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riverviewlogs2017-06-30 09:54 am
franciscoramon) wrote in riverviewlogs2017-06-30 09:54 am
[OPEN] Eddie's Bday Bash
who: Eddie's friends + any party crashers!
what: A surprise party for Eddie Thawne's 30th birthday
when: forward dated a little to July 4th
where: A nice park not too far from the river
warnings: Spiked drinks, will add as needed
Cisco, Taako, and Yuri have all come together to throw Eddie a party for his 30th birthday!
The party has a chill, summer barbecue vibe; the list of invited guests was limited to people who are friends and coworkers of Eddie, but any characters are welcome to stop by and join in the fun. It takes place in a large park near to the river, with trees and a wide expanse of grass. There is a marquee set up, to protect the party-goers from the bright sun, and casual seating inside on blankets atop the grass. Since Yuri handled the decorations, there's a lot more leopard print than one would expect in this context. Like a lot more.
SURPRISE!
Cisco sent out the invitations went a week in advance, all the details included along with a particularly dire warning that if anyone blabbed to Eddie about even the existence of a party, Cisco would do horrible things to them with science as punishment. Somehow, remarkably (though likely not because of those threats), no one gives away the secret, which means that around 3PM everyone is waiting in the marquee for Taako to lure Eddie in. Cisco goes around, handing everyone party poppers with plenty of confetti and glitter and telling them to hush and get ready for the big moment!
FOOD
If Taako were catering this party for either himself or for someone who had given him free range, there would be a lot of delicate hors d'oeuvres and over the top cakes to feed a crowd of people, but he's managed to keep the theme and the person this party is for in mind, and gone for something a little more chill. The cake(s) is still fancy, as are the mini cakes to go with it, and he had a little fun with the macarons, because what's the point of being an amazing baker if he can't show off.
There are typical munchies set out on a table, although the chips and dips are all handmade rather than store bought, and the cheese and crackers came from a little deli that Taako is particularly fond of. The main event itself is a burger bar, with the assorted meat being cooked on a nearby barbeque by either Taako, or…. a floating set of tools that seem to be keeping a pretty good eye on things, when Taako is off doing whatever it is that he does when he isn't cooking. There's also an assortment of warm and cold salads, for anyone who's into that kind of thing.
There's not an overabundance of food, but it also never seems to look as though things are going to run out. Magic, bitches.
REFRESHMENTS (WITH A LITTLE EXTRA)
About an hour into the party, some mischievous guest takes it upon themselves to add a little something extra to the refreshments, just to make things interesting. But this isn’t your average slipping in a little bit of vodka in the punch on the sly situation. Instead, if your character drinks either of the following, they will feel the following effects:
The effects are cumulative, so if your character fixes themselves an Arnold Palmer, they will become both truthful AND fascinated. The effects last up to four hours.
SINGING & PRESENTS
At some point in the afternoon, everyone will gather around to make Eddie go through the process of blowing out candles on the big cake (Cisco allowed himself to be talked down from 30 individual candles to two candles, one with a 3 and one with an 0). Enthusiastic, hopefully not TOO off-key singing is highly encouraged.
After that, there is a table where anyone who brought a present will have left it by that point; anything, however little or small, however appropriate or inappropriate, is welcome.
DANCING & FIREWORKS
Who doesn’t love a bit of dancing? As the afternoon starts to fade into evening, partygoers who are inclined to shake their moneymakers can move out of the marquee to the small portable dance floor that has been set up on the grass. Nearby is a pretty cushy sound setup with plenty of speakers and Riverview’s own Otabek lending his talents as DJ.
Once sunset has faded and the sky is dark enough to properly appreciate it, a fireworks show has been prepared by Taako, to wrap the night up with a bang!
what: A surprise party for Eddie Thawne's 30th birthday
when: forward dated a little to July 4th
where: A nice park not too far from the river
warnings: Spiked drinks, will add as needed
Cisco, Taako, and Yuri have all come together to throw Eddie a party for his 30th birthday!
The party has a chill, summer barbecue vibe; the list of invited guests was limited to people who are friends and coworkers of Eddie, but any characters are welcome to stop by and join in the fun. It takes place in a large park near to the river, with trees and a wide expanse of grass. There is a marquee set up, to protect the party-goers from the bright sun, and casual seating inside on blankets atop the grass. Since Yuri handled the decorations, there's a lot more leopard print than one would expect in this context. Like a lot more.
SURPRISE!
