surprise party for court 🐮

[halligan]

WHO: Prescott + Beau, Bunny, Carter, Duke, Emmett, John, and Nat (& "folks who might not know court but would think she's extremely cool" – Beau). However, anyone can join — OOCly, it's open to all.
WHEN: Sunday, November 17. Evening.
WHERE: Prescott fire house's kitchen.
WHAT: A surprise birthday party for Court! Planned here.
WARNINGS: I made AI generate the main image and it's horrifying.

court's 36th birthday!!!

the gist

it's court's birthday!! arlo arranged a surprise party in the kitchen of prescott's fire house and invited whoever he thinks her friends are.

celebrate, eat, drink, and if you can't get home safely at the end of the night he'll roll you into a bed in the bunkhouse.

while only some characters were officially invited, feel free to write anyone in! just say they were at prescott on business idc.

the details

zelda deemed the theme to be unhinged cow print and raided the danforth walmart for decorations, including cow print diningware and inflatable horses.
arlo made egg-free veggie burgers and chocolae mousse.
everyone else brought whatever they brought; i'm not listing them, you do it.

& because no party's complete without a stupid drinking game, there's drunk jenga!

code

Comments

ARRIVALS/VIBES: Arlo

[halligan]

Although he has the unmistakable air of someone who jumped back into non-stop work and sleeping in a truck before he'd recovered from Black Fever fatigue, Arlo does his best to be his best self! No dirtbag ex-husband here, just Court's oldest friend! Please don't look at him too closely! The whole night's about making Court have A Really Nice Time and he's determined to see it through.

He starts it off in jeans and his Danforth FD comfort fleece & eventually ends up in a lime green Lymeston Chrysler Charity Kickball Tournament 2007 tee (you can't be choosy when you're built like Arlo in an apocalypse). Having managed to scrape together nearly everything he needed, he spent a while working on the food, which is a recipe from the before-times.

Court's gift is presented with the apology that "Ain't much left of our old life but I found a few things I thought. I dunno. You might want around or something." It's a Baltimore Ravens jersey wrapped around three more things: two journals and a small collection of shark teeth. (More accurately: her jersey, her journal, an empty journal he'd been keeping around for exactly this day, and her shark teeth, liberated from their house in Danforth.)

Re: ARRIVALS/VIBES: Arlo

[castnet]

Arlo gets an approximation of the best bear hug she can currently do, and oh my goooood are those his famous veggie burgers he'd been talking about making?? For her??? She hasn't put together things like Arlo invited John on Nat's word yet, but surely if she does nothing bad or awkward could happen there!

Her brow furrows when Arlo mentions their old life and finding things and what the entails, and suddenly there's a very familiar pile of fabric set in front of her and Court feels her breath caught in her chest before she even fully realizes why. "Did you...?" She trails off, continually peeking between Arlo and the gift before finally opening it with a small gasp. "You went to the Mossy Creek avenue apartment?" There's a million questions she wants to ask about the state of things, yet also feared many of the answers.

Picking up one of the medium sized shark teeth - a sand shark, her favorite - Court closes her hand around it and takes a long, slow breath, hoping it's not obvious how suddenly emotional and deeply touched she is. Eyes the slightest bit glassy as she opens them again, Court tries to convey her thanks even though she only manages a slightly tight smile due to myriad of emotions currently swirling. "Thank you," she breathes.