It belongs in a GREAT BIG FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAH

[valkavian]

[ So, Akane is probably in NO condition to host the afterparty, so Val's gonna do the honors here. She leaves a note where everyone can see it once everyone's properly exited the theater: ]

Come to the tea room. I'll get y'all some fucking marshmallows.

[ She's not cooking, but she brought some skewers and the appropriate fixings for both hot dogs and smores and put them aside on a little table, as well as some soda and every possible booze this ship had.

Most of the tables and chairs have been just pushed off to the far end of the room, but some furniture has been sacrificed to start a huge fucking bonfire in the middle of the tea room. Precautions have been taken to keep this shit from spreading, but here we are.

She's content to let most people mingle amongst themselves, but she will be muttering something as y'all come in. ]

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil-

[ A pause. ]

Where my eternal quest takes me, I shall know no fear. My heart is strong and my blood stronger.

Comments

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Um.









Huh?

[valkavian]

Have you never heard of the healing powers of prayer, Zack.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Well, yeah, but....





Is this that Baibel thing you mentioned?

[somuchshipping]

GTFO

[Hermes gets fucking tossed out of the theater, him yelping, by hand-like vines. He skids across the floor for a good few feet before coming to a rest, and shall lay there in a daze for a few moments. That was. A thing that happened.]

Smores

[After a quick round of cleaning himself off of any blood from the vines, Hermes enters the tea room. He quickly spots the fire and lets out a little gasp.]

OhMyGosh,Smores! I'dLoveToMakeSmores!

Infirmary

[Later, Hermes can be found in the infirmary, just sitting beside Aoi, looking at him occasionally. Approach him to talk?]

Wildcard

[Come up with your own scenario!]

[superstylishsquid]

[Alastor will be briefly seen at the bonfire...to grab some marshmallows and chocolate, already with a bottle of the highest proof booze he expects to be palatable in one hand. After a moment of thought, he grabs a second bottle before leaving.

He'd...intended to just let Roland into his room so they could both make themselves scarce until morning, but he ends up stopping in the doorway at the sight of...something in his room.]

Are you kidding me? Is this what he meant by that announcement?!

[godspiousjasper]

Oh! Goodness... That... sure is something, isn't it?

[ He's never seen a six foot tall doll before so this is also a surprise, but boy does it seem pretty taunting, to say the least. ]

...What do you want to do with it?

[superstylishsquid]

[Well, apparently the first thing he wants to do with it is hurl it out of his room!]

Get rid of it, of course. Like I need Delta mocking me, on top of everything else.

[autonomousthought]

[Well. Ritsu once again attends the afterparty, but just sits against a wall. Can't exactly eat or drink, after all, not in a way that anyone would enjoy.

But it's warm in here, and she'll stare into the fire like it'll tell her the secrets of the universe.

....after a while she'll pick herself up and start brewing tea. Might as well keep her hands busy.]

What should go with it...?

[valkavian]

...what exactly do you plan on doing with that once you're done?

[yesorwoof]

party

[Makima is using three small, mostly plain hot dogs as she is pacing her drinking of plain beer. She proclaims idly to no one in particular:]

I'm confident in drinking contests, at least.

bathroom

[Makima is here doing bathroom things and generally staring into the mirror in silence for several seconds. What a long day. She has to get all this over with, so she can help Akane...]

wildcard

((you can always pricon me too!))

Bathroom

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes enters the bathroom, strips of blood on him where the tree vines touched him. He notices Makima.]

Oh... Hello, Makima. ...Are you okay, after... everything?

[Hermes grabs a nearby towel and begins quickly cleaning up all the blood off of himself.]

[yesorwoof]

Oh, I should have been more worried about you. That was a really close call. The length of the execution just made it somewhat difficult to be sure exactly when to leave.

[Makima is not covered in blood so she watches the weirdly shaped robot writhe around. Did he somehow bleed or were the vines just covered in blood already.]

[valkavian]

Yeah? Can't get wasted the way I used to be able to, but that's the only real downside.

