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[open] all of my friends, will you leave with me?

🧙 WHO: Everyone!
⚔️️ WHAT: Lake Party Lake Party!
🕒 WHEN: Uh now?
🗺️ WHERE: Fleur
⚠️ WARNINGS: ??? Nothing most likely but please label anything that gets warn-able.

Rosa has never seen anywhere quite like Fleur. Much like Camelot, the town is crawling with nature, with flowers and trees which are relegated to the pages of school documents back home. It's hard to pull herself away from exploring the winding streets and pretty colours — beautiful even in Avalon's current eternal dusk — and make her way to preparing the party.

But she does, because she made a promise to host this party and even went out and bought way too many things in order to make it happen. Okay, the bathing suit she picked up is cute — a simple one-piece decorated with cherries — and the trolley full of food is going to be delicious, but oh boy she's never spent quite so much money in one go.

She's never had quite so much money to spend in one go, but she's been squirrelling whatever she can away since the moment she arrived and hopefully it pays off. Well, at least she knows the food's gonna be good — she's the one who'll be barbecuing it, after all!

First things first: The string lights, hung across wooden posts and magically operated (somehow) to add a bit of brightness to the gloom outside. The barbecue is going to take a while to set up, but she'll get there. That kind of thing is easy. A bucket is placed on a table near the gate with unbroken glowsticks tossed in and a note reading take one! printed out and taped to the lip. Coolers filled with Fleur's local specialty, Berry Milk, as well as all other sorts of soft drinks, are lined up. No alcohol, because she's too young to buy any, but she did specify that people could bring what they wanted. The adults can surely manage to add the booze they want, right?

When the people start to filter in, Rosa is wearing an apron around her bathing suit and wrap skirt, gently stoking the charcoal of the barbecue to make sure it's just right for cooking, a variety of marinating meats and vegetables sat next to her. Quiet music filters from the loudspeakers next to her, attached to her phone, and she's happily humming to the track playing. But she still has the time and energy to greet people who walk by with a smile and a cheerful

"Welcome! I hope you, like, have fun!"

OOC: As mentioned in Rosa's post, characters can bring whatever they want with them — food, drinks, entertainment options, anything! — and add it to the mix. Set up a spontaneous performance, help her feed everyone, get everyone soused, play sports... Whatever you want to do is good with me, just warn if it needs warning! CODE BY TESSISAMESS

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I – Arrival
Floyd’s herrreee~! You think he was going to miss a party? Of course not! At least not a fun sounding party, not a boring one that’s overly structured or where he has to work. Nope! He wants to have some fun here, especially with the lake so he can go swimming. He’s also not alone, his familiar Squishy is with him, in it’s normal hold on the side of Floyd’s neck and resting on his shoulder as Floyd bounces their way towards the party.

He’s also somehow balancing several large trays on one hand, all seeming ready to fall at some point, but none doing so despite Floyd’s seemingly lack of care with carrying them. “I brought foood!” He announces before depositing them down on the closest table that he’s apparently determined was the best place to put them. Uncovering them will show they are finger food size pieces, Floyd seeming to decide finger foods are more fun than having to put stuff on a plate to eat it, a case of just grab and eat and go. He’s got baked mac n cheese bites, a pile of different cookies, and some sort of fancy pull apart bread made up of lots of loops that a fair amount of cheese stuffed into it and melting all over the place, it smelling like tomato and possibly pizza flavoured with random bits stuffed into the different layers. All stuff that could be heated up easily without getting soggy and gross as the party went on.

Floyd’s also dressed more for a beach party, but he’s assuming lake party means swimming; swim shorts, a light shirt and open over shirt, and a beach hat despite the lack of sun. Really, that was more for Squishy to hide under later if it got too loud for it. Oh, and his special ‘Jade’ bag that came with him from home. To hold stuff, just in case.

II – Dance, dance, dance!
You know what parties need? Dancing. You know what Floyd is doing? Dancing. He loves dancing, as long as there’s a good beat to dance to that is. None of this slow stuff, he wants to go wild and just see where the music takes him.

He’s also been stealing glow sticks from people during the party, gathering a collection of them, either via sneaky means or just taking them with no hesitation at all. Even passing another dancer he may grab them from them if it’s a color he doesn’t already have, or just to be a pain and an annoyance to someone else. Floyd will even give a couple to Squishy if the little Kraken is still hanging onto him, Squishy holding a couple in it’s tentacles and seeming to have fun now and then waving them around. Then getting bored and just dropping them to the ground.

