open | happy (earth) new year, everyone!

[genice]

WHO: Any and all!
WHERE: 2nd residential floor lounge
WHEN: OOCly 12/31; today.
WHAT: Victor's ICly claimed the day as being the 31st, and subsequently celebrating the "New Year" with anyone who comes by! After sending out a post on the network inviting any of the new arrivals via anomalies to attend, people are welcome to come enjoy a probably very random seeming New Years celebration.
WARNINGS: There is food and alcohol here, beware!

The lounges are interesting spaces, and Victor didn't hesitate to roll up his sleeves and rearrange furniture in this section of the middle floor lounge. A cheery wave to anyone wandering through earlier on the 31st (by his calendar, he's quite cheerful in acknowledging how arbitrary that really is) while he goes about arranging things to his satisfaction, before he jets off again to finish preparing his olivie salad.

It's nowhere near fancy, but he's shown up again with a big, borrowed bowl from his work, containing the closest approximation of olivie salad he'd been able to manage working with the supplies he found on board. There's a tablecloth tossed over the table he's appropriated for holding the foodstuffs, along with simple plates, utensils, cups and bubbling wines (three, okay, that's toeing the line of careful financial management). He's even figured out how to get music playing, though it's hard to say if there's any unifying theme to what plays.

Perhaps the most ridiculous part of any of this is how he's constructed a small cone cap for the brown, fuzzy creature that had been delivered to his bunk last week. That it's a shaved ice cone inverted with the words "Happy New Year" written on it amuses him. The unidentified creature simply coos and purrs and wears the cone hat, not moving off the smaller table it's been set on.

"Happy New Year!" he says to just about anyone walking by, tipping his (oh so classy) cup their way with a smile. Welcome to the party. Bring something to contribute to the table? Very welcome to the party!

[ ooc: please tag in with your own top levels and enjoy a relaxed, informal celebration of the new year (per Victor)! ]

Comments

[ouzel]

[ Cassian raises his eyebrows because there is nothing wrong with having a serious face but also because he's starting to suspect this might be the 'Captain Fufu' person, but he ain't gonna mention it. ]

I didn't know not being serious had anything to do with cooking.

[ Just saying. Still: ]

Happy new year to you as well.

[finethanks]

Hmm, maybe it doesn't. But cooking seems so warm and personable, doesn't it? Like someone who might make you a bento box and send you well wishes with them. I always picture a sweet face.

[He makes no sense, ignore him. His dog tags are out and plain as day, though, so if Cassian is observant enough he might catch his name on them. He's such a frail looking boy, so at least he's probably not as crazy as originally thought...??]

[ouzel]

I don't know what a bento box is, [ Cassian admits, ] but it sounds like you are describing a mother.

[ Cassian is observant! His dog tags are also tucked under his shirt, because he is also - you guessed it - one paranoid man. He is frail looking, but Chirrut was blind and handed many a man their ass so Cassian is not banking on looks not being deceiving here. ]

What's your name?

[ Because he might as well act normal, right? ]

[finethanks]

Is that so? Some mothers may be like that.

[His is too busy thinking she's the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, but that aside... He can see what he means. More importantly, it seems to be introduction time.]

My name is Eichi Tenshouin. It's a pleasure to meet you, mister...?

[ouzel]

Perhaps a grandmother, then.

[ But that would explain so much, if Cassian knew who the heck Marie Antoinette was. ]

Cassian Andor. Mucho gusto.

[finethanks]

Or a childhood friend.

[Or something like that. He smiles, though, and his eyes light up once he recognizes.]

Andor... That's a little familiar. Could you be the kind Captain I spoke to over these devices? [He raises his wrist and wiggles it a little. Hi Captain Fufu...]

[ouzel]

[ As long as he doesn't actually call him Captain Fufu this should go just fine. ]

Yes, probably. I'm the only Andor here.

[finethanks]

[Time will tell... For now, he's just smiling like he always does.]

It's nice to meet you in person, Captain. Fufu, they say it's a small world normally, but here, our world has become even smaller, hasn't it? There are such a small number of us on this ship.

[ouzel]

[ It's a small world depends entirely on the size of the planet, Cassian is sure, but then again. Pre-spaceflight humans. ]

Apparently.

Are you familiar with these New Year traditions?

[finethanks]

Yes! The New Year is celebrated in Japan, as well. ♪ We have a few different traditions of our own, but the idea of celebrating a new year to come isn't so foreign.

[ouzel]

Is the New Year celebrated all over Earth?