4. Party Rock Anthem

[buymedumplings]

Characters: Party People
Content: Bolin hosts a block party in Twilight Town. Food, fun, and partying! Whoo!
Location (including world): Twilight Town, The Sandlot
Time of Day: Late afternoon and into the night
Warnings: Excessive partying?
Notes: Feel free to start your own sub-threads, thread-jack, and just have fun. Open free for all is the style for threading.


Bolin, with the help of Spirits, Moogles, and various other people had finally finished setting up the party. There were tables laden with different kinds of food of course and decorations everywhere. They'd made sure to clear a space for dancing and Perry the Platypus had volunteered to DJ with some equipment borrowed from the moogles for the night. Bolin wished there could be more people so they could have games and stuff like a proper street festival...but for what he had he felt it was pretty good.

Now they just needed people to show up for the fun.

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[revenancenpcs]

The Moogles, of course, have several booths at this party. It's a business opportunity, after all - it wouldn't make sense to pass it up. One booth is the expected booth of wares they usually have for sale. If anyone wants to buy dream pieces or treats for their Spirits or training toys, this is the place to do it.

The other booth, manned by a very brave Steven, is a goldfish bowl game. The object is simple: toss a ping pong ball into a goldfish bowl, win the contents. Instead of goldfish, however, these bowls have dream pieces floating in the water, enough to make a specific Spirit - you won't know what until you win it. The bowl in the dead center of the table has a much smaller neck, and the dream pieces in it probably don't look very similar to the ones the local Nightmares are dropping.

Step right up! It's two munny per toss and the prizes are good.

[Mods will determine prizes randomly, and yes, there is something rare and fun in the middle there. Good luck!]

[trademark_skull]

Emizel didn't even notice the booth until Val had made a different kind of chirp than usual. A minigame, huh..

Dream pieces generally didn't interest him that much. Another Spirit generally meat another handful to deal with. But these ones looked different than the ones he was used to. What could they make instead?

Maybe it was worth a try. Nothing else he might be able to sell the parts for later if he won. Two munny ain't much either.

[statisticallyterrible]

Oh good. This was the sort of thing she could do, a loads better use of her time than standing around looking uncomfortable. While if Chell still had too much trouble adjusting to her current Spirit to care for the prizes, the actual tossing exercise could prove a fair enough exercise.

She fishes out he munny and slaps it down in front of Steven. Look out, pal, she's going to try and wipe you clean if you let her stay here long enough.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Ha!"

Edge flipped his cape back dramatically as he approached the booth, a wicked glint in his eye.

"You weren't prepared for a master ninja to appear at your booth. I'll show you throwing like you've never seen!"

[yabigfurball]

In her wanderings around the party, Ammy was curious about what the deal was with the dream pieces floating in water. So, these were prizes for a ball-tossing game? It couldn't be any tougher than having to dig for special things, and she had the munny to spare, anyway. It could be kind of fun.

She walked up to Steven and offered the two munny, then stepped back so that she was in front of the bowls. She gave him a quick bark. If he could just toss the ball to her first, she had her own ways of tossing it at the bowls.

[dork_of_keys]

Sora recognized the goldfish game almost immediately. It was played a bit differently back home in that, you just had to get a ball into a little goldfish bowl type thing and the majority of the prizes were goldfish. Most people complained about them dying a few days later, but that probably because they just didn't take care of the poor things right. However, the Moogles had a better set up, if only because the dream world and the means of obtaining a Spirit made that it possible.

He also realized rather quickly that the dream pieces in the center bowl were rare ones and he had plenty of munny to try for it. At only two munny per try, the only thing keeping him from spending the whole party here was that he wanted to get around and talk to people, too. He liked to think his aim was pretty good, but luck was a factor too and he knew it.

[frostyfuntimes]

"Ball toss, huh?" Jack floated over and peered at it with mild curiosity. He'd seen them, of course, at various places around the world but had never really had a chance to play. He smiled. It looked like fun and with his own skill at ball tossing he didn't see how he could lose. Jack dug into the pocket of his hoody and produced ten munny.

"Five tosses."

[buymedumplings]

"Oh hey! I know this game!"

Bolin was glad the Moogles were so glad to help and even going so far as to bring games like this was just excellent. Bolin dug into his pockets and produced two munny, "Here."

[ttlynotanagent]

Moe bounded over to the stand and wiggled around with excitement. Perry followed him a moment later, not sure why his partner was so excited about a little goldfish bowl game...there weren't even any goldfish in it. It was upon closer inspection that Perry realized it was actually dream pieces inside the bowls. Huh. Well that was interesting.

Perry pulled Moe back from the booth and then produced munny for three tries. There. See Moe? He'll play and then maybe you'll calm down. Moe seemed satisfied for now and sat back on his rump to watch.

[guerriera]

It was a stray ping pong that drew Carolina's attention to the mini-game booth.

