( OPEN ) we are here and going to make it everyone's problem

[cranekin]

WHO: Team Everlight and YOU
WHAT: Breaking the ice with a spontaneous slumber party
WHERE: Everlight wing
WHEN: Some time after arrival
WARNINGS: Destroying friendships with UNO or something. Will edit for real as things come up.

(The fun thing about being taken and thrown into a new place is no one really knows you so when Tsurumaru Kuninaga is missing from dinner, he's sure no one really notices. Eventually someone will learn that whenever he's missing for too long, he's probably up to something if he doesn't actually have something to do.

He returns some time towards the end of dinner, when most people have probably begun to settle a bit for the evening. He stumble-dashes back to the base with an armful of plastic shopping bags and oooh he is definitely up to something…)

& SET UP

In the Everlight wing, they need to do some ☆re-arranging☆. Some desks and chairs need to be borrowed from rooms to drag outside for the food. While they're at it, they might as well grab the blankets and pillows too. They might also have to figure out what appropriate music to play. So maybe someone knocks on your door to commandeer your furniture and time. Or maybe they figure out a way to play music so everyone can hear and you end up drawn out by music.

Maybe you get sent out to buy more snacks and drinks for everyone while you're standing around with nothing to do. Let's go, Everlights. It's time to drag people into early shenanigans.

& FOOD & GAMES

There is plenty of food to be found. Check out the mixed bottles of different flavored sodas and teas, assorted chocolates, and other sweets from the convenience stores. Eventually, a couple of pizzas and a few more substantial things might show up on the table. Some of them are traditional flavors characters will be used to seeing but others may… be more out there. There sure are a lot of more experimental foods combinations in the future, huh? Have you ever tried coffee-flavored water? Yogurt-flavored potato chips? Flaming hot lava chocolate? What about calamari Oreo pizza? Well, now is your chance.

There are also stacks of playing cards and maybe some other silly toys and games from whatever is the equivalent of a dollar/pound store in the future.The 100 Kryptos store? Which version of UNO do you know how to play? Do you know how to play Werewolf or Mafia? There are plenty of bottles to spin. Give someone a call and see if they answer or else you have to eat one of those cursed pizza slices. Of course, when enough people gather around, there are plenty of other ways to make your own fun.

& CHILL

For more introverted characters that might want a quieter place to hang out, some Everlight has probably left their room open. Pillows and blankets have been piled into the room to make it a quieter, more laidback place to hang out. When was the last time you made a pillow fort?

// WILDCARD/OOC

Hello, Tsuru gets bored easily and he wants everyone to have ☆good vibes☆ because bad vibes make him sad so he is steamrolling and dragging people into slumber party shenanigans. It's in the Everlight wing but other characters can hop over if they're curious or dragged in. I asked the mods about the potential consequences of staying the night and they said it would be fine for the slumber party so go wild.

Treat this as an open mingle and feel free to come up with your own ideas and tag around. If anyone really needs me for anything, you can DM me or catch me on plurk (yosakoi ).

Comments

[ino]

『 001 - SET UP 』

[ A party? And a chance to mingle with fellow teammates, at that?

Well, she's just upset she didn't think of it first, really.

Maybe you're the one knocking on her door to let her know to join the fun. In which case, she'll be answering the door looking a little confused in her LILITH-provided lounge wear, an oversized white t-shirt and bright, Everlight-yellow joggers.

Or maybe you're the one she's now excitedly knocking on the door of, calling out as she does: ]

Hiiii-! Anyone home?

『 002 - IT'S A SLEEPOVER, AFTER ALL ♥ 』

[ The food and the party games were important, of course -- but there's one thing missing from this event that will make it perfect, and that's ... 
Doing each other's hair and nails, of course! 

At some point early on in the set up, Ino disappeared to the conbini to purchase a small selection of reasonably priced nail polish, nail polish remover, and cotton balls. Top that off with some brushes, combs, hair ties/barrettes and bobby pins to round the whole thing out, and you've got a beauty station (of sorts). 

While she's left most of what she's purchased on a table where anyone can access it, she's definitely using some of it herself. Maybe you decided to take on the Herculean task of braiding her hair (it goes down to her knees, fair warning!)? Or maybe she's painting your nails or brushing out your hair, instead. ]

This is going to look so cute when it's done!  

『 003 - WILDCARD 』

[ Anything else you can think of! Ino will definitely be flitting around and hitting up anyone she hasn't met yet if they're just standing around, and making sure to introduce herself to anyone who looks interesting or like they need/want someone to talk to. She'll generally be keeping the door to her own apartment shut during the party, but if someone asks to take a peek, or the girlies need privacy to gossip, she might open it on up!

