Two minutes to the new year, and the music finally died down. The TV, which had been background images only up until this point, was now sporting sound, and just in time to hear the announcer call for silence from the crowd to begin the countdown.
"Alright everyone~!" The Voice that came through the speakers was not the announcer from the TV but rather Alex, who was mingling in the crowd with the microphone. "We're in the final stretch now, so grab your boil, ghoul or other, 'cause when the clock strikes midnight, it's time for the new years kiss!" His tone was light and his voice was jovial, somewhere between serious and joking; as the spot light shifted away from him, he winked down at Yin.
"You'll find Sparkling Cider on the tables at the back of the room, for those of you who wish to celebrate with a drink!" Chimed in Amrita from another part of the room, on her own microphone. It was, of course, non-alcoholic, but the symbolic idea was there at the very least.
"And if you like noise, party poppers are also on the table~" Added Mort, who didn't particularly look like he enjoyed sudden loud noises, but was at least jovial enough to make it seem like a good idea.
The announcer on the TV began to count down, and the five members of the student council - Tackbot included - did the same, leading the countdown in the auditorium.
"TEN -"
"NINE -"
"EIGHT -"
"SEVEN -"
"SIX -"
"FIVE -"
"FOUR -"
"THREE -"
"TWO -"
"ONE-"
"HAPPY NEW YEAR!"
Aymet was the first to hold up his party popper, pointing it at the ceiling before pulling the string, setting off a BANG and a burst of colourful streamers that shot out over the crowd.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Drink some sparkling cider, stuff your face with spookies, set off a party popper, kiss your date - however you celebrate the New Years, do it! This is a fresh start after all, and if you believe superstition, what you do now will set the course for the next year! No pressure or anything, right? No matter what you decide to do, you have until January 3rd, 2014 to do it, which is when this thread closes.
Thank you so much for spending time with us to ring in the new year, even if you weren't here as this was posted. Most importantly, thank you for your continued support. It means the world to us.
We promise to try and make 2014 absolutely fantastic!
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:09 am
Curling his arms around Rosy as she sat, he laughed and smirks a little while giving her a nudge to the side. "Trying to distract me I see, tricky ghoul.." Teasing her a bit he starts the game, leading in a few rounds but in the end losing from one game to Rosy. On a laugh he sits the controller down, now glancing around to those that he had forgotten. Just in time for the countdown he chimed in bouncing Rosy in his lap. "Five, four, three, two...one.." Smirking the frost demon peered up to the ghoul in his lap, a kiss the clear question to his pales eyes. Should they?
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Tavi was thrilled when San went with the pull; since he couldn't pull him if not. Bobbing around the other guest he made their way towards the tree pausing a little from it when seeing Piper standing so close to it. Though it was originally the sight of the ghoul by the tree it was the one next to him that had his jaw dropping, kissing! No, no no no they were kissing too soon weren't they?
Frantic and not wanting to miss his chance Tavi turned to glare up to San in determination. Sparks crackling between his tails he demanded, "hurry and bend down! The traditions are starting! Hurry hurry! " Even though he was waiting for San to bend he started to all but climb the taller boil, inching closer till their lips smacked into a kiss. Thump. Yes that was the sound of his own heart he just swallowed roughly and the count down in the background to one. For a moment he remained peeking at San before pulling back from the kiss to yell, "happy new year!"
Miidnight Melody
Lute felt way to nervous in fact she had hidden away the entire party in the corner. It wasn't till creeple started to kiss by her that Lute tired to make a beeline for the door. Five, four, three- wait did they say new years kiss!? She wasn't prepared for that! Thumd! In her panic Lute hadn't been paying attention to where she was and ended up toppling right into another. Falling over with a small whimper the ghoul peered up to the large figure in cream and fumbled out an apology, "I-i..oh wow..I-i'm really sorry!" Turning a fine dust of pink she attempted to scramble to a standing position, tugging at the orange amity shirt that was given to her by a friendly boil upon her recent arrival."I..didn't hurt you did I?..Ah...Happy...new year?.." Lute asked without much thought of their actual sizes, rosy orbs staring up to the boils set before giving him a squeak of happy new year.
