subnautica | DECEMBER 2ND, birthday armageddon action mingle

So, anyone in the entertainment room area come December 2nd will be subjected to a ridiculous clash of colors and decorations. While the only advertisement was word-of-mouth, it's a six-way birthday party although none of the guests of honor seem to care if people actually celebrate their birthdays; it's possible to just come by for cake and/or random hangouts. The room seems to be divvied up into six pie slices with decorations, with a table in the middle with six cakes. The slices are kind of variable but easy enough to match up to their respective "owner": Jade's is neon green paired with white decoration-wise and seems to mostly be dog themed, although there's also more glitter in her slice than anywhere else; Jake's is less neon green paired with black and the collective Dave-and-Rose decoration committee apparently decided skulls was as good a theme as anything; Dave's is red and black and records although also just really dumb sbahj drawings which tbh have infected the other slices aside from Rose's; Dirk's is orange-and-white and robots; Rose's is purple-and-black and wizards and octopi; Roxy's is pink-and-white and cats and wizards. None of the decorations really seem intended to mesh with any other slices' decorations at all?

The cakes are equally mismatched, although some of them work together. Jade got a Bec-head shaped cake; Jake got another...skull...THEY TRIED, OKAY JAKE; Dave elected himself for hella jeff; Dirk got assigned sweet bro because Rose couldn't convince Dave to Not; Rose herself got a very disturbing octopus tentacle thing, what the fuck Rose; and Roxy got a cat.

There are like six pinatas in various colors and some party games and a movie marathon that seems to have literally no theme beyond being chosen by Dave and Rose and therefore the theme might actually be "what movie will annoy my sibling most" back and forth. So there's. Just a super variety of stuff there. And there's music which Dave seems to have been in control of, although most of it is lowkey so that's nice???

Sorry if you wanted to do something in this room related to not this hot mess today, BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE NOT DOING SIX SEPARATE PARTIES??? Also there are party hats in the colors of each slice (with a dumb paper crown in slice colors for each birthday kid) so pick your poison. There's a generic and very messy "HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY" banner so apparently it's just. 6 17s? Nice.

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There's an anime club?

[adrien agreste you are a superhero FOCUS ON WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. he shakes his head because the latter comment is a lot more important than him being a weeaboo]

There's s--stuff that wants to kill people here?

[it's amazing how he went from "mild panic" to "looks offended at the very idea". if this is Papillon's home planet (????) then it makes sense that it'd be dangerous, but that people living on it are in constant danger... this sounds like a job for superheroes!!!!]

Yeah. I'm not in it.

[ because anime club...but dave takes a bite of his own cake, and chews thoughtfully and swallows before answering. ]

I mean...the Reapers are pretty much hate the world kinda fish? They occasionally try to kill people. So far they have failed a lot. We're kinda op. And there may be an alien invader parasitic species, but I'm friends with some of them and we're working on getting them to like...not. Mind-invade people? It's a work in progress.

Oh.

[does it sound and look like you kicked a kitten when you said you werent in the anime club, dave? yes. yes it does. but once again PRIORITIES. dave's explanation does not make adrien feel any less "!!!" in his superhero heart]

... Okay, I didn't get, like, half of that, but-- it sounds to me like you guys are a bit in over your head right now. Is there anything I can do to help?

[adrien you literally just got here. you are a walking glitterbomb. what are you saying]

[ BRO LIKED ANIME, dave is less into it??? because of that. ]

Uh. We can make a club for my comic?

[ do you. want to be in a club with him? ]

Also we're like, pretty okay. If you want to help with missions and shit by all means? Actually shit we gotta do that submarine thing later this month if you wanna like, go with. Below the lava vents. In a sub?

Um. Sure? I'd have to read it, first?

[he just assumed it was a rejection somehow ok. why does he keep agreeing to everything? he has to find Ladybug?? but also?? this is the vaguest explanation of what is happening he could get it is raising his stress level to 100]

I ... could do submarine adventures, I think? [there's a joke about catfish to be made here somewhere. but also:] What is it for?

[what are any of the missions for. he is eating cake on an alien planet what is happening]

I can send you the link to the archive. ...Oh I guess we should hook you up with URSULA - base ai - so you get a communicator and shit.

[ on his wrist is his own red one. ]

The sub mission is 'cause Rose - my sister, she's a seer - says we need to do it in order to good end with the Kharaa. That's the alien race I'm tryin' to work shit out with.

[... he sort of already has a communicator half the time, but maybe getting another one wouldn't be bad? and it's not like he can tell dave that "it's fine, i have magical technology when i transform into a superhero". since. secret identities and all. so Adrien just ... nods. of course they have an AI they're on a different planet? populated by aliens? so sci-fi.]

Sure. That should be helpful around here.

[and now it's back to fantasy. sci-fi fantasy magical girls... this is too many genres]

Your sister's a seer? Like... oracles and seeing the future and all of that? [sound a little less excited about it, adrien]

Yeah, def, since it'll hook you into the network we all use. Also there are apps on it? Naoko Catsume, Creepvine, Instaclam, the works.

[ those are exactly what they were ripped off from... ]

And yeah. Seer of Light. I'm the Knight of Time, side note.

[okay wait he needs a moment. his face gets a funny look when he hears the words "instaclam", like he's... restraining a laugh? yeah. yeah, he's restraining a laugh. he just coughs awkwardly]

So ... it's basically like a phone. But. Only for this base? Have I got that right?

[it's a valid question, okay. also that reminds him to check his pocket and realize he doesn't have his phone right now. which is. fine? there probably isn't great service on another planet anyway. ... and now he's back to looking interested NO ADRIEN HOMESTUCK IS A TRAP]

Seer of Light and Knight of Time? Sounds like something out of a video game. [which he's not saying in a bad way: he literally thinks it sounds Awesome.]

Yep. And we're your preloaded contacts, basically.

[ dave just nods. ]

It pretty much is out of a video game? There are more people with other titles, but ours are pretty dramatic and also easy to get. She does future-seeing shit, I do time bullshit; what is there to explain, you know?

Got it. So all I've got to do is go see the AI and she'll... get me settled, I guess? [a beat as he glances to where Marinette is ~~whatever she's doing~~] Marinette, too, of course.

[adrien nods along to the homestuck explanation]

Yeah, that seems straightforward enough. [... should he question people having time powers more. is that a weird thing to just accept or. nah, whatever, Aliens Are Here, who cares. ... though maybe he should--] It's kinda cool that you guys have powers, though!

[... he means it but also #secret identity. he is so slick. so subtle. nailing it]

I mean, yeah, it's p cool? It's useful for farming surprisingly. Time powers.

[ ... ]

Uh, we farm our own food.

Wow. I've... never even been to a farm.

[is this really the thing he chooses to focus on? yes. yes it is. he can't farm??? he's never held a hoe once in his life?? is he allowed to calm them hoes??? though, okay, that does beg the question, since he's holding a cake...]

Wait, if you farm everything, how did you guys make the cake? [a beat as he takes in everything] Cakes</>?

Oh, we have people who like, cook. I just asked one of them to make cakes.

[ THANKS RAPUNZEL, PROBABLY!!!!!!!! ]

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