Cursed Party Game IC

[Mark3000]

Ohhh Penny has really stepped in it now Morgan thought to himself as he watched Penny try and stand up for herself. Though if Lena didn't want to be called a bully, she could stop acting like a bully. Though that was probably the nicest B-word Penny could call Lena. Grabbing a hand full of chips, he watches the scene unfold. "Chill Lena" He said as he ceased his bouncing. "I'm sure everyone understands just how regal and important you are. But it wouldn't hurt to throw in a 'please' here or there."

[KnightVanilla]

Ms. Orion was hesitant at the thought of joining her friends for a party. Parties usually tended to be rowdy, loud, and the source of many regretful memories for so many individuals. That is how she saw the thing at least... But she knew she had some obligation to go for her friends sake. Her hesitance to come was quite obvious as she pulled up to the house realizing she was the last one to arrive. Ashley cursed under her breath before stepping out of her car and made heavy steps towards the house. Every thought trying to persuade her to turn back and just find something better to do... But every thought rebounded back to Violet. "If it's Violet's friends they can't be all that bad right?"

Ashley knocked on the door several times waiting for a reaponse. once the door finally opened up she chuckles nervously at whoever is there to greet her. "Uh hello, I'm sorta late aren't I?" She hope she didn't seem too weird.

[Fantasy Fanatic]

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Once again, a swing and a miss. Who do people ignore that Violet stands in the door waiting, with it wide open...

"Hey Ashley! Good to see you. Glad you came. I think you're the last one out of those who decided to show up. Amelia hasn't answered any of my texts and Hud just messaged me saying he isn't coming after all." Violet tells her, seemingly taking it well. "Come on in, we can finally kick things off." Violet says, leading her inside.

"Alright everyone, I'll take your ice-cream wishes in a moment. First, I want everyone to introduce themselves to everyone else here. More were supposed to come today, but we have a few last minute dropouts. So, who'd like to begin?!" Violet asks, not aware of the drama that had just been going on in the living room before she entered with Ashley.

[MiscChaos]

Penny has never been more glad for an interruption. Usually the interruptions in her life come when she's trying to spend time with Leon, but this one... this one might have saved her life. Or at the very least her dignity. She's pretty sure she would've tried to be like a heroine out of her stories and stood her ground, but it's just as likely she would have folded like an omelette. Either way, now she never has to find out! Now the hostility just gets to fester, possibly becoming violent when it reaches it's peak. How fun! Why did she come to this party again? The cons have so far way outweighed the pros. She's not sure there's BEEN a pro yet! Just embarrassment and a hostile snooty rich girl. She hasn't made a single friend yet!

But things have literally just started. If she gives up this soon, she might as well have not shown up at all. She desperately wants to have SOMETHING to show for all the time she spent getting here and the worry it's caused her. Even one new friend will do! So... that's gonna require her to introduce herself. Again. Hopefully without all the rambling. And the catty replies. She doesn't think anyone is as haughty as Lena, but she could be very very wrong. And if too many people are like that, time spent getting here be damned, she's running right back to Leon's paws and never leaving. So she takes a deep breath, makes very sure not to look in Lena's direction, and speaks up. "H-hello. I've introduced myself to most of you, b-b-but my name is Penny. Nice to m-meet you." She wants to say most of you, but her courage fails her before the thought even fully forms. She doesn't want to agitate the athlete more than she already has for fear of Violet taking her family's side. She couldn't have won a 1-on-1, let alone a 2-on-1! As much as she might use heroic stories as a source of courage, she's not a hero. Some fights will just end badly for her.

[CondorBoH]

Probably to Baxter's relief, Hannah shook his hand. She's realising now, perhaps JUUUUUUST a bit too late, that he was probably an introverted type of guy. She could relate, not feeling comfortable at a party, but hopefully she could help him relax. Hopefully a nice, kindly looking smile would put him at ease.
"Well it's nice to meet you. I like your name, very alliterative. Don't get many good names like that these days."

