PARTY PARTY PARTY

[allie]

CHAT DEMANDS IMPROMPTU IC PARTY FOR THE WIN AND THE LULZ

LET'S GO!  JOIN IN!


At the end of the day, your character is led back to their room in the usual manner.  The nurse's hand reaches for the doorknob and the door swings open, then--

Poof!

Your character appears in a large ballroom with an exquisitely tiled floor and a large stone fountain in the center.  The centerpiece of the fountain, shaped like a large fish, continually emits a spray of glitter from its open mouth.  Several tables covered with crisp white tablecloths are positioned near the walls, and a jar of sharpie brand glitter-paint markers serves as a colorful centerpiece for each.

Against the far wall is a long, rectangular table, with two bowls of red punch.  A sign written in fancy calligraphy rests against each: Yes, and No.  In addition to the punch, there are bottles of every liquor imaginable, as well as several fine wines and packs of cigarettes (though partygoers will have to fight for a single lighter).

The bathroom to one side bears a creepy resemblance to the bathroom in a normal house, complete with a medicine cabinet worthy of a lonely 50's housewife.

On the other side are a series of doors leading to rooms.

CURRENT SUB-ROOMS:

Bathroom
Office
Room of Mystical Legal Aging
Vegas Hotel
Broom Closet
Walk-in Freezer

If your character goes into a room, please put that room in the subject line.  Rooms are lockable.  If you want a room that isn't listed, tell me and I'll give it to you.  XD




Since this is not an actual damned event and is not srs bzns, feel free to join in with a character that from another rp if you're a potential player.  If this is the case, instead of entering through a door in the institute, your player would enter through a random door in the RP from whence they came.  XD  EDIT:  Party is now also for trying out potential characters.

The YES punch smells and tastes alcoholic, and has the same effect as a normal spiked drink.  The NO punch smells and tastes like normal non-alcoholic party punch.  IF YOUR CHARACTER DRINKS THE NO PUNCH, IM ME AT QUANTIFYTHIS AND I WILL TELL YOU ITS EFFECT.

THE FIRST RULE OF THE PARTY IS DON'T BE LAME.  THE SECOND RULE OF THE PARTY IS SRSLY, DON'T BE LAME.


FORMER MUSIC
FORMER MUSIC
CURRENT MUSIC
(music will be updated when Allie is not lazy and people give requests)

SMALL PRINT:  Powers and weapons are go as long as whoever you're using them on is cool with it.  Continuity from previous damned parties is intact if you want it to be, or not intact if you don't want it to be.  Clothing is whatever your character wore in canon, whatever they should have worn in canon, whatever they wore in their rp game, or whatever isn't in the dryer.  This impromptu chat party will last until everyone gets bored.

prose plz

Comments

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Heiji gave Kid a rather forced smile. "No need to think, Kudo. You overthink this kinda shit. It doesn't matter, f'r now."

He put emphasis on the for now part.

"This stuff's pretty good," Heiji indicated the Yes punch. "If y'want."

Come on... come on you twit.

[flashyaudacity]

Whatever the blue liquid Kudo was holding out to him, it didn't smell like something he wanted to drink any time soon... Not to mention it didn't fit Kid's image. If he were to share a drink with the detectives, the punch would suffice, or a glass of wine for show.

Kid's grin relaxed into a comfortable smirk. "Well, if you both insist, I suppose it would be rude of me to decline your invitation," he said, watching the pair of detectives carefully. If he was going to deal with them, he needed to keep to something without alcohol... The 'no' punch, then?

He lifted a hand from his pocket, turning it upwards to snap. There was a puff of pink smoke around his hand, and by the time it cleared, he was holding a glass of punch. He raised it slightly. "Cheers."

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

Of course Kid was going for the alcohol-free stuff. He wouldn't want to let his guard slip even for a second. Shinichi kind of wanted to mock him for his choice, but he hated being a hypocrite. He did, however, raise his eyebrow at the thief's little display. "Impressive," he said sarcastically. "It was cooler when you were flying a 747, by the way."

Wait. Wait. Shinichi had not meant to say that. He looked a little shocked with himself, but had the good sense to recover a heartbeat later. "The kid told me about that one."

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Flying a 747 what?

Heiji looked over at Kid suspiciously, then back at Shinichi. "'The kid' told you that, did he?"

What the hell? Kudo would never bring up Conan unless absolutely necessary. What was he getting at? Telling Kid he was cooler while flying a 747? Either Shinichi's brains had gone totally whacko from all the lack of takoyaki (the good kind, of course), or Heiji just wasn't catching his drift.

Either way, both detectives had tried to get Kid drunk and failed. This would be interesting. One sober detective who was coo-coo for 747s, and a tipsy one that just wasn't catching what he was dropping. Oh yes, they were fucked.

