2nd Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[bookbeltof_love]

Had Nina planned on having a party when she'd woken up that morning?

Nnnnnnnnnnnope!

But, like, really when the gremlins had burst into her room that morning to carol at her about some harking herald singing or something like that, Nina had a) hid under her blankets and made a despairing noise because ladies were supposed to be woken by soulful serenading and not… that… and b) had started pondering ways to use this since it was clearly the method of madness that the island was going with today.

Hence. A party! Then all she'd needed was a theme, to really tie it all together, and the island did tend to lend itself to a certain direction…………… so, like, some frantic Googling (she loved the internet), some tromping about in the snow being trailed by gremlin carolers as she bought things and then, by evening, she had it all ready to go.

From: nina.argentum@fandomhigh.edu
To: [Current Fandom Students]
Re: DECORATING PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, SO LIKE, we've got carolers, we've got (courtesy of me) hot drinks, bonbons, and various other possibly holiday related foodstuffs, and I've got SO MANY decorations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That means it's time for a party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When? Where? Right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the second floor common room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come one, come all, or else you SUPER> don't get to complain at what your common areas are going to look like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only participants gets a say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So hurry on down and get your glitter on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Signing off, your intrepid heroine, Nina Argentum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Okay, cool. Email sent out! Now to see if anyone else was willing to help her do this or if the rest of the dorms would just be subjected to her idea of holiday decorating! Mwahaha!

And, in the corner, on the impromptu stage she'd set up for them, the caroling gremlins sang their little hearts out.

[Email was sent to all current students. If your character wouldn't use/get email, feel free to mod having run into a bubbly Nina who babbled about the party at you. Also, naturally, open common room is open! Plz hold for small OCD is up, run free!]

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Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

And possibly boggle at amount of glittery (in festive, holiday colours!) that Nina has already managed to get everywhere!

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Krismesi emnandi!" Shuri said, beaming at her. "Why is there so much pine everywhere?"

That was not a thing in the Southern Hemisphere.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

“Krismesi emnandi, Shuri!!!!!!!!!!!!” Nina echoed, not knowing exactly what it meant but context was pretty helpful for guessing. She said it right, too, but that was just her being good at languages.

She laughed, shrugging as she beamed back. “Because the internet told me pine was the way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"It smells nice, but it's not at all like the festive season at home," Shuri said, smiling. "And excellent pronunciation. Do you know Xhosa?"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

"I don't," she admitted, "I just copied you?????????? Languages are something I enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat had just gotten back from a silly, wacky tea party that had apparently lasted two weeks, even though she'd felt like it had only been half a day, and she'd gotten back just in time to get Nina's email. The last thing she would think of wanting to do, especially since the whole 'getting eaten by a locker and sent to a different dimension' thing was giving her such headache...

...but it was in the second floor common room, so it was on the way to her room. So she couldn't help at least poking her head in the door to get a lay of land. She didn't think she'd stay long, but she couldn't help wanting to at least look in on things.

After all, with what she'd just been through...just how bad could it be?

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

“Tisarwaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Nina was delighted and her sunny smile gave that away. “Glad you could make it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything good with you????????????? It’s been awhile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Considering who had sent the email in the first place and the sheer amount of punctuation involved, Tisarwat should have expected a greeting like that and braced herself for it, but she had not. She was a little time-displaced at the moment, though; she felt that should be understandable.

Hopefully, though, she managed to keep her small wince of pain unnoticeable, and she considered just moving on with things, or just being honest. After all, this was Fandom. Stranger things had happened.

So she feigned the smallest of smiles that didn't at all reach her lilac eyes. "I've apparently been stuck in a pocket dimension in one of the school lockers for more than two weeks."

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[hashtag_chocobro]

Yeah, like Prompto could miss an impromptu party thrown by Nina! He was pretty sure he was pretty much socially obligated to come if he could, but, even if he wasn't, he'd be there. With bells on!

Well, not literal bells. Although, now that he thought about it, he wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the things that happened. But he wasn't going to say it, lest he jinx them, SABINE.

"S'up, party people?" he said, instead, and he was, at least, wearing his Santa hat.

HE LIKED IT OKAY.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

And, really, he was sort of lucky he hadn't spent the day being roped into party planning.......

"Promptooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Of course she was going to crashing all in for a glittery hug. "Ohmygosh, you're wearing a Santa hat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Why hadn't she thought of that?!

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto was going to happily take that glittery hug, too, and return it in kind (although perhaps a whole lot less glittery), before taking a moment to bring his hands up to the hat as if to adjust it, although he knew for a fact he'd perfected its exact jauntiness to withstand even a Nina-force hug.

Because, really, it was more like that he hadn't stopped wearing it, if anything.

"Grog saved one for me," he said, grinning proudly. "Pretty cool, right? Not a bad way to get into the holiday spirit!"

For a holiday he'd never even heard of before last year, but whatever! Holidays were great, no matter where they came from.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[handystand]

"I don't know anything about Christmas outside what I've seen in movies," Okuyasu said as he arrived. "A fat man will come to give us presents, yes?"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

"Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, since all she knew was from the internet and movies as well. "And he'll come in a flying sleigh drawn by reindeer and somehow he gets to everyone in one night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[handystand]

"...this is a weird holiday," Okuyasu said.

"But I don't say no to free stuff."

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine saw the word "decorating" and hello.

"Okay, what've we got?"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

"We have so many things," Nina gushed, beaming at Sabine. "So many. We've got ribbon and glitter and paper--both the crinkly metallic kind and the normal printed paper kind and the soft tissue paper--and bows and bells and fake branches and---------"

She sighed happily.

"All the things."

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"We're going to be picking glitter off everything till Valentine's Day," Sabine said, but it was both a warning and a promise.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[mylandmyrules]

Nell cautiously made her way into the common room, utterly boggling at the amount of glitter. Was this even safe?

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

Inhaling glitter hadn't killed Nina yet! Totally safe!

"Neeeeeeeell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina cried, delighted. "Ohmygosh, like, it's been forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[mylandmyrules]

"That's... a lot of glitter," Nell said. "I'm not sure I ever even imagined they made it in so many different colors."

Food and Drinks

[bookbeltof_love]

Mod your delicious selections though there is a delightful array of holiday things like peppermint hot chocolate, apple cider, and far, far too many shortbread cookies.

Just kidding.

There's no such thing as too many shortbread cookies.

Decorate!

[bookbeltof_love]

The heart and soul of this incredibly impromptu party! Get your decorating on! Entirely moddable decorations though keep it mostly vaguely seasonal (though, like, it's summer in Australia so seasonal can be argued here...) and remember, glitter EVERYTHING.

It's the Fandom Way.

Gremlin Carolers!

[bookbeltof_love]

In case, like, anyone has requests.

Nina might judge if you do though. Just a bit. But sure!

Re: Gremlin Carolers!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri had been working with the ones who'd burst into her room to learn some African carols, so now she was with this crowd to teach them Betelehemu.

Gremlins with Nigerian drums. You're welcome, Fandom.

OOC

[bookbeltof_love]

IDEK. I wanted a party and Nina is basically a built-in party generator and, so, party!