enodia_ic | PRIDE TIME

PRIDE NIGHT!

Welcome to Enodia Pride Night 2023! Crysta has transformed the Space Between into the hottest club in Vermont to fully and correctly ring out the best month of the year, the LBGTQIA+ community, and the collective queerness and vibrance of the station. This is a space for expression! Shameless celebration! Make music, make noise, make mistakes, it's all love! The music (A VERY SPECIAL playlist) is loud, the lights are low until roving rainbow spotlights catch you, and a constant stream of rainbow glitter flows through the pride flags curtaining the walls. Thanks to Enoch, though, it's not actually contributing to pollution; just an illusion. Please don't worry about microplastics.

The vibe's a little messy, chaotic but warm. The bass beats loud and frantic, but its heartbeat undercurrent screams that as soon as you're through the door, you're home, whoever you are. Though obviously influenced by her party roots, Crysta did try to be aware of where she lives now (nerd city) and included overflow areas for people to celebrate a little more quietly if they so choose. And privately. Wink. Dress code is honestly whatever you feel comfortable in, but with the encouraged prerogative to look and feel drop dead hot. Ground rules are simple; just welcome each other how you'd like to be welcomed, look out for each other, and party hard. EVERYONE is invited! There've been (OOC) net announcements for several weeks now, and colorful fliers hanging everywhere. You CANNOT miss this.

DRINKS!

Along with normal bar selections there's some specialty cocktails including but not limited to:
THE JUICE with blue curacao, vodka lemonade and cranberry juice
BI-GLORY MOLE: Confusing as it is delightful. A frozen sprite, butterfly pea and rosella tea slushie with or without a shot of liquor of your choice
RAINBOW JELLO SHOTS which are plentiful and self explanatory
THE GINDERQUEER for the refined; sparkling lemon water,empress gin, little bit of lavender syrup

FOOD:
Oh. Shoot!
Crysta forgot about this until literally today and sold the commissary out of chips and snacks and basically hostage-situationed the chefs at Food Here to make enough sliders and miniature grilled cheeses and other party food at the eleventh hour. Maybe best to eat before you come.

VOLUNTEERS?

Zeke Zelizer and Volunteer B lock themselves in the closet for the kissing game...right as everyone else walks away to do something else. Beulah walked away to get another Juice so she doesn't automatically hear their panic after half an hour. Better get comfy! They'll be in there for at least 45 minutes.

Maximillian Hart does get comfy. Like. A little too comfy, and falls asleep in the corner of the bouncy house. Volunteers D and Volunteer E are trying to just get some bouncing in, but instead join in for a little nap break.

Zira Bailey knows how to WORK that stage and that pole and has so many bills thrown at them they make kind of a killing. Career change time?

Annie Song gets super annoyed at how slow the bar is and jumps behind it and gets roped in for an hour shift for their trouble.

Taby McLeod drinks one too many and is convinced there's glitter in their eye. They panic until Finn MacCool takes pity and dumps a water bottle into their eye to placebo-effect it out.

Volunteer J has a big time wardrobe malfunction but Volunteer K saves the day and drapes them in a VERY haute progress flag toga from the wall.It's a GOOD look.

Volunteer L's feet keep sticking to the floor. Like a lot. They cannot get out. Is this too much spilled jello? Is this that guy in Operations who can't control his weird sticky flytrap limb powers? Doesn't matter! Help!

LOCATIONS

VIBE CHECK

It's very important today! Post your outfits! The people you came with! Your vibes! Also a good time to note that the moment you walk in there's a photobooth opportunity to take a selfie in case you want to preserve your lewk in the moment before it gets spilled on or messy. That's IMPORTANT.

BAR AREA

Get a drink! Stay awhile. The bar staff received these specialty drink recipes less than 24 hours ago, but they're doing a great job. Everything is free!

DANCE FLOOR

Dance until you die! The carefully curated playlist booms through the night so there's not a lot of space for singing performances, but there's absolutely a slightly elevated stage area with a pole to dance on in case anyone feels Inspired. Otherwise, grab a partner, or just feel those beats and dance solo.

QUIET CORNER

This is where some of the official/unofficial party games will take place, it's a cozy corner laden with bean bag chairs and pillows for a little breaktime area, cordoned off by a door made of tinsel. It's quieter, thanks to someone's muffling powers, and more well-lit. A great place to have actual conversations and get to know people better. Speaking of. Conveniently located right next to the corner is a maintenance closet big enough to fit two people at once. Hmmm...

