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lily lee (lilin) wrote in airshaft,
@ 2024-04-08 00:24:00

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character: lily lee, player: janice, type: ic/ooc

IT'S AN ECLIPSE PICNIC!

Are you stressed from the trauma you experienced when exploring the secret passageways in the walls last week or the weird shit you've been experiencing in this building in general? So is Lily! Which is why she's thrown herself into planning this eclipse viewing picnic and, as a result, has maybe gone a bit overboard!

Lily throws up a KARMAP post on Sunday evening, reminding everyone that the picnic will begin around 10:00am and that the partial eclipse will peak at 11:25am. However, the food and fun will last well into the afternoon!

When the picnic-goers go up to the rooftop on Monday morning, they will find a perfectly pinterest-worthy; with baskets, and blankets, and throw pillows, and all. People are invited to take a basket and set up wherever they like on the blankets or furniture. She's also brought her bluetooth speaker and it's just playing Spotify's Picnic Playlist. People are free to hijack the speaker to play something else.

Lily put together little, individual baskets with fruits and pastries for the asethetics; but she also put together a pretty massive grazing table full of meats and cheeses. She woke up very early this morning 🥲

But she didn't make it all herself - she ordered some eclipse-themed cupcakes that she asked Joshua to pick up. And keeping on theme, Lily's also making some eclipse-themed cocktails! A mimosa with a round, dark berry juice ice round.

THE ECLIPSE

Lily managed to get a telescope from the Rose City Astronomers (and organization to which her late brother belonged), and has set up a telescope projection so they can keep track of the sun as it moves towards the eclipse.

She's also gotten some eclipse viewing glasses. But more exciting (to Lily), she's managed to round up a bunch of boxes and is willing to show people how to make pinhole projecters to view the eclipse.

The moon will start to pass the sun at around 10:30am with maximum eclipse at 11:25am, and the moon leaves the sun at 12:19pm. This is what Portland will see.

VOLUNTEER SLOTS

JULIE is really into the mimoas. They have one too many and end up falling asleep on one of the patio chairs. They end up napping through the eclipse. Bummer!

At the height of the eclipse, FRANCINE has eschewed the glasses and the pinhole box, and is attempting to make their own eclipse shadow on the ground, when they notice an odd, extra shadow amongst the group that's a bit hazier than the rest. They glance up to do a quick head count and, when they look back down at the ground to confirm, the extra shadow is missing.

RYAN has also noticed the strange, extra shadow and attempts to point it out to STEPH. However, when they both look to the ground, the shadow is no longer there.

JOSHUA is also loving the mimosas. They fall asleep near the end of the picnic and, drunk on sunbeams and champagne, cannot be woken. They end up having to be carried to Apt 404 by MATEO and GOODNIGHT to sleep it off.

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	VIBES & SCENES: Joshua parisarrow 2024-04-09 05:59 am UTC (link)
	Joshua arrives early to drop off some heavy cupcakes. Then he leaves for most of the picnic, returning for the last 45 minutes. A mimosa is kind of like a lemonade, so he has one. Then two. Then three. Then he falls asleep. You shan't be interacting with him today. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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lilin
2024-04-10 02:39 am UTC (link)

Lily lets Joshua sleep while she cleans up. Once the rooftop has been cleared of all picnic baskets and leftover cheeses, she leans over him and calls his name. When that doesn't work, she taps his shoulder, which turns into a light shaking. She doesn't want to leave Joshua up here in case he's still asleep when the sun goes down, nor does she really want to dig through his pockets for the key to his apartment; so she decides he should sleep it off in her apartment.

