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THE CHRISTMAS MINGLE YOUR PARENTS WARNED YOU ABOUT
At some point in the night, taking advantage of the perma-silence, Lucifer and a few others sneak about to decorate the dormitory for the holidays. The morning of 12/25, you'll wake up to the smell of Christmas cookies wafting from the dorm kitchen, and upon actually leaving your room, there are string lights and decorations thrown up in the hallways and the common room proper.
The decorating is, of course, courtesy of Nene, who has been working hard to ensure that there's something more beautiful than those ghoulish paintings on the walls here. You can thank Helena, Sidney, and Lucifer for both the cookies and other, more substantial food which will periodically be presented throughout the day — Lucifer practically lives in the kitchen for the duration of the party and can sometimes be seen shooing the other two out to go have fun. That said, the table housing all of these dishes, ranging from traditional Christmas meals (as best they can do with limited resources, anyway) to more ostentatious treats will never be empty, so please eat to your heart's content!
Thanks to Amami, there's a large, undecorated Christmas tree in the middle of the common room that looks to be very well taken care of. Next to it is a table full of art supplies for making colourful paper ornaments, and a small card lying nearby that instructs those participating to write down a wish on the ornament proper before hanging it on the tree. It may not come true, but you know it'll be safe since no mysterious forces set this up — wish away!
Should you come to spend time at the party and fraternize, you'll find that you're being waited on by a number of small little imps except they're all wearing tiny Santa hats — they'll bring you food and drinks and candy should you request it, and they're on their Best Behaviour, so please be nice to them! They are simply underpaid service workers. They're absolutely thrilled to talk to you in chirps and weird demonic chittering, and they understand what you're saying at least.
In the back corner of the room, there's a minute-to-win-it type game set up: two chairs are tied by the backs together by two ribbons, about two feet apart from one another. Nearby, there's a table of candycanes for use in this game. The goal of the game is to toss a candycane while standing on one of the chairs and get said candycane to catch on the ribbons, or to see who can get the most candycanes on a ribbon in a minute. The instructions are explained on a little card sitting nearby, with further note to not eat all of the candycanes (there are more set out on the food table, you see) so people can play, and another smaller note banning the use of magic against an opponent who doesn't have it. Let's keep the game fair, people. And let's thank Hikaru for running out to get an obnoxious amount of candycanes for everyone.
Lucifer will intermittently come join the festivities from time to time when he's not cooking, wearing this, please feel free to bully the demon for celebrating the holiday from the religion he hates. He can take it, it's okay.
Last but certainly not least, Noah is roaming about the party using his magic to try and liven the place up. Little stars hang from the ceiling around him in a ten-foot radius, and should you frown at all, he will come up to you and put cat ears formed of magic shadows on you until you laugh. On occasion, he can be seen slipping out of the party with cookies and stacking them on a plate in front of Komaeda's door. The stars go with him, but the good news is that Natsume is also helping with their little lightshow, so the twinkling indoor galaxies will not be absent for long. It's a joint effort between Clamor's apprentices, and their hard work really shows through, magic training is difficult after all. Feel free to bother either of them to do magic tricks for you, if you'd like, or just lie down under a curtain of stars.
The night promises to be magical (semi-literally), even if we're all stuck in purgatory, so relax, put your feet up, and sing Christmas carols to your heart's content. And don't worry about the cleanup — just try not to pass out on the floors.
[OOC: Merr Crimmus try not to kill each other, that is my only request, otherwise go buck wild]
The decorating is, of course, courtesy of Nene, who has been working hard to ensure that there's something more beautiful than those ghoulish paintings on the walls here. You can thank Helena, Sidney, and Lucifer for both the cookies and other, more substantial food which will periodically be presented throughout the day — Lucifer practically lives in the kitchen for the duration of the party and can sometimes be seen shooing the other two out to go have fun. That said, the table housing all of these dishes, ranging from traditional Christmas meals (as best they can do with limited resources, anyway) to more ostentatious treats will never be empty, so please eat to your heart's content!
Thanks to Amami, there's a large, undecorated Christmas tree in the middle of the common room that looks to be very well taken care of. Next to it is a table full of art supplies for making colourful paper ornaments, and a small card lying nearby that instructs those participating to write down a wish on the ornament proper before hanging it on the tree. It may not come true, but you know it'll be safe since no mysterious forces set this up — wish away!
