Abandoned warehouse district, Tuesday evening

[vdistinctive]

So their house was trashed. Even disregarding the structural and water damage, there was blood, shark- and Eliot-, everywhere, and not a small amount of guts (at least one shark had apparently exploded on impact with the place, Eliot's garden was completely toast) that still needed cleaning up. All told, the Leverage team was considering whether they wanted to fix the place back up, or cut their losses and just buy another place somewhere on the island (and then fix the old one up, they weren't assholes, but they could take their time with it and not have to live out of a hotel room that way).

More important than all that, though: it was Hardison's 30th birthday. And there was no way that Eliot and Parker would let that just go by without some sort of acknowledgment. Say, in the form of an empty-warehouse-party. Full of all the amenities an empty-warehouse-party needed, like loud music, flashing lights, glow paint -- it was possible that Eliot and Parker had just kind of thrown their hands up on what a modern party should look like and thrown a 90s rave, yes -- and plenty of food, including a good chunk of the stock from Luke's that hadn't been ruined when that had gotten sharked. Most of the NPC staff was in attendance already, both in honor of Hardison and because it beat the hell out of helping out with the clean up efforts back at the diner, and the front doors were thrown open wide with signs all up and down the street to let anyone who wanted to wander in know they were welcome as well.

And if no one did wander in? Well. It was already a decent party, anyway. For one thing, there was a minimal amount of leftover shark on the menu. . . .

[open to any and all, SP totally welcome!]

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Mingle

[vdistinctive]

On the dance floor, by the food, wherever. Make sure to take a glow stick!

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[geniuswithasmartphone]

Hardison had walked into the warehouse, taken a look around, and burst out laughing. "It ain't the 90s, video game-nostalgia party that me an' Tony talked about, but we didn't take into account sharkicanes an' homelessness," he said with a laugh. "Happy thirtieth birthday to me."

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[vdistinctive]

Eliot snapped his fingers. "Video games. Man, knew we were forgetting something." He did not look like he was going to worry about rectifying this. For one thing, he was busy pulling Hardison in for a kiss. "Happy birthday, man."

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[geniuswithasmartphone]

Funny how kissing could lead to forgetting about video games. Hardison's teenage years might have been very different if he'd realized that.

"Thanks," he said, after he'd been thoroughly kissed. "Still feel like a cradle-robber now that I got a three in front of my age?"

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[tigerundercover]

"Hey Teach," Raven greeted. "Thirty, huh? You're so old."

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[geniuswithasmartphone]

"Look, youngin'," Hardison said, giving Raven a big smile and going in for a hug, "I'm still good till I find my first gray hair. Then you can gimme all the hell you want 'bout bein' old. Right now, I'm in my prime."

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[uncertain_dume]

Hey, Kanan didn't know Hardison all that well.

... Or at all, really. But he knew Eliot, and he knew that having one's home obliterated wasn't a great opener to a birthday week, and he did happen to know one thing that he could provide that would make for a marginally less poodoo birthday.

"Hey," he said, giving a wry little smile and a nod. "So, you're the birthday guy, huh?"

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[geniuswithasmartphone]

"That'd be me," Hardison said, holding out his hand for a fistbump. "'Sup, I'm Hardison. You the new Saturday guy, right? With pancakes?"

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[whoisalicewhite]

"Happy birthday!" Parker pounced on him as soon as Eliot let him go. "What video game do you want?"

Because she can go get one! Any one! After she's done chewing on your face, Hardison.

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[geniuswithasmartphone]

Hardison laughed his 'dark chocolate chuckle,' the one that was just hers, and held her up, savoring that kiss almost as long as he had Eliot's. "I dunno, mama," he admitted. "I gotta figure out how many I lost in the...sharkenin'."

...Did Eliot's insurance cover acts of Fandom?

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[imafuturist]

"You're very lucky I couldn't find my Mortal Kombat costume," Tony informed him. "It would have just been embarrassing for everyone."

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[geniuswithasmartphone]

"Says you," Hardison retorted, going to give Tony a hung because toxic masculinity was for chumps. And certainly not Care Bears who doubled as hackers. "Man, I'd be jealous! All my video game stuff came down with a bad case of sharkitis."

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[tigerundercover]

Like Raven was going to miss this. Even if Hardison hadn't been the one to get the portal working and get her out of Zombie World, he was one of her favorite people.

Plus, you know, she liked parties.

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[whoisalicewhite]

"Cupcake?" Parker offered one, with a little candle on top. She was looking gleeful and delighted, and would probably keep looking like that as long as the sugar and Hardison held out.

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[tigerundercover]

"Ooo." Raven accepted the cupcake with a smile that almost matched Parker's. "Thanks. I think this might actually be the first birthday party I've been to in more than a year."

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[uncertain_dume]

Hey, there were signs, they pointed to a party... sure, Kanan was going to show. He had a window to be repairing, but considering he was hardly the person whose home had taken the most damage at this party (by a long shot, really. What was a single window?), he figured he could spare an hour or two just to drop by and check in on people.

Which pretty quickly turned into blinking around at all the glowing things.

"I know I'm not riding the high from a bad dose of glitterstim right now."

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[vdistinctive]

"Kanan," Eliot greeted, and offered him a drink. There might be a light up LED ice cube in that. "It's a warehouse party. Glowing things are traditional."

What? Eliot had come of age in the mid-90s. And then pretty much immediately left society behind to become a criminal. His perspective was a little skewed.

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[imafuturist]

Somehow Tony would find it in his heart to forgive them for not doing a 90's video game themed party. Somehow.

He took a glow stick, shaking his head a little at them. It was better than the glitter of the school dances at least.

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[vdistinctive]

"Tony," Eliot greeted. "Apparently this ain't livin' up to some plan you and Hardison cooked up?"

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[2_old_for_this]

Peter didn't really know these people, but again - he was trying to get out and meet them. And after all of this weekend, he figured anything he could do would be good.

So, he showed up bearing flowers. Hey, it was something he had plenty of. Also a case of beer. He set them both down on a table when he walked in, then looked around.

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[vdistinctive]

This guy looked reasonably familiar. Eliot nodded at the flowers. "Interestin' choice. For the birthday boy, or just general decor?"

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[firstofitskind]

Liam was pinging in really super late, so the player totes understands if said ping goes unanswered, but is also up for SP, as it happened, wandering by. Curiosity piqued, he decided to check out what all the signs were pointing to. A party seemed like a good way to meet more people in Fandom, at any rate, so he headed on in.

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[vdistinctive]

"Hey man," Eliot greeted. "C'mon in. I'm Eliot."

Find a darkened corner!

[vdistinctive]

There are several. This place is not well lit.

OOC

[vdistinctive]

I possibly didn't need to do OCD on this post. I put the first thread up and was like "wait, what else do I need to do?"

Anyway, if you want any others, let me know.