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Tweak says, "You up for one more?"

Greg Goyle (goyle_g) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-04-30 14:17:00

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character: astoria greengrass, character: blaise zabini, character: bryony capper, character: gregory goyle, character: harry potter, character: pandora montgomery, character: theodore nott, character: tristan travers

Happy Birthday To Greg
Who: Greg & open to all invitees (please tag your characters!)
What: A party!
Where: 6 Griffin Court, Appleby, Cumbria
When: Thursday 30th April, 7.30pm onwards
Rating: SFW

Catherine Goyle had gone against all her usual instincts to plan tonight's party. This was no stuffy pureblood affair with dance cards and champagne and was instead a genuinely casual evening - or at least, as casual as someone who was raised in that environment knew how to be. 6 Griffin Court wasn't a large enough house to be intimidating or ostentatious, and the front door currently stood open to encourage guests to come straight in from the front garden. Save for the lack of satellite dishes or electric lighting it actually looked much like a well-to-do muggle street, which it very much was not. Just inside the door was a hall with coat stands, and a toilet off to the left. Through the hall was a spacious living room where Catherine Goyle's old record player was enchanted to switch between her collection of wizarding records.

Lisken and Sisken had made all the food and drinks for the party, but were hurried out of sight once the first guests arrived - Catherine didn't want to start a debate on house-elf rights. They had left plates of 'party food' and bottles of decent wine, whiskey and beer in the kitchen for guests to serve themselves.

Since the night was clear, Catherine was urging people to move out into the back garden - which, though tidy, was more functional than decorative. She herself flitted through the party acting as the perfect hostess. She greeted the sons and daughters of her own pureblood friends just as warmly as she greeted the business owners of Monument Alley, despite their generally lesser blood status. She tried not to involve herself in any one conversation too long, conscious that this was supposed to be an event in celebration of Gregory.

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Astoria and Open

astoryuntold
2015-04-30 11:16 pm UTC (link)

Astoria had arrived on time, not one to be late for an event without a good reason, wearing a pale pink robe that matched her manicured nails with her hair in long, lazy curls. She'd happily allowed herself to be relieved of the packages she'd brought for Greg's birthday. One held several pairs of homemade socks in colours from black to blue to white to brown in an attempt to account for all possible scenarios while keeping it traditional. However, there was a pair of extra warm socks in Slytherin green and silver which she'd added in for fun and leisure. Her other package held a gift basket of all the sweets Greg had mentioned he'd wanted in his birthday list journal post, all spelled to stay fresh. They weren't the showiest of presents, but she'd gone for paying attention to his wishlist instead of trying to show off or win favours. She knew if it'd been her birthday, she'd want at least a few things from her list, especially if her mother had arranged a birthday party with people she both knew and did not know, something Astoria suspected had happened the longer she'd been at the party and the more guests she'd seen.

After a bit of socialising, Astoria made her way from the living room outside to the back garden with a glass of wine in hand. She'd been sipping the same one most of the night, and she took another small sip as she took in the back garden. It was not, for all intents and purposes, the most elegant or elaborate garden she'd ever seen, but she didn't dislike it. She found it nice, perhaps even quaint, and it seemed to serve its purpose of allowing for people to linger outside quite well. It also let her get a bit of fresh air and cool down a bit. It always seemed that parties often got hot, or perhaps it was just her natural reaction to groups of people in rooms smaller than the Great Hall at Hogwarts, which made sense to her. That was not to say the Goyles' living room wasn't spacious. It was. But there were also more than a few people at this party, and a bit of fresh air was nice.

"I'm glad it's a nice night," she said softly to herself, looking up at the sky. Then she turned and headed toward a group of seats. Before she sat, she looked to the person next to an empty seat and said, "Excuse me, is that seat taken?" She didn't want to take someone's spot, after all, nor did she want to sit if she weren't welcome company.

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Astoria, Blaise, and Open

dark_blaise
2015-05-01 04:07 am UTC (link)

Blaise too had taken a gander at Greg's birthday list. He was slightly shocked when he saw a set of gobstones but decided to take advantage of his connections to get a fairly decent set. Purchasing a tournament grade set he sent the box off to the winning team from the most recent tournament and had them autograph the inside lid of the storage box. After adding his gift to the table Blaise made the necessary rounds before grabbing a glass of alcohol and making his way outside where he could have some space and silent reflection before heading back to join the party.

"It is now," he said looking up to see who was joining him. A quick glance let him relax as he noticed it was someone from his own circle, even if she was a few years younger. "No one interesting enough inside to keep you occupied?" As he said it Blaise recalled the time when he would have done anything to keep a woman entertained enough that she wouldn't want to leave his side. He needed to once again find that individual and coax him to come out and play.

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Astoria, Blaise, and Open

astoryuntold
2015-05-02 02:14 pm UTC (link)

Astoria smiled her thanks as she sat down, crossing one leg over the other and smoothing out her robes with her free hand. Was it that there was no one interesting enough to keep her occupied? She took a sip of her wine as she thought about it. Truthfully, she didn't think that was it, but she shrugged noncommittally and said, "It was getting stuffy in there. And, if I'm being honest, some of the guests are..." She looked up as she turned over which word was best to use in this situation. "Some are a bit too interested in watching the guests to say the least, and it makes for a stuffy environment." Although she didn't mind people being interested in her, even if she didn't always know how to handle it, she didn't enjoy the type of interest some seemed to be showing to some of the other guests.

"What brought you out here?" she asked, looking over at Blaise with a smile. "No one interesting enough to keep your attention?"

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Re: Astoria, Blaise, and Open

dark_blaise
2015-05-06 02:27 am UTC (link)

Blaise fiddled with his now empty glass as Astoria settled in. He nodded at her assessment of the guests inside. He found the mixture of individuals to be rather interesting. Purebloods that would never have been invited prior to the war had suddenly found themselves included in proper society invitations so that some could present themselves as having made changes when in reality many still didn't desire to. Survival was the name of the game when it came to society these days.

"There are plenty of interesting individuals," he confirmed. "It's deciding which one I wish to focus on that is a bit overwhelming." It was partially true. There were many that he spoke to regularly that he didn't want to monopolize the time of as well as some, like Astoria, that he knew but hadn't really connected with.

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