NOVEMBER POCKET PARTY!

[peckishmods]

pocket's cloud party!!

what's up?

Pocket is throwing a party tonight, and you’re invited! There’s about an hour after dinner to get ready for the big event, and the sun’s well set by the time students start making their way to the shores of Lake Peckenpaugh. Like always, there is somehow, conveniently, not an adult in sight.⁠ Maybe it’s the rain, but whatever reason, that well-trodden damp dirt path up to Elflock Falls is unwatched and unblocked tonight. As with every party before, students in groups and pairs pass under the falls into a dark, wet cave.

A few paces in and that darkness gives way: damp turns dry, dark to light, and each student finds that they are soaring...

visuals!

volunteer slots!

It's hard to resist the call. You know what I'm talking about. Aristotle knows what I'm talking about! They drop their journal off the side of a cloud and, surprisedpikachu.jpg, their possession is lost! Thankfully, tomorrow morning, the lost item is found by Kermit on the shores of Lake Peckenpaugh.

pairings list!

• Aristotle Ahn
• STB #1: Magnolia
• STB #2: Armani
• 7MIH: Scarlett

• Armani Addams
• STB #1: Mary Grace
• STB #2: Aristotle
• 7MIH: Laszlo

• Chanel Addams
• STB #1: Fiona
• STB #2: Maisy
• 7MIH: Mary Grace

• Constanza Wolff
• STB #1: Zadie
• STB #2: Kermit
• 7MIH: Magnolia

• Elijah Rainwater
• STB #1: Holland
• STB #2: Uriah

• Felicity Deverill
• STB #1: Tybalt
• STB #2: Holland
• 7MIH: Wyatt

• Fiona Moon
• STB #1: Chanel
• STB #2: Jupiter
• 7MIH: Holland

• Holland Graves
• STB #1: Elijah
• STB #2: Felicity
• 7MIH: Fiona

• Jupiter Quigley
• STB #1: Scarlett
• STB #2: Fiona
• 7MIH: Willow

• Kermit Creekmore
• STB #1: Willow
• STB #2: Constanza
• 7MIH: Maisy

• Laszlo Pataki
• STB #1: Poppy
• STB #2: Zadie
• 7MIH: Armani

• Lydia Dwyer
• STB #1: Skip
• STB #2: Uriah
• 7MIH: Tybalt

• Magnolia d'Aguillon
• STB #1: Aristotle
• STB #2: Mary Grace
• 7MIH: Constanza

• Maisy Morgenstern
• STB #1: Wyatt
• STB #2: Chanel
• 7MIH: Kermit

• Mary Grace O'Malley
• STB #1: Armani
• STB #2: Magnolia
• 7MIH: Chanel

• Poppy Kreitzer
• STB #1: Laszlo
• STB #2: Willow
• 7MIH: Uriah

• Scarlett Hatfield
• STB #1: Jupiter
• STB #2: Skip
• 7MIH: Aristotle

• Skip Rider
• STB #1: Lydia
• STB #2: Scarlett

• Tybalt Zettler
• STB #1: Felicity
• STB #2: Wyatt
• 7MIH: Lydia

• Uriah Hatfield
• STB #1: Elijah
• STB #2: Lydia
• 7MIH: Poppy

• Willow Quackenbush
• STB #1: Kermit
• STB #2: Poppy
• 7MIH: Jupiter

• Wyatt Webberley
• STB #1: Maisy
• STB #2: Tybalt
• 7MIH: Felicity

• Zadie Lovelace
• STB #1: Constanza
• STB #2: Laszlo

how this works!

☁️ Welcome to the first Pocket Party of the year! Pocket always wants to hang out with the students of Peckenpaugh, and she uses her unusual magic to give them fantastic new places to play with her. This is Pocket’s domain, and she’ll block or (safely) eject anyone who is dangerously disruptive or threatens the safety or secrecy of the party.

