It is about 60/span/i/span>15C) degrees. The mist is heaviest At Mayflower and Prospect/span/span>Darrow takes another bite from his slice of pizza, slowly working from the tip of the triangle back toward the crust, sprawling into a seat comfortably. He nods in answer to Maise’s question. “Guess so,” he agrees. “The family’s known, at any rate.”

Conrad only just arrived, really, being lured by the smell of pizza and the sound of voices coming from the cafeteria. He’s then greeted with excitement and he offers a broad smile back, “And a Happy Near Years to you too.” There’s a bit of cat hair on his coat, but he’s tried to lint roll them up as best he could before his arrival. A look is then given Darrow and he does one of those upnod greetings before he checks out the pizza pies.

Oh, there’s a question? Conrad is too busy looking over the pizza, but he turns Maise’s way anyway.

“Family schmamily some of us suck, who are you?” Faye half-drunkenly asks Darrow’s as she brushes cleanly by him to get to a slice of pizza and a soda.

Faye says “What, did I accidentally come in naked?“

Darrow raises his brows at Conrad’s look and smiles curiously. He glances briefly at Faye as she passes but then asks Maise, “So what was the question?”

Maise laughs, a cheerful sound as she waves to Faye, “Alright! If you could be defined by anything other than a name, what would it be? People hear my accent and think I’m lacking in IQ. But they hear a fancy last name and then, squeal.”

With his plate of pizza in hand, Conrad moves to one of the tables to sit on it while using the chairs as his foot rest. He looks over at Faye for a moment, “If you did come in naked, it would definitely spice things up a bit. Not that the party didn’t just start.” He takes a bite of his slice. His gaze shifts to Maise and he laughs lightly, “My good looks, of course.”

Maise waves at Peri, “Happy New Year.”

Peri wanders in with all smiles and heads over toward the pizza and says, “Thank you, ” to Maise, “I hope this is apizza pizza, which.. I’m not sure how that is different from pizza pizza, but Sofia could totally tell us.”

Maise grins, “Course Gears!”

Darrow tips back his bottle of soda and takes a sip from it while he considers Maise’s question. “My art, probably.” He lifts his bottle in a little salute of greeting to Peri when she comes in. He’s just about done with his slice of pepperoni.

Faye glances around at Maise, Conrad, and Darrow, “I dunno about you but I already know if I never had a name people would call me “Hey pinkie.” She gestures at her pink hair and takes another bite of the clam slice. She hones in on Darrow again and “Ahehehem, speaking of names didn’t I ask who are you?”

Faye glances around at Maise, Conrad, and Darrow, “I dunno about you but I already know if I never had a name people would call me ‘Hey pinkie.’ She gestures at her pink hair and takes another bite of the clam slice. She hones in on Darrow again and “Ahehehem, speaking of names didn’t I ask who are you?”

(Had to fix)

(Nvm Faye believes that last one is just a fucked emote)

Maise waves at Faye, “Hey Pinkie.”

Faye sneaks a sip of the old drink before her drink at least.

Maise says “People being defined by their hair color isn’t entirely new. I’m blondie.“

Peri checks over every pizza so carefully like she i s really really trying to make sure that she is getting the right slice that is until she spies Faye drinking and she looks a little uneasy, “Umm, ” she starts, “Are you sure you should be doing that, didn’t you say the drinks weren’t agreeing with your tummy earlier..”

“Ya know no I didn’t, I said how the drink was probably not agreeing with how it’s almost the next full one and I got your scent crammed up my nose!” Faye spouts off that at Peri entirely blitzed now after that shot of it. She turns to Maise next and points next to her, looking slightly to the same barely missed side of her. “You’re not blondie, you’re Maise, I heard it in a coffee shop. I dunno who name the boys are right now yet is the-” She hiccups and decides that’s the end of that sentence, just staring pretty dumbly at Maise’s general direction.

Peri shifts her weight and then says, “So like, if you have someone’s scent and like you get all woofy, does that mean you are going to sniff them out? Cause I’m told I have a very well protected room I can hide in. It’s a bathroom, though, which is, a little weird.”

Conrad studies the pink haired girl as he eats is pizza, “That’s what they’d start with anyway. It’s the easiest thing to go with and the most striking.” He then offers between bites, as someone in the room doesn’t know him, “I’m Conrad, by the way. Conrad Rothwell.”

“Darrow,” Darrow answers Faye and then glances over to Peri, lifting an eyebrow a little. “Not that weird. That’s where they tell you to go hide in a hurricane or whatever, right?” He squints. Maybe that’s tornados.

Maise waves at Calazar, “Happy New Year Professor.”

Peri offers, “And I’m Peri, nice to meet you all, umm so yeah, while we’re on the subject of not pizza, and shol dbe on the subject of pizza, what is the best kind of pizza? I’m going to go with a complicated blend of fresh veggies with like.. fancy feta cheese or sundried tomatoes on it.” She seems to be day dreaming about this best pizza.

Calazar enters the Student Union room and approaches the pizza party being held. There is a nod of his head to Maise as he greets the gathered students, “Good evening!” he declares in a gregarious manner. “I am Calazar Quintera, your substitute. I believe I recognize most of you.”

