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.

Comments

[trademark_skull]

The demon did huff a little but it might've been more in the frustration of Moxie still rather than anything else. "It's fine."

Might've been more fun if the right people were here, that one bit had been bothering him. He wasn't even that sure what to exactly do at events like these... normally, let alone what most non demons did.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

There was the sound of frustration in his voice, and he wasn't entirely sure it was over the Meow Wows' antics. Perhaps something else was bothering him. "You don't sound entirely convinced," Eraqus said.

Emizel may or may not take the opportunity to elaborate, but the listening ear was there anyway.

[trademark_skull]

The temptation was there, but honestly, what could anyone do? They were already doing enough as is to fix everything, they couldn't just make others fall from the sky either. Besides, Emizel was probably lucky as is no one so far has ever questioned his ethnics. Not everyone wants to help a demon. Technically no one should.

"... It's nothing."

[hiptobe_eraqus]

It was always when someone else said "it's nothing" that they meant there was something...just something they did not want to discuss with anyone. And he was little more than an acquaintance at this point, so it was not exactly his place to demand he talk about it.

Still, he could offer some advice. "Even if you don't feel comfortable discussing it with me, you should find someone you do. Even if you're not expecting such, it may help."

[trademark_skull]

"I'll keep that in mind."

Emizel was back to focusing on the Meow Wows for now. Possibly still in debate if he should ask anything or not. Maybe courage will come to him eventually.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Eraqus wondered if he would or not. Sometimes that sort of response was just a form of brushing off, not that it would surprise him.

He glanced back towards the Meow Wows as well. Chuza rolled over on top of Moxie, and seemed to get a bit of energy from this quick catnap, and she began bouncing on him. Moxie made a great pillow!

"These sorts certainly keep nothing to themselves..."

[trademark_skull]

Good thing Meow Wows are ninety percent squish then. Moxie was totally unfazed, and over all was being quite a bit lazy himself now. No amount of bouncing was gonna bother him.

"Seems not," all Spirits were pretty good at that, in their own ways. "At least he got over the ice cream."

Just then Moxie's ears perked. Uh oh, maybe it was a bad idea bringing that up again.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

In that case, Chuza was happy to continue to bounce on Moxie. This was getting to be fun, and much like a trampoline, once you started it was difficult to stop.

"Well...perhaps as long as it's not mentioned as such," Eraqus said. He noted that sudden interest in the Meow Wow's look. They didn't want to go through that mess again.

[trademark_skull]

"Right..." he noticed that too at the last second. Luckily, Moxie seemed to have calmed down once again. Well, at calm as he could be while being bounced on. At some point he twitched a hind leg.

....Sure was taking that pretty well.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Indeed, Eraqus was surprised that Moxie was being so tolerant of the other Meow Wow. The bouncing continued while they both stared. Finally, Chuza got enough height that she bounced right off of Moxie, and then just rolled over towards Eraqus's feet. Okay, that was enough exercise for the next half hour or so.

Eraqus sighed. "Although perhaps you would rather have some...well, food that doesn't need mentioning." Moxie might perk up again at the thought of ice cream if it was said out loud.

[trademark_skull]

Even the mention of food entirely got Moxie's attention, though it wasn't as bad as it could have been. The Meow Wow was on slightly better behavior now, as he picked himself up and sat right back down in front of both of them, like he was trying to ask where this other food was. After all, what sort of animal could possibly resist free food?

"It would be bad if it all went to waste," a lot of moogles and residents did go through a lot of work just to make this 'party' happen, after all.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Eraqus wasn't sure if that was an affirmative on Emi's part that he wanted some food or not, but decided to offer it anyway. Perhaps that would get him to open up a little more.

"That is true enough." He reached over and retrieved some ice cream, only to hand it over to Emi...and at least attempted to do so out of reach of Moxie. That would probably just end up tempting the Meow Wow, though.

[trademark_skull]

All attempts might be futile, since as soon a the Meow Wow saw something being handled over he still tried to get his face all up in everyone's business. No tackling though, thankfully, but a few whines and barks.

"No, not for you," Emizel had to keep the ice cream over his head just in case Moxie did try to jump to get it. "You can have something later if you be good."

Moxie already had cookies and other treats earlier, there was no way the Meow Wow was staving as much as he made it seem like.

Eventually he gave up, with a little pout. Looking for something else to do instead he wandered off to see if Chuza wanted to play, or something.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Eraqus saw the whines and barks, but having gotten used to plenty of Dream Eaters getting up in his face (Soemon being the latest problem) he didn't show too much concern.