III – Monster in the Lake
There’s a lake. Which means swimming. And Floyd has to go swimming. While Squishy is taking some time out hiding under Floyd’s hat that he leaves in a semi secluded area, Floyd himself heads to the water with no hesitation, throwing himself in, clothing and all.

And doesn’t come up to the surface. At all. For a very, very long time. Enough to be concerning for anyone who doesn’t know just what Floyd really is. And if they go diving down after him, into the darkness of the lake, they will find themselves eventually coming face to face with a single glowing gold eye and a row of very large, sharp teeth.

Then, “Eehhh? Did you follow me down here?” Floyd in his full merform, happily chuckling away if he’s caused any shock to the person who finds him.

IV – Cooling down
It’s late into the party by the time Floyd seems to run out of energy, or enough to at least sit alongside the edge of the lake quietly. It also may be because he’s waited until most people are done swimming to let Squishy use the lake. And Squishy in this case is no longer the cute little handsized familiar who’s been hanging around Floyd (or hidden under his hat during the party), but instead in a much, much larger size as the full Kraken it is, taking up a good portion of the lake.

It seemed Squishy wanted to swim too.

For the most it seems calm and relaxed, enjoying the chance to be in the water and not causing trouble as Floyd talks to it. “I should take you to the beach more often! There’s not enough room for you to be yourself, right? We need lots of space. And we can go swimming together! Maybe catch stuff too. I bet you’d be the biggest thing out there, no one would try and take us on.”

V – Wildcard

[ By the time of the party, Taichi's feeling a lot better than he has been. There's still a hole in his heart where Hikaru used to be, but he can function for the most part without falling apart at the wrong topic now. Rosa's party is just what he needs to break free and enjoy himself. Even his familiar, Akapoyo-kun Jr. the red slime seems to be rolling around trying to give people hugs!

For Taichi himself, he's hanging around the barbecue the whole time the cooking is going. Maybe it's that low-key sense from being turned into a werewolf that keeps him occupied with the smell of meat, but god it smells so good. Though to be fair, meat is basically Taichi's favorite food group and has been long before he got cursed. Since he's trying not to look like a total pig, he is instead trying to bum bites of other peoples' food off of them. "Hehe, I can't decide which cut to ask for, can I try a bite?" and various other lines depending on his familiarity.

But Taichi did also amass his own form of fortune for this very event, and so at a certain point once the sun goes down, he brings out a large box of glow-in-the-dark painted water guns and declares the beach a last-man-standing competition for The Prize! What is The Prize? A gift basket of Fleur specialty items like a gallon of berry milk to take home, a commemorative photo with a capybara, an unpainted skateboard, flowers, potatoes, and more. Just remember, if you get into an argument about who shot who, Fleur's laws mean you have to act battle it out! Taichi is happy to referee, or team up if there's another actual actor on the other side to even things out. ]

( Being that she's spending a whole lot of time here as head griller, Rosa does clock Taichi's hanging around and the way he sidles up to people asking for food.

So, being the helpful girl she is, she presents him with a skewer of generously seasoned, spicy chicken. )

You can, like, just ask for food, y'know?

— entrance.

( Where there's a party, there's usually Kate. It's a good job this is hosted on a day where it doesn't feel like a chore to get out of bed, where the whispers of everything being pointless recede a little and she doesn't sneak in, but walks in like anyone else. Dressed appropriately in denim hotpants, a cropped white t-shirt and a sunshine yellow bikini, she's lugging a cooler of beer and tequila with her because she doubts the kid posting this brought any of her own, and already drinking one as she enters.

From there? Well, she's just going to claim a nice spot where the water is close enough for her to dip her feet into and, for once, lie back. She really doesn't have any plans here, not yet, but the sights of dancing or sport are easy ways to catch her attention and pull her in towards you.

Otherwise... maybe ask her for a beer? )

— wet t-shirt contests???

( So... maybe she's a little drunk. And maybe there are water guns out, and lots of hot people around.

Ergo, no one can hold her responsible for what she does next. Which is... )

Oi. C'mere. ( Beckon the nearest adult over. ) Having a wet t-shirt contest.

( Well. They are now. Would you rather judge or compete? Or even... drag Kate into competing? )

— wildcard.

( You know what this is. Hit me with anything. )

...

Is that.

Is that a freaking kraken right in the lake.

If the circumstances were any different, Minako would assume that it might be something that this place was causing. You know, the way the fae often cause mischief. Maybe they conjured a kraken out of nowhere. But no - Minako sees Floyd there at the edge of the lake, talking to the kraken as if it were a pet dog, and Minako knows exactly what's instead going on here. At least it's a lot less dangerous than anticipated, but it's still..