She smiled again, holding it a bit too long and hoping that she didn't just fuck this conversation up. Thankfully the OTHER shy guest spoke out at the same time, and Violet as well as the next guest came in. Saved by bells, Hannah guessed. Standing next to Baxter and looking at Penny, she spoke up.
"Hello Penny. Thanks for coming! Also yeah Violet, I'm excited to see what you've come up with. I'll bite the proverbial bullet if no one else wants to after Penny."

Hannah cleared her throat before speaking a little bit louder so everyone in the living room could hear her.
"My name's Hannah, I think I said that earlier but hey doubling up on introductions works fine. I don't normally come to these shindigs, I'm normally roped into babysitting my little bros and sisters. But hey, here I am. Nice to get away."

[mrblah]

"Uh... yeah, y-you too."

Jesus Christ did he just — he did. He absolutely did. You too? He doesn't even know her last name but it's probably not alliterative, and even if it was, she'd just be creeped out by how he'd know and she'd think he's a stalker! Baxter mentally smacked himself, and would have physically if that wouldn't have made things weirder and if he weren't shaking her hand. But then he wasn't. And she turned away to look at someone else for a moment.

SMACK! Alright, he's good.

Baxter rejoined the party as Penny finished her second introduction, and figured out what was going on. Group introductions? It'd be hard, but once again his compatriot of shy town had gone ahead and taken the first step, so he'd have to follow along right behind Hannah. After she finished, he tried to muster up the courage to speak up himself. "I... er, hello, I'm Benjamin — I mean Baxter, I'm Baxter Benjamin." He recovered from his slip-up decently enough, and he was successfully fighting off the blush from his moment at being the center of attention. Jeez, this really shouldn't have been so difficult for him... wait, he needed to offer more information. "I uh, I guess I build things..? Nice to meet you." All. Nice to meet you all.

[exalted]

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Lena's head slowly ticked around to glare at Morgan at again, the fury of her attention leaving the impudent and insignificant Penny for the time being. The sight of him casually chewing the chips as he talked revolting her, her gaze filled with the sight of his wet lips clattering together to crush a chip before opening and revealing the mastication, tiny spit soaked particles rocketing forth.

"And what would you know of..." her voice trailed off as she eyed the falling trajectory of the corner of corn chip from his mouth down to her.... "My skirt!"

Her eyes focused like lasers on that spot the corn chip fell, streaking her pristine white skirt with dark orange cheese dust, cringing in revulsion as she flinched off the spity intruder. Her eyes madly flicked between Morgan and the stain, Morgan and the huge, colossal, garment ruining stain!

"You ruined my skirt, you grub!" she chastised him, shaking in rage.

[Fantasy Fanatic]

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Just making sure, the two of you are talking over details like this together, right? You're not just deciding on things in order to escalate the situation, are you exalted? Because I feel like you deciding on how someone eats their snacks, and then force an action as a result of that to make something like that happen seems kind of like god-modding to me. Mark3000 hasn't called you out for it yet, but I want to make sure that they are fine with you calling shots as to what TV program they settled for, the fact that they sat down next to Lena and that they would be a messy eater which would lead to them actually ruining Lena's clothes.

[Mark3000]

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Don't worry about it Fantasy, I'm fine with it. A bit of drama never hurt anything. Plus I choose the program on the Tv, exalted/Lena just gave their opinion

Morgan had always been a bit carefree in all the things he does, including eating. He didn't even notice that he had stained Lena's skirt. But when he did, he let out a hushed 'Oh shit!"

"Hey, Hey! I'm sorry about the skirt. Here, I have a always pack a few extra with me. I think we might be the same size." Morgan said as he went to his back to fetch a miniskirt he brought with his sleepwear, just in case he wanted to change things up for the night.

[exalted]

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Nothing serious is intended FF, I think we're all just bouncing off each other trying to see what sticks as we work out how our characters are. The digging on Penny was based off a line Misc had said, and chips aren't the cleanest thing to eat - to be clear, Lena was dramatically over reacting to a small crumb of chip hitting her skirt and leaving a small cheesy dot, it's not me trying to force Mark's character to be messy eater.

