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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: (askance)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-08 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
--Caoimhe, people don't often come to parting in love, where you are from...? Isn't that...

[ 'dangerous,' he holds himself back from saying. ]

...it is very... romantic, but also surprising.
amhran: (118)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-08 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ She doesnt understand, doesnt see it that way anyway. ]

Romantic...? It is... Normal? What reason would you dismiss your partner if you have known them for decades? Or have chosen to accept them in your life...? Even Maeve, when she accepts partners in every Kingdom. It is simply so.

I mean.. I have read it in books, but I do not go to Kingdoms regularly or speak to their folk. Perhaps I am wrong?
lostpsalm: (sulk)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-08 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
...Indeed, it IS harder. When you have known someone for that long. It can... bind you.
amhran: (170)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-08 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ ???? BIND YOU WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ? ? ?? Caoimhe just kinda - hmm!! ]

Bind...? Do you mean tied together tightly like a braid...? Well yes is that not what love is? Something that you fold together ones body, mind, and soul until it is one?
lostpsalm: (taciturnt)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-08 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ rennuid's posture subtly adjusts into an inward coil, a defensive cringe to protect against--

Something that already happened. ]


I...
Did always think so. That love was communion, loyalty, and...


Never ever being apart.

...ah, nevermind. I have just made myself confused, Caoimhe.
amhran: (80)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-08 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Love? Never being apart - No.

[ That she focuses on specifically due to cultural importance! It is important to her - knowledge is shared never kept from others. If there is question to be had - one must ask it. If there is something to learn - you must learn it. Such is the way of the Tuatha de - chroniclers of the old ways. She must, due to duty, share their truths. As such, Caoimhe happily hops into attempting to do so. A sort of story telling way. ]

Partnerships of love, especially - ah Romantic love! Matter not distance or even dimensional planes. Or even in Death... If someone passes on, it is not that you are not their lover - even in death you still are. There is no end to said partnership.

It is rare to see one come to an end - but I suppose it is not unheard of?


Can one be rid of the Ocean Wholly?

[ She muses the question out loud in speak, as in druidic it would not have worked. At this point Caoimhe moves her arms about in fluid movements, a sort of performance. She enacts an old dance from her people. Her wrists look as if they spin around and her arms are magically ebbing from her shoulders down along toward her wrists. She leans forward to one side, shutting her smiling. ]

Our people do not believe in ends such as this, most lovers keep each other and if that love recedes - like the ocean waves.

Or If the love's winds are not as strong, it merely means love has changed. It is not gone, love can never be.

"Even if it turns into Hate - for what is hate but love transformed?" Maeve use to tell me this.

She says - it simply moves into a new form. Love is endless and flows like the water - a river stream bleeding into the ocean.

[ Caoimhe folds her hands back onto her lap. ]

That said I am still learning about Love, it takes a Shaman centuries before they can preach the words of Emer. I can only speak on a slither of her knowledge.