PARTY! (Candidates only, no pie-lots allowed!!!)

[Anonymous]

(Yes, it's necessary for one Pilot post. Sssshhh! )

Fala stared at the calendar for a moment, her hand around a small cooler and the other on one of the maps that lined the hall. She knew where the gorgon's room was- the young woman was loud and infamous enough for that to go around- but didn't quite know how to deliver the promised load of beverages to the Candidates without being seen. It wasn't her rank, or possible demotion by other Pilots that mortified her.

She didn't want to be seen by the Candidates, make them think she was a total freakin' softie for making sure Alik actually enjoyed his candidacy, unlike her own hellish episodes. She knew that nothing made a kid loosen up like alcohol, and had promised to get him a link to the outside liquor choices, anyway. But how would she...?

But then an idea came to mind. Grinning and sending a message of beer to her dragon, then Chica, she mentally pleaded that he would get someone to send it over in her stead.

One growl, and one order later, and one of the local baristas got a good load of bribery credits, knocked on Chica's door, and bolted in the other direction, leaving the hefty chest full of all sorts of liquor behind. From hard lemonade and other introduction drinks to moonshine and jagermeister, she made sure the kid had enough to last him the night.

A small note with the word "Alik" was all that tied her to her 'crime'.

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Demya sat in one of the higher part of the ATC, overlooking what was left of Earth and growing pumpkin vines. She didn't exactly know what she'd do with the pumpkins, all she wanted was the delicious seeds inside them. Maybe she could give them to the cranky cooking staff, if they stopped getting huffy at her. It wasn't her fault they didn't know what worms were.

The reason she was growing pumpkin - and several other types of seeds - was for the candidates' party. That and she was sick of hunting down Icky Vicky. If he didn't want to see her, she'd just have to do this without him. Perhaps she could decorate his doorway, that might get his attention.

When she finally had enough nuts, berries and seeds she wove a large bird's nest basket. It was a shame that singer was allergic to floweres, otherwise she would have decorated it too. She couldn't use berry vines either, most people in this age wouldn't be used to them and would prick themselves. Silly humans, ruining everything.

One last thing she needed: grapes and raisins. She removed all the other vines to make way for lots and lots of grape vines. Hopefully nobody would disturb her, drying the grapes was a tricky process. It took patienc--

OH HECK! She was meant to be doing Vyomini's hair! And that red haired guy's. She forgot about the grape vines all around her and scooped up her basket of goodies. With the basket pressed to her bare chest she flew down several sets of stairs (why take elevators when you can fly) and straight to her room.

'VYOOOMINI!!! I'm here,' she shouted. She fcurled up her wings then burst into the room, only to find nobody there. Time for a few touch ups. She went to put pretty flowers but remembered the allergy-boy again. She scowled and put some tiny pea-sprouts in there. She liked the way their ends curled. She found a feather that had fallenout earlier in the week and added it in the circlet of swirls. Perfect.

She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled. She looked absolutely gorgeous. Who needed make-up with skin like that? She scooped up the basket and made her way to the door a few doors down. She hadn't been to anyone else's rooms but with the amount of noise, it was easy to guess. The last person had left the door open so she made her way in and put the overly large nest on the table. Perhaps she should have made a little less. Now where were the hostesses?

Chica was easy to find, she was the only gorgon in the place. 'Hoi hoi! Chica!' Demya bent her head and studied the gorgon, 'you know. Clothes actually do look good on you.'

[Anonymous]

((OOC: Zombie messed it up. xD Stilll, it's Incen, Zombie, Draco, Shizzy, Rhi, Choco, Kitsy, mdu, Mia (who, presently, is gone).))

Alik took note of Vaughan and Devi's attention after Chica relinquished control of his face, blushing in spite of himself. I am such a sinful man! I'll have to explain myself to both, later. He caught a sentiment of self-glorification floating around Chica, and decided it would be better to slip away than to break her reverie, such as it was.

Vyomini seemed oblivious to his wave for the moment, so he shrugged and made his way over to the drinks table. He looked distastefully at the spread—they did the best they could, given the situation—and a though occurred to him. Almost as soon as the thought surfaced, he heard a knock at the door. Almost certain of its origin, he slunk off toward the door and opened it, delighted to find a cooler, under a note with "Alik" scrawled on it. He smiled. What a sweet, thoughful woman, he thought, and stowed the note in his pocket. He picked up the cooler, rather a herculean effort for him, and brought it over to the drinks table.

