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[xyzai]

What: Akaya's Victory Party
When: Saturday, April 21st
Where: Akaya's apartment, and then a club a short train ride away
Rating: Please keep it PG-13

Join in for an evening of belated celebration! The party starts with an oh so black and yellow surprise party at Akaya's apartment for eating, drinking, and mingling. Those who still want to enjoy the night can venture on to the club afterparty (accessible to all ages), where there will be games and dancing.

See below for details. Characters can PM or text Zaizen to be let in at whatever stage they wish to join.

NOTE: For ease of play, do not worry about chronology. Tag wherever strikes your fancy! If it is on a section after PARTY -- SURPRISE, assume that Akaya has already been surprised and everything is already decorated in bee-themed glory.

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PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[xyzai]

Arrive to the party before Akaya returns and help put things up! Or supervise whatever black-yellow-and-shiny monstrosity comes to life in the otherwise normal apartment.

PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DISTRACTING AKAYA

[xyzai]

Keep the champion busy so everyone else can get things ready.

PARTY -- SURPRISE

[xyzai]

Everyone, prepare to be assholes! Shower Akaya with congratulations and ping pong balls (courtesy of Zaizen) as soon as he comes in

PARTY -- FOOD & DRINKS

[xyzai]

A humble spread of sweets, chips, popcorn, and pizza boxes takes up whatever portion of the divider counter that counter isn’t overcome by Akaya’s favorite cheap beer and a few bottles of different liquors. Feel free to add more delights!

PARTY -- PINATA

[xyzai]

Akira and Shinji have designed a candy-stuffed pinata fit for tennis players. It is shaped like a goya in honor of Kite (because reasons), but don’t be fooled; beneath the green is a thick, protective layer of duct tape. Good luck busting it open with the hyaku-en racket!

PARTY -- MARIO KART

[xyzai]

Akaya’s system is set up with four controllers for people to trade out playing Mario Kart. Take a seat on the couch, or one of the many cushions sown about, and enjoy.

PARTY -- MARUI

[xyzai]

A small display of cupcakes is sitting on the coffee table, once everyone is around to watch Marui attempt to blow out his (secretly) trick candle.

AFTER-PARTY -- DANCING

[xyzai]

The lights are down and beat is good! Join the throng of partiers making the most of the evening and the skilled DJ.

AFTER-PARTY -- GAMES ON THE ROOF

[xyzai]

For those who don’t enjoy crowds or loud music but aren’t ready to go home, head up the spiral staircase to the roof bar (note that those underage will not be served). The music isn’t as powerful and people can hear each other enough to enjoy the lawn games set up a bit aways from the outdoor bar. Indulge in twister, giant jenga, cards, ping pong, you name it, they’ve got it.

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[cumsquik]

Kamio arrived quickly, per usual, but perhaps not as quickly as he could have without the balloons and daiso decorations he was currently setting up. Yellow and black balloons adorned with googly eyes floated up toward the ceiling as Kamio attempted to unwind streamers, but only succeeded in tangling himself up in them.

"Crap," he shook his arms and legs to no avail. The shiniest streamer quite stubbornly clung to his limbs.

[knuckling]

Naturally Akaya gravitated toward the green thing literally hanging over his head. It took some time to figure out what it was, but when he finally understood, the cheap racket basically teleported into his hand.

He gave it a softer, experimental knock with the frame before grinning and taking a powerful swing at the front end-!! Only to have the duct tape do its job, resulting only in a minor tear in the surface.

"Huh," Akaya said intelligently. He looked around for the person to pass the racket off to for the second swing.

Re: PARTY -- SURPRISE

[xyzai]

After receiving a message that the Troika crew was five minutes away with their special delivery, Zaizen busted a couple bags of green ping pong balls and started handing them out. "To throw at our guest of honor when he walks in," Zaizen explained flatly as he passed them out. "Or at Yukimura-san, Sanada-san, or Yanagi-san, if you're feeling daring."

Re: AFTER-PARTY -- DANCING

[fortunexfavored]

Parties are meant to be preserved; he doesn't want nights like these to end, even as his enthusiasm escalates. There's just something powerful about being around so many people. They bring out a sense of life that other situations deprive him of, so he treats the evening as an escape. The moment he hears the music, his body instinctively acts and he leads himself to the dance floor with cheap beer in hand. He really feels like himself, completely carefree - and for a moment, he isn't bogged down by all these ideas of luck and loss. Maybe that's why he parties so often...

