open-ish / it's never too late to get down and party

[morns]

🧙 WHO: Kate & her adult CR (and anyone they might want to invite!) / people who work at the Roost?
⚔️️ WHAT: It's Kate's birthday and she wants to make the most of it, so the obvious solution is to rent out the Phoenix Roost for a night of getting drunk.
🕒 WHEN: 15th August
🗺️ WHERE: Phoenix Roost
⚠️ WARNINGS: Probably excessive alcohol consumption, hopefully some sinning.


( have you met Kate? are you over the age of eighteen? then, at the beginning of the month, you'll receive the following text; )

Party. 15th. 9pm. Phoenix Roost. Wear what you want. Bring who you want.

( yeah, that's about all the details you're getting. so why not grab a friend, a significant other, or your worst enemy, and find out what's going on?

the Phoenix Roost is as it ever is, except for the fact that the only people there have heard about this party in one way or another. there's nothing to suggest that this party is for reasons other than Kate simply wanting to host one, but if you're here, you might know her well enough to guess that to be untrue.

but, hey, does that matter? there's alcohol flowing freely and music playing, so grab a drink, talk to a stranger, make bad choices! just try to avoid murder for a night, thank you. )

( ooc; I might be busy on the 15th, so I've thrown this up now! It's a mingle log, you know how this works. Post your own top levels, warn for anything that needs warning, be good to each other. If you're not sure whether your character would be invited, just poke me at exits / exits#8071 and we can chat! )

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[garyoutensei]

[ It was a lot less about remembering and more about just being out of her element, she wanted to argue, but, again, it got lost in her throat and she didn't have much of a heart to argue against it. Maybe it was because she was drunk, but she'd managed some self preservation while intoxicated before...

And maybe it was a deeper, animal part of her that was entranced in that moment by the way Kate moved, so at ease with herself, enviably so. Not in the sense that Baiken wanted that for herself; that would never be the kind of person she was, after all. No it was more like... she could feel the part of her that was ready to accept a normal life urging her to just have something, for once, for herself...

She'd have time to ruminate over what it all meant later. For the moment... all there was to do was... dance.

So she let herself be pulled along by Kate. She didn't have any natural grace or sensuality to her movement, but she had a sense of rhythm, the ability to sway with the other, the sense to not spill her drink. ]

you know when you say "I'll do it tomorrow" and then it's two weeks later and you're guilty?

[morns]

( it isn't about being normal, not really. Kate hasn't been normal in years. but she's drunk enough not to care about anything but the fact that it feels right when she gets to move. drunk enough to not think about other people, or anything but the music and the moment.

tonight doesn't feel like home. it can't, because the money she's spent to make this happen looms in her mind, the fact that she was the one organising all of this instead of Ainsworth grabbing people and telling her we're all going out, c'mon. all of these things stick in her mind and remind her this isn't home.

but it doesn't come with the sting of pain she expects, and if she's honest, it hasn't for a while. she can't hate the fact that she gets to spend a night like this, that these people are (by and large) her acquaintances and friends, not Ainsworth's.

she can't hate Avalon, as much as she wants to.

so instead, she dances, and drinks, and pretends this is just a moment in time that means nothing. )