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.]
amhran: (13)

Scavenging and Cooking with Mizuki ♫𓏢 🌊 ⦓⋆彡

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-01 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Mi.. [ She takes a moment attempting to say his name correctly again. ] M-Mizuki - [ And when she does, she gets rather excited. ] Come this way, I found a lot of items we can use to cook with later. Y-you said you cook right, what do you think about this? My people usually use these to sweeten paste that we like to use on fruits. [ In her hands are Lavenders, Pansies, and Clementine's. ]
mooninthewater: (255)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-02 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unsurprisingly, one very young, simply country boy like Mizuki doesn't have overly complicated interests. He likes cooking, video games, devouring all the evil that resides in the world, and anime. Who wouldn't want to share those interests with others?? Especially when it came to food. As far as Mizuki was concerned, food was a universal language on its own. ]

Oooh, how exciting~! It's been so long since I've been foraging. Not since my hometown, anyway. Most of the big cities have their kitchens stocked already.

What sort of dishes did 'your people' tend to make? I can do my best to emulate it, regardless of how many ingredients we get together.
amhran: (118)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-02 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
See..Ty? What is a 'City'? [ Unstrike that - what hte fuck they will be besties. Momentarily distracted by the new term in her life, Caoimhe immediately bounces into the next important conversation that grips her soul. Because. She misses home. ] Styrkeflette!! It is a braided bread, braiding to our people is very important.

[ She points to her hair. ]

The coils that bound around and bind together, is a sign of strength and protection. It is shaped like our God Beithir, the Serpent of the Sea. He gives us strength, and power to over come... Having some Styrkeflette, after things have been so hard would be so nice.. Ah - but its okay. Maybe... [ Making Bread can be a hard commodity to do, especially at least since her understanding of making bread is very out of pocket. ] We use a lot of sage in our dishes, and eat fish. [ Though she doesn't really like fish to eat all that much. ] What about you? What do your people eat at this 'City'?

[ Dont mind her picking up more and more things. ]

mooninthewater: (228)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-02 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I. For the Brave
[ One whole Mizuki here to help provide food for this event. He's never done catering before — Rhodes Island usually had potlucks or buffets that many people contributed to. Not that this wasn't similar, but Mizuki insisted on making the fish. It's his specialty, after all.

With that said, if you're to take anything with meat made by Mizuki, the food looks… terrible. The sort that would be censored in anime. Or, more honestly, it looks as if somehow there's still something… alive about it? An unsettling aura that makes it look extremely… off.

But he's looking at you so excitedly! What could possibly go wrong? Maybe just a nibble…!

The meatless food he took part in, at least, all seem to be relatively normal. Maybe you can convince him you're vegan- ]
II. For the Curious
[ Mizuki isn't exactly an introvert, but that doesn't mean he's very good at parties, either. Certainly not ones in strange places where he more or less is stuck in, with creatures he'd only heard about once or twice where he's from.

But it doesn't mean he isn't going to try, so if you so much as look like you might be coming up to talk with him, he'll start the conversation with: ]


a. (the trolley problem)
There's a trolley, and it is currently on course to run into and kill five people. You have the ability to pull the lever and only kill one person. Bonus: the one person is someone who you care for. Do you pull it?

b. (the prisoner's dilemma)
Hypothetically, you have committed a crime. You have a partner involved and the both of you have been caught and detained. You are given the option, you can not confess and stay quiet and serve two years of containment. Or, you can confess and get off completely free, but you are condemning your partner to serving 20 years. Your partner has been given the same deal. If you both confess, you both have to serve ten years. Do you confess?

c. (I'm sorry he's like this—)
How much trauma do you think one would have to experience to feel true hysteria?
III. For the Wild(card)
Hi! Feel free to boop me with anything here, if you're uninterested in the prompts. Mizuki is also bringing his Nintendo Switch with the Arknights equivalence of Mario Party on it, so there's probably going to be video game shenanigans at SOME POINT in the party lbr…
amhran: (110)

II. For the Curious a. (the trolley problem)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-02 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)

I c-cast polymorph on the t-trolley!

[ Caoimhe clamors in suddenly, seemingly distressed by the question. Acting as if the question was something happening right then and now. She then quickly follows up with - ]

W-What is a trolley!?
succiduous: (013 users4889594)

IIa but i hope mizuki asks him b later-

[personal profile] succiduous 2023-08-03 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
["The one person is someone who you care for..."]

Is it Enciodes?
mooninthewater: (197)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-03 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ …

Pfft— ]


Haha, well, I suppose the trolley doesn't exactly have a Charisma score??? [ Since she doesn't know what a "trolley" is, that's probably also going over her head, but— ] It's like… ummm, a big cart, but it moves with mechanical components rather than horses… and while that makes them more convenient, it does also make them more dangerous if they end up running someone over. It's very unlikely they'll survive, hence why the stakes are so high here~.
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[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-03 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mizuki pretty much never leaves the landship unless he's on a mission, so hearing someone's actual real name besides Rafaela and Ernesto (and all the operators that don't have codenames) makes him pause for a moment to rack his brain. Enciodes… Enciodes… mmmh. ]

Oh, Cliffheart's brother, right? [ Cliffheart's really nice! It's probably the only reason he remembers SilverAsh at all is because of her. ] Well, I suppose, if that's who you'd pick? For me, it'd be the Doctor, for example! Surely they're important to you, too?

