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ʀᴇɴᴏ ([personal profile] electroburst) wrote in [community profile] expiationlogs2023-04-21 12:41 pm

(OPEN MINGLE) Ain't no party like an Aldrip party

Who: The Chosen
Where: Aldrip inn
What: Open mingle log (with mod approval)!
Warnings: Nothing major anticipated, other than light (underaged) drinking and comic mischief, but PM me if any warn-worthy things happen and I can update this space.

Feel free to use this log as a completely open mingle for all characters new and old! There will be a few prompts below the cut, but you're free mess around with them or come up with your own ideas for toplevels, and tag around as you please.



Nestled in the heart of the quaint town of Aldrip, the inn, formally known as The Inn, has housed the Chosen of Expiation since their initial arrival. In spite of the occasional influx of new Chosen, they've dedicatedly provided rooms, food and drink, and basic amenities without buckling—even during the food shortages and other issues that have plagued the town. Of course, the Chosen have been no slouches themselves, repaying the hospitality with mercenary work, hunting and fishing, cooking, completing odd jobs, and much more to help bolster the economy. Even those, er, less magnanimous sorts have benefitted from this give-and-take, although there are those that prefer their living space to be a bit more solitary (or perhaps cave-ier) that might not have noticed as much.


In the days to follow, most won't be able to recount exactly how The Party started. The true story is that one particular new arrival, after having spent a day or two scouting the area out and, deciding it's chill enough, opted to do what he does best: be a public menace. What is known is that rounds of drinks start getting ordered and handed out, and soon platters of cheese, fresh bread, and other victuals make the rounds as well, appearing on tables that quickly begin filling with people. Somehow, someway, local musicians are pulled in to play and given a striking, energetic setlist to set the tone. The word gets out—party at the inn!

And boom: just like that, it's a party, and everyone's invited.


Early on, the offerings are relatively meager. The inn's food stores aren't completely bottomless after the shortages, to say the least, and there are a sight more Chosen (and local residents who also join in on the fun) than there is free food to toss at them. The drinks range from milk, water and juice to scuzzy, pisswater beer, which is a bit more plentiful. As the tavern portion of the inn fills with people, the music relatively ambient so that you can still hear the people at the table next to you talking, others bring their own food and drink, adding to the options on offer.

Others bring things like cards to play with, or dice and coins to gamble with, and set up spaces at tables toward the back. There's even an amateur fortune teller, heavy emphasis on amateur. Maybe you've got some party games of your own in mind, or you're a natural-born performer and want to hit the stage. Maybe you'd rather just grab a pint and lurk in the corner doing some people-watching. Or maybe you're just hungry and want to stuff a bunch of cheese in your pockets for later. Either way, there's something here for everyone.


As evening wears on, the peaceful inn party blossoms into a proper block bash. Even if you're not the partygoing sort, it'd be a little difficult to ignore the sheer ruckus going on downstairs while you attempt to read quietly in your room. The music, chatter and laughter carries on down the street, attracting even more people. By this point, it seems as if the food and drinks have multiplied, thanks mostly in part to others showing up with their own offerings, Chosen and local alike. It's getting rowdy in a few places—the music's louder and livelier, people are dancing and singing, and the gambling/party games' stakes seem to just keep climbing higher and higher. It's a good time all around. If you're not the quiet, loner type, anyway.

Thinking of sitting this one out? Think again: somebody starts going around to all the rooms and knocking on the doors, calling out to come join the fun. By the time you get to the door, though, whoever's up here disturbing the peace is gone, but maybe you can track them down by their voice at some point and wring their neck later.

In addition to the escalating merriment, all this imbibing also has the added benefit of loosening a few lips. Now's your chance to pick up the latest Aldrip gossip! You might even hear tell of a few pesky monsters that need slaying, so if you want to jump on that bounty before anyone else gets to it, you better act quickly. (But maybe don't run out into the woods in the middle of the night to fight monsters while inebriated... or do, nobody's stopping you.)


Late into the night, the festivities are still going, and they're... messy. Fortunately the drinks and provisions seem to have run to the bottom of the barrel, so those that've been partying hard for hours are getting cut off whether they like it or not. The band's getting tired, the tempo of the music fluctuating. Some people might like to go to bed sometime soon, so maybe now it's time for the voices of reason to tell those still dancing on top of the tables to get down. And why is there a chicken in here? ...And oh no, somebody tell those guys to take that swordfight outside!! Yeeaaahh, maybe it's about time to shut this production down.