“It-” Hiccup! “It’s not…” Faye shakes her head and shakes it again, pointing at Conrad and Darrow’s you know general relative areas. “Right, Conrow and Darrad, gottit.” She turns abruptly to Maise and says “It’s not like th- Oh shit you’re Blondie, where’s Muffins?” She finds Peri again after missing twice on the looks and points at her. “Ah there we go. It’s not like that all… like rurr or whatever it… depends on how I feel about ya and what kinda things I’m not lettin ya know that I wanna be doin… determines what Wuffie’s gonna do to ya or at ya.”

Conrad is definitely entertained by Faye’s antics, despite her getting his name wrong. “What about you? you got a name? Or do you want to be called Pinkie?” If she mentioned her name earlier, he hadn’t heard. With the arrival of Calazar, he updnods over to the substitute teacher, but doesn’t get off the table that he’s sitting upon. “Happy Near Year.”

Peri looks wide eyed at that and then she says, what everyone in her position thinks in response to that explanation.

“Muffins? I’m muffins?” Her eyes wide she looks at herself and then says, “Eh, could be worse, I will have to learn to bake them so I can like.. always have some to toss at you then.” She rubs her nose and seems satisfied to let the conversation move on. “And I still need to know what everyone thinks is the best pizza, unless I forgot to ask and literally this is the first time you’re hearing me ask out loud.”

Maise looks at the lights briefly and sighs, “Shoulda brought that Karaoke machine.”

Darrow is sprawled in one of the chairs comfortably, finishing off the last bites of crust on his slice of pizza and washing it down with a grape soda. He lofts the soda in a salute of greeting to Calazar. “Hey, Prof. Happy New Year.” Then he considers Peri’s question and says, “My favorite is mushroom and pepperoni with extra cheese, but I’m kind of basic when it comes to pizza.”

“The best pizza is margherita with anchovies.” Calazar informs Peri directly while considering the spread of options that actually exist in front of them. “The salty fish and the sauce are quite strong.”

Maise eyes the pizza, “Call me names, but I love Pesto. On everything.”

“Meat lovers. Supreme.” Conrad says, pondering all of the, before he shrugs. “Pizza is pizza.”

“I mean the firsh thing I remember outta you is you threw me a cocoa biscotti and then bomphed me onna head wivv two muffins so hell yeah you’re muffins.” Faye smirks and leans on a part of a table near Peri, sweeping eyes down her and back up real, real slow. Eyes too unfocused to really tell what kind of look that actually was. She says “Huh?” to Conrad way late and turns to look. “Oh I’m Faye. The wolf. Faye the wolf. Not Faye the fae, which is entirely something most people think then I say I’m Faye, but I’m not a fae, that’s more like butthole eyes over there,” She says brazenly and drunkenly of Jakem.

Maise restructures her sentence, “Nope, not on everything. Not ice cream. Or pastries. That’s just..” She stops her rambling and waves at Jakem, “Happy New Year!!”

Peri calls Maise names, “Person, pizza eater. You.” she’s not very good at it. She sniffs a bit realizing she’s not very good at it and had promptly self defeated herself. Thus it’s time for yet another subject change.

“We don’t need karoke, we can sing without the machine!” She declares, probably instantly regretting it in about five seconds when she realizes she’s likely to be herself one of the first victims.

She scoots over to Faye and throws an arm over her shoulders, “Faye is great, she’s like, really cute and woofy, you just want to throw muffins at her. Trust me.”

Jakem gives a little salute to Maise “I’ve not passes judgement on the New Year yet, I’m just here to see off the old one.” He declares with a glance towards the pizza.

Nemi walks over, looking about as she sneaks up behind Peri and gives her a kiss on the cheek after hugging her from behind.

Maise laughs at Peri’s words, “I don’t mind singing Sugar, but I don’t think everyone feels the same way sober.” She waves to Nemi, “Welcome ine!”

Faye giggles and leans on Peri, kind of needing it to keep from falling over herself. She slings an arm around the taller girl’s back, lookin at Conrad sort of. “Ya know my new yearsh revolution is to not break it, I win.”

Darrow lifts his bottle of grape soda in greeting to Nemi and Jakem.

Calazar looks from the drunken Faye to Jakem with a nod, loitering like an unmoving statue near the student gathering just watching.

Nemi smiles. “Question. How bad is it that I don’t know anyone here except my girlfriend?”

Nemi says “Minus Jakem-“

Peri spots Nemi and beams, giving her a one armed hug while keeping Faye upright as best she can. “Nemi! You’re awake. Meet Faye, she’s great.” She tries to swivel Faye around and says, “faye, this is Nemi”

Nemi nods slowly. “I think I got more scrambled by the stress from the hunt then I thought…”

Jakem tsks to Nemi “I get last billing? First your girlfriend, then everyone you don’t know, and finally Jakem.”

Maise looks at Nemi, “Depends, who are you and whose your girlfriend?” She waves, “Pizza and pop are off to the side and I’m Maise.”

Nemi looks over to Jakem. “I dutifully apologize your purpleness that it took me a second to realize you since the last time I saw you, you did not bear the title of ‘the man behind the slaughter’ from five nights at freddies.”

“Nice to meet you, Faye the wolf.” Conrad says with a nod to the drunk girl. At Jakem’s arrival, he holds up a half eaten slice of pizza in greeting.” Then another new face enters. New to him. “Looks like your New Years Pizza Party is a hit, Maise.

Nemi smiles. “Well, I’m Nemi. It’s quite lovely to meet you all.”

