zrael live but also a birthday party (????)

[stakesthesame]

Who: requiem and YOU
Where: lobby
When: 194 night we SKIPPIN this whole day

[ anyway, someone's converted a portion of the lobby into what looks like an awful mishmash of christmas and birthday decorations but also all of them are like

pretentious

goth

bullshit

but also like, a bunch of rainbow HAPPY BIRTHDAY balloons? whatever. Anyway, there's a table with wrapped and bagged gifts with name tags on them, except they're all wrapped kind of badly, oops, sorry.*

There's another table nearby full of treats and drinks; warm mulled wine and hot chocolate and maybe a pie or something, I dunno, party snacks.





Anyway Requiem starts up her Live and she's up on a little platform with her bass, dressed in this (and like, leggings and boots and a santa hat in her navy blue). ]

HEY LOSERS. Come on down to the Lobby for an ass kicking if you're not a nerd! Or, you know, some hot cocoa or somethin'. Or say a belated Merry Christmas. Or say Happy Birthday to Dia! Is it her birthday? Does she have one? Who knows? I sure don't! It's party time, y'all.

[ And then she starts to play. ]

( *If I forgot your character as someone who interacts with Req often I can add that in I'm just forgetful as shit. )

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[constellationprize]

[ just like

In her pajamas, kind of shuffling her feet headed towards the drinks ]

... Um...

... Is it my birthday...?

[stakesthesame]

It's totally been like a whole year somehow-- actually more, right?-- since I got here, so you've had to have had a birthday somewhere in there?

So why not now? Hap-birf, girl.

[constellationprize]

It's been a year and twenty-one days since then, so - um...

... We should be celebrating your birthday too, shouldn't we...?

[softlyfalling]

Oh—ah, congratulations, then!

[constellationprize]

Thank you...

[ with a tiny helpless smile. she is just as surprised as shrike is. ]

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Comes out into the lobby and spreads his arm out to marvel at this snazzy ZRAEL decor. He's got a black eye but is in good spirits]

Whoa, what is this? It's Goth Christmas!!

[stakesthesame]

Heck yeah, dude! That's how I d--

What happened to your face.

[gigadevilbreaker]

Ah, it's just sparring. No biggie.

More important: what's the occasion?

[hissterics]

......







[ This just keeps HAPPENING!!! ]

[stakesthesame]

Did I rock hard enough for you, Tiger?

[hissterics]

I guess.

[ Shuffles over to the gifts and sniffs around them, PLAY IT COOL ]

Are you just making holidays up now? "Birth day"?

[crossmyheartandhope]

...dude.

[stakesthesame]

Dude! Have some stuff.

[crossmyheartandhope]

You've got like more goth party stuff than I ever knew existed.

[hissterics]

[ With absolutely no warning, latching onto him from behind like a barnacle. ]

Hey.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Oh - hey.

What's up?

[avestan]

Whoa, fancy.

[he was already wearing a scarf (where did he get that? hm mystery) but he's wrapped the new one on top of it]

[stakesthesame]

... aw, someone got you a scarf before me. Who's that from?

[avestan]

Oh, uh. It's from Ruler.

[worthathousand]

[ Amaranth has come to check out the party, but is mostly hovering a bit awkwardly around the edges—until trying to skirt past the table makes her notice that one of the packages..... has a tag with her name on it???? ]

...Ah. This package—
Am I meant to deliver it to Dia?

[stakesthesame]

[ flopped out on one of the couches, by now, so,

Just staring blankly at her for a moment before looking away, sipping at the wine... ]

Dia already got her stuff.

[softlyfalling]

Ah, cooking supplies—!

They're for us?

[stakesthesame]

You guys eat way too much spaghetti so I figured I'd keep enabling your bad behaviour.

[unbr8kable]

...Do you guys just open a closet and stuff like this just falls out?

[stakesthesame]

Pretty much!