OMG VD!

[cavedwellers]

[Gosh you guys, there must be a holiday on! One of the bigger, more well-lit caves has been decked out for a PARTY, with heart-shaped BALLOONS and also red and white STREAMERS decking the stalactites and shit. There are BUCKETS filled with LITTLE CANDY HEARTS, and there is a FOUNTAIN featuring a rosy-cheeked CUPID who is PEEING PINK LEMONADE into a basin. Also ther are CUPS in case you couldn't tell the LEMONADE was for DRINKING.

Also, everything is HEAVILY SPIKED WITH APHRODISIACS. Eating or drinking the party favors will make you want to MAKE OUT with anyone who gets IN STRIKING DISTANCE. Have fun with that!]

Comments

[bythehorns]

Well, uh...it looks like...they were trying, to be nice....

[going for a glass of punch, but trying not to get too close to the candy buckets]

((will tag with anyone, will probs be awkward all over))

[onlyhonournow]

If my memory serves me correctly, it's intended to be a celebration of sorts. . .

[bythehorns]

Uh...do you know, what it is, celebrating? It looks, kind of nice, but also, kind of rude....

[ice_and_steel]

It's a festival for those in a romantic relationship, I think.

[attempts to tastefully place herself between Tavros and a bucket, but lacking any kind of social graces whatsoever, it ends up being pretty awkward]

Hi, Tavros.

[bythehorns]

That is, a very nice thing, to celebrate, I think.

[we can have an awkward-off, if you want. the competition is pretty fierce around here!]

Hello, um, Celes.

[lifestudies]

[studying Cupid statue]

He has an awfully small penis.

[ice_and_steel]

Well, he is a child. One wouldn't expect him to measure up to someone who's sexually active.

[lifestudies]

Ah, that does make sense. I am not used to seeing children displayed like this.

[pincerattack]

[and you're stumbling into the party, because (A) you sulk around the cave instead of being useful, so you randomly find things like this, and (B) come on, like you don't have a RADAR for ROMANCE. at first it seems kind of weird, what with all the heart ballons and all-- is somebody having some kind of bizarre, ostentatious matespritship party, or something? which okay, is admittedly an awesome idea.

--and then you notice all the furnishings.]

WHAT--

WHO WOULD--

THAT'S PORNOGRAPHIC.

[annnnnd you have a troll in need of a reboot because what.]

[lifestudies]

Is it really? I've heard it's supposed to be artistic to depict them tastefully.

[pincerattack]

YES, BECAUSE PUTTING THEM OUT WITH HEART SYMBOLS IN THEM IS TOTALLY FUCKING TASTEFUL.

[ice_and_steel]

[look, screaming men do not intimidate me, I am a soldier. Even when they have horns.]

....Where I come from, statues of naked little boys are generally considered artistic.

Or, wait, Tavros said your society has some kind of thing about buckets, don't you?

[pincerattack]

[okay not even touching the bit about naked children being artistic because seriously what the hell. just pretend you didn't hear it. breathe.]

Yes, I was talking about that. It is, in fact, some kind of thing.

[onlyhonournow]

[. . . there's a robot sized punch bowl, filled with what appears to be glowy liquid diesel. Well, that's new. Drift is looking at it, slightly consternated.]

High-grade energon? Here?

[ice_and_steel]

What's energon?

Also, hi.

[wingedjustice]

You must be joking.

[lifestudies]

...That looks dangerous.

[ice_and_steel]

[....I heard they throw parties like this in Jidoor, but generally soldiers don't attend.]

[however, there is CANDY, and that is fascinating in the way that most forbidden fruit is. She nibbles on a couple of candy hearts, and looks around for people she knows.]

(OOC note: anyone is free to tag in.)

[prankster_gambit]

[Wow, a Valentine's Day Party! You feel a little awkward; this kind of thing was never something you had a lot of experience with.

You grab a handful of candy and pop it in your mouth, chewing thoughtfully. Huh. Tastes kind of...weird.]

[bythehorns]

[you are embarrassed to be watching John reach into the bucket like that, but you have been drinking a lot of lemonade and you're not too embarrassed.]

Um, hello, there seems to be, a festival, of some kind, going on...

[pincerattack]

[you have been pretty thoroughly hate-debauched and are still higher than an extremely amorous kite in this fucking candy, and both of these facts probably show to such a degree that future Karkat is going to have a fucking hate hemorrhage about it. in fact you probably look almost as much like you've been in a fight as you do like you've been kissing anyone. you're cool with it now, though. very cool with it, and the world in general actually.]

Hiiiii.

[sei_what]

Hot damn on a stick, there's enough sugar in all this stuff to bury the Palace.

Bit of a false start: Sei came out to see what all the fuss was about and had to duck back into the cave to get into an ensemble that coordinated with the decorations better and it just took @#$!#$ AGES. But she's got a nice plum-blossom coordinate on now, so that's all right, and she's making up for lost time at the snack table.

Seriously. The punch. It is SO GOOD. There are not even words for how good it is. There is no ancient poem that addresses the full-body joy of this much Vitamin C and sugar in one place. She's slurping away like a bilge pump behind her fan. Judging by the looks she's giving the fountain, it's probably only a manner of time until she just drinks straight out of it.

[bythehorns]

[hey, the nice thing about being late to the party is that everyone else is blasted when you get there! have a doofy looking little troll with his own cup of lemonade grinning at you and probably already blushing a bit]

Oh, um, hello, it is, good to see you again. This is, really tasty, isn't it?

[ice_and_steel]

"I don't think we've met." Celes gives a proper salute.

[onlyhonournow]

[well, this can only end well. Drift's standing a little ways away, shuffling and making sure she sees him coming this time, and waves a hand awkwardly when she notices him]

Hello. [pausing.] ... I apologise for our last encounter, again.