“I’m Darrow,” Darrow introduces himself again to those newly arrived that he has not yet been introduced, then takes another sip from his bottle. “Who doesn’t like pizza? And moreover, who doesn’t like free pizza?”

Jakem hmm’s to Nemi with a frown “Never played that one. So the villain took my style did he?”

Nemi grins. “You should watch the whole thing, lots of supernatural, jumpscares. Who knows it might scare you, it’s not a bad game series up until…. security breach.”

Maise smiles at Nemi, “Welcome in Sugar, pleasure to meet you!” She gives Conrad a smile, a little blush on her cheeks, “I just bought the food and hoped to not be alone. Thanks for helpin make that happen.”

Nemi says “Should stop there before lore gets retconned.“

Jakem tsks to Nemi “I’d rather LARP it, personally, but to each their own I suppose.”

Faye follows along to face Nemi, still with an arm around Peri and she can’t not say it. “Holy fuckin Criss Kringle’s snow-hole you’re fuckin ghost white huh?” She giggles at her own joke but completely missed a lot of things going on around her. Canting her head curiously she asks Nemi, “Shooooo who’s yer girlyfriend?

Conrad “Welcome to the party then, Nemi!” Conrad calls out, “I’m Conrad.” He then glances Maise’s way and gives her a faint smile, “I didn’t have any other plans.” That’s said somewhat half-heartedly as he turns back towards the group.

Nemi looks over to someone, Cackling softly as she sighs, nodding with a smile.

“Hey there,” Jasper greets, showing a small smile as he moves to take a seat on a chair.

Nemi looks over to Faye, Cackling for a moment before simply smiling after she sighs, then providing a simpler nod. “Peri here… She probably has fears of losing me if it ever snows too hard.”

Nemi says “You should see my mother though, maybe a bit paler, taller though.“

With the students intermingling Calazar makes his way over to Jakem and introduces himself, “Calazar Quintera, you are Jakem then?” he isn’t breathing and really probably couldn’t with the garish deep throat wound that trails lower like a chunk was taken from him.

Jakem nods over to Calazar “Oh hey, that’s right, you’re a teacher here too aren’t you? What do you teach again?”

Peri suggests to Nemi, “I’m not sure if you’re more likely to get lost in the snow or get lost hybernating becaues of the snow.” She grins and then frowns and says, “Wait thta can’t really happen can it.”

Nemi ehs. “Just don’t leave the apartment door open. And hey- I do not hibernate, we just have very misaligned sleeping schedules when I work and go to school.”

Faye laughs pretty loud and grins, turning to grin just wide eyed, not in fear, and face to cheek with Peri for her part of it. It’s entirely a look Inuyasha once gave Kagome, and she chuckles. “Just remember in case you do lose her in the snow, puppy eyes don’t work on me. Good thing you’re hers huh?”

“I missed the whole field trip thing. One of these days I’d like to learn how to practically use a mirrorgate and go somewhere with one,” Darrow says, smiling faintly. “Unfortunately ended up in the hospital due to a bad mist incident the day before it started.”

Nemi looks over to Calazar immediately. “You are my new favorite survival teacher. I promise to be as punctual as possible to your classes as I am with everyone who does’nt teach art… I still need to apologize to Navessa for missing her class.”

“Ditto what Darrow said.” Conrad pipes up after Darrow explains their hospital stay.

Peri grumbles, “I wish I could sniff people out.” She sniffs herself and says, “Then again, I probably need fancier soap. ” A long pause while she eyes the pizza again without grabbing any, then she asks, “So ooo Nemi whatcha been up to?”

Jakem smirks to Calazar “I love how paying your taxes and cooking yourself dinner on a budget aren’t on the docket for survival skills. Yah can tell the city’s really somethin’ special.”

Nemi hums as she thinks about how to answer the question. “School, inventory management at the brine, Getting A’s. Not dying- Snuggling, And…. Slowly working past the slump that was the hunt.”

Faye suddenly something, someone catches her attention through all of the drunkenness, and she peers over Peri’s shoulder at Jasper. Her eyes widen differently and she straightens her posture, even seems to sober a little, and holds Peri a little more sternly, but no less gently. She carries herself entirely differently now, better than before, and for reasons she’s not stating. Her focus mainly goes back to listening to Peri and Nemi, but not without ocassional glances at Jasper

Peri is oblivious, she totally doesn’t notice that Faye is acting differently, so she keeps talking, she tells Nemi, “Well in my quest to make friends I made one friend Maise, who invited me here, Faye, umm Remy, you’d like Remmy, lets seee.. umm, I’ve texted with Darrow but we never talked in person, and and and.” She tries really hard to think of anyone else, but gives up and says, “That’s all I have. Oh!” Light bulb, “Victoria said she’d teach us all self defense, I think I got a coupon for her gym.”

Jakem tilts his head as he regards someone “Oh yeah? Well knowing what other folks do is a good lesson in what not to do I figure. With regard to the taxes for me, with regard to meal prep for you.” he comments with a thoughtful look. “Speaking of, you said yah do club promotion on the side? Seems a strange mix of activities.”

Peri did not get a coupon.

Jakem tilts his head as he regards Calazar “Oh yeah? Well knowing what other folks do is a good lesson in what not to do I figure. With regard to the taxes for me, with regard to meal prep for you.” he comments with a thoughtful look. “Speaking of, you said yah do club promotion on the side? Seems a strange mix of activities.”

