simplicitas: (025 @Byomewa)
𝔊𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔰 ([personal profile] simplicitas) wrote in [community profile] sticksandbones2023-08-01 02:37 pm

[OPEN] elsword's housewarming party!

Who: Elsword & You
What: Housewarming party!! Snacks!! Mysterious river noises!!!! A mushroom probably!
When: Early August, in the evening
Where: Elsword's house :D
Warnings: frat boy party stuff probably


Elsword has been building a house. And, when August rolls around (time is weird here, just go with it, it Feels like August ok) he manages to complete it. Which means...

a) moving really shitty furniture into the actual rooms, sorry this is all the Shopkeeper could spare, he'll buy and/or make nicer furniture later
b) installing a chandelier (dangerous!)
c) going around to the grove's residents to ask if they want to live with him
and
d) inviting people to have a "housewarming party", and explaining "I've never had one before but it sounds like fun" (you are here!)

There's food aplenty (mostly fish) cooked up and ready to eat, and the Shopkeeper has provided further party snacks, which is a fun way of saying there is a single large bowl of pretzels on a coffee table that looks like a halved tree. There are apples picked from the apple tree by the river's edge (Elsword has already thanked the forest for those). There's water. It's not the most extravagant party food, but there should be enough to go around. Just be sure to share with your fellow housemates and/or current partygoers, please, it's only polite.

There are games, too, but not anything too exciting. Elsword doesn't have any board games, and video games are a myth where he's from, so you'll all be playing verbal games like Two Truths & a Lie or Truth or Dare, which may or may not devolve into the most fratboy shit ever. There's no liquor here to make you immune to questioning your life choices, after all.

Outside on the patio are some of those awful, terribly uncomfortable plastic chairs likely pulled from the back of the General Store, but at least you can sit down and enjoy the sounds of the river nearby. The rushing waters, the sound of something croaking, maybe some gurgling... it's all very normal. There's nothing happening in the water. Elsword has even tried to create fake fireflies outside by using some of his magic to make little yellow orbs that float and bob in the air. It's quieter than inside, too, and is a nice escape from the partying. A relaxing time.

At the end of the night, after everyone has partied out, Elsword takes to cleaning up. He'll tell you not to worry about it and just let him handle everything, but if you stick around to help, you might find him staring into the shards of a mirror.


[OOC: hi this is a mingle. please do the mingling. do not kill each other. ty.]
lostpsalm: (8D)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-04 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
N-no! I am Delunthel. ...an elf, maybe, you've heard the word...

...I was just.

Wandering. In my mind. I do eat! I will. Eat. Now. It is no worry!
[STICKS THE ÂżFOOD? IN HIS MOUTH SOB]
lostpsalm: (O fair knight.)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-04 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
...Tyr'oc is, as usual, very open of mind to others.
mooninthewater: (259)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-04 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
A challenge, huh? Where I'm from, that would just be called suicide. [ Thanks, Mizuki.

Regardless, he watches with a mild curiosity as she conjures a map from thin air. ]
An interesting use of your arts~. I don't normally see such a practical use. I guess I don't normally see a musical arts user, though.

That said, it sounds like our homes were cut from the same cloth. I wouldn't exactly call the waters "tumultuous," but that doesn't mean they weren't too dangerous for ships to go too far into. Travels to other places needed to be done by air for that reason.

Who knows~, maybe our similarities means we were destined to meet or something.
mooninthewater: (21)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-04 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay! You seemed confused, is all. I didn't poison it or anything, if that's what you're worried about?? I don't see why anyone would do that.

[ LOOK. Look. (Look.) It's fine. It's actually perfectly edible. It's actually fantastic, weirdly enough. Spiced and flavored to perfection - and it's not entirely clear how he managed to shove literal bursts of energy into food like this, but it'll still give that feeling of invigoration.

That is, if he chooses to swallow-

Mizuki is excitedly and expectantly looking to him, practically bouncing in his spot. ]
mooninthewater: (77)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-04 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh you misunderstand me! I am well aware everyone has differing opinions. That is what fascinates me so much. Why do people choose the things they do? Why do “good” people choose “wrong” things? What makes a person good? What makes the things they choose good? Why do bad people pick the things they do? How do they think? What makes them tick? How are heroes able to pick things despite the choices being so difficult? What makes them choose the way they do?

