MINGLE — NYE & Winn's Birthday PARTY!

[passingthrough]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: Broadcast — Earlier than now for planning
Action: Hotel Corona — Winn's birthday / NYE party!
When: Action — Dec. 31 / New Year's Eve

[Broadcast (open to everyone but Winn)]
At the risk for earning a reputation as a party planner, I have a thing for everyone to attend again. Don't worry, lots of other people are helping pull it together. It's going to be on New Year's Eve, but the real event is the countdown to Winn's birthday which is also on the first. It's going to be in a club we rented out for this in the red shift district. Starts around seven-ish. Ends when you pass out?

It's kind of a surprise maybe? At least the part where it's for his birthday. And if you don't know Winn but you still want to come that's fine too. You can trade a gift for Winn for a free drink at the bar. Otherwise, bring some money. Cake's on us though.

[Birthday/New Year's Party]
[The space is well decorated and so glittered you can probably tell Wrath was part of the team putting this together. Lots of Winn's friends came out to help whether it was getting decorations up, managing food, music, or chipping in to buy out the space and a drink for anyone bringing a gift. Not to mention drinks for the birthday boy all night.

There's a table for presents and another one with a spread of openly available food though the bar has appetizers you can buy too. There's a big cake at one end because of course there is and some punch that didn't start the night spiked at least. There's space for dancing and a karaoke machine set up on a small raised platform for those who want to try their hand at entertainment.

The night really kicks off when Winn walks in and instead of a balloon drop there's a fluffy blue stuffed bear drop. Feel free to take one of those home. There are a lot.

When midnight comes closer some people will file out to one of the observation areas to get a good view of the nebula for the big countdown. Bring your own person to kiss!

Comments

[ladybro]

[ she eyes him with care and just a bit of skepticism. ]

Are you trying to say that dancing with me, like, revived your memory? [ a puff of air. ] Sounds a little too fairy tale for my liking.

[stefanged]

My entire life's a fairy tale, so yeah. [He tilts his head back, almost amused.] That's exactly what I mean.

[ladybro]

Oh yeah? [ kate's nose scrunches -- not with disbelief, really, but with a kind of charmed curiousity. ] Like which fairy tale?

[stefanged]

Sleeping Beauty, probably. [He says, like he's put zero thought into it.] Except, you know, with memory loss instead of a sleeping curse.

[ladybro]

Just waiting for your Prince-slash-Princess Charming to swing by and dance your memories back into place, huh?

[ -- because she volunteers as tribute. ]

[stefanged]

You could say that. Sometimes, I even end up being my own Prince Charming.

[He wouldn't mind the tribute, but he also feels that he's gotta try and regain the rest himself.]

[ladybro]

[ ah, well. she releases him with an affectionate pat on his chest. ]

Nothing wrong with that. Those are some of the best fairy tales, if you ask me.

[ the ones where you get to be your own damn hero. ]

[stefanged]

[They're the best kind, even if he wouldn't mind playing lad in distress. He laughs, lingering a little longer than he should.]

Agreed, but between you and me? Sometimes it's okay to let someone else play hero.

[ladybro]

Maybe. Sometimes. [ a crinkle of her nose. ] Only if I'm looking to spice things up, Stefan. Otherwise I can do pretty well for myself.

[ they are talking about heroism, right? ]

[stefanged]

[Head... tilt....

Sometimes, this boy is far too Muslim to realize the subtleties in what he just said, and when it hits him, his cheeks turn flushed.]

Yeah, yeah, of course. It'd be a pretty weird role reversal.

[Y'Allah, he should excuse himself while he's ahead.]

[ladybro]

[ oh good grief he's cute and he's endearing and kate is left just -- just kinda grinning. maybe she should feel bad, but she doesn't. new years is for flirting and dancing and meeting new people. this utterly suffices. ]

I just mean -- [ she opts for mercy ] -- apart from the real super-powered stuff, I don't usually need that much saving. Not these days.

[stefanged]

[Praise be to Allah(swt). Stefan's sigh is a relieved one.]

Ah. That's probably a good thing, considering the weirdness this place throws at us.

[ladybro]

It could always be worse. Trust me. [ and like a bar-shark, she's keen to win some points for being impressive. ] I once spent a few months on a ship, back home. A space ship, sure, with engines that were powered by belief.

I kid you not.

[stefanged]

Belief? Belief in like, God or fairies or that everything would turn out alright?

[He's Impressed, alright.]

Because... wow, yeah, that's not a requirement for the faint of heart.

[ladybro]

That last one -- kinda like where belief crosses paths with imagination. My trademark acerbic wit and cutting commentary was less than welcome during the journey.

[stefanged]

Aw, and here I thought someone with said cutting commentary would have a super active imagination.

[Not that Stefan has much room to talk, given that his brand of "creativity" is fiction-writing (and stress baking).]

[ladybro]

Hey! I'd like to think so. Really. [ a half-shrug. ] The ship's captain? Not so much.

[stefanged]

Which then makes me ask, how did someone like that become captain? First come, first served?

[ladybro]

It was his ship. We were just -- hitchhikers. Kinda. [ a crinkle of her nose. ] So I guess it was exactly like first come, first served.

[stefanged]

Great. So the Fleet's system might actually be universal.

[Stefan didn't exactly sign up to be captain. It was assigned by default.]

[ladybro]

Not so universal. Noh's a kree warrior. And the ship was a kree ship. He -- [ wait, this is worth explaining. ] Alien, by the way. Long story.

[stefanged]

Well, normally? I have nothing but time, so when you're up for it... Tell me all your long stories, and uh, get boring medical school ones in exchange.

[Or fairy tales, should she actually like those.]

[ladybro]

-- Actually? [ and kate says this with zero self-consciousness. she doesn't even wince. ] Calling it a long story was my way of side-stepping the fact that he's my ex. And no cute guy cutting a rug with a gal ever wants to hear her yammer on about exes. It's pretty much common knowledge.

[stefanged]

I don't know. Even if he was your ex, he was important to you - and any guy who'd want something long-term should respect that.

[Or maybe Stefan's being too generous, considering how often he brings up his ex-girlfriends in casual conversation. They taught him a lot, they broadened his horizons, and well? With the exception of Misa? Their stories weren't tragic.]

Now, if it were a burning trainwreck, I'd agree. Best not to mention the ex the first time around.

[ladybro]

Noh-Varr wasn't a burning trainwreck. Thankfully. [ kate's nose crinkles with indecision. ] But he definitely wasn't a walk in the park, either. Ever get dumped mid-fight? And I'm not talking about one of those it's your turn to do the dishes fights. I mean...the whole team's duking it out with an interdimensional parasite and your boyfriend, fighting back-to-back with you, decides he'd rather go steady with the villainess in the gimp mask.

[ she raises her right hand. ] Not a word of lie. Ok, so maybe it is closer to trainwreck. Now that I say it out loud.