The Onsen, Monday

[bookbeltof_love]

It was a beautiful day outside!

Nina's explorations hadn't yielded anything strange or bitey or dangerous that wasn't usually strange or bitey or dangerous around the island, when it wasn't messing around with their locations, and she'd sent out an email, on Friday, after all that meant now that it was definitely looking really great for the week?

ONSEN PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What was that? Island-wide texts were obnoxious?

Well, like, whatever, the water was great! The sky was back! There was no possible way a party like this could go wrong, right?

… Right?

Well, it wouldn't go wrong today, anyway!

[Please to be waiting for the OCD is up, up, and away! And yes, yes that text hit up everyone.]

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Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

Don't forget, you've got to wear bathing suits!

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Ah, yes, don't forget about the bathing suits...

How could Sidon ever forget about the completely irrational, nonsensical, completely arbitrary (in his esteemed opinion, anyway) requirement for bathing suits in the onsen, which also did not even allow you to swim much, or, at the very least, they gave you very firm glares if you so much as flicked your heattail and splashed a bit?

But far be it from him to not enjoy the occassion for a party held by his dear little sister in light on the island going back to something a little more everyone's speed, especially when said party specifically involved water. So Sidon was there, looking a bit ridiculous in the pair of swim trunks he'd gotten specifically for occassions such as these, but determined not to let himself feel as ridiculous as he figured he very much likely appeared.

Swim trunks indeed!

(They were very nice, though, and the red and white blocking could almost match his natural coloring enough that, at first glance, perhaps one might not even notice...)

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

"Siiiiiiiiiiiiiidon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, beaming happily up at him. "You made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was here and there and everywhere and totally, like, willing to talk to everyone as she flitted about making sure, like, everything was perfect.

Her bathing suit was an eminently tasteful and cute pink one-piece. Nina had taken a couple of looks at the bikinis and... and... no, definitely not, she was a lady and in her world, ladies didn't flash that much skin, like, ever............ and she still felt rather embarrassed at the idea that others might, like, wear them.......

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[howareyanow]

Well. Who doesn't love a hot tub party? Even if that hot tub party didn't involve a hot tub, on account of it being less bubbly and less chlorinated.

Wayne wasn't sure if he'd really stay for long, but he had been invited and it was impolite to turn down an invite, especially if you didn't have a good excuse, but he figured if it got too awkward sitting around with everyone in their swimwear in hot, non-bubbly water, well, then, he could likely always slip out with a good old Letterkenny Leave.

His swim trunks, it should be noted, were not, in fact, plaid or flannel.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[merciful_parable]

Well, goodness, there really wasn't much to do about most of the weeks—which Carter was not ashamed to admit left him hiding out in the church, more often than not, as the church at least had remained safe—but this week looked quite lovely, from the lack of anything trying to kill him as soon as he looked outside…

And, on a whim, he'd actually charged the phone Summer had given him way back when, which meant he had gotten the invitation to the party and, the nice thing about small town living was that, when someone threw a party and invited everyone…

Well, the polite thing to do was to show up, wasn't it?

Carter's swim trunks were plain black.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[cypher_can_fly]

Owen had... shorts? Shorts would do, right?

"Hello," he called as he walked in... about five minutes late. Fashionable, right? "Let the onsen begin!"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

"The onsen has already begun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said happily. "Owen, you made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No lava fields???????????????"

Food!

[bookbeltof_love]

Do not ask how Nina got this party catered on, like, two seconds real notice. But she managed it, and all the moddable food was great! And well away from the water!

Onsen Party!

[bookbeltof_love]

Who doesn't want to hang out and party in an onsen? Really now?

Re: Onsen Party!

[hashtag_chocobro]

Well, thank the gods the week leading up to this was a week without much food available, which really sort of helped Prompto out a little bit in the whole self-conscious about his body thing. He wouldn't be feeling like he was wearing, instead of a shirt, evidence of every extra splurged calorie there on his otherwise svelte frame. And, sure, he'd worked hard for that svelte frame and was stupid proud of it, but he was still too much of that chubby kid at heart to ever feel completely comfortable about it, especially surrounded by other people. So he was planning on spending as little time with the whole arriving and mingling thing as he could and just going pretty much straight for the cover of water.