"That kid talks about a lot of stuff, doesn't he?" Heiji laughed. "Can't shut him up sometimes!"

[flashyaudacity]

"Unfortunately, there aren't any planes in here," Kid said before taking a sip of the punch.

He smirked at the attempts from the detectives to cover Kudo's slip. It was amusing to hear them pretend Kudo and Edogawa were different… albeit unnecessary. "We all know that's not true, tantei-kun… Unless you've taken to talking to yourself."

It took him a moment to realize that he'd actually said the thought aloud. How had… He never let things slip out like that, not when he was Kid, not when he was being careful.

He'd have to make it seem intentional; he couldn't show any sort of reaction. Casually, as if what he'd just said didn't matter in the least, he took another sip of punch.

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

...What.

You're insane, Shinichi wanted to say. Did your mom drop you on your head when you were a baby, or something? That brat's in first grade. Last I checked, I was in high school.

Unfortunately, something very different came out when he opened his mouth. "If you tell anyone, I will kill you."

Ohshitohshitohshit.

The detective gave Heiji a panicked look. What was happening to him?! "Hattori, c'mere a sec." Without even waiting for an answer, he grabbed the other boy by his shirtfront and dragged him closer to the fountain.

"Something's wrong with me," he hissed. "I can't lie, and I don't think Kid can either. He wouldn't knowingly give up that information, right? He'd try to hold it over our heads to give him the strategic advantage."

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Heiji let Shinichi drag him over to the fountain. Mostly because he was so flabbergasted by what was going on, that he didn't have time to try and fight back. His brain was processing the fact that a) Shinichi had admitted to being Conan and b) Kaitou Kid knew this piece of information already and had freely given it up. This had to be a hallucination. Next thing he knew, Kaito would come prancing into the room dressed like a police officer.

"Strategic... what...?" Heiji blinked stupidly at Shinichi. Suddenly, his brain caught up. "What the fuck man! Y'want t'get y'rself killed 'r somethin'?! What if he's with them, huh? You can totally lie, y'do it to Ran enough t'know how it's done! What d'you mean you can't lie? Y'like the guy that much?" He pointed at Kid.

[flashyaudacity]

Kid raised an eyebrow, surprised by the detective's choice of words. He wasn't going to play the game of pretending they were separate any more? But where was the fun in being direct? It was much more enjoyable to dance around the subject.

He supposed it was his own fault, in part at least. He had been more direct that usual with that slip, after all.

He watched Kudo drag Hattori away, repressing a shudder when he caught sight of the fish statue again. He dipped his head just enough for the brim of his hat to block the view of the statue, taking another drink.

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

"I mean, I can't lie," Shinichi muttered furiously. "Not right now. Everytime I try to, something else comes out. Do you think I wanted to say that?!" For being the best high school detective in all of Kansai, Hattori sure was thick sometimes. "Something really fucked up is going on." And it seemed to be happening to Kid too, to a lesser extent, but not Heiji, so it wasn't just the room. There was something else at play...

...The drinks. Maybe there was something in the "NO" punch that made you tell the truth? Shinichi normally wouldn't have believed in the existence of "truth serum," but after spending the last several months stuck in the body of a seven year old, thanks to a drug concocted for a secret criminal organization by a girl barely older than him? He was willing to suspend disbelief a little. After all, Holmes was all about the improbable, not the impossible.

"...Hattori. I think it's the punch. And if I'm right, then Kid can't lie either. He can't be Kaitou Kid all the time...he has to have some sort of 'secret identity,' right?" He couldn't believe he was saying this. "He doesn't look or sound much older than us." No, he looks and sounds kind of like me. "He's got to have a life outside of being a thief. Maybe we can...ask him about it."

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Heiji listened to Shinichi, his eyebrow slowly creeping up his forehead. And Kudo thought he was nuts? Truth serum? The inability to lie? Fuck, what kind of detective was Shinichi if he couldn't bend the truth once in a while to pull the criminal into his own trap?

"You are so fuckin' lucky you have me, Kudo," Heiji hissed. "Otherwise you 'n him'd be the Truth Twins. And this would be wasted."

Inwardly, the Detective of the West was singing the praises of whoever had landed him here. This was his shot to really one-up Shinichi. With the detective unable to tell the truth, he had to be the shadowman. This was going to be sweet.

"I'll stay away from the punch, then," he winked at Shinichi. "Yeah, I didn't think you'd say somethin' that dumb without bein' drugged. But then again, I really dunno--you've been drugged for th' majority of th' time I've known ya." Hattori laughed and walked back over to Kid.