Cisco sent out the invitations went a week in advance, all the details included along with a particularly dire warning that if anyone blabbed to Eddie about even the existence of a party, Cisco would do horrible things to them with science as punishment. Somehow, remarkably (though likely not because of those threats), no one gives away the secret, which means that around 3PM everyone is waiting in the marquee for Taako to lure Eddie in. Cisco goes around, handing everyone party poppers with plenty of confetti and glitter and telling them to hush and get ready for the big moment!
FOOD
If Taako were catering this party for either himself or for someone who had given him free range, there would be a lot of delicate hors d'oeuvres and over the top cakes to feed a crowd of people, but he's managed to keep the theme and the person this party is for in mind, and gone for something a little more chill. The cake(s) is still fancy, as are the mini cakes to go with it, and he had a little fun with the macarons, because what's the point of being an amazing baker if he can't show off.
There are typical munchies set out on a table, although the chips and dips are all handmade rather than store bought, and the cheese and crackers came from a little deli that Taako is particularly fond of. The main event itself is a burger bar, with the assorted meat being cooked on a nearby barbeque by either Taako, or…. a floating set of tools that seem to be keeping a pretty good eye on things, when Taako is off doing whatever it is that he does when he isn't cooking. There's also an assortment of warm and cold salads, for anyone who's into that kind of thing.
There's not an overabundance of food, but it also never seems to look as though things are going to run out. Magic, bitches.
REFRESHMENTS (WITH A LITTLE EXTRA)
About an hour into the party, some mischievous guest takes it upon themselves to add a little something extra to the refreshments, just to make things interesting. But this isn’t your average slipping in a little bit of vodka in the punch on the sly situation. Instead, if your character drinks either of the following, they will feel the following effects:
iced tea: anyone who drinks the iced tea will feel the effects of a mild truth potion. the effects do not compel the drinker to spill unrelated secrets, but are strong enough to prevent white lies and cause some pretty awkward social faux pas.
lemonade: anyone who drinks the lemonade will feel the effects of a mild fascination potion. this potion will cause the person who drinks it to become obsessed with an object, person, or phenomenon that they see or hear within the first two minutes after drinking it. this can encompass anything, so use your creativity – do they become suddenly enthralled with cake? a song that was playing from the dj station? with another partygoer’s shoes?
The effects are cumulative, so if your character fixes themselves an Arnold Palmer, they will become both truthful AND fascinated. The effects last up to four hours.
SINGING & PRESENTS
At some point in the afternoon, everyone will gather around to make Eddie go through the process of blowing out candles on the big cake (Cisco allowed himself to be talked down from 30 individual candles to two candles, one with a 3 and one with an 0). Enthusiastic, hopefully not TOO off-key singing is highly encouraged.
After that, there is a table where anyone who brought a present will have left it by that point; anything, however little or small, however appropriate or inappropriate, is welcome.
DANCING & FIREWORKS
Who doesn’t love a bit of dancing? As the afternoon starts to fade into evening, partygoers who are inclined to shake their moneymakers can move out of the marquee to the small portable dance floor that has been set up on the grass. Nearby is a pretty cushy sound setup with plenty of speakers and Riverview’s own Otabek lending his talents as DJ.
Once sunset has faded and the sky is dark enough to properly appreciate it, a fireworks show has been prepared by Taako, to wrap the night up with a bang!
OTA (will match styles) - With a prompt for the Birthday Boy
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It pretty much looks like a Situation ready to pop off - whether from Lola accidentally giving herself food poisoning, or Taako getting very annoyed at her interference, or who knows what. So he walks over, folds his arms across his chest and asks: ]
Uhhh, what are you doing?
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*Lola hesitated that her statement turned into a question. She... thought it was obvious. Then again there were plenty of obvious things she didn't get. Like, she knew he lived on her floor but she hadn't gone out of her way to make herself known. Just... timing things.*
I don't really want to trust my food to floating magic things. It just doesn't feel right. Do you have that problem too?
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...Yeah, the world I came from didn't have magic, either. Still kinda getting used to it.
[ He looks at the hovering instruments for a moment more, and drops his arms to his sides, some of the tension going out of him. ]
Okay, okay fine, just try not to get in the way of the spell or whatever, Taako's gonna be pissy if he has to re-enchant them or whatever.
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*Lola is a little ball of emotions, clearly. She tucks some hair behind her ear, the touch turning it from blue to gold. She might be a little distracted.*
I don't wanna break anything. I just... want to do something I'm good at. After two weeks missing it.
We haven't properly met, which is weird since we live on the same floor. I'm Lola.
