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Dylan Brock (616) ([personal profile] codicies) wrote in [community profile] metalogs2022-10-08 12:04 pm

CLOSED | Dylan's 15th Birthday

Who: Dylan Brock [personal profile] codicies, his housemates, and those invited to the party — which is pretty much everyone he's had a positive interaction with.
What: Dylan's 15th birthday party, a bonfire cookout!
When: October 8
Where: Home of Diana Prince in Little Love, KS
Content Warnings: none (but will label things if asked)





Dylan's 15th Birthday Bonfire



Toplevel Prompts:



  • SETUP

  • (CLOSED to Dylan's housemates & anyone who might have showed up early to help prep)

    Setting up for the party beforehand.




  • FOOD

  • Autumn has set in. The daytime is cool, the evenings are chilly, and there's a bonfire roaring in one of Diana's fields. Dylan's been prepping food for the party all morning — There's sausages, s'more supplies, and shish kebabs stacked with meat & vegetables. There's even some sweet potatoes! He saw a video on Japanese street food and wanted to try cooking potatoes on the fire in foil.

    As for drinks, of course water and soda are available, but he managed to borrow some coffee urns from a kind caterer in town in exchange for a little manual labor. Now he's got a great setup for hot coffee, hot chocolate, AND hot cider all evening!

    There's also a VERY large sheet cake for serving later. He'd been offered a brain-shaped cake, but the pictures had been a little too realistic, and he didn't think he (or the guests) would find it all too appetizing.

    Though he's a little afraid the brain cake is still coming out, whether he likes it or not, but the sheet cake will be what he uses to blow out the candles, thank you very much.



  • SWORDPLAY

  • One of the gifts Dylan received was a real-life sword from Diana! He's been taking lessons from her and is ready to try it out. There's a little clearing a little ways from the bonfire where he's trying it out. If you want, you can come and spar — with Dylan, with Diana, or even with each other. With swords, sticks, or even with fists!! Come join the impromptu Fight Club.

    EDIT to add: there are real AND wooden swords available for sparring, as well as wooden & straw dummies to practice on as well!



  • GAME TIME

  • There are frisbees, a football, soccer balls, even a ninepin set?? Do you have these games in your world? There's all kinds of fun sports gear available. Or you could grab something at random and start a game of Calvinball.



  • FIRESIDE

  • With the daylight fading, the fire becomes the center of activity. As you roast marshmallows or weiners (or grab one of those potatoes out of the fire) everyone huddles around, seated on rocks, stumps or lawn chairs as we all sing songs and tell stories.

    Any spooky tales from your homeworld? Any songs you'd like to sing? Dylan had gotten a few guitar lessons from Jaskier before he disappeared, so if you start singing, he'll try to follow along with chords!



  • FIREWORKS

  • oh my god who brought those. please don't set any crops on fire. EXTINGUISHERS ON STANDBY.



  • WILDCARD

  • Any Standard Bonfire Activities I've forgotten, go ahead and throw them in!




  • After-Party Sleepover
  • (CLOSED to Dylan's housemates + Nico, Will, Hunter, Hibiki, and Chris Yukine)

    Six teenagers sleeping on couches & air mattresses in the living room, watching movies... what crimes will they commit?
    doctopoda: (get hype)

    Otto Octavius | OTA + closed

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-09 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
    i. octo-cab service (closed to Jason)

    [Truthfully, without having a role to play, Otto might not have attended the party at all.

    It's nothing personal. He likes Dylan and Eddie! Just...well, he hasn't been to a fifteen-year-old's birthday party since he was that age himself; he's not quite sure what he's meant to do there. And...well, maybe he finds excuses to bow out of social affairs more than he used to. It's just...different, these days.

    Point being, though - he was asked to help out, so of course he'll do that! Dylan has a few unaligned friends in other cities without transport, and Otto has his own teleporter courtesy of the Alliance. He's probably not meant to be using it to cart unaligned metas around on social calls, but honestly that is half of what he does with it.

