synflux | OPEN💗 LATE VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY

WHO: Newbies, oldbies, everyone is welcome!
WHAT: A Late Valentine’s Party mingle, since Valentines’ Day was over Kaiju month…
WHERE: “MANTRA”, an underground, alternative club in Neo Toyko
WHEN: March 10th
WARNINGS: Romance and shippy things, alcohol, hookah, suggestive things. Anything NSFW is to be appropriately labelled.

Around the 10th of March, Outsiders will receive a message in their ocular inbox from Kabru, the Outsider also known as @ rasgulla. The message reads:

“To my dearest friends and teammates,

If we haven’t met before, call me Kabru. When not on missions as an Outsider, I work as a freelance event planner for various businesses and private organizations within Neo Tokyo.

Valentines’ Day is a popular holiday in Japan that was sadly interrupted last month by the kaiju. My current client is holding a belated Valentines’ Day event and they would really like the Outsiders to come. There will be plenty of food and things to do. Even if you're not looking for a romantic time, I'd encourage you to come!

Please wear something comfortable. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Yours sincerely,

Kabru.”

A location pin comes attached with the invitation. It looks like Kabru’s become more adept at technology over the months.

Follow the location pin and you’ll find yourself in front of ‘Mantra’ in metro Tokyo, an underground, alternative club making waves for its uniqueness in the club scene. Outsiders will all be allowed in without much fuss. The owner of the club is a gentle woman who kindly requests that all guests take their shoes off and leave them at the side. There is a lingering scent of incense and the people hanging out in the club look remarkably calm as they relax; cuddling and enjoying each other’s company. What kind of Valentine’s day party is this? A New Age, alternative kind, apparently. The owner of the club wants to be promoting togetherness in a completely different way.

Thankfully, finger foods and alcohol appear to be abundant, even if Kabru would really like you to be mingling with the people! There is a bar with free flowing wines and spirits, and a table with hors d'oeuvres and small desserts as accompaniment. These can include sushi rolls, small sandwiches, crab cake bites, small skewers, chocolates, little cakes and tarts. Food aside, there is live music playing and guests are highly encouraged to dance.

Naturally, couples are also coupling up, but anything too raunchy is of course cordoned off to a private room. Also, ignore the people smoking electronic hookah at the side…

What can you do besides eat and drink?

1. DANCING 💗

The DJ mostly plays trance and synth pop music in the background but he’s happy to take requests. On the dancefloor,there’s always a group of tipsy guests dancing their hearts out, some dancing alone and others dancing as a couple. There’s no right or wrong way to dance and most people will not cast judgement. Give it a try? Better hurry, before some of the overeager guests try to drag you in.

2. CUDDLE PILE 💗
Numerous cushions are set out around the venue for guests to lounge in and cuddle. It’s highly encouraged, in fact! Especially after a vigorous dance session. There are people lying together in larger groups, and couples choosing to spend their time lounging and enjoying each other’s company. Finding it difficult to relax? The owner might give you a whiff of her special perfume that’s guaranteed to put you in a state of complete calm. It might even make you more open about lying together with someone else.

3. SPEED DATING 💗

There’s a speed dating round going on in one side of the club. Guests are numbered and paired up randomly, then given a short amount of time to get to know each other on a speedy little date. Don’t know what to say? A list of questions will flow in through the oculars to give you a prompt. (Please refer to here and here for some examples or make up your own!)

4. MAKE SWEET TREATS 💗

In the spirit of Valentines’ Day, the owner of the club is hosting a quick desserts-making workshop at the event. Guests will be provided with ingredients and taught to make chocolate or cupcakes, and they will get the chance to decorate it however they like. It’s highly encouraged to make something to give to your sweetheart or the person you admire. Do you really want to be the person eating their own chocolate on Valentines’ Day?

5. PARTY GAMES 💗

What’s a party without party games? Throughout the night, people will be getting drunk and playing local drinking games such as the King’s Game. Eventually, other games from the West get introduced by other people. These games include Truth or Dare, Spin the Bottle and 7 Minutes in Heaven.

6. TAKE SOMEONE HOME 💗

If it looks like you're having a pretty good time with someone else, a helpful robot will approach you and provide you both with a key to a private room. Some of these private rooms are normal and some are themed, similar to a love hotel. There's no need to actually do anything raunchy of course. You could just cuddle up and enjoy the warmth of the digital fireplace! Everything one might need for a nice time together (condoms, lubricant etc) will be readily available.

As the event planner, Kabru will be buzzing around and making sure everything runs smoothly, but he can be stopped for questions or concerns (pls be nice to him he has anxiety). Characters can sit out of anything they want, but drunk and overeager guests might decide to drag them in.

[ OOC: I put this up so everyone can enjoy a chill mingle after the chaos of last month! And also because we didn’t get the opportunity to have do much for Valentines’ Day given the timing. Naturally, please label any NSFW, add your content warnings appropriately, and state your boundaries and preferences in terms of shipping/gen/being tagged by younger/older characters. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I've heard of Excalibur!

( Easier to focus on something he knows, his attention blissfully caught. )

There was a book on the ship about it. The knights of the round table, right? But I didn't think it was a real sword, that's so cool! ( Briefly he wishes he could tell the only other member of that ship-wide bookclub, but his brother chose dedicating himself to other literatures. ) I don't know if faeries exist. And uh, Britain? Probably not. There are people who have the accent. I think it passes down in families. But the islands were left behind, so I don't know if it counts?