Or maybe not. Let the good times roll until the sun comes up! That's up to you.
murderingjustice: ~yevon (14)

[personal profile] murderingjustice 2023-04-23 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[djfvhghj !!!

Too close. Sorry, Dazai. Drunk Akechi has almost zero control of his impulses so he's just trying to swat him away with his hand.]


'mfine! [does he slur?? A bit, yes] Fuckshitfuckfuckkk.
nullificates: (o51)

[personal profile] nullificates 2023-04-23 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
O-kay!

(swat away, dodge, dodge, and well, it looks innocent, doesn't it? a very nice headpat. like you do with kiddos! except, it's not soft at all. it's so he shakes akechi's head, so the room goes spinning, and spinning, and spinning--)

Have fun then! See you later!

(and he's off. bye, 'm-fine-kechi!!!)
fluorite: dnt (25)

[personal profile] fluorite 2023-04-24 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ He just laughs and waves his hand—if a place filled with very dangerous, very snowy mountains counts as the "country", then maybe. But he doesn't feel like talking about that world, so dismissing it with a little laugh is easiest for him. ]

I did. I had to go look when I heard about them, and I'm admittedly curious about the plaque too.

[ Fai crosses his legs, taking another sip of his beer before continuing. ]

This world looks relatively peaceful... or at least what I've seen of it is. It almost makes me want to look a little bit deeper into things here. A lot of things hide under the surface, after all.

[ But he's lazy and looking deeper has never really been his thing. ]
murderingjustice: (113)

WELL since he did touch him!

[personal profile] murderingjustice 2023-04-24 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[He's pretty much leaning over the entire table with his upper body to swat at the annoying pest. So when Dazai brings his hand on top of Akechi head to give the rough shakes he just... Splats on top of the table surface, knocking down that glass of water that Dazai had brought him earlier. So yes, rip his life.

He's ready to hiss out another curse, struggle and fight Dazai but instead he halts by the sudden... Absence. (Meaning he just lays there while akechi decides to spin his life around, have fun.)

Now, what is it like to have a Persona? It's hard to say. They're always there, present in their consciousness even when not in metaverse. One can feel their moods, voices and touch within them, urging to let go of whatever it is holding them back from embracing their own truth. It's an unbreakable connection.

Akechi had been feeling Loki's influence the entire night. It was the trickster god's love for mischief and depravity that had even pushed him this far. He had been encouraging the ex-detective to just let go and join in the mayhem. Go on, drink to your heart's desire and be the chaos you so long for.

But now that voice was gone. More than that, it was like his entire presence was gone along with Robin Hood and Hereward. A silent emptiness took over.

--Only to be returned the moment Dazai let go of him and moved away. Akechi perks up from the table, red eyes wide and staring. ]


Wait! What did you-- [He begins to ask but stops himself because yes, there's another wave of nausea coming. This time definitely thanks to Dazai! Bringing his hand to cover his mouth he slumps back on his chair, looking sick and miserable. Thanks.]
emet_sulk: (04 if your heart can be broken)

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2023-04-24 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ He drops his frown to the dubious-looking swill in front of him. It isn't the worst he's seen (or tasted probably) but that doesn't make it appealing. ]

I think I would almost rather take my chances with the local water. [ He sits back, arms crossed, glancing back up at Aerith. ] 'We', though... You are one of those awaiting sentencing as well?
usarinpa: (dancing in sunset 2)

[personal profile] usarinpa 2023-04-24 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

[ It only hits her then that...Aerith is actually working. And she doesn't exactly look out of place doing it, either. Mizuki tilts her head. ]

That depends. Do you need any help? [ She may want to go with her and see for herself, is what she's saying... ]
orphne: (Kotone 201)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-24 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
What? C'mon, you want me to follow that?

[She grins at him, but shrugs. Alright, she'll try a round! She shifts to get more comfortable on her half-seat and picks up her cards with a nod. Alright, let's get serious. She's at least not going to bet with his winnings, that doesn't seem right, but she has some coins in her pocket from all the odd jobs she's been running around town doing! She'd been planning to use them for fabric for Sewing Club, but okay.

For all her talk of, "oh, I don't want to play!" she does get pretty into it. If nothing else, she has a great poker face, in that she's smiling and chatting with the other players the whole time -- again, it's what Dazai taught her to do. Don't change her behavior, but watch for changes in others'.

So while she doesn't win -- bad luck! -- she doesn't lose as badly as she might have, and she doesn't look disappointed with the outcome, either. Instead, she just grins and nods.]


