Bonfire Bush Party at the Old Campgrounds; Wednesday Night [06/26].

[howareyanow]

Nice thing about something like a bush party, especially one in a spot where campfires had clearly been before, was that it didnt' take too much set-up to get it going. Technicaleh speakin', all you needed was a campfire, some beer, and some people.

Campfire? Check.

Cooperative weather (and island?)? That's a Texas-sized 10-4.

Beer? Oh, just about all the Puppers Wayne could get his hands on.

People?

Well, hopefully, that part would be taken care of in short order. But, as he said, Wayne'd also brought the food, so there was that, and a few extra folding lawn chairs if there weren't enough logs and whatnot for people to sit on. He was going to claim one of those chairs for himself, actually, opening it up with a single sharp move and setting it down, settling in with his beer.

And he'd be perfectly content with just that, too, though he supposed it'd be nice if putting Nina on invite duty worked and people actually showed up this time. It would help, at the very least, with all the fooood.

[[ ocd incoming! is up! Invite went out to all students, but it's a public place, so definitely crashable by anyone that's hanging out in the woods on a wednesday night~~ ]]

Comments

Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

Because that's pretty much all you do at a bonfire bush party, realleh...

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette had been reasonably certain on Monday morning that if she never set foot in the woods again, it'd be too soon.

She'd made it to 'Wednesday,' and 'Party,' and 'Nina and Wayne,' and 'there will be fire,' and now she was here. By the fire. With a bag of filthy and tattered clothing that she was going to burn the poodoo out of later.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Ah, Vette, my dear!" Of course Sidon would hone in on Vette almost nearly the moment he saw her, sweeping over with an eager grin on his face and that little fluttering in his chest that he was quite certain would never quite go away...nor would he ever want it to! "You simply must forgive me for having to ask, but I have utterly failed to procure this infomration myself, despite having extensively researched it to the very best of my abilities. Is there, perhaps, any particular way to express, in Ryl, I am terribly sorry for the unfortunate event in which I quite rather tried to drown you the other day?"

Because he was. Terribly sorry about the whole thing, and he thought this would be an excellent way to say as much, though he rather suspected (hoped, anyway!) that she'd quite already understood as much!

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

"Vette." Wayne might have a problem with your supposedly disease-ridden alien shark boyfriend, Vette, but he had no problems with you yourself, so he nodded a greeting from his hick throne folding chair, beer balanced perfectly on his knee. "How are ya now?"

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae's other party tactic of choice: find the few people she knew and liked, and hover awkwardly trying to make conversation (oh god why was Mae so bad at parties?).

"Hi!" She offered Vette a little wave. "Nice to see you looking so much less creepy."

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetteeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina held up her phone. "Pose for Prompto?????????????????????"

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon would never miss a Nina-involved party if he could help it! Or any party at all, for that matter, espsecially not when it felt so good to be back to normal (well, except the color, which he was rather missing but he did feel grey wasn't a bad color for him!), and it would just be nice to hang out and have some fun with some friends, especially after the roughness of the last few weeks...

...and especially before apparently doing double-duty at the shelter this week. He was honestly thinking he'd just make a Thursday night pet sleepover out of it, though he was still working out the details that would help prevent the kittens from just using that as an opportunity to finally attack.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

Wayne, who was far from convinced that the whole thing last week wasn't due to some weird strain of some sort of weird alien shark STD, was maybe going to squint a little extra hard at Sidon when he got there. At least they weren't in the water this time around; that should keep 'em all pretty safe, but he was still keeping a close eye on the guy, just in case.

Luckileh, keeping an eye on a giant shark alien was pert'near one of the easiest things to do, even by campfire light.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[bookbeltof_love]

Clearly, Sidon ought to just invite people over for sleepover at the pet shelter because, like, that sounded like a good time to be had by all.

"Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And that, that was worthy of a beam.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[bookbeltof_love]

Like, obviously Nina was here! Even if the whole woods thing left her a bit twitchy, the fact that it was a party and that people she knew were around rather out-weighed that and she was feeling... okay.

That was, like, actually pretty nice?

Even if the smell of the fire was going to take forever to get out of her hair.

Like Wayne, she was claiming a chair, and a beer, and anyone who wanted to take either of them from her was going to have a fight on their hands.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

But! Campfire was a great scent for hair! Mebbe not so much with the added touch of melted glitter and scorched flannel, but...

Could be worse.

"Nina." From his own hick throne folding chair, Wayne gave his co-conspirator a nod. "Looks like we managed to get this place to cooperate a bit."

