NYE Party- Caritas- Monday

[throughaphase]

Did it feel a little weird to be throwing a New Year's party on the first day of school? A little, and Kitty didn't envy people who might have to teach tomorrow. But regardless, a party was happening. Signs had gone up around town to advertise, the bar was decked out in gold decorations (semi-tastefully, Tino had done a lot of it) and there were party hats that everyone was expected to take, even if they didn't wear them.

They were festive, and looked good in pictures.

So come one, come all, because it's a small town and your hostess was unaware of anything else going on!


[Open all-ages party, yay SP!]

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Stage

[throughaphase]

The zombies are in suits. No, Kitty doesn't know how they got in them. You don't ask these questions.

Bar

[throughaphase]

Where you'll find Kitty most of the night if she's not walking around.

Aaaand there was a baby monitor on the bar top because guess who was sleeping in the office.

Re: Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

At least celebrating the new year meant hanging out in a bar. Seivarden could do that. So she was standing by the bar, looking at the party had she had been given.

"I'm not going to wear this."

[I'm going to disappear early due to New Year happening earlier in my timezone, but until then I'm around and for SP after that.]

Re: Bar

[throughaphase]

"You don't have to," Kitty assured her. "But it's more fun if you do."

Re: Bar

[died8yearsago]

Rosa could be back in New York for this. A part of her felt she should be in New York for this, but, honestly, she'd just spent all last week there and it was filled with socializing and holiday cheer and she was kind of sick of all of it and maybe she didn't mind something quieter for New Years.

Beside, she knew the trip well, and figured that, if it did wind up being lame just hanging out at Caritas for New Years, she could just bail early and still probably make it up there by midnight. She's just sort of feel it out a little. Maybe see who else came out for it.

Not that she'd be looking for anyone in particular, or anything.

But she had dressed up a little for the occasion, and she'd clocked that baby monitor on the bar from about a mile away, deciding to forgo any sort typical greeting to Kitty and just offering her a faintly amused pointed look regarding it instead.

Re: Bar

[1000yearstoolate]

For a moment Seivarden considered not to notice Rosa, but that would be childish. She also considered just nodding in greeting from a distance, prepared to get a glare in return. For some reason, and she wasn't sure why, she decided to try to talk.

So she walked straight up to Rosa. "So. Want a drink? I might owe you one, I've lost count."

Re: Bar

[throughaphase]

"It was either get a sitter or let my baby sleep in a bar on New Year's," Kitty explained.

Re: Bar

[not_a_bird]

Ugh, well, here she was, stuck on this lame-ass island on New Years, but at least there was a bar or something, she might as well go check it out.

...Dee, don't even act like you had any plans for tonight other than sitting in some different bar tonight, doing nothing but getting possibly drunk enough to not even remember when midnight happened.

Besides, this bar was way nicer than Paddy's, holy shit. She tried not too look too impressed as she made her way over to the bar. Well. The band was a little..well, they looked almost as bad a Rickety Cricket, but maybe it was a whole theme they did? Whatever, she was pretty sure this place probably didn't have more than a few rats in their basement, even! That was pretty nice!

"Sooooo," she said, trying to sound casual, not doing the best job, "this is the local watering hole around this place, huh?" She quirked a chin at the bartender, with a faint smirk. "Nice to see another lady behind the bar, too."

She (who had earlier that day decided to completely dismiss a fifteen-year-old student for being 'too pretty') was alllll about that female solidarity! Respect!

Re: Bar

[throughaphase]

"We've got a couple," Kitty assured her, smiling. "Going to take a wild guess and say you're new."

Re: Bar

[what_the_shock]

"Hey." Hey, a new person! Miguel toasted her.

Re: Bar

[notallbluemonks]

Beau had noticed the signs on her way in to work this morning, and while the cultural significance of the date, at least the way it tended to be celebrated here, was largely lost on her she wasn't going to turn down a chance to party. Oh yeah, she was just making Xeenoth and the Cobalt Soul really proud.

"So this is supposed to be like the biggest excuse to party in the year or some shit, right?" she asked after ordering a Jack and Coke from Tino. Guess who really liked the variety of booze available around here?