At least Moxie wasn't trying to jump into tables as before, even though it was obvious he wanted the treat. "It looks like there's a little improvement already."

Chuza, meanwhile, had gotten all tuckered out from the bouncing and had rolled over into nap mode again close to Eraqus's feet. However, Kura the Hebby Repp finally scampered out from under the table where he had been sniffing about most of the time. Hey, look! He had a swell party hat!

[trademark_skull]

Moxie considers this a new potential playmate then, even if he was kind of wary of Hebby Repps. But if he was able to tolerate Xion's Axel, then others can't be so bad either.

Emizel was just relived Moxie was leaving him alone now, now he can have the ice cream in peace. "He's not so bad all the time."

He could tell this conversation was not going to many places if one of them didn't do something. Consider it as part of the opening process.

"...So what about you. Why are you all by yourself?" everyone else Emizel has met were pretty much on the same ~friendship~ page anyway. Hard to imagine now there would be someone else that wasn't.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Kura could be haughty at times (okay, many times) but at least he wasn't too trigger-happy with his fire attacks unless he was in an actual Nightmare battle. He jumped up on the Meow Wow's back, still awfully excited about his new hat.

"No, it doesn't seem like it."

Eraqus would normally be on the same page in terms of the 'friendship,' although he had moved into a much more mature realm of what that encompassed. "Such parties are a little beyond my time. I prefer to just come and observe, is all."

[trademark_skull]

Oh no! He was not expecting to be turn into a mount! Moxie wasn't sure how he was supposed to face the Hebby Repp like this, but it doesn't stop him from spinning around anyway. Our ferocious rainbow balls of derp, ladies and gentlemen.

That did make sense. With Nightmare attacks being slightly random it did help that someone was around to respond to it. Possibly faster than anyone else could anyway.

Or at least, that's what he figured was the point.

"I guess you wouldn't know what to do at get togethers like this then."

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Kura, who was used to using Chuza as a mount and not getting any real reaction or complaints, decided this was a lot more exciting and fun. Yeehaw! Kura chittered as he did his best to hang on.

Eraqus raised an eyebrow at him. True, he wasn't as invested in a party now, but he had been around for awhile and it was a different story in his younger days. "Oh? And what makes you think I wouldn't?"

[trademark_skull]

The adjective to see the Hebby Repp on his back was not working. Kind of disappointing... Oh well, Moxie might as well make the best of it and just wander around. Even though Emizel might've been a little worried where he might be heading off to.

"-I, uh..well.." saying that Eraqus was old might've been an insult, right? "Were they the same as these?"

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Kura didn't mind going for a little ride; he knew he could find his way back to his Master easily enough. And since Chuza gave up pretty quickly when he was riding, he figured he would take advantage of Moxie's wandering, and sat himself down on the Meow Wow's back. Forward, ho!

"Some where the same, but many were different," he answered. Really, it depended on the world and the people in it how parties usually went. "A couple of things are universal."

[trademark_skull]

"Did you like them? What did you do exactly? Were there anybody there that you knew?" oh dear, Emizel was starting to go a little overboard with the questions now. To be fair they were all tied to the problem he was having right now.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Well, this certainly got him to open up a little bit more. Eraqus got the sense that he hadn't attended many parties...but on the other hand, he did look a little bit young to go to many, anyway.

He chuckled a little. "Yes, I usually enjoy them. Typically they were full of people I didn't know. But in that case, I would start with what we're doing now...just talking. Dancing was frequently a part of them, too."

It would probably be better to not go into the more...unscrupulous activities that could take place at some parties.

[trademark_skull]

He had been to several, just not very fun ones, and probably not so willingly. Up until recently Emizel's only real experience with socializing had simply been bossing other demons around to do his bidding. That sometimes was entertaining, but not really something he wanted to do again.

"Oh.." he seemed a tad little disappointed. Kind of hoping there might've been something slightly more than that. Not when he was in no mood for dancing.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

Eraqus detected that bit of disappointment in Emizel's voice, and glanced down at him. "That's not of much interest to you, I take it." If the kid wasn't that social anyway, perhaps it wasn't surprising.

[trademark_skull]

"Yeah, not really," kind of a shame too, Emizel was hoping he would find an answer there.

He took another bite of the ice cream, these moogles sure were really good at coming up with flavors. "Though I might figure out something.."