    He hasn't actually spoken to this Jason before. Dylan was the one to set everything up and send him the meetup coordinates. As he teleports in, Otto spares a second to hope that Dylan mentioned the entire actuator situation to his friend.]


    Jason?


    ii. swordplay

    [Of course once he's there, Otto sticks around. It'd just be rude otherwise.

    When the impromptu fight club begins, he's stood off to the side, watching Dylan and the sword with something that looks like muted horror.]


    Is this what kid's parties look like these days?


    iii. fireside.

    [Thank god, the rest of the party is a little more normal!

    Otto sits on a filed-down stump he's procured from somewhere or other, rather than a chair like everyone else. He doesn't tend to get along well with chairs.

    Fire, on the other hand, is easy! He's got marshmallows on a skewer in one claw, and a potato held loosely in the other. That actuator spins its claw back and forth a little as it sits in the flames, excited to be trying to cook a potato! For his part, Otto's drinking a hot cider.]


    You can see the stars so well, away from the city like this.

    [...still not moving to Kansas, though.]


    iv. wildcard

    (( hit me up at [plurk.com profile] lluosogrwydd if you want to do something else. or just tag me with it. ))
    robintohood: (With a direction)

    [personal profile] robintohood 2022-10-09 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
    [Jason was surprised when Sleeper invited him to Dylan's birthday party. Truthfully he was more friends with Sleeper than with Dylan. Not that he had anything against the kid. It's just that they haven't talked as much as Jason has with Sleeper.

    Ultimately though, he decides to come. It helps that Dylan arranged his transportation.

    In Central City, Jason waits at the meetup point with a wrapped box. He then waves when Otto says his name. With the older man's tentacles it seems it would've been impossible to miss him]

    Hey. Otto, right?
    doctopoda: (still making bad jokes)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-09 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
    Yes. Otto Octavius, good to meet you.

    [He steps forward to offer a handshake. One of the tentacles is holding a wrapped box as well, coiled around it to leave the claw still free. Handy!]

    You ready to go?
    robintohood: (And a villain)

    [personal profile] robintohood 2022-10-10 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
    [Jason nods and shakes his hand while thinking how appropriate Otto's name is. Are the tentacles a choice or a meta ability?]

    Pretty much. Thanks again for doing this. You sure the guilds won't mind?
    doctopoda: (romantic advice)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-10 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
    [Don't worry about it!

    At the question, Otto just snorts.]


    I won't tell them if you don't.

    [He starts keying in the next coordinates. Honestly, he wouldn't be surprised if they could access the logs from this thing - but he also doesn't much care. What are they going to do to him at this point?]

    I joined up with them because I couldn't get away with anything else. It's not so easy for all of us to hide in plain sight. [Nothing against metas who can; just - well, it's true.] That kind of recruitment doesn't exactly inspire much loyalty.

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    sol_annoyance: (Ha-ha)

    Swordplay

    [personal profile] sol_annoyance 2022-10-09 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
    [Will, maybe fortunately, is also off to the side and watching the sparring. He looks pretty relaxed, all things considered.]

    Eh, in my world this is what it looks like, definitely. Though with a lot more chaos. If anyone gets hurt, I'll patch 'em up.

    [Then, he smiles in some dry amusement.]

    Nice to see you again. [A thought occurs to him.] Oh, you know? I never asked how you'd prefer I address you as. Like, Otto or Octavius or something else.
    doctopoda: (cordial conversation)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-09 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
    Back in my day, kids just went to the roller rink.

    [But then, none of them were superheroes either, so.

    Otto smiles. For all that he's a little alarmed by the whole swordfighting scenario, he doesn't seem super tense. Not like he'd be if this were a bunch of regular kids, at least. It's...probably handled.]


