[OPEN] If you're gonna be a homebody...

[starless_sky]

Who: Everyone!!
Broadcast: N/A
Where: A little house on the planet!
When: Now!

Noct hasn't thrown a party since Luna's birthday and honestly he hasn't felt like throwing one since she left but her being back... things seem to be going right. This planet is creepy but he likes the domesticity. They can party all night with no cleanup, chores do themselves! It's the perfect setup for a house party. Empty dwellings, no neighbors to complain about noise, a self-cleaning house... a recently returned beloved wife. What else is there to say?

So for those of you who remember Noct's wedding or Luna's birthday this will be old hat. For the new ones you may notice a certain adorable pair of dogs wandering around the fleet. They are delivering mail today. And there's something for you! It's an invitation to a house party. There's an address for a house that is planetside. 

Starts at 5pm and goes until the town resets. Bring anything you want. Food, drinks, and games are provided. We do have a pool so dress appropriately. Alcohol will be served if you are of age. 

ALSO CAKE

xoxo Noctis and Lunafreya

The house itself is the same as any other creepy dwelling in the town. But it has signs of life. Inside there is music, a buffet, a massive cake, a pinata, a pool, beer pong, and a TV room with the black and white classics from the video rental store playing. 

So come on in, make yourself at home. Noct and Luna greet everybody who comes in, the door is open. Help yourself, grab a plate, take a dip in the pool!

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Pool

[starless_sky]

What else is there to say? Get wet. There are inflatables floating around the pool, also there are balls to be tossed around if you want. Diving sticks and water guns. Forgot your suit? just jump in, nobody will judge you.

OTA

[starless_sky]

Noct is in a unicorn floaty. He has on sunglasses, a t-shirt, and some tropically themed swim trunks. He has a glass in his hand and he's aimlessly drifting around his pool before it gets too crowded.

Upon noticing a newcomer he raises his glass.

"Glad you could make it. Hey, do me a favor, this glass is empty, reach into that cooler and throw me whatever you find in there?" there are beers and sodas.

[luxoraculi]

"I've a better idea, darling. How about I get you a drink and carry it to you?" Throwing glass is a no no, dear. Luna's in a white bikini, but she's got a thin coverup over it, thank you very much. She'll tug said coverup off for a few seconds after she reaches into the aforementioned cooler to grab up an orange soda, before walking down the stairs of the pool and swimming it over to her husband.

She takes the empty glass in his hand and replaces it swiftly with the bottle of cold soda instead, looking extremely amused. "Better?"

[starless_sky]

Aww... he can just drop it in the pool... it'll get cleaned up tonight. He is aware of the mess but it's okay, they don't really have to clean this place up at all. It's perfect.

But those thoughts are gone as he sees her drop her bikini wrap. He knows what she looks like. He's a very loving husband to her, he has her body memorized but still... seeing her drop that with people milling around makes him grip his glass harder. "You look nice..." meaning he wants to see her upstairs tonight maybe before the party is over.

He almost wants to swim with her but watching her come over to him is so cute. He grins. He leans down to her. "Thanks. Mmm... not quite. I feel so lonely out here on my own."

[luxoraculi]

Glass in a pool is a safety hazard, clean up tonight or not. She doesn't want her dearly beloved, or any of their guests getting injured, thank you very much. She wades back to the side of the pool with his empty glass and sets it there for now, before she swims back to him. She can see the look on his face, and it makes her smile widen and pulls a giggle from her. "Thank you, dear. You look nice, too."

She knows that look very well... they've got guests, good sir. They'll have to wait until later when everyone is gone. But for now she is happy to oblige him, leaning up on her toes to press a gentle kiss against his lips. "Lonely, hm? You looked very content a few moments ago... almost as if you were going to fall asleep..."

[bi_otic]

Kaidan pauses on his way around the pool and glances at the cooler, then eyes Noctis lounging a few week away. Swim trunks are actually one of the new non-fleet issue pieces of clothing he owns, which he's wearing with the fleet-issue undershirt. Not exactly a complicated man.