Okay, I get it now. I'll win next time for sure!

[There's no way she'd win the first time she played! But she's pretty sure she gets the flow of the game well enough now. But for now, she offers the next dealt hand back to him.]

But I don't wanna take your spot.
murderingjustice: ~antibiotical (12)

[personal profile] murderingjustice 2023-04-24 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He observes her game in silence. It's by no means a bad play for her a first time and Akechi is quite certain that she came few times very close to winning. There weren't many turns when he would have played differently.

He is pretty impressed with her performance, which is enough to soften his mood.]


I have a better idea. [He says and takes the offered deck. Without a warning he stands up and gestures her to do the same.]

I want you to play against me. Your choice of the game of course, as I'm the one challenging you.
chemex: (0211)

[personal profile] chemex 2023-04-24 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He hums, the sound a bit deeper in his diaphragm than usual. Akechi being aware-- a-wear, ha --of his glasses being plano is precisely why he brought it up. He doesn't need them, so why would he need Akechi's help to find them? They'll turn up, or they won't-- maybe he'll get new ones. A pair of those silly joke glasses with the nose.]

[Do they make them in long noses? He could get one like Igor--]

[He rumbles a gentle laugh, wrapping his arms around Akechi from behind.]
Bear the weight of my affections, 'kechi.
chemex: (0212)

i keep trying to make sure i use icons of him without his glasses gndfjkn

[personal profile] chemex 2023-04-24 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[He may well have handed them to someone after his third glass of punch, realizing that the punch was making him stupid. "Hold these for me," he'd have said, to a complete stranger who had no idea when he was going to return for them. He no longer remembers this stranger, or if he even actually did this, but it seems, currently, like a good idea he could have possibly had before the punch removed most intelligent thought from between his ears.]

[He makes a brief little peace sign with his free hand, chuckling low in his throat when she winks and not-quite startling at her hand on his shoulder. She's warm, in more ways than one, and it's quite pleasant. His eyes scrunch closed like a pleased cat in a sunbeam.]
Yeah. You?
redlines: (pic#)

[personal profile] redlines 2023-04-24 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ More strange clothing, but it's nowhere near the level of that which the locals wear. He's not sure why so many choose to dress like they're extras in a stage play, but he's not wearing any of it so it's fine. Weird, but fine. Once he seems certain, Roche extends a hand. ]

Your name, first of all. It'd be terribly rude not to ask, wouldn't it? Mine is Roche. Second...

[ A beat, and he glances sidelong to a passing - more like stumbling - local for a moment ]

Would you happen to know just who is in charge here? A mayor? I'll even take a village chief given how small this town seems to be.
murderingjustice: ~antibiotical (19)

[personal profile] murderingjustice 2023-04-24 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I hate you. [He grunts.]


[The weight on top of him is so uncomfortable. His chest is digging against the wooden corner of the table and he can feel the sharp edge pressing through his sweater. But at the same Akira's body is so warm and almost cozy -- if he wasn't such a lanky bitch, that is. Otherwise Akechi would assume that this is what having weighted blanket must feel like. For a moment he loses himself while while focusing on Akira's heartbeat that drums against his back.

How disgusting.]


'dun want your affection. [Words are slurred on the table. Look, he might be drunk but not drunk enough to lower his guard completely. Not even to Akira.] It stinks. Get up.
Edited 2023-04-24 02:07 (UTC)
chicken_kun: (bwahahaha)

Bartolomeo | One Piece | OPEN!

[personal profile] chicken_kun 2023-04-24 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
A.

[pisswater beer is fine for people with little good taste, and though Barty's been here to have some plenty of nights before, this one's different. Early on, he's surprisingly mellow, all seven feet of him and his neon-green hair perched on a bar stool about a third of the way down with a tankard that is never completely full and never fully empty]

So what's the deal, now? Is there some kinda holiday I don't know about?

[no idea if he's asking the bartender or the person next to him...or you...]

B

[honestly it doesn't take long to flip a switch from casually checking out the vibe to full on screaming. Please enjoy Bartolomeo without his feather-trimmed jacket, bare-chested and tattooed, literally screaming with laughter. At what? Who the hell knows. But he's about to flop his drunken self on whoever is next to him, regardless of whether they're capable of supporting his weight. Sorry not sorry]

C

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE CUTTIN' ME OFF?! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?