Lena's furry abruptly paused at Morgan's offer, the juxtaposition of the ideas presented jarring her brain to a stand still. He had a spare skirt? Why did a boy bring a spare skirt? Would it fit? Was she the same size as him? WAS HE CALLING HER FAT?!

"Oh, you better be sorry," she huffed under her breath, determined to get the last petty word in as she followed him from the couch, "And you're paying for the dry cleaning"

Intrigued, she looked over his shoulder as he dug through his luggage, looking to see what he pulled out for her.

[Fantasy Fanatic]

"Oh come on Lena. It's not such a big deal. Heck, I can wash it here at home if you want to. Besides, we're all here to get to know each other, if you don't want your clothes to get dirty, you should have come dressed in something you're not afraid to dirty." Violet points out t her cousin. "How about you introduce yourself next, and once introductions are over, I'll show you to my room and you can pick something of mine? I don't think a tennis outfit is the best attire for a get together like this." Violet tells Lena, not meaning anything by it, deciding to ask Lena about it once they were alone.

[exalted]

"That's not the point Violet," Lena whined, turning away from whatever Morgan was pulling out to face her, knowing she couldn't truly argue with her cousin without facing her own mother's wrath, "It's the principle that counts."

She pouted slightly and turned back to see what Morgan had produced before deciding on whether or not take her cousin or Morgan up on the offer.

"I'm Lena Nocturn, you're welcome," she curtsied, introducing herself to the newcomers.

[Mark3000]

Rummaging through his things, he finally finds what he was looking for. Morgan pulled out his cheerleader skirt. The effeminate crossdresser had planned to give a bit of a performance for the sleepover. But he was willing to give it up to mend some bridges. It was a simple piece in the school's colors. "Don't worry about it Violet, here Lena" He said handing her the skirt. "We got off on the wrong foot, so how about we try and get along." He said offering a handshake.

[exalted]

Lena warily eyed the handshake, wondering if there was some plan or trick behind it, but accepted it daintily. Functionally the skirt was the same as what she had, though the alternating colours on the pleats was a bit garish to her, though she guessed was fitting for the purpose of distracting drunken bozos from a dull game of dull boys fighting over a ball. As much as she accepted her cousins 'taste' in clothing, she knew it wouldn't get any better than what Morgan offered and would have probably been much shorter. At the back of her mind Lena also knew that her cousin's clothes would not suit her less 'curvy' frame and would only draw attention to the difference.

Excusing herself, she strolled to the bathroom to change her skirt.

[Fantasy Fanatic]

Violet looks after Lena, with a bit of a frown, turning to the others once she had gone into the bathroom to change. "I'm sorry if she's made any of you uncomfortable. She's not the most social type. I've dealt with her before, and just like some of you, she kind of needs to meet new people which was kind of the idea for all this. So please, don't hold her attitude against her, I'm hoping we all might be able to help each other." Violet explains, sounding apologetic.

"While we wait, did anyone decide on if they wanted some ice-cream?" Violet asks.

[CondorBoH]

Deciding to skirt (heh) around the argument going in one end of the room, Hannah sticks to Baxter. He looked as shy as a mouse, but the fact that he was trying was a good thing. It'd be bad if that shyness took over him the whole night. So she approached with another smile.
"So you said you build things, right? What kind of things? Did you... um, put together your headphones for example? I'm not sure if I've seen anything like that in the stores."

When Violet asked about ice cream, Hannah turned to face her and called out a reply.
"Oh yes! Some strawberry please! Hey Bax, did you want some?"

[mrblah]

Baxter had mostly just been kinda, silently watching the argument play out. It was pretty attention-grabbing and things looked like they were going south... but looks like it's all smoothing over now. Still. The young inventor made a note to not spill anything on Lena's clothes and, preferably, to probably not ever talk to Lena ever. She seemed scary...