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[ He has a shrewd guess what she's talking about with the mean slutty version of herself. Almost everyone had been, well, not themselves for a while there. As far as Cisco can tell, he was one of the lucky ones who was spared, but he'd seen grown adults he knows running around as adolescents, had run into people who were the same age but had a whole personality transplant... it was all just VERY weird, and he was relieved when it was over.
Cisco sees her hair shift color when she touches it, or else he thinks he sees it. He's not quite sure. Maybe it was a trick of the light. He hadn't been paying a whole lot of attention to her hair, before, so he can't really compare it to a clear image.]
Okay, but to be fair... does anyone ever really want to break something? Usually just kind of happens without planning it.
[ All the same, he gestures her towards the grill as if giving permission for her to do her own thing. And maybe he's just going to stick around and make sure she doesn't set herself or anyone else on fire. Cisco is taking NO chances with this party. ]
Cisco. It is kinda weird, isn't it? But, um, actually I like... just moved out. I'm living with Eddie, now. Which made the whole surprise party thing a lot trickier to plan, believe me.
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*Lola is just going to move away from this topic because she likes eating and while she loves Letha... she does not love Letha's creepy zombie powers.*
Sometimes... people want to break things because it makes them feel less alone. I guess...
*If that didn't have a story behind it, what didn't. Still, his other thing made her stop and look at him. She then tried to think if she'd seen him lately, or if the other her did.*
Oh. I, guess I wasn't paying attention. Sorry. I can't plan surprise parties, I don't really do well with secrets. I just have to hope nobody believes me when I spill whatever it is.
*Lola has to know things, but also while she lives in that housing she wants to make sure everyone is... happy. And she couldn't do that as Dolores, which just added to her worries.*
Was it the no privacy thing? Or the craziness that just happened? Cause that was very new, and something I never want ever again.
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Yuck.
[ He's also more than happy not to ask any follow-up questions about whatever kind of recreational necromancy bullshit her friend had going on, because he still hasn't gotten a chance to grab a burger and he doesn't want to put himself off eating by thinking about it too hard.
The thing she says about people wanting to break things to feel less alone is a pretty weird non sequitur; he'd just been talking about as far as accidents are concerned, but clearly she's got something else that's bothering her, making her answer like that when he was mostly commenting on how common it is for people to be clumsy. ]
Naw, c'mon, why would you notice? We'd literally never talked to each other til today, and there's a lotta people living there.
[ The fact that she has to ask why he left confirms what he'd been expecting - she hadn't been one of the ones he woke up when he'd had that awful vibe. Maybe she's a really deep sleeper, or maybe she was still out that night: it had only been around midnight, after all. It's kind of a relief, knowing that she doesn't know. It wasn't so much the embarrassment of the initial incident that had driven him away, so much as the fact that so many of his roommates started looking at him differently, afterwards. He could tell they were curious, that they were making assumptions and guesses and he hated it. ]
The privacy thing.
[ Which is such an abbreviated version of the truth that it is functionally a lie, but Cisco hasn't had any of that iced tea yet, and he doesn't know this girl from Adam. ]
When you say the craziness, you mean everybody changing, right? That was some pretty weird shit...
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*Dolores was the gift that kept on giving for Lola. Every time she considered a part of Dolores, what she'd done or how she thought... it just made her feel worse. Lola spent a few moments just focusing on the grill and her burger.*
I'd complain about your language, but that's what it was.
Have you ever seen what you could have been and decided you never want to see that ever again?
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My language? For real? You from the 1950s or something?
[ It's a joke, but there's just a tiny hint of scorn underneath. Maybe it's a good thing they'd never spoken while they lived on the same floor, if she's prim enough that someone saying 'shit' makes her feel entitled to complain. Cisco's not in the habit of letting other people tell him how to speak. ]
What do you mean? Like... a potential future?
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No, just... swearing isn't something I do a lot of. It just isn't polite.
*Lola considered it, potential future. That didn't seem right. It didn't seem wrong either. Finally she shook her head.*
A potential past, I think. One little change and I was someone else. One of those wishes you make and then spend the rest of the movie desperately trying to get back your real life.
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Potential past, potential future - does it really make all that much difference? Cisco shrugs and says easily: ]
Yeah, but that's how it is for everybody, you know, a little change here or there and they'd be completely different. You got your real past back now, so, nothing to worry about.
[ He knows it might not be entirely that easy, just putting it out of her mind, but he's also always been a firm believer that people are who they choose to be. If she saw a version of herself she didn't like, she just has to choose not to be that. ]
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*Lola flipped her burger off the grill and onto a bun she already had set-up on a plate.*
Except be polite, listen to people, and cook. She sucked at all of that. But I just keep getting mad she stole the one dream of mine I wish I could have had forever. Is it dumb to be mad at a me that doesn't even exist for stealing a fantasy that could never have happened?
