It's a nice day for a picnic

[awakenerd]

Who: You
Where: The Park
When: Day 45

If you want to skip to playing, tl;dr, there’s a party in the park and you’re invited! Complete with lots of food and alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks!

Setting
Today you’ve been invited by mass text to come to the park and hang out for an outdoor party. Thanks to the efforts of Hurricane, Mori, Sanguine, Hiryuu and B, the party setting is decorated cutely, with tables hauled out onto the grass laden with all kinds of food, and the various activity areas are labeled and ready to use! The sun is shining, there’s a light breeze, and there’s plenty of shady benches to lounge around and eat or hang out at between or instead of the provided entertainment.

Consumables
Thanks to Silk, Phoenix, Hiryuu, and B as well as all the generous contributors, there is so much food! A giant pot of Taro soup, fancy salads, a whole lot of meat in various forms (including barbeque), and some deliciously prepared vegetables; roasted, steamed, fried or other. There are fruits, dips, things for dipping in dips, and just a variety of mouth-watering delights.

For dessert there’s a prominent fruit salad, with a whole mountain of cookies and cupcakes on either side.

Of the beverage options, sodas, tea, coffee, juices, and a whole lot of alcohol are available. There’s even a fruit punch that may start the party innocent but will definitely end the party spiked, possibly multiple times. Maybe you’re responsible for it?

Since much of the food has been embiggened so there’s more to go around, there’s a little tray of rations shrunk to single bite size, for convenience, with a placard warning that you should only eat one, as it will still act like a full meal at any size.

Finally, there’s a table of potions! Actually teapots with the labels: sparkles, nekomimi (if you don’t know what that means why not take a gamble?), palette swap (enjoy your new color scheme), SFX (want your own sound effects?), and squeaker (enjoy your helium voice). There are small teacups with which to pour and consume your intended potion adventure.

Entertainment
Sports
Gold has lent the effort some volleyballs! There’s a large area for playing around with whatever kind of ball game you want to try, and you can assume you get a Get Hype boost from Cobalt if you want to really take your game to another level! Maybe do some racing?

At some point in the afternoon will be a three-legged race so maybe you want a partner for that!

Also speaking of racing;

Motorcycles
Sanguine and Phoenix will be offering rides to those interested, and you might catch a motorcycle race with those who own them! Maybe it’ll be good for placing bets!

Pinata
A more low-key attraction is a massive pinata in the shape of a dragon, with blindfolds and sticks (that may have once been the legs of chairs) as bats, ready for people to beat the literal candy out of it.

Games
Are you into card games? H has some tables set up for card games of various types. Also, for betting on card games of various types.

Or maybe you’d rather play a game refereed by King? Watch out though, he takes it really seriously, so you had better do your best.

Sparring
If you’re into other physical outlets, there’s an area left open for those who want to spar! Abi will be around ready to wrestle any challengers, but you’re also free to start your own friendly brawls! At least, try to keep them friendly, this a family event.

Music
Sanguine’s set up some chairs and cushions and there’s a little area to the side where Sanguine, Phoenix, and anyone with an instrument, a voice, or even a music app, can spend time providing the background melodies or rock out or whatever you want, really. At least through part of the day Sanguine or Phoenix or both will be playing guitar here, so expect a variety of music styles from rock to pop to more classical.

And if you don't want to sing our drag out an instrument, maybe you'd like to start an impromptu rap battle or poetry reading, to spice it up.

Arts and Crafts
Angel has set up a table with glitter, paper, scissors, glue sticks, paints, and all the other things you need to make crafts for fun. She's also teaching origami to anyone interested, and who isn't interested in learning to fold paper birds from Angel?

Free rein
Naturally you are free to engage or handwave things happening that are mentioned in the above, though ping a player to let them know if you handwave having interacted with them! If your character brings something else or does something not listed here that’s also perfectly good and the whole point is to have fun.

These are all just things to do, your character can naturally do something completely different!

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Planning someone's coronation?

[liarliarliar]

Many someone's.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ha! Are they all getting the same title or are you fostering healthy competition?

[liarliarliar]

Don't know yet. I'm just having fun.

You want to play?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Play make-believe?

Or did you have something else in mind?

[liarliarliar]

I meant paper craft. But if you want to play a boardgame or cards that's fun too.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Reaches for some paper and copious amounts of glitter]

No need to change the rules on my account. Paper craft it is.

[liarliarliar]

[finishes a crown and sets it aside to work on his second one]

All about the sparkle, is it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Look, my friend, we are going MAXIMUM GLITTER and also silver trumps gold.

(Even if B would argue with that statement)


Also Intensity cheated with Gadgeteer powers because fuck getting glitter on his hands.]

If the crown's not grabbing people's attention then what's the fucking point?

[liarliarliar]

...!! AH! That looks great?? You did a great job??

[what even just happened]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[It like he cares about clean lines and symmetry and some shit.

And as if it was obvious:]

Of course I did.

[liarliarliar]

[was doing a good job but no match for Gadgeteer tbh]

Mine looks worse....

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That means I win.

[Drops the crown on B's head. It's gonna slide off with any movement cuz of that hoodie]

I'll bequeath you your fief once I take over.

[liarliarliar]

[laughs and reaches up to secure it]

I want something small but fancy. Just like me.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh? You consider yourself fancy now?

[liarliarliar]

Just a little bit.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You'd be more believable if you were wearing something other than the latest Bad End=Dead End fashion trend.

[Tapping one of the B's crowns on the table]

How many more of these do you have to make?

[liarliarliar]

I wanted about five in total. And sometimes I want to wear jeans.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then finish your work.

I challenge you to a game of chess after.

[liarliarliar]

Oh? That sounds fun. I wonder if I can beat you. Hmmmm.

Losing to you is fine though.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Bring a little more attitude to the game than that.

[liarliarliar]

Fine~~~. You want more like.

[POINTS FINGER RIGHT IN INTENSITYS FACE]

Prepare to go down and feel humiliated when even I, the least brainy of Alcheme, defeats you!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Taps that finger with one of his own]

Take out the "least brainy" part, and it's a start.

[liarliarliar]

Everyone's a critic...!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You want to give it another shot?