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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[onehandsomeslickninja]

He flipped his cape back with a dramatic snap as part of a grandiose bow. "Edge, King of Eblan and leader of the Eblan ninja clan, at your service!"

Two could play this title game! ...and, helpfully, she'd just shifted categories in his mind. Monsters had no real organization; for her to be a legitimate Princess, she must be closer to, say, an Eidolon. That moved her several steps closer to a person in the ninja's assessment.

[raisethemoon]

Luna hadn't exactly been trying to play any kind of title game - not that she never attempted to pull rank, but that was generally reserved for humans who had offended her in some way. Still, his title certainly got an arched eyebrow.

Celestia always handled foreign affairs. It only made sense, after all; when Luna had last been on the planet, many of the nations Equestria now treated with hadn't even existed. She would pick up on the nuances of their relationships eventually, but for now they were all perfectly content to have most of their dealings be with the older, more well-established princess.

Here, though, she and her sister were on absolutely even ground. There was no reason she couldn't take care of this. Besides, diplomacy was slightly less important with both of them separated from their kingdoms anyhow.

"A pleasure, Your Majesty!" she replied, offering a nod of respectful - though not submissive - depth. "I fear the name of Eblan is unfamiliar to me...but 'tis unsurprising, here." Ninjas, on the other hoof, she had heard of; a stallion in Ponyville had dressed as one for Nightmare Night. He'd looked rather unlike those she had heard of living in the East in days past, but who knew what had changed.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Different world, I'm sure of it," he said cheerfully enough. "I'm pretty sure I've been over every important inch of mine with not so much as a hint of a passage or portal to anyplace you're from."

Of course other worlds existed -- after all, hadn't all his problems come about thanks to a person from another world? Which really begged a question... "You're not associated with the Lunarians, are you?"

[raisethemoon]

"As have I. There art no species such as yours on my world, and no naturally-occurring portals to others." Discord might have opened a few, but they had been wiped away with the rest of his influence - she and Celestia had conducted a quite thorough sweep during the first years of their reign. Even besides that time, she'd lived more than long enough to investigate every corner of the world herself.

"I should think not. My own forces are called the Night Guard." Lunarians, that wasn't bad though...

[onehandsomeslickninja]

""Must be a coincidence, then!" And a relief, as well. "So I guess the Lunar Whale isn't yours either?"

[raisethemoon]

"Thou...meanest the ship?" Luna asked, remembering vaguely his initial words upon the Mother of Invention. "Neigh, I would keep no such thing about." The spaceship part, maybe. She would be thrilled if any of her little ponies ever happened to invent one like it. But the Mother of Invention itself...? Luna wasn't a fan.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Other worlds are strange," Edge mused. "And confusing."

He had about a million other questions, but even he could recognize the limits of tact at times, so he switched gears a little. "But I guess you all dream the same as humans do, if you're here. Been here long?"

[raisethemoon]

"Several months now," Luna responded, "And thou art but recently arrived?"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Pretty recently, yeah. Recently enough that all this is still new and strange. How long does it take to get used to it all?"

The Eidolon princess (someone really needs to tell him the term 'pony') ought to know, adjusting had to be even harder for her, right?

[raisethemoon]

"Some time." Luna shifted her wings idly, glancing out over the crowds again. "But I suppose you could say I have grown accustomed."

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"You say that as if there was some doubt!" After all, even a whatever-it-is had a spirit that surely had at least some measure of a human's resilience!

[raisethemoon]

"Still, perhaps 'tis not wise to settle in so much. We do intend to go home someday, after all." Even if she did work out a way to bring her Spirits through into the dreams of Equestria, she would still miss her humans dearly.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Of course! Never a doubt there!" Though he was enjoying himself here, more or less -- monsters to fight, and no kingly duties to perform? This was practically a vacation. "Still, we can't be on guard all the time. That's no way to live!"