Summer and Tip's Shelter from the Storm Party; First Floor Rec Room, Saturday Night.

[somethingwithturquoise]

You know, when Summer and Tip had talked about a party to weather through the storm, things hadn't yet been a full blown hurricane. That eventual hurricane had not yet picked up sharks. There hadn't been any sharks crashing into things, there'd only been a little rain, and there definitely hadn't been any ideas being thrown around about cooling down a hurricane to stop it and that freezing sharks was totally a thing.

The fact that all of that had happened by the time Saturday night rolled around only made it more evident to Summer that this was needed and it was needed bad. Because Summer now understood a little bit better that parties could be used for more than just trying to be popular; they could be used to try to forget that there was a freaking SHARKICANE going on outside. But she wasn't low-key panicking deep inside, no, shut up, whatever.

Mood lighting in the form of candles and lanterns and flashlights. Food in the form of leftover pizza and ice cream that they obviously had to eat because it would all go bad with the power out. Music from Summer's phone put into a cup to amplify it throughout the room, Summer's phone which was going to survive on the steady stream of back-up portable chargers she had bought and was going to try to return once this was all over. So now they just needed people, and she hoped they would come, because people felt safe.


[[and I think I might have some OCD lying around here up and ready to go. Open and up early for all your party needs]]

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S&T's SftSP - General Mingling.

[somethingwithturquoise]

No power? No problem! Enjoy the mood lighting and ignore the occasional thwap of a shark against the building by generally mingling with your fellow sharkicane stranded students.

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[sampippy]

Okay so, this somehow seemed like the one situation on the island where Deadpool's company could actually have been an okay thing? Because that guy seemed unhinged enough to be good at disposing of any shark that came near him?

But because Xanthippe still had no interest in seeking him out – especially since that would've probably (and let's be real, hopefully) involved going out into freaking sharkicane weather – she was choosing the next best thing: being around people.

Even if her version of 'being around people' looked a ton like 'being in the same room with people but focusing on her phone instead'. Maybe the battery miraculously wouldn't die before this whole thing blew over?

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Oh, hey, Xan." They were in the middle of a sharkicane, Summer, don't read too much into people showing up when it was pretty much literally one of, what, three places that would be safe. But she was doing a pretty good job of not letting it show that she was stoked that her secret hero in apathy and phone attachment had come to this thing. "I've got some spare portable chargers all juiced up if you need one."

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[sampippy]

Oh, Summer.

Please get better idols.

"Oh, thanks," Xanthippe replied, barely looking up from her phone. Or at least it took her several seconds to do so. (What was she even doing on there? Most of her so-called friends weren't even texting her back these days, so it was a question for the ages.) "I mean, I was gonna buy one or two myself but I didn't think it was going to be this bad."

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[giveherahand]

"Any news?" Mara asked, glancing at Xan's phone. "I went outside like a moron and watched a shark eating a teal deer. It was not okay."

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[sampippy]

Xanthippe made a clearly exasperated face as she looked up from the screen. "They're not covering this on the mainland at all." Not that she was expecting anyone to be paying any attention to this hellhole of an island, but still, you'd think they'd notice a hurricane made of sharks!

Then she scrunched up her face even further. "Wait, ew, why would you go outside in the first place?"

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[giveherahand]

Mara came into the room smelling slightly like shark, but with her hair and makeup perfectly intact.

Not that many people would notice in the dark, and all.

"So...sharks," she said dryly. "This is new."

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[somethingwithturquoise]

They could all use a little more dry around here, too.

"Yeaaaaahhhhhh," said Summer. "I'm okay with this not being a thing again once it all hopefully blows over."

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[giveherahand]

"Blows over, huh?" Mara said with a grin. "Nice choice of words."

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[intotheout]

"So on the one hand, I sort of feel like I should be doing more," Tip noted. "On the other hand, I'm not magic, and as far as I know, my Boov tech doesn't have anything to stop sharks." She did bring some pink squishable gap-putty in case anything down here started leaking, but other than that she had her eraser gun which just flipped her out a bit too much to use unless there was an immediate, direct threat to her life. So.

"So yeah. Party!"

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Whoo hoo! Party!"

That was the important part. Summer gave Tip a smirk as she sidled up and gave the room another appraising glance. "We done good, I think."

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[kenselvren]

After a day out knifing sharks, Jalian had come back to the dorms, taken a (cold; damn, she'd gotten used to hot these days) shower, and now she was coming to the party. Mostly because she thought it would be a good place to coordinate strategy for dealing with...all this.

She still smelled slightly fishy, but then, most of the island did.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Yeah, no one was gonna be able to zero in that lovely stench to any one, thank GOD. Summer didn't evrn want to think about what she had going on.

"Hey, Jalian!" Summer waved when she spotted her. "Thanks for coming. Please try to eat some ice cream before it allllll melts."

Summer had had quite a bit herself, and was riding quite the adreniline/sugar rush at the momeny.

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey wasn't much for parties, but it was better than being alone in the dark in her room while sharks got thrown around. Power outages were fine, but they didn't have hurricanes or sharks where she came from.

So she was in the corner with a slice of pizza and being in the dark around other people while sharks got thrown around.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hey, Rey!" Summer gave the other girl a little wave. "How ya holding out?"

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[era_two_triangle]

Peridot was... well. Just the tiniest bit wide-eyed, actually, as she made her way into the rec room. It wasn't that she had never seen a storm before. It was just that her experiences with storms were very occasional, only went back about a year, and didn't involve hurricanes or sharks.

Basically, if anybody wandered near enough to her, she was probably going to latch herself to somebody's leg and never let go.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Hey. Summer had legs.

"Peridot, hey," she said. "You made it! How you holding up?"

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[kenselvren]

"Peridot." Jalian nodded to her gravely. "Are you well?"

S&T's SftSP - Tell Spoooooky Stories

[somethingwithturquoise]

One corner of the room had been set up with a bunch of cushions around a lantern meant to sort of resemble a campfire because the mood just really called for the opportunity to amp the atmosphere up with some spooky stories. Like camping. In a rec room. During a sharkicane.

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[intotheout]

Tip was trying to decide if anything shark-themed would be quirky and appropriate, or too obvious a choice.

S&T's SftSP - Food!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Oh, look! Some foolish people seemed to have left a whole bunch of ice cream in the freezer! Guess they had to eat it all up before it melts from the power being out. And all this leftover pizza, too! It would be a shame to let it go to waste!

There was also a good assortment of beverages and treats both salty and sweet and fully modable.

And of course Summer made jello. In the form of shots, baby!

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[wiredweird]

Jughead was going to hang out by the food. He'd brought a bag of marshmallows to add to the spread, feeling vaguely like he had to contribute something instead of just freeloading.

But, yeah, he was definitely stuffing his face with some quality leftover pizza. Eating was a comfort!

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was all but clinging to a pint of Cherry Garcia herself. She gave Jughead a little chin lift in greeting, tried to think of something to say that didn't have to do with the weather, because wasn't the whole point of this to get their minds off the weather?, but then...what else was there?

"So," she tried, "this could definitely make something interesting for you to write about, huh?"

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[kenselvren]

Jalian ignored the ice cream and all but the plain cheese pizza, but she was eating that and some pretzels and drinking a bottle of water. Killing sharks was hungry work!

S&T's SftSP - OOC

[somethingwithturquoise]

I couldn't find the gif I wanted, so have a pillow fight instead.