"You know, you're going to give someone a heart attack at this rate," Minako calls out as she starts heading in the direction of where Floyd is. She herself sounds kind of calm though - showing that she may not have gotten startled at this, but she's also used to huge monsters.

Minako isn't so sure if the same counts for everyone present at this beach party. What if someone would come back here for a last round of swimming and saw this going on?

[Now this was what Floyd was hoping for, some decent fun. Sure, it could be even more fun and cause even more trouble but for now, this would do.] Heeyy~, River Dolphin, this a real run idea. You should had made it more fun and put food coloring in them and we could of had teams. [It would had made it real clear who was hitting who that way. Or, stealing someone else's gun and using that to trick out his own team.]

Oh! "Hi Butterfly fish!" Floyd lifting a hand and waving it to her, completely ignoring her complains thrown his way. "Are you having fun at the party?"

Squishy for it's part seems to also ignore Minako, and Floyd, for now, happily just soaking in the water and using it as it's own pool.

Well, at least it doesn't seem like the kraken is attacking anyone, so that's.. good, Minako thinks? At first she just assumed that it wasn't attacking Floyd because they're buddies or something - look, if anyone is weird enough to become buddies with something like this, it's Floyd, but she's right there and now it doesn't seem to be trying to attack her.

So Minako will take that as it potentially being non-hostile.

Potentially.

"Hmm," she instead says, an affirmative hum as an answer to his question. "I just wanted to go for another quick dive."

Her gaze turns back to the creature in the water.

"But it seems that the water is already occupied." By the creature that would give most people the shock of their life upon seeing it. Hence her remark from a moment ago!

"Eeeehhh~?" Floyd asks, seeming not to understand what the issue was at all regarding this.

Then, "Oh! Have you not met Squishy yet?" And not waiting for an answer from her before yelling out to Squishy. "Squishy! This is Bluecheek butterfly fish. Butterfly fishy, this is Squishy, my companion!"

Squishy finally seems to show signs of pay attention, turning it's giant head fully to level one very large eye at Minako, staring at her for several long moments... before returning to how it was before, not seeming interested in anything other than being in the water.

"Squishy didn't get a chance to go swimming earlier, too many people around, so I waited until most people were gone!" Floyd explained as if this was the most normal thing in the world.

...

Yup, this definitely is just one of those many Floyd-isms, isn't it. Just like the way he keeps calling her a fish, something that Minako isn't even objecting to at this point.. Maybe she's realised that sometimes you just have no choice but to go with the Floyd current, and only push back at the times when it's really important.

A nickname she doesn't even super mind isn't that important.

"Well, I get that it's your companion and all.." She can't blame Floyd for that, at least. Though it definitely seems like he sure has a different view on his companion than most people would have, that's for sure. "But if you were going to let Squishy swim around, you should've given people a heads up! Most people would be startled by this sort of appearance, you know?"

.. no, wait. Maybe she should put this in Floyd terms, so he'd understand.

"You wouldn't want someone to accidentally attack Squishy since they think it's some monster, right?"

Good plan, Minako. Once Floyd gets something in his head there's no changing it. Unless he gets bored of it. The nicknames however were not one of those things. Everyone got nicknames, the only exceptions being Jade and Azul. Everyone else got gifted one.

"Hmmm, I guess," Floyd admits. He just doesn't care. Though with the thought of Squishy getting hurt, it may not work how Minako thinks it will. "Ehh, Squishy is tough. You ever fought an octopus before? They real strong. You don't wanna be grabbed by them." Though... there was a lot of magics around here, and who knows who could do what. How about this, "Squishy! Give it ten more minutes then get smaller, ok? You can still be kinda big, but not big big, ok?" Floyd letting out a 'heeee' of a laughter. "We don't want someone trying to make calamari out of you~."

Squishy does not look amused at that comment, a kind of ripping through it's tentacles as if it had just let out a huff, turning away from them both a little... but also shrinking in size to half of what it had been. It's still taking up a portion of the lake, but far less than before, diving down to hide under the water instead.

"Heehee~, I think I upset it." Floyd not seeming put off at all by doing so.

[ he's accepting it excitedly!! :D ]

Yeah but I want all the food! [ He lets out a little-too-doggish whiine. ] Ever since I got turned into a werewolf I just want meat all the time..! I thought I already liked meat the most!

Dude, that's an awesome idea! I don't think I can do anything magically with it, do you know any cool color spells!?

