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[gonnabefamous]

CARNEY PARTY 4; HOLLYWOOD

The Carney house is decked out in a glitzy Hollywood theme, in red, black, and gold. Get your picture taken on the red carpet as you approach the front doors. For dinner, there are heavy hors d'oeuvres. There’s also plenty of alcohol - beer, liquor, wine, you name it.

HOW THIS WORKS

• Everyone is invited, including graduates! You don’t need to be friends with, or even really know, Cameron to come. The party starts at 7 PM, and anyone is welcome to stay the night. There are spare bedrooms, and since the weather is nice, tents set up on the back lawn.


• When people arrive, they will be given a movie prop which they must wear or carry for the whole night, or risk being caught and required to take a shot!


• There is an improv movie competition where characters will be given RNGed roles and plots. The best scene will win a prize!


• There will be party games including “Never Have I Ever” and “Most Likely To”. Feel free to throw in other games if you want!


• I'll keep RNGing until 11:59 PM PST on 4/1. Winners for Make a Scene and Attached at the Hip will be announced on 4/2

» FOYER; COSTUME CHEST: The costume chest has made a reappearance! When anyone arrives, they’ll be asked to pull one item from the chest. It will be a famous prop or costume piece from a movie. The chest is charmed so that you can’t see what you’ve got until you pull it out. No matter how silly it is, you are required to wear it or have it on hand for the entire evening. If someone catches you without and calls you on it, you have to take a shot. You may return your item and draw again at the penalty of one shot!

» LIVING ROOM: A small stage area and a video camera have been set up in the living area. Get ready to “Make a Scene”! Two or more characters will be given RNGed rolls to play and a basic plot. “yes and…” your way through a scene. The best scene wins a prize!

<b>Who is in this scene?:</b> <b>Anything else?:</b>

» BACKYARD: There’s a heated pool and a hot tub. There are tents set up in the yard for overflow sleeping arrangements, but the low tonight is 39, so find someone to snuggle with.

» DEN; PARTY GAMES: The den has been set up for party games: “Most Likely To,” “Attached at the Hip,” and “Never Have I Ever.” Feel free to add others!

<b>Who’s playing?:</b> <b>How much do they like being attached?:</b> <b>What’s their sticking strategy?:</b> <b>Anything else?:</b>

» BEDROOMS: Anyone is welcome to stay, but it’s up to you to figure out where, because Cameron isn’t organizing it. There are five unlocked bedrooms, plenty of couches and chairs, five full baths, and lots of floor space. Work it out.

» MORNING AFTER: Who’s hungover and where did you puke?

» OOC - 🎂 Questions, comments, concerns!

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Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[iliya]

One of the backyard tents gets claimed midway through the evening, who need a place to rest after drinking way too much tonight. Or at least, Iliya did, and he's more than happy to stretch out in comfort while he chats with Kenzie. The tent flap is wide open, so any friends can find them easily.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[gonnabefamous]

Cameron pokes his head in through the tent flaps. "Wondering where y'all got off to." He's carrying a large tub of popcorn, and he offers it up as he enters the tent. "Not talking about me, are you?"

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[iliya]

"Not everything is about you," Iliya retorts. The answer is in fact yes; he'd been telling Kenzie about their date yesterday, and his face is a little pink from imagining that Cameron could've eavesdropped. Not that they were discussing anything scandalous, it's just... the principle of the matter...

Iliya not-so-reluctantly pushes himself into sitting position, to make room for Cameron. "Where are the others?"

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[casperkim]

Stubbornly refusing to go along with the mandates of the Carney Party and take something from the costume chest hadn't seemed like much of a stand to Casper earlier in the evening. The longer the festivities go on and the more people that enforce the props or shots rule, though...the more he has to admit the decision may've been a miscalculation. But only to himself. Certainly not aloud.

As a result, he's already had quite a bit to drink when he spots his friends gathering by one of the tents and goes over to join them. He catches the end of Iliya's question and supplies wryly, acknowledging his own uncanny timing, "Speak of the devil." Then he tilts his head and asks, incredulous, "...Turning in already?" It's too early for that. But sitting seems it could be a good idea. He feels a bit off.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[ulixes]

"What about the devil?" Ulysses says, instantly proving Casper's point as he ducks around the other boy and pushes into the tent. He's on the ground quick, as if the tent had been set up just for him, sprawled out at the most inconvenient angle possible and somehow managing to take up twice the space his frame requires.

Despite this, he pats the ground next to him as he talks: "Hey Casper, sit down." It comes out a little closer to 'siddown' — he's not trashed, not yet, but between the alcohol and the familiar company, even his mouth has gotten lazy.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[casperkim]

Casper rolls his eyes but follows the other boys into the tent without protest. He silently considers sitting directly on Ulysses' stomach to prove a point (that point: there's only so much space in here Quayle, don't be an asshole) but doesn't. He drops down into the one corner of the tent that's still unoccupied instead, no wanting to put himself between either of the couples and only belated realizing that he's made himself into a fifth wheel. Hopefully Wilde will track them down soon.