Should you come to spend time at the party and fraternize, you'll find that you're being waited on by a number of small little imps except they're all wearing tiny Santa hats — they'll bring you food and drinks and candy should you request it, and they're on their Best Behaviour, so please be nice to them! They are simply underpaid service workers. They're absolutely thrilled to talk to you in chirps and weird demonic chittering, and they understand what you're saying at least.
In the back corner of the room, there's a minute-to-win-it type game set up: two chairs are tied by the backs together by two ribbons, about two feet apart from one another. Nearby, there's a table of candycanes for use in this game. The goal of the game is to toss a candycane while standing on one of the chairs and get said candycane to catch on the ribbons, or to see who can get the most candycanes on a ribbon in a minute. The instructions are explained on a little card sitting nearby, with further note to not eat all of the candycanes (there are more set out on the food table, you see) so people can play, and another smaller note banning the use of magic against an opponent who doesn't have it. Let's keep the game fair, people. And let's thank Hikaru for running out to get an obnoxious amount of candycanes for everyone.
Lucifer will intermittently come join the festivities from time to time when he's not cooking, wearing this, please feel free to bully the demon for celebrating the holiday from the religion he hates. He can take it, it's okay.
Last but certainly not least, Noah is roaming about the party using his magic to try and liven the place up. Little stars hang from the ceiling around him in a ten-foot radius, and should you frown at all, he will come up to you and put cat ears formed of magic shadows on you until you laugh. On occasion, he can be seen slipping out of the party with cookies and stacking them on a plate in front of Komaeda's door. The stars go with him, but the good news is that Natsume is also helping with their little lightshow, so the twinkling indoor galaxies will not be absent for long. It's a joint effort between Clamor's apprentices, and their hard work really shows through, magic training is difficult after all. Feel free to bother either of them to do magic tricks for you, if you'd like, or just lie down under a curtain of stars.
The night promises to be magical (semi-literally), even if we're all stuck in purgatory, so relax, put your feet up, and sing Christmas carols to your heart's content. And don't worry about the cleanup — just try not to pass out on the floors.
[OOC: Merr Crimmus try not to kill each other, that is my only request, otherwise go buck wild]
come bother noah
by being a showoff, if you walk by Noah you're Going to hear the whisper of a spell being cast and then — fwoosh! — suddenly you have shadowy cat ears and a tail. For about... ten seconds, but still. He'll also take requests if you want to be like, a dog or something.If it's not cat ears, though, it's shadow cats, this is post #2394324 about Noah's cats. Are you playing the candycane game in the corner over there? Well now there's a cat trying to steal the dropped candycanes. Decorating ornaments? There's a cat on your lap, curled up, warm and safe.
Most of the time, Noah can be found sitting next to Natsume, though he'll get up and do something ostentatious from time to time if requested of him. For the most part, the magic simply hangs in the air. Noah's more than willing to come play games or other such fun things if you ask, though. He might explain the growing tower of cookies at Komaeda's door too, if you ask.]
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( amami's eyeing the growing pile of cookies as he makes his way over, glancing back up to meet noah's gaze with a smile as he does. don't mind the handful of cookies he's got himself — he might've thought this was kinda cute when he'd first noticed them stacking up, is all. he will go on ahead and add to noah's little pile though, commenting on the closed door as he does. )
You think he's planning on joining us any time soon?
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[Good that Amami's adding to the tower, actually! This pleases the Noah. Setting more cookies down on the pile that's slowly turning into a mountain, he glances up at Amami and then to the door. He knows that other people use this room, and he's not really sure where Add is, but these are mooostly for Komaeda
because Add kicked his ass a bit in the practicum and Noah's kinda salty.]...I don't know. I was hoping he might be tempted by cookies.
[Noah's no party animal, but there's something undeniably refreshing about the cheerful atmosphere within the party proper, so obviously everyone should show up right?]
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Not sure if he's got that much of a sweet tooth, honestly. Komaeda-kun seems to have tastes on two ends of the spectrum.
( one end of the spectrum is toast. the other end is grabbing 5 ingredients from the kitchen with your eyes closed and throwing them in a blender. )
You think he'd come out if we made something to his taste?
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[D...does Komaeda like pancakes...? They're sweet, so probably not.]
I could probably figure out rice or soup. Those don't seem hard...
[He runs a hand through the back of his hair sheepishly, looking up at Amami after a moment or two. It's probably obvious what he's about to ask next, but Noah assumes Amami's no mind-reader, so:]
You'd have to help me with most of the cooking, if we did something other than that. Just tell me what to do, I guess.