[he's been cut off earlier than others but lbr the reason we're out of good booze is partly this. This asshole right here. He's ready to literally throw punches, though the aim will be considerably off due to his level of drunk. Just be glad he's forgotten for the moment that he has a Devil Fruit power that would make a bar fight even more crazy.]
laserguy: (who you calling a nerd)

dark hour;

[personal profile] laserguy 2023-04-24 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He's going to blame the fact that it's late and he's tired for not really paying attention and missing the other teen entirely. Scott visibly startles when she asks him that question, but luckily doesn't knock anything over.]

Sorry, didn't notice you--

[Real smooth, Summers. He rubs the back of his head, before turning his head to look at Kotone.]

Uh, yeah. I think so. Do we normally throw parties like this?

[It's a little weird, especially since no one really stopped him from drinking a beer earlier. Guess underage drinking isn't a thing here, which makes it far less exciting if it's legal in the first place. But other than that, guess it was nice. This place is still pretty foreign to him and thus makes socializing hard, but at least others had fun. He'll get there at some point.]
overtid: (pic#15392557)

nanami kento : jujutsu kaisen

[personal profile] overtid 2023-04-24 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
1 : can't a man enjoy his dinner in peace? (as early begins to bash)

[ What a pain.

Rather, becoming a pain. It's like this: Nanami Kento has a routine already. As much of one as he can, and maybe "already" isn't the right word, since he's been in Aldrip for roughly two months. About two months, and with the exception of the refrigeration crisis, on four evenings of seven, every week, he's had dinner in the tavern. Sometimes with company (Cloud, and after last month, Gojo), sometimes with a book. In part, it's a matter of compromise and control: he won't drink outside of the tavern. However tempting.

Tonight's one of those nights, and when word of a party spreads, it's spoken more outside the inn. Not that he's oblivious to his surroundings, even with his attention rooted in a book, but it takes the music kicking up for Nanami to narrow his eyes and take proper stock of the filling hall. At first, the volume isn't too bad, the gradual gathering agreeable enough. He might be just this side of a misanthrope — this side, because though he avoids people, it has nothing to do with disliking them — but he doesn't begrudge a good time.

So long as he's left out of it.

And he is, at first. Nanami hits his limit slow. First, when someone drops a tankard of piss beer in front of him, instead of the harder stuff he'd been drinking and again ordered. Second, as the party picks up, and keeps picking up, until a dizzy drunk dart's flung so far off course, it skims his ear. Until tables are getting shoved aside to make more room for dance, and he proves a little too inconspicious, because his table gets shoved while he's still sitting at it. Right into him.

So, maybe you threw the dart. Maybe you pushed the table. Maybe — after he stood and calmly, methodically piled up a plate with mostly bread from a tray that also held cheese, and started weaving through the crowd to the door, a little too obviously planning to walk right out with all that bread? — you passed him as he actually makes it to the door.

Or, maybe you crashed into him, whether too wild in dance or simply trying to navigate in the other direction. Sending that plate of bread crashing to the floor. And if that's what happened — Nanami Kento's about as far as one can get from an expressive guy, but you might just be able to discern a trace of forlorn aggravation as he looks at the lost bread. ]


Excuse me.

[ Yeah, whatever happened, that's his default, blank statement — though in the first two options, it might be particularly terse. ]


2 : would you leave your own house like this? (post-midnight mess)

[ However it happened, Nanami stayed. Because it soon became diffcult to get anything but piss beer, because he otherwise drinks pretty heavy and hard, and because a party of this nature isn't one he'll be tossing them back at, he's still only buzzed as the last barrel rolled out for the shindig gets to half-empty. While the Chosen and a number of Aldrip locals may still be spinning on tables or peeling off their last sock over a card game, Nanami's noticed the tavern staff get to necessary work.

Having spent as many evenings as he has here, while Nanami wouldn't call any of them friends, they've become familiar enough. He also wouldn't call it a sense of obligation, what gets him to his feet or to emerge from whatever corner he'd been leaning in. In fact, he'd decline to label it at all. There's no need to name it, the results are enough: he's gathering dishes, or wiping tables, or in the kitchen, scrubbing at the accumulation in the sink.

And if you happen to be sitting at a table nursing a last glass, or with a plate of some portion of something eaten on it, he's gesturing. ]


If you're finished, I'll take that.