People had begun to congregate around the table, and he set the cooler in an empty space. "Ladies," he said to Chica and Devi, who were directing their attention to a cute girl he recognized from the end of orientation, "I've brought you a little something!" He flung the lid open, uncovering a treasure trove of exotic drinks from all over Aedolis. Wow, she certainly pulled out all the stops! Half of them were frilly mixer-type drinks, the kind Alik loved to experiment with, and most of the others were serious brain-crushers and panty-removers. He caught Arrow's eye and flashed her a winning smile. "Hi there."

Almost as soon as he tried to pour something, a screeching voice shook the foundations of the room, and he nearly spilled strawberry liqueur everywhere. He looked up and noticed a harpy, and a fairly attractive one at that. That must be Demya. A shame I'm not into that sort of thing. He occupied himself with uncorking several bottles and mixing several things together.

[Anonymous]

Like a good watch-dog, Vaughan snapped to attention and watched Chica. Jace had pounded into his head that, while alcohol was okay, mass-amounts of it was not. Vaughan personally never touched the stuff but… Amber eyes watched the two girls and in a moment, Vaughan was up, an arm around Arrows shoulder, amber eyes glaring at Chica, and the little bottle she was handing to their little friend was in his hand and quickly back in its home. “ I have a great idea, Chica, how about we don’t give weird stuff to…” Vaughan looked at her, blinked a few times then smiled, “Arrow.” He waited while Devi introduced herself then smiled politely.

Being a psychic was pretty cool, he’d gotten good at stealing names from peoples heads. Gently, Vaughan took Arrows shoulders, shot a look over his shoulder, stuck out his long double-pierced tongue and steered little Arrow to His Corner.

Vaughan stopped dead cold when he saw a monster.

A feathery monster.

A feathery big monster.

Holy shit.

One black eyebrow shot up high on his face and his hands clutched at Arrows shoulders, half hiding behind her and half ready to use his back as a shield should the scary feathery monster pounce and eat them for food. Hoi Hoi? Chica? She knew her? Vaughan tilted his head a little, yeah, it was a girl. Not personally into half-animal people, he didn’t find her attractive at all. Eyes peeked at the girl he was grabbing, Arrow, she was a cutie-pie, adorable… Then he eyed the bird-lady… Nope… sure she might have been pretty if she was human.

The feathers took away from her appearance.

Ew.

Licking his lips slightly he looked around and gnawed on the inside of his cheek, what to do? Well, first things first. Away from the man-eating-bird-woman, the snake-lady seemingly set on getting Little Arrow smashed beyond all reason and the tall fellow with the bright red hair. Vaughan stuck his tongue out at him before pulled Arrow gently towards the corner, pushed her against the wall, stood beside her, and dragged her down so she was sitting beside him.

Figuring she must be freaked out Vaughan waved his hand out slightly, “Hi, I’m Vaughan. I’m not as scary as I seem, I promise…” Vaughan looked down at his shirt, a nipple with a ring through it being shown off to the room. Eh, better hide that from virgin eyes – Vaughan’s virgin eyes didn’t count, it was his nipple – he pushed the shirt to the side to hide most of the chest that the shirt was showing off and then he cleared his throat and started over.

“Okay, sorry about that.” He held out a hand gently, waiting for her to shake it and he smiled. “I’m going to claim you for tonight, we can pretend you drank like a fish once these guys,”  the red-head turned towards the crowd and waved his hand slightly, indicating the different candidates ready to get smashed, “are up to their gills in it. Maybe make you take a few sips so you aren’t completely lying.” A wink and he moved his hand back to it’s original spot.

This was awkward.

He was a singer! He’d sung in crowds of hundreds of people, - okay, maybe not hundreds but they looked like a lot when IF had opened for bands… Vaughan swallowed and looked at his fingers, he missed them.  Maybe if he heard the music? Only Chica would notice it’s him, maybe Alik and Devi but that was doubtful. Cupping his hands over his mouth he made a ‘oi, chica’ noise until he got his attention. Hoping he had it he waved his hand at the music player then indicated to his throat.

Then he moved his hand back to where Arrow could shake it.

[Anonymous]

((Short and dumb Dx))

Draygovi had big plans at this point. With his water, he would stay, out of the way of everything. Though he wasn't the strongest telepath in the room, he could discern names at least. Then again, everyone was really just saying their names out loud. He idly wondered if it was rude of him to pluck it from their minds. Maybe if he didn't rely on that, he would have to, gasp, interact with these people. So he set it upon himself to start trying that instead. Don't use your mind, but instead, actually talk to people.

