MCA #1- Thursday evening

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had come to accept certain things over the past week, like how she was about to lose her apartment to pure chaos and glitter that would apparently be shot out of cannons.

Therefore, today was being set aside to prepare for that. The weapons rack was getting moved into her bedroom. She'd tried her hand at baking cookies- they were actually pretty good but too much work and so the party was getting Tollhouse sugar cookies. She'd unboxed everything that had come in today because she was still getting packages (two boxes of Santa hats was entirely too much), the ridiculous amounts of alcohol had been set out on the bar area, and the decorations she didn't know what to do with had been carefully arranged in the living room for people to do what they would with them.

The door was open, and since she'd spent the day by herself getting things ready, the pushy mistletoe would come as a surprise..


[Expecting a few but open! If you want to come decorate, mod a text!]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer herself had spent the better part of her day ignoring texts from her grampa about a third monolith appearing in California yesterday (seriously, if this turned out just be some elaborate rogue marketing scheme, she was never letting him hear the end of it) and preparing a ton of non-alcoholic jello and obtaining a stupid amount of shrimp chips for her class tomorrow, so she was ready for a break...

...by doing more prep work.

Look, she liked to keep busy and other people were involved here, so it was totally different.

"I'm here!" she sang as she breezed in. "What needs to be done? Put me to wor--"

That was when Summer actually saw all the stuff waiting for them. It was one thing to hear about and talk about this sort of thing, another thing entirely to see it all laid out and waiting.

"Gee," she noted dryly. "You think we'll have enough stuff?"

You could hit her, Rey. That was entirely acceptable.

[thatwaslucky]

She thought about it.

"People are taking all of this after tomorrow," Rey warned. She had enough stuff from that week with the animals still in the den, she would not keep Christmas there too.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"You're just saying that now because all the parts aren't put together yet!" Summer laughed. "We'll see how you feel once you get the full picture. Who knows? You might actually really like it!"

No, Summer didn't actually believe that. Like, not even a little.

But it was being done out of love!

[thatwaslucky]

"I doubt the snowman should stay up all year," Rey pointed out.

Because there was a snowman.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"So like should we combine things?" Annie asked Summer, artfully draping some tinsel over a half-inflated reindeer and raising her brows questioningly. "Or do we let all this art stand alone, each piece as its own thing?"

Obviously Rey could not be consulted on this, since she did not seem to share their vision.

[somethingwithturquoise]

And what a vision it was!

"I mean," said Summer, with another glance around while finishing up a particular artful twist of lights, "it's a big apartment, sure, but not that big. We kind of have to combine some of it, I think..."

And speaking of their grand vision...

"So where are we setting up the jello table?"

She really needed to make surme that was PERFECT.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"I come bearing--Oh, well it was a decent amount of alcohol until I saw this," Jaskier said, holding two bottles of Rose like the basic bitch he was.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm worried there will be even more tomorrow," Rey admitted.

Like Jell-O shots and deceptively alcoholic punch.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"Is it a party or a drunken orgy?" Jaskier had to ask. You know. For confirmation.

[long_memory]

"You brought more of your pink wine." He would stick with rum but he was glad Jaskier remained on brand.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"It's good!" Look, he was ye olden Fantasy version of a PR person. He stuck with what worked.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I don't know you," Annie greeted the guy with the Rose, who was obviously destined to be a great friend if he was bringing basic bitch wine to a decorating pre-party event like this. "Hi, I'm Annie, a lot of this is my fault."

Rey was probably going to (rightfully) blame her, might as well get out ahead of it.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

Oh, new pretty person!

Jaskier beamed, bowing with a dramatic flourish. "A very great pleasure to meet you, Annie. I'm Jaskier, your resident troubadour."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"It's Jaskier, right?" asked Summer, shooting him a grin. She was pretty sure they hadn't had a chance to run into each other since their three-minute-date, but he was pretty memorable.

Also, he brought Rose! Of course she approved!

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"Summer! The beauty who captured my heart!" Oh yes, Jaskier always remembered his loves. Which meant he remembered most everyone he met, it would seem.

[long_memory]

Silver didn't know what he was expecting when he walked in here but it certainly wasn't...this. It was like all the Christmas commercials he had seen over the last few weeks had thrown up everywhere.

It was like some sort of tinseled nightmare. Enough of one that he turned around, went across the hall for a moment and then came back with a bottle of rum for himself. That should help.

"Holy hell."

[thatwaslucky]

"It's not my fault," Rey said, plaintively. Help.

[long_memory]

"You are more than welcome to stay with me until this is all over." He imagined this would be even more disturbing at night by yourself. Those reindeer alone...

[defenderofdesmoines]

Like Annie wasn't going to take the opportunity to finally introduce herself to Rey's cowboy-pirate-man? Please.

"Hi!" And okay like now that she was actually looking at this guy and wasn't just, like, staring at his abs from across the room at a Halloween party before issuing a high five, she was a little mortified that she had sent a disembodied leg lamp to Rey's apartment. Oops. "I'm Annie, this is almost all my fault."

He had probably already heard.

[long_memory]

Luckily for her Silver wasn't so much bothered by the leg lamp as he was confused by it. Because why did someone make that?

"And Summer's," he said with a smile. "Nice to meet one of the people responsible for all the boxes."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hi, John!" Summer's cheery greeting seemed to be attempting to out shine even then glitter and lights. "Are you here to help decorate, too?"

Ahahaha. Summer was, like, 95% sure he was mostly here for Rey's sanity.

Whicj was good, she was definitely going to need all the help she could get.

[long_memory]

"I will leave that to you," Silver said, smiling. "I don't want to mess anything up."

Yes. Yes that was a good excuse. And if all else failed, he would say his leg hurt him. He wasn't above that.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Everyone should be incredibly grateful that Annie showed up empty-handed, honestly.

"Should I get more lights?" she wondered upon arrival, eyeing the assorted decorations.

No. No, she should not get more lights.

[thatwaslucky]

"Is this not enough of a fire hazard?" Rey asked her.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Psh, fire hazard, shmire hazard," Annie said, waving a hand. "Christmas lights have been pretty safe for like, years. They'll blow themselves up before they cause a fire."

Or they'd trip the breaker, but at least Annie could help if that happened! She would keep this shit illuminated all night on her own if she had to, so help her.