All work and no play makes you a dull boy! [Open Post/Event]

[expendable_mind]

Who: Splicer, and anyone ever! Yes that means YOU!
Where:  Hunter's Pad
Summary:  Party till you drop, release some stress, just have fun!
Warnings: Open party event, discretion is advised! Excessive partying

After the announcement over the network, Splicer set off to break out the snacks he had stored, the drinks and set the out on the club floor. He wanted people to have fun and enjoy some care free time. Morale had been fluctuating as of late and a good head kept the troops going in times of strain. What better way to pick up morale than a good fun time with friends and just kicking back and doing your thing?

That's why he was now occupying his booth and taking any requests for the people that came by, greeting and waving at fellow crew and friends. He intended to make this as fun as possible for each and everyone. Good times seemed to be scarce in the future to come, so he'd do his best to make this one of the good ones.

[[OOC: Open event post, feel free to post an open thread for your character, or post to someone who's already there! You can make requests at the DJ booth, and you can choose to interact with Splicer as well, just make sure you put it in the header. Other than that, just have fun!]]

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[anwei]

Anwei noticed the flushing, of course. It certainly looked fetching.

"Well, I'm certain that I'll catch up with Billy and we can go over it during work hours. For now, though, maybe you could show me some dance steps? All the dances I know are either not right for gravity, or slow." The deadly-slow dances of the Living People, where you could spend half an hour drifting your body and limbs into a specific contortion, holding the pose, and then moving out of it as slowly and smoothly as a cloud - no, they did not go with flashing lights and bouncing music!

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae smiled, the conversation moving to into more fun and she nodded hurriedly!

"Of course! D-dancing is one of the few things that makes me feel free. Like... Like I can just be myself and enjoy the moment! Here, come~" Ronnae said with a happy skip on her step as she moved to a more open area in the dance floor.

And then she began, that fluid motion that was how she enjoyed not only dancing, but fighting. Using her entire body as a leaf in the wind, maybe a more speedy one, moving and swaying not only her limbs but her natural curves. Her wide hips swaying to the fast beat, her torso twisting and turning in a flexible fashion, like a palm tree being bend by a strong wind. Her arms acting almost like silk in the wind, moving almost in their own accord, even running down her body as she enjoyed the passionate feel of a fast and energetic beat.

It was clear this was much different than the usually timid girl who tended to hide in a crowd.

[anwei]

Anwei stood a little ways off, gamely trying to follow along. She was quite flexible, but her hips weren't very wide, and her arm motions seemed oddly stilted compared to Ronnae's supple ease. Her neck moved in long rolling gestures, muscles visibly rippling.

"Maybe if I do it slower? Or faster?" she said, half to herself. It was her childhood dance-training getting in the way, she thought.

"Keep going, and I'll try to keep up!"

[shiest_sunbeam]

"Just feel the music~" Ronnae replied with a bright smile as she twirled by Anwei.

"Just go with the flow, I'm sure you can sense it going through you. It's like... Like falling into white water rapids and letting your body move to the motion of the current~" Ronnie said cheerfully.

[anwei]

Anwei twirled in response, consciously trying to ignore gravity and remember moving in free-fall, arms like silken whips moving in long slicing gestures. She followed the music in her mind, trying to let herself sway as it pulsed.

But at Ronnae's next statement, she paused and let out a pained little laugh. "Sorry, but I can only imagine my dancing in that situations being," she holds her arms straight up and flails them frantically, "'Help! I've fallen into white water rapids, get me out!'" Another laugh. "Do you go into rapids for fun? It sounds very dangerous."

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae stumbles a little at the laugh and blinks a few times before she blushes, letting out a small giggle of her own and rubbing the back of her head a bit embarrassed.

"O-oh, well, I s-suppose people react differently... I... I'm sorry h-haha... Ummm there's been a lot of exciting places we go to that I guess others would consider d-dangerous..." Like jumping over lava, free falling into the abyss, flying into energy beams and getting engulfed in toxic liquid... amongst many other dangerous events.

[anwei]

"Yeah, well," she pauses and stands swaying on her feet to the beat, not even realizing it, "in the Vizsnunishne, sometimes for a stealthed drop from orbit, when you couldn't get a shuttle through, you'd use a one-person hoverboard. You'd stand on it, and fly down through the atmosphere to your target. But they worked best in a semi-vacuum, so the ship would create an artificial hurricane with pressor fields. Imagine surfing through the heart of a whirlwind, your comrades around you, the ground leaping up to meet you - plenty dangerous! And fun, too."

She illustrates, turning to one side and bending her knees, swaying again. Surfing the beat.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae looks more excited than worried, "It does sound like fun! Reminds me of the disks used to fight in the void against the Blue Dragon Aspect, or the fights against the Air Elementals in Uldum. I bet it would have been neat to try it out!"

[anwei]

"We should meet in the Sensoriums sometime, and I'll see if I can recreate it. Maybe without the ground fire, because that was no fun." Having the person beside you turn into a stinking fireball that fell in sync with you, impacting in a flurry of charred bone and metal droplets - no, not fun at all.

