Birthday Party

[peripheries]

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 worldtype)) or via PM.))

Birthday Board | At the Party | The Morning After | IC Party Games | Spice Dealer

Comments

[necrosaint]

I don't ... know what that is.

[ Harrow is here because the King Undying wanted her to play a game. She is not good at games. She is clearly already losing. She looks down at her water, trying for impassive, comes out as slightly dejected. ]

[peripheries]

I don't either.

[Wait! She doesn't have booze. He waves, alerting the waiting skeleton to come over and give Harrow a very large glass of red wine. He doesn't know if she likes that but it seems moody so. He offers it over to her.]

[necrosaint]

I have recently learned that a 'shake' is a food item, but does one 'do' a food item?

[ There's consideration for the wine—wine is sacramental, and celebratory, and this is a celebration. Plus, it would be rude of her to refuse an offer, so she accepts, though the quantity is far more than Harrow would normally drink. This doesn't stop her from politely holding it. She'll drink if she's ... how is this game meant to work? If she's actually done something? ]

[peripheries]

No idea. It might not be literal. Humans like to use the same words for all sorts of different things.

[necrosaint]

So they do.

[ Harrow's headtilt indicates that she isn't entirely sure whether or not this is a statement about human nature from one to another, or a confession, but she doesn't seem to react to either. ]

[hauntedsavior]

Then I guess he doesn't have to worry about the tradition spreading.

[she tilts her beer towards teacher as she talks to harrow. she notices harrow's not drinking (quite yet, at least, if she doesn't stop angel boy) and doesn't have anything to say about it.]

It's a really goofy dance. He told me about it one time when we went to get drinks and I wanted to laser target him. I'm sure he can fire back just as hard at me if he really wants to.

[necrosaint]

The Ninth is the smallest of the Houses. If it is a dance, the Third would be more likely for spreading tradition, or Seventh.

[ Harrow absolutely thinks Anna needs to know this, it might be useful! even if laser targeting the Emperor Undying in a drinking game is a little unfathomable. ]

[hauntedsavior]

[it is critical! she knows so little about the way these houses are organized.]

Yeah? I only know about the Ninth, and only then from what G told me about it. Tiny, shitty, lots of gruel. What's up with the Third and the Seventh? [she is legitimately rapt.]

[necrosaint]

They're the more artistic of the Houses. Third with their jewels, Seventh with their plants. Also two Houses with atmosphere, even if it is—they are not original or entirely natural atmospheres. But they have larger populations than the houses who are unable to be out in their own atmospheres.

[ She knows she does not entirely feel confident about some things involving other Houses, like if people on the Second walk around outside, but she knows the Third has jewels and Seventh has gardens. ]

[hauntedsavior]

[she's doing some mental arithmetic and shifting some numbers around, but she's still under the influence and isn't moving so fast there. still.]

Yeah? Are they, like, actually bigger Houses to make up for all the people there, or is it all overcrowded and stuff? [she should. clarify.] And we're not talking physical houses, are we. Just so I'm, like, clear on that. I'm like ninety percent sure you guys aren't all just chilling in one big neighborhood.