It's time to party!

[atailoftwoworlds]

Who: Anyone!
What: After all the shit that went down in August and September and to help the newbies get settled, it's time for a party!
When: 26th October
Where: Outside the Denny
Warnings: Label any relevant warnings in your posts! Otherwise none that I can think of.

[It took a while to organise but it’s finally here! Outside the Denny is a warm fire with dragon meat and all sorts of other meat cooking on it. There is also food strewn on tables and various modern music in the background thanks to Michael’s phone.

Not only that but there are also games on a few separate tables provided by the Denny.

Feel free to bring your own food, drinks and games. Maybe you’re even helping cook some of the food yourself? Or you are keeping watch to make sure nobody causes any trouble! Or are you the person causing trouble yourself? Of course, none of you would dare do that, would you? WOULD YOU???? Or are you having a dance? Or maybe you're that wallflower who is just sitting there drinking and refusing to talk to people? Either way, feel free to come up with your own prompts!]

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[ideismo]

[I.]

[Alexei has never been one for parties, though he does attend the occasional gathering at the Denny and while he's not good at socializing, being completely alone isn't really his idea of a good time, either.

So he's here in at least a technical sense, and he's got...some of the bones from the whole corpse-looting party we all went on recently, and he's carving away at one of the smaller ones. He...seems to be making a knife of some sort? He'll make it look nice later, for now he's just sorting out the basic shape and what he wants to do with it; it seems fairly small, all things considered, so it's probably not for his use, but at least it's something to keep his hands busy while he's out.]


[II.]

[Of course, he hasn't always been completely unsure of what to do with people; never great but not always bad, and he'd had to entertain himself during training as well. So he's got one of those decks of cards present here; he likes the age on them, it makes them feel more familiar than strange, and he's shuffling them should he be approached.]

Name whatever it is you play; I'm a quick enough study if I don't know it.

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[semistableman]

[Bucky can't help the little smile.

He's here at the party, that surely counts as something, so far as his general ability to mingle with people goes.]

I used to play blackjack with the guys in the war.

[ideismo]

[He looks up, nods a bit. Duly noted; he'll deal when he's got the cards shuffled properly.]

I'll admit it's been a while since I played; nowadays I've had to..."not notice" when the recruits are doing things like this, but when I was new to the Knights and not an authority figure... Well, gambling and alcohol were the vices. I preferred the cards.

[semistableman]

When we were at camp, we "gambled" with chocolate rations and cigarettes. It made for a fun game.

[ideismo]

It's why I let them do it, really... Even I can admit levity is needed sometimes.

[He'll deal out, though, and this is going to be a beautifully handwaved game if no one minds.]

I don't particularly miss those days before I was Commandant, but some of it was nice.

[semistableman]

Believe me, it helps.

[A text-based blackjack game sounds terrible, let's not.]

A friend of mine ended up in charge of a small unit, I was his second-in-command. I miss those guys, to be honest.

[ideismo]

...I understand why, if not. But would you mind telling me about them?

[semistableman]

Sure.

They were all made of soldiers rescued in a prison camp we were kept in. My friend, he rushes in as a one-man army to save the day. Most of 'em were from my unit, so it didn't take much convincing. Dernier was the only one who wasn't, and he didn't speak a word of English, but it didn't take much for him to join up, not with Gabe Jones knowing French.

[ideismo]

...An acquaintance of mine had some similar determination to your friend, I imagine. Always saving us, even if he didn't hold rank. He was younger than I was, but far more talented as a soldier.

I did try to stay in contact with him after he left the knights, but he never did respond to me. Now he's more or less disappeared entirely, and I'm the Commandant. It's funny how things work out sometimes, I suppose.

[semistableman]

Sounds like they'd get along, honestly. Steve is... well. He wasn't even a soldier, not really. It's... complicated to explain, but he was there as a performer to boost morale. Heard I was among the people captured in a POW camp and save the day despite barely having military training under his belt.

What was your acquaintance like?

