Room 106; Wednesday Evening - Summer's School Trip Room Party! [10/18].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Queenstown, allegedly an adventure capital of the world, but it was Wednesday, so once everyone'd gotten their adventure on, it was obviously time to swing by Summer's room for her traditional School Trip Room Party, to get wasted on all sorts of moddable booze and jello shots and have at least a few regrets the next morning, if you were doing it right.

So there were snacks. There were beers. There was, okay, okay, even some wine because there were some snobs in the crowd she expected and also, she liked to keep it local and New Zealand did do some wines or whatever. There was a curated playlist, of course, and Rosa and Gladio were reprising their traditional roles as bouncers, although Summer wasn't entirely sure how that was going to play out now that the school was catering to an older, more party-aged demographic, but she supposed maybe that just meant they were to be arbiters of making sure nothing got weird? It was new territory! They'd figure it out!

But, most importantly of all, there was a wide variety of jello shots on display for the taking: kiwi two ways, layered with melon or straight up but served in kiwi cups; honey lemonade made with local mānuka honey, sweet potato cinnamon, chocolate covered cherry using Whittaker's Chocolates of course; and a variety of just basic flavors but adorably in the shape of sheep.

Look, the other option was a jello shot with actual lamb in it, so consider yourself mildly lucky.

So looks like now all she needed....was people to show up!

Sure,it was going to get pretty crowded in this room once they did, but honestly? That gave it the best classic room party vibes to have a bunch of people shoved into an otherwise cozy room.

[[ open for all trip-goers, of course! Faculty members got a special, handwaved mass-text invite, too! No OCD, just go hog wild, and please to excuse my inevitable flaky SP because I got a LOT going on right now omg, but The Room Party(TM) must go on! All predicated on the assumption that wherever we'll be will in fact be conducive to a room party, but if not, it may be edited to suit ]]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Heyyy, Cutter!" Summer greeted, gently moving Amaya a bit to the side so she could make it over to him. "Thanks for coming! How do you like being on a vacation where no one is trying to kill you yet?"

What? It was a valid question!

[itsananomaly]

That was a valid question and Cutter grinned at that, “it makes a really nice change, even better that there’s no one here trying to arrest me,” he admitted.

[somethingwithturquoise]

There was...a pause.

"You'd rather have someone trying to kill you than trying to arrest you?" Summer asked, quirking an eyebrow at that.

[itsananomaly]

Cutter looked a little sheepish at that, "well I'd prefer neither," he admitted, "its been a very interesting few months back home," he sighed and then paused, "more than normal anyway," he amended.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was going to look very skeptical about that.

"More than normal how?" she asked. "Is it really more than normal, or just more of the same weird bullshit that really should've taught you by now that you're just better off sticking in this dimension, my guy?"

[itsananomaly]

“Er - Managed to get on the wrong side of a government official who makes my ex wife look like a saint,” Cutter sighed, “she seems determined to make Connor and my life hell…if I knew she wouldn’t take it out on the team, I wouldn’t go back,”

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I'm gonna need details," Summer decided, "to believe she's even remotely as bad as your ex."

There was a beat.

"Ohgod," she said. "I just had a terrible thought, and I've already said to much because if I say anything more, it's putting it out into the universe and that will not bode well."

[itsananomaly]

Cutter tilted his head curiously at that.

“She’s determined to prove that Connor and I committed treason, that we helped Helen to try and overthrow the government …” he sighed, “she’s already tried to get us confess using not so legal interrogation techniques, then when that didn’t work she went to the press, got Connor suspended from his course and I was suspended from the university before I could retire while they look into misconduct it’s been a mess,”

It was a bit of an understatement.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Ooookaaaay," said Summer slowly, after waving her hand dismissively to shove about the Thought That Must Now Never Be Spoken, "but, like, why?"

[itsananomaly]

“I really wish I knew,” Cutter sighed, “she seems to think that removing Connor and I from the ARC will let her get to the anomalies and control them but James is still in charge at the ARC,”

At least for the moment he was anyway.