Re: Bar

[uncertain_dume]

See Kanan. See Kanan tilting his head curiously at the baby monitor before glancing at Kitty with a grin.

"Here with a plus-one tonight, are you?"

Hey, look who was totally here to party. Probably with orange juice or something. Such a party animal, that Kanan.

Re: Bar

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had contemplated going to the mainland to celebrate the New Year, but then she remembered one little tiny detail that was so easy to forget about when she was here, that she couldn't exactly legally drink at a bar on the mainland anyway.

Whoops?

So once that fact was established, it was kind of a no-brainer, since she could drink as much as she wanted without even so much of a flash of an ID at Caritas, and possibly even for free if she wanted to just sip Summer Smiths all evening (don't worry, she wouldn't).

She would start with one, though, because she was eighteen and her drinking palate was terrible.

"Whattya say, Kitty?" she beamed a little as she bounced up to the bar. "Time for the last Summer Smith of the year?"

Re: Bar

[what_the_shock]

What the heck, it was New Year's Eve; why not? A party never hurt anyone.

Even if Miguel was going to spend the night wishing everyone a happy 2100.

Re: Bar

[whatdattonguedotho]

Well, a party was a party. And Eddie probably needed to meet more people if he was gonna stick around here.

"That for the back room or somethin'?" Oddly enough 'actual baby' didn't come into the equation for him.

Re: Bar

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack walked in and looked around before taking a seat at the bar. "Huh, no shit. There really are zombies here."

She was waiting for the boys but she wasn't above starting without them. She waited until she had the attention of whoever was serving bar. "Could I get a whiskey, neat?" A beat, "Please?"

[new and improved and in the right #!$#!#$ thread]

Re: Bar

[texted3times]

Eric could open the Devil's Nest, but that required effort and he wasn't really feeling it today.

So...crashing the other bar's party it was!

[OOC: SP for life, yo.]

Lounge

[throughaphase]

Sit somewhere quiet-ish.

Re: Lounge

[filleauloup]

Éponine wasn't spending the evening alone, thank you, but she wasn't in the mood for a whole lot of socializing either; that was what the lounge was for, and she was content -- at least for now -- to settle down there with a drink and watch people milling about at the bar.

Back Room- Party

[throughaphase]

There's moddable food laid out, a Rockin' Eve of some sort is on the TV, and you can take your drinks to go mingle.

Re: Back Room- Party

[what_the_shock]

Food was always good. The TV thing was...actually, pretty close to what Miguel was used to in Nueva York, just with less 3D.

Miguel was even wearing the silly hat; so there.

Re: Back Room- Party

[notallbluemonks]

Beau was not wearing the hat, thank you, but she had a plate of food and a couple of drinks on hand (sparing the pocket bacon for the night), had staked out a corner booth, and was getting into a nice groove of critiquing the entertainment on the TV.

“Dude, what is up with these female hosts being expected to be eye candy? That’s bullshit, man!”

Angry asshole monk was (arguably justifiably, this time) angry.

Countdown!

[throughaphase]

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Happy New Year!!!

Re: Countdown!

[biotic_psychotic]

[modded with permish from el sickie]

"Hey Jack," Kaidan said when the countdown began.

She looked at him and immediately knew it was a mistake. She could tell by the evil little smirk he was wearing. Jack narrowed her eyes dangerously and demanded, "What?"

She heard the countdown end and the cheering begin. It distracted her. She shouldn't have let it.

Kaidan used the distraction to reach out and cup her head. He left a ringing, wet, itchy kiss smack in the center of her brow line. Payback for the one she'd delivered the other day.

"Fucking hell, get off me," Jack complained and laughed at him. Swatting at him the whole time. Not enough to set off the bar's trigger. More like a cat batting at moths circling a lamp. "Gross! Now I need one of those green scrubby pads to get the feeling of that off my forehead!"

"Yeah," Kaidan agreed with a drawl, "I know. Happy New Year, Jack. Welcome to Fandom."

"Oh fuck you," she laughed at him, "Happy New Year to you too, asshole."

She scrubbed at her forehead with a hand. "Ugh! Cooties!"

OOC

[throughaphase]

My workday is going to absolutely suck but my NYE plans got canceled twice so I'm aroud tonight! Woooooo!

ETA the yearly makeout thread!