He pushes back his dark hair and nods a greeting to Kenzie and Iliya. If they were trying to have a privae conversation about Cameron or anything else...he supposes they would've closed the tent flap. Or should have.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[gonnabefamous]

The inside of the tent is expanded, but not by that much, and Cameron has long limbs. He folds himself up, bringing his knees to his chest and resting his chin on them. He still sticks out one foot, shoving Ulysses's leg before bringing it back to his chest. "Everybody having fun? Need anything?" Of course, if the answer is yes, he'll have to climb over half the tent's occupants to get out.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[ulixes]

Ulysses puts his foot up on Cameron's thigh/lap in retaliation.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[destructobot]

It's at this precise moment that Wilde finally appears. He half-falls in through the tent flap, clutching a bottle of fancy beer he definitely doesn't need right now.

"Hi, I lost my fucking hoverboard --" Here he probably jostles half the tent trying to find a place he fits. "--Sorry, keep talking about whatever you're talking about. If you were." Drunky.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[princeprincess]

"We want for nothing, and were talking about nothing in particular." Kenzie has draped herself across a bunched up comforter, taking up way more space than she strictly needs. Her head is lolling onto Iliya's shoulder, but when the others arrive she perks up.

"Now you're all trapped in here until I hear some gossip." She lifts her wand and with a quick swish and a magical word, the tent zips up tightly behind the last Ebonhide. It's not exactly the best security, but they're all drunk, which should make trying to free themselves at least a little challenging.

She could embarrass Iliya by quizzing him about his night with Cameron (which she already did before they were invaded), but he might get actually annoyed with her if she tried it in front of everyone. So instead she turns to Casper. "How's Asher doing?" she asks sweetly. "At the wedding it was like the two of you had never even parted."

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[casperkim]

There's not much space left in the tent, not with Kenzie and five teenage boys all crammed together inside, but Casper isn't in the mood to complain. Not about this, anyway. But he may still complain about the tent flap suddenly zipping itself shut and the fact that when Kenzie's ready for gossip she immediately looks at him.

He scowls, ready to dismiss this, but falters a bit at the mention of Asher. How does she...do this? How the fuck does she always do this? Part of him wouldn't be surprised to learn that the girl is secretly a Legilimens. Not certain yet just what he does and doesn't want to say, he pushes back his hair again and points out dryly, "I just saw him in December. We haven't been 'parted' for long. And he writes. And he's fine."

Then, clearly attempting to change the subject, he looks at Wilde and says, "...How the fuck do you lose a hoverboard?"

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[gonnabefamous]

It's starting to get chilly, and Cameron grabs a blanket that was left inside the tent and unfolds it with a flick of the wrist. It settles over several laps and covers Ulysses entirely. "Your hoverboard's in the bathroom, I think," he says, then swings back to the previous topic, "Y'all disappeared from the wedding for like, forever."

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[iliya]

Trying to make room, Iliya shifts Kenzie's horse head from behind his head to his lap, over the blanket. It doesn't really help, not with both Kenzie and Ulysses sprawling everywhere. He silently considers shoving them both into a corner.

"Must have been nice to see him," Iliya says to Casper, in a poor attempt to make this line of interrogation seem less like... well, like an interrogation.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[casperkim]

"We didn't disappear from the wedding," Casper protests with a note of irritation in his voice, "We disappeared from getting shitfaced on the beach and competitive skinny dipping." His sharpening expression softens a bit when Iliya joins he conversation and he turns to look at the other boy. He seems to hesitate and unintentionally punctuates that fact by averting his eyes and toying with his hair again.

He could just tell them. It could actually be good to tell them. "...It was fine. He wouldn't let me swim." Or not. He closes his eyes and wishes he'd brought another drink.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[ulixes]

"Aw, bless. Look at him, keepin' you in line." Ulysses teases, although he's completely under a blanket, so good luck parsing anything he's said. He wriggles his way out from his woollen prison, and, in doing so, is forced to push himself into a corner. Congratulations, Cameron — your gambit worked.

"Now you know how it feels." And so the protective becomes the protected. How you like them apples, Casper?

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[gonnabefamous]

"So, the most fun part of the wedding," Cameron says, tossing a piece of popcorn into his mouth before holding out the bucket to offer it to the group. "Someone needs to take care of Casper, anyway. Lord knows he'd never let any of us."

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[ulixes]

Ulysses immediately grabs a fistful of popcorn before the bucket can be shepherded past him. About two kernels will be tossed into his own mouth; the rest, unfortunately for everyone in this tent, will be ammunition.

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[casperkim]

"Nobody needs to take care of me," Casper retorts with a faint huff of irritation, knowing that this assertion shouldn't bother him as much as it does. His friends are just giving him shit. And, after last year, even he has to acknowledge the necessity of relying on others to get through all sorts of upheavals. But it still rubs him the wrong way and he's a little too drunk to be rational about it. "Besides. Asher's the one that needs to be taken care of."

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[gonnabefamous]

"Everybody needs taking care of. But you gotta take care of him too, I reckon, cause you always gotta be the... taker care for people you love," Cameron says, more than a little drunk and leaning across half the occupants of the tent to grab another fistful of popcorn. "Someday, you're gonna have to let someone else."

Kenzie and the Ebonboys

[casperkim]

"Like hell," Casper responds dryly, though his dark eyes have lowered again and he seems to be getting restless. Maybe because all of this needling feels a bit too on point. Maybe because part of him does want to talk. Get this shit out of the way. And maybe...ask what his friends think about this unexpected turn with Asher.

That possibility feels absurd but simultaneously right. Even if there's likely to be some gawking and some crowing and some teasing before any of them will say anything useful. Abruptly, he reaches to grab Wilde's beer and takes a deep drink before handing it back. Then he takes the plunge. Sort of.

"He...wants to. Though."