Volunteer M loops in Beulah Stump, an Operations employee with the weird liminal power of locking doors for a certain amount of time. Time for a cheeky game of Unknown Number of Minutes in ~~Hell~~ Heaven!! A group of people begin to spin a beer bottle to tempt destiny and choose a partner for a good time in the closet. One problem. The closet is only supposed to lock for 7 minutes, but Beulah's honestly a lil tipsy and her power isn't very well-controlled right now. You could be stuck in there with your bottle partner for up to 30 minutes. (This is JJ's idea thank you JJ)

HOW IT WORKS: Post your character's name and the next ordered number in the fashion of 1) Crysta Waldinger in the subject line of a comment. In the body of your comment, please indicate how many times people you would like to be able to land on your character's number. (If someone has enough partners, just skip them and roll again!) When enough people have posted that you'd like to tempt fate, roll 1-(number of people there are) and then comment on the corresponding person's name. Also roll 1-30,which will determine how many minutes you'll be spending with that person and stick that in the comment too. This is still a place for enthusiastic consent! You don't have to kiss in the closet! Maybe it's a time for a nice chat.

BOUNCY HOUSE

Right outside the Space Between, there's a quieter area where people can go outside to have a little drink in even more silence underneath the beautiful manufactured sky. However, there's also a rainbow shaped bouncy house!
If you would like your performance graded, please fill out this form! The judges are two identical twin nurses from medical with synchronised movement powers so they know about Style. But in reality this is all RNG bb. There's an unknown terrible prize for the unofficial winner. Please do not bonk your head in order to win.

OOC CHATTER!

Questions, comments, concerns?

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Lenz doesn't miss a beat, rising to follow Crysta and taking her extended hand. "...Cool party," he returns easily. The fact that she's the hostess behind tonight's festivities is one of the few things he does know about her. Beyond that...not much. She likes to make threats? She's good with hair? She's one of the infamous Waldingers? So he's curious and ready to let this go wherever it may.

"Happy Pride." She returns easily. It has not lost any enthusiasm over the many times she's said it this evening. She doesn't really know anything about Lenz, either, and she takes her time looking at him appraisingly for a moment, mostly to gauge comfort level at following a stranger into a closet. At a glance, she'd guess he at least thinks he knows what cool is, and gets it right at least sometimes. Which means, she thinks, that he knows what he's getting into. So that's enough to tug him in the direction of the door. "You're like, having fun and everything?"

Lenz allows himself to be led with no hesitation and smiles thoughtlessly. Because he is having fun and everything. He's had enough to drink that he can feel it, the euphoric ease that comes when nothing matters, and he's spent much of the evening burning off the experiences of the past month on the dance floor or getting shitfaced with his colleagues or, yes, even jumping in the goddamn bounce house for a few brief minutes. He's invincible, thanks. He's fucking perfect, thanks.

"...Yeah. Needed it, to be fucking honest," he tells Crysta, because there's no reason not to tell her, "Are you? Or is the host's work never done?" Getting locked in a closet with no way out is one way to ensure she gets a break, if nothing else.

Edited 2023-07-01 06:25 (UTC)

"I'm glad." She is. But this was not going to be, she decides immediately, a therapy session in a closet where she asks him why he needed this. That is not what tonight is for, and anyway, her brain is so blitzed that she wouldn't offer an even mildly convincing listening ear. No. Tonight is solution-based, temporary as those may be. "I'm good at multitasking, so." She explains, closing the door. She flips his hand so she's touching the underside of his wrist, and with a little head tilt, it becomes an invitation she's probably far too busy to explain.

Fortunately for both of them, Lenz has zero intention of saying more on the matter. Working through everything with words isn't typically his style; working through everything with excess and distraction and novelty, on the other hand, is. And that's what he's here for. He follows Crysta into the closet, seeming faintly amused when she closes the door behind them and some strange Liminal ability seals it shut.

For him, it's meaningless. But he's happy to play along.

"Multitasking?" he returns with a wry grin, "As much as I admire the ambition, I intend to be a complete distraction for the next, oh, fifteen minutes or so." He glances down as Crysta turns his hand, letting her take the lead but not hesitating to follow close behind. He steps closer and slips a hand onto the exposed curve of her hip.

Meaningless is the word of the day, or for Crysta, also her entire life, if it was up to her. It's a very easy pattern to fall into; to step closer and link her own fingers through the very chainy jeans. She grins. "Okay, well like. Good luck. UNTIL I'm suuuper distracted, I'm gonna be calculating like. Tips for all the bartenders. This is so boring. Help." (This is a stupid challenge)

PRIDE TIME

Lenz n Crysta for 12 minutes

Lenz n Crysta for 12 minutes

Lenz n Crysta for 12 minutes

Lenz n Crysta for 12 minutes

Lenz n Crysta for 12 minutes

Lenz n Crysta for 12 minutes