open post ● we're about to get up and burn this floor

[boomvox]

Who: Everyone.
What: The Grand Re-Opening of the Gravity Falls Station.
Where: Babylon.
When: Veerdi to Sukkardi.
Notes: Party post!!! Go nuts y'all.
Warnings: Probable alcohol (and drug?) use. Flag stuff in subject titles if it needs a warning and I'll edit it up in here.

It's clear from the first moment anyone even gets on the Skyrail tonight that the Stratosphere Entertainment Group's pricey investment is going to pay off - every rail car is crowded with people decked out and excited for the event. To natives of Baedal, the idea of a holiday is days off work, maybe some camping - escape is alien, a little frightening, and completely thrilling. Even when the Gravity Falls station had hosted other venues, it was nothing so ambitious as to capture the imaginations of the city as a whole. And to immigrants to the city who no longer have the luxury of even simple trips out of town - well, it's priceless. A bittersweet but suddenly vital excursion.

Doors open just as the sun begins to set, the light reflecting off the water of the ocean illuminating the great floating platform as if the entire sky was on fire, before slipping into deep purple then black, the ceiling of their experience dotted with brilliant stars. Staff members wrangling the hazards of the first night are anxious but excited, kind and helpful even if they end up frazzled by the overwhelming turnout. There is security, all sporting neon purple shirts with lion logos, but even by their own admission, they're only there to breakup fights - and even they're smiling all night, too.

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[gwynn]

So approximately no one is surprised that Megan is here, in fact there are several people here who came out tonight under the assumption that she would be. She's pretty predictable like that.

It is also no big shock that after a short detour to the bar - she's been pregaming, she's trying to be a little frugal since she still needs to find a place of her own, but while she's here she ought to at least sample some bizarro cocktail - that she immediately heads out on the dance floor. She is dressed to stand out, even in Baedal, not that she ever blends in, in a neon green dress and the most ridiculous heelless boots.

So she's dancing! On the dance floor! What a novelty!

Every now and then she drifts closer to less-crowded areas with one or two people who go back out in the crowd looking dazed and happy and wanting to hug everyone in the world, and Megan tucks a couple bills into her underwear. What, it's a living.

[boomvox]

Like a divine booze Jesus from on high, when Jae has a minute, he finally extracts himself from the other Vault support employees table at the lounge and sidles over to Megan, holding two neon cocktails, one of which he immediately forks over.

"You're killing it!" Look, they kind of have to communicate via brief loud noises, in here.

[gwynn]

"Call the cops, I don't care!" She will take that neon cocktail, thank you, and slam it rather than sip it, but she's at this point of tipsy where she doesn't feel like sipping anything. She's going to talk someone into buying her shots at some point soon.

Still dancing, her hand exaggeratedly creeps towards his hair, menacing him with the threat of a hair ruffle. She would never actually, that would be a crime, but the threat is there.

[boomvox]

"I might--!" If she messes up his hair, which he does an elaborate Matrix-swerve to avoid, even though he doesn't actually believe she'll do it. It makes him laugh though, and even if Megan is tanked, well - there's still a part of him that's very happy to see her happy. (Maybe someday he'll be talented enough in other people to go past that superficial assurance.)

But it's way too loud to converse, and who wants to? They're on the damn dance floor.

[gwynn]

"I liked your set!" Megan adds, right before nearly taking someone's head off with her shoe. "Sorry!" she shouts at them over the beat.

(She's not actually sorry, they should have stayed out of her way.)

She's also probably a hazard to everyone else because she's using her wings whenever she has room to, resulting in her being off the floor a couple feet pretty often. It's nice that her wing has healed enough that she can fly again, she'd been going crazy when it was still in a cast, drinking too much to cope with the possibility that it might not heal. Anyway, result: people aren't crowding them too much, not wanting to get smacked in the face with an insectoid wing longer than most people's arms.

[boomvox]

"If I got approval from Hoface Killah I'm set for life."

I bet you thought that would have faded into obscurity by now, after so many months. You thought wrong.

As always, they make quite a sight anywhere in public together - even in Baedal. A couple people are staring (over her wings) and somebody snaps a picture giggling about a celebrity stripper and a DJ and Jae just looks completely baffled for a second before skittering a bit closer to Megan like oh god help.

[gwynn]

Megan isn't used to being treated as a celebrity, but she is used to having her picture randomly taken and uploaded onto people's Tumblrs and Cobrasnake and the like, so after a moment's surprise she sort of flings her body around and leaps on Jae's back (it's okay, she's tiny) in order to pose dramatically with her middle finger in the air.

"You're famous!" she says, and she's close enough to his ear that she probably doesn't need to shout, and yet. "And so are my tits!"

There aren't any Tumblrs in Baedal, anyway, but maybe they'll show up in the society page of one of the newspapers.

[boomvox]

Jae cracks up as soon as this happens, and a couple club-goers do as well, one girl even squealing in delight and coming over to pose for a picture. (All three of them flip off the CiD taking the photo.) It's a brief, surreal moment for Jae, whose D-list Londoner status meant that 99% of all pictures taken of him in public were by his own management for their own promotional materials.

"So that-- happened," he's still laughing.

[gwynn]

"Yah so like, now when you introduce yourself to people you have to add, like, 'I'm kind of a big deal' after."

She waggles her empty glass, on... an unrelated note - "I'm gonna go do shots, you wanna?"

[boomvox]

Jae shakes his head at 'I'm kind of a big deal', still laughing. He'd die. But then-

"I'll do one, let me get you started, they're comping me - then I gotta go suck up to some more of the organizers." So he can't get wasted. Y..et.