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CLOSED | Dylan's 15th Birthday
Who: Dylan Brock ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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)
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?
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:
(CLOSED to Dylan's housemates & anyone who might have showed up early to help prep)
Setting up for the party beforehand.
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.
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!
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.
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!
oh my god who brought those. please don't set any crops on fire. EXTINGUISHERS ON STANDBY.
Any Standard Bonfire Activities I've forgotten, go ahead and throw them in!
Six teenagers sleeping on couches & air mattresses in the living room, watching movies... what crimes will they commit?
no subject
[Otto loves scientific curiosity! And is also a pretty good science communicator, which is good because my googling immediately got more complicated than that!]
What is a Titan?
,
[He briefly looks up.]
This is my list of things to goggle to find out more about them.
[He pronounces "google" it wrong.]
[He also spells it "chlorofil" but that's enough for google to go on.]
And the Titan is...
It's hard to explain before explaining my world. Back home, the planet is covered in the Boiling Seas. A few things have evolved to withstand the heat in the water, but it makes most life impossible.
Where we all live, the Boiling Isles, it only exists because a massive being died and its body created the land. You can still see the Titan's bones, sticking out in places. They're huge. Its skull can be seen for miles and the Knee is so high up there's ice on top, like your mountains.
All life and magic came from the Titan, so the plants look different than the ones on Earth. Their shapes are similar, but the colors - you can tell they came from its flesh.
[There is deep reverence in his voice. Most people back home do regard the Titan as holy but Hunter was raised to be a zealout. Even if Emperor Belos had been lying all along about hearing the Titan and how it had big plans for Hunter, he still has the same faith in the Titan itself.]
[It's the way someone might have reverence for the life of an animal they had to hunt to survive. Its life, passed from it to them, is still a gift, whether it was intended to be given or not. The Titan deserves their respect and gratitude.]
no subject
[He points out mildly; he hadn't known what it was before getting dumped here either. Share the knowledge!]
I see. You know, that's not entirely different from our plants. Decaying organic matter is important for their growth as well - though of course, it isn't all from one being.
no subject
Here, I guess it's like...you become a part of the world again and a part of everything else that's died instead of the Titan. And then a part of growing things.
[There is something scientific and something a little spiritual in his concept of it, but his reverence for the Titan hasn't changed, even if his faith in his uncle has.]
no subject
[Otto stares into the fire, ignoring the twinge behind his eyes. Rosie would have liked it. They'd never quite talked about such things - they weren't so old, they were both in good health. It was fine, wasn't it? Still, he knows she would have.
He doesn't know where she was buried.]