[ideismo]

Duke was... Well, he was always a bit of an odd fellow, I suppose. He tended to prefer the company of monsters to that of people; I wouldn't be surprised if he's living among them now, it seems the sort of thing he'd do.

He was quiet, usually. Very blunt, when he did speak, and extremely intense behind the eyes. But he was always very driven toward trying to do right by as many as he could, monsters and people both. He was friends with the Entelexeia, even, which is something that can't be claimed by many.

[semistableman]

Monsters? You mean like the creatures who live out in the islands, right?

[He's still not really used to the wildlife.]

Who are the Entelexeia?

[ideismo]

Monsters are something like that, yes. We do have livestock such as sheep and cows, and pets like dogs and cats that aren't considered monsters, but the creatures in the wild are...different. The tigerlilies here can be tamed, but they're obviously monsters as compared to cats. It's the same with the floral sheep.

[...apologies to your floral sheep.]

The Entelexeia are a powerful race of monsters, with intelligence on level with our own and a deep connection to both magic and the world itself. We used to build temples for them, and revered them as gods. But that was a long time ago.

[semistableman]

That's... so different from what I'm used to, it's kinda hard to wrap my mind around.

[At the comment about his sheep, though...]

Don't worry about her, she's too interested in destroying plantlife to cause any trouble for people. [He laughs quietly.] I have to keep the thatch away from her, otherwise she'll think it's food.

[When Alexei starts talking about the Entelexeia, he listens with curious attention.]

Sounds like something outta a comic book.

[ideismo]

Oh, the monsters here are far more tolerable in that they can be tamed at all. The lorbies don't seem to be causing the sort of problems I'm used to, either.

[...and then there's next month and The Lorbening, but we are currently blissfully unaware of that.]

The Entelexeia are very real, though the Empire would quite like people to disregard their existence nowadays. We went to war with them a few years after I became Commandant; highly unpleasant business all around, and best left in the past.

[...I mean that also involves a huge coverup by the government, but. you do what you have to.]

[semistableman]

I suppose that makes sense. The lorbies can only really cause problems if you're around anything else that's unfriendly.

[Bucky will refuse to speak about the horrible lorby babies. It's fine.]

...Yeah. Makes sense. Weird, inexplicable shit tends to alarm the populace at large, especially if they don't know anything about the situation.

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[atailoftwoworlds]

[And someone happens to be curious at what Alexei is making. It's a bit of an odd thing to do in the middle of the party but.....well...] Hey, that's from the dragon we all beat up, right?

Huh. Impressive. [Sure, it doesn't look too much yet but the guy seems to know what he's doing.]

[ideismo]

[Oh... Hi there. He doesn't seem bothered by the interest, at any rate.]

It is. I...make weapons sometimes, though I admit the carving aspect of this is new to me.

It's for a friend of mine.

[atailoftwoworlds]

A friend, huh? Hmmm..... [And, after much DEEP DEEP THOUGHT....]

So a beautiful woman you like? [Because that is the most obvious thing, right?]

[ideismo]

[...WELL, HIS FACE CERTAINLY DOES. SOMETHING. AT THAT.]

The most beautiful woman I know is back in Terca Lumireis, and we were never involved like that... Surely not to the point of gifts.

[atailoftwoworlds]

Hmmmm? You sure about that, buddy? [And he looks a little puzzled by that because COME ON GIRLS......]

[ideismo]

...Quite. She was my subordinate, I saw her daily; I would have known if there was interest.

[AND THEN IMMEDIATELY REASSIGNED HER does he look like he's ever handled anything reasonably in his life]

[atailoftwoworlds]

You sure about that? I mean she could be a little shy.

[Which must be true! In that nice fantasy land of Zidane's mind, anyway.]

[ideismo]

Fairly sure. I don't know if she was interested in humans, even - she was from another race of people that we have in my world. One we aren't on bad terms with, to be fair, but still.

[atailoftwoworlds]

Well....I guess....? [It's possible humans aren't her type. And there's no way he can find out here as Alexei outright said she isn't on Enso. Zidane cannot help but look a little disappointed. No misguided matchmaking :(]