recolle | april the 13th. ignore the fact it's the 12th this is forward dated by one whole day.

WHO: john egbert, dave strider, anyone who knows one or both of them is invite! or if you're in viea village and curious about the mysterious new house with a party happening you can probably peek in.
WHERE: viea village, at their shiny new egbertian house.
WHEN: friday april 13th, in the evening!
WHAT: john egbert's 19th birthday combined with a housewarming party.
WARNINGS: there's still some clown art in the house probably, v sorry about that

[ While Dave probably did manage to send out actual invites beyond the e-invite, they were invites made by Dave and therefore included very likely shitty clipart. Still, arriving to the location will take you to a house, laid out like so. There are some changes. Most of the clowns have been removed although they missed a few if you want to be quietly clown-horrified - all of the art that isn't clown-related or in Dad's room isn't there, although there are a variety of photographs hung about that Dave probably took given they're local scenery or of people the two of them know and their cat (and a weirdly disproportionate amount of John, sorry John) so if Dave has ever had a camera in your vicinity and you're good friends you might be on display; Dad's room is unchanged but the door is shut and there's a note on the front in Dave's handwriting asking people to keep out; the study currently has some turntables shoved in there as well as the desk/piano/safe, as well as a phat beat machine.

John's room has the biggest changes overall, since there's a bigger bed in there and slightly better movie posters, including a ghostbusters one in a frame, and also there are some pretty heavy-duty blackout curtains in the room and generally around the house, although all of them are open currently. There's also a cat tower, potentially with a cat, although Mewpac may also be found on the living room cat tower, on various counters, or just generally underfoot as cats are wont to be. Love her.

The main party areas indoors are the living room and the kitchen however! The living room has a birthday banner and a table for presents and also a karaoke machine hooked up to the television. There are a lot of 80s and 90s hits and pretty much whatever Dave thought might be fun, so...you know. Weird stuff also. In the kitchen are snacks (all nut-free) and drinks. There's alcohol if you want or an improbable amount of apple juice even if checking the fridge, although the fridge seems well stocked with a variety of non-apple products if for some reason you want to raid their fridge. There's also a cake in the shape of a piano, very clearly store bought.

The balcony has some bean bag chairs and lawn furniture set up, as well as a telescope. So if you want to get your star-gazing on, apparently you can.

The main outdoors party area is the back yard, where a green pogo ride can be found (sans imps and chaos) if you want to take a ride on it. There is also, way more notably, a bouncy castle that takes up most of the yard and some of the neighbors' yards to either side. You probably saw it when you came in through the front. Dave knows people, and also may have paid off the neighbors for the night so that's...a thing. That is definitely a thing. It most definitely has inflatable slides on the sides as well, so have fun with that.

There's also a much less impressive kiddie pool with balls for some reason? The banner does say happy 19th birthday, right? ]

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Looks like it's a tour party one one. You down for the VIP treatment, Minato?

Hell yeah. Backstage access to the linen closets.

[ Or maybe just nosing around the house a little closer than the basic living room, bathroom, kitchen. ]

Start from the ground floor, with a pit stop by the cake?

It's a game plan. Come on, we'll start in the back laundry room and move out, so you can pick up your mad snackage. [ he's ushering minato back to the laundry room...

it's pretty boring. there's a washer and dryer and the cat's litter box, which is clean at the moment.

there are also maybe five cat toys scattered on the ground but there are cat toys in every room... ]

So, here's where the laundry magic happens. It's a step up from having to go to a dedicated laundry room and claim your washer and dryer and get creeped on by weird people with no sense of personal space. Now the power is ours to just throw our shit in and start it and wander off to better parts of the house? Literally the best part of adulthood right here.

[ Mewpac is so spoiled... Minato thinks the houseplant he'd handed off to John would fit right into all this stuff, with its easily detachable leaves that's more or less an infinite supply of cat toys to be batted around and lost under couches and inside shoes. ]

I'm jealous. I'm always having to stand guard next to the washer to make sure nobody throws my stuff out. I almost lost your jacket once.

[ The one he never gave back. He's not wearing it today, just in case Dave asks for it back. ]

See, this is why you need someone to go with you to the laundromat. You both watch one another's backs and make sure no one steals your shit. Laundry mafia.

[ but yeah there's nothing else much in the laundry room so back into the kitchen... ]

And this is where John makes food.

[ specifically john. oh my god. ]

[ Looks like he'll have to find a dedicated laundry buddy, someone to idle away the one and a half hours it takes to rinse and dry. The kitchen is also somewhat enviable, though, with its own dedicated room instead of out there in the open with a dining room table partitioning it from the rest of the living room like Minato's apartment is set up. ]

...You've got a telephone on the wall and everything. Do people still have land lines?

We apparently do? ...Maybe. I do not think either of us actually set one up. Do you set them up or do they just happen???

[ HE LITERALLY DOES NOT KNOW but he's going to go cut minato a slice of cake... ]

[ Minato has a vague suspicion that landlines just sort of exist and nobody installs them, like they're relics that people keep around just for the heck of it. He can ponder this mystery of life while he accepts the cake. ]

...There's something special about birthday cakes, huh. They taste better than normal ones. The extra icing where they write your name on top, probably.

Personally I like the ice cream cake frosting.

[ THE SUPERIOR TYPE OF FROSTING ]

I don't think I've ever had it. Is it ice cream as frosting?

What? Oh my god. It tastes...like, different from ice cream and different from frosting. Very sugary and cold?

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