“Lesson one on dinner on a budget — find all the free pizza parties you can,” Darrow says with a faint grin from where he is sprawled. He glances from Faye over to Jasper and back, perhaps picking up on that not-entirely-subtle change. Then he chuckles and says to Peri, “We did.. very very briefly.. at my studio. But you were a little preoccupied and I had to dip out.”

Picking up a slice of pizza, Jasper turns to take a bite out of it while he watches and listens. He notices Faye and then Darrow before he softly smiles again and resumes eating.

“Doing like with like is a very quick way to box yourself into a corner.” Calazar says in a rhythmic spanish accent to Jakem. “But yes, I am a club promoter. The substitute teacher is more a favor to a friend situation.” during the conversation when he isn’t talk he just motionlessly stares at Jakem so it might be mildly awkward when he isn’t animated and chatty. “Do you own one?”

“Even if you aren’t on a tight budget, that’s still the way to go.” Conrad chimes in after Darrow’s mention of mooching off of free pizza parties.” Every so often, he’ll fall silent. Quiet. As if his mind is preoccupied by other obligations that he’s ignoring.

Jakem hmms to Calazar “I think so, let me check a moment.” He says, scrolling through the list. He’s not paying much attention to Calazar’s expression, or doesn’t seem to be at least “I think some of these are clubs, yeah. Are we counting the Rage Room? Hah, there’s clubs there.”

Jakem looks over to Darrow “Huh, well I suppose that’s less preparing and more scavenging. Works though.”

“The rage room is pretty cool,” Darrow opines. “Owen and I went there and beat the crap out of some stuff when we first got into town.” He then nods in agreement with Jakem, “Okay so yeah, technically that’s scavenging. But if you can’t prepare — scavenge.”

Canting her head, Faye observes Darrow a little bit, she says nothing to him but does smile, before turning her head again. She flicks her gaze easily back and forth between Nemi and Peri, often smiling at the latter during the looks. But for some reason she once, and only once during it gives Nemi an even bigger smile, her eyes only narrowing just a tick there before coming to normal. “So, can I nickname ya ghost-girl or is that a little offensive, just askin, not tryina start anything.”

Jakem nods to Darrow “I picked it up as a joke, a joke I continue to play to this day.” he comments idly “But yeah, it’s a swell place. Does it still have the flamethrower, or did that get yoinked?”

“I didn’t see one. Baseball bat, crowbar, that sorta thing,” Darrow says, squinting thoughtfully as he tries to recall what all was in there. “If there was, maybe it wasn’t out.”

Nemi shrugs. “Not one of the worst ones, I won’t mind in honesty.”

Jakem perks up at Nemi’s statement “Oh what’s the worst one?”

Nemi coughs. “Cumstained.”

Jakem lets out a soft whistle “I figured you’d have something lame like ‘dork’ or ‘nerd’, but that’s pretty good.”

Jasper almost does a spit-take with his drink before he quietly giggles.

Darrow says “Wow. “

Nemi’s words seem to break Conrad out of the little trance he was in and he blinks back awake. “What are you all talking about?” He asks, brow furrowed now.

Nemi just nods sloooowly with that sort of ‘yeah tell me about it’ sorta smile/nose wrinkle. “Bad or offensive nicknames.”

Darrow just laughs when that brings Conrad out of his reverie, coughs, and then takes another long swig from his soda.

Faye snickers at Nemi and slides her arm from around Peri’s waist and gives her a little nudge closer to Nemi. “You’re welcome, kept her warm for ya.” Did she just take advantage of the timing of the nickname to do that? She sweeps a hand down to the clam casino pizza and has to try twice for the slice. “Like that time someone called me Kick-start cause that was all it took to get me horny that day.”, she shamelessly explains to Conrad, on her way to stand by Jasper. She gives a little gesture down at the chain bracelet and waggles her eyebrows a little. “I like it… and I… know what it means. You guys uhh…. got room for another?”

Calazar looks between Faye and Jakem in silence but does eventually prompt Jakem, “You wanted to meet to discuss club promotion and you own a few clubs, but where are the twins I wonder?”

Nemi coughs suddenly as if choking while trying to not laugh from ‘kick-start’ before she clears her throat.

Maise smiles at Jasper, “Hey! I don’t know you Sugar, welcome in. I’m Maise.”

Jakem hmm’s to Calazar “Dunno. To the twins that is. To the club promotion, yeah we should do that. I have a feeling I’m gonna be throwing a little party. I’ll find out in an hour or two I wager.” He says with a glance at his phone. “What kinda promotion you do?”

Peri seems to have sort of zoned out for a bit and now she’s zoning back in but utterly lost. “What.. just happened..?” She rubs her eyes and looks around and at Nemi and Faye and then asks, “Are they still talking about club promotion.. somehow?”

Maise smiles at Jakem, “What club you promoting?”

“There’s always room for more,” Jasper tells Faye with a nod of his head. Turning to look at Maise, he tells her, “I’m Jasper. Nice to meet you.”

Jakem hmms to Maise “Probably the Den of Wonder or House of Luck… Or both. Gotta work out the details.” He comments “Yah been to either yet?”

