it's not unusual to have fun with anyone

[innocentloveholic]

[ The ballroom's a little swanky for a simple get-together like this, but...

Well, actually, judging by what you see when you come in at the appointed time (or even before that, but Aligula'll be huffy if you do!?), what was advertised is not exactly what's going on. Continuing her war on paper, Aligula's put up origami hearts (or her attempts at them; she got better as she figured out what she was doing, but they're not the best) pretty much everywhere. There's also sheets taped to every wall with encouraging things in her curly-cute script like GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER! and FIND A PARTNER! and WELCOME TO SPEED-DATING!

...Yeah, welcome to speed-dating.

There's a lot of chairs paired together, presumably for the whole "partnering up" thing, and everyone anywhere near the ballroom will be getting a sheet of questions titled SUGGESTED TALKING POINTS. There at least seems to be food like she promised? At least... there's signs pointing to the dining room across the wall to suggest it, and entering the dining room gets you hot chocolate (and water, if you're boring, as well treating you to the sight of a parfait bar, with various cups and glasses to stand in for actual parfait glasses. There's also things for making sandwiches—she pretty much grabbed whatever she could think of from the fridge and such—and of course, plates and utensils and etc.

And if none of that's appetizing then, like, kitchen's not that far, go make something yourself. She put a lot of work into this whole thing but especially the parfait bar because she loves parfait and everyone can have fun making those.

If you don't think your character would've come without a little help, don't worry; even if Aligula can't bodily drag everyone, she sure can bother them aggressively until they come just to get her to leave them alone. All in all, don't sweat the small stuff and have a good time getting to know each other! Or go sulk and play the piano, whatever. ]

Comments

[sleepytimegal]

[ Ngh. Why- ]

Could you, uh...not...call me that? The...title, Submerged. It's kind of... I don't really like it.

[innocentloveholic]

[ ... ] Why not? I mean, it doesn't sound that nice, but like, there's worse among our number than that?

[sleepytimegal]

I don't get why it's applied to me, and- [ Fiddles with her hands. ] It just- reminds me of something bad, okay?

[innocentloveholic]

Had a bad time with water when you were a kid?

[ ??? did you almost drown. ]

[sleepytimegal]

[ Nnngh- ]

I don't like it. Isn't that enough?

[innocentloveholic]

I guess so! Not everything needs a big reason or anything like that.

[ like, this party is "because it's fun" so. ]

Your name waaas... Something like Ally, right? Aleeena? No, wait, that's the Coordinator's... [ ... ] Al? Even though that's like, kinda guyish.

[sleepytimegal]

[ you must be a much higher friend level to unlock her tragic backstory, but you know, that makes her laugh, good keep things light. ]

Close, actually. Alex.

[innocentloveholic]

Alex! Right.

[ It's kind of a boring name, but whatever. She can still refer to her as Submerged everywhere else, but she doesn't like it being said to her face... ]

...Miiiind if I ask you something not on my sheet?

[sleepytimegal]

[ Raises eyebrows. ] You're already changing up questions? Ha. Uhhh, sure, go ahead.

[innocentloveholic]

Is your hair natural?

[sleepytimegal]

[ Oh! She laughs. ]

Heck no. It's dyed. See [ points to her very-brown eyebrows ] this is about my natural color.

[innocentloveholic]

[ Aligula doesn't look too closely at people usually—but she does now and oooh, huh. ]

Neat. I've never thought about dying my hair like, ever... Is it hard?

[sleepytimegal]

It's not bad once you get used to the routine. Like, you gotta take care of it, but I've been keeping mine like this pretty regularly for about...a year, so. [ A shrug. ] Yours is pretty unique, to say the least, so I get why you wouldn't wanna dye it. Never thought I'd meet a natural pink.

[innocentloveholic]

First time for everything! I'm pretty sure our other pinky's natural too. [ ...she'll motion at Estelle, her. ] How're you planning on keeping it up here?

[sleepytimegal]

...huh. [ At Estelle (that makes so much more sense and she hates it) and...well, that. ] Uhhh, well...it usually lasts about five weeks before my roots start to show, and hopefully we won't...be here that long...?

[ wince ] I...dunno, I'll have to cross that bridge when I come to it.

[innocentloveholic]

[ either alex will die or the game will be over in five weeks to avoid Roots End i guess— ]

I hope we're not here that long either! This place is like, totally too small for five weeks of this... I'd get soooo bored. [ Even with her parties. Even!! ] And, like, I totally don't wanna be stuck with everyone here forever either.

[sleepytimegal]

Well- yeah, of course not. I've got... We've all got people and things to get back to, don't we? No way would I wanna be here forever.

[ ...was the emphasis on that more toward the everyone there, aligula that's weird- ]

[innocentloveholic]

[ that's not weird, there are some people she wouldn't mind hanging out with!!!!! just not like. everyone. everyone. ]

I've got my boyfriend to get back, Aqueous has her responsibilities, you have... [ ........... ] You probably have a family or something like that, right?

[sleepytimegal]

[ but forever?! ]

Well- yeah. [ likes: family, after all ] My mom, and...my step-dad and step-brother.

[innocentloveholic]

[ .......okay, not forever. ]

Are the last two recent additions?

[ she's guessing that because of. the pause, there. ]

[sleepytimegal]

Fairly recent, yeah. They just officially moved in.