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:32 am
The night was really happening now as the time was soon counting down as they walked through the crowd of creeple. From the corner of his eye he saw some already kissing! This was strange to him to see them kissing all of a sudden and in the middle of the room. It was then that he realized that they stopped walking and looked down to see Tavi who was glaring up at him. "Tavi?" San questioned, unsure if he did something wrong or not seeing also the sparks crackling as well.
Bend down? What sort of tradition was this? But just as he was about to, Tavi automatically begin to climb up on him! "Tavi! W-wait!" What the hell was he doing? He wrapped his arms around the petite kitsune and brought him up to his eye level as he was cradled in his arms. The count down was reaching down to mere single digits and that was when . . . he was kissed, smacked on the lips. His fiery eyes were wide open from the mere sensation and still wide open when he was greeted by the happy new year cheer.
. . . San's mind was gone at that moment, but it was something to learn of what other creeple do at this time of the new year. He had to follow tradition and say the same thing to him. Silently he stared at him for a moment, his expression stern and serious as usual, but he then leaned in and seized his lips for another kiss with the boil firmly. He then pulled back, wondering if he did well and with a quirk of a small smile San spoke in a calmer tone of voice in stead of a great big yell. ". . . happy new year."
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:46 am
Suddenly Alexander had a microphone, and the talk had taken a turn for the distressing. As soon as kisses were mentioned Yin's heart started pounding. Right. New Years. Kissing. In public.
Surely not.
But then Alexander looked down, something not unusual as the instructions had been to find your boil, but the wink that followed was unnecessary, and Yin just stared up at him.
What do.
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 1:30 am
Ren reached for LW, grabbed her around the waist, and planted a kiss on her lips.
Lottie danced for joy as the New Year was rung in. Now, where was that Cormick kid? He needed a big ol' smooch from the reaper, he did! She hoped maybe it would piss him off, but she'd also never done anything like that before. This school year was to be here debut!
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Mot cheered as the new year rang in, however, none of his friends seemed to be around to enjoy it with. He smiled weakly, praying this wasn't an omen foreshadowing how the coming year would unfold.
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:22 am
Llyr frowned a little in return. "Refreshing," he repeated, as though this explained everything (spoiler: it didn't) and smiled brightly, lifting his hand upwards to tug happily at a lock of Merope's hair. He may or may not have also had a vaguely dreamy expression on his face.
"What is your name, water boil?" Llyr asked.
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:12 am
Cormick was currently in a death grip wrestling match with the robot elf who had seperate him from true proper company.
"Let go you bucket of bolts!!!" He tugged his hands harder.
If Lottie wanted to give a kiss, now would be the perfect time while the elf had him pinned down.
Brenley remained silent as Angeline was introduced to the tree, half out of respect for the ghouls' conversation and half due to his sudden preoccupation with something the other reaper had said.
Trading in her scythe for a familiar? Was that even possible? He had never been one for fighting, at least in this reality, but somehow turning his weapons into one small, talking creature seemed beyond the bounds of possibility. It was something to look into, surely, but he wasn't about to get any definitive answers in the middle of a party.
Reentering the conversation as Angeline blushed, Brenley smirked at Serafina and said, "Looks like some people have better wishes after all." He was still partially lost in thought or he likely wouldn't have been so cheeky around someone he had just met, but luckily he had little time to think on his words. It seemed the new year had almost arrived.
Threatening to blush again himself at their undead announcer's mention of kissing, Bren held up an apologetic hand and hurried off through the crowd. He grabbed a number of party poppers and wound back through the students and horsemen to give them out. A pair went to Piper and Lock, along with a friendly nod and a small smile, and then he was back where he had started.
"Here you go," he said, passing them out. The boil had even retrieved one for Elvira, which he hesitantly put on the floor in front of the deer. "It's a... noise-making confetti thing, I think," he added for Angeline's benefit.
you all been party popped
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:12 am
Shehk totally kissed her date because hey, when in Rome, right?