[Noah had servants for most of his life, so he never learnt how to cook. As it turns out, having servants for fifteen years of your seventeen year lifespan kind of fucks you over for when you leave home and Don't have that anymore.]
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( he offers up a shrug, but his expression is warm and reassuring. actually, komaeda might be satisfied with plain bread, but amami can't say it doesn't make him kind of curious. )
Not that I mind the idea of helping. You don't cook often?
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["Had" being the key word, since he's the only living member of the family, and also that was five hundred years ago — long before Noah was sealed in stasis — so they're quadruple-dead.]
I wasn't ever shown how to cook until I arrived here. Even then, I only know some really basic stuff. Sidney taught me pancakes, and Subaru taught me miso soup, and everything else I've just kind of tried my best to figure out by myself.
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( especially on your own. his voice is soft, sympathetic even as he doesn't have the full picture, but he watches noah attentively all the same. )
My family — well, we weren't nobles or anything that fancy, but we did have a maid. So I think I can sort of get where you're coming from.
( when cooking is something "unbecoming" for you, it makes it tougher to get a handle on the basics than if you'd been allowed to pitch in as a kid. in some ways, amami's envious of the people who get that, but right now he's kind of glad that it's something he skipped out on. if he hadn't, he wouldn't be able to relate to noah's struggle here at all. )
Still, cooking's a pretty good skill to have. Not only to look after yourself, but... ( he tilts his head slightly in the direction of komaeda's door. ) To show other people you care about them too. If you want, I can help show you some basics I picked up.
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He subsists entirely on vending machine snacks if there's no one cooking meals for the entire group that day. Or chocolate chip pancakes.]
Ah... can you? I'd appreciate it. The only thing I know is how to work the oven here, really. I guess it's a start.
[He hasn't burnt down the kitchen yet.]
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( either way, amami doesn't seem dissuaded. he'll tilt his head back down the hall, towards the kitchen, with the implication that they can start heading over. maybe lucy'll let them borrow it for a few minutes if they say it's for a friend. )
I was thinking maybe we can try making him some French toast and see if he'd like that. It's pretty quick, so it won't take long before you can go back to the party, and it might manage to lure him out too.
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Phew... D-didn't know you could do that.
[Like teacher, like student, he guesses, except Noah thankfully isn't making him solve for x. Was that a prank? Did he just get magic-pranked? He's not liking how easy it was.]
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I've been able to do it for a while, [he usually only does it to himself,] but I've never been able to get them to stick to other people until recently. It's not going to hurt you, so you don't have to look so panicked.
[This is like, the lowest tier of magic prank. The "you become catboy" prank.]
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Me? Panicked?
[Noooo, surely you are mistaken, look at him he's looking as cool as a cucumber... and he is, now that the worry has been relegated to the bargain bin of things for his anxiety to play with at it's leisure, now-nonexistent fur settling.]
Sounds like you've been making leaps and bounds, ahaha... Guess it makes sense it'd be harder to do it to other people...
[He's got a little envy... he's discovered he can do magic but he's not getting better at it... so now it's ending up in the same mental drawer as people with more muscles than him.]
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[He idly scratches at his cheek with slight embarrassment before continuing,]
I have a lot of idle time here... more than I did back home, anyway. In that time, I've gotten better at magic, but not in ways meant for combat. More like... stuff like this. Having all this free time is still foreign to me, even almost a year since I... "woke up" here.
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[Makes sense... there's some level of draw distance to it. And then people keep moving about, so it has to match up with that instead of just gamboling around as a cat... probably. And then if it's just manipulating something that's already there... it fits it'd be easier, though even Noah sounds uncertain about it... Something to ask Clamor about later, maybe.]
Combat... Wait, were you battling monsters or something?
[Shin is suddenly having to reconcile years of fantasy world tropes that make sense as fiction with, oh yeah, that's real to Noah and it means a highschooler is fighting things with magic?
...It's also kind of sad that having to go to school counts as 'free time', although Shin gets what he means. A little bit.]
Huh, you've been here since the start, then... It's strange, isn't it? It feels like way longer and no time at all...
[A death game hypercompresses things, you feel grateful for every hour... but then time passes in a blur of unknown duration at the same time, stretched and distorted. Being here feels like having been in a submarine, slowly adjusting to lighter pressure... but not the surface.]
