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A Clearing In The Preserve, Thursday Evening

Sep 23, 2010 13:29

This evening, there was a bit more activity going on in the preserve than the usual scampering and frolicking of the teal deer and the alots. Tonight, there were paper lanterns strung up through the branches and along the trees, there were tables set up in the clearing, and there was music. If it lacked a banner and balloons, they were hoping the ( Read more... )

karla, tahiri veila, rinoa heartilly, squall leonhart, ino yamanaka, zack fair, alex russo, elphaba thropp, bruce wayne, preserve, leda, kennedy, hannibal king, tara maclay, quinn fabray, nobody owens

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Arrive! Mingle! puppy_fair September 23 2010, 16:31:09 UTC

Did you bring a mask? Do you need one? There's a table set out piled high with plenty of also moddable masks for you to grab one if you need it. And now that you're all set, just hang around and enjoy the party, while you wait for the birthday girl to arrive and once she's here!

Re: Arrive! Mingle! glacial_witch September 23 2010, 17:02:27 UTC

Karla was there, holding her mask in place and surveying the lanterns. The alot of masks and alot of lanterns kept trying to snuffle around the food, so she occasionally had her hands full with shooing them off.

Re: Arrive! Mingle! puppy_fair September 23 2010, 20:52:18 UTC

"This," Zack announced once he'd arrived with the birthday girl, "is pretty awesome, isn't it?"

Also, hi!

"Did you hear the squeaky sound she made?"

Re: Arrive! Mingle! glacial_witch September 23 2010, 21:12:25 UTC

"Yes!" Karla grinned like a maniac, holding up her hand for a high five. "But, since it's her birthday, I'm going to tell her that, no, of course I didn't."

Karla was generous like that.

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Food! puppy_fair September 23 2010, 16:35:06 UTC

Oh, there is one heck of a selection of Japanese Wutaian Konohan food set out on the tables today, from takoyaki to okonomiyaki (but no natto), and a bunch of sweets as well, such as chocolate-covered bananas and dango. And... It's entirely possible that Zack decided to one-up the three cakes from his own birthday party, because he went right ahead and arranged for Ino to have four.

So far as he saw it, it kind of made up for the hamster ball, almost.

Re: Food! decoder_rings September 23 2010, 18:09:11 UTC

Food? Yeah, Hannibal would be at that table, partaking in some food since he'd been living on Ramen and macaroni and cheese for awhile now.

Re: Food! glacial_witch September 23 2010, 21:49:10 UTC

Karla was up for trying just about anything (though Hinata's reaction was enough to keep her leery of the non-existent natto), and was busily helping herself to a lot of the new foods.

The chocolate-covered bananas made her wish for more crepes.

Dance! puppy_fair September 23 2010, 16:35:55 UTC

They'd managed to rig up a decent set of speakers out here. A lot of what was being played was Ino's collection of J-Pop, K-Pop, and other kinds of music with the word 'pop' in them, but there was enough interspersed to give everyone something to dance to.

Re: Dance! anarchist_queen September 23 2010, 19:02:44 UTC

Even with one arm still in a sling, Leda gravitated to the dance floor and began to gracefully move about in time with the music.

Now if only she had someone to dance with.

Surprise! Talk to the Birthday Girl! puppy_fair September 23 2010, 16:36:31 UTC

Once Zack manages to con her into showing up for a random evening picnic. Oh yeah, he's so totally creative that way.

Re: Surprise! Talk to the Birthday Girl! flowering_mind September 23 2010, 19:28:29 UTC

To be entirely honest, it hadn’t taken Zack much effort to get Ino to agree to something as adorably nonsensical as a picnic in the Preserve at night (though she’d been dubious until he’d told her where in the Preserve-no way had she wanted to go anywhere near where she’d disappeared the last time) and Ino had been in a fairly decent mood about it. As birthdays went, it’d be quiet, but that had its own certain appeal-

A thought which, stuttered and stumbled to a halt when she realized that a) those were lanterns making the night glow and b) could hear the music and then, well, what else could she do make a squeaky noise of pure glee and just stare?

And was that her music playing?

Re: Surprise! Talk to the Birthday Girl! puppy_fair September 23 2010, 19:42:33 UTC

"Happy birthday, Ino," said Zack, smiling broadly as he gave her hand a tug. There was stuff there! Didn't she want to see the stuff?

Yeah, he looked way too excited for this to be some kind of silly late-at-night picnic. Zack Fair was not so great at keeping happy secrets.

Re: Surprise! Talk to the Birthday Girl! flowering_mind September 23 2010, 19:46:42 UTC

And yet, he'd managed to keep it well enough that she was actually surprised! Go him!

She wanted to see the stuff! But staring! She liked just staring too!

"You didn't have to," she said, wide-eyed as he tugged her along.

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Presents! puppy_fair September 23 2010, 16:36:53 UTC

If you don't know what goes here, you are very silly people, indeed.

Re: Presents! glacial_witch September 23 2010, 17:31:50 UTC

Inside Karla's present, Ino would find several different kinds of bulbs and seeds for various flowers, each of them neatly labeled: oleander, belladonna, datura, lily of the valley, monkshood, Rosary pea, rhododendrons, summer snowflake, and tanghin.

There was a small index card next to each plant, with growing and caring instructions. On the back of each card was further instructions, but they had nothing to do with plant care.

The birthday card attached simply read Every lady deserves a garden as lovely and dangerous as she is.

Re: Presents! decoder_rings September 23 2010, 18:11:37 UTC

Hannibal dropped off one small package and larger gift that just looked cool.

Re: Presents! nimeni September 23 2010, 18:16:22 UTC

Bod wasn't used to giving gifts since ghosts didn't have birthdays but he got Ino something to help her love of music. It was wrapped a little awkwardly but with love.

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