These aren’t questions anyone can really answer, and I know that, but the very least I can do is analyze the results of the difficult choices that people make from a wide selection.

Like, for example, this experiment can weed out the mathematically inclined, too. It’s something like that that’s supposed to prove “rational” thought is not necessarily wrong. After all, of your options, you can choose to confess and receive either zero or ten years in prison, or not confess and receive either two or twenty. Thus, the “rational” option is to confess.

Yet to not confess speaks to one’s “cooperativeness,” which to some is more valuable than being rational.

…

I guess I’m just rambling, though. Sorry.
lostpsalm: (bowed)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-04 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...no, I also... like to hear it. As much as I know the words. I am better for hearing than speaking, in this.

...

What if one... prefers not to allow themselves to get away with doing something wrong? It's their crime, isn't it?

[ at no point did rennuid ever assume he, in the question, hadn't done the crime. ]
lostpsalm: (8D)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-04 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this tastes
Good.

This tastes good?

This tastes good.


Maybe if he just pretends he never saw what it actually looked like...

Chew, chew, chew..... ]
amhran: (11)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-05 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ She looks at you, blinking. Canting her head slightly to one side. ]

?
amhran: (170)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-05 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
If you would like someone else to practice with, I would love to help.

[ Caoimhe beams, seemingly pleased with her response! Making a guess as to who Pure-Wing is... She thinks that is Elsword. ]
lostpsalm: (O fair knight.)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-05 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Cloying" is this language.

...Ask--
........

Gnosis.
amhran: (64)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-05 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Who is Gnosis and where can I find them? Are they here right now?

[ She is looking for them!! ]
lostpsalm: (8D)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-05 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ gleefully points out Mr. Bird ]
succiduous: (Default)

[personal profile] succiduous 2023-08-05 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
[he is literally just sitting here sipping his water]
lostpsalm: (sore wa himitsu da)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-05 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
--Of course, Caoimhe. I try to...

I do like having our... cheat, though.
lostpsalm: (O fair knight.)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-05 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
He is he.
mooninthewater: (261)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-05 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
In that case, I can cook for you anytime! It’s one of my favorite things to do!

[ Have fun eating tentacles from now on— ]

It’s been so long since someone new has tried something of mine. I forgot how wonderful it felt~!
amhran: (103)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-05 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah! H-Hello...?

[ Prompting Caoimhe awkwardly giving the other a gentle wave. ]

i. but i'm also coming for questions

[personal profile] amethystic 2023-08-05 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
( felicity eyes it warily for a moment- she knows something fucky when she sees it. but she also grew up on the streets, and more importantly, she knows that not everything is as it seems when it comes to food.


like people eating bugs. she's tried tarantula before. brave girl.

so, yeah, she'll have some. )


... !

ii. c

[personal profile] amethystic 2023-08-05 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That depends entirely on the person, honestly. Everyone has their limits- you don't know what they are until you're in the thick of it- and even then, bouncing back also has its variables too.

Re: RENNUID'S FIRST 2 TRUTHS + LIE SET

[personal profile] amethystic 2023-08-05 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't like cake. More for me.

( she has breakfast and tea with him on the reg, she knows. )
mooninthewater: (217)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-06 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Am I? Am I~? I guess maybe I might just be another version of him — that wouldn't be too far off from what I've seen 'round here, anyway! That means you and I are already friends! [ That's not how that works at all, Mizuki- ]

Oh, all sorts! My specialty is seafood, but I've tried my hand at so many things. Pastas, pastries, stews, curries, burgers — you name it! I mostly make meaty stuff — I'm a carnivore, so I can't really eat full meals without any meat. That said, though, I do have a sweet tooth, too. My mom had this amazing recipe for salt water taffy — I can make that, too.
mooninthewater: (285)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-06 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a silence that washes over the conversation suddenly. Mizuki doesn't seem surprised or put off or even amused, just… proud? Or perhaps… this is…??

"Everyone has a story to tell. You can see the goodness in people. Find the beauty in this world, Mizuki. Protect it."


That's what this is, he thinks. Beauty. That genuine want to preserve life at any means. It's not quite the "hero" he's looking for, since that requires someone who's able to make really tough choices, but… this is beauty. Cicero would like this girl, Mizuki thinks. ]

You're a good person. [ A beat. ] I think that looking for another way outside of the given answers is a reasonable conclusion, too. I feel the same way, after all.

Page 4 of 14