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[goldfishontherocks]

Keyleth had never been to a party like this before! Well, maybe she had, only she didn't know that, because she didn't recognize the name? Anyway. She was still trying to shake off the feeling that the awful mystical blight from last week was partly her fault because she'd overlooked something (yes, this was still irrational, yes, she knew that, no, just knowing that wasn't enough to convince her otherwise), and a party seemed like a great way to do that!

Which meant the odds of her doing something really impulsive and ill-advised because she'd snapped had just gone way up.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

One guess who that was, Keyleth!

"Hi hi hi!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's great to see you here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[scoffs_at_tradition]

A campfire! How fun!

Shuri had been spending far too much time hiding in her room conducting experiments and needed to get out, see people, and eat things cooked over a fire, so here she was.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae had never thought of herself as someone who got invited to parties (because she basically never was), so she always felt awkward when she managed to hear about one and show up anyway.

This time she'd actually been invited! And she still felt awkward as hell.

She was just going to sit and stare into the fire for a bit. That was the joy of bonfire parties. When you didn't know how to talk to people, you could always just stare at the pretty pretty fire.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[handystand]

Okuyasu was having a great time. This wasn't exactly his sort of thing, being all outdoors-y, but the fire and the folks around made it an absolute joy.

He was a simple teen with simple tastes.

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[crack_that_whip]

Well. It was a party with free food and beer, so Trevor was in. And not just because he needed to exist get out more.

But mostly that.

And hey, things being a palatable level of weird helped!

Re: Hang Out Around the Campfire - BBB@OCG, 06/26.

[legionqueen]

Right, okay. A party. Jules wasn't exactly a social butterfly, but she wasn't the loner type despite the lack of play either, so a party she could do.

Even if it felt really, really odd to be at such a gathering without Arsinoe around griping about being forced to wear formal clothes.

Camden had, of course, made a beeline for the food, although she was currently sulking about the fact that most of the meat was wrapped in that stuff- plastic, and thus she'd have to wait until someone offered her some, lest she get plastic in her teeth (horrors!).

Food & Drink - BBP@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

Off to the side a little is table (with a nice red plaid tablecloth over it, too, naturalleh) with some snacks and drinks set out. All the campfire classics: hot dogs (and soy dogs, too; Wayne doesn't really understand vegetarianism, but he wouldn't want anyone feeling left out), fixin's for making s'mores, a wide variety of potato chips (none of them, unfortunateleh, All Dressed or Ketchup), and a lot of cupcakes. There's a couple big coolers with beer (not ALL Puppers, although Wayne didn't see the point in variety THERE) and one with just water and pop (which, again, Wayne didn't much see the point of, besides he supposed not everyone'd been practically drinking beer since they were ten).

Everything, it should be noted, was also very clearly and precisely labeled to avoid any lack-of-color-related confusion or mishaps.

Except the condiments.

Which did include at least one bottle of chocolate syrup among the ketchup and the mustard and the mayo.

That one was for you, Okuyasu.

Don't nobody ever say Wayne didn't have a sense of humor!

Sneak Off Into the Woods - BBP@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

Oh, sure, sneak off to the woods for some privacy. But we all know what it is yer doin' out there, big shoots.

Games! - BBP@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

Wayne's the sort of guy to be just fine sitting at a fire with a beer in the woods even by himself, so he's not likeleh to initiate anything like a campfire game himself, but that doesn't mean the floor isn't open if anyone wanted to get something going, and this here's the thread to do it.

Just make a thread for it and have at 'er!

Burn Stuff in the Campfire - BBP@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

Wayne's already got a few glitter-infested plaid shirts (plus one completely useless smock) to get the 'cleansing fire' going...which honestleh was just an excuse to get those glitter-infested plaid shirts (plus one completely useless smock) taken care of, but, sure, hey, the more the merrier. Come burn some shit.

Re: Burn Stuff in the Campfire - BBP@OCG, 06/26.

[bookbeltof_love]

The nice part of knowing they were going to be burning things meant that she was prepared. She couldn't burn her clothes, since she'd binned them as soon as she'd gotten back to the dorms (farewell, skirt, she'd miss you, but not enough to keep you) but she'd taken a great deal of time (Nina was maybe not sleeping a whole lot right now) to scribble out all of her ugly, twisted feelings on the whole mess and…

Like…

You know, there really was something soothing about watching all those ugly, frightened feelings go up in flames as she dropped the pages into the fire.

OOC - BBP@OCG, 06/26.

[howareyanow]

I'M SORRY FOR ALL THE PARTY ON YOUR WEDNESDAY OFF OF SHENANIGANS, SHANIE!! ;_;

Re: OOC - BBP@OCG, 06/26.

[goldfishontherocks]

Oh my god HOW DARE YOUUUUUUUUUU. :D