They say it's your birthday

[not_good_not_wicked]

Who: Whoever saw this post, or who might have heard about it from some third party.
What: Marisa turns 18, goes for laser tag and pizza.
Where: The mall. Later, Marisa's house.
When: Dec 1, so before the school madness went down. Starting mid afternoon and continuing on through the night.
Warning: Minors in possession


Monsters and police conspiracies are great and all, but you only turn 18 once. Even her mom had come out of seclusion to help set everything up. They had rented out the Laser Tag place at the mall for two rounds, totaling to about an hour when you count the brief rest break between them. The laser tag arena was filled with hazers filling the air with just enough fog that you could sort of trace the beam, black lights, and mazes of black plywood with robots and stuff painted on them. There were no teams or anything like that, if you got shot then your sensor vest would vibrate for a second and your gun would stop firing for five seconds. At the end, everyone got a scorecard showing how much they shot each other player and how much each other player shot them.

Afterwards, pizza party at a buffet style place. All the mediocre pizza you can eat and free refills on the drinks! Also probably time to offer any gifts to the birthday girl. She spent the whole time here wearing a silvery paper crown.

Later on, as everyone else was going home, a few of the attendees were invited to Marisa's home. There, the orders of the evening were stupid high school comedies on TV, along with popcorn and drinks.

Unlike at the buffet, these drinks were not all soft drinks.

(OOC: Feel free to set your replies at any point during the party. There will be no subthreads.)

Comments

Food

[stavros]

Tessa placed her present -- shiny black wrapping paper, naturally -- on the pile, shrugged off her jacket, and saved her place with it. She shivered at a point and threw the jacket back over her shoulders. Maybe the polka-dot dress with the skeleton on it hadn't been a good idea for winter.

"What do they actually have here?"

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa looked around, hands on her hips. "Pizza, pasta, pizza, salad, some soups, and pizza. And some desserts, looks like. Not a bad spread."

[stavros]

"Does anybody actually eat soup at a pizza place?" Tessa wondered. She took her plate up and perused the buffet. "Or is it a hopeless token venture towards health that will never be pursued?"

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa started loading up her plate with supreme pizza.

"Definitely the second one."

[stavros]

"The state of the world is a frightening thing."

Tessa went for some kind with black olives on it. As black as her SOUL no, actually, that was probably why she got it. The cherry dessert pizza, on the other hand, just looked good.

"I thank you once more for your invitation."

Marisa's place / He got her the StE-verse version of Doom Patrol :D

[moarnomsplz]

Alex had eaten four slices of pizza earlier, but still went right for the popcorn at Marisa's house.

He hoped she hadn't read the graphic novel he'd picked out for her (rejecting the better-known one that followed the personifications of various sins and virtues), which was about people with strange powers reluctantly using them for good. It had seemed especially apropos. He'd made a partly-successful attempt to wrap it nicely, in paper that was pink, yes, but with black skulls and crossbones on it.

Instead of the StE-verse version of Sandman?

[not_good_not_wicked]

Teenage boys. Always hungry. This is a well known fact.

Tragically, Marisa already had a copy of this very book, but not the one he had skipped over. She did a pretty good job at not letting it show though, and resolved to not let him into her room until she had a chance to take the old one off the shelf. It was old and falling apart, anyways, so a fresh one was nice. Not that...she was planning on inviting him to her room...

She leaned over to briefly put one arm over his shoulder in a side hug while making a show of reading the back. "Thanks! Did you get that wrapping paper for me too?"

Exactly!

[moarnomsplz]

Alex couldn't tell at all that he'd picked the wrong graphic novel, and even if he'd been observant enough to see anything that gave it away in Marisa's expression, he would've been effectively distracted by the half-hug, and by trying in vain to keep from letting out a totally undignified 'eep.'

But he rallied, and grinned. "Of course, corr-suh. It seemed very you."

[not_good_not_wicked]

"It wasn't a bad choice."

Personal space was restored soon enough (or all too soon, depending on how you looked at it). She balled up the paper and threw it at the trash can, but missed.

Food

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Britany had shown up too late for the first game, but had done very well in the second - her reflexes oddly well-honed for someone as computer-geeky as she usually was.

