( semi open ) 🐳 🎇 tartaglia & yoimiya's housewarming party

[niwabi]

WHO: Tartaglia, Yoimiya, their CR, and their +1's!
WHAT: Tarumiya Housewarming Party
WHEN: January 5
WHERE: Frostreign
WARNINGS: none for now!

Tarumiya Housewarming Party

Welcome to Tartaglia and Yoimiya’s housewarming party! On the outskirts of Frostreign sits a lovely wood cabin built from the ground up by the talented architect, Kaveh. Whether you heard about this get-together from the chatty couple themselves or received this cute invitation in the mail, all of their friends, acquaintances, quest buddies, what have you, are invited to join them on this special occasion. Gifts aren’t required, the ecstatic couple are simply happy to have their friends over but they do ask for everyone to bring a set of ice skates, and an ornament for a contest they are holding.

Outside, the cold doesn’t seem to bother the couple as they greet their guests with big, bright smiles, the two of them excited and proud to show off their new home. As expected of Kaveh’s incredible craftsmanship, the wood cabin amidst the pristine snow is like a scene from a storybook. To add a bit of festivity, white lights have been strung along the cabin’s exterior, the porch offers a comfy space for anyone who wishes to soak up the wintery ambiance. Upon entering the spacious cabin, the main floor hosts the dining room and a living room with an inviting fireplace burning brightly to keep their friends nice and toasty. As you warm up, feel free to gaze out the large windows to view the snowy landscape from their comfort of their home. Further down in the basement is a recreational room built as a fun place for their companions to gather, it features a mini bar and plenty of games to play.

It’s chilly so come in, grab a warm beverage, a bite to eat, play some games and enjoy your stay at Tartaglia and Yoimiya’s cozy winter cabin.

A Warm Welcome

After traversing through the winter segment, the guests are welcome to slide underneath a large, cozy kotatsu waiting for their arrival in the dining room. On top of the heated table is a smorgasbord of warm, homemade Snezhnayan-Inazuman foods prepared to fill everyone's bellies. Dishes include borscht, olivier salad, pirozhki served with sour cream, a bountiful bowl of sukiyaki, zenzai for a sweet treat and of course, a kotatsu set up isn't complete without a bowl of mandarin oranges. For drinks, there's a variety of warm teas such as matcha, sencha, and hojicha. For the ones craving alcohol, bottles of sake and vodka are also available. Eat, drink, chat with your fellow guests, and have a merry time!

Along with chatting, the energetic couple also encourages playing games with one another.

Would You Rather? Find a partner and fire off a round of questions to each other. The questions can range from positive, negative, to straight-up ridiculous, not even the sky's the limit in this household.

Hot Takes. In the mood to spark up a lively debate? Announce an opinion you might think is unpopular and let others weigh in.

Blind Origami. Team up with another guest to play this game! Sheets of origami paper will be given out alongside a step-by-step guide on how to craft various shapes and animals. One person will read out the instructions while the other is blindfolded as they attempt to create the shape based on their partner's instructions.

Now with a New Year upon Ellipsa, it's time to drink and clank your glasses together in a celebration called, Bounenkai. Glasses of beer, sake, and vodka are available for drinking away the woes and forget about what went wrong the previous year. The floor is open for anyone to reminisce, complain about the not so great memories, gush about happy memories, and look forward to the new year.

It’s All Fun And Games

Downstairs, the couple have decided that their entire basement would be dedicated to being a recreational space, filled with plenty of games and other challenges they could enjoy while staying inside their comfy home out in the snowy landscape.

Aside from a few rooms that branch off, it’s a large room that has games such as air hockey and a ping pong table for people to use. A simple card table also sits nearby, with a few packs of cards sitting out and available for any sort of card game people want to play.

