video + action party log! | un: sharpshooter (locked from keith)

[azurestar]

[The feed opens on a pretty tired and lightly corrupted looking Lance (his default state, honestly). He runs a hand through his hair and then puts on a crooked smile. Lights, camera, action! This is a good announcement.]

Sooo, my buddy Keith's birthday was last Sunday and I figured why not surprise him with a party? I mean, after the whole bloody dragon transformation and the sex jokes, I think he's earned it.

[He shoots the camera a grin and a pair of finger guns and then he lets out a slightly awkward laugh that he interrupts with a cough into his fist. Yes, he's aware that was kind of a lot but like hell he's gonna outright admit it. Moving on...]

It's not gonna be fancy but it is gonna double as a halloween party cause if we do it right, it'll be thumping into the early morning hours [he winks], so come in costume if you wanna. Or just come get some cake, hang out, play darts, dance and drink, all that stuff. It'll be at The Red starting around eight. [A pause as he then considers one last thing.]

Oh, and if you wanna get him something last minute and need some tips just hit up me or Shiro. [And with that, he gives a two finger salute with a sparkling, crooked grin and ends the feed.]

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( ooc: for efficiency's sake, you can just jump straight into the party as a top level on this post if you want. Or just tag the network portion. Or both! )

B-Day Party at The Red

The party is located in one of the many rooms at The Red set up for things like medium-sized and intimate performances, dancing and karaoke. Yes, there's a karaoke machine, Lance didn't arrange for that specifically, but he's glad it's there because there's some people he'd like to bug into singing. If anyone wants to jam and can play an instrument, there's a bunch of them up on the small stage. If you play it, it's likely there... or even if you don't know how to play it...

There's red balloons and colorful halloween streamers and spooky lights all over the ceiling and some balloons are around on the floor to kick and toss, as well as a fog machine adding to the spook. If you wanna make more balloons, there's a huge box of un-inflated ones and canisters of helium on one of the tables set out around the edges of the room. Also on the tables is a bunch of snacks, all are halloween themed, made to look like eyes, bat wings and mothman shaped cookies etc., also a very large cake (just replace 40 with 22). There's places to sit as well, comfy couches and chairs and small tables near them and a dance floor in the center. Along the sides of the room are various kinds of halloween decorations like ghosts, fake blood, and most prominently in a place of honor: a large life size felt mothman with a very nice ass. Mothman is holding the happy birthday sign and has glowing red eyes.

The music playing is a variety of thumping dance music but anyone can go over and choose or put on a different track or turn it off to do some karaoke or play their own music. There's also a mix of halloween decorations, a dancing bat hanging from the spinning party light and various games. There's a row of 4 dart boards and plenty of darts along one part of a wall with chalk scoreboards, bobbing for apples, pin the bone on the skeleton, beer pong and a table full of jell-o shots, regular shots, mixed drink supplies, a punch bowl (only lightly spiked… for now) and so on.

All in all, it's a relaxed and intimate setting with the potential for more excitement. Lance had to pay a lot of paleblood stones to get the food and a lot of the stuff here, so enjoy.

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[azurestar]

( ooc: for organization! )

private text un: vi

[faceblocks]

whats an gift hed actually want?

[azurestar]

weeelll, he likes knives, monster conspiracy stuff, fingerless gloves

y'know, the kinda things weirdo too cool for school loners are into

[he means that in the most loving and fond way, of course]

( TXT; UN: BANANA HAMA)

[opheliac]

whats' halloween?
this is jinx btw.
txt thru my omen.

[azurestar]

oh hey
man, ive got questiona about the omen thing
but dude, you don't know what halloween is??
it's only like the coolest holiday in the universe!

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[onekindsoul]

It can triple as my birthday party too!

Nah- I'm not going to steal his thunder but I'll definitely be there.

I feel like Keith is also a sword kind of guy. He's a sword guy, right?

I'll see if I can make him a fancy sword.

[azurestar]

[He gasps and his eyes go wide. It feels like he knew that at one point. That Ruby's birthday was Halloween. Oh man, he forgot!]

That's right! Man, I totally didn't realize. Don't worry, I'm gonna make sure you're properly celebrated, Ruby! [Finger guns!]

And man, he's a total sword guy. Likes knives too. He has a couple pretty cool ones already, but what d'you mean by "fancy"?

