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[fanoperator]

[Here’s Huaisang sitting on the edge of a park fountain, wearing trousers for once.]

Greetings Lunatia! I’m Nie Huaisang.

I’d like to invite you all to attend my birthday party coming up next week. I’ll be renting an event center for it, and I hope that it will be a very grand event. There will be dancing, drinking, a buffet, a lottery, games and competitions.

Please dress as extravagantly as possible, whatever that means to you. I’ll be wearing a ball gown. Even if we haven’t met before, please come! Bring a date. Or two.

Gifts welcomed. See you there!

((OOC: Party log to be posted on or around May 20th.))

Comments

text | username: absterge

[downswing]

You do not owe a sect fete here.



( No peasants of the Qinghe Nie villages to feed here...! )

[fanoperator]

hanguang-jun

i'm pretty sure we've been over the concept of 'fun'

i know you still don't believe it exists but i hold it in high value

[downswing]

Your fun invites extravagance.

[fanoperator]

yes that's the idea i'm glad you've caught up

[downswing]

Indulgent.

[fanoperator]

also yes
i'm so proud that you understand

[Video]

[beitangmoran]

How lovely, Nie-gongzi! It will be a pleasure.

[The truth is, Moran only moderately likes these types of gathering, but he will make an appearance and bring a gift because it's only polite and also a good way to mingle and meet people, as well as honoring a friend.]

So you were born under the sign of the Taurus. That is interesting.

[fanoperator]

Thank you! I hope it will be a very grand event.

A torus? [He shapes his hands to describe a circle in space, confused about what Lord Beitang could possibly mean with this statement.]

[downswing]

But do not endorse.

[fanoperator]

but will attend because you're a good friend

[downswing]

Fleetingly.

[fanoperator]

that will be acceptable, wangji
thank you for making the effort

[downswing]

In Qinghe Nie, the occasion would be greeted with fireworks. Is that so?

[fanoperator]

it is, though I won't have fireworks here. I spent my budget on other things.

[downswing]

Noodles for your long life.

[fanoperator]

are you asking if that's what my budget went toward? no, it was mostly the event center rental.

[downswing]

You should have long-life noodles.

[fanoperator]

i'd focused on other priorities, but you're right. I'll see if the caterers can get it onto the banquet menu.

[downswing]

No. Longevity noodles are a family matter.

[fanoperator]

... are you saying that we're family or telling me that i'd better stick the other huaisang in the kitchen?

[downswing]

That you should celebrate privately.

[fanoperator]

right. no noodles then.

[downswing]

In addition to your fete.

[fanoperator]

oh

[A small, private celebration with genuine human emotions? Sounds terrifying and exhausting. He's not sure who in this place would even count themselves as his family. He imagines his counterpart and the twin jades sitting around eating noodles. Maybe Wuxian, too.

No, better to have an enormous flashy party filled with acquaintances and strangers, where no one will ask him to have any genuine emotions.

But how to satisfy Wangji on this topic and avoid emotions?]

If you'd like to come over with noodles the day after the party, that would be very sweet.

[He'll be especially grateful for them to absorb all the alcohol that will no doubt be in his system at that point.]

[downswing]

Noted.