The beat of the music changes, and Anwei tries swaying her hips with it, letting the muscles of shoulders and neck flow in pulses down her back and sides. "Is this more like it?" she asks Ronnae.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae nods excitedly and gives her a thumbs up. "Sounds like it'd be a blast, I'd like that." Anything to keep more depressing thoughts at bay. Good company helped that a great deal.

At the change of pace and music, Ronnae smiled, giving her friend an approving look. "Yup! Just enjoy yourself, that's what this is all about." she mused with a timid smile.

[anwei]

Anwei thumbs-up as well. "Maybe you can give me some combat tips in return. I'm trying to rework my fighting style."

She rolls her eyes shut and tries to follow the beat with her hands and body, unconcerned with what any onlookers might think. She's just here to have fun, right?

[shiest_sunbeam]

"Sure, no problem!" Ronnae said with a big smile.

She followed through by dancing closer with Anwei, she was going to have as much fun as they could! That was the purpose of all of this!

[anwei]

Anwei smiles too, throwing her head back, multi-colored lights gleaming from her teeth. Relax, she told herself.

She opened her eyes and turned her body towards Ronnae, trying to match her moves.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae was in full swing and her body was now one with the beats as she usually loved to feel!

Soon enough, she was right on Anwei, dancing much closer than before and practically gliding and guiding her along the flowing dance.

[anwei]

Anwei followed along, letting her teacher set the beat along with the music. How long had it been since she danced like this? She had danced with Sam, at the wedding of Nanoha and Fate...she hoped they were still here. Or if not, she hoped they had been repodded together.

[shiest_sunbeam]

It didn't take long for the music to end and yet, to those dancing, it felt like an amazing ride. Once music changed into a more gentle beat, Ronnie moved back and smiled over at Anwei.

"See? Lots of fun," she mused with a light giggle. "I'm really glad you're around again and am happy to have some leisure time together."

[anwei]

She smiled back. "Yes. When I came back and found out how many people had gone into the pods, I thought: I never had a chance to do anything outside of work while they were here. It's sort of impious for me to be here, with all these different people, and not enjoy their presence and learn their stories."

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae blushed and rubbed the back of her head, a small smile on her lips. "Y-yeah I guess. I usually try to get to know as many of them as I can. After all, we're all in this together right? That makes us all at least comrades."

[anwei]

"I can hardly go to my Death and tell Her that I was traveling between the worlds, with people from half a hundred universes, and didn't even go dancing with them, now can I?"

It's a little unsettling, how Anwei speaks of Death as though she was talking about an old friend she would be meeting soon.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Which made her curious, "Death? Like a person, or death as in the state?"

[anwei]

"Death as in the God. You see, where I came from," her voice falls into a subtle rhythm, reciting rather than speaking, "they say that your Gods may lose sight of your soul, as you travel from world to world. So you pledge yourself to the Swift Death of Eight Wings, and wherever and whenever you may die, She will find your soul and take you back to your Gods. And all She asks for passage-price is that you tell Her about your life, who you met and what you did."

"In Her name, you promise to try and lead a long and interesting life. And if your Gods do not receive you kindly, She promises to take you to a place of safety and truth, where you can stay forever without want or lies."

She cocked one eyebrow, and her voice gets a little cynical. "And if you think that is a way for people to duck out of an afterlife destination that is not to their liking, that's quite often the case." She certainly wasn't planning on returning to the toothy embrace of the Gods she had been raised to worship.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae listened intently, the story was definitely interesting and it seemed like a vastly different world than hers as far as the gods were concerned.

"So she was like the guide of your soul in the afterlife regardless of where you ended up at?" That would mean that she would have jurisdiction here, in Stacy? She wondered...

[anwei]

"That's right! She specifically would not come between you and the jurisdiction of your God; if They could bring you to Them, well and fine. If not, She would give you a lift."

"And considering," Anwei wiggled a little with distress, out of sync with the music, "that the Gods I was raised up to follow are quite unpleasant - you know the type, amorphous and leprous and squishy and devouring-all-in-their-path sort of ickyness, I'll be quite happy to skip their afterlife." Said afterlife involved gorging yourself endlessly on screaming flesh. Bleh.

She'd appreciated being excommuniated.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae nodded, wondering if those gods were distant family members of the Old Gods of Azeroth. "Yea, I don't blame you. Sounds horrible."

Now that she mentioned it, "Would you be happy with going back to your world? If we win and what we've been promised is true..." she asked curiously... and immediately after narrowed her eyes in thought. If they overthrew the Daligig... would they still be able to get back their worlds?

[anwei]

"It was." She shrugged and then turned the shrug into part of the dance. "But I have to remind myself that there was a time when I accepted those Gods wholeheartedly, never knowing the better. All it takes is the wrong information and black can seem white, and the ocean dry."

Her eyes looked wistful. "There are a lot of people there that I would miss. Debts unpaid, if the world is restored I should return to pay them. But we need more information!" She moved her hands as though slapping around an invisible face. "We need to know what happens when a universe vanishes - where does all that energy go? What happens to the place where it was? Do the universes around it expand to fill in the empty space, or is there something else there?"

"But if all we can accomplish is to stop the Ohm, and save uncountable lives and life in universes they will never touch," she spun in place, hair drifting, "that will be happiness enough. Even if my own dead, stay dead."