lake party invite + mingle (open)

[channellings]

Who: any and everyone!
Where: the lake and nearby!
When: right now! (july 7th, afternoon)
What: motha 👏 fuckin 👏 lake 👏 party
Warnings: Language (!!!) for now, will be added as needed!



[no, this is not a joke and yes, it's an actual invite to a party over the network from the username: cock.licking.idiot (and no, that's not a joke, either).

those who decide that they'd rather not be square will arrive at some unspecified patch of lake shore (thanks, klaus) at a similarly unspecified time (good work, asshat) to discover that something resembling a slapdash but heartfelt lake party along the northern waterfront. a couple of tables have been dragged out of nearby cabins and now hold a probably inadvisable quantity of foods, at least half of which don't belong at a party by any means. is this what rationing looks like? this is definitely what rationing looks like. there's also an alcohol table, filled pretty sparsely early on in the party but gathering bottles and cans throughout the day. (word of mod says feel free to wing it on what kind of alcohol we have!).

a number of chairs sit in a wobbly line in the stone-filled waterfront sand, most of them not meant for beachgoing but nearly all of them able to recline. about fifty feet down the beach seems to be the splash zone, where all water horseplay exists well out of range of splashing those sitting in beachside chairs. some people dive or cannonball off the mostly-sturdy pier, while others seem to be batting around a-... is that a beach ball they have? no, it seems to be a balloon that says "get well soon". how fitting. please, someone bring them a fucking beach ball.

(this is a mingle! go ahead and make top-levels or tag into other people's.)]

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[mannerless]

( on the contrary, wei wuxian had precisely no attachment to the balloon and is now glancing between wen ning and what remains of the balloon on the ground in puzzled fascination.

in fact, he's even wading up out of the water to claim the little rubber scrap off the ground, stretching it between his hands experimentally. )

Have you ever seen a thing like this? ( a glance up to wen ning, then back down at the stretchy material. )

[lookslikeacinnamonroll]

[ Wen Ning bends to pick up another shredded piece of the former balloon, one with the knotted end still attached. He tugs at it, shaking his head in wonder. ]

Never... It's so stretchy. But not very strong.

[ He hadn't squeezed it all that hard, had he? Sure, he's stronger than the average human, but he hadn't been using the bulk of his strength when he was trying to catch it. ]

[mannerless]

No, not strong at all. ( he discards it back on the ground, because what is the concept of littering to an ancient chinese dumbass? ) Shame there aren't more of them. You don't find things that float like that - lanterns, sure, but they don't come back down. ( plus it's much harder to play with something filled with fire, as a general rule.

but oh, he'll offer wen ning a grin now and, ) Wen Ning at a party. It warms my cold dead heart. Are you enjoying yourself?

[lookslikeacinnamonroll]

[ Wen Ning gives a soft, shy smile. Yes, he's at a party. His very first. It's going... Well, it could be going better. ]

I, ah. Yes? I think so.

[ There's only one problem. Wen Ning steals a wary glance around him, looking for a familiar purple clad figure. ]

I ran into Jiang Wanyin at the drinks table. He told me to stay away from his family, lest I should cause more trouble for you all.

[ He has no intention of staying away from Wei Wuxian, of course. He's the person who Wen Ning trusts most out of anyone, the person he owes everything to. Nothing could keep him away from him. ]

[mannerless]

( the grin falls to something more like a commiserative smile, and he closes the rest of the distance between them to pat his friend comfortingly on the shoulder. )

Lucky for us that he's disowned me, then, isn't it? ( he's no member of jiang cheng's family anymore, and as much as that destroys him a bit each time he recalls it, it does mean that the warnings jiang cheng issued to wen ning don't apply here. ) We just won't take you to visit Shijie, and Jiang Cheng can stay the hell away from our house as he pleases. You see? It'll all be fine.