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]

Two of the balls bounced into each other and rolled off the table. The third sailed into a bowl just left of center. "Good job, kupo!" Steven fished the ball and dream pieces out, dried them off, and offered the pieces to Wash. "Those'll make a Peepsta Hoo."

[unrecovered]

Wash watched two of the balls roll off the table, his expression flat. Evidently being a crack shot with a rifle didn't carry over at all to tossing ping pong balls into fishbowls. At least he got something out of it. "Thanks." He took the pieces from Steven, replacing them with six munny. "Let's try this again."

Once the Moogle had given him three balls, he tossed them one after another at that center bowl. It had worked so well last time - may as well try it again.

[revenancenpcs]

One of the balls took a dive off the table again, the second landed in one of the outermost bowls, and the third landed in a bowl just below center. "Not bad, kupo! Those'll make a Pricklemane and a Wheeflower."

[unrecovered]

On one hand, two prizes weren't bad; on the other hand, the fact that he kept missing the table irritated him. He accepted the pieces and handed Steven eight munny. "One more time." Same technique, different number of balls. Hopefully he could keep them all on the table this time.

[revenancenpcs]

On one hand, every single ball stayed on the table. On the other hand, they all got caught between rims; none of them actually went in a bowl. Steven stared for a moment. "Wow, kupo. That's...that's new." He paused again, figuring he probably shouldn't insult his customers. "Wanna play again, kupo?"

[unrecovered]

Wash stared blankly at the balls, perched between rims. Someone somewhere was mocking him; he was sure of it. He sighed, ready to turn around and call it a day, when Melody leapt onto his shoulder and Fang landed on his head, squeaking. Hey, they wanna try!

He blinked, very carefully didn't shrug so as to not dislodge his cat, and placed six more munny on the table. "Sure." He picked up the three resulting balls and offered them to his Spirits. Fang clutched one in his claws, careful not to hover any closer to the table when he tossed it - he knew the rules! Melody picked one up carefully in her forepaws and lobbed it at the table. Wash tossed the third ball, not expecting much more from this throw than he'd gotten from his other attempts.

[revenancenpcs]

Fang and Melody's balls both bounced off several rims before landing in two of the outermost bowls. Wash's ball plinked off several rims before landing on the floor. "Not bad, kupo! Those'll make an Escarglow and a Meow Wow."

[unrecovered]

"Thanks." Wash accepted the pieces and stowed them, not exactly happy. Whatever was mocking him hadn't stopped. Oh well. "C'mon, let's go." He turned to leave with Melody still perched on one shoulder when Fang landed heavily on his other shoulder, whining. Awwwww, but he didn't want to leave! He wanted to play again. That was fun! Can't he do it again, pleeeeeeease?

Wash gave him a very flat look, then turned back to Steven. "If I give you some munny, can he play on his own? He'll behave." The last two words were addressed to Fang, who gave a salute. He sure would!

[revenancenpcs]

Steven gave the Komory Bat a long look. "Only if he behaves, kupo," he finally replied. "If anything happens, you're responsible."

[unrecovered]

"Got it." Wash shot a sidelong look at Fang, who gave another midair salute. Don't worry, he'll be good! He'll win you lots of prizes, too!

He held the look for a few more seconds before counting out munny into Steven's paw - enough for fifteen balls. He figured it was a good investment towards keeping both his bat and the moogles happy; the latter more important now that they'd been attacked twice by people in power armor. Plus, he'd gotten a good amount in Nightmare hunts and wasn't exactly hurting for cash. That accomplished, he scratched behind Fang's ears - "I'll be back in a while." - and headed off, leaving the bat to his game.

It was about forty minutes - enough time to get some food and really relax for a while (not to mention time enough for his own failures at the game not to smart so badly) - before he returned. "Well? How'd you do?"

[revenancenpcs]

Not too badly, as it turned out. There was a pile of dream pieces stashed in a corner, with two smaller piles next to it and a small bag of munny. "He did pretty good, kupo. He won a Toximander, a Cyber Yog, and a Me Me Bunny, and then he won two rare ones - a Kab Kannon and an Ursa Circus. I had to cut him off after that, kupo. He's been picking up stray balls from other people's games since then." Admittedly, it was nice to have someone go chasing after balls that had missed the table so Steven didn't have to do it.

[unrecovered]

At the sound of his person's voice, Fang made a beeline to the piles of dream pieces, squeaking loudly. Look, person! Look at all the prizes he won for you! Momentary showing off accomplished, he flew over to his person as the Moogle told him what the prizes were. He then landed on his person's shoulder and rubbed against his face, chirring happily. Aren't you proud of him? He won you prizes and then he helped!

Wash reached up and patted Fang, trying to wipe the look of mild shock off his face. How on Earth was his bat so good at a game he'd failed so miserably at? "Guess he behaved, huh," he said rather dumbly, picking up the dream pieces and stashing the rarer ones in separate pockets. He'd figure out what a Kab Kannon and an Ursa Circus were later, he supposed. He left the leftover munny with Steven, however. "Keep it. Thanks for keeping him busy."