[thunderingcourage]

What kind of cake does he like?

[azurestar]

Oh, chocolate all day every day.

video; un: lady

[dohaeris]

Is Halloween like the Black Parade?

[she is once again made up like a raven in its honor...]

[azurestar]

Kinda? You don't just wear a mask, you dress up as anything you want, like your favorite character in a story or a monster. And then you go out and have fun with your friends, and if you're a little kid you go to people's houses and they give you candy. It's the best.

[faceblocks]

[she's not wearing much in the way of makeup other than some slightly messy red glitter on her eyes, but the fitted red suit and matching mesh tank (and the glittering horns) are enough of a vibe that it's obvious (probably) she's dressed as a devil. was this suggested to her? absolutely.

she's managed to stuff her face with several pieces of cake, down a couple shots before switching to punch because she is a responsible adult and letting herself be blindfolded for another 'pin the' game, only it's bones and skeletons this time. and she's dizzy, walking carefully with a glass of punch in one hand and the bone in the other, with zero sense of direction.

that ...yeah, that must be where the skeleton is. well, that's where she's putting this bone, anyway. oops if the pin's too sharp.]


[several jello shots later (it's a lot. it's way too many. this is a terrible idea.) she's taken to the karaoke stage, far less composed than she'd been at sansa's nameday party.

a bit stumbly, she clears her throat several times to get the attention of the room, only it's not the room she really cares about. it's her pumpkin-costumed sister, who she will very seriously point at, and then move that pointing finger slightly over a bit because the floor's uneven. whatever. she's doing this. it's about the most uncool song she could sing, though she still manages to look kind of cool doing it? maybe? when she gets to the end she's super serious in the way only a drunk can be, and changing the words a little:]

♪ I've had too many drinks
And I know her name is Jinx
She's my sister
I love my fucking sister ♪

[she means every word of it. especially the ones she sings off key. and she definitely does substitute the word "shit" for the word "things". fang is recording this for "posterity".]

[opheliac]

[faceblocks]

[hide all you want, but unless you can sink into the floor this drunk is coming for you. it just might take her a moment, the fuckin table's in the way. she'll just climb over that because that's a reasonable thing to do.

she'll have another shot on the way over, too, hand raised in case anyone she passes wants to high five her for the song well done.]

[dohaeris]

[
sansa is keeping it together at the karaoke]

[opheliac]

(why da fuck you crying over this drunk ass mess?)

[faceblocks]

[you get a sloppy drunk hug, too, sansa! don't cry. now you're going to make vi cry. she's not sure why she's crying, but she will steal someone's napkin (or jacket, it's fine) to wipe at her own eyes, and somewhat clumsily even try to wipe at yours.]

Sorry this is so late. :( Feel free to ignore if it's too old.

[tempredmental]

[That pin? Yeah. It found the guest of honor. Whatever he was facing is now covered in his drink as he spit out everything he hadn't swallowed during that sip in order to yelp without drowning himself in... whatever this was. He'd given up keeping track of what Lance was giving him.

At least this wasn't as painful as turning into a dragon earlier this month had been.]

[dohaeris]

[out of respect for her patron and a natural propensity for camouflage, sansa has decided to go as a red wolf, though she isn't bothered if people mistake her for a fox. her makeup is similar to what she wore at the black parade, with her forehead painted red to the tip of her nose and the rest of it white with thick black eye makeup extending from her temples down either side of her nose. instead of a half-mask, though, she's sewn cute little red felt ears and pinned them into her braids. she wears them with one of the dresses she keeps for visiting performers at the red.

she will try very hard to play the harp along with anyone else playing instruments. she's not good enough to improv yet but she has a few simple melodies memorized!! it sounds fine.

anyone unlucky enough to accompany her on a trip to the bar or bathroom is likely to be intercepted by various tableside entertainers wanting to talk to her or have her sew a loose bead or sequin on their costumes.

in the spirit of....whatever this is, she will gladly tell anyone spooky stories from the nightfort!! she will even sing a song about the rat cook.

for karaoke she will belt out an eerily accurate rendition of blank space. it's almost like she's been practicing...

wherever gifts are piled, she's left a pair of black leather fingerless gloves covered with intricate dragon scale detailing tied with a red ribbon to a card, her personal direwolf-and-weirwood branch sigil stamped on it in silver wax. it reads:

Ser Keith,
Happy birthday! I am very glad we have this chance to finally meet. It is my honor to count Ser Lance among my sworn swords and he speaks very well of you. I hope this coming year is a good one.
Thank you for a wonderful party,
Sansa Stark of Winterfell]

[tempredmental]

[Keith definitely appreciated the gloves. Though, if he were sober when he read this, he'd totally figure that 'sworn sword' was probably just some fancy way of saying 'knight', but he lost track of what he'd been drinking, and now his head was in weird places. Some drunk punny part of him was wondering if this meant that Lance was Sansa's booty call.]

november irl ate me alive, it's ok if this is too late to reply to

[azurestar]

[When he spots Sansa playing the harp, he perks up and goes to grab his guitar and strums along with what she's playing freestyle. He's very good at it. He's also dressed up like a sexy skeleton pop singer.]

Eyy, did you learn to play that at finishing school? [It's a genuine question.]

The Birthday Boy Himself - totally not late to his own party...

[tempredmental]

[So... it was a good thing Lance picked one of the smaller private rooms because Keith was definitely not a huge party person. And then, when he found out it was for him, that kind of set him into some sort of weird emotional place with some sort of sense of obligation to stay.

Which led to him downing a few of the jello shots to get past the nerves so he could at least maybe enjoy the night. But, he did eventually lose track of the number of shots, and what kinds, and don't even ask him what was in the last few glasses of punch. But that definitely loosened him up a lot.

He was actually talkative. Though, whether his train of thought was following an actual track or just running loose all over the place was still up for debate. Either he was easily distracted, or his thoughts were running so fast, no one else could keep up with the topic changes, but it didn't really matter in the long run. He at least seemed like he was actually enjoying himself...

Care to talk him into a game? Or even get him to sing?]

[azurestar]

[Hey, it was Keith's birthday bash thingy, he could drink as much as he wanted. But Lance was starting to get a little concerned when he saw him actually speaking whole sentences to people he had never met. Well, Lance wasn't sober like ever, and he was especially drunk when he went to parties and drunk Lance could be hard to predict. Sometimes drunk Lance was delightfully numbed to difficult stuff and he was the life of the party, other times… well, the other times don't matter because he's bubbly tonight.

He slides over to Keith, not really noticing what he's doing besides the fact that he actually seems to be loosened up. Then he goes to lean his arm on Keith's shoulder, forgetting that he's taller now and missing, stumbling and catching himself with his hands on Keith's hips instead.]

Man, stop bein' taller. It's fuckin' rude. Alsoooo, I bet I could totally beat drunk you at darts.

[azurestar]

[When Ruby reminded him her birthday was Halloween, he rushed to do a little something for her. Or as big a something as he could manage so short notice. He also told Keith it would be happening so he wasn't surprised by it and as he expected, the guy was totally ok with it. He seemed ready to shrink into the ground when he saw the party was for him as it was.

So at the stroke of Midnight, some confetti burst in the air and a 'Happy Birthday, Ruby!' banner fell from the ceiling. And Lance got up on the mic and announced it.]

Everybody, it's Midnight and you know what that means! Yes, it's Halloween and also Ruby Rose's Birthday!

[Some sick dance music plays and he does some breakdance before leaping off and working his way around a bunch of locals and sleepers who came. Then he picked up a box he'd hid her cake inside and brought it over for her to blow out the candles. It's got red frosting and a scythe underlining her name in the 'Happy Birthday Ruby!' on the top.]

[onekindsoul]

[On any other year. Ruby's birthday would be at the very front of her mind. But with the wedding this year it had finally taken the number two spot on her list. It's why she had come to this party a touch more low key about it and ready to celebrate something fun for someone else.

But- Then the dance music starts playing. The confetti bursts and there's even break dancing.]

Woah- Woah- Woah!

[She is caught off guard, but is absolutely pleasantly surprised by what she sees before her. It takes her a moment to stop fidgeting from the sudden attention.]

I oh- Wow. Thanks Lance. This is pretty amazing.

[And she glances at the cake. Then takes a deep breath and blows out the candles.

If. If she were make a wish. It would be that her and Ange. That- This next step in their life would give them a chance to live and truly be happy here. Just reaffirming what she already wanted and fought to protect.]