And he's not going to comment on Morgan's apparent crossdressing thing. "Huh?" He looked to Hannah as she addressed him, slightly taken off guard from his period observing the drama just some feet away from them. "Uh... well, kinda. Th-these were just a cheap pair of headphones I got from the store... but I did customize them. I ended up changing the flimsy cover to something more compact and replacing the wiring, and the sound quality totally jumped when I fixed the fundamental problem the speakers had, which was a particularly weak diaphragm cone that I guessed lowered the price for the company but harshly impacted the sound quality —" Baxter cut himself off mid-ramble. "... Er, well, yeah. So I customized it." Stupid. Who cares about all the technical stuff? She was just making conversation, no need to blast her with audio prose.

"Ice cream?" He wasn't a big fan of ice cream or sweets in general, but it'd kinda feel weird to not be eating something when everyone else is. "Uh... I'll take strawberry too."

[MiscChaos]

Penny releases a sigh of relief, both at Lena leaving the room and her attention being taken off of her person. She doesn't care what Violet says in defense of her cousin, Penny is keeping a wary eye on the snobbish girl until given a reason to do otherwise. She remembers the aura of violence the athlete wore when she stood up for herself and she's not convinced that if that conversation had continued she would have escaped it unharmed. Especially since she was only pointing out that the other woman's behavior was fitting of a bully. It's not like she actually called her one, just that she seemed like one.

She doesn't speak up when Violet asks for ice cream orders. The entire fight was about Lena forcing Penny to get ice cream in the first place so she can't imagine what the tennis player's reaction would be if she actually allowed their host to get her some. She might get violent again and Penny doesn't want to deal with that.

[Mark3000]

With the situation with Lena defused, Morgan thought it was time to mingle a bit with some of the other guests. Looking around, he noticed that boy from before who was sitting on his own. Though it looks like he had found a friend. Wanting to get in on the conversation, Morgan walked over to Baxter and Hannah. "Hey, mind if I join you ?" Morgan asked, though he was already sitting beside Baxter before they could answer. "Sorry for the drama. Hopefully Lena will cool down when she gets back. Name's Morgan by the way." He said.

[Tes]

Matt got of at the nearby busstop. He was wearing red dress shorts under a crumpled up white linen button up with red chucks on his feet. The shorts were held up by a plain black leather belt and his shirt was covered in an irregular pattern of black color blobs. All the while he was wearing his earbuds, for which the cable was passed under his shirt into his pocket. He swung his backpack, full of sleeping gear and what not, over his shoulder and made his way to the adress Violet has given him.

Arriving he stopped his music and let the earbuds dangle down his neck. He combed through his hair with his hand one last time to make it less flat and rang the door bell. Getting the feel he forgot something he remembered to take out a small container of brownies he made as a gift for violet for her hospitality. Also remembering not to mix it up with the other batch he made with a healthy dose of hash. He was hoping some of the guests may share his taste in drugs, so he prepared some brownies and blunts for the occasion.

When Violet opens the door it takes him a moment to let seeing her after so long sink in. "Hey, long time no see." he exclaims to break the silence, smiling widely and holding out the small container to her saying "I hope you still like sweets so much."
After she takes it from him, he goes in to hug her. Doing so for a few seconds, if he is not stopped by her for some reason.

After getting in he takes a look around, searching for anything that peaks his interests and places his bag somewhere appropriate. He sees Lena vaguely remembering her as Violets cousin. While quite attractive she always had this offputting sterness to her. A few years ago he was intimidated by it, but now he just looks at her with a slight grin, knowing her type from university and how fragile their wall of imaginary superiority is.

Baxter on the other hand quite reminds him of himself. He oozes anxiety but also seems to be quite bright. Guessing he needs to start somewhere to introduce himself and sympathising with Baxter he goes over to him "Hi, I'm Matt." He squats down to his eyelevel, sticking out his hand, smiling warmly and trying to be as unintimidating as possible "...And your are?"

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot Lena is still in the bathroom and there are still people talking to baxter at the moment. So The thing with lena happens when she comes back if thats ok and the introduction goes to the other people near baxter as well, but i still hold my hand out to him.