    Just Otto is fine. How have you been? I see you've made some friends already.
    sol_annoyance: (At your window)

    [personal profile] sol_annoyance 2022-10-10 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
    You sound so out of touch when you say things like that. I think you're more likely to see kids at an ice rink than a roller rink nowadays.

    [Will is so amused. Who goes to roller rinks anymore?]

    Otto, then. I'm doing well! Turns out that I know someone who's been here for a couple of months already. He's been helping me settle in. His friends kinda adopted me into the friend group, which I'm not complaining about.
    doctopoda: (get hype)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-11 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
    That's me. One foot in the grave.

    [He's good-humored about it!]

    Ah! That's lucky! I arrived together with a friend of mine - he disappeared months ago, but I was very lucky to have his help getting started.

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    sixthdeadliest: Relaxed. (Leaning against a wall (full body))

    Swordplay

    [personal profile] sixthdeadliest 2022-10-09 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
    [Six offers a shrug.]

    Most birthdays for me were only slightly different than my usual days: training with a break for useful gifts. A lot of sword and knife practice in addition to hand-to-hand.

    [He reaches out to pick up one of the wooden swords from the table.]

    Of course, it took a while for us to get up to using live steel for sparring. Master didn't want us actually killing each other.
    doctopoda: (what was that)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-09 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
    [Otto just sort of looks at Six; his expression isn't entirely legible behind his dark glasses, but you can certainly see his eyebrows jump.]

    When I was that age, kids just went bowling.
    sixthdeadliest: Hmm... (Thinking)

    [personal profile] sixthdeadliest 2022-10-10 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
    I'm no expert, but I'm fairly sure going bowling is what's considered normal.

    [He knows his upbringing was atypical, just not how much.]
    doctopoda: (what was that)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-12 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
    I wasn't going to say it.

    [But god, you're right, you're so right.]

    You're Six, right? We've spoken a few times over the network.

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    badbutsadboy: (010)

    iii

    [personal profile] badbutsadboy 2022-10-09 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
    It's strange not being able to see them to begin with.

    In the city, I mean.

    [Hunter puts another marsh-mallow (he wonders what they have to do with marshes) on a stick and holds it over the fire.]

    We don't have cities like that back home, they were all destroyed. The biggest settlements we have are large towns.

    And lantern light in even the largest towns is a lot dimmer than the lights of the cities here, so you can see a lot more stars.
    doctopoda: (goggles)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-10 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
    [God, are any of Dylan's friends okay? One of the actuators turns to look at Hunter along with Otto; while it's dark out, being this close to the fire is playing enough tricks on his eyes that he's still wearing his tinted glasses.]

    I've lived in large cities most of my life. New York was a lot like Central, in terms of size. They called it the City That Never Sleeps.

    [So, obviously: you can't see shit astronomically-speaking!]

    Of course, that does have its downsides.
    badbutsadboy: (030)

    [personal profile] badbutsadboy 2022-10-10 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
    [It doesn't register that the cities being gone is an immediately terrible thing. It happened before he was bor - ]

    [Created. Before he was created. Something Belos did in the earliest days of cementing his power, blaming it all on wild witches. They've at least rebuilt somehwat since then. The towns are growing larger all the time.]

    [He looks at Otto a little wide-eyed with awe at the idea of a city so busy it never seems like night. Central isn't quite that way, some places are very run down and not busy even during the day, derelict.]

    I like Central. Kind of. It's a little too crowded in places, though.

    And it's strange to not be able to just go to the edge of town and see trees. You have those plant islands, parks, but it's not the same.

    I'd like to see more of them someday. Like an actual forest. I grew up hearing about them. Green trees and rain you can actually walk in.
    doctopoda: (cordial conversation)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-10 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
    [The forests were also destroyed? And also acid rain???

    Well. They're having a nice time at this party. Having a real reaction to all of that will just kill the mood, and won't do anything to help anyway. So Otto just smiles.]


    You should try a state park. I've only been to the Adirondacks, near where I grew up - I've never exactly been the outdoorsy type. But they've got huge forests. Lakes and mountains too, if you like to fish or hike.

