The oh-so-OPEN housewarming party assault log

[spandexisyouth]

Characters: Karkat, Gai, and anyone and everyone who drops by!
Location: Karkat's new 'hivething.'
Rating: PG?
Time: Afternoon
Description: Karkat is moving. Gai wants to cheer up his perpetually grumpy friend. Anyone can have seen Gai's post on the network and drop by.



It didn't take many stealth skills at all to plan this party. The filters on the devices made things very easy, and with the labor as greatly divided as it was Gai didn't even have to haul a whole bunch of stuff to where Karkat would be moving in.

Picking the lock was the work of moments and then Gai was in the apartment, starting to set up. Soon others would join him to help prepare, and hopefully Karkat would be slow enough in returning that he would only come when everything was ready. Gai would hope, at least.


[ooc: Feel free to set up more headers/threads than the three I've put here for convenience!]

Comments

[moirailcompass]

[Whelp. This was going fabulously already. Nepeta could already feel a part of her panicking, trying to scramble for something significant to say other than just a simple:]

Yea.

[she tugged at her hat a bit, managing to force on a small smile.]

And what about you?

[dungenessmaster]

You know what? At this point I'm honestly not sure what to fucking think of all this. There are people all over my hive, dropping crumbs and getting confetti and shit lodged everywhere, and I know for a damn fact most of these throwbacks just heard free food and got here so fast they probably left flaming trails...

[he pauses and glances around. despite everything he just said, he doesn't look all that mad. still mad, of course, but not THAT mad.]

I don't know. It's just really fucking weird, even for an alien custom.

[moirailcompass]

[The smile began a little more genuine at that and some of the tension left her shoulders]

Purrobably. But there are plenty of people who are here beclaws hey care--in fact the only reason this happened at all was beclaws there were people who cared fur you. I think it's kind of sweet.

[dungenessmaster]

[that earns her a half-hearted "bluh" from Karkat, who's the worst person at accepting kindness at all, let alone on this level.]

Well they... they didn't have to do anything like that on my account. It's not like these assholes don't know I hate them and everything.

[moirailcompass]

Jee you sure overthink things too much sometimes. Course they didn't--but they did so just accept and you'll purrobably enjoy it more.

[she folds her arms behind her back, feeling like the conversation wasn't really going anywhere so she adds]

What purrompted the move anyway?

[dungenessmaster]

[she's the first to ask him that, and he's a little surprised. but it's not like it's any huge secret, so...]

I just wanted to move closer to my Watch district. This last attack on the city was the second time it took me goddamn forever to get to Selendis, and basically everyone I got sidetracked into helping was a colossal fuckwit about it anyway, so we both figured moving made sense.

[he's getting a little sick of dancing around the real issue here and glances at her. are they cool or not?]

[moirailcompass]

[Nepeta on the other hand would be much happier not broaching it at all. Talking about the elephant in the room would just be painful and she'd rather just leave that all in the past pretend she never opened her big mouth.]

Selendis, your partner I take it? I don't think I've ever seen or even talked to them. What are they like?

[dungenessmaster]

[Karkat points her out -- hard to miss the nine-foot-tall blue alien lady crouched near the balcony.]

That's her. She's kind of... I don't know, she's over a hundred sweeps old and part of a warrior caste? The leader of the warrior caste, even. At least she knows what she's doing and doesn't give me shit.