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[It's difficult to put that into words, both because it's unusual as far as he's parsed and also because it is beyond fucked.]
But I don't have to do that here, for obvious reasons. It's good. It's not better here than back home, but they're about on the same level of bad. There's benefits here that there weren't back home.
[Like... the fact that he's made so many friends, and that the person who killed his brother isn't here. In a weird way, Noah's glad that his elder brother isn't here either, because hopefully that means the man's soul is laid to rest.]
It's funny to think, in a morbid way, that I'm one of the longest-surviving students here. Inaba, Clamor, Miyuki... some others were here in the beginning, but they disappeared or died at some point and came back.
[Technically Noah has died the most out of the currently-living student body this year on account of being a reckless asshole, but the Moonstone is what has saved his ass, so he... also technically didn't die as he has no tallies due to time rewinding. Weird to think about.]
I feel like I should know how to get out of here by now, or be better at this whole thing, but I'm just... not.
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[That does sound beyond fucked, Shin has no idea what to say that isn't some level of 'that's rough, buddy.' It being a different kind of bad... he's thinking about that with what he's heard from Nene, Sidney, and from his and Sara's own situation... then again, how many people die in good situations? The school has it's benefits... the downsides means he doesn't really trust them.
...Miyuki? That's someone he doesn't know all that much about.]
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[That's a thought he's been finding himself having recently, and he's been here for much less than that.]
...it's tricky, isn't it? If it was just a matter of time that would be one thing, but. You can put a lot of time into something and still get nowhere... Brute forcing it only works so well.
[Like obsessing over a password... But also, it's something in his creative endeavors, games as well... stressing over a detail for so long only to find he needs to go back and try some completely different approach from the start. It's frustrating.]
If... you just don't have the opportunities to move forward... you're kinda stuck, so. D-don't blame yourself, okay?
[Time is precious, required, you can't do a lot if you don't have a lot of it... But.]
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[Noah simply doesn't know what else to say on the topic — what could he possibly say that hasn't already been said? That he'll inevitably blame himself for something in the future even if he's gotten better at not doing that? That he's worried they'll never get out of here, but maybe that's for the best considering what he has to return home to?
That's all too depressing for a party, one that he's supposed to be entertaining people at. This whole conversation might be considered depressing for that reason. Hm...
When times are tough (and/or sad), the best thing to do is completely change the subject, obviously! Noah conjures a little ball of light in his hands and, with a flick of his wrist, tosses it upwards where it soon after blossoms into a shower of harmless sparks that twinkle in the air around Shin. Slowly, they fall from the air, but they dissipate long before touching the ground.]
It's okay, since free time means I can do tricks like this. I wouldn't have learnt this if I were back home.
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Reminds me of blowing bubbles, just a bit. Or fireworks, ahaha. You don't even have to buy anything...
[He can't quite shake the habit of money being on his mind. But it's all just Noah's effort, even if it'd probably get exhausting to do for too long...]
As long as you aren't working too hard... It's not good to exhaust yourself, after all.
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magic fwiend
But, also in true Natsume fashion, there are People Here so he can't show any weakness, so he's sitting up and pretending he's perfectly fine and if the stars he's helped conjure are || close to going supernova, no they aren't.
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Don't look at me like THAT.
( he knows noah's looking at him like "bro you good" so STOP )
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He does not stop. He just knits his brow in concern, glances back to the stars, then glances back to the Natsume... When the crowd around them turns to do other things, Noah murmurs,]
If you're tired, you can take a break... people aren't going to mind...
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I'm perfectly FINE. ( he said, not fine. ) I did something similar yesterday for a... friend—I can manage this much today for everyone else TOO.
( he'll pretend the pause between "a" and "friend" is because he's tired and not because he isn't sure what to define that person as it's fine )
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...okay. If you say you're fine, then you're fine. Do you want some water? I was going to get up and grab some food too, if you want me to bring you anything.
[Noah doesn't believe a word outta Natsume's mouth right now and it shows.]
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...I won't say no to water and something LIGHT. Nothing sweet though—I'm not that big of a FAN.
( He's given his blessing. He's not saying he's not okay, but if Noah's going to offer... )
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Noah returns, triumphant in his hunt for sustenance, handing Natsume everything he brought. The bowl that the soup's in is balanced on a plate, bread slice tucked next to it neatly, spoon on the opposite side.]
Here. I would've gotten you more water, but that's the biggest size of cup that was available.
[Stay hydrated, kids.]