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st_abby ([personal profile] st_abby) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2018-04-13 08:39 am

[GP] The De Rolo Wedding Reception

The calendar of "Kahl-ee-Fornea" was very different to that of Tal'Dorei. But the spring dance had been a good reminder for the Exandrians (one of them, anyway) that the Renewal Festival would take place more or less this time of year, landing always on the thirteenth day of Dulahei. It seemed a fitting time to set the 'small family dinner' in celebration of the marriage of Vex and Percy.

...Yeah, but no. Because Vax'ildan didn't mind a bit of revenge for their having done the thing without so much as telling him for several weeks, and because his sister always deserved the best of everything anyway, the garden had a whopping lot more than that for the happy couple as they opened the doors onto what first looked like pitch blackness. Until the big, white-hot spotlight snapped abruptly on to glare down on top of the pair with blinding scrutiny.

A familiar voice sang out from beyond, his ever-charming booming and crooning amplified to fill the whole of the outdoors by something called a 'microphone,' Scanlan using all his singular panache to belt out a melodic tune:

"There she is, Mrs. De Rolo
There she is, your ideal
The dreams of a million boys and girls who want to find love in Emon City
For Vex may turn out to more than Baroness of the first house of Whitestone and Grand Mistress of the Hunt
There he is, Mr. De Rolo
There he is, your ideal
With so much brooding and tinkering he took the town by storm
With his all-Whitestone face and form
And there they are
Walking on air, he is
Fairest of the fair, she is
There they are - Mr. and Mrs. De Rolooooooooooo~"

A resounding wave of applause, murmuring, cheers, and laughter broke out all around the newlyweds - one such unbridled merry cackle absolutely coming from the bride's brother - and Scanlan's tone changed immediately to a much more vibrant, excited, sporting-event-enthusiasm style of announcement: "Ladies and Gentlemen - it's the DE ROLO FAMILY!"

The strands of bulb lighting popped into yellow-soft brightness all at once, revealing the guests gathered around dozens of tables artfully set with dinner places enough for everyone at the Inn. Each table included flowers, linens, and garlands all matched in smart Whitestone-Blue, darker Owlbear-Blue, black and white with touches of gold accents, all thanks to Caroline's management. The outdoor area so far as one could see had been dressed in one of Lillith's illusions to mimic a beautiful forest clearing at purple-dusk with fireflies dancing, the shapes of buildings and foothills in the distance distinctly cast to look like the city and castle of Whitestone. Ignis and Emma stood by putting a few final touches on what they'd all started calling 'fancy barbecue,' an enormous buffet of haute cuisine smoked and grilled meats with artful sides, a table beside them holding up the massive layer cake Pike had tirelessly fussed into perfection. So many others had come together to help or to wish the de Rolos well - but there would be plenty of time over the evening for them to be thanked and recognized with food, drink, song - there was even an area marked out as a dance floor.

A freshly bathed Trinket in his very own bowtie lumbered up to Vex'ahlia to rumble and lick her face as the pair finally had a moment to react to the spectacle. At ground-level, a small disc-like device with a large serving spoon taped to it had been labeled with marker as Ensign Stubby, rolling its way between tables and chairs while balancing a large, many-times-stabbed basket of flower petals (with a handful left nestled in its giant spoon) on top of its flat surface like a drunken flower girl to finally bump into Vex and Percy's shoes. ...And possibly the best thing about their stunning surprise? That Peter boy had got the whole thing on VHS.
st_onecoldfox: (patient)

Re: Kash, Mildmay (Corbie)

[personal profile] st_onecoldfox 2018-05-15 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Steada the other side?" was muttered mostly to himself, and the scar turned it to nothing but mush. Probably better that way, since Percy was onea the guests of honor, and a friend of Kash's besides.

"Yeah?" was clearer, and an invitation for more, if Kash wanted to explain. No fuss if he didn't.
st_ingofthehundred: tarot (cleric)

Re: Kash, Mildmay (Corbie)

[personal profile] st_ingofthehundred 2018-05-21 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Dark sonuvabitch," which was saying something, considering him and Vax. "Smartest person I know but Lilli and maybe Kitty, and carries weapons that cut a man in half between blinks. I can hold my own, but I wouldn't want to fight him if I didn't have to."

Kash was a soldier, not a hero. A cleric, not an adventurer. He could kill monsters and protect people and heal them, but fighting the likes of Percy wasn't for him. Maybe someday he'd figure out how to help him, though. That would be a thing worth doing. For Vex and Vax, and Keyleth, and Percy himself. But first he'd have to figure out how to help himself, and good fucking luck with that.
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Re: Kash, Mildmay (Corbie)

[personal profile] st_onecoldfox 2018-05-22 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wantin' to fight-" if you didn't have to, "'s a good way to end up dead." Or with a nasty fucking scar that fucked up your face, making it impossible to hide who and what you were, among other things.

Mildmay knew from smart people, though. Hard not to, with Felix being smarter than just about anybody in the Mirador and maybe the Institute too. And dark, fuck. He knew about that too. Vax, Mildmay decided, was easier to understand, and maybe Kashaw too.
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Re: Kash, Mildmay (Corbie)

[personal profile] st_ingofthehundred 2018-05-25 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"So's fighting everything you stumble over without planning it--" Which these idiots excelled at. "That's why they need at least two clerics, a bard and a druid to keep them alive." For once, it was said with real fondness.

"Corbie warn you about the bear?"
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Re: Kash, Mildmay (Corbie)

[personal profile] st_onecoldfox 2018-05-26 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Mildmay gave a short nod. "Don't hurt the bear 'less I want an arrow somewhere uncomfortable or worse." She'd rightly assumed Mildmay would perceive a bear as a potential threat and wanted to reassure him it was safe enough if he came across it.
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Re: Kash, Mildmay (Corbie)

[personal profile] st_ingofthehundred 2018-05-27 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Kash pulled a couple of bottles of beer seemingly out of his pocket (they actually had been there) and offered one to Mildmay. At that moment, 'the bear' was ambling by and Kash opened the one he handed toward Trinket.

"That, and he makes a great drinking buddy. Right, pal?"
Edited 2018-05-27 00:54 (UTC)
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Re: Kash, Mildmay (Corbie)

[personal profile] st_onecoldfox 2018-05-28 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Mildmay had wondered what the man had in that pocket, noticing such things so engrained he couldn't do anything else. He took the bottle with a short nod, and watched as Kash opened another and offered it to the approaching bear. If he'd been another person, one who hadn't been learning to keep his feelings off his face even before the nerve damage that left half of it mostly immobile, surprise would have been written all over it as the bear rolled onto its back holding the bottle in its paws to drink from it.

Mildmay's only experience with bears was the practice of bear-baiting in the Lower City. He'd never liked it much. Identified too much with the bears. Never woulda thought to share a drink with one, though.