PARTY!, The Beach, Saturday Night

[my_own_advocate]

The beach looked like someone had thrown an entire Pinterest board at it.

Strings of lights were strung between elegant poles, lighting up a fair portion of the beach (with the help of a few carefully-disguised generators, mind you). Large, stylized pots contained such multitudes of jasmine and lavender that at first glance they appeared to be bushes, instead - Seivarden's one contribution to the party.

Delicate paper screens carved the beach up into zones. Beach-classy lounge furniture sat on the sand, from chairs to sofas to even a bed or two. One corner held a stack of sheets, for anyone who didn't think bathing suits were appropriate eveningwear ('Togas encouraged!', the final Instagram post had said). Lucifer had supplied a ridiculous cooking setup for Duke in one corner, and a large bar ('open bar!' said the sign by it) stocked with almost every kind of alcohol known to man sat on the opposite side.

Even the water seemed to roll in like it figured it was part of an Instagram music video of some kind.

Seivarden had demanded a good party. And Lucifer had standards.

That it was extremely hot, that everyone had lost most of their wardrobe? That wasn't going to stand in the way of a bloody good party. There were ice cubes! Lucifer had brought a special freezer for extra ice cubes!

... and since it was Lucifer, no, he hadn't noticed the Truth Day thing yet.

[[ party! ]]

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Arrive/Mingle

[my_own_advocate]

Find some lounge furniture, wonder how much time and money went into this, grab a sheet and make a toga...

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden had had to google what a toga was, but since she didn't have many options left and preferred not to show up naked, it turned out she was already wearing one.

It was just one problem. All her gloves were gone. Which meant she tried hiding her hands when she could, although she knew that would prove impossible. At least no one but Tisarwat would be embarrassed by it, so she'd try to avoid the kid.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[crimson_sister]

Lucille had already been wearing a sheet since all her dresses had disappeared yesterday. Now even her corset and petticoat was gone, so she had let her hair down, which was the closest to decent she had managed.

Still, she was here. She had come to the island to distract herself from loneliness among other things, hadn't she?

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[justice_undone]

Breq might not like the host, and knew very well it was mutual, but since the invitation had been sent to everyone she figured they would be able to avoid each other. She wasn't very conspicuous at parties after all, she assumed, having been to very few as an actual person. Well, most people here would object to that last part.

She was here for the music. Wearing a sheet wrapped around herself, she quickly looked around, picked up a glass of water, and headed towards the dance floor.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had probably spent way too much time perfecting the art of wrapping (and cutting) a bedsheet (pink, of course!) into an adorable little short toga that didn't just look like a pink bedsheet potato sack, but, admit it, did she pull it off or what? And she had a few tutorial videos in the queue now because of it that would be a hit, so that was nice, but, at the moment, not soon after arrival, she seemed a little glued to her phone, thumbs flying over the keyboard with a frowning look of dissatisfied consternation toward the screen.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[special_rabbit]

The dress that Amaya had fashioned out of her curtains the other day wasn't really very toga-like, toga-adjacent at best, but it was mostly a recommendation, anyway, right? Either way, it was clothes, and it would suffice enough for a party that she felt she couldn't miss if it was held for Seivarden's sake, and, well, she'd been holding onto a pretty good party track record this summer and felt there was no reason to stop the streak now!

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[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui barely even bothered using his phone as a phone, much less for social media related things, but even though reitsu didn't really work the same way in this universe as his own, if there was such a thing as a reitsu for parties, he would be the first to be able to sense it. And beach parties were quite possibly some of the easiest to crash, anyway. He didn't know what was going on, for who, for what, or anything, but details like that hardly mattered.

And although he found his makeshift bedsheet hakama pants quite serviceable and actually significantly more comfortable and freeing that his usual layers of robes to the point where he was considering a dramatic regular fashion change, he did rather miss the sweeping drama that went along with floating about with his haori. He missed the haori for much bigger reasons, too, but he was trying his best not to think about that, especially not at a party.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[ohvalleyofpenis]

Jaskier was making that toga work for him. If you were into pale and weirdly hairy, that is.

"Oh, thank the gods, there's shade," he said, making a beeline for that. He wasn't built for heat, okay? He just wasn't.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[magnusrushesin]

Oh, so this was a classy party. Magnus suddenly felt bad for showing up with pool floaties. Not bad enough to put them away or anything. But still kinda bad.

So much for swimming to beat the heat.

"Oh, shit! Outfit change!"

The togas, on the other hand, were gladly accepted.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[badassprodigy]

Barry was not a people person. While he could understand the human genome, understanding people was still a challenge at time. However after being back in Fandom for two days and losing all of his clothes for no scientific reason whatsover he needed to get out of the warehouse.

So party. And since he had no clothes he had to use the sheets from the bed in the loft and... well he was trying very desperately not to think about what happened last in that bed and when the sheets might have been washed.