"So, Kid," Heiji poured himself some of the Yes punch, raised the glass to the white-clad thief and took a sip. "You're our age, righ'?" He cracked a grin. "Where do you go to school, anyway?"

[flashyaudacity]

"Yes," Kid said smoothly. "I go to Ekoda High."

Had he just said that? He hadn't meant to say that... How had he managed to let that slip out? Just like with the other slip, about Kudo's shorter identity, it had just... come out.

He flashed a grin at the detectives, trying to calm his nerves. He could still salvage this. He really could.

"In fact, there's a detective in my class you're acquainted with."

Shit.

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

Results. Excellent. So Shinichi hadn't been wrong after all. It really was the punch. So just as long they avoided deep, probing, personal questions about him, they'd be fine.

More than fine. They'd have Kaitou Kid.

"A detective?" Oh, that guy. Shinichi smirked at the irony of it all. "And does Hakuba know you're right under his nose?"

And now, it was time to go in for the kill.

"What's your real name, hmm? The one that Hakuba and your other classmates know you by."

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Oh good one! Shinichi had picked up exactly on what Heiji had been driving at. If he'd simply asked what Kid's name was, he could have gotten around it easily before realizing what the punch did. Maybe the guy really did deserve to be his ultimate rival in detective work.

"Yeah," Heiji added, grinning. "What's the name they call you by at Landel's Institute?"

No escape whatsoever. They had him cornered. This would be the best day of his life.

[flashyaudacity]

"He does, actually," Kid replied. "He simply hasn't been able to prove anything."

Why was he still talking? Why could he stop himself from talking? Why was he being so... so... honest?

No matter what, though, he wouldn't answer the questions about his name. He wouldn't, and he couldn't. He opened his mouth to tell them so, but what came out instead was, "Kuroba Kaito. They call me Kyle Crowe at the Institute."

It took every ounce of his will, all his training at guarding himself to prevent him from saying anything else, to show any expression, to reveal that he really, truly had made a grave mistake in opening his mouth... one that he couldn't cover. Inside, however, he was panicking.

Oh shit oh shit oh shitohshitohshitshi--!!

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

Shinichi just raised an eyebrow and turned to Hattori.

"...You made sure he was clean. Right."

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Heiji stared at Kid... Kaitou... Kaito, whoever the fuck he was, and just gaped. He didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say. Except--

"I had your back. You had mine."

[flashyaudacity]

"Hattori," he said, his physical guard dropping just a bit. He didn't want anyone to find out about his dual identity, least of all Hattori. But it was there in the open now... And maybe he could salvage it. He could say it was a joke, that he was just curious how the detective would react if he were 'Kuroba Kaito'...

"I'll watch your back for as long as you want me to," he said, quoting what he'd told the detective on his first night. What was wrong with him? Shit. It almost wasn't worth trying to cover anymore. "That's what I said."

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

Now Shinichi was really confused. He backed off slightly. "Uh...should I just leave you two alone?" He'd meant to say "Kuroba Kaito, THE CULPRIT IS YOU!" or something, but that had come out instead. And, weirder still, he actually felt a little...guilty about exploiting Kuroba's inability to lie like that. They were detectives. They were supposed to deduce the truth through hard work and intellect, not...this.

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Heiji looked down at the floor. Trying to sort through everything in his head. It wasn't working. Kaito, his best friend at the Institute was the person who had been taunting him on the bulletin board. The most wanted jewel-thief in Japan. Kuroba? No, it wasn't possible, this was a hallucination.

"Why the fuck did we do this, Kudo?" Heiji muttered, in perfect standard Japanese. "We can't catch him, or throw him in jail, or even tell anyone the truth. ...I need a drink. That isn't, you know, this crap."

Heiji tossed the glass over his shoulder and it shattered on the floor behind him.

[flashyaudacity]

He shouldn't have even approached the detectives. He should have firmly kept to the other side of the room, or found a window and flown away. This... all of this... It shouldn't have happened.

And now, it seemed, he couldn't even shut up. No, apparently he had some need to explain himself... and he was pretty sure it was because of the way Hattori was taking it. He almost winced when the detective threw his glass to the floor.

"I didn't like lying to you," he admitted. "But I couldn't tell you the truth. You've... got to understand that, Hattori."

Well, it wasn't like the hole he'd dug could really get any bigger at this point.

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

Okay, now things were really awkward. And Heiji was speaking perfect Japanese, which was just weird. Apparently even the staunchest of Osaka Tigers supporters folded under extreme pressure.

"At least you didn't have to pretend to be a first-grader?" he added helpfully, and then:

"...I'm going to destroy that fucking punch bowl."

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

"Why not?" Heiji gave a hollow laugh. "Not like I could have done anything. Maybe I would have hit you, but after that... I can't... I wouldn't have..."

