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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
slayerskiss: (but i'm still at the start)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-04-08 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[She's not sure how he reached that conclusion.]

Uh... no. Like I said, he built the town. Over a giant gateway to hell.

It wasn't exactly a police state, the police were just under his command, 'cuz he ran the town and controlled their paychecks. He kept them ineffective and mostly working to keep the supernatural under wraps, mostly 'cuz he didn't exactly like them much. Said they're "bullies."

[This is the man who made an entire town for demons to feed off of to their hearts' content, yes. Whenever he needed someone bullied or rather, tortured and tormented, he'd just send her.]
justoscar: (up)

[personal profile] justoscar 2022-04-16 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He's very imaginative, has read too many books... oh, and he's seen what a police state looks like. However, he did listen to the words and nodded in understanding.]

He doesn't sound like a good example of someone that should be in charge of anything. How did you and your friends deal with that?

slayerskiss: (but i settled for a ghost)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-04-16 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs.]

Lured him into Willow's high school and blew it up. I was in a coma at the time.

[She... did help. She's pretty sure she helped Buffy, in their dream. That happened.]
justoscar: (?!)

[personal profile] justoscar 2022-04-19 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[How... alarming.]

That's kind of a lot.

[He said, as if he hadn't gone out on his own to take on a half cyberized military general on his own.]

But, you were in a coma? Did you end up okay?
slayerskiss: (i'm not the same kid from your memory)

[personal profile] slayerskiss 2022-04-19 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
I mean he was going to turn into a full demon and eat them all. Can't blame them exactly.

[She does, though. It's one of the many things that drove her half mad with a desire for revenge, vicious and unreasonable in her grief. It'd be a more understandable motive than the real reason.

The Mayor's plan never made sense to her. Her own plans weren't much more comprehensible, beyond forcing Buffy into making a choice. She smiles at his question. It's sweet, really. Nobody else cared.

She thinks she imagined Buffy coming by her hospital bed and talking to her.]


Yeah, right as rain. Felt weird 'cuz I thought I was dead the whole time, y'know.
justoscar: (bashful)

[personal profile] justoscar 2022-04-20 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He heaved a sigh, relieved to hear that little piece of information-- even if the sentiments that followed touched on something he wasn't quite certain that he understood at that point, but he knew that 'yet' was an inevitability.

Was that how Ozpin felt, before he spoke up in Oscar's head that afternoon the day he had woken up from a horrible nightmare? Oscar was too afraid to ask.]


That's as good a reason as any. I hear the battle academy most of my friends attended was destroyed in a very similar situation.

...But, not everyone who was involved came out alive. I'm glad you did.