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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
wannasmash: "Oh no, I totally forgot!" (oh no forgot)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2022-03-27 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
He, Ruby, and a few others were going to be like a sober hydration team. Then Midoriya fell in the line of duty, and oh, how the mighty have fallen. His already thick hair is disheveled, and there is a light tipsy flush all over his face.

He hears an oddly familiar suppressed laugh, which indicates a person he knows. This false sense of security delays the opening of his eyes--

"Is that y--WAAAH!!"

Cold water drenches his upper body, and all his limbs flail as he struggles to leave the tub. He's awake now.
onekindsoul: (All your problems)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2022-03-28 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ruby had all the respect for a fallen soldier, but honestly she did not blame Izuku for taking a chance to enjoy himself and have some fun. He seemed to put a lot on his shoulders and she knew a thing or two about that, if it took a bit of the weight off his mind she'd be happy.

It would not stop her from messing with him though.

"Wakey, wakey eggs and baccy!" Is all she can manage to say through a fit of laughter. She backs off from the tub as he struggles to get out. But she definitely makes no attempt to turn the water on.

"Oh my gosh, your face! It's priceless!"
wannasmash: "Wait a minute, you can't put garlic in tea!" (oh my gods full cowl why)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2022-03-28 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Rose-san...!" he groans, hands tensed in an exaggerated gesture to express the deep emotional throes of betrayal. He exits the tub with his whole upper body dripping. His hair is plastered to his head, save for a few unruly curls, which only serves to highlight how much he looks like a wet cat. His poor shirt is stuck to him like glue, but winning a wet T-shirt contest is the last thing on his mind.

"Rose-san, why? This is not eggs and baccy!" Which is to say, not good.

He looks down at his shirt-- "Oh no, it's all over the floor--" He fumbles with the shower knobs--Why is it always so difficult in other people's houses?!--and stumbles into the bath again in an attempt to contain the drips.

"Don't--don't turn the water on again--" He awkwardly blocks the knobs with his whole body as he grasps the front of his shirt and attempts to wring it out.
onekindsoul: (We try so hard)

[personal profile] onekindsoul 2022-04-02 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
On the bright side Ruby had seen Izuku train enough to know that he had abs for days. So it doesn't come as a shock to her with the wet t-shirt. Instead she just keeps laughing because she is immensely proud of herself.

"No, no. It really is. Oh my gosh I wish I had a camera on, your face was absolutely priceless." She doesn't make an attempt to go for the shower knobs again, she has done caused her chaos for the moment and will have to wait for the next to spring up.

She does however reach for a few towels and toss them his way.

"It's okay. It's okay. It's a party. We have time to clean up."
wannasmash: "I'm just resting my eyes..." (tired fell asleep)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2022-04-03 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm actually trying to avoid cameras..." he says with a pained expression. "Also this is the only shirt I brought, and I don't know what to do about that now." Like a normal party guest who plans on behaving themselves all night. Well, that didn't happen.

He's so, so thankful she wasn't recording him with her Omni. Kaworu already has blackmail material of him choking on his first tequila shot. He allows the towels to land on him, mostly on his head, with soft fwumps. It's his lot in life.

He unbuttons and throws off his shirt with practiced efficiency, and he rolls it up in one of the towels to blot out most of the water. Another towel is draped over his hair, which will undoubtedly stand on end when he rubs it dry (like a heathen, his poor curls). A third is spread on the floor next to the tub to soak up errant puddles.

Ruby hasn't seen him since the Leviathan battle. Commander Flynn healed the worst of the lacerations, but they scarred in long, still-fading lines. Underneath, older lighter scars crisscross his skin like a roadmap, mostly on his back from where he was attacked by Blood-Crazed Zealots in November. Ruby was there to see some of them made. Then there are the familiar ones from his time at UA, ragged on his hand and arm, and the large, ugly dark red splotch further up.