// HOLIDAY PARTY

[eluviomods]

WHO: EVERYONE!
WHERE: The Atrium
WHEN: December 24th
WHAT: Holiday party!
WARNINGS: None (but please mark if there is questionable content!)

// Jingle Mingle_ ➣ Sparkles and Spirits Late the night before, visitors will be asked to leave as the atrium is going to be closed for a few hours. It's completely blocked off from sight. In the morning, it will be open once again and the entire space is covered in a soft padding of snow. With more still falling! It's not entirely clear just where it's coming from or how they rigged it up to not even melt, but it's here. Throughout the day, the snow will keep falling though won't get any higher than one foot. Except for a designated area on the western side of the atrium. There characters will find copious amounts of snow to build forts or snowmen or wage an all out guerilla warfare snowball fight. Stationed throughout the atrium in various places out of the way are buffets and bars to provide everyone with delicious delectables and delightful drinks. These stations are constantly manned and refreshed so that nothing is ever empty or anyone is left wanting. Don't see a food you're dying to have? Ask and one of the workers will be happy to seek it out for you! Late morning to mid afternoon, there will be a gingerbread house contest. Everyone is encouraged to participate and show off their creative skill! All items needed will be provided to create your masterpiece. Various awards will be given out, including Best Use of Gumdrops. Once the magic hour begins, all the lights in the atrium will begin to flicker on. Twinkling lights in the trees and candied garden lights will mark the path appropriately called Candy Cane Lane, which is little more than a means to encourage a more romantic atmosphere with a walk around the atrium itself. ➣ Flannel and Frost Once night falls, the party is still going strong. More food is brought out and the drinks just don't stop flowing. Because what's a party without booze? On the east side of the atrium a large canopy is stationed with a dance floor beneath it just waiting for everyone to cut loose. A DJ will be playing all night with pulsing, hypnotic beats that not one booty can say no to. Invite someone to cut that rug or dance by yourself like no one's watching. It's time to cut loose! While walking through the atrium, be careful! There's enchanted mistletoe that will spring up anywhere at anytime and will trap anyone without restraint. (Did you think we wouldn't have this?) It hovers in the air with a soft green glow, encasing two passersby within an arm's length radius. Get those lips to puckering to get yourselves free! (A kiss anywhere counts, so don't fret!) Tucked away on the north side of the atrium is a large maze. It boasts to be the best activity for the holiday party, but those in charge could be a little biased. It's a mystery as to what goes on beyond the entrance and the only way anyone can find out is to just march right in. The rules of the maze are: 1.) No one goes in alone (max. 2 at a time) and 2.) If you feel too trapped or lost, take off the visor and the experience will be over. Upon entering, everyone will be given a visor and set loose inside. Each group will experience something different should they choose to go into the maze, so please go HERE for a customized maze trip! Everyone is free to stay as long as they wish, but around 3:00 in the morning, workers will begin dismantling things and ushering people out so they can clean. Once everyone is nestled all snug in their beds, they'll be visited by someone to get their holiday gifts! Happy Holidays!

Comments

[nodyinteam]

That is a useful benefit to it. [Nekomaru nods sagely; as a team manager, he can't deny the value of that angle. But then, he grins as he rolls the snow in his hands into the shape of a ball.]

But the greatest purpose of this exercise... IS TO HAVE FUN!! [And as he says that, he tries to throw his snowball right at the stranger!]

[canadese]

[Even if he wasn't caught by surprise, even now Ax is unsteady on human legs. The snowball smacks him in the chest and falls right on his butt.

It's very undignified. Ax is super offended. It takes him a bit to get upright again and when he's stable he struggles not to come off as totally petulant.

(It doesn't really work.)]

My guard was down. That was a dishonorable tactic.

[nodyinteam]

[Wow, that was quite the collision. Nekomaru wonders if he should lend a hand, but the stranger is back on his feet quickly enough.]

When it comes to an art as brutal as a snowball fight, honor is just a guideline! You know you'd be having fun if you were on the throwing end!

[canadese]

[Ax draws himself up to his full (human) height. Next to Nekomaru, it's not really all that impressive.]

This is a child's game. There is no reason for me to participate.

[He says................ but he grabbed a handful of snow on his way back up, and he's discreetly molding it into something aerodynamic behind his back.]

[nodyinteam]

A child's game?! That's an insult to all of the hardworking snowball enthusiasts of the world! You take that back and learn to have some fun now!! [He's oblivious to what Ax may be forming.]

[canadese]

[Ax steps back during Nekomaru's tirade, and lets loose his snowball as soon as Nekomaru comes to a pause.

A couple of things make it a little wonky. While Ax has excellent hand-eye coordination and has much stronger upper body and arm strength as a human than he does as an Andalite, he's not used to throwing anything much at all. The snowball ends up having a lot of power but not much technique.

Also, he made it too compact. It ends up sticking sadly to Nekomaru's chest.

Ax cocks his head and seems to be analyzing his failure.]

Hm.

[nodyinteam]

[Nekomaru pauses as the snowball splats against his chest. He blinks. And then he guffaws.]

Gahahahahaaaa! Nice try! I guess you do know a thing or two about having fun after all... But your form could use a lot of work! Have you ever even thrown anything before in your life?

this is so late i'm sorry

[canadese]

[Ax draws himself up and looks a little offended, even though even he can tell that throw was pathetic. Clearly, it's just because of this deficient human physiology.]

As a warrior, knowing how to throw is unnecessary. [A beat.] Not to mention undignified.

No worries!

[nodyinteam]

What?! [That answer just baffles him.] But I'd think that throwing things would be an important skill for a warrior! And your dignity... well, that's a subjective issue!

But the point is, there's no harm in learning how to throw things. In the end... IT COULD EVEN HELP!

[canadese]

[Ax can't help but stagger back a little at Nekomaru's sudden change in volume. It's a shameful reflex, but he really wasn't expecting that, and he's come to be able to predict human behavior quite well.

Perhaps this man is in fact another kind of alien that simply resembles humans. It would explain his size.

He deliberately takes two steps forward in exchange, because he's not a coward!!!!]

My tail is all I need to fight. [The tail that he doesn't currently have.]

[nodyinteam]

[Those are legit things to wonder.

There is a grin that tugs at his cheeks as the creature takes a step closer. Now that's showing some spirit! But he otherwise looks only baffled at what he says.]

Tail? ...What tail? [He don't see no tail.]