Maise shakes her head at Jakem, “Haven’t had the pleasure but, I feel as if I should.” She looks at Jasper, “Nice to meet you Jasper. Have you had some pizza?”

To catch Peri up, Faye has just nudged her right to Nemi, who just cough-chortled about a nickname Kick-start that Faye explained over some past horniness some year ago or when. You’re welcome.

Faye purses her lips a little and turns her head right along with Jasper to peer at Maise. “I probably should have introduced you to her, huh? I… kinda knew who you were when I first saw ya. Er, well you know, to me anyway… yer rep precedes ya.”

Faye said all that to Jasper while she was still looking right at Maise

Maise leans in, “Ooooh…a reputation. Good or bad?”

Jakem nods firmly “Willdo, like I said, won’t know for sure it’s gonna happen until the polls close, but I’ve got a good feeling about this one.”

Faye puts a hand on the table and chuckles at Maise. “Depends if you pissed him off. Remember what I am? Ever since I got turned, bein one’s all I know. So I know about a lot that has to do with it too. Includin how to tell one of my own.”

“Oh yeah,” Jasper grins at someone while he grabs another slice of pepperoni pie. “Nothing is better than a pizza party and also free food.” Looking back at Faye, he lets out a hum. “I must be popular lately.

Okay, Faye’s explanation brings a crooked grin to Conrad ‘s lips. He then hops off of his perch to grab another slice of pizza and a refill of his drink. When he returns, he casually observes the introduction made between the group surrounding Jasper before climbing back onto the table again.

“Oh yeah,” Jasper grins at Maise while he grabs another slice of pepperoni pie. “Nothing is better than a pizza party and also free food.” Looking back at Faye, he lets out a hum. “I must be popular lately.

Darrow idly glances over toward Conrad and asks, “Have you been to Den of Wonder or House of Luck yet?” It doesn’t seem to matter what the answer is as he follows it up a moment later with, “We should go. See if we can grab some people. Now that we’re all moved in and stuff.”

Faye shrugs slightly, totally trying to play it off but yeah, she can’t hide the smile that says she thinks Jasper is pretty cool. “I’ll put it this way, you’re the alpha, far as I’m concerned. Even if I do stomp the jackass-o-lantern pumpkin horrors out there in about two hits.” She brings that gaze to someone, canting her head and glancing down her, back up again. “Actually I ain’t met anythin in the mists that lasted longer than two hits from me… yet.”

Peri says, “It’s too cold outside, I want to go someplace really warm.. Like florida.” She slumps, her shoulders sagging.

Faye shrugs slightly, totally trying to play it off but yeah, she can’t hide the smile that says she thinks Jasper is pretty cool. “I’ll put it this way, you’re the alpha, far as I’m concerned. Even if I do stomp the jackass-o-lantern pumpkin horrors out there in about two hits.” She brings that gaze to Maise, canting her head and glancing down her, back up again. “Actually I ain’t met anythin in the mists that lasted longer than two hits from me… yet.”

Nemi looks over towards Faye. “Good to know. Thats nice that you don’t try to hide it since you admit it though.”

Maise smiles at the decorations, giving a little proud glance around the room before returning to the conversation, “Why we stompin pumpkins?”

Jakem looks over to Maise “They done wronged her.”

Conrad looks to Darrow, hearing the question asked, “I may have visited the House of Luck, if that’s a casino. Depending on how many casinos this city has.” Taking a bite out of his fresh pizza, he nods slowly, “Either way, I’m game.”

Maise grins at Jakem, “All offensive pumpkins should be maimed then. I ain’t one to hold back on naughty veggies.”

Peri starts playing with her phone, she’s playing block blast, looking a little less involved in the converastion, throwing her two cents in. “You really shouldn’t disparage yourself Faye, you’re one of the coolest people in town I’ve met yet ever, so like, at least other people think highly of you, you know..?” She sticks her tongue out and bites it as she starts to really concentrate on getting those blocks in the right places.

“Offensive or offending, pumpkins.” Calazar inquires before sending a message off on his phone.

Jakem hmms to Maise “I wonder what horror pumpkin pie would taste like. I should make up a recipe for the Den.” he comments thoughtfully.

“I bet it has a bit of a bite,” Darrow considers.

“Probably a ton of alcohol.” Maise muses to Jakem.

“Interesting, even though I’m the new leader since yesterday,” Jasper slowly nods his head before he sips his drink. “My fighting skills are probably either rusty or dulled since the Wild Hunt. And’s probably pumpkin ice cream too.”

Okay, Jakem has her there. Faye puts up her hands slightly, and then theres a sneer at her lips and she quickly looks away from him. “Sorry, wolf twitch it… I… grrr.”

Jakem smirks to Faye “Yah, well as long as you’re not spoutin’ off in front of your alpha. You weren’t gonna do that were yah?” He asks, more incite and taunt than actual warning.

Darrow singsongs, “I’ve go the fever for a terror of a flavor,” then glances over toward Faye and says, “Gotta be something that you’re proud of. I mean, outside of that,” nodding in some agreement with Peri.

Jakem hmms as he looks to Darrow and Conrad “House of Luck doesn’t have gambling, it’s a dance club. Used to be a strip joint till the city shut that part of it down. You know ‘get lucky’?” he comments idly.

Maise giggles, “Good to know there are places for dancing. What kind of vibe?”

Jasper nods.

Nemi hums, giving Peri a little rub on the shoulders.

