An Early Mardi Gras

[bayoublues]

[That was certainly...an ordeal, alright. These trials just kept getting worse and worse as time went on. Within the span of twenty-four hours, six more people died. Four of them had been friends. And Lekmet, he--he thought--

Never mind that. Everyone else was probably hurting just as bad as he was. Last week, Kim had told Louis that he shouldn't be alone while he was sad--that sympathy probably extended to everyone else. He had to do something to help. The dead deserved a decent send off.

Well, except maybe Negaduck. But that's different.

After the trial, Louis seems to have disappeared back into his room. After a few hours, though, a messy, handwritten note is shoved under everyone's door.]



(EARLY) MARDI GRAS PARTY
-JAZZ
-DRINKS AND FOOD
-FUN AND FRIENDS
[He neglected to put the location down on the invite, but one can follow the sound of Louis's trumpet into the dining room. The place has been draped with colorful, half-finished banners--gold, purple, and green. Further down the table, a few bottles of alcohol and fruit juice have been neatly lined up next to a stack of paper cups. There's also a pasta bar set up, with individual bowls of spaghetti, pasta sauce, and Parmesan cheese. Hardly Mardi Gras food, but it's the only thing Louis knows how to make. At least there's also a plate of beignets.

Standing at the back of the room is Louis, playing trumpet like his life depends on it. His repertoire for tonight? The songs he's heard while watching humans parade through New Orleans on Mardi Gras. Songs about being carefree, about forgetting your worries, about enjoying life while it lasts.

Louis doesn't seem particularly interested in talking right now. He's not going to let people mope tonight. They deserved a good fucking party after everything, dammit, and they were going to get one.]

Comments

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[Okay, so, Allene has to admit, she hides in her room after that mess. That was a disaster. They lost five people and an evil double and then she got exposed as an evil double. I mean, sure, she's no Negaduck but. She's still kinda terrified.

Eventually though, after she briefly sneaks off to the artists studio to make some... adjustments to one of her casual shirts. Which brings to her arriving at the party with a shirt labelled I'M NOT SQUIRREL GIRL in big white letters. Its an inside joke.]

Who's ready to jazz and food, cuz Allene's ready to party!!!!

her room

[astronomics]

[ Jyn is just gonna... after giving her a little time alone, she's gonna knock on the door. ]

Allene?

[lovelylilmouse]

[Yeah, she's having a terrible time. You can find Minnie in her room following the trial - it's not surprising if Minnie was one of the first to leave the trial room as soon as it ended. She wasn't able to find a whole lot of evidence when the bodies were discovered, and on top of feeling completely worthless to the trial, she had to witness someone die to the dip- and although she didn't really care that it was Negaduck, it's still something she didn't want to ever be thinking about.

So, she's a mess!

However, when she receives the invitation to yet another party, she hesitates a little bit before she decides to go. She follows the sound of Louis' trumpet to the dining room, and finds herself taking a seat down at the closest chair she could grab. She's still out of it, very clearly thinking of everything that had just happened, but she can't help but to listen to the music with a small smile on her face. At least that seemed to be cheering her up a little bit.]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ So this brush with death just happened and Gaston is still freaked out. He hasn't said a word since the trial, and is acting nothing like his usual spirited irrepressible obnoxious self. Instead, he walks into the dining room and without a word goes for the booze. He picks up a whole bottle for himself and immediately takes it over to the corner, where he slumps into a chair and starts drinking heavily. ]

[angelgoatdemon]

[Well.

He's pretty shaken right now and probably can't look anyone in the eye. What he does well is cooking, and he's about to serve duck. So much duck. Peking duck, roast duck, duck soup, etc. For a tall goat guy he's hard to spot in the Dining room, if anyone glances at him for too long, he'll make a run for it.

Everything's pretty awkward now that a misvote nearly killed everyone. It should've just been him and Negaduck among the six. So he's feeling...survivors guilt? or some kind of weird twisted remorse and--

Oh would you look at that! Time to head up to the medical room to change his bandages.

He hopes you enjoy your meal!]

[doopdoll]

Wait. No party yet. [Look, Molly's a little pissed. First off, none of you helped her kick Hades' ass, and while she won't admit it, she was maybe a little too scared to do it on her own. Secondly, what is this shirt.]

