redshiftlogs | Let's partyyyyyyy! [open]

Who: EVERYONE.
What: A meet-and-greet party for everybody in Anchor!
When: early October
Where: the VR room lobby
Warnings: none yet
Format: go wild!

[ The day before, a wild network post appears, from the username @aa : ]

hi everyone!
i just wanted to let you all know
the meet and greet party previously discussed in this space
will be held tomorrow afternoon!

it will take place in the vr room lobby
and of course everyone is invited
refreshments and games will be provided
but if you would like a little extra challenge
please feel free to bring something to share!

attendance is mandatory!
(lol just kidding)
seriously though i do hope to see all of you there ;)

[ She's also posted handwritten signs to that effect in the mess hall and several of the staircases. Just in case! ]

The day of, a party appears in the VR Room lobby area, as promised!

Though it's not brightly lit, the lights there are are brightly colored, creating a chilled-out evening atmosphere like you'd find at a club. Plush chairs and couches are interspersed throughout the room, and there's been a solid attempt to clean the place up, or at least do something about all the dust.

A shortage of conventional party supplies has forced Ami and Cho to get creative, so the tables and parts of the wall are decorated with paper flowers, and the buffet table is presided over by a number of ... weird, pink, glitter-covered, vaguely animal-shaped sculptures made out of spare plastic pipes and stuff. With googly eyes. If nothing else they're a conversation piece.

FOOD: The main offering is barbecue! There's a pretty wide assortment of meats, all of which Cho has certified safe for human consumption, and also certified delicious. Chips, dried fruit, and a few different desserts are available, including homemade chocolate chip cookies that Ami made herself (wich Cho's help). All the trays are helpfully labeled, including allergy information.

Any and all potluck submissions are welcome as well! Just set it down over here and make a little card of your own.

DRINKS: Sadly, the coffee machine is still out of order. But there is a cooler stocked with ice and a few different choices of juice and soda. Alcoholic selections are limited to two types of pre-mixed drinks, which are intentionally weak on the alcohol, but at least they're not tequila sunrises. If guests want anything stronger, they'll need to bring it themselves.

ENTERTAINMENT: In fiddling with the controls, Ami got the overhead speakers to play some music, but couldn't figure out how to modify the playlist, so it's just one song on loop. Maybe if she keeps the volume kind of low, no one will notice. No live music is scheduled, but if anyone wants to bring a guitar and jam for a while, they will be more than welcome to.

And most of the arcade games are online! Anyone for Fruit Ninja? Air hockey? Dance Dance Retribution? Virtual Billiards? Or perhaps you'd like to try out a full-simulation game in the VR Rooms proper? Now's as good a time as any!

Oh, and don't forget to enter the raffle! The winner will be chosen randomly and announced a few hours into the party.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Eyes, like, were her eyes brown too, or is there something weird and spidery about my eyes that I"m just not aware of?"

He sure did and now he's off on a weird spider tangent. Soooorrryyyy.

"Now, do you mean she'd like me the way you like me or are we talking in more of a black widow sort of way?"

"Her eyes are black. And large. She wears a veil over her face, but you can see them anyway."

Poison shudders slightly, the memory of the first meeting between her and the Lady of Cobwebs coming to her mind to be quickly dismissed. Not a favourite memory.

"I think she would find you interesting, and you probably don't want her to find you interesting."

"So in a black widow sort of way. Y'know the females eat their partners after they mate?"

He pauses, makes a kind of weird face, "I'm not sayin' she'd try to mate with me, I'm just sayin'."

"Oh, you don't need to worry about that. She has a husband."

Poison grins slightly, though it's slightly pinched around the edges. Thinking about that brings up things she'd rather not remember.

"You'd want to meet him even less. I think he really is a giant spider."

"Please tell me they didn't have any kids."

He doesn't even want to think about how banging a giant spider would work. Not even his scientific curiosity is that

y'know

curious.

Poison gives a small grimace, bracing her hands lightly against the edge of the table. Oh, Peter, you just had to go there didn't you.

"I, uh... I can't tell you that. I'd be lying," she admits, her expression turning apologetic. "She was pregnant the first time we met. And-- you asked."

The look he gives her is pretty much borderline horrified. Because holy shit what the fuck.

"That is the literal worst. Oh my God. I promise I will never inject you with spiders."

"I--"

What. Poison splutters out a laugh, pressing a hand over her mouth to hide a sudden grin. Oh Peter.

"I... Thank you? I think?"

Yeah that

hadn't come out quite how he'd wanted it to.

Actually he had no idea how he'd wanted it to come out in the first place but it definitely wasn't like that. Needless to say his face is bright red right now and he has both hands clamped over his mouth.

"That wasn't what I meant to say at all. I just-- I-- y'know, just... never mind."

She had a feeling that he didn't mean it to come out that way, and once upon a time her mind would not have immediately slid to where it did the moment those words left his mouth.

"It's the thought that counts," she says, pursing her lips slightly to hold back a laugh. "I never wanted children, and definitely not spider children."

"I one hundred percent agree and I'm probably going to be spending a lot of time at the clinic making sure that can never happen, just in case."

Maybe he should just stop running his mouth before he makes a bigger ass of himself. Like maybe by playing air hockey, wATCH OUT POISON he just whacked the puck straight at your goal.

"Thinking ahead?"

Is she trying to embarrass him? Yes, perhaps, but in her efforts she misses the puck entirely and it rattles into the goal in front of her. She smacks the edge of the table, pressing her lips together.

Damn it.

His victory is short lived because now he's trying not to panic.

"Well-- I mean, kind of, I guess? It's just, if, y'know, we decide somewhere down the line that we wanna do uh, something-- something more than just kissing? I just wanna make sure it would be safe."

WOW he hopes he's not coming across as some sort of creep.

If he hadn't had a drink, would they even be having this conversation? Years ago this topic would have made Poison uncomfortable beyond all belief but she stays calm now without a blush to be seen, and rests her elbows against the edge of the table.

"... I'd like that," she hears herself say as she picks up another puck and places it on the table.

"You know. Eventually."

They absolutely wouldn't be because he is the most shy dude ever. But here they are, having this conversation and Peter hadn't creeped her out, so he's going to call that a win.

Or a half win, she may not be blushing but he is about as red as a person can get right now. He'll just blame that on the booze.

"I-- y-yeah, I'd like that too! Like, eventually." He's going to start running all kinds of tests on himself at the clinic tomorrow.

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