☁️ Pocket Parties are pretty much old hat for Peckenpaugh's students, provided you've been here for a year. What's not old hat is the party, itself. Pocket's parties are always reliably wild and imaginative, bending the limits of magic and reality!

☁️ The party starts at 8PM, and stretches on indistinctly. No matter when you leave, though, it’s always 11PM ⁠— Pocket abides by the weekend campus curfew. :) ⁠— and when you exit the party, you arrive at the Falls.

☁️ Each student arrives with a pair of functional wings on their back, gifted also with the knowledge of (roughly) how to use them. The wings can be anything your heart desires, so get creative or ask us to RNG for you in the "What's Up?" section. Feel free to say your kid isn’t quite getting the hang of the wings, if you want.

☁️ The fluffy white ground is mostly solid, though you might sink in in some places. More likely, you’ll bounce, and there’s a lot of spring to the clouds.

locations!

☁️ WHAT'S UP?: You are! Literally! Welcome to Pocket’s Cloud Party. You’ve been gifted a set of functional wings so you can get around the fluffy surroundings. Use this space to tell us what those flappers look like? What’d your student decide to wear to the first Pocket Party of the year? How do they feel about this (seemingly) sky high adventure? Under this heading, you can request a randomized pair of wings by adding ‘WING ME, PLEASE’ to the body of your comment and the mods will provide you with a pair of random wings for your character.

☁️ BEFORE THE PARTY: You've got a full day of classes and dinner before it's even time to start getting ready! Here's a spot for threads about your day, or for prepping for the party.

☁️ THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Students arrive in a bright and sunny field of fluffy clouds against a pink lemonade sky. The first thing most will notice is just how bouncy it all is, putting a literal spring in your step and launching you high if you build up enough momentum. A large central cloud mass provides plenty of room to romp and play, or sprawl out in the fluff, but the area is surrounded by smatterings of smaller puffs. Most are solid, some not. They range in bounciness from turbo trampoline to squishier than your favorite bean bag chair, accommodating anywhere from one to ten students. Balloons of all shapes and sizes float about the area. Some have little baskets of finger food like pretzels, pop corn and potato chips. Others need to be popped to discover what tasty treat is inside ⁠— salty or sweet, the snacks inside are a little bit random, but generally the higher up the balloon the more rewarding the prize. If this flying thing isn’t doing you right, you can get around by rainbow, too. Most of the larger clouds are connected by bright rainbow bridges that leave your feet leaving trails of bright color wherever you step.

☁️ THE STARRY NIGHT: Slide down the right rainbow and you’ll be deposited in what feels like a whole new world. Gone is the bright daylight of before, this field of fluff is beneath a starry night sky. The air is so clear, unobscured by pollution, you can see the Milky Way overhead. A meteor shower is on full display, and sometimes the falling stars, chased by bright sparkling tails, land in the fluff around the area. Usually these bright little lights simply disappear on impact, but some of them remain intact, star-shaped lights that illuminate the area, can be carried around or just admired. It’s warm here, and cozy, a good place to sprawl out and watch the show in the sky. The balloons floating in this area glow softly, and drop glow sticks when popped.

☁️ PARTY GAMES: Along the edges of the starry night, a soft and squishy circle of clouds have been arranged to look like pillows and cushions, a wine bottle with a picture of a cicada on the label in the middle. Don’t worry about getting left out because it’s damn near impossible to miss the circle, as just above it floats a bright red lip-shaped hot air balloon. When the ladder drops, up to two people can climb aboard, and the balloon will disembark and float through the air for exactly seven minutes before unceremoniously dumping the pair back in the middle of the circle. Hope you had fun!!

☁️ THE SKYWAY: Just off the central cloud area is the Skyway, an open stretch of air perfect for a bit of flying. A soft, sweet breeze blows through, and a variety of colorful hot air balloons bob lazily throughout the field of blue. Baskets have room for between two and five teen-sized humans, allowing for a bit of privacy. Also dotting the open stretches of sky are flying contraptions of various design, brooms, umbrellas, planes and other air vehicles. If you’re looking to float lazily instead of flapping yourself, you won’t want for options out here.

