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

[wannasmash]

Oh yes, they're protein and take way less energy to digest than meat.

[ Privately, Midoriya is also committed to putting some meat on Kaworu's bones. It's time for All Might's meal plan to, once again, save disaster teens from starvation in Trench. He knows from personal experience. ]

Wake up early and I'll teach you too.

[peripheries]

But I like sleeping in. It's probably better than eggs.

[PRIVATELY... Midoriya is right.]

[wannasmash]

[ A sigh. Fine, he and Paul will manage this hypothetical breakfast lesson, and a double portion for Gideon just to be safe. ]

Doing dishes for you, then. But really, omurice is best eaten fresh.

[ He rubs his stomach. It's blooming with a warm flame, and he's feeling lightheaded. ]

...I don't think I'm doing that drink again.

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I'm good at dishes. [Or one time he took a burning pot and put it into the sink. It involved a dish so...] Oh? I like it. The part with the lime and the salt is interesting. But there are other drinks... here!

[Reaches up towards one of the waiter skeletons and grabs a wine cooler and sets it in Deku's hand.

There. For the children.]

[wannasmash]

Yes, the 'ritual' is fun. The burning, not so much.

[ He looks at the wine cooler curiously, not really knowing what it is or remembering the dangers of mixing alcohols. He's had nothing, so he'll try anything. ]

You weigh next to nothing, Nagisa-kun. Or do you have a physiology that can process alcohol better than humans?

[peripheries]

I'm not sure, I've never had any before. [SO THEY WILL FIND OUT.] But my body does process things differently, my S^2 organ means that I don't require as much food and such to generate energy for life.

[wannasmash]

Neither have I. That should have been my first round, now that I think about it. Now it's too late for both of us.

[ It's getting to him now, and he'd like to nurse this second drink rather than down it like the ball of fire now sitting in his stomach and radiating heat to his limbs. It makes an even flush start to creep on his face. ]

I say drink water anyway just in case.

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But water isn't as fun.

[Come on Izuku-kun! He's going to flop on you. Dramatically.]

[wannasmash]

Neither is a hangover, I've heard. [ says mostly sober Midoriya. Drunk Midoriya won't know one end of a water glass from the other-- ]

Nagisa-kun! I'll spill my drink!

[ It involves a bit of very precise flailing, but he manages to prevent anything from falling on either of them. Midoriya has terrible luck when it comes to things out of his control, like objects tossed at his head for example, but he's not clumsy. ]

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[No he won't! Kaworu is a useless flopper but he has some awareness and he uses his Darkblood powers to steady the drink and make sure that it won't spill. He doesn't want Midoriya to get covered in a drink because he's a good egg.

Thankfully, his Darkblood powers are minimally useful because Midoriya is so quick on the draw.]

Oh. Well. It seems fine now.

[wannasmash]

[ Likewise Midoriya doesn't want anything spilling on Kaworu. He wants good things for him, like three square meals a day and not being covered in whatever the heck a wine cooler is.

He resigns himself to his fate and puts a hand around his thin shoulders. He doesn't have a cat, but he feels a certain kinship with those that do.

He's trapped now. Forever. ]