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Who: Sonico, Cassian, Demyx, Dorothy, Mobius, Garrus, Emerald, David and Kay.
What: Family lunch
Where: Sonico/Cassian/Kay's house
When: December 25th

A) Outside the house:

Baby it’s cold outside...but who doesn’t love building some snowmen by the pond? Or lighting up some fireworks? Drop to the ground and make your own snow angels by the pond too, before the falling snow covers everything again.

B) Inside the house:

The house it’s been decorating following both the Christmas tradition and the time-honoured Galactic holiday: Life Day. And thus you can find Christmas decorations hanging on the ceiling and walls, candles by the windows, ominous elf shelves sitting on random places, cookies and sweets...and also wookie paper chains, Life Day orbs created using clear Christmas balls with jewels to make them shine and a miniature Life Tree made out of cardboard and paper with the branches and roots made out of crushed and twisted craft paper.

Red is also traditional, so there's a lightweight red felt tablecloth on the table. The table is laid with an assortment of foods, all of them strange, more than a few horrifying. The proud owner of a copy of Christmas Cooking With Cassie will remember a number of dishes from the book, such as the shrimps pyramid with a savory fish filling and the stuffed salmon. If you think the lobster is trying to walk away, that’s just your imagination, promise. Among the foods from home there is a jug of green milkshake, which smells suspiciously of fish, and perfectly normal Wookiee-ookiee. You might be less amused by such foods as deep-fried gorg or pickled space worm but it’s all perfectly edible! On the other hand Garrus gets a special dextro food selection, which is smaller, but looks like a perfectly normal meal.

C) Mistletoe:

No Christmas party is complete without some Mistletoe here and there to make it even more special. Make sure the person you get caught with under the mistletoe is the one you want...or soldier on if they aren’t.

D) By the tree /Present sharing:

The proper Christmas tree is a huge monstrosity of a tree whose tip nearly brushes the ceiling of the room - but only nearly, which is a good thing for the Swablu which keeps flying to and fro, busy building a nest at the top of the tree. It looks strangely mauled in some places, and has been secured in place with several sturdy ropes spanning the width of the room as if it had to withstand a tsunami. Presents are scattered under the tree, but nosy partygoers beware! Get too close, and you run the risk of a white hellcat leaping out of the tree at you.

Once it’s time for present sharing it’s quite possible you’ll have to fight the cat to get yours. Consider this the boss challenge of your Christmas quest!

E) Choose your own adventure:

Pretty self explanatory. Wanna take a look around the house? Need some quietness? Would you like to go play with the pokemon? Crash on the couch and watch a Christmas movies? Feel free.

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[ Cassian's dressed himself nicely for the occasion, even foregoing his uniform for a suit. Well, okay, he's decided to wear all red in honor of Life Day, an unusual look for him to say the least. He's still looking quite worn, but you can see him obviously making an effort today, and at the very least be a good host if nothing else.

Still, socializing means more to put himself out there while keeping to the edges of the party and observing people, keeping himself approachable but still a little apart from the festivities. It's close enough, he'll keep himself busy with making sure the food and drinks never run out as he usually does when they have guests.

You'll find him occasionally berating a mischievous pokemon or pet before they can cause misfortune for some hapless guest - his Mudkip in particular seems to believe they would all profit from a mud facial.

As their get-together progresses and he grows wearier, you might even catch him carelessly lingering under the mistletoe. ]

Edited 2017-12-30 13:58 (UTC)

[Man, Cassian definitely looks like he's seen some better days. Seriously, he looks like crap before but for Garrus' Misdreavus to motion to him worriedly... Well, that about says it all.

He throws out his empty plate, extremely happy to be dextro for once, and heads over to him. he's going to grab one of the weird green milkshakes for him, but the smell is alarming to say the least so he's opted to head over empty-handed.]

You look like you could use a break. Want to step out and get some air?

[It's cold as balls out there, but he knows Cassian likes it.]

Yes, please.

[ The relief is obvious on his face - maybe another sign that he isn't holding up too well, he's normally a better actor than that.

He all but drags Garrus outside, breathing a sigh of relief once the icy air hits his face and fills his lungs, invigorating him. ]

Isn't it beautiful?

[Garrus sends a longing glance at his coat as Cassian pulls him out with him. Once outside, he crosses his arms, partially out of instinct and partially because it's freaking cold out.

He looks out at the snow-covered land. It's okay, he supposes. Palaven, while certainly not the hottest planet, wasn't really one for snow. He'd seen the stuff once or twice before while traveling on the Normandy, but he'd never seen the appeal of snow. Just meant cold to him.

It's not bad looking, though, and there is a bit of serenity to it - from inside where it's nice and warm. But Cassian really seems to be in his element outside.]

You really like the stuff, don't you?

I do.

[ He leans down and runs his fingers through the snow, a small smile on his face while more falling snow powders his dark hair white. ]

It reminds me of home. I come from an ice planet. We had snow and ice all year around. The snow here doesn't taste right, but it's closer to home than I've been in a long while... and I haven't been home since I was a teenager.

[ He'd rarely let himself think of home at all, or feel homesickness. These were distracting thoughts which he could ill afford, so he had shoved them to the back of his mind with all the other thoughts he couldn't afford. ]

[A planet made of ice? That sounded like hell, but he might be biased.]

You’ve tasted the snow. [The words are slow as Garrus tries to figure out if there’s some hidden meaning there because, seriously, who does that? There are a thousand questions he could ask him - wants to ask him - about his life back home, but he just can’t get past that bit of information.]

...Why?

[ He gives him a puzzled look before he realizes that yes, Garrus's confusion must be truly about tasting the snow.

Cassian gives a little shrug. ] I don't know, I just wanted to know what it tastes like? Haven't you ever caught snowflakes on your tongue and let them melt in your mouth as a child?

[He laughs at that.]

Palaven has been described as "a silver world of fortresses and fire". It has extremely high levels of solar radiation. We don't exactly do snow. Or cold, for that matter.

[There's a reason that turians are built bony without much fleshy insulation on them. They have muscle, sure, but there isn't much in the way of fat on them.]

But wouldn't snow just taste like water?

Right. That's what someone would say who has never tasted snow.

[ Cassian just gives him a judging look which is, to be honest, only half joking.

He clears his throat and walks a little closer. ]

Anyway, I had actually been trying to get you alone to discuss something work-related. Ayame Sasaki has been working on specific body armor for the Attleton Guardian team since Blaze's time as Guardian and she has both the materials and the blueprints by now. But we need proper facilities for fabrication and she doesn't have the proper contacts in Nova City. Do you think you could get us in touch with the right people at Aster Tech?