*Lola had spent so many nights, so many school functions, so many times she thought 'if Mom was here this would be better.' Now she could never wish that again.*
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I'm not gonna lie, I don't really get a lot of what you're talking about, but just in general, I don't think it's ever really dumb to just feel the way you're feeling. Dreams are important. If she messed one up for you... yeah. That sucks.
[ He's feeling pretty glad that whatever had caused all that mess hadn't impacted him, because his life is complicated enough without some other version of himself screwing things up. ]
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<3 I'm so happy she's here.
When she comes up and asks if this is what it looks like when someone turns 30, he laughs a bit, nodding, "Yep. I guess it is. Not so bad, right? I mean, besides the complete lack of people your age."
He smiles warmly at her, his head tilted a little, and then continues, "Thanks for coming, though. Seriously. How have you been doing?"
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At the question she worries her lip a bit, "Fine. Better now that I'm me again and not sad angsty me." Something about that answer seems like she's leaving key details out on her answer, like honest aspects. "I'm glad I could make it, you did come to my party which had to have been a lot weirder."
Cause you're so old. You know, thirty is still an unfathomable age to Lola. Even if she has been thinking more about growing up.
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"Aw, come on. It's just dancing and barbecuing and games and stuff. And no, they don't, not really. I think the last birthday I actually celebrated was when I was about 10, and I had hot dogs at that one too."
Giving her a little grin, he tilts his head.
"Lola, you're killing me. I already felt old hitting 30 and here you are..."
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And then she stuck her foot in it by bringing up the age thing. Which she shouldn't be surprised about, but she was. Cause she thought that was just a girl thing. Or a woman thing? It wasn't what she expected, "Sorry! I mean, it isn't the age thing. It's the... life thing. Everyone here has careers and has done stuff. That's what I mean- meant. What I meant."
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"I get that. I spent a lot of time not fitting in when I was a teenager, and I only just started to a little in the last few years back home. Here? Not so much. It's been hard to find my niche. But believe me, I'm glad you're here, and I think you probably fit in way better than you might think you do."
When she starts backpedaling on the age thing, Eddie laughs, bright and happy, and waves a hand, "It's fine, Lola. I'm just teasing. 30 isn't actually that bad, once you're...you know, actually 30. I've accomplished what I wanted to in my career at least, so it's not that bad. Are you having some fun at least?"
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Lola smiled a bit more when she was sure she hadn't managed to say something too stupid, "Yeah, it's a good party. I cooked my own burger cause I didn't trust the floating magic spatula, but other than that it's... nice. Simple, not too much, but not boring."
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"Believe me, I get that. Something tells me you fit in a bit better than I did at your age, either way, so you've definitely got a good start on adulthood, I think."
A little wink, and he nods at her mention of the floating magic spatula, "Oh man, I was a little weirded out by them too, and I know a lot about Taako's magic. I bet you make a good burger though. Maybe when I get hungry again I'll bug you to make me one."
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She did brighten a little at the idea she might be doing okay at being ready to be an adult. Most people didn't tell her that. But she believed, or wanted to believe it, right now.
"I'm pretty good at grilling, a few people I know are better than me. But they usually don't have as much creativity. Like knowing what you can put in a burger patty before grilling it." Lola loved trying new things. Part of why she made it here. Worlds of possibility opened up, "I can totally make you a burger when you want one."
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The concern is genuine and obvious - ever since he'd first met her, Eddie had Lola in the back of his mind quite frequently, wondering if she's okay, if she's doing well, if she's finding her way alright in the Quarantine. There's never been a good time fr him to tell her that she can always come to him if she ever needs help, but he's sure that, on some level, she knows. If she didn't, why would she be at his birthday party?
"Wait, what you can put in a burger patty? Okay, now I definitely want one, really soon. Would you?"
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She's not doing too badly for herself, it's just a lot of change. Of course, less change now that she's been here for a few months.
"You can totally cook certain veggies and stuff into the beef patty if you know what you're doing. It changes the texture and flavor, it's a lot more... throughout, than a topping." Lola smiled, "I mean, you are the birthday boy. How can I say no? It isn't any trouble."
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Smiling a little, he ducks his head, and then glances back up at her when she comments on the stuff you can bake into a beef patty, and when she offers to make him one right then and there, he grins.
"I think that might make you my favourite person here, I'm not gonna lie. So what veggies do you cook into the meat?"