"Sure. Least I can do to thank you for inviting me," he says, stooping to pull out a beer and wiping the ice water off it with the towel hanging around his neck. Easier to catch that way.

"What's the occasion?" he asks, as he edges over towards the pool and tosses the bottle in a gentle underhand.

[starless_sky]

Noctis can appreciate simplicity. It runs his life in some ways. He is lazy and thus whatever clothes are nearest to him are easiest. If he didn't have a wife managing him...

"Hey, thanks for coming. You should get one too." yes beer. Luna just brought him a soda. The teetotaler. "Ah... my wife came back to the fleet. We had a house for the time being and we get to pretend we're domestic which is a first for us. And the house cleans itself. It'd be stupid not to do this."

[bi_otic]

Kaidan will never say no to a cold beer on a warm day, so he gladly scoops one up for himself and smoothly lowers himself to sit at the edge of the pool, legs dangling into the water. It's nice, outside of the slight eeriness of the whole planet that he can't entirely shake.

"It is a pretty good opportunity. Wish my room came with a reset button," he says, pausing to twist the top off of his beer.

"So why haven't you done this before. You were married back on your world, weren't you?" He tries to remember what Prompto had told him before. Something about driving to their wedding?

Games

[starless_sky]

There's beer pong if you're daring but there are tame things like a pinata, limbo, and someone may be tossing a ball around outside. Also, there is an old dusty dartboard on the back patio. Go nuts kids.

OTA

[starless_sky]

Noct may or may not be trying to beat his best score at darts. He got whipped by his best friend a while back and it's just not something he can swallow. He wants to get better so watch him throw them if you like.

It's not really fair to throw darts without an opponent though. He has a handful of them set on a table near the dart board, ready for a second player. He's so intent on the board as he aims his dart he won't even notice at first if someone picks up the darts to join him.

[ultima_mortis]

Have you ever seen Death play darts with brutal efficiency? He really isn't all that good at the game, but Death has been through enough pubs in his day to get a decent idea of how to play, although he'll never get the points right. He still doesn't remember what the horse shaped piece in chess is called.

MAY I JOIN IN? Death is nothing but polite. THIS IS A NICE LITTLE PARTY. I NORMALLY DON'T GET TO ENJOY THEM.

[starless_sky]

Noctis ought to be more afraid of Death. Or just startled by him. He never seems to be, though. Perhaps it really does have something to do with what he'd said when they met. That he was 'touched by a god of death'. Maybe his family's historical Etro worship was more significant than he thought. His father had always encouraged him to have more faith...

"Oh yeah, sure. Do you know how to play? Wait, do you... know all the things humans have come up with? Like games and their rules? Are all human ideas part of you or just their ideas about death?"

"Oh and thanks. Thanks for coming."

[ultima_mortis]

Death has gotten to a certain point in his life where people who meet him tend to be more annoyed or bored than anything. It comes with having to talk to people who are more aware of who he is and how he does things. Someone like Noctis is therefore someone he would expect to quickly become comfortable around him.

I CAN MOST CERTAINLY PLAY. IT'S CHESS THAT REALLY GIVES ME TROUBLE OUT OF ALL THE GAMES HUMANS HAVE COME UP WITH. SOME PEOPLE ARE VERY TRADITIONAL LIKE THAT. HUMAN IDEAS ARE ALWAYS A PART OF WHO I AM, BUT I NEED TO LEARN THE RULES JUST AS ANYONE ELSE DOES.

He tosses a dart, landing it extremely close to the bullseye. YOU'RE WELCOME. I'VE ACTUALLY COLLECTED PEOPLE IN THE PAST OVER GAMES LIKE THIS. ALCOHOL MAKES MEN VERY SENSITIVE TO PERCEIVED INJUSTICES.

[bi_otic]

Beer Pong. What a throwback. There's something like a look of intense nostalgia on his face as Kaidan experimentally bounces the ping pong ball on the table.

"I don't think I've played this since I was a recruit," he says, more to himself than anyone that might be standing nearby or looking to join.