That's when a lot of things began happening again. Things like the door being knocked on. That was a little...what was going on? Someone at least took the time to answer the door. Sort of. Since something...naked and feathery burst through the door. That was...that was a harpy. That had to be.

That Alik fellow went to go to the door though, getting a large cooler. There was so much going on. The gorgon, Chica, was offering the timid young girl drinks. It wasn't any of his business but they didn't smell good at all. They smelled of alcohol...Though, that Vaughan fellow seemed to rescue her at least. That was always good. He wasn't sure if there was anyone here that he should really approach to strike up a conversation. What could he possibly say anyway? There wasn't like...anything at all that he could talk about.

That cave was still looking like a good option.

He decided that he would try and be sociable. Try anyway. That tall fellow with the red hair looked like a safe bet. "Er...so uhm...what are you mixing there...uh...Alik right?" He did introduce himself after all when he first entered. Ugh. He was bad at this. He just had to bite the laser bolt at this point and try to be friendly. After all, these people would be the people he had to rely on. "Anything um...non-alcoholic in there?"

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For the first time since she’d heard Vaughan sing, Chica really, really didn’t like him. Who was he to be a nosy busybody and interfere with her innocent fun? Which was to help Arrow unwind, of course. Yes, of course that was it.

Spinning around, ready to pursue Vaughan, Chica’s face suddenly hit something large and squishy. She pulled back and gaped at a pair of exposed breasts that were suddenly wobbling in her face. She blinked twice, unable to not stare. Chica gazed up at Demya, not bothering to go up to the harpy’s ridiculous height. That was just plain gross. Seriously, who wanted to see a big, ugly feather duster with a pair of tits randomly hanging out? What a whore.

“My gods Demya you are such a freaking whore. Why don’t you go put a damn shirt on or something eh? Gods damn giant, ugly slut.” She waved Demya away as she slid around her. Everyone seemed to be reacting to the freak in the same way, so Chica didn’t worry that a pair of naked boobs were going to steal her thunder.

Especially because, thanks to the net, everyone now knew about Demya’s icky bird ass-vagina.

Spotting Vaughan waving at her, Chica sighed and returned to the table, purposely ignoring Demya. She flicked on the music, a random song coming on, a bit too loud at first until she turned the volume knob. There, music, Vaughan should be happy now. Chica didn’t recognise the song, so it must have been one of Devi’s.

Speaking of whom….

“Devi!”, she called out, “Should we start the games or what?”

[Rhi-Rhi]

The hairs tried to jump off the back of her neck when someone hugged her from behind and an all too familiar voice sang out a greeting. Arrow jolted and went stiff, blue eyes wide as for a moment she thought it would be a repeat of orientation when Chica had held her captive, but then the gorgon let go and Arrow whirled around to face her.

She took a cautious step backwards, just to put some distance between them, and tried to stare at her face and not her snake lower body or snake hair. "H-hi, Chica," she said, voice small, and she offered a little smile and wiggled her fingers at her in a wave. Chica could be nice. She'd scared the daylights out of her a few times during orientation, but she also kept remembering how she'd awkwardly...comfort ed her?...too. And it wasn't Chica's fault she was all snakey. "Thanks for inviting me."

That was said with a more genuine smile, an attempt on Arrow's part to be more friendly. Let bygones be bygones, right? Even if she wasn't thrilled about having to come.

At Chica's question, she nodded even as, deep inside, she wished she didn't have to. Orders were orders, though. Ugh. "Erm, actually, yeah, I am," she said, peering at the bottle Chica laid out for her. She picked it up and turned it this way and that. It didn't look that bad. It kind of reminded her of the wine coolers her mom sometimes drank, and she'd tasted those before and they were pretty good--never had more than a sip, though. Didn't have much alcohol in them, either, from what she remembered. They were like beer; her mom just drank them to relax after a long day at work.

"Oh...is it like a wine cooler?" Arrow asked, though she was a little distracted then by all the activity going on. Devi greeted her, and Arrow meant to shake her hand but she kind of forgot as soon as she started to extend her hand because that was when a cute boy with long red hair flashed her a smile and said 'hi there.'