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[kickbuttseatnuts]

[Guess who's face down on the bed babe

There's a muffled "hey hon"]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[She claps her hands together.] Molly, today was a very bad day and I think what we all need right now is a great distraction.

[Just ignore the shirt, its fine, this was supposed to answer all the questions]

[astronomics]

[ Just gonna.... walk on over and sit next to her. ]

How... are you?

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[There's a wiggly movement. A lot of wiggly movement. Before she finally brings up her head to just:]

I'm trying to shrug here but it won't work with the sheets.

[faciliheir]

[you know what. Freddie is a VK. a villain kid. that means she's half villain and half [truck horn]. that means she can do whatever she wants.

so that means FUCK legality. FUCK the fact that she doesn't even like it. that bottle of rum is now HERS and HER FRAYED NERVES'.

how the fuck do you even drink this shit. how did the Hooks do it? just fucking pop the bottle and swig it down--]

Yeeccch! [... okay maybe the second will be-- NOPE JUST AS BAD AS THE FIRST.]

[holdthetrumpet]

[Hey guess who else has the idea to drink heavily? This guy, who saw his best friend here get dismembered in the worst possible way and slowly bleed out. He settles next to Gaston (though all he's got is a cup, not a bottle), takes a sip, and makes a face.

He's... he doesn't drink a lot.]

This had better be worth it.

[doopdoll]

Every day is a very bad day! We're trapped in a murder house! And I don't mean a house that murders people!

[astronomics]

[ Jyn smiles fondly and just kind of. Lies down next to her. ]

I think you handled Hades very well, all things considered.

[kickbuttseatnuts]

I assumed that was implied! Although there could be something to the house itself messing with us so we murder.

[doopdoll]

[Don't mind Molly, she's just sitting in a corner, seething after the trial. She's too lonely to sulk off to her room, but she's mad at pretty much everyone here. She's aggressively slurping spaghetti noodles, drinking copious amounts of fruit juice, and making faces at people across the room.

Basically, she's being the world's biggest child right now.]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[She's just gonna flop into her lap.]

He's a human tennis elbow. I hope he transfers to the local prison in hell.

[doopdoll]

Like a bajillion people just died, we met the guy who's got all our friends trapped and did nothing except tease him a bunch, and now we're having a Mardi Gras party, and it's not even Mardi Gras!

This is messed up! [is that really whats wrong though.]

[astronomics]

We can only hope.

[notasingleword]

Maybe take it easy Freddie. It's not worth it.

[She tries to ease it away from her girlfriend...]

dining room

[bayoublues]

[There's the audible crack of a trumpet note, punctuating Lekmet's entrance. Louis continues to play, albeit with increased tempo and a few glances towards the goat's direction.

Once he finishes this particular song, he hesitates. It takes him a few moments to muster up the courage to carefully start making his way over to the goat.]

You--You doin' alright, man?

[nachosquire]

[He said he couldn't watch her execution and he absolutely meant it.

Up until Hades showed up, Marco had spent the time sitting on the floor in front of his pedestal, singing Love Sentence songs to himself with his head covered with his hoodie as he tried to block out Kim's screams, her sobs. The floor next to him opening up to send Negaduck down to his death only made him scoot close to Hiro's side, singing louder even as the shadows came and then it all just.. stopped. He managed to keep his cool when talking to Hades, and he kept it while going to Kim's room to take Saba but the moment he returned to his own room with the sword he.. broke down.

He sobbed to Saba, telling him about how Kim had killed four of their friends without even realizing it and that he heard her screaming and sobbing so frightfully. Of course, the sword didn't take the news in well at all so.. honestly Marco skips the party this time. To console Saba, and himself.

Though his door is open, and anyone walking by can see Marco just laying on his bed, curled up with the sword hugged (carefully) to his chest as the two of them moped silently together over Kim's death.]

[faciliheir]

Why do all the adults get an easy way to forget? [nooo ariel give it back...]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[She sighs in Jyn's lap, for a quiet minute.]

...I wanted to tell 'em. I told Kim last week, I was gearing up for the rest.

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[Okay this. Actually seems like a bigger problem than she thought.]

...We've seen how powerful Randy is. And Hades scares the heck out of him. And judging by that display back there... they've got other friends.

It just wasn't a smart call to attack.