☁️ THE...CAFE?: On the edge of the Skyway is an impressively large zeppelin floating lazily around the perimeter of the party. It’s easy enough to land and head inside, where guests are greeted with a comfortable, warm little cafe. A few tables and comfortable chairs fill the room, and on the far side there’s a coffee bar tended by a be-aproned cat barista. Her black fur is spotted gold, and a pair of delicate fairy wings are folded closed against her back, but the real giveaway of her identity is the pair of raybans she’s wearing. Pock-cat the Barista will mix up just about anything you ask her for, though she might not get it quite right, and no matter what you request, she prepares it as though fixing you a fancy coffee drink. Come order a drink, grab a seat and watch the lovely sky scenery roll by.

☁️ END OF THE NIGHT: While the party seems to stretch on for several hours, only a few have elapsed by the time students pass from Pocket's cave back to campus, arriving on the rocks by the falls. Head back home and climb into bed. It's been a long night!

☁️ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Open

[arisahn]

While Aris should've known what would happen, he honestly hadn't seen it coming. Curiosity had pushed him to hold his journal out over the edge of the cloud, dangling it as far down as he could reach into the open air, and is now pushing him to release it. Just to see what will happen. He does and he expects a safety net or a friendly flying whirligig or Pocket to come to the rescue, but nothing happens apart from the book plummeting down and out of sight. For a moment, he just stares, lying on his stomach near the cloud's edge and blinking dumbly at the results of his actions.

It's gone? Just like that?

"Wait...! Hey, c'mon...!" he protests, leaning dangerously close to the edge himself as he looks down in disbelief.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[princeofcat]

Tybalt, having no idea what just transpired, comes up from behind, all set to pretend he's pushing his roommate off a cloud. But he doesn't, because it seems like maybe someone already fell. The straw connected to his iced coffee (it's not, it's dark beer through a straw and it's weirdly delightful,) rolls to the corner of his mouth.

"Hey shit, who fell?"

He hovers behind Aris on his wings a little, peering from behind, but making no real rescue attempts til he hears if he likes them, at least.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[arisahn]

Aris remains shocked by the fact that his poor decisions have consequences, but some of the panic seems to go out of him when he turns and sees his roommate. Tybalt will definitely know what to do! "Nobody," he admits quickly, "I dropped my journal. And it just..." He makes a sweeping downward gesture with his hands that's pretty meaningless, but it's not necessary to explain the situation anyway.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[princeofcat]

A shocker: Tybalt does not now nor does he ever actually know what to do. He hovers on his wings a little above the cloud, and for Aris' sake does a deep dive off it. There's nothing but sky, no sign of hovering book anywhere. "I don't see it!"

He calls from a hundred feet out, completely bewildered by the motivation behind this in the first place, "Did you drop it on purpose?"

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[arisahn]

It probably speaks to how much Aris has had to drink that using his borrowed wings to fly down and try to catch or find his journal hadn't even occurred to him and he watches Tybalt dive nimbly over the edge with a sense of awe. He's so cool. Even if the effort proves fruitless. Pulling himself up, he sits back on the cloud and tries to think. The question, however, cuts off this effort.

"I...wanted to see what would happen?" he returns, attempting to articulate the thoughts that had brought him to letting go of the book and falling short, "I didn't think that'd happen. Everything else floats!"

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[princeofcat]

Tybalt treads air and looks downward, putting the straw back between his lips so he can drink and think. But it's probably lost to time and clouds. "Sorry, man." He really is, and he really sounds it, even as he begins a slow journey upward. It was a valid effort. Everything else did float.

He lands near Aris in a few moments, patting him on the back. "Maybe we'll find it on the way out? And at least it's just a journal, you can get a new one of those in a second, right?"