Heiji couldn't keep his thoughts straight. He didn't want them to be straight, anyway. He wanted them to be gone.

"I wouldn't have arrested you when we got home, or something like that. I probably wouldn't have told this punch-murdering dipstick."

The Osakan picked up a bottle of something and began trudging of to the corner. "You can read him his rights, right Conan? Kudo, whatever your name is now."

[flashyaudacity]

Kaito set his attention on Kudo, narrowing his eyes. "Why do you have to pretend to be a first-grader?" he asked. Screw caution. He didn't feel like Kid any more, and his masks had fallen away by some terrible mistake. These guys had somehow managed to pull his secrets out, and now he wanted answers himself. He was going to ask the questions he'd never looked into. "How did you end up getting turned back into a brat?"

He paused. "And what does the punch bowl have to do with anything?"

Okay, so, maybe he didn't need that one answered. Kudo was being strangely open about the whole Edogawa thing tonight, and if he'd had the same punch that Kaito had... maybe it was some of truth serum?

...Destroying the punch bowl suddenly sounded like a great idea.

More important than its destruction, however, was Hattori. The Osakan detective was moving away from them, and that weird feeling that had compelled him to explain wasn't going away. "Oi, Hattori," he called out. "What was I supposed to do? I woke up at the Institute, and the first person that I met mistook me for him." He jabbed a finger towards Kudo.

"And maybe I should have just avoided you entirely, but I didn't know what was going on. And then... then we promised to watch each other's backs, and... I considered you a friend, Hattori. I couldn't tell you because I had to protect myself from what you are, but I also had to protect you from what I'm doing."

[meitantei.livejournal.com]

Oh hell. Shinichi couldn't avoid direct questions like that. Not when he was like this, anyway. Fuckfuckfuck.

"Because if I showed up at Teitan High suddenly ten years younger than I'm supposed to be, I think people might take it the wrong way, idiot. Plus, I'm supposed to be hiding." Shit. He couldn't stop himself. That fucking punch bowl needed to go now. "A few months ago, I went to Tropical Land with my friend, Mouri Ran. Well, actually, she's my childhood friend, but everyone thinks she's my girlfriend and I'm starting to think they're right. God damn it, I can't believe I just said that. Anyway, I solved a murder on the roller coaster, and then I followed these suspicious guys who apparently belong to an international criminal organization. They jumped me and made me take some sort of drug. It was supposed to be some new poison they were trying out, but instead it just made me shrink. I adopted Conan's persona to hide from them. Hattori, you have my permission to hit me now."

It would shut him up and let the other detective take out a little bit of that rage. This wasn't Shinichi's fault, not really, but at the same time it kind of was. He'd started this, and he did feel kind of guilty about it. Somehow.

"Think about it. We've both had the punch. Hattori hasn't. We both can't lie, but Hattori doesn't seem to have that problem. The only thing that seems to be wrong with him right now is that we can actually understand him. Ergo, the punch has been spiked with something." Though, from the way Kid/Kuroba was looking at the "NO" punch, he'd probably just arrived at that conclusion.

Shinichi was a little offended at how they were both throwing thinly (and not so thinly)-veiled insults in his direction, but he was too tired and annoyed to care. And he did want a drink but was still worried that he'd turn back into Conan somehow if he overdid it.

Screw this.

"What's this about this 'institute' place, anyway? Hattori said something about a mental hospital and people thinking that he was from Canada?"

[osakapwnzu.livejournal.com]

Inwardly, Heiji knew that Kaito was right. If it had been him in Kaito's shoes, he would have kept it to himself too. But... to fight with him on the bulletin board and only frustrate him?

But if he had told Heiji the truth, then Heiji knew he would have jumped on Kaito and tried to tie him down. Only, of course, to realize later that it would do absolutely no good whatsoever. Except when they got back and Heiji turned on Kaito and turned him in.

He'd never do that... Kaito and he were friends. Heiji didn't turn on friends, period. No matter how annoying they were, or how much they deserved the situation they were in. He would never abandon or trick a friend in such a grievous manner. But did Kaito know that?

The situation had never arisen, obviously.

He heard the insults thrown at him, and he knew were he in a better mood he would've said something like:

'WELL YOU GUYS 'VE THE SAME FUCKIN' FACE AND VOICE--Y'IMPERSONATED HIM F'R ME!'

Or:

'OI OI OI, OSAKA-BEN IS PERFECTLY GOOD JAPANESE Y'STICK-UP-Y'R-ASS KANTO-ITE!'

But he sat down in the corner, looked at the bottle and muttered, "S'rry. F'r both." And he took a long, long chug.