HSS holiday party

[wotanon]

Who: HSS and friends
Where: HSS dorm
When: Forward-dated to 430

[Tis the season for holiday parties! If you're close to anyone on HSS, you've definitely received an invite for this one off-screen.]

[In the dorm itself, someone has hauled a big pine tree in a planter into the center of the main room. It's undecorated except for the lights, so far, but there are craft materials nearby - glitter and glue and pine cones and ribbons and brightly-colored paper and everything else you might need to make your own decorations. There’s also a box out, filled with the decorations everyone made at the HSS party last year, ready for hanging]

[Strands of lights and delicate dangling snowflakes hang from doorways, and holly garlands give the whole dorm a festive atmosphere]

[Hurricane has been busy in the kitchen, and the table is set with a Christmas ham, prime rib, fried chicken, mini hasselback potatoes, mashed potatoes cauliflower gratin, stuffed acorn squash, maple pecan sweet potatoes, a citus and fresh greens salad, and cranberry sauce. For dessert, there's a variety of puddings as well as Santa's hat cheesecake bites. The drinks include eggnogg, hot apple cider, and enough booze to spread a little extra Christmas cheer]

Comments

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Hurricane can be found near the tree, hanging up the decorations from last year. Currently he's climbing up on one of the rolly chairs to add the tree topper: a heart with wings]

Man... a lot changes in a year, huh.

[doublefried]

... This looks like Christmas. Is it Christmas?

[avestan]

Right, it's event time...

[and he's just going to start shoving food in his face]

[unbr8kable]

[Barely gray at all by now, going for some traditional Christmas chicken]

Whoa, this's pretty fancy...

[at_heart]

[ Lupine is not artsy-craftsy, but he knows it's one of the themes for the month, so he's going to give the tree-decorating thing a shot. Can't... go too wrong with just covering a pinecone in glitter, right???

(He's not as terrible at this as he thinks he is, but to be fair he thinks he's pretty terrible at it.)

You can also find him headtilting a little at the food, later on; similar stuff for Friendsgiving, which is why he recognizes any of it. ]

[ends]

[ he's here because he got the invite, and he's not as gray anymore, but some things? some things are going to hang him up anyway. holiday themed things are "some things."

so he's just! finding people to say hi to and then probably duck out, because he doesn't want to risk bringing down the mood or have people fussing. ]

Hey, um, nice- nice party. [ waving. ] Really went all the way, thanks for all your hard work.

[outofoffice]

[ Also mostly un-gray by now, save for a few tinges at the tips of his fingers and hair. ]

Ohhh!! What festival is this? It's beautiful! Look at the tree!

[ It catches his attention even before the booze does, miraculous. ]

[proceedwithcautus]

...oh, this is so impressive! Ah, should I have brought something...?

[bondsofsuffering]

[He's here! And rid of both corruptions and grey, so that's pretty sweet.

He is, of course, digging into the available food.]

Hitting it out of the ballpark, as usual!

[Very early morning, day 430]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[A couple of boys are up before the sun, because honestly, neither of them sleep anyway]

[Hurricane's sitting cross-legged on the table in HSS's living room, leaning over to write on a card]

[The boxes of decorations for the party have been dug out but not yet put up; the tree stands bare in the center of the room]

You think glitter's overkill?