[exequte]

[For Zack]
[Akane wakes up slowly. Her head is pounding, her eyes feel itchy with tears both shed and unshed, she feels sick to her stomach, and she's flushed with a high fever.

For a moment it's hard to remember why.

But then it comes to her, in fits and starts, and for a moment she looks around, confused.

This is like her room, as much as it could be said to be hers, but it wasn't. And for a moment that was alarming, as she struggled to push herself up. But Zack is there--it's hard to miss him, as big as he is--and a moment later she stops struggling. She stares away, not meeting his eyes. She can't, maybe, or doesn't want to. She can remember what she did.]

Did you... did you bring me here after? Where... where is here?

[Bathrooms]
[Akane is crying silently now, though even the tears seem tired, miserable. She's trying to wash the blood off her, out of her clothes, out of her hair. Who knew that the blood spray would get everywhere like this? She'd never shot someone before, so she certainly hadn't.

Her hands shaking, she stands on one foot and wrestles off her first shoe, then starts trying to wash the blood from the soles. She'd left faint bloody footprints behind her when she'd come here, and she can't....

But, doing this, she's washing Moriarty away. And that is making her cry too. When someone comes in she looks over her shoulder to the door, almost cringing back, wet shoe still in her hand, faint bloody footprints leading up to her location.]

Sorry. I... I won't be long.

[Kaito's Room]
[And then, once she's clean of blood, Akane goes to... not to her room, but to the empty room that had belonged to John and Kaito. She curls up on Kaito's empty, empty bed, his jacket wrapped around her, curls into a ball, and cries.]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...You're awake.

[He's got a washcloth if you want to wipe yourself off Akane.]

You're in my room. I figured you might not want blood on your bed or anything, so after you fainted I brought you here.

Kaito's Room

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes notices Akane crying in Kaito's room. He stares for a moment before nyooooming off somewhere and returning shortly with a couple things, walking on two legs. He enters the room and carefully places a cup of tea and a plate with a couple smores down on a nearby chair.]

I got some food for you if you're hungry. Do you like smores?

[yesorwoof]

[Makima is dressed in the shirt and jeans she wears to sleep, and has Akane's toothbrush wrapped up in a little cloth along with whatever else she could find. She is leaning over and looking through the door. It's such readily heard, consistent crying... Like the shards of her heart are hurtling down from space with a whoosh. Oh, oof, space metaphor. It's several seconds that Akane, curled in a ball, would not see the awkward Makima, who finally says,]

Akane-chan... are you ready for bed?

Kaito's room

[pegasinister]

[It doesn't take him long to show up here, once things have settled.

But he just... stands in the doorway, awkward]

[onychomance]

[So remember how Kira wanted to go to bed? Yeah... turns out Zack took Akane to their room. And that is the only reason he is at the bonfire. After his stretches, he is getting his warm milk that he drinks before bedtime and he is putting brandy in it. He will sleep peacefully, fates help him. But until then, he's here. And honestly, a chat wouldn't kill him after all that went down.]

[valkavian]

I am so fucking sad I can't get wasted now.

[pegasinister]

[Hubert is not at the gathering at first, and anyone focusing on him might see him beelining towards the infirmary. Don't worry, he's not doing anything untoward to their potential fabricator(?), even if he has little sympathy for traitors. He comes out of the room later looking... stressed. Worried. Sad even. Though he schools it quickly and is back to his looming self by the time he reaches the bonfire.]

...how elaborate...

[he shows no interest in the smores and while tries a hotdog he almost instantly gags and hands it off to whoever is near by]

This is NOT a sausage.

[he keeps his eyes out for Zack specificly, and occasionally steps away to check on Akane... but otherwise simply... watches. Looking deep in thought]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

[He's not in the tea room. Not for a while.


When he does come in, he's...quiet. He sits down and watches the fire, the flames dancing in his eyes.]

[valkavian]

I know, it's a hot dog. It's called that because they look like these little fucked up tube-shaped dogs the kine genetically engineered.

Sometime later

[strangerpeople]

[Hm.

The watches are blinking again!]

[somuchshipping]

[The last time that happened...

Hermes nyooms over to the stairs!]