[starless_sky]

"You never played while you were in the service?" Noct isn't sure just what service Kaidan was in. He just knows the look of a soldier. He's been surrounded by plenty his whole life. The muscles, the discipline, the lack of... being a messy lazy disaster like him.

"I didn't play it much after we left my city either. Didn't play it much when my dad was around. It's an indulgence to have it here. You think you remember how to play?"

[bi_otic]

Kaidan wears his service on his sleeve. Literally, in some cases, considering he wore his BDU's around the ship more than he wore anything else. Not today, though, of course. He's trying to relax a little. Sometimes it takes effort to remind himself to have a little fun.

"Not much. We did a version of it at BaAt, but they didn't give us alcohol back then, so it was just with juice or water. People played in the barracks, but they're weird about letting biotics play, so I didn't get to join in much. As if it weren't obvious if I was cheating. And after that I was usually too busy."

He bounces the ball a few more times in thought.

"It's mostly 'if you make the shot the other person drinks', I think. Probably some finer points in there somewhere."

Food

[starless_sky]

Noctis spent a really really long time watching Luna work on this buffet spread. It's piled high with delicious things and not too many vegetables. He made sure of that just for you. There are cake and many drinks, alcoholic and not. Grab a plate! Eat so you can avoid talking to people! Eat so you can START talking to people!

OTA

[starless_sky]

Noct may not have made any of this but he's busying himself getting things restocked. Ice for the coolers, clean glasses for the drink table, plates and napkins... maybe some more cake needs to be pre-sliced so people can just take some as they want it.

He is busy enough he doesn't notice you standing there. He backs right into you as he turns around. Whoops.

"Whoah-- sorry!" a flash of blue as he warps away out of range to trip anyone. "Didn't see you there. Did you want something?"

[ginger_firebird]

The plate of cake is mercifully lifted out of the way and above his head before Noctis' misstep can do any proper damage to the pastry. That flash step move, however, is very interesting to a nosy-without-a-nose type like Mantis.

"I can do something like that, only with shadows." The cake, plate and all, returns to his hand. "You'll have to try harder to knock me over."

[starless_sky]

Noct is very glad he almost collided with Mantis. Someone else would have been on the floor or at least their food would be. Even with the house resetting tonight, it would be a mess to clean up now. Relief passed over his face. It shouldn't, what with the strange gas mask and the... floating. But he's past thinking about that stuff anymore.

"If I wanted to knock you over I expect you'd know about it before I could get close. An accident is probably my best attempt."

"You can... warp with shadows?"

OTA

[pork_bowl]

<sub>[Better watch out. Yuri is drinking alcohol in here. He won't get violent or angry... but if left alone he may drink enough to start dancing.

Actually, you may want to let him continue until he gets to that point! It is certainly a spectacle.

He is already swaying his hips to the music that's booming through the house, actually. He tries to pour himself another glass.]</sub>

Empty... dang. Is there any more champagne?

TV Room

[starless_sky]

These movies are different to say the least but they are a nice reprieve from the energetic party going on elsewhere in the house. Need a break? Lay on the couch and watch whatever is happening here. The movie is half over so good luck guessing what the plot is about. The couch isn't uncomfortable, you could just nap too...

OTA

[starless_sky]

There is a dramatic moment going on TV. A black and white film, a woman crying and recounting her failed marriage with her devastatingly handsome but duplicitous husband. It's enough to make you cry.

If you were paying attention. Noctis is not. He's asleep on the couch which is a bit rude since he's sleeping in your seat. Don't feel shy about waking him.

[this_loser]

Well, that's rude. Prompto gives Noct a little shake before just ... wiggling into whatever space he can make for himself between his friend and the armrest.

"Scooch over, dude, or I'm going to use you as a cushion."

[starless_sky]

He's a rude boy when he's sleepy. Which is all the time...

Noct scrunches his face up when he's shifted. He was sleeping so peacefully! Why do you have to bother him like this? He was happy... but then without waking up he shifts and lays his head in Prompto's lap.

"Better...."