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Kaworu Nagisa | 渚 カヲル | ᴛʜᴇ ғɪғᴛʜ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ([personal profile] peripheries) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-03-25 08:01 pm

Birthday Party

Who: Paul Atreides and all his CR
What: Throwing everyone’s favorite Duke a surprise birthday party
When: Forwarded dated to April 1st
Where: Bone House in Gaze

Content Warnings: Drinking, underage drinking, drugs (both fictional and not), drawings of space worms, skeletons, will add further warnings if necessary



When you arrive at the house in Gaze, (affectionately known as Bone House), a skeleton will open the door and offer to take your coat if you have one. No need to take your shoes off or anything!

The large house has been decorated with black streamers and confetti. In the entryway and hung on the railing to the second floor that overlooks the entrance to the great room are large banners that say “HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL” (though one looks like it used to say “Jaune” but was just painted over? Whatever).

In the Living Room, there is a large board and various colored markers for people to write messages to the birthday boy. There is also a table full of bottled water and various couches, chairs, and beanbags to collapse into if the party gets to be too much and one needs a quiet place to rest or a place to chill if you’ve imbibed too much… well, whatever you had.

It is also where all the food and drinks are.

There’s an extremely large charcuterie board with the usual meats, cheeses, and olives as well as an extremely eccentric collection of snacks ranging from individual sized Cheez-it bags, to humungous bags of Doritos and salty chips, as well as nearly every kind of Oreo one can imagine.

There are also various cakes, all angel food. Some are misshapen, some have an attempt at being frosted with whipped cream and fruit, one even says “Happy Birthday Ka-” before that was hastily covered with a bunch of strawberries jammed really close together.

At the island, a skeleton is playing bartender. Surprisingly, it can seem to take and understand individual orders, but there’s always a constant flow of tequila shots being made and sent out to the great hall to be served by another skeleton.

And, no, of course it’s not going to check your age to see if you’re legal. It’s a skeleton. Why would it care?

The Great Hall is the center of activity and where everyone is encouraged to mingle and have fun. There is a skeleton on the grand piano in the corner gleefully playing piano covers of the hits from the Shrek Soundtrack with the occasional cover of “DaRude’s Sandstorm” when it has another one to help out.

In another corner, on huge piece of paper that spans nearly 6ft wide and 8ft tall is drawing of an Arrakis sandworm and it’s giant maw. The game is Pin the Tooth on the Sandworm and it’s… very easy… because the worm maw is most of the board. Even if the skeleton spins you as you’re blindfolded, it’s pretty hard to lose. If you manage to do it, which is likely, the skeleton running the game will award you a tequila shot! If you lose, the skeletons will award you a tequila shot (but it’s rail).

(It’s a drinking game, isn’t the point to drink?)

There’s also a table that has many candelabras on it, numbering up to seventeen. They’re still lit and burning even though there is a sign that says “make a wish!” even though it almost looks like a shrine for the dead.

…It’s maybe clear that the concept of “birthday candles” was greatly misunderstood.

There is also a skeleton dealing out small doses of “Spice”, a psychoactive drug straight outta the Duneverse. However, you must check in with this Skeleton to get a dose. There will be no “permanently melting your brain with ancestral memories” at this party!

Teacher’s/God’s/Jod’s/The Emperor Undying’s study, adjacent to the main hall, is closed and locked. Though, the lock is fairly easy to break if someone really wanted to get in. There’s not even skeletons guarding.

That said, many things are warded with eerie runes of blood and bone.

So, fuck around and find out.

The upstairs is generally off limits. Party goers can climb up the stairs, and it’s encouraged if they want to look over the Great Room from above, but all of the bedrooms are carefully guarded by more skeletons who will SCREAM VERY LOUDLY if you try to enter and will become hostile if done by force.

Of course, this won’t happen if you are with someone who lives in the house.

Enjoy the party! Mingle away!

((ooc: if you have any questions or anything, please hit me up at [plurk.com profile] worldtype)) or via PM.))

Birthday Board | At the Party | The Morning After | IC Party Games | Spice Dealer
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later in the night!

[personal profile] grice 2022-03-27 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ oof— despite the ruckus of the party later into the evening, falco has kept himself relatively calm, especially when he had an egg on board! said egg has been wrapped around his front in a sling, cracks its little eyes open before— its eyes disappear. an egg with eyes? you’re just seeing things.

besides that, falco keeps his arms out to steady kaworu in the first place, especially if the teen angel decided to fall forward. he didn’t want an omelette all over them both, plus— the bridge of falco’s nose crunches at the smell of alcohol exhaled from the other’s breath, brows furrowing into concern. ]


How much’ve you had to drink, Mister Kaworu?

[ how much has . . . everyone!! had to drink!! ]

[personal profile] grice 2022-03-28 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ counting, exactly, no, but falco's brows end up with a kink between them anyway as he says, inwardly but not exactly quietly: ]

Pacing yourself is something you should do . . . [ and something most people don't do, but that goes without saying. ] Maybe you should sit— before you fall.

[ or start being an embarrassment but that's everyone here, it seems! falco is having a hard time keeping his hands away from the angel, hovering by him with caution and fear that he really might just fall flat any minute. ]
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[personal profile] grice 2022-03-29 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's true. why is it true? it shouldn't be true. but, alas— tequila is a bane and he can't keep adults from having drinks no matter how annoying or awkward it is during or how bad it is the next day. falco goes wordless for a few moments, holding his tongue to not actually say what's on his mind (the right pace is not getting drunk in the first place), and as kaworu begins to move his hands hover after, only falling back to his side when he's sure he won't lose his balance. when "egg baby" gets mentioned— he curls his hand beneath the lump in his sash. ]

I've watched? [ he was so focused on the cooking, and then after that, eating and hanging out with the initial celebration, and then after that, steering clear from drinks and the rising volume coming from the rowdiness that he was possibly more ready to find a corner to rest in than go on with the night. let's face it, too: it's past his and confetti's bedtime, and as much as he loves paul like he does colt, and feels friendly with others here, it doesn't feel like he quite belongs the later it gets. ] Confetti's pretty secure . . . Are you alright enough to go there?
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[personal profile] grice 2022-03-31 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that is very tempting— falco looks down at the hidden togepi clearly resting more than having fun, and then there’s falco, used to having little to no sleep and not actually needing much of it to feel well, being a sleeper (but wouldn’t mind curling around his egg and catching a snooze, it’s good for his health).

falco brings his gaze back up to the tipsy angel and decides that he doesn’t want to leave him alone just yet. it could be a hazard. ]


Maybe after we . . . Play a round of that game? [ and you can sit down. ] What do you say?
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[personal profile] grice 2022-04-03 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ just don't, like. float up the ceiling. he'll have to tie kaworu's foot like a balloon to stop him! an angel balloon, for a very paul birthday. either way, following suit, but falco is carefully eying his floating senior! ]

How do you play again?

[personal profile] grice 2022-04-06 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ blindfold, falco completes, before nodding the the rest. it was easy enough, but . . . there was his egg. ]

Is there someplace close by where I can put Confetti?

[ he holds the egg up in his arms some to gesture! ]