Arms are up and he's careful not to spill his drink on the individuals around him. He's mainly trying to get to the heart of all this elated anarchy and mainly to dance with excited strangers. Though, he wouldn't mind coming across a familiar face. He'd do what he could to get them to the same state of happiness.

"Now THIS is a party..."

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[bana_an_na]

With a few bags of homemade goodies in tow An had arrived early than she had expected. Either way she was sure they'd be needing help with somethings like decorations.

Noticing Kamio she let out a light laugh as she placed her bag on the kitchen counter, "Need some help there?"

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[cumsquik]

Kamio looked sheepishly down at An and held out his mummified and very well decorated arms, "Please!"

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[bana_an_na]

She shook her head with a smile. " Maybe we should hang you up. You're looking like a good decoration, you can even sing out a few times." Another laugh escaped her mouth as she untangled the red head.

"I'm sure Kirihara-kun would appreciate it."

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[cumsquik]

Sputtering and blushing, Kamio flailed a little bit, which didn't much An-chan in helping to undo his spectacular predicament. "The rope we bought for the piñata isnt that strong!"

But for all of An's teasing, he was soon out of the paper binds. "Thanks, An-chan," he peeked over behind her. "What did you bring?"

[sanada_g]

Sanada took the racket from Kirihara and examined the horrifying monstrosity in front of him. "I think it needs more force," He said. He then took an experimental swing of the flimsy racket through the air and frowned at it. He wasn't sure it would survive any of his special moves against the green monster. Perhaps if he turned it on its side he could use it more as a sword and strike.

Doing so, he moved closer to the hanging pinata and with a yell attacked it. He added a dent to the creature but the racket also broke cleanly in two with a resounding crack. Hmm, that did not go quite as planned.

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DISTRACTING AKAYA

[ever_yanagi]

Yanagi arrived slightly earlier the pre-determined time to lure Akaya out of his apartment so everyone could prepare. Now he just had to wait for his friends, and then all they would have to do was keep Akaya distracted until the party. Yanagi already had a prime destination in mind.

Re: AFTER-PARTY -- DANCING

[cumsquik]

Kamio gravitated closer to the dance floor, just bopping around until he crossed the floor boarder. He danced with abandon, letting the rhythm and the alcohol he drank at Akaya's place take him completely.

"Yeah!" Kamio echoed, on hearing a sentiment he very much agreed with. When he turned, he grinned to see that he had relocated someone from the surprise house party. "You can party, but do you have rhythm?" he challenged, because he couldn't help it when he was in his element.

Re: PARTY -- SURPRISE

[soroban]

Hiyoshi stared at the green ping pong ball he was given before looking back up at Zaizen, looking both confused and concerned. "I'm still not entirely sure as to why you chose ping pong balls instead of something that makes sense, like silly string or party poppers or whatever."

[knuckling]

"Ah, wait, fukubuchou-" Akaya started to say, but was too late. The echo of the breaking racket rang in his ears for a second before he walked up and gingerly raised the top half, now dangling precariously from the cheap hollow strings.

The pinata almost seemed to turn towards them, taunting. "Maybe we can use the broken bits to stab it," Akaya suggested. How tough had the Fudomines made that thing?

Re: PARTY -- SURPRISE

[xyzai]

"More like tennis balls, easier to clean up, better for aiming at the face," Zaizen explained, counting off his reasons on silver-ringed fingers."I guess you could aim other places, too, if you wanted," he conceded, tossing another bright green ball Hiyoshi's way.

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[bana_an_na]

Having Kamio stay still was hard but even so she managed to be able to start getting the streamers off of him. "You're pretty skinny I think it could hold you." She teased one last time before setting down the streamers on to a near by chair.

"Oh, I made some karaage and cookies to go along with the rest of the food. I made sure to make plenty!" She had thought about possibly making other options but kaarage was usually something that everyone liked.

Re: PARTY -- PRE-SURPRISE DECORATING

[didimutter]

Shinji shifted the weight of the piñata under his arm and opened the door to Kirihara's place. He also had a bag of extra googly eyes just in case they wanted to put more on the other decorations that were going to be put up. There was a lot of black and yellow. It kind of looked like a bumblebee had exploded all over the room. He quickly made his way over to where An-chan and Kamio were standing.

"I have the piñata," Shinji started. "I also have extra googly eyes if we want to do anything with them. Kamio and I stayed up kind of late to get it done, but I think it came out really well, though I have no idea if it will be able to get cracked open since we used duct tape to keep the goya shape."