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:21 am
Lock stared at Piper.
Then his party popper.
Yeah he wasn't going to look back up. This party popper was just soooo interesting.
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:45 am
Christof flinched as Riley caught him, looking slightly panicked as she suddenly snapped the hat onto his head- but relaxed once he realized it was just a hat.
It was strange. He was fairly sure the last time he had spoken with her had been months and months ago- maybe even a year ago. He had lost track. She had lost her mind. There was nothing he could have done. Jericho seemed more interested in the snacks, but...
Happy New Year, Mistr- his thought caught off, even as he was mid bow, his face going red in patches, Miss.
How was he supposed to treat her? The situation? Both she and the dragon were like strangers. When Amrita had forgotten him, any attempts at familiarity had resulted in screams and violence. Riley had simply held indifference for him- up until now. He looked nervously to the trash, mind gathering an explanation on the edge of his mental tongue when the Student Council suddenly started counting down...
His heart was beating frantically. This was it. This was a new year, a fresh start. He would graduate any minute and it would be a new life... Anxiety radiated off of him as he gave a stiff bow to the tentacled woman in awkwardly polite fashion.
She eyed Brenley strangely as he approached and continued to eye him even as he passed the poppers and returned to his cool group or whatever. Hmm. "Thanks." So smooth.
The countdown made her strangely nervous, but that was stupid; it was just a new year, not like...anything that big...Except what had she accomplished this year? Transferred to Amity, sure, but otherwise it just seemed to be either being boring or making a mess of things.
Here, Piper sort of wished she did have a familiar instead of a weapon. At least it'd be a little more comforting to have around.
"Well, Happy New Year--" she tried to enthuse to Lock, but he was suddenly very interested in the party popper. Confused as to why he would start blushing at all, she reached out to tap his shoulder with her own popper, looking a little apologetic. "Sorry I suck as a date...If you wanna go, you can, y'know." She knew Lock was a little on the shy side and all.
She kept throwing eyes at the group of reapers (and that ghost chick), debating whether to crash it and try to salvage the evening by forcing friendship or not.
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:16 pm
Ashton? Serafina had never heard of an Ashton. Why did those she know keep meeting more people than she did?!
-- No, no, Sera, calm down...
"Oh, you are more than presentable!" gushed the ghoul, a little surprised to find that the familiar could actually speak for herself. It seemed there was more to familiars than she expected... Angeline mentioned trading in her weapon for a scythe--reapers could do that?--and Serafina made an interested sound. She could see where a familiar would be of benefit to someone like Angeline. The familiar could be her eyes.
What caught her attention more, though, was Angeline's interest in the Wishing Tree. When flames seemed to take Angeline's face, and Brenley smirked at her with his comment, Serafina giggled, a small twinkle in her eye. "So they do," she murmured in response, before watching Brenley turn all red himself at the mention of kissing--was there someone he needed to kiss?--and run off.
Alright then...
"If you do want to transcribe a wish, Angeline, I could help out?" She promised she wouldn't spread it around ... though she would probably transcribe it into her juicy details corner of her brain...
-- Brenley was back? With ... those colorful popper things. Serafina lifted up the popper, putting her hand on the string. "Well, ya' giuys wanna pop it?"
Rosy was grinning from ear to ear when she beat Spinar at video games. Gaming was her thing, she didn't lose if she could help it. Glancing around at the others, she turns her eyes back towards Spinar as he starts counting down. Realizing they played video games the whole time, she darken alittle as she shifts herself so she could face him. As he said one, she leans in to plant a gentle kiss to his lips. It wasn't a long one, but it did get the point across.
Pulling back, she brush her fingers over his cheek then to his lip "Happy New Year Siku..." she leans back in and kisses him once again. Her hands running down his neck only to rest against the back of his neck. This time, she let the kiss linger.
Might as well, as this was what they were suppose to do.