Someone distract him please.

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[texted3times]

Eric waited until the sun had set completely (being burned to a pile of ashes was not a good look) and then came onto the beach with a couple of pillow cases around his hips doing very little to hide the fact that the only clothing he had left was a hot pink thong.

He smirked a little at the DJ and then headed over to get himself a drink.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[betterthanaplan]

Duke was here, sporting a pair of swim trunks he did not pick off a tree, thank you, and an old apron when he was cooking.

He was not wearing a toga. He would need many more drinks in him before he would put on a toga. Look, he'd skipped college for a reason, okay?

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[grenadesandohana]

Steve hadn't been here long enough to realize that wearing nothing but board shorts to a party wasn't the norm and had just kind of assumed Danny was being overly dramatic about how all the clothing had disappeared?

He was fine wandering around shirtless, and it seemed that everyone at this party felt the same way. He strolled in and looked around for the--admittedly few--familiar faces he knew.

Eat!

[my_own_advocate]

Once Duke pings in with the menu.

Re: Eat!

[betterthanaplan]

Duke had decided -- upon being reminded about this party last night -- that the best way to distract himself from all his varying issues right now was to throw himself wholesale into catering this party.

The end result was a hell of a spread.

Start yourself off with some piroski, peppered figs, baked feta, or octopus salad. And of course, there's plenty of spanakopita.

For a main course, you could have broiled eel, braised snails, or even some sea urchin. If that was a little too exotic for you, there were also some lovely fish kabobs and tomato-and-feta shrimp.

For dessert, there was baklava, of course. Also bougatsa, loukoumathes, and candied citrus peels.

Vegetarian or vegan? No problem. There were vegan dolmades, roasted grapes, cheeseless, flatbread pizza, and a variety of veggie gyros available with or without feta and tzatziki. There was even karidopita for dessert.

Duke was exhausted, but entirely pleased with himself. He hadn't gone quite this hard on a menu in -- actually ever.

He'd had a lot of issues to avoid, yeah.

Drink!

[my_own_advocate]

There is a lot of booze.

Re: Drink!

[1000yearstoolate]

There was only one thing to do after a disastrous conversation that, or so Seivarden assumed, could have messed up things badly with her two best friends. That was obviously to get as drunk as possible as quickly as possible.

Which was why she ordered ten shots.

Re: Drink!

[long_memory]

Silver was down to a securely wrapped bedsheet around his waist, cinched up in a way that he wouldn't trip over himself while walking with a crutch. It was too damn hot in his apartment so he was down here, trying to drink enough rum to forget about this week.

Re: Drink!

[hatesparadise]

Danny had only showed up for cold drinks because today was weird. He eschewed the togas, sticking with his tree swimsuit. Mostly because a toga was more effort than it was worth.

Alcohol would make it all better, though. Famous last words.

Re: Drink!

[badassprodigy]

There was a lot of booze. And normally Barry would not drink. However there was a lack of clothes and after the last couple of days...

Yeah. Barry was considering having an alcoholic drink. Literally the first alcoholic drink he had ever had.

Which is why he was staring at the options available; mentally calculating his body weight against the alcoholic of each drink and wondering which would taste the best.

He might be there all night

Re: Drink!

[okteiviakom]

There was a fair bit more structure and hand-stitching involved in what Octavia was wearing than your average sheet toga, but it was still... basically a toga made out of a very fancy sheet.

Look, maybe this was what she did now. Kept taking Lucifer's sheets to sew into clothes, only for Fandom to eventually vanish whatever she'd made. At least it kept her occupied.

She couldn't imagine staying here long, but for now, she was getting herself a strong drink from the bar.

Re: Drink!

[special_rabbit]

It was a suddenly very confused and bewildered Amaya who was now at the bar, considering a drink, and when asked what she wanted, could only say, "The strongest thing you've got, and make it in a very big glass, please."

She was starting to get a very bad feeling that there was some stuff involving feelings going around that evening, and she knew perfectly well how poorly she handled that, and was wondering if it was best to get out now while she still could.

Dance!

[my_own_advocate]

... Is that a DJ?

Oh god. Lucifer flew in a famous DJ. Of course he did.

Find Lucifer

[my_own_advocate]

If you didn't run into him anywhere else at the party, he was occasionally found in a lounge throne near the center of the party, drinking rum and making his toga-and-boxer-briefs ensemble look sexy, thank you.

Re: Find Lucifer

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden slumped down on a seat next to Lucifer, a colourful drink in her hand. Having spent most of the day in the shop making sure the flowers were delivered (it required only truthful comments to the people delivering them) after doing radio (the squirrels might have been truthful, it was always hard to tell), she hadn't picked up what was going on.

"This is perfect," she said, which was obvious.

OOC

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