[Mingle] The First Official Meeting of the Young Adult Club

[skyward_eyes]

WHO: Nida
WHERE: House 16
WHEN: Evening/Night Monday the 14th
OPEN TO: Mingle: Open too all young adults (22 and younger); Older may show up but expect a testy Nida.
WARNINGS: Young Adults Partying, Possible: Underaged drinking if people bring stuff. If your thread changes ratings, in subject line and DM me so I can update.

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The message goes out over the Network Sunday evening.

'Young Adult Club, First Meet-Up/Party Monday night. First house after the Jail/Barn. Bring Snacks If You've Got Them To Spare.'

Invitation sent in general, The rest, now, came down to Nida. Good thing he had someone who knew how parties worked was right there too. Rinoa turned out to be a pretty good resource. He learned there were a few important things to do for a party. Three major things were needed: music, treats and games. Unfortunately they couldn't do much about the former, so instead Nida employed his housemates in trying to make sure the latter two were covered.



The Nibbles

The easiest person to go to about food turned out to be Seifer. Of the three of them the blonde had somehow ended up as the defacto chef of their house when it came to important things like this. What this meant was a variety of easily made food, things like a plate of half-dollar sized pancakes for easy munching or dipping into other things, fried potato edges, even a quiche that Seifer had managed to whip up, not that Nida even recognized what the whole thing was. While it wasn't as impressive a spread as the New Year Eve party had (or perhaps even the forge gathering) it was clear that the three had done the best they could with the skills two mercenaries and a formerly sheltered young woman had between them. Hopefully treats from other people would help with the spread. Personally, Nida was hoping to steal some of the fritatta Seifer had made in their cast iron skillet, but guests came first of course.



The Games

Games. What even were party games? For that one the center spotlight had gone to Rinoa's planning efforts. Nida had scrounged in the inn's shared supplies, borrowing a set of playing cards and a Jenga set. Not that he really knew what the latter was. The cards went to the dining room table with some extra chairs borrowed from an unoccupied house, the Jenga onto the coffee table, and Rinoa's peakitten Julia got shuffled into her room to prevent her from knocking over the wooden blocks yet again. Nida was tired of rebuilding.




Introductions

They're all new here, they don't all know each other, so Nida and Rinoa encourage people upon arrival to start out simple. And all you have to do is say your name and three facts about yourself. Or, if you're feeling mischievous, two truths and a lie. Can people guess the truth of the matter about you? Or do they already know you well?



Quite Spaces

Frankly Nida wasn't sure how he felt about opening their house to so many people, and with the living room, dining room and kitchen all prepped for use, he realized there was one other thing people could need. A place to talk quietly or just have group games. As he was the only one of the three of them that didn't have much in the way of property and could give up the whole concept of privacy for a bit, the back bedroom ended up having a note pinned on it with a kitchen knife.

'Quiet Space for Your Use - Do not have sex in my bed please'

With his staff stored in the basement and his tiny journal and pencils stored out of sight on top of the standing wardrobe, the room was perfect for anyone who just needed to cool down. Or have a private conversation. Good thing the house has electricity because that could be used long into the night.

Comments

[tosavecocoon]

"Yep," she responds with a nod. She's still trying to adjust to the idea of just admitting to things. Somehow saying yes to this is much more daunting than a lot of other things she's admitted to. Maybe one day it'll get easier.

"I think so. Maybe is if Sazh comes here, he can tell you more. He's the one who took me to see it." Nautilus was both one of the best experiences of Vanille's life and one of the worst. The fun times are often overshadowed by the grief that was wrought there and the shame pulled over her as the truth was laid bare.

[firacrux]

Understandable. There are still a lot of things Seifer won't talk about, so he gets it. At least being from a different world he has no reason to hold anything against her.

"Maybe. Sounds pretty cool either way. We didn't have holograms, just people dressed in weird costumes and floats." You know, the usual things for parades. Also an attempted assassination, which he is not going to get into.

[tosavecocoon]

"That sounds like fun." Well, the costumes part does, anyway. The rest, though... Vanille tilts her head curiously at him. "Floats? Like people who can float? Or something else?"

[firacrux]

It was fun, despite all the awful things connected to it it had been fun. "You don't have floats? Basically just vehicles dressed up for the parade, usually has some kinda platform people stand on. Decorated and all that." Not that weird he didn't think.

[tosavecocoon]

"Nope!" she says brightly with a shake of her head. "Maybe Cocoon did, but not us. Everything we had was very practical. No floats, no holograms, no parades. Just lots of space, color, and loads of animals that can kill you by looking at you."

She's probably never really painted Gran Pulse life in the best light, but at least she's never sounded like she minded her normal life. It's just always been so different from everyone else's lives here and she's constantly struck by those differences.

[firacrux]

"Oh yeah I know all about the animals that can kill you by looking at you." Seifer was happy to emphasize that, he often felt like the odd one out any time he spoke of his world's monsters. They had normal things, too, well his world did he didn't. He grew up in a military academy surrounded by said monsters.

"Sounds like the countryside. Can't think of too many of those little villages that'd bother with a parade or floats. That's a big city thing, with a standing military to help keep the monsters at bay."