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CARNEY PARTY 3; WILD WEST

Saddle up, partner. This New Year’s Eve, we’re heading out west!

The Carney house is decked out in a rustic Wild West theme. The place is covered in hay bales, mason jars, and cacti (even inside). Cameron greets each guest that arrives with a silver pistol that shoots paintballs. For dinner, a house elf catering company appears, cooking barbeque over a pit in the yard. There’s also plenty of alcohol - beer, liquor, wine, you name it.

HOW THIS WORKS

Everyone in the school is invited! As with parties Cameron has held in the past, the rules are simple: have fun, don’t make too much of a mess, and if you break something reparo it. The party starts at 6 PM, and anyone is welcome to stay the night and take the bus back to school from here in the morning.

Characters without costumes can pull an item from the costume chest, but once they pull, they’re obligated to wear it or risk mockery for being a spoilsport. There is also a mechanical bull riding contest out in the yard. The character with the longest ride will win a prize! You may do each of these up to three times, and I’ll keep rnging for them until 11:59 PM on 1/1.

There will be party games including truth, shot, or strip and spin the bottle/seven minutes in heaven.

» FOYER; COSTUME CHEST: Those without costumes are encouraged to pull at least one item from the chest set up in the foyer. Whatever you pull out, you have to wear! The chest is charmed so that you can’t see what you’ve got until you pull it out.

» LIVING ROOM: Have a seat on a hay bale! Or a regular couch.

» BACKYARD: The yard is surrounded by facades that mimic an old western town. There’s a heated pool and a hot tub, but the lows tonight are 21. Beside the pool, there’s a mechanical bull surrounded by padding. If you can go for the longest ride, you’ll win a prize!

» DEN; PARTY GAMES: The den has been set up for party games, including truth, shot, or strip and spin the bottle/seven minutes in heaven.

» 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.

» MIDNIGHT: Near midnight, Cameron encourages everyone to stop what they’re doing and come outside, where champagne and sparklers are handed out. The fireworks start about ten minutes til, crescendoing during the countdown, with a big finale at midnight. Grab someone to smooch!

» MORNING AFTER: Who’s hungover and where did you puke? Did you stick around to catch the bus back to school from Olympus?

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

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"Aw. I bet I could kick your ass at poker." He gloats, having no real basis for this claim. Ira pretends like they are in fact just going outside. He's gonna die on this bull, but he'd probably go on. Even bad ideas sounded okay tonight. It had been a long, cold two weeks in Portland. "We don't do Christmas like that. But I got a couple books that I've finished, because it was that or die in the snow. It was mostly snow."

"Damn near forgot what half o' you look like," he says, and he's drunk enough that his Bama accent is coming out in full force. Oh, wait, right, this is the kissing games circle, and he points at the bottle with, like, a lot of energy and force. "Oh, right, this shit, right." You're good at this, McNamara.

"Well I'm Isabelle, in case you forgot." She said, giving him a wave. She'd never heard his accent before, not really, and is trying not to laugh. Not that it's funny, but it was sort of unexpected. "Right, yeah, the game." She said, uselessly pointing at the bottle as well.

Name: Pear Holloway
How well do you think they’ll do?: Très amazing, obviously!! Or, not, since she's a tall gawky almost-16 year old.

"Come onnnnnn," Spencer complains. "What kind of people are you into?" It's like picking a scab; he can't stop himself.

This has not been Austin's experience in Olympus, but maybe that's just him. "Man, they been blackballing me from their kissing parties then," he jokes, super awkwardly. Anyways, time to smash faces with your friend, Austin! Go for the majority of the Coppertale Junior Boys!! Hopefully Ira doesn't bite like Spencer!!

Name: Nisha Gretchen Lewis
How well do you think they’ll do?: FANTASTIC. She is velcro. She is a slow loris. She is a piece of plastic shrink wrap on a really dry cold day and fuck no matter how hard you shake your hand it won't come off god damn it.

"Right, Ishmael," he says with a nod. "Well pucker up Ishmael, ain't no gettin' away from these damn Grotto games is there?"

She wasn't even gonna try and correct him. "Guess not?" She replied, stifling her laughter again before leaning in for a kiss.

Edited (austin you're killing me) 2018-01-01 02:24 (UTC)

we're the bestworst

Pear manages to ride the bull for 113 seconds! Holy cow!

Edited (puts on my cheryl mask) 2018-01-01 02:25 (UTC)

NSA Agent Nisha Nitro manages to ride the bull for 99 seconds before dismounting with beauty and grace.

It's past midnight, and the adrenaline has left Spencer's system, leaving behind only alcohol and exhaustion. It's warm in here, way warmer than his cabin. He's ready to sleep, like, now. He grabs the hand of his friend, and tugs them towards the bed. It's plenty big.

"We.... we need... sleep," he explains with drunken conviction.

"I know what to expect this time. I'll be able to look you in the eye by like, February, we're cool." He shouldn't be encouraging this. But it'd be weirder to refuse entirely. He leans in to kiss Spencer with just as much decision but of course far more restraint than he'd shown during the one in September.

Austin does not do a very good job of gauging the distance, and makes contact with maybe a little too much force. Hopefully he didn't just give you a fat lip, Issy. Someone should really be giving him constructive kissing criticism too.

There's a long pause. He should make a joke or avoid the question, but instead, caught up in the moment, Cash looks down. It's stupid — he knows it is — but he can feel mortification creeping up on him. turning circles in his stomach. Strange, really. It's been so long since he's been embarrassed.

"Yes," he says, quietly, simply. I'm sorry, Spencer; that's all the answer you get.

She should have taken Austin's kiss as a sign and not joined in but, oh well.

Somewhere under that brief kiss is a muffled ow

This is not what Spencer was expecting. Deflection, a flat no, staring him down while he took off one shoe... sure. But not this. Spencer ends up being the one who takes the shot. "Cool," he says, failing to sound cocky.

London ponders for a moment, then cheerfully answers, "Nope!"

"Yeah, neither does my family." Spencer shrugs, and steals Ira's drink from him to nab a sip while he's still bereft of alcohol. His lips land right where Ira's were moments ago, then he hands it back. "Think you can beat me on a mechanical bull, hotshot?"

Edited (let me know if this not ok he's presumptuous!!!!) 2018-01-01 02:42 (UTC)

Dinah hangs on to that bull for 48 seconds! Go, Dinah, go!

London is the worst. HAVE YOU HEARD IT'S HER BIRTHDAY?

Name: Hazel Keating
How well do you think they’ll do?: Hazel tries her hand at this before she's totally trashed, because she's been on one before and sort of knows what to expect. She'll probably do decently well?? She's at least going to give it her all and whip her hat around in the air with her raised hand.

Edited 2018-01-01 02:48 (UTC)

Name: Bianca Dubois
Random number: From 3
What are they hoping for?: A cool hat of some sort

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