(mingle/open) happy new years!

[forethinking]

Who: Void Citizens
What: New Years Mingle!
Where: Heavenly Blanc
When: January 1st
Content Warnings: None!!

HEAVENLY BLANC

THE VOID, ON JANUARY 1ST

Ren
Food & Organization

Blue
Food & Organization

Eevee
Moral Support

Pidgeot&Arcanine
Lifting

YOSHIZAWA
Food & Organization

We hereby start the Void Calendar! All over the Void since yesterday, several handwritten notes have been taped or stapled to the Void's most populated areas in the hopes to drive the people to the popular bar/cafe. Heavenly Blanc's exterior has been protected from any upcoming storms by a large awning, and more tables and chairs have been temporarily set to settle any issues of overcrowding on the inside. Upon entering, one will be able greeted by the aroma of curry, although the spices vary from pot to pot, and coffee and alcohol will be served throughout the evening.

Within the interior of the bar, a small space has been divided and cleared out -- next to the jukebox. There, one will find a few microphones resting on their stands, waiting for whoever is brave enough to sing on them to whatever is playing in Heavenly Blanc when the storm hits. Last, but not least, a whiteboard has been visibly placed next to the entrance. It reads: "Names of the Months", and you may either write your own or add sticks to vote on your favorites.

CODING BY

Comments

Cole - Never have I ever laughed..........

[theforgottenboy]

[Thanks to Ren's patience Cole has at least a basic understanding of how this game works now. However, he doesn't even understand the never have I evers people are saying, so he spends some time listening and trying to come up with his own for his turn. What is something he's never done...... oh, there's one-]

Never have I ever laughed.

[why is he invited to parties]

[blue_eyed_obsession]

[Guess psychotic laughter still applies.

Dang.

Takes a sip]

oh no......... cole, honey....

[forethinking]

(Ren looks surprised, almost dismayed at the thought of never having laughed before. It soon turns into a kind smile before he approaches the spirit.)

What is funny to you?

[theforgottenboy]

[What is that expression, did he not play the game right? But Ren doesn't say that, so... he thinks about his question.]

Varric is good at being funny, I think. He was teaching me how knock knock jokes work.

[forethinking]

Why didn't you laugh at those?

(Knock-knock jokes kind of suck, though, but if he thinks this Varric person is funny, perhaps...? He's trying to figure this out here.)

[theforgottenboy]

They're hard to understand.

[He has yet to successfully formulate one himself either, at least going by Varric's feedback.]

It makes Varric happy when I try, though.

[And you know he's all about making people happy.]

[bazooker]

[Now that was surprising. After she took a sip from her water, she just had to ask him this.]

Mind if I ask why?

[theforgottenboy]

[His head tilts...]

I don't know. It's just something I've never done.

[He hasn't done that much self-reflection.]

[bazooker]

[If he wasn't going to provide her with the answer she wanted, she'll have to try something else.] Then how about we do this? How about I tell you a joke?

[She cleared her throat] What did the egg say when it was happy? [Pause]

"Eggcellent!"

[theforgottenboy]

[He listens to the joke...]

[...]

Eggs never speak to me.

[obsessiveness]

[ just... a deadpan look ]

You sure are fun at parties. Which we're at right now, you realize.

[theforgottenboy]

[Cole is either unfazed by the look or oblivious to it. Most likely the latter.]

Did I not do it right?

[obsessiveness]

No, you're good. It's just that you need to read the room a little. You're gonna bring a lot of people down with that mood.

[ izumi you're literally the last one to talk ]

At least tell me you have some semblance of a sense of humor.

[bluecastleace]

Bullshit.

[He doesn’t even drink, because this guy has to be lying.]

[theforgottenboy]

[??]

[Cole just looks at him with a tilt of his head, waiting for him to elaborate.]

[bluecastleace]

You’ve never laughed? Everyone has laughed.

[bachagain]

Hmmmm.

[ cole's invited so leo can shove half a fcking bread in his mouth while being mildly unsurprised at that, like it's a fact buried in his subconscious, one he knew all along............

...... though it's still a little sad, in the weird way that cole tends to be. ]

I don't like that one! Practice it with me, Ko -- once you start laughing, you're gonna get a kick out of doing it over and over again! One, two: wahahahaha!

[ don't stuff bread in cole's mouth and then prompt him to laugh, leo

also sorry to everyone at this party but if this goes his way there's going to be two idiots cackling in the corner like that one scene in ffx ]

[theforgottenboy]

[Return of the bread!!!]

[Oh, Leo didn't like that. He's not sure what he should have said instead, but for now he'll go along with his request...??]

Mhfufufu?

[He still has the bread in his mouth. Also that didn't sound particularly enthusiastic.]

[bachagain]

[ cheerfully: ]

Wow, that was terrible! Don't say it like a question with bread in your mouth! Ah, though I guess I put that there--

[ leo just setting cole up for failure here ]

--Okay, I'm gonna ignore that first attempt. Chew, chew, chew, swallow, then try it again!

[bridge_princess]

[Drink.]

You know, I bet everyone's all "Why not? What's wrong... can I help?" I wonder if anyone else besides me and maybe Kimihiro realizes that's probably not a terrible thing?

Doesn't seem like it'd be in your nature, and it's a reaaaaaallly good one.

[forgive her, she's three drinks in and going to pretend they're hitting her a little, because she's bored.]

[theforgottenboy]

[She sure isn't wrong so far...]

I don't know. Maybe I could, but I don't need to.

[To help people, etc etc]

[bridge_princess]

I think you can physically laugh. that's not really the issue. You're always thinking about what you 'need' to do, kind of like how I've been struggling with what I am.

But, you know, if you ever do laugh I wanna see.

[indigloaming]

Another one she'll have to take a sip for; her life's not that sad and lonely. Everyone else seems to be trying at humor, so she'll go another route:

"Anybody ever try ticklin' ya?"

[theforgottenboy]

He thinks about it for a moment, but he's pretty sure he'd remember that? Probably.

"No."

[indigloaming]

Never even been tickled, huh?

"Well, if yer comfortable with it, maybe one of us could give it a try. Do ya know how it works?"

That is, if he's never been tickled, has he at least observed someone else being tickled?