( A nervous bout of laughter. )

Depends on who you ask! I'm just a guy. But human? Not ... really? I'm a plant.

[ This individual certainly is enthusiastic, whatever he is. For Gilgamesh, the idea that this is even a party oriented around a specific theme, yet alone speed dating, has been completely forgotten. But that is fine: talk of legendary weapons and journeys is really far more his speed, so this discussion is completely in his element. Though it really seems their respective histories/worlds are ... at odds. Not entirely unexpected, however.

He starts to talk about how the prototype of the Holy Sword is one of the Noble Phantasms within his vault, or maybe how faeries are now on the Reverse Side of the World so if Vash's timeline is anything like his, he still probably would not know of them... but then that last remark even manages to catch Gilgamesh somewhat off-guard. ]

... is that so? Your form resembles one of flesh, however. I do not suppose you are the more primate form of something like that vegetable lamb I had heard stories of?

[ Servants just know World Lore, yo. Especially him. He gets all the cultural lore. So sorry, that's just the first thought which pops into his head. ]

( He's some kind of lamb. Vegetable? No. Sacrificial? Possibly. )

Uh.

( Gilgamesh, he's so sorry. You're going to find him fairly primitive either way, since all of his stories come from the few survivors. He'd had a year on board the ship with the wealth of human knowledge at his fingertips, but he'd also been fairly baby-shaped and mostly interested in playing or bullying his brother. )

I'm an independent. That's why I look human. Most of the Plants on my planet look different. ( Plants as in alien species and not the general shrubbery. ) My sisters would be, anyway. What's the vegetable lamb?

[ Humans as aliens, growing up on a space ship, and plants, but not the shrubbery sort of plants (he gets it -- Kind Of?) --

-- well, at least this person was certainly not... a typical commoner. Gilgamesh supposes he is a bit pleased. Between Godzilla and Vash, he can at least content himself in thinking LILITH makes some interesting choices on whomst to recruit. ]

Ah, I see. I gather your kind is one with which I do not have experience. [ He still doesn't really get it, but he can infer that much, at least. ] It is just as well. Though I do not often speak openly of my ancestry -- [ He kind of disowns the divine half, in fact. ] -- I am also somewhat singular, as my father was a human king, but my mother a goddess. Thus I am a singular being.

[ There were other demigods, sure. But it's not exactly a race per se. He feels no kindred spirit with them. He's neither a human nor a god. He's just Gilgamesh, one of a kind. The only person he has deemed a Friend is also a unique entity, the only one of their kind in all time. ]

And that vegetable lamb... well, it's something of a legend. Supposedly a sheep that grows on a stalk, like a fruit. I do not put much stock in such tales, though I suppose I've encountered stranger things. It was my frame of reference for a plant made of flesh.

Apparently that Titan, Godzilla, teaches of my culture in this world. You should frequent a library and read. You do seem to have the curiosity...

Ah. I can get that? Kind of. My brother and me, we're the only living independent plants on planet. But we're estranged, we don't really talk. So sometimes it kind of feels like I'm the only one.

( It hits him then that the very same feeling that lives in him must often live in Nai. That Millions Knives could be just as lonely, just as lost. But it's too late now, he can't fix it. He just has to house his LILITH-allowed revelations inside of his chest and hope they don't burn him up. None of this shows on Vash's face though, he instead remains as cheerful as he can. )

There are other gods here though. I know a real good one I can introduce you two. And I don't know about anyone's parentage but they might be able to relate a little. Or help you out if you have questions. ( ... Vash, he might already have his own shit sorted.

But, bashful laughter. )

Oh yeah, I do spend a lot of time in the library. I've been learning about animal husbandry lately, but I should check out the myths too.

[ Gilgamesh knows all about loneliness, but he's not one to dwell on the matter in even the slightest degree. Looking outward and focusing one's attention on the progression of civilization, on the fate of the world and much larger matters: that is the path of a hero-king. ]

A sibling... I cannot speak to that experience. [ He is most determinedly an only child. But. ] A road fraught with complexities, it seems to me.

Ah, those are both worthwhile topics. Indeed, it was my people who first originated animal husbandry in the Fertile Crescent. This would have been some millennia ago from what I have gathered to be the present era. We were also the original creators of myth. I was born in the Age of the Gods. If you know anything about the Sumerian pantheon, that is mine. You may know of Ereshkigal: she is here. She was our goddess of Kur, the Underworld. [ Okay, he can't help a touch of smile here. Gil, jeez. ] Indeed, this was a place I traveled often! My backyard, I've even deemed it.

Well, though I do not always see eye to eye with the gods. But in this world, it seems we all share the same goal, so perhaps I might be open to seeing what happens, should I encounter such a being...

Oh, you're from Ereshkigal's world! ( If he were friendly before it amps up now, something bright and brilliant shining through. ) She's great! I really like her, not at all scary and mean like you'd imagine a goddess of death to be. We hang out sometimes.

( One time he bought her a drink and she cried! Which firmly cemented her in Vash's good books and list of people to look out for. )

That's nice. It'll be good for her to have people she knows around here. And you too! And if you want to meet gods not from your world I can vouch for Yato. I think he's the god of fortune now! And my luck's certainly been getting better since I met him! I haven't been shot at in months.

OPEN💗 LATE VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY

ahahaha no he's so okay!!!

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