HOUSE WARMING PARTY! [SEMI-OPEN!]

[blondferret]

WHO: Derek and Friends (if you know Derek and think's he's a cool/nice person, you're invited. If you are friends with one of Derek's friends and get dragged to the party, you're invited.)
WHERE: Derek's NEW APARTMENT in Viea Village
WHEN: June 8th, 2018
WHAT: House Warming Party!
WARNINGS: Alcohol consumption with minors around

It took Derek about a week, but he was finally able to get his huge ass apartment looking decent and ready for a party. He had tried contacting people to invite them, and even put a post on the app asking people to RSVP, not that he got much of a response. Sorry, Kenta, Derek is throwing a party and he doesn't know who all is coming...

Derek set up his kitchen with drinks for all ages. There are both bottles of Butter Beer for the minors and Fire Whiskey for the over 21. There are also many home made finger sandwiches (come one he's English) and chips. There is plenty of seating to go around since he does have TWO FURNISHED LIVING ROOMS and two balconies that you can walk out on to see a great view of the city, specifically Tribunal Terrace. Don't mind the owl that periodically flies onto his perch on the balcony and eats a mouse or rat he's found. He's very friendly.

The cat on the other hand, will occasionally slink around but mainly stay out of the way. Please don't touch him or he will surely scratch you (unless your Kenta or Mariko).

Derek will be mingling with guests as they come in. Drink, have fun, listen and dance to the music, sing Karaoke (Derek has a Karaoke machine), and take your mind off the fact a bunch of people are missing and Retrospec is behind it!

Comments

[blondferret]

A. Have You Tried the Butterbeer?

Derek will go around with bottles of Butter Beer and offer it to anyone who isn't drink something. Everyone must experience this fantastic drink from his memories. So perhaps you are one of the lucky people Derek nudges with his hand and offers a bottle to.

"Have you tried the Butter Beer yet?

B. The Host Needs to Sit Down

Once the party is in full swing, Derek will take a seat on the couch and take a breather with a bottle of Fire Whiskey. He deserves it, moving and getting his apartment ready for the party, make all of those finger sandwiches, somehow getting his hands on all the drinks in time, he deserves to take a seat. He will gladly chat with people who talk to him and tell him he's thrown a great party.

C. Karaoke]

In true Derek fashion, Derek will of course go up to the machine and start flipping through the songs. He really hasn't used his karaoke machine since he got it for his birthday, so it's time to break it in?

"Does anyone want to sing with me?

[ooc. List of Music Derek will know, but feel free to pull something else on him.]

a

[dornen_kiste]

Yogi turned when Derek came up to him, looking down at the bottle and taking it curiously. He usually wasn't much of a drinker - it's hard to do a handstand when you are hungover, let him tell you - but it did sound like a curious sort of drink.

"Is it made with butter?" he asked, turning the bottle about to look for an ingredients list. Did it even have a label?

Re: a

[blondferret]

[Derek looks at the bottle.]

I'm not sure really. It taste good though. Kind of like a really creamy cream soda with out the fizz. It's not alcoholic by the way, my other self drank this when he was a student.

[dornen_kiste]

"Oh, that's cool - a bit misleading on the name, but cool," Yogi sniffed before shrugged and taking a short sip of the drink, making an "oh" sound as the taste bubbled on his tongue.

"Well I can see why your other self drank it - it's pretty good!" he beamed. "Not sure why they would call it beer though. It tastes much better than beer."

[flametheif40]

[Despite being Derek's Kin, Al still hesitates to really go inside his new home, see his friends, his life. Al realizes that his life is starting to intertwine with Derek's, and that makes him nervous.]

Oh! Heya Derek, No I haven't tried any yet

[takes the bottle and looks down at it for a bit]

FREAKING nice place ya got by the way, who did you kill for it?

And did it come with the Karaoke machine? or did you have to steal it off someone?

[blondferret]

[That last comment earns Al a slap to the back of his head.]

Honestly!

[Derek lets out a sigh. What is he going to do with this brat?]

You're sense of humor needs some work. I hope you don't talk to other people that way.

[flametheif40]

OUUUCCCHHH!

That was a PERFECTLY normal comment!

Okay fine! who's freaking PUPPY did you find?

a

[drydrown]

[...You know, he's trying really hard to behave tonight, but...]

...I...haven't, no.

[Good lord.]

You seem to be enjoying yourself.

Re: a

[blondferret]

[Derek opens a bottle of Butter Beer and offers it to Cumore.]

Yeah mate I'm enjoying myself. Don't you enjoy a good party?

[drydrown]

I don't recall saying I didn't.

[He'll accept it, at any rate, though he doesn't move to drink right away.]

It's a good distraction, at any rate, from everything else that's going on.

[He keeps using that word with regards to everything he does this month. Distraction.

Ah well, it's fine for now, at any rate.]

[megatechbody]

A. Drinks - clouds of another life
Butterbeer is interesting, but a little too weak for her tastes. Firewhiskey, however is for champs and as she nurses her first glass, Mariko looks to the finger sandwiches to see if anything catches her interest.

B. Balcony - wash across the sunlight
The fresh air is nice and seeing the city from this high up is actually pretty nice. Leaned on the railing, she watches the lights go by on the ground and contemplating things of late.

C. Hiding with the Cat - changing shape as they go by
Mariko isn't exactly and introvert, but recent events have been sapping her social skills pretty badly. So here she is, a little tipsy and petting the lovely if highly selective cat sitting in her lap.

C. Hiding with the Cat

[blondferret]

[At some point Derek is going to wonder where he cat is and will start looking for him. He finds him curled up on Mariko's laps in one of the two living rooms.]