“Maybe that’s what she’s the proudest about.” Conrad tosses out there. “She most likely does have other things to be proud of, but she likes to flaunt this one.” His eyes look down at his pizza at first before his gaze lifts to Faye again. That is until Darrow and then Jakem catches his attention. “Huh. I know for sure that I haven’t been there then.”

“Then you probably went to the Golden Sands or whatever it’s called, if you went to the casino,” Darrow says to Conrad when Jakem explains what House of Luck is. Then he squints, “The city actually shut the strip club part of the strip club down? Why?”

Jakem shrugs to Darrow “Violates local ordinances. Like I was telling the pink-haired chick. There’s some parts of yourself you just can’t show off.” he says with a crooked grin. “Least not in public. They do got some backrooms still for folks that pay a lil’ extra.”

He shrugs to Maise “It’s pretty nightclubby, I dunno. Lotsa neon and techno-bump.”

Faye grips at her head and shakes it, bending over, and a little lowish. “Okay, Peri, you member when you asked if you had to watch it around me? Or somethin? I can’t promise anythin tonight….” She starts stripping off her clothes to throw it into a stashy spot, and the start of the change isn’t exactly the most fluid thing in the world. She has a particularly gross transformaton. Her maw elongates while her face is still mostly human looking, and she opens her mouth for the moment when her wolf teeth grow in from underneath and push her human teeth straight out of her mouth! Good thing those will grow back when she changes the other way again later. Wait where did the teeth that fell on the ground do? They’re just gone! Her hair suddenly spreads everywhere, and shortens, and even fades from pink to black while her arms and legs are breaking- breaking to form those feral legs that have the knees that bend the other way. Her figure change from humanoid to wolf from there is fairly quick and fairly LOUD with the squelches and crunchy crackles of everything happening.

Maise blinks, “Uh..wh.what did I just..just ..” She sips her soda and stares down.

Jakem grins broadly as the girl changes, grabbing his trusty truncheon “Oh man, what a great night for a party.”

As a young woman turns into wolf there is a slow shift from the motionless statue. “Oh good, she naturally fled.” Calazar comments

“Yeah, the city officals are pretty much prudes, I guess,” Jasper says while he watches the wolf leave. “Like, no nudity in public.”

Peri gapes at the transformation and blinks in utter disbelief. Her mouth hangs opened for a bit and she’s sitting there almost statue like still. After a moment she finds her voice, great philosophical words are uttered in these moments and for her what the poets will be presenting are,

“… holy shit.”

Jakem lets out a dissapointed huff. “Yeah, looks like it.” He nods to Jasper “Can’t wait to overthrow those tyrants.”

“True,” Jasper nods towards Jakem. “It’s like the no-sex rule on campus.”

Conrad enjoys a good show. And with pizza to boot. He finds the whole shedding of clothing and transformation thing rather fascinating. “Neat.” He comments. Just one simple word.

Maise pauses mid sip, “There’s a no sex rule on campus?”

Peri shakes her head and turns to Maise, “There is magic that prevents, it so I’m told.” She adds, sheepishly, “Though I havn’t actually tried.”

“There is a no sex enchantment on the grounds. If you get to amorous and aroused you will become sleepy and eventually pass out.” Calazar informs Maise in a gregarious and rhythmic spanish accent.

Maise lifts a curiously Southern brow at Calazar, “Aroused? So you can’t even..self…pleasure?”

Calazar says “I believe some students sell knowledge of the various nooks and cranies the enchantment does not cover for making out and quickies.“

“Tell me you havn’t touched yourself in town without telling me you havn’t touched yourself in town,” Peri murmurs, under her breath but actually kind of loudly.

“And I don’t even know if I can do it in my own dorm,” Jasper says with a shrug of his shoulders. “Never tried it if it reaches there.”

Conrad just blinks at this no sex on campus talk. “Who thought that was a good idea? I mean, this is college. This is the time to fuck around and find out.”

Darrow watches as the transformation takes place, grimacing just slightly at the snap crackle pop of it all. It’s not the first time he’s witnessed a change and so he doesn’t look shocked, but he doesn’t exactly take his eyes off her either, gauging how things are going to go once the transformation is over. When nothing bad happens, he lets out a breath and then takes another swig from his soda. “I didn’t pass out in the dorm.. so uh… if that’s a thing, I didn’t notice it.”

Peri says, “I think I’m going to wander back to the dorm a bit.” She gives Nemi hug and says, “You have any plans?”

Nemi shakes her head. “Wish for me to come back with you to rest hun?”

Jakem hmms to Darrow “Doesn’t cover your room. But if you try it in the hallway, should kick in.”

Peri tells Nemi, “Well if you’re up to be social more I say be social more, I might sneak back out again in a bit. ”

“I can see your clubs are going to have a vibe of exhibitionism to them.” Calazar remarks as Jakem speaks to Darrow

Jakem nods to Calazar “That’s more Lucky’s thing, though that’s just because we don’t like to overlap too much. I’d love to do more exhibitions at the Den. But there’s no need for two strip clubs across teh street from one another.”

Peri tries to sneak an entire bomb from the table to munch on on her way, she’s not that sneaky abuot it though, kind of obvious really. It takes a few steps before she says, “I’ll bring this back.”