A more comfy part of the room has a couch and few chairs in front of a large flat screen TV mounted to the wall, with their Switch hooked up to it. Tartaglia has personally made sure that there are plenty of multiplayer games to choose from like Mario Kart M▊▊▊▊ Kart, Super Smash Bros and Overcooked, but one particular game flashes on the screen that he’s personally chosen in hopes that people will play it first- Mario Party M▊▊▊▊ Party. It’s clearly here to start fights, and there may be someone who’s keeping an eye on any players to see if one breaks out…

Of course, it wouldn’t be a party if there weren’t any drinks. A full bar sits along the expanse of the back wall, stocked well. There’s even a few bottles of Fire-Water that were brought from Snezhnaya via otherwise questionable methods from a certain shady store…but it’s safe and it’ll put hair on anyone’s chest who dares to try it. Otherwise, all sorts of vodkas, tequilas, whiskeys and the like can be found as well as sodas and other mixers. Help yourself, it’s a party!

The prize of the entire room, however, isn’t the Switch or the bar- it’s the dance machine against another wall. It was discovered first in an arcade in Nightwake City, and the Snezhnayan had to have it- and it now sits there available for anyone to try and see how their skills measure up. Even if you’re brand new to this kind of game, there’s difficulty levels for all skills.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Indoor activities aren’t the only thing available to do at the couple’s home- the cabin has been built next to a pond that’s frozen over, which makes it perfect for ice skating. Everyone’s invitations whether they were told or mailed included telling people to bring their skates if they wanted to go enjoy the frosty weather, or you can chance it with borrowing someone’s skates and see how that goes. There’s no walls around the pond however, so there’s nothing to grab a hold of if you fall! Grab onto someone else instead, it’s your only option! There’s a few small makeshift benches the couple have set out for the time being until they have nice ones made (look, Childe spent that money on the dance game *sweats*) for people to rest on if they’d like, or change back into their boots.

Of course, having a cabin out in the middle of the coldest part of Ellipsa aside from the Winter Segment means there’s snow everywhere, and an endless amount of it. For those who like to have a little more up close and personal action, at some point if your character is outside, they might get hit in the head from a snowball, initiating a snowball fight between anyone who wants to participate. Build snow walls and make yourself a good foxhole because here it comes! This is war, after all. There’s no clear winners or losers in this fight, it’s just there for the sake of fighting existing…you can make your own assumptions on who started it to begin with.

In Snezhnaya, Vodka Drink You

Sorry, what was that? Your speech is a little slurred. The couple has made sure to provide all sorts of different drinks for partygoers to partake in, from wine to whiskey and back. The featured drink of the night is Fire-Water from Snezhnaya, something they were able to get their hands on due to the ability to summon non-magical items from home, and it’s available for everyone. If you didn’t have some hairs on your chest you’re about to, stuff is strong and harsh on the throat. There’s a few games set up just for the purpose of getting their guests smashed if they so choose. Some of the games are clearly Snezhnayan in nature, and it makes one wonder how much the people of the snowy north drink…

Chess. For those who like an intellectual challenge, one of the most popular games from the Harbinger’s homeland is available to play. There’s a few chessboards in the home for people to play against each other, but with a twist. The rules are the same as normal chess, but for each capture of the other player’s piece, the one who loses the piece has to take at least a quarter of a shot. Of course, they’re welcome to drink more, but one may end up incredibly sick given the number of pieces and how badly they lose.

Stairs. Popular among younger Snezhnayans, it’s a game that merely exists just to get its participants drunk as fast as possible. Tartaglia happily teaches anyone interested in how to play- players are lead to the stairs leading upwards to the second floor as he fills a small cap with the player’s choice of hard alcohol into it. But not just one, but nine of them, placed on each step that reaches only halfway up the staircase. He’ll explain: "The goal is to inhale the vapor from the cap as you drink it, and though the amount you’re drinking is quite small, you’ll feel its effects far faster than if you were to drink something normally. The one who manages to last longer than everyone else is the winner. This truly only serves to test your strength and ability to handle your liquor. I wouldn’t recommend this if you’re a lightweight…”

Snezhnayan Roulette. Three shot glasses, two filled with whatever clear liquor of the drinker’s choice (or more than one kind- as long as it’s clear) and one with water. The beauty of this game is that the player doesn’t know which shot glass holds which liquid, and they have to pick and drink two of them in rapid succession. The other person moves them around on the table, and the player can’t smell it, they must pick it up and drink two immediately. Have fun if you choose two liquor shots together! Take turns until the two of you are done or until someone passes out. The bathroom isn’t too far away just in case.

