it's a paaaaarty

[indelebilis]

♥ Who: Aera Mirus Fleuret and YOU.
♥ Where: Around town and at her residence.
♥ When: NOW!
♥ What: Smoothies. It's literally a party... to make smoothies. A smoothie mingle, if you will.
♥ Rating: S for Smoothie. Also I can't imagine this getting rated any more than a PG 13 for language and shenanigans.

[ A - It's shoppin' time! ]

[ In the morning, Aera can be found hanging around various areas of town, mostly picking up little things. Party hats, she's discovered, are some of her favorite things. She's also got to make sure she's got plenty of cups, too. If one is to throw a party based on the premise of whipping up various smoothies, then one needs to be properly prepared.

She's also dropping hand written invitations off and handing them out to random people, because why not?

The invitation simply reads:
'Dearest friend and or loved one,
It has been brought to my attention recently that smoothies are delicious and, apparently, on occasion, magical. With this in mind, I've realized that I do not actually know how to make a smoothie.
You are invited to my home [INSERT ADDRESS HERE] this evening for a smoothie party. Supplies will be provided, but if you wish to bring anything, please do. The more the merrier!

P.S - if Ardyn says he did not want to throw a party, do not believe him. He is lying. He is very excited about smoothies.

-Aera Mirus Fleuret'

That last part is probably a lie. He's probably not that excited for smoothies. ]

[ B - PARTAAAAAY ]

[ As the sun sinks and night falls, Aera's opened her home up to anyone and everyone. Upon your arrival, no matter who you are, you will be greeted with a hug and a kiss to the cheek, along with having a delightful party hat strapped to your head. How festive!

In the kitchen, she's got lots of things ready for smoothie making. Well... things she thinks would make for good smoothies. But if you've brought anything, she'll gladly take it with a thanks and place it with the rest of the things in the kitchen.

Go on. Make a smoothie. Drink the smoothie. Mingle. It's a smoothie party, after all. ]

[[ ooc; it's a mingle friends! Feel free to start your own threads, tag whoever you want, and have a fabulous time making chaos smoothies. ]]

Comments

[iustaegis]

"Some species apparently adapted to these outside conditions--" Such as news of some flower beyond the barrier, or those spiders. "--But you are... right, it would take a very long time. Thousands and hundreds of thousands of years, in my world."

She pauses thoughtfully.

"Something like that is happening here in this world, only instead of a vast darkness, there is an toxic atmosphere that completely inhibits growth outside the barrier... to the point that it obscures the sky above." She looks up at him then. He is a man of many ambitions, some of which sound completely reckless to her, but not once has she heard him speak of failsafes, bailouts, or alternatives for any of his plans, or precautions in case he is effected. He's only mentioned risks. When he had been investigating the Scourge in his own world, even allowing someone to corrupt a god with one, did it ever occur to him that something could go wrong, or that his trust in designs or others would fall through, she wonders. "Did no country in your world make preparations for... failure to thrive?"

Humans aren't incapable of planning for doomsday-like scenarios, at least in the (first iteration) of her own universe: they had built a seed vault in the arctic to store a variety of species in the case of a fallout or unrelenting drought. The people here, too, cultivate species within their zoos and botanical gardens-- but even then the locals hadn't the foresight to see how things might go wrong to lead to this desolation.

[original_is_best]

"Humans have a limited sphere that they can keep track of at once. They will give little more than passing thoughts to anyone outside of the tribe they have established, and will generally think about the generations they have the closest connections to and little beyond what they will personally experience in their lives. The time, effort and resources it would take to prepare for an apocalypse falls outside of their standard range of concerns. Given the amount of people, it would also be difficult to even acquire the resources to begin with, and it's not a cost many are willing to pay for an event that they don't foresee happening. Preparations for such an event would likely have only a short amount of time to be completed, because they would only start when people became aware that it was an inevitability."

He wasn't sure that would change, either. Trying to calculate the monstrous costs to support the Empire during such an event... He could only imagine. Some things just didn't fit into the average day to day life and were projects too big for the government to undertake without giving good reason.

[iustaegis]

She listens quietly. His words are a sweeping observation of the human condition.

Knowing that he might encourage another to use the Scourge to corrupt a god, only for it go entirely wrong in the end, and then still consider the possibility of using the black toxin he had found as a potential weapon against the very gods here... tells her that his own sphere is much too limited.

As sad as it sounds, altering the course of the darkness in his world may be dangerous. He cannot know if what he intends to do may make events worse. Feeling that she may say nothing more on this subject, however, she closes with something she has already repeated: "I trust you will be cautious."

[original_is_best]

"I will be vigilant," he reiterated. He was used to people questioning... well, everything he did. He could hardly walk outside without a Lucian questioning his true motives. But he was confident in himself.

[iustaegis]

She smiles in return. "For the sake of the future, I hope you will."