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middaeg2019-08-14 04:22 pm
starseedling) wrote in middaeg2019-08-14 04:22 pm
STEVEN'S MANDATORY BIRTHDAY PARTY (OPEN)
Who: Open to abductees and also hopefully an intervention.
When: Aguril 15th, night of the full moon.
Where: Around the Haven, and in Steven's house.
What: The combination of intense homesickness, his 15th birthday, and also Full Moon faerie mania, has resulted in Steven trying to use illusions to kidnap and trap people in his house that remind him of his family and friends from back home. Theoretically this is for a "birthday party" but it's entirely possible Steven will lose the plot as the night goes on. Threads can either be your character ending up stuck in his house somehow or Steven making an attempt to whisk them away and failing.
Warnings: Probably some fucked up illusion shit. Someone stop him.
With the distraction of the Speed Dating event over, and his initial attempts at experiencing the wild mostly successful, Steven finds himself experiencing a gnawing emptiness towards the middle of the month. He doesn't know how exactly the times line up, but it's close enough to feel true - the 15th is his birthday, or close enough to count. He's fifteen years old, and he's still not home.
He's never had a birthday without his Dad, or without the other Gems. The idea that he's having one here, so far away, without any of them is painful. Part of him wants to try to put together a gathering, to do something to celebrate, but the rest of him feels like doing so will just make the absence of the others more obvious. In the days leading up to it, he resigns himself to maybe doing something small, and to otherwise let it pass by uneventfully.
Unfortunately, on the morning of the Full Moon, those reservations gradually start to peel away in favour of the wild energy of the Sisters. He molts in the afternoon, as has become typical, and upon opening fresh eyes to the evening moons, his fae side starts to take over. He will have a birthday party, and it'll be like his family was never gone! How did he not think of it before?
Steven is going to try to - and possibly succeed in - abducting various people with illusion magic. He could probably end up with anyone, but he'll be specifically focusing on those that fit these archetypes:
1) Anyone with strong dad energy.
2) Mysterious, reserved, self-confident, and will kick your ass.
3) Mother-hen, fastidious, protective, graceful.
4) Scrappy, playful, punk-ass, chaotic, sibling type.
5) People around his age that are big nerds.
We can approach this one of two major ways: either we can thread Steven attempting to kidnap your character, or we can start with them realizing they've already been bamboozled by any kind of appropriate illusions into entering his house, and now can't seem to figure out how to exit. If he's going to try to kidnap them you can have your character be anywhere in the Haven, and if you want to start out in the house, just summarize the initial trickery and have them realize they seem to be in one of the fairly nice houses in the Haven but can't find the door or any exits.
Unless they can see through illusions, in which case Steven's antics probably won't work on them from square one. Feel free to get on his case about it!
He's going to be at this all night, but his roommates and other people may be sabotaging him, so your character may arrive and escape at random times throughout the evening. Other people may or may not be around at the same time. We can play it loose!
When: Aguril 15th, night of the full moon.
Where: Around the Haven, and in Steven's house.
What: The combination of intense homesickness, his 15th birthday, and also Full Moon faerie mania, has resulted in Steven trying to use illusions to kidnap and trap people in his house that remind him of his family and friends from back home. Theoretically this is for a "birthday party" but it's entirely possible Steven will lose the plot as the night goes on. Threads can either be your character ending up stuck in his house somehow or Steven making an attempt to whisk them away and failing.
Warnings: Probably some fucked up illusion shit. Someone stop him.
With the distraction of the Speed Dating event over, and his initial attempts at experiencing the wild mostly successful, Steven finds himself experiencing a gnawing emptiness towards the middle of the month. He doesn't know how exactly the times line up, but it's close enough to feel true - the 15th is his birthday, or close enough to count. He's fifteen years old, and he's still not home.
He's never had a birthday without his Dad, or without the other Gems. The idea that he's having one here, so far away, without any of them is painful. Part of him wants to try to put together a gathering, to do something to celebrate, but the rest of him feels like doing so will just make the absence of the others more obvious. In the days leading up to it, he resigns himself to maybe doing something small, and to otherwise let it pass by uneventfully.
Unfortunately, on the morning of the Full Moon, those reservations gradually start to peel away in favour of the wild energy of the Sisters. He molts in the afternoon, as has become typical, and upon opening fresh eyes to the evening moons, his fae side starts to take over. He will have a birthday party, and it'll be like his family was never gone! How did he not think of it before?
Steven is going to try to - and possibly succeed in - abducting various people with illusion magic. He could probably end up with anyone, but he'll be specifically focusing on those that fit these archetypes:
1) Anyone with strong dad energy.
2) Mysterious, reserved, self-confident, and will kick your ass.
3) Mother-hen, fastidious, protective, graceful.
4) Scrappy, playful, punk-ass, chaotic, sibling type.
5) People around his age that are big nerds.
We can approach this one of two major ways: either we can thread Steven attempting to kidnap your character, or we can start with them realizing they've already been bamboozled by any kind of appropriate illusions into entering his house, and now can't seem to figure out how to exit. If he's going to try to kidnap them you can have your character be anywhere in the Haven, and if you want to start out in the house, just summarize the initial trickery and have them realize they seem to be in one of the fairly nice houses in the Haven but can't find the door or any exits.
Unless they can see through illusions, in which case Steven's antics probably won't work on them from square one. Feel free to get on his case about it!
He's going to be at this all night, but his roommates and other people may be sabotaging him, so your character may arrive and escape at random times throughout the evening. Other people may or may not be around at the same time. We can play it loose!
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"It doesn't matter," he says, looking away from her. "If you care about your plants so much then go hang out with them..."
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Peridot stares at his back for a moment, clenching and unclenching her fists, unsure what to do. Should she leave? Should she stay? Should she interfere somehow? Something toxic and unpleasant feels like it's burning in her chest as she debates with herself, which only serves to make her angrier. And after a moment of standing rigid as a pole, her fists finally land on clenched and stay that way, and she prowls off the steps and onto the main floor.
She finds what she's pretty sure is an exterior wall. Stares at it for a long moment with her tail lashing, not quite sure what she's doing but knowing she's about to do something. Her lips curl back, baring her long sharp teeth, and she draws in a deep breath, making a loud, drawn out hissing and gurgling sound, puffing her chest out. It builds and builds and then... "KHHHHGHHTPTH!" SPLAT! Sssssssssssssssss. There's now a gigantic spattering of eye-searingly green acid all over that portion of the wall, bubbling and burning everything it touches.
As if by sheer force of will, Peridot's breath weapon has manifested on this night of the full moon. Because she wants these strangers out of her house, and if Steven isn't going to reveal the door for them, then she'll just make her own.
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He flies over to her, obviously angry, gesturing broadly with his hands as he looks at her handiwork in total distance.
"Stop that!" he demands. "This is my house too and I didn't say you could break it!"
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"I was was gonna fix it," Peridot replies defensively, without even sparing Steven a glance. "Besides, I didn't say you could invite a bunch of strangers over on a full moon night, so I guess this makes us even!"
She lifts a foot and kicks at the weakened part of the wall, which, good thing the dragon super strength hasn't come in yet???
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"I chose these guys for reasons, and it's important to me!" And he doesn't know why she thinks burning a hole in the wall will help her when he can just make her lose track of where the hole is, just like everything else. He doesn't do that yet, though.