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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[asklepios]

Benevenuta watches him for that moment, with- not quite concern. Awareness, maybe; it's one of those things she's still deciding whether or not she needs to worry about, and she'd like to get to know him a little better before she starts making decisions like that. Careful- thorough.

“I was lucky to have a friend or two here already, myself- the first thing I did when I arrived, I pawned some jewelry and got myself a drink.”

[egodefence]

"I wandered around until someone gave me a lighter."

On the subject of having a friend or two here, there's a pause from Gaius. Sharon Valerii is not a friend regardless of what reality they happen to be in at the time, but she is a familiar entity. Who would he have here if he could? It'd be a toss up between his personal assistant, and his robot girlfriend. Which is depressing.

"Can't say I was so fortunate, myself. New friends will have to do."

[asklepios]

“Well, our cohort is like to stick together,” she says, with another little salute via cocktail glass - she's branched further out than that, as have most, but the bond between cohort members that the city encourages does seem prone to stick, in more cases than not. And, well, Gaius doesn't quite seem like so much the social butterfly; it might be easier for him to start from a stepladder, as it were. “And we are all friendlier after a drink or two.”