Warm, blissful water that wasn't over their heads or leaking out of the one thing that separated them from it.

Fresh air, blue sky, no feeling of being locked in and trapped. Prompto didn't even need the water to relax him in that moment, but it was a nice touch, and he breathed in a deep, appreciative sigh as he closed his eyes and settled in against one of the walls, putting his arms up on the edge (those, after all, he was unabashedly proud of and sort of needed to take the chance to show off, even if he did twitch his hands at the wrists on occassion because he'd decided, after a long debate, to eschew his gloves because that would be ridiculous, but he still had a terrycloth wristband over his tattoos. He doubted anyone who didn't already know about them would even notice, but he just felt significantly more comfortable with them there).

This was nice, though. He could almost forget to even be anxious like this, and was so, so grateful for what was shaping up to be an actual normal, nice week after that last one.

Re: Onsen Party!

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina, like, wasn't going to start a splash party at the onsen, not when that would get them kicked out (most likely) by the staff that had been super accommodating of her last minute party, but she was going to take a moment to admire Prompto—he did really have nice arms, it was true—before sending a smallish sort of splash his way with a gleeful laugh.

Just because she could.

Re: Onsen Party!

[intraspective]

Silly could no longer talk, at least, not so that Promtoes could understand him.

But as he bobbled towards Promtoes, hoping to land on his head, or shoulder, or those arms that were so conveniently not in the water…

Well, it was pretty clear that if Silly could be understood, he'd be rambling about how excited he was to see Promtoes!

Re: Onsen Party!

[bookbeltof_love]

Um, yeah, Nina was definitely not hosting a party at a hot spring and then not going in the water. That would be beyond ridiculous.

And, like, the water was so nice and warm and oh, maybe she'd just never leave it, that sounded great! Besides, like, what was the point of a bathing suit, really, if she wasn't going to be in the water while wearing it?

Nina relaxed against one of the walls, blissfully happy.

Re: Onsen Party!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon was hardly going to go to a party centered around being in the water and not go in the water, especially not when he'd gone through the trouble of appeasing that ludicrious swim trunks rule that they had here at the onsen! And he was also incredibly content in just sinking down as far as he could (and, really, all things considered, he was rather impressed that there was, somehow, space for him to even sink down as far as he could, though it did require a little bit of curling up), until nearly all but his head was delightfully submerged.

And now to just fight the urge to not just start swimming about!

...or to just fall asleep. It was quite a bit warmer than the sleeping pools back home, but it did rather bring those to mind, which was a terribly comforting and relaxing and soporiphic thought...

Re: Onsen Party!

[howareyanow]

Wouldn't make much sense to come all the way over to the hot springs for a hot springs party and not actually get in the hot springs, now, would it? So Wayne was taking a spot, sinking in, and doing as he always did for these sorts of things, keeping his hands noticeably out of the water..

And as he sat there, he was taking note of how everyone else was sitting, because,usually, at these things, you had all sorts, and he was checking to see if they were all accounted for:

There was the guy who sat with his chin in the water, which he supposed he should have expected from the big fish fella, though he was wondering just how he made all that room when it wasn't all that deep.

A guy sitting there with his shoulders ouwt was usually a given, but the one with the arms definitely fit the bill for the guy who took up two to three times more real estate than everybody else because he's just, like....puttin' the vibe out there.

Someone, he was sure of it, was going to hop out in a second to be the Edge-Sitter, too. Always had to have an Edge-Sitter.

And he? Well, he was the guy who sits there with the hands out of the water so he could keep 'em dry so he could still dig out and light smokes.

Which meant he was wondering if they'd allow smokes in here.

Re: Onsen Party!

[bookbeltof_love]

Yeah that was… Nina tried, she really did, but eventually she just had to drift over to Wayne.