There he is. Are you behaving for Mariko?

[Blaise meows and snuggles deeper into Mariko's lap.]

Mariko, I still can't believe he likes you. Know what he did the other day when Tatsuo was over? I think he was trying to troll Tatsuo and he literally climbed up Tatuo's arm and started messing with Tatuo's hair. Scared him right good. He wasn't sure if Blaise suddenly liked him, or he was just finding a new way to torture him... I think it was the latter.

Re: C. Hiding with the Cat

[megatechbody]

Oh, he's being so spoiled.

[Mariko can't help but chuckle at the way Blaise snuggles in, looking to Derek as he talks about the mischief his cat has gotten into.]

He might like him a little, just not enough to avoid being weird at him. Most cats don't even got near people they don't like.

[Somehow the cat has twisted under himself trying to burrow in as Mariko strokes the fur at the top of his head.]
Maybe he was trying to help groom him...

[blondferret]

So you agree? Tatsuo's hair is a mess?

[flametheif40]

A) To Fire, or not to Fire?

[Butterbeer make Al feel happy and giddy, just what he needs to try to get his mind off things. Then taking a huge gulp of butter beer, and making sure Derek isn't looking, he goes up to a random person]

Love the Butterbeer, not sure if I would wanna touch the Fire whiskey though, sounds like it would just burn...

B) Drunk on happiness?

At one point maybe he's been hitting the butter beer a bit hard, and is completely taken up by the warm goodness in his heart, making him smile wide and generally chuckling quietly to himself, before face-planting...maybe on you, maybe your foot, or right on the floor beside you

A

[thisloveisjustice]

[That random person ends up being Tatsuo. He turns around at Al's voice and gives the younger man a raised eyebrow.]

Oh. Don't even think about it. I'm pretty sure you've got another four years before you can touch the firewhisky. But yes, it does burn something fierce.

[Tatsuo waggles the whiskey ditch he's been drinking.]

Even cut with water it still burns a little.

Re: A

[flametheif40]

Ouch, yeah, sounds like something I REALLY don't wanna touch then...not with this stuff around anyway

[Takes a good swing of Butter beer]

MMmm, heavenly, so who came up with this stuff anyway?

I almost wanna say German...

[invocate]

A -- karaoke

It was the promise of karaoke that lured Li-Na in tbh. She wouldn't quite call herself and Derek 'good friends,' but he'd been thoughtful enough to invite her. And even though he can irritate her now and then, she doesn't think he's a bad person. So here she is, making the most of his karaoke system by singing a song from a certain movie about the circus.

I close my eyes and I can see
The world that's waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one's been before
But it feels like home

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I've lost my mind
I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design
Technically it's a duet if someone wants to jump in. Otherwise she's perfectly content to sing the whole song on her own.

B -- butterbeer

At some point during the evening, Li-Na discovered the butterbeer. And might be having her third. Because whatthehell this stuff so good?!?!? She's sipping said third glass on one of the balconies, enjoying the view and the breeze. The view reminds her of Hong Kong just a tiny, tiny bit and a small wave of homesickness washes over her. Momentarily distracted, she almost spills her drink on her blouse.

"Oops!"

Quick, who has a napkin on hand?

B butterbeer

[flametheif40]

[Trying to Isolate himself, Al goes outside for some fresh air, when he hears her, he digs in his jacket and pulls some napkins for her, assuming that she spilled her drink or something]

How bad were YOU zoned out?

[Said almost playfully, while passing several napkins from a wide variety of places]

Sorry, I just got these cheap thin ones on my person

[invocate]

Zoned?

[have a confused look Al, Li-Na might have been in the States for a year now, but that' is not nearly enough time to learn all the colloquialisms and slang]

Ah... thank you.

[she accepts the napkin and carefully wipes her arm before any drips onto her skirt]

B

[blondferret]

[Derek offers Li-Na his handkerchief when he sees her almost spill her drink.]

Here. You know... I know "beer" is in the name of the drink, but it's completely alcohol free.

Re: B

[invocate]

[Li-Na accepts the handkerchief and dries off her hand.]

And it is possible to spill something without being drunk.

[thisloveisjustice]

A - the pets

No surprise, Tatsuo is keeping as much distance between him and Blaise as possible. He and Derek's cat have a long and violent history, which him usually coming out the loser in their encounters. Why Derek's cat hates him so much, Tatsuo has yet to figure out. So he does his best to let Blaise just have his space.

Bronte, on the other hand, is just... chill. Derek's owl has yet to cause Tatsuo any grief, even after living with Tatsuo for three weeks back in February, an arrangement that likely would have ended in Tatsuo's death if it had been Blaise staying with him. So when Bronte lands on the balcony to have his dinner, Tatsuo just lets the owl scarf down his mouse, then reaches over to stroke the bird's head.

"Hey Bronte. Nice party tonight, huh? How's the hunting in this area compared to Derek's old apartment?"

B - the refreshments

Another place to find Tatsuo? The kitchen, helping himself to those little finger sandwiches and the fire whiskey. Which he's mixing with a little water, because he doesn't really feel like getting smashed. Stop judging his drinking choices Derek.

B

[blondferret]

You know that one annoying thing about me moving? You can't stumble back to my apartment when you get smashed and vice versa.

[Derek looks at Tatsuo's drink.]

Water? Really?

Re: B

[thisloveisjustice]

I think the only one suffering from that would be you. Even drunk I wouldn't stay at your place.

[due to a certain evil cat]

Hey. Cut the judgement. I have to get home later.