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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
hauntedsavior: (all sense of past and future)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2022-03-30 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey hey hey hey hey. [she still has enough of her wits about her to reach over and ruffle his hair.] Call me captain one more time and I'll feed you the grossest drink I can make.

[still, this is different. the vibe is a little different between the person she fought alongside and the person she's talking to now. like this is kind of what they're both like outside of battle. just people who have lived through too much trying to keep living their lives.]

I don't know if anything's better or worse. I think it's just different. But this ain't the first time I've been sucked into a world beyond my ken [god, she's kind of letting that sea captain come out anyway] so maybe I'm just a little more used to it. You've got the whole hero business going on back home, right?
wannasmash: "Thanks for everything." (smile scuffed)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2022-03-31 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It feels like being around his senpai--an outgoing, casual guy ready to throw his arm around a shy underclassman he barely knew. Midoriya isn't quite prepared for it, wincing one eye in confusion. He forgot what it was like, being treated as a boy and student by someone older but not that familiar. That was several months ago, in another lifetime--a year if one is going by time lived. His calendar is off, since he has 4-5 months more than what his own birthday will mark in July. It feels more real to measure time in the mind with experiences, not months.

Time is fake.

His hair comes away standing up; he's prone to bedheads. Then he throws her a quick, lopsided grin. He knows she had fun playing the part of--what was it--sea salt. ]

Some gross sailor mixture they used to drink on ships probably. Anyway, yeah--I was in training, going to school and doing work-studies. This is my first time in another world... I miss everyone back home.
hauntedsavior: (the solution is wrong)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2022-04-01 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Me too, kid.

[maybe that's reductive, but she hadn't really been working after the fall of retrospec. not in any conventional sense. mostly just doing the occasional odd job for zee, and in return he managed to make sure that her accounts were always paid. and the less she mentioned about her school life, the better. but the one thing she could relate to was missing people.]

Anyone else from home show up for you yet? [she nudged his shoulder.] You've still got that chance, right? No reason we can't get a flood of squids from, uh... [a guess.] Japan? 2020s?
wannasmash: "Thanks for everything." (smile scuffed)

yolo

[personal profile] wannasmash 2022-04-02 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
20XX. Memes, robots, holographic projections...

[ He looks down. It's an honest, standard question among Sleepers, if someone has people from home. He didn't think he'd have to be cagey about it until recently. He has the protective caul of everyone here being trusted enough by Paul to enter his place of residence, but it's thin, and he can't control word of mouth. It's a bit of torture for Midoriya, someone who likes to talk up his friends, to simply say, ]

Yes, three of my friends. They're here at the party.

[ He neglects to mention the two enemies that recently arrived as well. That would start a war. ]

Who arrives and who doesn't isn't the kind of thing I can control, so I can't think about it too much.
hauntedsavior: (shores of tranquility)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2022-04-02 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[anna nods along, listening. three people he knows, and they're good enough friends to get invited to this party. it's enough to make a girl jealous, if she were planning on dwelling on that feeling. but he's right. nobody can control who arrives and who leaves, so there's no reason to think too hard about it.]

Well, hey, glad you're not here alone. Wouldn't mind meeting them sometime. In some kind of scenario that won't end up with four kids calling me captain no matter how many times I tell 'em not to.
wannasmash: "Thanks for everything." (smile scuffed)

[personal profile] wannasmash 2022-04-10 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I think one of them would, very seriously. One of them might, but figure out you're not a captain. And one of them would say it's bullshit.

[ Calm, mild-mannered Midoriya forms his mouth around the last word as lightly as the rest. This last friend is why Midoriya didn't balk at Anna's colorful language. ]
hauntedsavior: (analyze your apathy)

[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2022-04-11 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ah, she sees. it's such a casual word on his mouth that he must be used to hearing it. reminds her of nanashi, actually.]

Well, that last one's right. It is bullshit. I ain't a captain, I ain't a commander, I ain't a master of anything. I'm just a girl doing her best to protect what she loves. [she waves her hand dismissively.] Don't need a special title for that. But you've heard all that from me before.