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theworldsliveliestcorpse ([personal profile] theworldsliveliestcorpse) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-10-29 12:09 am

Afterparty 1: Booze For All

[WELL THAT CERTAINLY WAS SHIT. Considering how shitty everyone felt after the shit show that was that trial, Zombina didn’t feel comfortable just… letting everyone go off and drown in their own misery alone.

There was only one possible thing to do now.

Drink to forget. Also possibly talk about feelings and deface the lovely picture of Rox’s face she and Chloe got Max to make a while back.

So Zombina goes around to collect as many donations of alcohol as possible, along with spreading the word about the afterparty. If people don’t open their doors, then a note is slid under the door reading:
]

Come to the cafeteria. We have free booze and company!!! Be sure to bring any food or booze ya got! -Zombina

[ Zombina’s set up the portrait with an marker beside it. A note in large letters says: “Deface Shark-chan for fun. Be as crude or lewd as ya wanna be. Feel free to hit it, stab it, or otherwise do whatever to it.
The Memorial Canvas has several new names on it. Lucina, Tsurugi Kamishiro, Miki Naoki, and Chitose Karasuma. There’s hand writing under all but Chitose’s. There's writing utensils next to it,
along with the usual note saying to write whatever you liked about that person, or though about them, or wished you could tell them, etc., under the names.
]

Lucina-chan, ya didn’t deserve what happened ta ya. I might not be able ta go and take out Grima for ya, but I’ll sure as hell try and get my teammates ta do so in my steed.

Tsurugi-kun, I consider ya ta be a person, and a good one at that. This never woulda happened if it weren’t for Shark-chan. I hope that you find peace and happiness in the afterlife.

Miki-chan, You were an strong person. Your loss is a huge blow to us all. I’ll do what I can about your world. I know you were scared of me ta one degree or another, but I still feel like I need ta do something for ya.


[The woman herself can be found manning the drinks, with several empty cups laid out ready to be filled. There’s an area with an note reading “Communal Booze Stash: Donations Always Accepted!” On the table where the booze is. So far there’s a bottle of whisky nabbed from Chloe’s stuff. It’s what she would’ve wanted. There’s also a table with bowls and spoons and the ice cream from Chloe’s stuff as well.
She waves a freshly stitched up hand at whoever passes by. She kinda fucked up her fingers on both hands at the trial, so she had to realign them. The cut from the blood check is also freshly stitched up.
]

Ya got any donations for the Communal Booze Stash? Or are ya here for an cup?

[Later once everyone is sufficiently drunk, Zombina can be found at the picture of Rox, doodling shark teeth over her mouth and adding devil horns.]

Whaddya… whaddya think? I think this should be hung up for postier…. Pos… later use?

[She’s…. really smashed and giggles at her own sentence.]

[Otherwise, Zombina is free to approach and/or pull over to talk too at her at anytime, both pre-drunk and post-drunk.]
photoshooter: (LANTERN 📷 Brr it's dark in here)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Max is tall, tall like Gladio. Even if he's as devastated as Prompto, it helps to think of that--to feel like, if he's small and hurt, there's someone's shadow to hide in for a little while, someone who always means safe.]

I don't understand... why any of this had to happen...
theundertaken: (fading)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-10-29 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's a really sweet comparison given that Max is a gangly string bean of a man. But tall!]

There's no good reason. This is...this whole thing is just terrible.
photoshooter: (LONELY 📷 Last beautiful boy)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[The real reason we're gonna bad end is our fatal lack of beefcake. Like, no disrespect to the life-changing experience of Korra's arms on full display, but, you know... gestures to Xander, Church, and Akande.]

Do we ha... ha-have to keep doing this? Like they said? Until there's only one left...?
theundertaken: (going)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-10-29 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
No. [He's quick to offer that, anyway, leaning his chin against the top of Prompto's head.] No way, man. Like...like you said, it was all just a shitty accident. We'll be more careful, and no one's gonna try it for real now, after seeing all that.

[Chitose meant to kill, something in him whispers, but let's gloss over that part, because even she hadn't known that it would be all their lives against hers, or the risk of the airlock that came with it all.]
photoshooter: (AFAR 📷 Time-out corner)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even if it's a lie, and even if he knows better, that's what Prompto needs to hear, just to get through this. Just to make it past the next five minutes, and maybe the five after that, until time isn't something raw and made of stingers, denial, and bloody knives.]

