somethingwithturquoise | MHA #10; Ssaturday Evening [04/16]

It had taken a bit to get there, but the whirlwind of Summer's burst of party planning was finally coming to frution. There had been the flyers, of course, some good radio coverage, and the ubitquitously handwaved mass text, so hopefully people knew about it enough to show up. Especially since a lot of work had been put into making Goose's apartment party ready. For one thing, it actually had furniture, plenty of sofas and ottomans for the guests to sit, arranged to also allow for a lot of standing and gathering room (and, yes, yes, for all the wall flowers, a few meticulously curated shadowy corners, you're welcome. But most of the decor attention would probably be put into the magic work Summer had Margo and Eliot do.

With the faint scent of rose and mint in the air, the entire ceiling was cloaked in the vastness of outer space. But not just any space, because, in Summer's experience, space was actually kind of boring, so they pumped it up, they amped the colors, they filled it with a ton of glitter (of course). Distant planets and swirls of galaxies and pulsating quasars dotted the starscape in swatches of pink and purple and green, some glowing bright with neon. Shooting stars would occasionally trail overhead and across the walls, leaving behind a dusting of color and glitter and occasionally a message that called out "Happy Birthday, Goose!" with another message trailing behind it that read "(And Gladio, too!)". Occsionally, the starscape would seem to swell a little and expand, so that, on occasion, it would feel as though you weren't just looking at it, but almost being surrounded by space until it moved on.

The spare bedroom had been converted into a karaoke room, there was a jello table and a tended bar set up, with an ice luge embedded with neon lights, and a keg all dolled up to look like a container of Cup Noodle. And speaking of Cup Noodle, don't anyone forget Cup Noodle gift bags! There's plenty for everyone, at a table by the door, so you can help yourself to that excellent tote filled with some of the most random (and pretty moddable) chintzy Cup Noodle junk Summer could find on cheap Chinese websites (the real highlights, though, robably being the slippers and the candle).

The kitchen, of course, was dedicated to be the haven of Ignis, who staunchly refused to do anything Cup Noodle related for his food offerings, which, if you asked Summer, were a bit much for a party where she was hoping everyone would be quickly too drunk to care about what they were putting in their mouths, but, hey, you do you, Specs.

She'd even hired a bouncer, mostly for raccoons, but also for students, let's be real, and since she usually hired Gladio for that position, putting in Billy this time around seemed like the obvious choice, and she was even being very, very good about not just calling him Wish Gladio or Walmart Gladio or Budget Gladio tonight.

And, just like that, this party was ready to get started!

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[[Convenience Links: Arrive & Mingle | Karaoke! | The Bar | Jello Table | Food Stuff | Birthday Boys! | Gifts | OOC ]]

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"I mean," said Summer, "thank you for, like, having a birthday so I totally could organize it. I am not kidding when I say I live for this shit, and it was nice to have something to really sink my teeth into this week by getting it all prepared. A nice little tide-me-over until I start planning what to do for my birthday."

“I still can’t quite believe I’m actually here and celebrating my birthday,” Goose said with a grin.

There was a pause and a slight head tilt, “oh, when's your birthday?” he wondered, thinking that it must also be rather close.

"Oh, it's not until June," Summer said, with an assuring tone, as if that was something Goose might be worried about. "But, that means now is about the perfect time to start planning. Honestly, though, I think I've already got an idea. I definitely wanted something more chill this year, since last year's was literally insane, but I also know that Lucifer said I can borrow one of his European castles for a complete and total rager one of these weekends, and, you know what? That might be perfect for a twenty-second birthday party."

Goose wasn't even sure where to even begin to process all of that but he found himself rather curious about what happened at Summer's birthday last year, so he decided to focus on that first, “What happened last year for your birthday?” he found himself asking.

And Summer just beamed.

"It was my twenty-first," she started, because that part was important, "so, you know, first time actually being able to drink in this country. And I knew just one bar wasn't going to cut it. So obviously, right, we've gotta go barhopping. But literally why restrict it to just one city? We have portal technology. I have a fucking portal gun, let's put it to good use! So it was legit a portal-jumping bar-hopping extraveganza. Twenty-one bars, all around the country, including Alaska and Hawaii. Not everyone even made it to the end. It was amazing!"

It had also been a lot.

Goose had never imagined that a party could be like that, especially drinking at 21 different bars, "that does sound like it would have been quite the party," he was definitely impressed though and he wondered how his healing factor would cope with such a challenge, "it's probably a good thing I can't actually drink on the mainland, at least not for another year anyway,"

Goose figured he should at least get through his 20th birthday before he started thinking about his 21st.

Oh, Summer totally already had plan to latch onto that once it comes around, too.

"Oh, you're going to be an absolute menace," she decided. "I'm looking forward to that. We'll have to go bar hopping, for sure. I mean, sure, a lot can happen in a year, but I'm already adding it to my priorities list."

"I do like the sound of bar hopping for my next birthday," Goose nodded with a grin, "I've definitely never done anything like that before," well that was because you were still underage Goose.

And yes Goose realised that Walsh could reassign him back home and he may not even be at Fandom next year but he figured it was okay to start making plans as long as he was able to make a visit back for his birthday.

"Probably not twenty-one different bars, though," Summer warned him. "That was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime thing probably never to be re-enacted again."

Once was probably more than enough for everyone at that point.

"But maybe, like, ten."

"I think I could manage ten," Goose said with a grin, "I do like the sound of that,"

By the time his 21st came around, his healing factor was going to have quite an impressive tolerance to alcohol.

"So then the real question at that point would be," Summer mused, "with portaliing? Or without?"

Ah, yes, ever the age-old question.

“Well portalling does sound like fun,” Goose grinned, “but I wouldn’t mind either way,” he told her.

"Maybe a little light portaling," Summer decided, "just to be able to hit up more cool bars without being restricted to just one area and trying to milk it for all its worth."

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