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.

Comments

[cuteandquarky]

I will watch very carefully and try to get some pointers!

[Jade giggles a little as she hands over the stick, then promptly takes a few steps back so that she's out of range. Clearly she doesn't trust his pinata prowess that much.]

[alienates]

[ he makes a face at her because wow, rude?? as if she has any room to judge people for hitting others.

anyway he puts the blindfold on and... ]

Wow this sure is dark.

[ no fucking duh, karkat, that's the point. ]

[cuteandquarky]

Yes, it is! That is what makes it so difficult. Now you have to try and hit it as hard as you can!

[Jade stays her safe distance away, but she is having fun with this nonetheless.]

I'm rooting for you, Karkat! You can do it!

[alienates]

[ karkat rolls his eyes... which no one can see, because he's wearing a blindfold??

he's an idiot

anyway, karkat is going to attempt a swing!! and he misses. by a lot. ]

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade doesn't laugh at him. too hard Still, she is a nice person and she has an idea.]

See? It is really hard! I bet you could get it with another shot, though... you should try again!

[Jade surreptitiously uses her space powers to move the pinata, hovering it right where she suspects he might swing the next time, though she's ready to move it at a moments' notice should he change course.]

[alienates]

[ this is why jade harley is karkat's favorite person in all of paradox space. this right here.

thanks to her little trick, he does actually manage to hit it. and instead of like, continuing to hit it, like one does after they hit a pinata once, karkat is going to excitedly tear off his blindfold. ]

Holy fuck Harley I did it!

[cuteandquarky]

[As soon as Karkat rips off the blindfold, Jade lets her space powers fall away, so that he doesn't suspect she was to blame. It does mean that the pinata falls down, but that's fine. Clearly he was just that strong.]

That was super cool! Did any candy come out of it?

[Jade floats over, reasonably sure that he won't accidentally smack with the stick now, biting back a small grin.]

[alienates]

No nothing came out... I just knocked it down, I guess?

[ he bends down to poke at it... and nope, no candy. ]

Do we need to do it again?

[cuteandquarky]

Yeah, I think so!

[This time, Jade uses her space powers more openly so that she can get the pinata up and hanging from the ceiling again.]

Do you want to go again, or should I take another turn?

[alienates]

[ he holds the stick out. ]

Your go. I can't steal all the glory.

[ his tone implies that he would happily steal all of the glory that... jade gave him. ]

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade takes the stick and puts a blindfold back on, ready for another go. She's more careful about her spatial awareness this time, trying to use her doggy senses to get a picture of the room. Her ears swivel and her nose twitches and...

It doesn't actually work as well as she'd have liked. The party is way too loud and has too many enticing smells for that. Oh well! She pulls the stick back, ready for a powerful strike, though she does at least have the foresight to check in first.]

Are you out of the way, Karkat?

[alienates]

[ karkat takes a couple of steps back, just to be safe. and then another one. dying, or getting a concussion, is not on the agenda today. ]

Beat it to a pulp, Harley!

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade lets out a battlecry that sounds a lot like "HYAAAAAA!!!" and swings her stick like a bat. It whooshes through the air, missing its target the first time, but she's determined to keep going. She steps back, relaxing her stance, and tries again with just as much force - and this time she makes a hit!

Once Jade feels she's hit something solid, she steps back and pulls the blindfold up, just to make sure she actually hit the pinata and not a person.]

Did I get it?

[alienates]

Fuck yeah you did.

[ they both have a problem of taking the damn blindfold off? that is not how you play, you losers. karkat checks to see if any candy fell out... no.

but there is a small hole now? so that's a thing. ]

Hit it again.

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade reacts on instinct to "hit it again" and just wallops the thing without putting the blindfold back on. Whoops? At least such a direct attack is enough to split the thing open, unleashing all of its candy innards for consumption.]

Uh... well, at least we got the candy out?

[alienates]

It still counts.

[ he bends down to start digging through the candy for whatever's good... he should probably let jade get first pick since she's the one who hit it but nah. ]

Do you all celebrate your wriggling days by beating up shit until they break open?

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade lets him go in first. There's plenty of candy to go around, and she's not exactly picky when it comes to sweet things.]

You know... I am not sure! This is the first wriggling day that I have celebrated with other people. I am not sure if it's common or just something that Dave and Rose and everybody else like to do.

[alienates]

[ oh right, she was one of the ones raised by herself mostly. ]

I feel like it could go either way, because it seems stupid enough to be something they'd enjoy ironically, but also stupid enough to be a thing in general.

[ trolls might like it, actually. it wouldn't have been filled with candy though. ]

[cuteandquarky]

[let's not think too hard about what would be inside a troll pinata]

So... I guess it is a mystery! Because if it was something that Rose and Dave made up, they would definitely still pretend like it was a normal thing.

[alienates]

Oh my fuck, you have no idea how terrible the meteor trip was because of that! I am pretty sure any time they were alone together they were just trying to figure out fun ways to fuck with the rest of us.

[ karkat is still confused about how most holidays work because they just? kept making shit up?? ]

[cuteandquarky]

[There's a small pang of something in Jade's chest at the reminder of all those years she missed, but she's remarkably good at keeping up a smiling face.]

I would not be surprised if that is exactly what happened! Those two are incredibly sneaky and devious. Especially together!

[alienates]

I'm surprised it took them so long to figure out they're related.

[ even if human family relationships still seem entirely unnecessary to karkat? like he was finally accepting the concept of siblings and parents, but then they had to start explaining extended family? it all sounds fake. ]

[cuteandquarky]

Well, they did live in totally different places with parents who did not seem to know each other! Usually people who are related grow up together, so you don't usually think that random people from the internet are your siblings.

[At least, this is what Jade has gathered from popular media. She can't really claim to be an expert in this kind of thing.]

[alienates]

There's actually an Earth movie kind of like that. The Parent Trap? Except instead of meeting each other on the internet and then entering a world ending, universe creating game, they met at what's called a summer camp.

[ so rose and dave are like, lindsay lohan. and jade and john? everyone is lindsay. ]

[cuteandquarky]

[lindsay lohan-stuck]

That's true! But I think that is just a movie. Things like that don't usually happen. [Beat.] Only I guess they did happen? Twice. But Sburb is a weird situation! And we weren't made like normal human babies are.