Okay.

[The words, the solidity of food in his hands, the hug... it's enough of a reprieve for Prompto to let go, for a moment, of the absolute grief and terror this day has been. In its place, Prompto finds he's exhausted, worn thin as tissue paper.]

...Did you eat, too, man...?
theundertaken: (defunct)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-10-29 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah. I ate while I was cooking.

[It's not even a lie, he did.]

Figured somebody's gotta not go full boozehound.
photoshooter: (SAD PUPPY 📷 Old Yeller dies...?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-29 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I don't usually drink...

[What is the legal drinking age in Eos, fuck if I know.]

But. I guess that doesn't matter, since I'm in here, and not... keeping an eye out.

[Like Lucina kept insisting. Like they really need him.]
theundertaken: (late)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-10-29 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't gotta. We're a big group, right? We can pass shit like that around.

[Even while he's here, he's sure someone else is making sure none of the drunk teenagers do anything stupid. Thomas, maybe, or Bolton.]

Nobody can be on all the time, that's what you've got other people for.
photoshooter: (INHALE 📷 You guys...)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-30 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Prompto looks up at him at that, then nods.]

Yeah. Yeah, it's... everyone needs... needs somebody.

[It's hard not to shiver, not to remember falling from the top of the train and go cold all over or Lucina telling Tsurugi he wouldn't have to die alone, but he swallows it down.]

...You need a break? Um... my room's pretty quiet if you want to sit in here a while.
theundertaken: (ebbing)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-10-30 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...uh, yeah. Sure. That sounds good, actually.

[It's more about Prompto than him, he thinks, but it wouldn't go amiss to have a second out of the general public either.]
photoshooter: (EXHALE 📷 Are my best friends.)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-30 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's definitely more about Prompto, but hopefully it'll be good for Max, too. (That's what he said, bow chicka bow wow.)

Prompto lets him in and sits down on the edge of his bed, breathing out slow.]


...Thanks. For coming to check on me. I...

[...It's been one hell of a day. Max knows. He was there.]
theundertaken: (fated)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-10-31 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[He'll come and sit too.]

Yeah, of course. I know... [That this was particularly hard on Prompto.] I mean, I wouldn't want to be alone.
photoshooter: (AFAR 📷 Time-out corner)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-10-31 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I just don't think I can go in there. Not after all that fighting, like... like it didn't happen. Like Lucie and Tsurugi didn't just...

[Didn't just die, suddenly and horrifically, slipping right out of their hands.]

Them, and Miki and Chitose and Chloe, that's... it's too much.
theundertaken: (fated)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-11-01 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
...I don't think anything's like it didn't happen. Anywhere. But I get you, it's...everyone handles stuff differently.
photoshooter: (SAD 📷 Sad Prompto in snow)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-11-01 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
I mean... five people are gone.

[He laces his fingers numbly together.]

That's almost a whole table at the cafeteria. I don't... I don't want to go in there and see them all gone and remember--how we fought about it, and...
theundertaken: (fated)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-11-01 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
....yeah. Yeah.

I think we'll probably...I don't wanna say "be okay". But I think we'll bounce back from the fighting part. We can't afford to fight with each other, when we're all stuck in here like this.
photoshooter: (SHUTEYE 📷 Fuck.)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-11-01 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It was like that before, too. Back home. [He closes his eyes.] After--after we thought Lady Lunafreya died, we... started falling apart. Fighting.
theundertaken: (moribund)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-11-01 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
.....what happened? Or was that the end of it? [The last he remembers]
photoshooter: (MISTRUST 📷 Sounds fake but okay)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2017-11-01 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure. We, um. We got split up.

[Noct pUSHED HIM OFF A TRAIN]

Iggy made us--made Noct and Gladio, really, it was mostly them--stop fighting over him, at least. Whether or not he should stay with us. So it was a little better after that.
theundertaken: (offed)

[personal profile] theundertaken 2017-11-01 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[YOU HAVEN'T TOLD HIM THAT YET]

That's good. I mean...friends'll always fight sometimes, but I feel like if you're close, you'll come back together anyway. Especially if it's because you're all going through shit.