Arrow nearly dropped the bottle and her cheeks flushed red, though she managed to smile back and hoped it wasn't as dopey as she felt. "Hi..." She recognized him from orientation, though she couldn't remember if they'd exchanged any words. That whole day was a bit of a blur for obvious reasons. She didn't have much time to do anything more than wave at him when she jumped for a third time as someone wrapped an arm around her shoulders and snatched the bottle away from her.

"Whoa, hey!" she gasped, reaching for the bottle out of reflex and trying to pull free, but it was too late. Away it went and then she was being dragged off to a corner of the room.

Arrow snuck a sideways glance at him; he wasn't much taller than her, but it was a boy, and another cute one at that even though with all his piercings...erk. He looked like one of those tough, freaky punks at school. Arrow swallowed, confused as to how the heck she'd managed to attract so much attention when she'd been keen on drawing none

Which was probably the problem. Her own experiences had shown that people loved harassing quiet people. Though he'd just rescued her from alcohol...

And his corner of the room seemed safe. Away from the gorgon and weird, loud bird lady that entered. At least, she thought it was safe, but she wasn't so sure when he pushed her against the wall, a small "oof" leaving her lips, and then dragged her down to sit. She plopped down onto her bottom next to him and then just stared at him, obviously a little flustered from being dragged all over the place, jeez. She drew her knees up to her chest, wrapped her arms around them, and looked down at his chest when he did before snapping her eyes back up to his face, blushing again. A nipple piercing? Seriously?

She blushed harder when she found herself wondering what other hidden places he had pierced. Erk!

"Hi Vaughan. I'm Arrow, but...you already know that," she answered, clearing her throat and reaching out to shake his hand, but then he moved it and motioned to the other candidates before she could. She let her hand drop back down onto her knee. Claim her? Well, once he finished his sentence that didn't sound so bad, and he had saved her from drinking.

Arrow grinned. "I didn't think you were scary," she lied, "but heh, thanks for rescuing me. I gotta drink something, though. Erm...mentor's orders." She ran a hand through her hair awkwardly. "But he didn't say how much so just a sip'll do I guess." She reached ot to take his hand again when he moved it back, but then he moved it again so he could call to Chica.

Arrow snorted, a sort of repressed laugh, and dropped her hand back down again. She had no idea what he was doing, but she hoped he didn't bring Chica over here. When he was finished and held his hand out again, Arrow looked down at his hand, then at him, and gave a wry grin. "Are ya gonna let me shake it this time?"

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Crevan backed over towards the table getting out of everyone's way. He thought he heard someone greet him and he smiled wide in some direction not sure where it came from. There were lots of candidates shoved in this room. He looked around the room and he felt very strange and out of place. Maybe this had not been such a great idea.

Then he saw the cooler, this would be better than he had anticipated. He saw the drinks ranged in strength as well. This would be an interesting party. He grabbed a stronger drink and poured himself a glass mixing it as the party moved around him. He held it to his chest sort of dissapearing into the crowd them coming back out in the one of the corners of the room.

He looked around at the group assembled. He saw all the ones who weren't human, he felt a little bit more at home, but it was barely a fraction. He stared into his glass...maybe he could just get a little tipsy and leave, no one really seemed to notice him, that was good. Maybe he could give it a chance though. He sighed inside his mind.

He took a sip of his drink and felt the warmth snake down his throat and into his stomach and a smile crossed his face. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all, make a couple friends even perhaps.

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'What on Earth? I just said you looked NICE!' Demya huffed. 'And I'm not ugly or a slut! There is nothing wrong with going around the way I was born. Stupid snake.' She flicked her hair and turned away, there was no point talking to Chica. The snake would probably be the type that would want a sparrow to wear clothes too. She probably hadn't even seen a sparrow or know anything about it.

There sure were a lot of candidates there. Demya hadn't really bothered to meet up with any yet so all she knew of them was over the candidate blog. Perhaps she could hunt down Alik, she'd seen a picture of him and he seemed nice. It really was a shame there weren't more interesting candidates. There were only a couple of mages, that naga and her.

She decided she would search Devi out instead, see if there was any need for her decorations. That would be fun. She would have to steer clear of a lot of different types of plants though. Demya liked plants, plants were something she could understand, unlike humans who seemed to try to make everything more complicated than it really was.

OOC: Sorry, this one is bad.

[Anonymous]

[OOC I hate this post but at least it's done o.O]

Why did everyone seem to be kissing each other? That wasn’t part of a normal introduction was it? And then Devi suggested she kiss Draygovi causing her face to turn a deep shade of pink.

