PARTY LOG: OPEN TO EVERYONE

[npc_kun]

Characters: OPEN
Date/Time: FORWARDdated to Friday, March 25th. All day!
Location: The Park
Rating: PG-13 for assumed general raucousness
Summary: Sniper decided to hold a birthday party for Cloud and Krile which means... holding just a huge party in the park whether they like it or not. Fireworks, food and drink within

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PREPARATIONS (Decorating, setting up fireworks, etc)

[npc_kun]

Open!

[longnosedliar]

Sniper really wasn't sure how many people were going to show up to this party. If he was being completely honest with himself, he wasn't exactly in a party mood, so to speak. He had his misgivings about whatever was going on Edensphere these days. People were being put in cocoons and trapped in the elevator left and right, and the more often these things happened, the more uneasy he became. Not to mention Aim's disappearance. That certainly put a damper on the birthday girl's spirits

Re: Open!

[cathar_jedi]

Juhani had debated coming. She had two shifts of work today, and parties held no interest for her. Even negative interest, perhaps; she was no fan of crowds.

She had made no real commitment. Should Sniper note her absence, she could explain it, truthfully, as a schedule conflict.

But it was her choice, and so she came by, before her first shift, to see. Acting on impulse, she shut her eyes and called on the Force to conceal her before she crept unseen through preparations until she saw Sniper.

Juhani was tempted to uncloak just behind him, but she knew that such a thing was cruel and unnecessary. She uncloaked a few meters behind him and deliberately stepped on a twig so that it broke loudly.

[longnosedliar]

Sniper turned around when he heard the twig snap behind him, surprised that he hadn't heard any footsteps before, but this thought went wholly forgotten as he turned to see Juhani's familiar face.

"Juhani!" He said, brightening. "You came."

He half expected her not to have come, if he was being perfectly honest with himself. She didn't seem to like... much of anything, really. At least, not that he noticed. He wouldn't have been surprised if she didn't come at all, but her unexpected presence brought cheer to his face.

"Hey, happy late birthday."

MAIN PARTY

[npc_kun]

open!

[feathered_earth]

Krile was trying to find things to be happy about. A party was a good candidate. She sat on an unoccupied table, chin propped on her hand as she made an attempt to put the sadness of the past week out of her mind. Neil gone, Bridge on the elevator... there was a part of Krile that expected him to disappear too. And a detestable thought that she hadn't been able to shake: that she should expect him to disappear. It would be easier to be prepared than to hope for something that might not happen.

She didn't want to think that way. After all...

...no, no, no. She'd told Sniper that she would be here. And she wanted to be here, to have fun, to be happy. It was plain silly to think of a birthday party as a reminder of all the bad things that had happened in the past two years. There were plenty of those... but there was plenty good, too. Like Sniper, for instance. And Cloud. And lots of other people that were still around, right? Right... doing her best to keep that in mind, Krile slid off the table and went to go find someone to talk to.

Re: open!

[blue_shields]

Sky arrived at the party not really feeling in a party mood. However, it was for friends- Cloud and Krile- and like Stoneface told him after Inara had disappeared, it was wrong of him to hide away and never speak to anybody just because he was feeling upset.

He had Bridge's journal with him, the much-loved and worn leather cover in his hands something of a comfort as he played the waiting game, dreading that his best friend would never come back but at the same time, knowing that he had to hope or else he'd drive himself insane.

Spotting Krile, he somewhat-hesitantly moved toward her; she didn't seem to be in much of a partying mood either.

Re: open!

[feathered_earth]

When Krile spotted Sky toying with the journal, she felt a momentary flash of fear. But no... he probably just had it because he was keeping an eye on it, not because it had stopped. And if it had, Sky wouldn't have come to a party to tell people. She was pretty sure of that.

She managed a smile when he started in her direction, glad to see him anyhow, and hugged him on a sudden impulse. He looked like he could use one.

"Hey there, mister. Want to get something to eat?"

FIREWORKS

[npc_kun]

Closed to Huo & Stellaris

[longnosedliar]

Though Sniper had been prepared to present a fireworks celebration on his own for months now, he was more than happy to receive help from Stellaris and Huo. Many hands made light work, and besides, the both of them made pleasant - if not rather subdued and overly polite - company. They were the sorts that he felt childish around, too caught up in his own fantasies and joys, but he wasn't about to let that stop him

[getsome_sleep]

"Sniper-jūn. Good evening."

Though the first to admit that he was the more subdued sort, Huo had looked forward to that evening, that event. The party was part of it - a welcome breather, cheerful and welcoming, when his life in Edensphere seemed to have been a leaf in a storm for weeks now - but a greater part was in anticipation of the fireworks display. It had been singularly bad luck that his first real experience with that new art form happened in the midst of horrific violence - violence that he had had to take first-hand part in. That was the issue. Not the use of fireworks as weapons - Huo liked weapons. He simply liked them in other people's hands.

Perhaps not a very virtuous thought, but a realistic one.

He bowed to Sniper in quick greeting - nothing too formal, striking a balance between his idea of good manners and the other man's rather different idea - and surveyed the collection of fireworks with an eager eye. "This will be very nice. What help may I give you at the moment?"

[longnosedliar]

"Hey Huo, evening!" Sniper nodded brightly at Huo, then nodded at the spot next to him for him to sit down. "Nice? I hope it'll be spectacular! We just have to wait for it to get properly dark."

He gestured at the spread of packages in front of him. Their shape gave away what sort of fireworks they were, but he had hastily painted them as well for easier identification.

"You want to help me separate these into different categories? I think I've got what order to shoot them in pretty much figured out, but have you got any ideas?" Sniper scratched the side of his nose thoughtfully. "It'll go from smallest to biggest, of course."

AFTERMATH

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