If you have an idea for a different prompt, feel free to go for it or send me a PM! ]

wildcard.

[frostfist]

[ Sometimes you're a Revelation guy crashing the Everlight slumber party because your own wing is so goddamn quiet. Seriously, what's it take for a guy to wrangle a good conversation out of someone around here? Move to a completely different wing, apparently.

(But if anyone asks, he does technically have an invitation. Thanks Yuji, you're such a bro.)

He's at the buffet table now, squinting down at the calamari Oreo pizza. It's not that he hasn't eaten his fair share of questionable dishes in the past - the Fortress cafeteria was truly a sad state of affairs before he took over as administrator - but now that he has freedom of choice and isn't relegated to eating whatever slop gets dumped onto the tray in his hands, there's really no reason for him to eat dishes that don't appeal to his palate.

Other than morbid curiosity. ]

They do say salty and sweet make for the ideal combination, but I'm not sure that should extend to this...creation here. [ Monstrosity is more like it. ] Have you tried it yet?

[ino]

[ Hey, anyone's welcome to hang out with the party team, Wriothsley!

Ino grimaces when the pizza is put into her view. ]

I've had both things on there and I don't really like either, let alone together.

[ But after a moment of being distracted by how disgusting that combination sounds, she actually looks up to see who's talking to her ... and does a little bit of a subtle double take when she sees 1) a handsome man standing there and 2) are those ... animal ears? Or hair?

She tucks her hair behind her ear and extends a hand for a handshake, pizza aside, a friendly smile on her face. ]

I don't think we've met, though.

[frostfist]

[ Alas, they're just strangely pointed tufts of hair, because Genshin refuses to commit to giving the world more furries.

Her condemnation of the abomination taking up space on the table is enough to convince him that he will not be partaking and orchestrating his own demise via gastrointestinal distress, thank you very much, so it's goodbye pizza and hello to the much more palatable young woman next to him.

He sees the outstretched hand and matches it with one of his one, grip solid and steady. ]

It's Wriothesley. [ Pronounced Rise-ly. ] I'm supposed to be over on Team [ what was it again ] Revelation, but it's been terribly quiet over there. You'd think the hallways were haunted or something.

[ino]

[ Tragic. Truly tragic. The world could have had a whole other wolf boy.

Her grip is surprisingly strong as well, given how small and lithe she looks. But she shakes his hand back, and lets out a little laugh at his assessment of the Revelations area. ]

Given who I know over there, that makes sense. They like their peace and quiet. I guess that makes us the outgoing group?

[frostfist]

[ He takes note of the strength behind her grip, shuffling that information away for later. His expression never changes though, remaining casual and polite. ]

Oh, who do you know over there? Maybe you can give me a few pointers on how to get some of my neighbors to open up.

[ Sandwiched between two of the Narutos as he is...though at least the guy named Kakashi seems less gloom and doom than the rest of them. ]

002

[psyker4649]

[ Akira's entire hair care routine, in a nutshell:
1. Find the cheapest hair bleach at the convenience store
2. Apply
3. Wait until the creeping, insurmountable fear sinks in that his bangs are going to dissolve outright
4. Rinse out; brace for inevitable adult grumbling that he's going to get chemical burns on his face someday.]

[ So when Ino starts attacking his hair with hair with brushes and who knows what product, Akira's... well, he's not going to flail and smack a girl off, but he does leaaaaaaan back in a futile attempt to get away. ]

Ow, hey, ow, ow??? Are you sure you know what you're doing?

[ino]

Of course I do!

[ She's a little pouty at his VERY RUDE accusation. It's not her fault he's totally destroyed his hair with all that bleach! ]

What you really need is, like, four whole days of leave-in conditioner, but I didn't think to grab that at the convenience store ...

[psyker4649]

I'm not putting stuff in my hair for four whole days, like I don't have better things to do...!

[ In his very important schedule of, uh. Well, um. Definitely a lot of pressing tasks. let's move on. ]

[ Muttering, ] Do you really need to do your hair to fight a buncha alien slugs, anyway...

[ino]

You don't just sit there, it's just on there while you do other things ...

[ She sighs. ]

Don't you want to look nice? You might meet some cute girls while we're doing this job. You should try to impress them!

[psyker4649]

...troublesome...

[ Despite this, he subsides, except for the occasional "ow". ]

[ ...and ah yes, the evergreen reason to do things: Girls Are Watching. ]

Yeah, and the first cute girl I run into goes and acts like I've got a, a matted alleycat on my head. I think I'm pretty toast in that department.

wildcard.

[sparse]

[ Or sometimes, you're a Revelation guy who happens to get dragged into helping out with an Everlight party just because you were passing by at the right (wrong) time. He is currently tasked with bringing some of the chairs out of rooms and into the main gathering area.