Or, rather, it got Dax's attention, as one mis-aimed ball ricochetted off the table and knocked his hat clear off. There was a squark of protest, before the hebby repp made unhappy noises - was his hat ruined? Oh no, it dropped, Perssssoooooon! - and Carolina crouched briefly to pick it up and dust it off. And collected the ball while she was at it. Rolling it between her fingers, the redhaired woman approached the table, her unhappy dream eater rumbling at her side.

"I think this is one of yours," the ball was extended to Steven. Carolina rather hoped not being in armor today would make the moogles less nervous of her, regardless of the apologies already given.

[fearmylaserface]

Epsilon was watching a bit before approaching the booth. He didn't want to upset the moogle. But he couldn't remove the armor, and he didn't have his weapons. It was his damn body. But he does have a decent amount of munny, and the game looks tempting. An easy way to potentially get another Dream Eater, and the middle one was tempting. Very tempting.

What could it hurt? And maybe the moogle would realize not all people in armor were aggressive to moogles.

[raisethemoon]

Certain lessons about "fun" and how to obtain it had never quite left Luna. So, when she saw the game booth, she quickly walked up and slammed a few coins down on the table. "A game, Sir Steven!" Her subject had informed her this was his name - surely they would not simply fabricate such a tale!

[sailorlaughter]

"Ooooh! Ooooh!" Oh, look, Steven, it's your very favorite pony bouncing right up to the stand. "I wanna play! Here, I have money, see?"

[allfunandgamesuntil]

York headed up to the setup; he hadn't seen one of these since he was a little kid. "Two munny? I can do that." He offered the munny to the moogle. Who knew how good he'd be, since everyone knew these things were rigged, but he could at least try it out. As long as he wasn't the worst, he could walk away with his head held high, right?

[the_mechanic]

Here comes a man all but being dragged along by his Komory Bat. Literally. Dingbat has a hold on one of Tony's ears and has been doing his best to drag him around to anything shiny. And boy, does this game fit the bill.

Tony growls at the bat, but after taking a closer look at the game himself, he realizes this is a fantastic idea and reaches up to scritch the obnoxious Dingbat.

"Nice work, buddy. Alright, Steve, my friend, what's your angle?"

[eternalfrolicbond]

Lea was talking to Stars as he approached the game. "Since we can't agree, I figure this is a fair way. You throw one, and I throw one, and whatever we get is our new best friend"

Stars chittered and swooped around Lea's head in apparent agreement, and Lea nodded politely to Steven and offered over four munny. "Hey, nice game. Stars might actually leave me alone about needing a friend after this."

[skysmirror]

Xion had never been much of one for games, not having had much opportunity before now. This one looked interesting. Throwing and aiming were things she could do fairly well...

She walked up to Steven and gave him ten munny. "Can I have five tries?"

Five tries, and then she'd still have some munny left over for maybe some balloons or something like that.

[colorbymemory]

Having overcome some of her initial shyness, Namine was now wandering about the booths. The moogle booth was hard to miss, and she had wanted to get some balloons to try with her Spirits. Games were supposed to be fun, too, right?

"Hello, Steven. Can anyone play?"

[brodakota]

North put down some munny at Theta's insistence.

"Alright, I guess it's my turn."

[unlucky_hero]

Huh... it looked to be some kind of carnival game. Almaz was used to the idea with fish, but never dream pieces. Of course, that would be much more practical here.

Sadly though he never had luck at those sorts of games, but that sure didn't stop Pin from dragging him over. This looked like fun!

"B-but I'm not-!" too late, Pin already squeaked at the Moogle to get its attention. "... Alright, I'll give it a try."

He did have a little bit of extra munny anyway.

[spaceracist]

Emile had spent a fair bit of the munny he'd earned buying training toys for Spikes (at no doubt inflated prices), but he pauses when he sees the game. Well, why not? Surely something like this couldn't be too difficult for someone with his coordination and reflexes.

"Let me give it a shot."

[punsofiron]

Dream Eater pieces, eh? Liz had been collecting a good handful of those in hunting down Nightmares for her daily bread, but those looked pretty rare. She hadn't really thought of what she might make next anyway...

"Whaddya think?" she asked, looking to Nicko, "Shall we get you a friend?"

Nicko just looked up at her, swaying his tail back and forth. He still wanted another cookie. Liz just shook her head, plucking a few munny out of her pocket and approaching the Moogle.

"I'm in."

[shadearchivist]

Ienzo wandered up to the game table. It looked as if many people had taken an interest in it. He supposed he might as well take a chance; he only had one dream eater, and it seemed like a wise decision to take a chance at getting more. He put down four munny, nodding politely to Steven. "Two chances, please."

[lessabrasive]

Games had never been Lin's thing, but it would have been remiss of her to not at least give the booths available a look over. Several particularly enthusiastic participants had been watched before she approached it proper, giving a polite nod to Steven.

"Had brisk business, I see."

[unrecovered]

After seeing how popular the Moogles' booth had been all night, Wash figured he might as well give it a shot. Best case, he'd win something; worst case, abject humiliation. Must be Tuesday, right?

He headed to the table and plunked six mummy down. "Business has been pretty good, huh?"