April Mingle Log

[thalassino]

[This month, there's a sign in the plaza indicating that the welcoming party has moved to the park to celebrate spring!

The food table is present as always, though the selection seems a little healthier than usual. No sweets are available for once - instead the Station Master will cheerfully invite anyone who comes by for a bite to eat or a nice drink to take part in the spring clam hunt! Scattered throughout the park are brightly colored clams, painted like easter eggs tend to be. Some of them are obvious, others are more well hidden. Others? Well, a few of the residents got a little over-enthusiastic. They sure do get excited about this stuff.

What's inside? Well, it depends! In most of the calms are various candies (not fish flavored this time, the clam theme seems to have satisfied the locals), but some of the clams are a little different. It might be time to celebrate spring, but it's also April 1st! When some of the clams are opened, characters might find that paper eels spring out at their faces, or that they're squirted with brightly colored ink, or even that the clam makes various noises. There are even a couple clams that are entirely empty and make a very mature raspberry sound when opened.

As always, the Welcoming Committee and Host Club have had booths set up for them as well. Have a question about the city? Want to talk to someone who doesn't have fish puns on the brain? Need a little companionship? Both are good places to check out. At the Welcoming Committee, just in case anyone was suspicous of the Zora Tunics that appeared Sunday night, Zelda's handing out a couple more and explaining those. The Host Club is under new management, but it seems like they've managed to pull things together regardless.

Have fun!]

Comments

[sylphauxiliatrix]

Drink... red? I'm confused.

[And still not quite ready to discuss her own sustenance needs. It's silly though, obviously the vampire queen has her pegged as something similar, but even though Kanaya's been dealing with this for over a year now she's still a little embarrassed to bring it up with a stranger... other than as she had needed to when discussing the matter with the vampires she's met. Then again, this self styled monarch doesn't seem to be holding out on any details yet.]

[redboots]

Okay, hold your horses.

[She flies off, with a kind of boneless grace to her. When you spend more time in the air than on your feet sometimes, for a millenia, some things get way too easy. A minute later and she's back, holding a little red velvet cupcake in her hand.]

Red, right? [With that said, she just pokes her fangs in... and the red slowly drains away from the cupcake, leaving it gray and soft looking.]

Drank it. Done. Voila.

[sylphauxiliatrix]

[The floating was a bit odd, but this is just... impossible. It doesn't make any sense. Obviously what she did was deeper than just draining the pigment out of the cupcake... even if that were the case there would still be some color to it. And besides, no amount of suction would separate the dye from cake like that.]

[The physics quandary is the first thing to go though her mind. The second is that she should probably tell Karkat about this as soon as she can.]

[And then the curiosity sets in.]

How...? Is that all you need, the 'red' of things? And you can subsist on this, even if it doesn't come from blood?

[redboots]

[Ha. Physics. Marceline just grins and tosses the cupcake over her shoulder.]

Yeah. It's a whole lot easier than finding someone with actual blood back in Ooo, let me tell ya.

[sylphauxiliatrix]

Your world... must be quite an interesting one. I won't even pretend to understand how this works. I... most of the people I've talked to with a similar collection of attributes are limited to actual blood only... and almost always living blood at that. I don't think I've met anyone that can even survive on packaged blood, though I guess you'd be the first, even if it's just by drinking it's 'red'.

[redboots]

Like I said- sucks to be you.

[Wait was that not sympathetic-]

If it makes you feel any better, Vatheon seems like it would fit pretty much right in with Ooo. There are a couple of underwater cities around.

[sylphauxiliatrix]

[At this point, she's not really expecting any sympathy.]

Was that supposed to be a pun?

[redboots]

If it was?

[sylphauxiliatrix]

Then it wasn't particularly clever or funny. And I am perfectly aware of how unfortunate my situation is.

[Oh, look at miss glowy no fun allowed. Something about this girl is really starting to grate on Kanaya's nerves. You'd think after dating Vriska Serket she'd be able to handle this sort of thing, but that's actually the problem. The brash sort of attitude is far too familiar...]

[redboots]

Oh, come on. Don't tell me you have a stick up your butt too.

[Another laugh. Kanaya is reminding her of someone, too, but she's a lot more reluctant to admit she misses that boring ol' princess even a little bit. Bonibel was Finn's old flame and good bosom buddy.]

Lighten up a little!

[sylphauxiliatrix]

I am lit up quite enough already, thank you. And just because I have standards for behavior doesn't mean my spinal crevice as been invaded by any sort of linear foreign object.

[It seems that further puns, intentional or not, will only continue to annoy the rainbow drinker. This may or may not be exciting news to Marcy.]