"Why are you holding your hands above water????????????????"

Re: Onsen Party!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Edge-Sitter, reporting for duty! And taking over the party

Look. Summer would admit, she felt a little uncertain about this whole Onsen-Party-Hosted-By-A-Student thing, especially since, you know, the onsen was where she oh-so-low-key went to just ogle pretty people. But she had noticed the email was sent to pretty much everyone and she had a really hard time saying no to a party she was invited to, even if it danced her back toward that weird line she was trying to get away from with having been a student herself. And it did seem like a good way to relax after a few really weird weeks and the mun couldn't refuse a convenient plot hook.

Which was why she was an Edge-Sitter, figuring it not only put her in a less awkward spot if it did end up being mostly students, but it also put her in a spot to just bolt if it got weird. And maybe sort of had her come off as sort of a cool teacher chaperone or something? She didn't know. She just really hoped it wasn't some fluke, because it would kind of suck if she wound up being less a cool teacher and more just a weird awkward one that showed up randomly at their non-dorm parties.

If anything, at least she and Sidon went way back and she'd just commandeer him for a while and laugh over the good old days when she'd yell at him for dripping water all over the common room for the parties she used to have. But she really hoped more, you know, not-students showed up, and not just so she could start spreading the word about her party later this week for her birthday. But that was kind of a big reason, ngl.

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[merciful_parable]

"Why hello, Summer!" Carter said cheerfully, spying a familiar face and glad to see it as he wandered over in his swim trunks. "How have you been?"

Re: Onsen Party!

[intraspective]

Iris had considered not going, but really, it wasn't like she had anything more pressing to do, and she did like the onsen, even if the whole insistence on swimsuits thing was really, really weird to her and always had been.

She piled her hair up into a braided crown around her head and lounged in the water like a queen. Her bikini was flower patterned and not particularly modest but then... why would it be?

Re: Onsen Party!

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette was kinda here to party, but mostly just here to soak. Last week had involved a lot more running and jumping and shooting and squeezing into tight places than usual, and Vette had worked a lot of muscles that had been long neglected since coming to the island. So? What better way to spend her evening than by slipping into the nice, hot water and just siiiiinking down into it as low as she could go, leaving only her face dry so that she could do things like... you know... keep breathing?

Ah, this was good. This, right here.

Re: Onsen Party!

[bookbeltof_love]

Vette was, like, super tired and Nina was just happy that her bestie/roomie/dare-she-say-it-sister had even shown up rather than just sleeping the day away.

Nina wasn't going to, like, bother her or anything. But she'd spend some down time just enjoying the heat of the water and lounging by her, most definitely, content with the silence.

Re: Onsen Party!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Cue the music, because someone got it in his head to try to sneak up on Vette in the water while she was sitting there relaxing.

Now, it was true that Sidon's stealth skills on land were...laughable, though he certain was trying to improve. However, his ability to be swift and stealthy in the water was unparalleled, an apex predator in his natural state, slicing through the currents on unsuspecting marine life like a deadly shadow unnoticed until it was far, far too late.

Unfortunately, all of those qualities required a body of water significantly larger than the onsen. But Sidon, the Zora Prince!, was hardly going to let a detail like that prevent him from at least making the attempt.

So please nobody mind the large Zora shimmying (yes, shimmying, staff members giving him the dirty eye right now, he was certainly not swimming, thank you very much!) across the pool toward the Twi'lek with his headfin barely out of the water, just enough to hide his grin, in a way that was oh-so-sneaky and surely not at all likely to be noticed by her at all, no, perish the thought....

Onsen... Not The Party?

[bookbeltof_love]

For those who, like, don't want to hang out with a bunch of party-goers, I guess!

[For the use of anyone who would like the use the onsen without the party bit, yo.]

OOC

[bookbeltof_love]

As per my understanding of this week's infections, you've actually got to touch the water to get infected, yo. So the Arrive/Mingle and Food threads are party threads but not infection threads. If you want to get infected, hit up the Onsen Party or the Not The Party threads!