Then came food time... And a small box, wrapped in some paper bags cut and folded into loosely the appropriate shape slipped onto Marisa's presents pile, as Rita sat down with an entire pepperoni pizza's worth of slices stacked onto one plate.

"Not a bad place at all, if you ask me."

Re: Food

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Mmgph." She agreed, around a mouthful of pizza.

After swallowing she went on with "Yeah, lucky break. I chose it because it was next door to the laser tag."

Re: Food

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

"Pretty cheap, too. Gotta remember this place!"

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Try Big Slab Pizza. It's a bit more pricey, but they make good pizza and play good music."

She shrugged "I almost had us go there instead of here, but the parking is terrible and getting a ton of people there would be an exercise in misery."

Laser Tag

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

Reimu is currently strapping on her weird looking vest, looking a bit dubious as she prepares to play Laser Tag with everyone else. It's not that she doesn't want to play. She's just never played this before. She thinks she gets the basic idea though.


"... These things are a little awkward, aren't they."

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Ever played before? I'm sure you get used to it."

Marisa was "shooting" everyone in sight, not that it mattered since the guns hadn't been turned on yet.

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

"No, I haven't." Reimu shook her head as she finished putting it on.

"So, all I have to do is shoot people with this thing and make sure not to get hit too often myself, right?" It seemed pretty simple at least.

[not_good_not_wicked]

"That's the gist of it."

Suddenly sirens blared, lights flashed, the door to the maze opened, and a robot voice on a speaker said "THIRTY SECONDS TO LASER ACTIVATION. FLEE TO THE MAZE, HUMANS, OR MEET YOUR DOOM."

whenever

[eras]

[ Aria, for her part, enjoys the brief interludes of normalcy these days, when they come. She'll show up and play laser tag, giving it her all (seriously, she will stop drop and roll out of your way try her) and will also stuff her face with pizza. Mediocre or no, it's pizza.

She'll also head to Marisa's home, eventually.

Find her wherever; she's normally happy to chat.

For the birthday girl, she got a charm bracelet with a few witchy-symbol things on it; a broom, a hat, a cat. That sort of thing. ]

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa put on the bracelet on the spot, then more or less forgot about it except for slow moments when she would fiddle with the charms. The gift didn't stop her from showing Aria no mercy in laser battle.

In between the two rounds, Marisa flumped down on the bench in the waiting area next to her.

"Whew. That stuff is tiring."

[eras]

Aria doesn't mind the no-mercy part. She'd be upset if someone didn't give it their all - where would the fun in that be?

The comment gets a grin, even as Aria takes a drink from her water bottle, waiting a moment to answer. "Just a little bit, huh? I'm going to be beat tonight."

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Hopefully the pizza and cake will provide a revitalizing effect. The night is young."

Very young. It's, like, 3:30.

Also Food

[vetala]

Kanti isn't much for lazer tag for a variety of reasons, most involving a fear that she will get a little over enthusiastic and accidentally cut something in half. So naturally she stayed out of that portion of the party as much as she could, though she did get a sort of visceral sense of joy watching people run around and shoot each other. Which is probably a warning sign in some circles, but also shut up.

When she's done being obvious about not actually eating anything outside of breadsticks or drinking anything except for what she brought in a water bottle, she presents her gift to Marisa. It's that comic book she asked for! Well, not really. It's only issue #98 because that was the one she could find, but she worked hard for it, dammit!

"Happy birthday!" She sounds almost cheerful when she says it too. Look at that...

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa made a face, but the laser tag wasn't mandatory so she let it go and had plenty of fun anyways.

Afterwards, there was food and it was good. Marisa actually looked more surprised than anything at the gift. "Woah you actually found it! Thanks!"

[vetala]

"Sorry," Kanti says, looking almost sheepish, "I could only find the one."

Kanti has a lot of almost emotions that aren't really all that emotional. It's just how she rolls.

"However, I learned a few things. There are some interesting titles that I'm considering looking a little more into. I'd just rather... not actually have to talk to anyone I actually met while about them." Not because of any particularly intimidating atmosphere but more because as we all know, unfortunately, people.

[not_good_not_wicked]

"Ah...you met comic book guys?"

She rolled her eyes, "I 'accidentally' kicked them in the shins a few times, and eventually they stopped bugging me."

The fact that she tended to favor heavy boots for footware made the prospect of shin kicks unpleasant to say the least.