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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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[ Her heroic restraint is much appreciated.

Her continued trolling not so much.

He keeps his hand pressed against his mouth and squeezes his eyes shut, focusing only on his breathing as he fights to calm his stomach. ]

Damn you, Em.

[ On the bright side, Cassian would get to see a sight that was typically reserved for Mercury for his suffering. As soon as the "Damn you, Em" comes out, she's got one hand on her stomach and is laughing in a much more genuine way than she ever really does with anyone. Is it something that she should be laughing like that about? Probably not. But beggars can't be choosers. ]

[ It's the carefree laughter that makes him open his eyes again, he's never heard Emerald laugh like this. Even with his stomach still doing somersaults in all the worst possible ways, he can't help feeling charmed. Fondness softens his eyes as he watches her hilarity. ]

I'm glad I'm so entertaining to you.

[ Seeing the weird fondness in his eyes is unnerving to her- people don't look at her that way. When she catches his eye, it slows her laughter a little before she shuts it down with an eye roll. There's still some mirth in her expression, but she's still got a lot of anxiety about being close to anyone. She still can't even understand why Cassian would look at her that way, and it makes it feel like a trick. Her imagination, playing tricks with something she wants but she knows better than to trust. ]

Hey, looks like someone refilled your cup.

[ With white milk. Looks like that restraint isn't quite as strong as it had been. If her imagination wants to run wild, she might as well use it. At least that way she's in control of it, and Cassian can enjoy that nice cup of white milk where his empty green should be. ]

[ It's alright, Em, he can handle a cup of white milk for you.

Or... Well.

He makes a disgusted noise at the cup that is suddenly filled with white milk and his brain helpfully goes back to her talk of curdled milk and now he's imagining drinking curdled milk witzh fishy little globs in it... He drops the glass, his other hand pressed against his mouth again and just forces out ]

You're disgusting!

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I'm not the one who just chugged a cup of green blended up fish guts.

[ She knows that's probably not what it is, but that's what it smells like to her. SHe's got a smirk on her lips now and seems to be containing that mirth a little better, but she still looks like she's having fun. She does stop before he actually throws up at least. ]

Says the one who… Why do I like you again?

[ He leans back against the table, one foot going forward to poke at the glass shards on the floor. Nah, not feeling up to dealing with that yet. Instead, Cassian shoots Emerald another disgruntled look. ]

You’re pure evil.

[ And he needs to think of a way to take revenge. ]

I've been trying to figure that out since the day we met. I'm still convinced you're a masochist.

[ He's got to be into this right?? There's no other explanation. ]

[ He rolls his eyes with a snort. ]

I'm suspecting that myself.

[ He pours himself a glass of water to get rid of the aftertaste of milk, fish and bile - not a good combination. ]

You're helping me clean up.

I'm a guest! Why do I have to clean up?

[ CASSIAN WHYYYY ]

Why don't you guys have a... [ Nope she shouldn't bring that up she knows why. What she says is not even close to what she thinks the actual answer is, but she doesn't want to get into a serious discussion about robot rights when the robot servant in her apartment probably makes her stance clear enough. At least she checked to make sure it was a non-sentient robot, like an advanced roomba rather than something like Kay. ] Nevermind, you're probably worried about Kay having the hots for a robot maid.

Hm...

[Cassian's eyes narrow. Yes he can tell what she had been about to say and he appreciates her veering off trackbat the last minute. Robot issues are a sensitive topic and he doesn't want a quarel on Life Day.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't owe her some revenge... He leans close in, voice lowered to a secretive murmur.]

I'm not worried about being replaced. I'm more flexible than a robot maid... and I have a tongue.

[Make if that what you want, Emerald's imagination.]

Isn't sticking your tongue in electrical sockets literally the thing they teach you not to do as a kid?

[ How are you not electrocuted already Cassian? But she shakes her head. ]

It's your holiday, I'm going to be nice and bite my tongue. It is the best present I can give you right now.

[Hey he's pretty certain horny people have done dunber things! ]

I'll take that in the spirit it is intended as and not point out you could have bitten your tongue instead of making me drop the milk.

Consider it payback for the elves on the shelves.

[ Which when they disappear, she will blame 100% on Garrus. And it will be easy bc he agreed to dispose of the bodies. ]

Where's your mop?

In the kitchen.

[ He starts walking there himself, though, not actually trusting Emerald to get it for him. ]

And there's nothing wrong with the elves.

[ There is everything wrong with the elves. But he'll happily let Garrus take the fall for disposing of the atrocities. ]

So were those elves your idea then? I had given you the benefit of the doubt and assumed it was Kay.

It was Kay's idea but I'm not going to discredit his idea.

[ Where he can hear it. He would like there to be more licking power sockets in his future, sheesh! ]

You're saying we need a hero to save us from these monsters.

[ She can arrange that. ]

Well... I wouldn't exactly be averse to that. Possibly?

[ She's going to go get the mop now, and while she's away there may be some shenanigans with convincing Garrus to throw all the elves out. (It doesn't take much convincing.)

So she's gone for a hot minute getting that mop. ]

Found it!

That was fast.

[ Don't mind him if he's going to give her a suspicious look for being so helpful.

He may also be very close to the pile of opened gifts when she returns, or more like, trying to hide some datapads better amidst the wrapping paper and empty boxes. ]

[OOC: Because the mun finally remembered that Takumi had gifted Cassian with droid erotica.]

[ She had time to grab a mop and convince Garrus to get rid of all the Elves on the Shelves. Which means his 'that was fast' is a little suspicious. ]

I was just getting a mop that you told me where was. What do you have there?

[ Oh shush, he was just... Busy. Right. Doing nothing. And he's not asking her why it took her so long to get a mop, sheesh! ]

Nothing.

[ He's just gonna tuck the datapads a little deeper into the pile of cardboard and wrinkled wrapping paper with his foot.

Look. He may be a hella smooth space spy but the stakes have never been so high before. ]

Right.

[ She doesn't believe him. But he's going to flip out and cover it up if she goes up there right now, so she's going to try to engage him in another topic and work her way closer. ]

I got the mop, you can do the mopping. I've done my share of the work, bringing that green stuff to the party is your fault. [ She moves closer to hand it to him. ]

[ Sneaky, Emerald. Why do you have to be sneaky. ~~This is why another him chose another you as his spy apprentice.~~ ]

Fine, fine, I'll do it. [ He sighs and grabs the mop, he wouldn't trust her not to worsen the damage just to irritate him. As he starts cleaning, he shoots her another disgruntled look. ] It's noted, next time you're getting blue milk again.