3 : wildcard

[ ???????? this man does not party and work regularly eats me, too, but uhhhh $1,000,000 to anyone who actually gets him to dance or something godspeed ]
Edited (don't write tls at 3 am challenge) 2023-04-24 08:27 (UTC)
overtid: (he'll never take away)

bullseye

[personal profile] overtid 2023-04-24 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Despite having every intention of leaving the tavern before the tumult and noise made the air humid, hot, and thick, his every intention had been foiled. Putting aside however that happened, shortly after he resigned himself to staying, he secures another drink and, leaning against the bar, takes stock of the pockets of merriment. At this juncture, pockets still serves as a fair description, cards and dice at their tables, dance centered and, though lively, contained. Nanami notes, in passing, that the dartboard's unoccupied — until it isn't.

There aren't many people Nanami knows in Aldrip for whom, even after roughly two months, he'd take the inititiative to approach at a party. But, though it may not be the way to his heart, apparently a hearty meal and several drinks (that first night, on Cloud's winnings) had been the way to his... interest? At least, to something more than indifference. Throw in a personality that agreed with his own (whatever that might say about either or both), and they'd come to maintain an association.

Though associate is really too impersonal a way to describe what, to any other mind, would definitely be a drinking buddy.

Tavern, drinks, whatever — he's just crossed over and reached the outer edges of those tables when Cloud notices him, fixes him with a stare and an expression that looks a little too intentional to be intimidating. Were Nanami even the type to be intimidated. Instead, he considers the question, as though he hadn't effectively decided when he'd come over.

Setting down his glass, Nanami reaches for the blue darts, the line of his mouth perhaps shifting by a handful of degrees. Perhaps. ]


Despite your name, Cloud-kun, I think you'd have better luck on team flower than I would.

[ They both know why. ]

That depends on what we'd be betting.

[ Call it cowardice, Nanami wouldn't care. Practicality trumps pride, every time. ]
orphne: (Kotone 207-1)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-24 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course!

[The band switches to a song with a different tempo, and she tugs him closer, taking control of their dance to swing him gently this way and that. He's tipsy at the very least, and Dazai has complained about that making him dizzy before, so she doesn't go as crazy as she might normally.]

Everyone I've talked to is having a good time. Stuff like this is really important for keeping people's spirits up. I kind of wish I'd thought of it!
redlines: (pic#14021772)

[personal profile] redlines 2023-04-24 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's not sure how he'd managed to overlook the bright red hair when he was scanning the room earlier. Then again the longer he thinks at it while looking up, the more it sort of makes sense. Roche — for all his recklessness and bravado — never made a habit of lurking around AdSec's turf. And why would he? He never had a reason to beyond acting as a delivery boy once or twice purely because nobody else was around and Heidegger being in a particularly foul mood that even he didn't want to cross, and even then it was simply dealing with the secretary their floor. Never anything face-to-face. To Roche, AdSec were just Suits. Scary suits with a rep, but still Suits.

But he still recognizes this one because of the hair. Out of all of them he was the one who stood out the most, yet... he can't recall a name right off the top of his head. Even so, a Turk was a source of information he'd be an absolute fool to turn down. If anyone knew shit about this place it'd be one of them, even after such a short time.

Hell, maybe Roche blacked out and the top brass sent him on a job with one and he'd somehow forgotten about it until now. But first things first— The recognition that flickers across his face vanishes after all of two seconds with another smile and a quirk of the brow. ]


I don't suppose you've seen a motorbike sitting around this... charming little town, have you? I'd say a few shades brighter than your hair? Very hard to miss.

[ And yet it's??? eluding him??? The lion, the witch, the audacity of this bitch. ]
orphne: (Kotone 33)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-24 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That didn't answer my question...

[Dazai!]

Maybe we should play a game that's all luck instead, then! That way there's a chance for me or Chuuya to win.
orphne: (Kotone 1)

[personal profile] orphne 2023-04-24 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh... you're not the first one who's told me that.

[Which is so wild to her, that people hear dragon and go, "oh, one of those again?" as if they're not some crazy mythical creature. Then again, she can think of at least one Persona that was a legendary dragon that she had in the past, so... It's all about perspective, she guesses!

She snorts a laugh and grabs another piece of cheese, nodding along. Yeah, she'd never had to think about appliances before that! They'd always just been a fact of life! But she nods at the mention of missing people, her smile fading into something more serious (even as she speaks through a mouthful of cheese).]


Yeah... it was on our way back. I wouldn't spend a lot of time in that forest if I were you. It's... really creepy. I don't get scared that easily, [max courage stat babey,] but it really did feel like there was something wrong with it. [A shrug! Believe her or don't!] Some of the local leaders were kind of dragging their feet about investigating, so a bunch of us sent out search parties and did what we could, but we couldn't find anybody who'd disappeared. It's like they vanished.

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