[ This is a vague threat of "you'd better save the Doctor," probably. Or maybe Mizuki is just genuinely oblivious to Gnosis' affairs half the time. 90% of the Liberi are flighty as hell, though, so— ]
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[personal profile] succiduous 2023-08-03 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[One thing is for certain, Gnosis has never referred to any of the Silverashes by their codenames unless they've been on a mission together, and even then, Gnosis doing actual field work is rare when he's holed up in the lab refusing to leave.

He affords a momentary quirk of the lips.]


I would hit Enciodes with the trolley.

[Enciodes would probably escape in one piece, somehow. They say Felines have nine lives. Gnosis wonders how many the man has left.]

More seriously, [okay we're done joking now,] I would prioritize the safety of someone I felt a strong sense of camaraderie with, over the lives of five people I have nothing to do with. Is that the answer you sought?

[No, we're not talking about the Doctor right now; Gnosis has yet to entirely understand Enciodes' fascination with them.]
mooninthewater: (295)

[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-03 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Huh… [ Poor SilverAsh. ]

I wouldn't necessarily call this "seeking answers" more than it is just analyzing data. I would like to ask what your thought process might be here? There's a lot to take into account, after all. If you pull the lever to kill one person, you are making the active choice to kill someone, versus passively letting a couple people die. But, on the other hand, if that one person is someone you care about, what makes their life more important? Why is that for you to decide the other's fate like that, simply because you have a connection to the others? Is one's responsibility to duty and life not also inherently weaved into a scenario like this? Why choose emotional bond over pragmatism?

How would one even be able to make such a choice to begin with?

…

Just something that I think about sometimes, is all.
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[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-03 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ She thought this would be a fun game! Eating a cookie with a merry expression on her face and then she hears Elsword talk and she just sits there looking at him awkwardly - ]

U-Um... The .. You know how to operate a cannon is a lie?
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[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-08-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
I don’t think you’re younger than me. You being eighteen is a lie. [ Mizuki, no, protags are just this way— ]
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[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-03 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Tyr'oc is.... umm.... ah....

[ HE'S GOT IT ]

Demon. Tyr'oc is the one who explained to me what guns are, as being like cannons. So he knows about them~.
lostpsalm: (sulk)

RENNUID'S FIRST 2 TRUTHS + LIE SET

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-03 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
...Right, I should, too... I've never done such things, so please forgive my.. rust? Stiff legs.

L-let's see...
I like spiders.
I like... cake.
And.. I like... sad songs. That make you feel like... when Qul'norr will howl at the moon.

One of them is wrong~.
lostpsalm: (dis cussed)

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-03 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
A real demon...

I've never seen one. They sound-- peerless? Terrible.
succiduous: (007 users55725576)

[personal profile] succiduous 2023-08-03 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
No one actually likes spiders.

[ok scandinavian]
lostpsalm: (bowed)

cw: spiders. im so sorry

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-03 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
...

[ this face.
a furry leg pokes out of the folds of a loose sash running across Rennuid's chest. then another and another and a


yeah he had an at-least-fist-sized spider chilling out in his sash like it was a fucking baby sling.
gently pats it. whispers, ]

He's wrong. I like you.
Edited 2023-08-03 03:54 (UTC)
amhran: (102)

[personal profile] amhran 2023-08-03 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone likes cake - so uh... Sad songs...? Do you really not like sad songs? They are so lovely though.
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[personal profile] succiduous 2023-08-03 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Gnosis is just. Staring. There's no actual Face Response to this, but he sure is giving Rennuid a stare that could kill a man right now.

...scientific interest supersedes any barely-concealed disgust he might've had if he were to simply find a random spider in his lab.]


Is it a venomous species?
lostpsalm: (taciturnt)

ii - b. hi there's so many good prompts here i will hit u up more than once

[personal profile] lostpsalm 2023-08-03 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
If I have been put to prison with a partner, my partner is... GllChk the Fair... or if it's here... maybe Tyr'oc... or Felicity or Caoimhe...

[ checks. none of the above in immediate vicinity... ]

...
Mmmm...

I will... not confess. For either. GllChk and Tyr'oc will confess, because they believe it is the right thing to do. However, even ten years is a very long time for their lives. GllChk is middle age. I am quite young. I do not wish to take that time from him. He will not wish to lie about his actions.

Tyr'oc is very young. I do not wish to take that time from him. He will not wish to lie about his actions, either. That is why I will not confess. It is the same for Felicity. I do not know if she would confess, however, but I do not mind it either way. If we are freed, we can... find other ways to atone...

If it is Caoimhe, I will... confess? ...I believe she would, so it would be best for us both.


...

If my partner is Mia, I also will not confess.

[ mia would never confess in a billion years. they would go free. ]
Edited 2023-08-03 04:34 (UTC)

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