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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
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[personal profile] foulhussy 2022-04-26 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kainé flashes a mischievous grin. She wasn't in fact joking, she is in fact that batshit, but she's willing to leave it as just teasing. Gives them something to look forward to, anyway. Kainé never had the luxury to dream of romance, but it occurs to her that Anna probably wants something more cozy and intimate following the feelings they have shared with each other.

And... Kainé finds that sentiment convincing herself. With Anna, sex had become something unlike it'd ever been before, genuinely pleasant instead of all jagged leering greed and encounters that usually just made her hate herself more. They had plenty of chances to mess around, but it could be nice to lean more into this new sort of intimacy that Anna had unlocked, and to give it a proper context. ]


Long as you keep sweet talking me, babe, I can go as wild as you want. [ Her face does indeed twist into a smile, with only some fond amusement at Anna's nauseatingly sentimental words. She could get used to them. She returns Anna's kiss lightly, then rests her forehead against hers. ] I'm the same. I... you turn this wretched husk into a beautiful body, somehow. I... it's still amazing that you really want somebody like me, you know?
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[personal profile] hauntedsavior 2022-04-26 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[is this sweet talk? ha... it must be. it's the best anna can do in the moment, at least. but then she hears kainé talking about her own wretched husk and the corners of her lips tug downward a little. her fingers trail down kainé's arm, over the back of her hand, to her hip before settling on her thigh.]

I want everything about you. I want you exactly the way you are. [she doesn't want to move her forehead for another kiss. this feels almost even more intimate. closer than a kiss.] You make my body feel like it's mine again. I didn't think anyone would ever want to be with me again, but you're here, and you make me feel right whenever you touch me. Like you still want me even though this body is wrong.

[that's a little too close to the truth right now, but she's comfortable saying it. there's a tug inside her, resistance from A2, but it dies fast; anna isn't the one who owns this body, after all. she's not incorrect to say it.]

I'll never be able to thank you enough for that.