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[emotive]

Who: emotive, theshiningone, and everyone else! animated counts, it's his B-Day too!
When: 6/21 | 4/13, late afternoon to late evening
Where: The Sanctuary
What: June birthday celebration with close friends!
Rating/Warning: None except possible sadness and robots being real creeps



Thank you for coming! Please, enjoy yourself by all means! Remember to say, "Happy Birthday," to Hiro too please.

[ This is the greeting given by the birthday girl. Ai's face is aglow with cheerfulness that couldn't be beat as she welcomes guests inside the Sanctuary where some nice music is playing. It's the most convenient place to set up a small party after all and there's even a few things to do for fun if one isn't sticking around just for congratulatory birthday greetings:

A) FOOD

Where there is Ai Thao, there is food. Lots of it. Starring a peach birthday cake made by the Man, the Legend, Chef Archer. Aside from those, there are some Vietnamese spring rolls, roasted meat, some healthy salads, and colorful cookies and drinks! (Hey, did someone bring hard cider to this party...???)

Ai might even collect your plates and clean up after you isn't she nice? Oh, that's not Ai, it's a robot who's taken on the same skin tone as her owner... Creepy. Ah well, at least it's being helpful although it might say every once and a while, "Thank you for coming to my birthday party!"

B) Piñatas

How cute, there's a few of these cute piñatas hanging around in the ceiling. When you try to bat one down for the sweet candy innards though, they are just out of your reach. Ai Thao (real one, not the similar looking skin robot) giggles because she's passing by you. Ah, she's the culprit. Those guys can't move on their own after all.

"Sorry, sorry! I couldn't help it."

Oh, so that's all... Actually hey wait, some of those piñatas ARE trying to run away?! Try to catch one, but these little bastards are pretty fast for cardboard full of candy.

C) KARAOKE

There is a TV screen, mics, a karaoke box and an endless selection of pop music in all languages. All of them. Try to belt out those tunes, serenade your loved one, get the highest score, no one's going home a winner anyways.

(Ai's robot is sitting at the machine and taking the mic, humming in a voice that sounds too similar for comfort...)

D) Late Evening

Let's settle down. Maybe chat and catch up with other people. It's a good a time as any right? The lights are low, the cake's been served, there's hot tea (and booze still???) and there's a lovely lamp projecting stars onto the walls. What a nice mood!

(It might make your robots, should they come to the party look rather eerie though, especially since they developed that layer of skin.)

]

[ OOC: Robots are free to be at the party and tagging each other is encouraged! ]

Comments

[emotive]

[She suddenly looks bright eyed and perks up when he explains his magic.]

Can... I mean, may I see it? Your magic at work? It has to be way different from what I do!

[animated]

I don't mind. May I borrow a piñata?

[emotive]

[Sure enough, a piñata passes by and she takes it as it floats in midair and hands it to Charlie, looking rather eager.]

[animated]

Thank you. [ He tucks the piñata under his arm and moves to sit down at a nearby table, placing the piñata in front of him ]

Okay, birthday girl, what would you like it to do? Keep it simple for now, because complex enchantments might take me all night and then some.

[emotive]

Um... Could you make it dance?? Like it move its limbs, maybe take a bow??

[making it hard already geez ai]

[animated]

I think I can manage that, just don't expect anything fancy.

[ He turns back to where the piñata is sitting on the table and sets to work. Ice blue light flows from his fingertips as he writes out rune after rune after rune. It's the work of several minutes, and soon enough there's a small wall off spellwork hovering in the air between Charlie and the piñata.

Just before he completes the final mark, he turns to her and grins ] Ready?

[emotive]

[Ai nods, eyes still shining with anticipation and fascination as Charlie applies his magic by making the runes in the air. Although she lived in a world where espers and magic were side by side, it wasn't often she got to see magic itself and regards it with childish wonder.]

Mm! I'm ready.

[animated]

Here we go.

[ He finishes off the last rune, and just like that, all of the marks vanish. For a split second nothing happens, then the piñata cants its head to one side, tests out its legs one after another, and starts dancing. It's a simple little jig, interspersed with it cantering across the tabletop from one side to the next.

Once it's done, it bows, looking oddly like one of the animals that's come to Pride Rock to see Simba. ]

[emotive]

That's... That's amazing!

[And she really means it too and she looks at Charlie admirably as the piñata performs its dance.]

You're amazing! So your magic is kind of giving life to objects to some degree?

[animated]

More or less. I can do basic personality traits as well, but that takes some more work.

[emotive]

That's so... Well, that's. Cool!

[She actually doesn't use that word often, congrats Charlie.]

Although.... Since you couldn't tell anyone that you're a wizard back in your world, what did you do for a living since you couldn't very well bring objects to life?

[animated]

Oh, I own a bookstore.

[emotive]

... That's...

[really, really, normal, is what her incredulous look is saying.]

[animated]

Really normal?

What did you expect?

[emotive]

Mmmm... I'm not certain, but... [She crosses her arms and nods seriously.]

My view on magic is quite narrow. I should remedy this.

[animated]

Well, if you ever want to talk shop, I'm more than willing. Even if it might not be the same as in your world.

[emotive]

I'd love to! And speaking of books, I could definitely use some more titles to engage in. It's been a while since I've read a good novel.