Raine's Birthday Bash!

[philomathean]

raine's birthday bash

what's up?

Raine turned 28 on Tuesday, June 6th, and Annie is making good on her threat promise to throw him a birthday party. Despite her teasing to the contrary, the whole affair is relaxed and understated. Everyone at the station was invited either personally by Annie or via flyers posted around the campus. The party is being hosted in Annie's one-bedroom apartment (Apt. 203) and is advertised as a "come through." So, anyone is welcome to stop by between 5pm and midnight to pay their respects, chat for a bit, and play a few party games. There is more weed on hand than alcohol and the vibe has been carefully curated to discourage rowdiness, but it's Raine's party, so Annie will match his cues.

the vibe!

There are few things in Annie's apartment that don't serve a functional purpose, so it was pretty easy for her to make space. Even so, at certain points in the evening, it is standing room only. She's brightened up the earth-toned interior with simple, brightly colored eco-friendly banners and garlands. There are lots of sweet treats on the counters in the kitchen and everything containing THC is prominently labeled with dosages by milligram. Her cat, Tussy, mostly stays in the bedroom but is friendly and available for scritches. THIS IS A SHOES OFF HOUSEHOLD.

volunteer slots!

Rhodes Callaway arrives at the wrong apartment and spends 45 minutes hanging out with Rory Fairfax in their pad before realizing no one else is coming.

Jack Jung is bored? Nosy? They begin poking around in Annie's desk drawers and get caught by Raine Riley!

Lenz Polzin gives Tussy a treat. And then Tussy follows them around the rest of the night. More food please!

Volunteer F forgets to lock the door when they hide in the bathroom to read their phone. Minty Payne walks in on them.

Volunteer H fails to read Annie's notes properly and takes what they think is a weed brownie. But it's really just a regular brownie.

Volunteer I and Volunteer J both got Raine the same birthday gift.

Volunteer K brings an instrument and immediately draws Annie's ire.

Annie's mother taught her that it endears people to you if you ask them for favors, so even though Annie is a control freak, she enlisted lots of help over the course of the week. Feel free to say Annie asked your character for something!

playlist!

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The Groove station on Radio France is ambiently playing from several inconspicuous rose quartz shaped speakers placed around her apartment. If anyone asks if they can hop on the AUX, Annie will pretend that she doesn't know who is controlling the music. 🙃

locations!

⬦ ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECK: Whatcha wearing? How ya feeling? When did you arrive? When'd you leave? Did you bring anything? DID YOU TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF LIKE ANNIE TOLD YOU TO?

⬦ I SAID NO GIFTS: The flyer invites posted around the station explicitly said that Raine does not want your junk, but maybe you brought him something anyway? This is also a place to leave cards or wish Raine a happy birthday with your human mouth.

⬦ AROUND THE APARTMENT: All areas of Annie's one-bedroom apartment are open to partygoers. The living room is set up like a conversation pit, the bedroom is open if people are looking for a little space, and the deck is set up with a few chairs and a small table. Please smoke outside if you're going to.

⬦ PARTY GAMES: A place for party games! Feel free to start your own or just tag in.

⬦ ELSEWHERE IN THE BUILDING: Did you wander off for a moment's respite from the chaos? Did you decide not to come to the party, but you're sitting alone in your apartment stewing with FOMO? (If you file a noise complaint against her, Annie will make your life a living hell. Just know that.)

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS! Here if you need me!

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Comments

AROUND THE APARTMENT: Crysta and Jack get religious

[beautyfull]

She knows when to look away, and does, obliging Jack in handing him the joint and dutifully not commenting on Bad Weird. Bad is relative anyway. Which is something she probably would've thought without any outside influence at all. Distantly, she wonders if Jack had somehow acquired the sad old man's weed, and that's why they were both turning so faux-philosophical. Immediately, she forgets to ask about it in favor of fervid gossip.

"Oh, yeah, when he was like, young. In middle school. He too was a mild teenage rebel I guess? Only in like the nerdiest way possible. I guess there was no plan? Which is better." Obviously.

AROUND THE APARTMENT: Crysta and Jack get religious

[nolitangere]

(In fact, Jack's weed is from an emotionally placid middle-aged woman in Colchester, but who knows, perhaps she was secretly sad, too.)

Middle school? No plan? "Huh." Jack turns and looks back at Raine, exhaling thoughtfully. Raine is cooler than he thought. Stealing 100 microscopes for no reason—not even a weird Tetsuo: the Iron Man-ultralite type deal—is the kind of impulsivity Jack can only aspire to. Raine must be the one to watch out of all of Annie's dude friends.

"You know, I can see that for Raine," Jack says after a moment. "I always thought his hair was a tip-off that he was a little more erratic than he let on."

He turns again to Lenz, who appears to be befriending Annie's cat. "And Lenz is so clammed up. You just know there are all sorts of weird little personal details in that head of his. I was trying to be friendly with him the other day and the way he reacted, you'd think I was trying to pick his pocket over the intranet." Jack laughs—no hard feelings whatsoever.

AROUND THE APARTMENT: Crysta and Jack get religious

[beautyfull]

"No." Crysta says, with power, even though she does agree with Jack in theory. "We are not attributing anything fun or good to that hair, I need to fix it and he is not gonna let me until it starts receiving like. Universal bad reviews. Maybe not even then. I can't decide if he's like, solely contrary or not?"

Lenz, she thinks, is also of that category. "...He sorta did that with me too when I was doing fun facts. It was very like, why do you need to know. What if I need to know because I need to you know yknow???" This is perhaps indecipherable but said with confidence. "But you've gotta have theories, too. Who's good-weird."

AROUND THE APARTMENT: Crysta and Jack get religious

[nolitangere]

Jack is startled by Crysta's emphatic no and coughs. "Okay, fine," he concedes blearily, after a few seconds of minorly hacking up his lungs. "His hair is like a Banksy piece." He pauses a few more seconds to Raine's nature.

"I don't think he's solely contrary," Jack says finally. "I think he just tries to keep it easy. But like waaaay fucking easy." Jack could never live like that, but he respects it.

Jack does know what Crysta means and nods sympathetically. "Nobody's not good-weird," he replies, a little reluctantly. Really, Jack wants to talk about her brother, but he's treating Enoch as a completely off-limit topic. "Zeke, I guess, is especially good-weird. I think that dick joke he made the other day was genuinely an accident."

AROUND THE APARTMENT: Crysta and Jack get religious

[beautyfull]

"Yeah so there's clearly something going on. No one tries to be easy unless they like. Definitely aren't." If that's projecting, Crysta blithely ignores it, but is secretly very glad Jack chose to move on.

"Zeke." This is more harmless territory, and her face grows as serious as it can to devote all her attention to it, "Is a cop almost for sure." She takes a long sip of the water she'd also brought out with her, for gravitas.

AROUND THE APARTMENT: Crysta and Jack get religious

[nolitangere]

"Oh dang." Jack takes another puff, even though he should have passed by now, to bolster his constitution. "You think that was a sting operation dick joke?" He thinks back to the scene of the crime. "Are we implicated now because we jumped in on that?"