“So the enchantment doesn’t cover the dorms?” Conrad says, looking thoughtful, “That’s a lot better. Not perfect, but reasonable.” That’s said with a nod.

“Good to know,” Jasper speaks towards Jakem. “That can be another way for calm while being locked up every month.

“Not that we live in the dorms anymore anyway,” Darrow chuckles, “But good to know.”

Peri tells Maise, “I plan to come back, I just don’t want to zone out in public and I need to zone out a bit.”

Calazar checks his phone and sends off another message before looking at Peri and Nemi and introducing himself to the latter, “You are Peri’s girlfriend is that right? I am Calazar Quintera, you may have an e-mail from me, your substitute teacher.”

Maise glances at Darrow, “Got your own place?”

Darrow nods to Maise and says, “Yeah. Got a place between the studio and school.”

“It’s a really cool place too.” Conrad chimes in about off campus living. “Not that living with all of you was a pain. Or would be a pain, but you know. Privacy and everything.”

Maise gives Conrad a smile, “Shush Sugar, you’re allowed your college life. If I was into that kind of thing, I’d be wanting outta the dorms too.”

“Fewer people breaking in and leaving cat hair on my stuff,” Darrow smirks, then glances over at Conrad and eyes his coat and the cat hair on it, probably teasingly, because he grins again quickly.

Jakem squints at Darrow “We never left cat hair on your stuff, what do you mean?”

Darrow laughs and says, “I wasn’t talking about you. I was talking about the noxious cloud with feet that busted in and left dirt all over the floor and cat hair on my stuff.”a

Conrad‘ brow arches, “That just sounds disturbing. Why does a noxious cloud need feet for?”

Maise says “I am invested in this story Sugars. I want to know about the invasive hairy cloud.“

“I got a random text from an unknown number saying they had something I would want. Turned out to be a fancy antique paintbrush with one of my family member’s name on it,” Darrow explains. “I went out to some dark alley filled with black cats and this noxious green cloud came out with .. feet.. and a hand missing bones.. and took me to a weird underground market through a dumpster and sold it to me. Then later turned up breaking into the dorm rooms. They busted into mine and left dirt on the floor and a bunch of white cat hair.. presumably from someone’s cat they took from another dorm room.. but didn’t leave in mine. That’s.. kind of the whole story.”

Darrow says “Hashtag-just-New-Haven-things. “

Jakem whistles to Darrow “That’s a pretty good story. Any idea how to get back to that underground market?”

“It’s in Redstone somewhere. I might be able to find it again.. it was a while back, before you guys stopped by,” Darrow says with a crooked grin. “But I’d be down for trying to look for it again if you’re curious.”

Jakem nods a bit “Redstone, can’t recall if I have a shop around there.” he says, checking his phone. “I’ve got the skate park down in the Saints. But I think that’s a few blocks off. Oh! The Waffle House is in Redstone. How close was it to the Waffle house?”

Maise says “We have a waffle house!“

Calazar checks his phone and then looks around the room at the youthful faces and someone with his oddity. “I should finish my meetings this evening. Happy New Years to all of you.”

Calazar checks his phone and then looks around the room at the youthful faces and Jakem with his oddity. “I should finish my meetings this evening. Happy New Years to all of you.”

Darrow shakes his head, “No idea. It’s the one and only time I’ve been to Redstone. Never been to the Waffle House. But I can go back and poke around and see if I can find it.”

Darrow lofts his bottle to Calazar and says, “Good to see you, Prof. Happy New Year!”

Maise waves to Calazar, “Thanks for coming by!”

Calazar says “You should all convince Jakem to buy you champagne.“

Conrad leans forward as he listens to Darrow’s tale, but in the end, he just has to sigh. “Why does everything have to be about cats.” He scratches at the back of his neck in agitation, a booted foot tapping on the seat beneath it. “Anyway, if you’re going out exploring, I’m game for that too.” His gaze then shift when the Professor brings up his departure and he lifts a hand up, “Happy Near Years, prof.”

Calazar turns to leave with that eeriely silent and mechanical movements, one hand on the hilt of his cutlass on the left.

Maise says “I think the pizza will last into the new year.“

“I guess demons like cats?” Darrow says, flashing Conrad a cheeky grin. “But you’re welcome to come exploring with me. Maybe you can collect the dumpster cats, too.” He is not helping this situation at all.

Peri wanders back, noming on some pizza, realizing it’s spicy, after noming on it and fanning at her face like an idiot, all the while texting occasionally with one hand and going “hoa hoa hoa,” like she can’t quite finish the word hot. So all and all a pretty good evening.

Peri drifts back to where Nemi is and bumps her before asking, “You.. feel overwhelmed?”

Nemi nods. “I’m… not that much of a party person… just a lot with life…. Keep drifting too into thought.”

Faye just flops that fucking corpse right onto the table that -don’t have any pizza on it… staring around at everyone else and panting hard.

Faye says “Any questions?“

Peri stares at Faye, slowly lifts a muffin, takes careful aim and- toss

Darrow glances over as Faye returns and drops a wooden corpse onto the table. “So, is catching a wooden person kind of like a self-propelled game of fetch?” he muses outloud.

Maise asks Peri, “So, how did you two meet?”

Peri looks at Maise and points at Nemi, “In the inkwell , Nemi was being sardonic toward Kai. We didn’t see each other again until a lecture on love potions though, Bekki was there and.. someone I forget who.” She looks really thoughtful. “Nemi was the volunteer and they made her drink the love potion.”