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	reaction to your reaction: lily + joshua parisarrow 2024-04-10 04:11 am UTC (link)
	I am ashamed to say that Joshua yelled in fear and shock when he woke up in Lily's apartment. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	reaction to joshua's reaction to lily's reaction: lily + joshua lilin 2024-04-10 05:21 am UTC (link)
	Lily, too, is startled when Joshua wakes up and nearly jumps out of the dining chair she's sitting in when he yells. There's a bottle of water and Advil on the coffee table next to the couch Joshua's on, which Lily directs his attention to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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parisarrow
2024-04-10 06:22 am UTC (link)

He's only been asleep for about an hour and a half, but he is so disoriented about his change of surroundings that he feels like he's lost the entire day. It takes him a minute to reassure himself he didn't sleep well into Tuesday. Apologizing profusely and nearly knocking over the bottle of Advil in his rush to get up, Joshua leaves Lily's apartment with the promise he'll pay her back (somehow) for inconveniencing her.

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	reaction: lily + joshua lilin 2024-04-10 06:28 am UTC (link)
	JOSHUA PLEASE, IT IS NOT AN INCONVENIENCE!!!! She waits about fifteen minutes and texts him: hey. make it back ok? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly parisarrow 2024-04-11 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Hi. It's all good. Was just kind of shocked at going to sleep in one place and waking up in another. [...] Did you carry me back to yours? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly lilin 2024-04-11 02:33 am UTC (link)
	[1] sorry about that, i didn't meant to startle you [2] i didn't want to leave you up there on your own and i didn't know where your key was [3] no, teo and goody did (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly parisarrow 2024-04-11 03:04 am UTC (link)
	[1] Oh, that's fun lmao [2] I hope I didn't snore. [3] Sometimes I do that without my mouthguard. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly lilin 2024-04-11 04:58 am UTC (link)
	[1] no you didn't [2] thanks again for picking up the cupcakes btw [3] great use of your muscles (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly parisarrow 2024-04-11 07:02 am UTC (link)
	[1] Hah. [2] Sorry I missed a chunk of your party though. [3] Seems like lots of people enjoyed it? You got people turn. [4] Did you have fun? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly lilin 2024-04-11 07:13 am UTC (link)
	[1] don't worry about it [2] did you get to see the eclipse? [3] yeah, it was nice. i'm glad people enjoyed it (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly parisarrow 2024-04-11 07:15 am UTC (link)
	[1] No [...] [2] I took Naomi to a park. She was really down after what happened in Taggart Hall, thought maybe fresh air and lots of sunlight would help. [...] [3] It didn't really though. Or maybe she didn't want to hang. [4] It's whatever. [5] You enjoyed it completely on your own terms, though, right? Not just because other people enjoyed it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly lilin 2024-04-11 07:25 am UTC (link)
	[....] [1] i think it's just going to take time [2] i'm sure she appreciates knowing that you're thinking and worrying about her [3] sometimes that's all you can do [4] yeah i like seeing people having a good time (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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parisarrow
2024-04-11 07:28 am UTC (link)

[1] But would you have enjoyed doing it if it wasn't about other people having a good time? Like that didn't factor into it at all?
[2] I'm just wondering what you do for Lily time tbh
[3] You maintain the database, you do research, you throw parties, you're always helping other people out.
[4] Well I guess you do your nerd stuff?
[5] So an eclipse party would fall into that lol?

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	Text: Joly lilin 2024-04-11 07:34 am UTC (link)
	[1] yeah i do my nerd stuff [2] but why do you think the stuff you listed isn't for me as well? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly parisarrow 2024-04-11 07:36 am UTC (link)
	[1] I guess I'm if you relax and do stuff that's just for you [2] Lily is Number 1 Time (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly lilin 2024-04-11 07:58 am UTC (link)
	[1] i like doing that stuff [2] i like doing research and i like planning things [3] i mean i do other stuff sometimes, don't mind doing those things, you know? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Text: Joly parisarrow 2024-04-11 08:16 am UTC (link)
	[1] I think we're kind of talking past each other. Or maybe I'm just not getting it [2] I hope you're getting what you need as you help everyone else out, Lily [3] That's all [4] Thanks for the couch (Reply to this) (Parent)

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