little.]

Do I really look that much like a Round Table Knight?

[chainsawn]

[ Sorry, Lancer, the round table is the only kind she's heard of.. it's why she blinks at him a little when he's telling her this much. ]

There's a red table too? ... And a.. "Fianna" table? Is that some kind of wood?

[puppy_lancer]

Oh come on!

[He pouts harder.]

They're not tables! They're like...knight clubs.

[chainsawn]

Your knight club doesn't have a table? It sounds like it's a pretty sad knight club.. [ "Sad" as in pitiable, not as in pathetic, okay. It's hard to tell the nuance since Urotsuki's not very good at sounding sad, but still. ]

I'll buy yours a table so you can be a proud knights club too.

[puppy_lancer]

[He scoffs.]

It's the knights and not the tables that make the "club" proud. But I guess if you really want to, you can get a table for our club. I'd be proud of it. It's from a friend, after all.

[chainsawn]

What kind of table do you want?

[ In her enthusiasm she's fully ignoring his first statement. They need a table, okay!! She'll make one herself if she has to! ]

[puppy_lancer]

Oh...I dunno. Just one big enough to seat everyone? And uh...don't use anything that'll make it stinky.

[chainsawn]

....

[ Thinking...

Thinking.........

.. Wait a moment.. ]

You didn't think I was going to make it the poopy table. Did you?

[puppy_lancer]

...No, of course not. Just saying, you know. Sometimes what they use to make the tables gives them a weird smell.

...Would you really have made a poopy table for someone else?

[chainsawn]

Maybe if it was a rival knights club. Then they could be the knights of the poopy table, so nobody would take them seriously and then we would be much more cool.

[ See, she can actually think this stuff up! Even though it's based on a ridiculous hypothetical scenario. ]

[puppy_lancer]

That would be fun. But that wouldn't be very honorable. Knights should prove their worth through fighting and not giving each other poopy tables.

...Though we could switch their table out for a poopy one for a prank.

[chainsawn]

.. Wait. So can or can't knights do that..? Or what's the difference between what I said and doing it as a prank?

[puppy_lancer]

Uh...

[The questions are confusing even him.]

They can't purposely give another knight club a poopy table and lie that it's a good table and let the other knight club use it forever. And they can't use that poopy table to ruin the other club's reputation. But they can use it as a prank because it's a one-time thing and no reputations get ruined? Except one knight club knows the other knight club is stupid and had a poopy table, I guess.