He stops short of Ino's door, neutral expression and all. It's like he forgets some people should say hi before saying these kinds of things. ]

I was told there would be chairs to grab from your room.

[ Or maybe someone told him that as a joke??? ]

[ino]

From mine ... ?

[ She looks a little confused -- but the setup so far has been a bit haphazard and not terribly well organized, so after a moment of peering at what's already been set up, she'll shrug and move to open the door for him. If there's some kind of prank here, she has no idea what it could be! ]

Sure -- why not. I guess it can't hurt to have more, right?

[ When he enters, he'll notice that it's pretty barebones beyond the provided furniture ... with the exception of a nicely arranged bouquet of flowers on a table, and a small framed photo next to it. The photo, if he cares to examine it, depicts Ino (though several years younger) with a man clearly related to her standing behind her, along with two boys her age who also have an older relative standing behind them. ]

[sparse]

I don't know why they need that many chairs, but thanks.

[ He's just doing what he's been told to do, so in her room he goes once he's allowed. The chair is the first thing he beelines for, but when he passes by the bouquet and the picture, he stops mid-way.

He glances at it for a split-second, and he fails to stop himself before the words are out of his mouth. ]

... Nice flowers.

[ He wonders if the picture is what LILITH allowed her to keep. ]

[ino]

Hm?

[ She looks over, having walked past to pick up the other available chair herself. ]

Oh, thank you! These apartments are so sad looking, I thought some flowers would liven it up a little.

[sparse]

Makes sense.

[ His own room is left in its default state, barely any signs of having an occupant besides wrinkled sheets. But her admitting she bought the flowers could only mean... ]

Is the picture what they allowed you to keep?

[ Most of them came with none of their belongings except for one thing, but from what he'd seen, those had been weapons so far. ]

002 this world isn't ready for us

[kanzashi]

[See, now this is a sleepover! Thankfully Nobara had already blown a huge chunk of her starting stipend on "necessities" such as face masks and hair products, which she gathers from her room to share between the girls.]

[For now though, while the face mask is applied and doing its thing, she's helping to brush through Ino's incredibly long hair with a certain amount of amazement because wow it really is a lot.]

Ehhh.. how long does it take you to dry this after showering? I don't think I've ever let my hair reach past my shoulders..

THEY TRULY ARE NOT

[ino]

[ FACE MASKS! You best believe Ino was very excited to see those up for grabs as well.

She can't help but laugh a little at Nobara's question, because ... well, yeah, it IS a huge time investment. ]

I don't wash it every time I shower, thankfully, that would be crazy. And bad for my hair. But yeah, when it's hair day, it pretty much does take me all day to wash it and let it dry.

[kanzashi]

That's part of why I never let mine get too long.

[Nobara continues to brush through the hair as she keeps on chatting, eventually setting the brush down between them once she's determined it is nice and knot-free.]

I think it would be a pain having to fight and it's in the way. Plus the amount of times my annoying sensei has called us out for a sudden mission right after I've showered! I can't imagine having to go out with something this long, when it's all wet.

Imagine the frizz! [The horror of it all!]

[ino]

I'm not on the front lines too much, really.

[ And when she is, well ... she makes do. ]

But yeah, there was this one time where I was supposed to have a couple days off in a row, and they needed me right away, and I had to keep it braided for, like, a week until I could get home and do damage control.

[kanzashi]

You aren't? What is it you do, then?

[Obviously some sort of combat, right? Considering they've been sharing talk about heading out on missions and the like.]

Do you have other women on your team? I was stuck with two boys most of the time... it's tough, I'm not going sugar coat it! "Can't you let it dry in the wind?" or "Why do you need to bring backup stockings?"

They just don't get it!

001;

[1797]

[When Ren opens the door to room 010, he has a pen tucked behind one ear and a hardback book he snatched from the library, with a smaller journal jammed between the pages. RIP, library book.]

Hi. [The glasses and fluffy hair make him kind of hard to read.] Did I miss something?

[It's the excitement that tips him off. He peers around the doorjamb, like that'll explain before Ino does.]

[ino]

Hi, neighbor!

[ She is right next door, after all, and she's been meaning to say hi to her immediate neighbors at least. ]

We're having a little party to get to know the rest of the team, if you wanna join us.

[1797]

[There's a quick pause as he turns that over in his head, before he drops the book(s) onto his desk and steps out to join her.]

Sure, as long as there isn't anything like the mistletoe.

[Which technically wasn't that bad, but it was weird.]

[ino]

[ She cringes a little when he says that. ]

No, thankfully, I think that's just about gone. At least in the immediate area, anyway. So far, all we've got are some weird convenience store snacks and a lot of chairs.