     Even if she wanted to…which she didn’t…She doubted she could reach, the ….dragon-man was very tall. Then again everyone else in the room was probably taller than her too.

     As another person arrived who Vyomini recognised she realised that in the room she didn’t know anybody. Sure they’d introduced themselves and Devi was one of Dyerlich’s candidates as well but she didn’t know them. Maybe if she hadn’t missed orientation she’d feel more comfortable but she naturally disliked crowds and she had been hoping she’d arrive with Demya so she didn’t feel so awkward. But no, the harpy had disappeared and was yet to arrive.

     Thankfully no-one was talking to her too much she wasn’t used to socialising. Most glanced over her and then turned their gaze somewhere else. Like the gorgon did, she looked at Vyomini raised and eyebrow but then turned her attention to the newest arrival and smiled at her like a snake eying its prey. Vyomini made a mental note never to annoy the gorgon.

     Then someone else arrived, yet another non-human, since on his head were fox-like ears. And then shortly afterwards Demya carrying a basket made from vines and wearing some kind of plant. With being the harpy’s roommate Vyomini had gotten used to her obsession with flowers and vines but had managed to prevent Demya from covering her bed in plants. It was a good thing she didn’t suffer from hay fever or sharing a room with the vine mage would have been hell.

     Not at all shocked by Demya’s appearance and entrance Vyomini noticed two people sneaking out. It was the leaking girl and the guy who came with her. That was odd. Normally Vyomini asked before reading someone’s mind, partly because Demya abhorred it but she was curious. The girl ‘Farica’ apparently was leaving because she was leaking and it was affecting some people and the boy ‘Setrul’ wasn’t staying there without her. Vyomini was tempted to sneak out with them but Demya would probably drag her right back.

     And the harpy now was being insulted by the gorgon. That was a dislike which had been spawned on the candidates’ blog and wasn’t likely to go away anytime soon. Well, Demya had lived a long time, she could take care of herself and did so. Then she was off again looking for someone else. Despite not wanting to be noticed too much Vyomini was a little peeved that Demya hadn’t noticed her at all. Oh well, there were plenty of more interesting people in the room and she was very small.

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Alik grinned as his greeting nearly caused Arrow to spill her drink, and elicited a deep blush and a shy smile. She said "Hi" and waved a little before Vaughan whisked her away. That's good. I was afraid there was something wrong with my teeth or something. I'll have to formally introduce myself later.

He found Vaughan's reluctance to be near him challenging and enticing, a habitual reaction of his that contributed greatly to him not having any good friends. It was as though the singer could sense something about Alik that was undesirable, which was inconceivable to Alik himself, given the lengths to which he wen to make himself desirable...

Two males approached the table, leaving him the only really human-looking one there. One, with a smooth walk and fox ears, started mixing himself a real neuron-shuffler of a drink, and Alik smiled, glad to know that not all the Candidates were afraid of a little alcohol.

The other... must have been Draygovi. Dragon wings, one arm... yep. He had so many biological questions about this guy... the answers to most of which would probably put him off sex for a while. "Oh, hi, Draygovi," he said pleasantly, tapping his swizzle-stick on the side of the cup. "Ah, a drink. Nothing in particular. If it had a name, though, it would probably be terribly girly."

He looked at the cooler, mouth tilted. "As much fun as it would probably be, I can't lie to you... some of the mixers over there have barely anything, though." He shrugged, looking at Draygovi. "Some party if no one here will drink anything, huh?"

[Anonymous]

Happy thoughts Devi darling. Happy thoughts. You are in a room full of physics after all.

This party was not going as awesome as Devi had wanted it too. Everyone seemed to either be painfully shy and ready to go hide in the corner or acting like a total bitch, as in the case of her roomy and that...awful bird thing.

Vaughan had seemed like he was one for partying but he had dragged that dark haired girl, Arrow, into the corner and was hiding out with her. Lovely. So much for hoping the rock 'star' might help her get this crowd mingling.

Her pale eyes, a warm golden brown color now settled on Alik, chatting with the dragon kid. Alik seemed like he actually wanted to have fun and mingle. Moving closer to where the two boys were talking, Devi resisted the urge to rub her temples. This was supposed to be a night of fun times and a chance to blow off steam and hang out with all the gracies.

But Devi still had hope. Wrapping her arms around Alik's neck, she grinned at the two males, "Hello boys. Drink up. There is enough booze her to get this whole damn complex wasted. Now. Let's all try and liven this place up a bit, yeah? Maybe play a party game."