It's all fun and games until someone dies

[folkscallmewander]

[On Saturday afternoon, Wander tapes 23 identical letters on identical stationary. He would have folded them and slide them under the doors, but the entrance to Fiddleford's room was coated in salt and possibly other condiments that hadn't been cleaned, and ruining his letter in particular would send the wrong message.]

GAME NIGHT TONIGHT

Dear neighbor, you are cordially invited to the game room this evening for a get-to-know-everyone party. There will be games! Food! Drinks! Icebreakers! Games!

I hope that we can all find the time to work together and see each other as friends!

♥ Wander and Sylvia

[The game room is less dusty in the evening with the addition of several paper chains hanging on the walls and a table laid out with cards, safety pins, food (chips and dip, Wander's triple pickle cream pie, and a cheese platter), and two pitchers of peach lemonade. Each card has blanks spaces for the participants to fill out: name and favorite food.

There's board games and a spot on the floor for group party games. Wander sets up a game for Spin the Bottle, though everyone is free to set up any game they want.

Have fun and hopefully no one will get murdered!]

Comments

Mingle

[folkscallmewander]

Board Games

[folkscallmewander]

Spin the Bottle

[folkscallmewander]

[Only instead of kissing, you give the other person a hug.]

[chainbroke]

[ what the heckie is this

She's standing here, looking at the bottle curiously. ]

Is this a game?

[thetimebomb]

[Sylvia is easily the first person to arrive here after Wander. She would hardly call herself a friend if she didn't attend the party and she did promise to help out... even if she practically demand Wander to so that he didn't have to do everything by himself.

She brings over some chips and slightly burnt cheese dip. She wasn't too bad of a cook but she really couldn't remember the last time she cooked on a stove and vastly underestimated how hard cheese dip can be to make.

.. She also brought some premade dip too just so you don't have to suffer.

As she fills out her name card, she speaks aloud.]

It's a shame they don't have a karaoke machine here. It's not about to ruin my night but I'd at least like to see what songs they'd put on it.

[Also she would spend all night at it and she is really in the mood to just spend hours singing.]

[kindaruledatit]

What? You've never played Spin the Bottle before?

[Wendy, you are an avid party-goer, you have no room to talk.]

[chainbroke]

No... what do you do, exactly?

[thetimebomb]

[Thanks buddy but she's just gonna lay back and watch. There is no way she's gonna hug a bunch of strangers she's met this week, especially if that might include Fiddleford.]

[kindaruledatit]

[oh no, she's a sweet child.]

Oh, well... you sit in a circle, and you're supposed to give the bottle a spin. Whoever it ends up pointing at, you have to do something.

Do... [What is i-oh.] Hug them? Yeah, that.

[tangerinetrees]

Hug spin the bottle, huh? I'm down with this.

[ COME ONE, COME ALL, HUG AN ALIEN! ]

[tangerinetrees]

[ Aw, this is a neat idea! Karolina arrives pretty early on with some vegan... snacks, I'll worry about it if people ask, and very promptly fills out her namecard! She's put on her best happy/excited face, but has elected to keep on her bracelet, so no sick rainbow alien raves tonight.

At least not yet. It's still early! ]

This is a really good idea!

[kindaruledatit]

Well at least no photos can end up online.

[hit her with your best hugs, guys. She's ready for it.]

[kindaruledatit]

[Throwing a party is easily one of the best ideas Wendy's heard of around here yet. And she'd be flat-out lying if she wasn't going to at least check it out. Didn't she tell someone they'd have a party after they got out of this mess?

She comes with a bag of chips she found in the kitchen (#helping) and slaps her nametag on, and she's ready to mingle!

Which involves leaning against one of the walls and watching for now, apparently. At least she looks cool.]

[toogoodforhim]

[LeFou has never seen this kind of food before.

Well, except cheese. He's seen cheese before, even though in the village cheese designations don't get more complicated than "hard or soft," so he's just going to. Stick with what he knows.

He has his note folded up in his hand, awkwardly creasing it and picking at the corner, like maybe if he keeps it with him he'll be allowed to stay.]

What's going on? Is this the same thing that the paper's about?

[outsidethecircle]

[Anna... really doesn't want to be here. At all. Sorry, she loves you all but dear Disney there's so many of you.

She just sets a plate of sandwiches on the table and heads to the corner. Not before filling out a card, though (Anna Sasaki, oranges). She's trying to be social, really.]

[trashcubes]

[... Instead of spinning the bottle, WALL-E picks it up and looks at it curiously, bringing it up to one of the eyes to look through.

How do you play this game, we don't get it.]

[ilovepuppies]

[Has Star met you yet? Doesn't matter, she's still running up to you with a big grin on her face.]

Hiiiii! This is a great party, huh?

[of course she filled out a card, too; Star Butterfly, sugar]

[ilovepuppies]

Oooh, a match-making ritual!

[Star, no]

[ilovepuppies]

[Star rummages through the board games for a minute, then stops and gasps loudly at one in particular.]

CANDYLAND.........

[defyingfrigidity]

It seems Wander and Sylvia want to throw some sort of party.

[Hello again LeFou! Elsa thankfully.... won't ask him why he didn't read the paper, so hey. Less awkwardness all around.]

I can't say this would've been something I thought to do, considering our situation, but... it seems like it would be a good distraction, wouldn't it?

[And that's sort of what they need right now, isn't it? Elsa's not positive enough to think that this could fully stop them from thinking about their situation, but she needs something else to focus on so she doesn't go nuts with worry!]

[defyingfrigidity]

Are parties where you come from always this... casual?

[Ever since her coronation, she and Anna have thrown some parties, but they were the kinds that you dressed up for, with food much more extravagant and musicians and dancing and.... nothing that she sees here.]

[folkscallmewander]

Sometimes we have to make do with what we have. I'm sure you'll still have fun even without karaoke!

[Deep down Wander is kind of relieved. He loves you Sylvia but your singing really really could use some work.]

Looks like the others brought food of their own.

[folkscallmewander]

[Sometime after the game is explained to her, Wander spins the bottle so hard that it blurs into a circle.]

Go, go, go, go! [He clenches his fists and shakes them while the bottle slows until it points at Namine.]

Hug time! [Need time to prepare? Sorry, Wander is already jumping next to her, wrapping his arms around her shoulders, and squeezing. What is personal space?]

[kindaruledatit]

[Oh my]

You uh, a big fan of that one?

[ilovepuppies]

I want to go there.