He isn't actually sure about that, but he makes a point to sound confident.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[arisahn]

Still seated on the clouds, Aristotle looks up at Tybalt and his features gradually brighten. If his roommate thought there was a resolution to this, he was confident that there would be. He nods, finally responding with a big smile and taking hold of the other boy's arm to pull himself up.

"Yeah...! Yeah, you're right," he chirps, "It'll turn up. And if it doesn't, I already discussed all my notes with Vi so...no harm, no foul, right?"

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[princeofcat]

This causes more questions, but first Tybalt does his part to drag Aris off the ground. He seems better. Not disappointed. Which is good, because Aris is the kind who is so sunny that he should never be disappointed. "Of course I'm right." He gloats, easy, "...Why're you giving Vi notes?"

There's probably about a million reasons Viola would ask for them, but he's curious now, as to which ones.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[arisahn]

Always quick to bounce back with even the smallest reassurance, Aris grins and nods with knowing agreement, "What's it like, Tyb? To never be wrong?" He's about to hook his arm through the other boy's and pull him off to get drinks or rejoin the rest of the party or something but the question stops him in his tracks. He almost speaks, pauses to consider with his mouth still open, then shuts it.

Is the investigation a secret? He's honestly not sure.

If it were someone else, he might try to lie. Say it's about the band or something. But not to his roommate. Smiling sheepishly, he tilts back his head and admits, "It's...a secret? Maybe. But I have to be sure, you know?"

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[princeofcat]

The idea of someone keeping secrets without him, especially two people he considers friends, makes a cloud pass over his face, almost visibly. He rolls it off, best he can. "Sure." It's not a snap so much as a soft dismissal. Let them have their dumb secrets. "They'll be in the journal when you get it back. No problem."

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[arisahn]

Aris isn't the most observant guy even when he's sober, so this subtle change in Tybalt's mood and features seems to go over his head. He nods, clearly relieved to be understood. Once he knows for sure, he'll tell his roommate everything! Unless he can't. Promises are promises and he can't break this one unless Viola tells him it's okay.

Putting the matter aside, he reaches for Tybalt's hand and cheerfully throws both of their arms up into the air. "Hey! Shots?" More drinking sounds better than more thinking in his opinion.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[princeofcat]

The good news is, he's not sure any person in the world can stay even a little upset in the presence of Aristotle Ahn for more than like, three seconds. And he isn't even upset. As far as stabs go, this was a little one. He wriggles away from the grip in order to jump on Aris's back all of a sudden. It's fine. His wings can probably take them both. "Oh, shots!" He points a finger in the direction he thinks shots are, and starts flying. His grip is tight. It's fine.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[arisahn]

The unexpected weight on his back sends Aris stumbling forward, but he's laughing as he struggles to stay upright and seems more than happy to run across the clouds with his friend perched on top of him. Who doesn't like a good piggyback ride? But when they start to lift into the air instead, he tilts his head back to look at Tybalt and grabs onto his friend's arms with a delighted cheer.

Why can't they have wings all the time?

"Shots! Shots! Shots!" he chants as they continue on, seeming to trust Tybalt's plan without hesitation.

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[princeofcat]

Okay. It wasn't the brightest plan, maybe. Tybalt's arms feel the weight of his friend as soon as they're airborne, but he clings on gamely, letting the wings take them away. "You're buying." He staggers out, although of course, no one is buying actually. He's tempted to drop Aris, but settles for ruffling his hair for three seconds instead. "No more dropping your journal."

THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY: Aristotle + Tybalt

[arisahn]

"You got it!" Aris calls back cheerfully, not bothering to specify if he's agreeing to buy the (definitely free) shots or if he's agreeing not to go throwing his journal into oblivion anymore. Probably, he's willing to go along with all of it and anything else his friend might suggest. When they touch down again, he's quick to lead them to the drinks.