A Kiss on New Years

As a parting gift to their guests, the hosts have a special show to end off the evening with a bang. Step outside and gather around the outdoor fire pit as the couple sneak off to make their preparations. While you wait for the show to start, grab a hot beverage, mingle and cozy up with one another. As always, Yoimiya has sparklers of various colors ready for everyone’s enjoyment. Since coming to Ellipsa, she’s honed her craft and upped the level of creativity to her homemade sparklers. As you wave the dazzling stick around, the sparks of flame aren’t just colorful but also can take shape into little stars, flowers, goldfish, and narwhals.

Of course, Naganohara Yoimiya isn’t about to hold an event without flashy fireworks going off and with her beloved Tartaglia’s assistance, the show begins as lights burst forth, dancing across the sky in a blitz of color. While watching the spectacular light show, you might notice the mistletoe hanging off the overhang of their roof. Thankfully, this particular plant doesn’t have any magic and won’t force anyone to kiss, so you’re welcome to ignore it in favor of the fireworks. But if you’d like to participate in a good ol’ holiday tradition, sharing a kiss underneath the sky painted with bright, dazzling colors does have a special, magical feeling to it.

Finally, the grand finale is upon them. Grab a blanket, get cozy and make sure you have the best seat in the house for the performance of a lifetime. For the final act, the couple have prepared a special firework that they’ve been working on in preparation for the party. To start things off, mini explosions in rapid succession burst throughout the sky in a sea of bright, dazzling colors. Yoimiya is hard at work, firing off the smaller fireworks, running around to check on each of the mortars, lighting fuses in perfect harmony with one another. She’s done this plenty of times without (too) much incident and with the help of her boyfriend, everything should go swimmingly well. The fireworks girl from Inazuma is in her natural element, staring at the sky in awe as a barrage of blue, reds, yellows, pinks paint the sky in a splendorous display.

Meanwhile, Tartaglia is trying to find the best spot to light off the one firework he’s been put in charge of for this final show, a special one that Yoimiya’s made specifically for this. An artwork to christen their new home and to celebrate with all their friends, one that surely would show off the peak of her skills. He’s determined not to mess this up for her, putting it down and securing it in what he thinks is a stable spot in the snow, waiting for the right moment. On cue, he lights the firework, scampering away to a safe location before it goes off, watching it while also glancing upwards in the air at the magnificent show occurring overhead. The fuse burns up inside of it, and he instantly hears the familiar sounds of a whale call, especially loud in his ears from being so close. It’s hauntingly beautiful, and he waits with baited breath to see it launch into the sky for all to see- only to have the worst possible thing imaginable happen.

The snow beneath the firework melts just enough from all the fireworks they’d been setting off…and it tilts. Right at their group of guests.

"Oh no-!"

"Is everything okay? OH NO—"

It launches without hesitation, and from the launching tube appears the magnificent form of a narwhal that looks much like his own, accompanied by a goldfish that swims happily alongside of it (much like the firework from Lantern Rite from years past) that dives at the guests with a loud cry, swooping low and searing away any snow that might be in its way. Thankfully, it misses everyone as it rises back into the air crying once again, the two swimming in tandem to put on a show among the sea of fireworks behind it until they both finally explode in a brilliant show of lights, shimmering out of existence.

"Ooooh dear, that was sure a close call…"

"Haha…yeah…"

The two of them head back towards the group, with Tartaglia’s hand up behind his head looking awfully guilty, Yoimiya quick to to be at his side, also feeling guilty from their harrowing mishap. Apologetically, she places her hands together, bowing her head down.

"Heheh…sorry everyone, that one’s on me."

"D-Don’t be too hard on him, y’all. This was our first attempt at this kind of firework… All’s well that ends well, right? Hahaha…"

( Guests can react and deal with the All-Devouring Narwhal firework coming at them as they see fit. Dodge, scream, panic in fear, etc, you do you. Tartaglia and Yoimiya will write their most sincere apologies in thank you cards later. )

( ooc: This is an open log for Tartaglia and Yoimiya’s cr but guests are absolutely allowed to bring a +1 to the party. Feel free to write your own top levels, mingle, and have fun! )

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