stateofdecay | END OF THE WORLD PARTY

4 Days Until the Horde

Everyone in the Quad is deep in preparations for the massive horde coming from Danforth when word goes out from Whitney Field Depot: you're all invited to the Lobby tonight for one last(??) big shindig before we all die(??)!

At 7 PM, the theater troupe presents a one-hour episode of Supernatural, which any true fans will soon realize is Tegan's AO3 fanfic and not an actual episode. Brothers Sam and Dean Winchester (Evening O'Leary and Bo Bloodgood) team up with the angel Castiel (Odyssey) to investigate a series of ritualistic murders meant to kickstart the apocalypse. After Sam is captured by Lucifer (Blythe Ferry), Dean and Castiel must work alone together and discover that the murders are the work of John Winchester (Edgar de Leon), now evil and resurrected by demons. Featuring: Sexual tension! Casual blasphemy! Daddy issues!

From there, everyone's invited to return to the Lobby to drink, relax, make new friends and plan for the horde if you absolutely must do that.

Guidelines

⚾ Tonight's Theme: The apocalypse!! Again!!!

⚾ Hot Weapons: Firearms, ammo and explosives must be checked in at the gate and will be returned to you when you leave. Cold weapons (blades, bludgeons, crossbows) are fine to take inside.

⚾ Drinks: One free drink per hour, whether that's mystery punch (moonshine, water and whatever mixture of powdered drink flavors they have on hand, which today is blue-green in color) or non-alcoholic punch. Water is available any time. Other drinks are on the menu but must be traded for.

⚾ Cannabis: No free samples tonight, but it's in stock at the trading post.

⚾ Overnight: Four (4) beds are open in the guest quarters in the sublevel, going to whoever claims them first, and the rest can camp in the outfield. There are enough sleeping bags to accommodate everyone, but only six (6) small tents. Up to you where your character ends up tonight!

Locations

ARRIVALS

Check in if your character attending! Are they in a partying mood or here against their will? Dressed like it's 1999 or just wearing whatever they had on hand? How do they feel about the approaching horde?

THE LOBBY

The bar serves alcohol and water, and a few other options if you've got merit or items to trade. The trading post is open if you need to stock up on essentials. A table is set up with snacks, including a big charcuterie board with bread, cheese, dried fruit and meats, and honey.

THE REC ROOM

Formerly the gift shop, now stocked with books and board games, and tables and chairs. There's also a pool table and a foosball table!

THE OUTFIELD

Step outside for some fresh air or a bit of quiet. The community garden is a nice place for a walk.

✨ THEATER

The stage is a cobbled together collection of wooden pallets in the parking lot, plus portable stairs that seem very rickety whenever an actor jumps on it. What did you think of the show?

MONARCH OF THE APOCALYPSE

If the one drink per hour limit isn't doing for you, you're invited to join the drinking contest. Whoever's still standing at the end gets 3 merits and a tiara!

END OF THE NIGHT

Last call is at 2 AM. Are you headed back to your community, or staying overnight at Whitney?

OOC CHATTER

Questions, comments, requests for scenes?

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Mara has left a crate of her vinyls in the rec room along with a record player (which is not hooked up to the stadium's sound system tonight, for obvious reasons). Anyone is welcome to play DJ. Jem's been leafing through the collection for the last few minutes and finally has a selection.

But drawing a vinyl out of its sleeve and putting it on a turntable is a lot harder to do one-handed than just flip through records, and he spends a moment struggling with it before heaving a sigh and leaning his head back to appraise the situation. Gotta find a new angle to come in from.

Beau needs a break from the people and noise, but Carter's intense mood all day means her blood pressure will spike if Beau leaves her line of sight. So she escapes into the rec room instead, nursing a cup of water and looking for a comfortable chair to fall into.

Only to walk right up to where Jem is fumbling with the record player. "Shit, not you," Beau says without thinking.

Jem takes this in stride. He always tends to assume pretty girls are mad at him for some reason or another, and he's noticed her ambivalence towards him the past few days. Though he spends a long moment looking at her after she comes in, he eventually returns his attention to fiddling with the vinyl records.

"You want me to leave?" he asks, pointedly not looking over at her as he speaks.

Beau presses her cup to her forehead in a futile attempt to sober up. The Jem who's the charming leader of Prescott and the Jem who's Dutch's cute pseudo-brother still feel like two different people to her, and she can't be saying something stupid to either of them.

"I can't tell the heroic invalid to leave." Like that. Dammit. Beau peers at him from under her cup. "What do you have?"

This gets a chuckle out of Jem, but he doesn't otherwise acknowledge it, instead gingerly picking the still-sleeved record up and propping it on its end so she can see the cover: Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago.

Beau's parents loved collecting records—separately. Her mother, the former dancer, had Tchaikovsky and Pugni, but also Fleetwood Mac and Annie Lennox, while her father had Jay-Z and Wu-Tang Clan in heavy rotation. Amazing that they didn't divorce sooner. Beau went in a completely different direction than either of them, and knows only one Bon Iver song.

She takes a step closer to Jem, ostensibly for a better look at the album. "You're the sensitive type?" Barely a question, the way she says it.

END OF THE WORLD PARTY

THE REC ROOM: Jem & OPEN

THE REC ROOM: Jem & Beau

THE REC ROOM: Jem & Beau

THE REC ROOM: Jem & Beau

THE REC ROOM: Jem & Beau

THE REC ROOM: Jem & Beau