[ Taichi has healing and technomancy, so it doesn't help much with stuff like this... ]

( RECORD SCRATCH )

Since you, um, what?

( She's been reading up on things since she got here, so she knows (now) what a werewolf is, but. Um. Taichi what. )

Yeah, there was this one time the fairy queen was like haha, don't go outside but I accidentally did because I thought it'd be okay if it was just like, a second? I'm not good at staying indoors all day!

[ He's dumbass. ]

Nahh, not here, [Floyd's expression telling he's really not happy about that.] If we were back at school I could, but not with the magic I got here. Not yet at least. [Maybe later when he's been around a bit longer. Right now he's having more fun with his Kinetic magic. And practicing his Blood magic... that one was important too. A good thing Jade had Healing for when Floyd pushed it a bit too far!]

Ya got any colored drinks or anything? Could mix them in, though won't be as strong as using magically-altered water. [Though that would take away from the food supplies for the party, and that would be sad too, but not an issue Floyd cares about right now. He just wants some fun with the water guns.]

Yup, this is all very much Floyd being Floyd - especially when he says that last thing without seeming truly upset about it. On the other hand, Minako is already glad that she's helping avoid a total disaster here the moment she sees the creature shrink, so at least she's accomplished something today..

Good job, Minako, she thinks as she mentally pats herself on the back. You're truly a heroine looking out for the people, even if you're very underappreciated..!

"Is he your familiar?" Even if Floyd didn't use that specific wording, Minako feels like it's got to be that. It's not like she's ever seen a different animal hanging around the other, after all. "I've never seen one that looks like this before."

.. did Floyd's weirdness just break the way this place assigns familiars?

Minako truly wouldn't be surprised by that..

"Oh yeah~, that's the word for it!" Whoops! "I got them mixed up." After all, Squishy was just Squishy, that's all Floyd needed to know.

"Ain't it cute?" Floyd lighting up at the idea of that giant kraken being adorable. In saying that, Squishy was normally about the size of Floyd's hand, and it's only been recently that Floyd had learned Squishy could change it's size at will.

"Oh! What's your familiar, Butterfly fishy?" Tell him, tell him!

[OOC: I don't recall if I've shown you Squishy before.]

"Well, mine's pretty different from yours.." Minako says. She definitely doesn't sound as enthusiastic when she's saying this though, a total contrast to the way Floyd here is almost fanboying over his familiar. Especially since the girl adds: ".. Similarly grumpy though."

At least she's making sure to not say that too loudly. The last thing she wants is to be dragged into the water and drowned by a kraken, thanks!!

She does grab her phone though, scrolling through it for a few moments, apparently looking at her photos. After a moment she holds the phone up to him, showing off a photo of what seems like an absolutely rotund white cat. The kind where you wonder how a creature like that even manages to walk.

It's sleeping in the picture too.

"That's Cupid. He does nothing but eat and sleep. Seriously, I have no idea why I got a familiar like this!"

( ..........

Taichi. Where does she start. )

Um... Yeah. I think they, like, say that kinda stuff for good reason?

[Normally Tsuzuru would shake his head at the way Taichi is asking for a bite of his food. Since this is the first time in a while he's seen him come out of the office he doesn't mind. In fact he goes to grab another piece of barbeque and hand it to him.]

If you want another piece let me know. You don't have to act like you just want a taste.

[He's honestly relieved to see him out and about like this.]

Aw, Minako, Floyd wouldn't let Squishy do that... mostly. Not over something like that at least. And not to kill someone, just to scare them.

Leaning over towards her without any consideration for personal space, Floyd peered at her phone... and let out a long 'haaaa', "Ahh, it's a cat! Yeah, that sounds about right. Sealy and Sea Lion are like that too, especially Sea Lion, he likes to sleep most of the day away." Ignore the fact 'Sealy' or Grim was a monster and not a cat, and that 'Seal Lion' Leona was a beastman and not a cat, though still a lion. Both still had lazy cat-like mannerisms to them.

"It looks real fat and squishy though!" Floyd saying that like it's a good thing.

Tsuzuru-san! I can't, I'm gonna eat all of it and then look like that possum in the jelly donut box.

[ He's been handed this piece though and is definitely going to eat it. ~~Why is he like a dog begging for scraps..~~ ]

How was I supposed to know, it was just a party!?

Koolaid will stain for sure though! I've sworn to never intentionally ruin clothes again!

[ Yuki may not be here, but Taichi is pretty sure he'd kill him if he sprayed anyone's clothes with koolaid unless it was really unfashionable. ]

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