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    trustheart: (161)

    iv. wildcard

    [personal profile] trustheart 2022-10-11 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ Oh geez. Chris hadn't expected someone she'd met in costume to just show up here. So much she's going out of her way to avoid Octavius in...really obvious ways. Diverting suddenly whenever she sees him in her path, avoiding places he turned out to be in a rather conspicuous answer...and always keeping an eye on him to make sure she doesn't accidentally get near him.

    In fairness, Chris's specialty was never in stealth. ]
    doctopoda: (back shot)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-12 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
    [She'd better get used to it! The metas here all seem to run in the same circles, socially and professionally. It doesn't bother Otto, as someone without a secret identity, but maintaining the facade for some of his friends does get slightly complicated.

    It may not have been entirely obvious on their first meeting that Otto can see through the actuators. He prefers to rely on his own eyes when he can, certainly when he's talking to people. But now, a couple times when Chris is watching him while he's engaged with something else, it sure looks like one of the tentacles is pointed at her - observing right back.

    He glances at her a few times himself, brow furrowed. But she's avoiding him so obviously that he doesn't quite seem inclined to approach himself. Whatever it's about...well, there's no reason for him to corner the girl at a party over it. He's still gonna be in all the high-traffic areas at this party, though; it's not really that big a venue.]
    trustheart: (315)

    [personal profile] trustheart 2022-10-12 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ Ohhhh, she notices those tentacles "staring" at her pretty clearly; she knows she's been seen. But then, why hasn't he said anything? Surely he'd wonder why someone has been watching him throughout the party...

    ...Or maybe he's just being nice and not outing her. She's aware that mask only covers the eyes and not most of her face.

    Eventually events conspire her to be sloppy, however, and she ends up bumping into Otto as she turns away from something else. ]


    Ah, sorry, I— [ She stops, her eyes wide. Uh oh. ]
    doctopoda: (baffled)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-13 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
    [Otto is, frankly, beginning to wonder if he has some secret power that no one else does: the ability to recognize people even if they are wearing very small domino masks! Doreen seemed to think her disguise was foolproof too. Do they usually work?

    Nonetheless. It's hardly his first rodeo with secret identities.]


    It's fine. I'm Otto, I'm in from Excelsior.

    [He offers a hand. Time to pretend he's just never seen this kid before in his entire life!]

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    qualityfriend: (taken aback)

    fireside

    [personal profile] qualityfriend 2022-10-15 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
    [Dana's staring. Rude. But someone with robot arms is new, even for a Gothamite like her, much less arms that are cooking camping food. She catches herself and looks away, then replies with a small laugh:]

    Y-yeah. It's beautiful. Not something I see often. Even other times I went camping. We were probably still too close to cities.
    doctopoda: (pictures taken before diaster)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-15 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
    Same. But I've never been a very outdoorsy person.

    [He contemplates the sky a second longer - is one of the tentacles also looking at it? - before turning to Dana. Another new face. Maybe he ought to get out of Excelsior more; he doesn't really know a lot of people here. She doesn't seem to have recognized him from some awful dimensional counterpart or another, so he'll introduce himself.]

    I'm Otto Octavius.
    qualityfriend: (shrug)

    [personal profile] qualityfriend 2022-10-16 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
    I've never had much of a chance. Gotham has a way of not letting you leave. And when you're a kid, it's all up to your parents where you go. But I have enjoyed the events out here, and the people are... friendlier, than Central is becoming.

    Dana Tan. [She quirks a smile.] That's a rather apropos name. Or are the arms a family trait?
    doctopoda: (smirk)

    [personal profile] doctopoda 2022-10-17 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    Just a fun coincidence.

    [He smiles, but you definitely get the impression he doesn't love it!]

    Ah, are things getting worse in Central, too? I live in Excelsior. It used to be nice. [It is not now!!]

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