DECEMBER 2ND, birthday armageddon action mingle

[parodeity]

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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[monsieurchatastrophe]

[they infodump hard. Adrien is still kinda recovering. At least he got cake out of it?]

The blanks... Does that mean you know how I got here?

[adrien isn't likely to share his fake memory because of secret identity bullshit, but he can talk around that to get info? Probably? He can try, at least]

[superseding]

[ Cake is a just reward. ]

Oh... I'm sorry. [ Hotaru looks down, very remorseful. ] No, not specifically. There are some theories, but, um, I think there needs to be more research done.

[ Hinata discovered that they all probably drowned to get there not too long ago, but she doesn't think that's a good thing to say right away as well. There's infodumping and then there's burying. ]

I can tell you when I first arrived, I woke up on a wrecked and sinking ship, so it's not the same for everyone.

[monsieurchatastrophe]

[cake is the Best reward, obviously. Hotaru's look of remorse at not having an answer is far more important to Adrien than the lack of answers themselves (he can figure all that shit out Later, preferably while wearing a magical cat suit after finding his partner, because it is Definitely Not Marinette) and so he's quick to try to reassure her:]

It's okay, even only knowing that much helps a lot. It's good to know I should be grateful my arrival was just being covered in glitter and confetti. Awkward, sure, but not dangerous. I'm glad you got out of that alright.

[superseding]

[ She's supposed to reassure Adrien (even if she's doing a very poor job of it), not the other way around?? He gets her to smile weakly at him. ]

There was a lot of help. [ That's to put it mildly, but it's not about her right now. ] Everyone here is very kind, so if you need help for anything, I'm sure someone will be happy to do something for you. We have a farm because someone wanted apples.

[monsieurchatastrophe]

[he's just glad she's smiling tbh]

Thank you. I'll be sure to keep it in mind. [... that phrasing does raise one question for him] But, shouldn't you guys have started a farm because you needed food in general, not just apples?

[superseding]

We do have more than just apples, but if you look around the underwater farm, there are more apple trees than... anything else.

[ She laughs quietly, but it's also a little sheepish. ]

A lot of things that get started around here are because someone just wants one thing, and then it gets... um, expanded to be more.

[ aka at least 50% of projects start out to be really silly and then get practical. Some stay silly, and some are practical the whole way through but the latter is less common than you'd think . ]