Faye swats the muffin out of the air this time, looking right about the same time she makes the catch. Oh she’s completely on point with it this time and she takes a bite, eyes so much more intense than they were before she left. She’s clearly been some form of otherwise roused up by being out there in the mists, but… in all honesty, Darrow’s joke aside, being able to take down a wooden woman, solo, as a melee spec… she just smirks at him and lets him have his moment. “Kinda.” is her simple reply to him.

Conrad can’t help but let out a heavy sigh at part of what Darrow, but none of that really matters once Faye returns with a gift? Conrad hops off of his place at the long table, setting his plate down, just so he can wander over to get a better look at the corpse of a wooden person. Hearing Maise’s speaking, he turns to look back at her, when he starts laughing. “I thought you were asking Faye that question in regards to whatever this thing is. Like it was some weird meet cute.”

Maise says “Sounds..romantic? “

Darrow flashes a grin at Faye when she seems to appreciate his joke, but he does seem duly impressed. “I can’t take anything down by myself. So I’m pretty much impressed when anyone doesn’t just get dragged off like I did.” He then smirks a little at Conrad and says, “It was a dark and misty night, just on the cusp of the new year, they were stalking one another through the shadows, playing a game of hide and seek, and then.. the inevitable collision of two who were meant to be!”

Peri noms away on her pizza while texting with her phone with the other hand, looking very fixated on the exchange. She presses her lips together and frowns a little at what is being typped and then starts typing her own message after a ding. All while eating pizza, because skillz.

“I must say that that’s impressive,” Jasper says, looking at the wooden corpse. “I can only take down rats and kobolds, and also a mushroom one time, alone when hunting.”

Faye peers at Peri and nods over toward the tables. “Nice throw, by the way.” She looks at Peri like this friend is indeed hers, and not Nemi’s, even though the opposite is true. But then again she’s looking at everyone who isn’t Jasper that way anyway right now. She brings a foot up to Captain Morgan pose on the bench with it, almost like a victory pose over the tree lady. “These things start nature mancing from about 60 meters out. You gotta close the gap in about close to fifteen seconds or less or you’re toast.” She pokes herself in the chest with the muffin holding hand and adds, to Jasper, “I literally set those all up for the kill in just the first hit.

Faye points to the corpse of the wooden woman and admits, “She took four hits to kill.”

“I am, yes,” Jasper admits to Faye. “Although before, I kept that hidden until a couple others sensed what I am.”

Peri frowns at her phone when no more texts come and she looks up to say, “I’ve never actually been in the mists, went to the pirate otherworld place where my phone stopped playing blockblast and I went .. was taken, on the wild hunt, but never the mists..” She scratches her cheek, “Pretty sure I’d get killed in a heartbeat. Trying to get some lessons from various people who give them becaues Bekki says I’m useless.”

Maise says “Oh..I heart that.“

Maise says “Oh..heard. Not..not heart.“

“I’m kinda useless too,” Darrow admits. “I crashed in the mists and a bunch of gargoyles surrounded me.. and there was no way I could take them. There were five of them at one point. And I didn’t even have my bow on me at the time. But I also didn’t intend to be there. I think if I were hunting deliberately and wasn’t alone, maybe I could get some better practice in.”

Conrad can’t help but look impressed by Captain Morgan, slayer of wooden women. He then glances back at the corpse briefly. However, something surprises him, “I thought only powerful people were taken in the Hunt. That’s why all of our superiors were absent for a time.” His brown eyes look towards Peri now. “Huh. So any of us really could have been taken?” That’s worrisome.

Jasper says “I have to go head to the raid, so I’ll be back.“

Darrow waves to Jasper.

Maise waves.

Maise then asks after a moment, “What raid?”

Peri is again not really paying attention to the conversation and just sort of on her phone sitting a bit by herself and hopefully not playing block blast at a party.

“Eh, no use hidin it with someone like me around. I lean into my wolf all the time, even right now.” Faye smiles happily, munching on Peri’s muffin. No really that’s where she got it. “So I’m gonna know most of the time if there’s another wolf around.” She eyes someone, quite sated from her hunt, and hrms softly. “Sorry I’m usually not this confident until about just after a hunt. Peri knows what I mean.” Peri gets a smile too.

Blaine wanders into the Student Union Cafeteria, his gray-eyed gaze drifting about for a brief moment before he slowly, surely shuffles himself over into a corner, playing the wallflower.

Maise waves at Blaine, “Welcome in Sugar! Happy New Year! There’s tons of pizza.” She gives him a bright smile, “I’m Maise.”

“Eh, no use hidin it with someone like me around. I lean into my wolf all the time, even right now.” Faye smiles happily, munching on Peri’s muffin. No really that’s where she got it. “So I’m gonna know most of the time if there’s another wolf around.” She eyes the empty space she was talking to and sights. But, quite sated from her hunt, and hrms softly. “Sorry I’m usually not this confident until about just after a hunt. Peri knows what I mean.” Peri gets a smile too.

Peri looks up from her phone and smiles back to Faye in the way that just screams -I’m not paying attention- because her attention flits back to the phone and she makes a few more taps on the screen.

Faye eyerolls at Peri and mentions, “Sure so you toss a muffin at me and then ignore me until I need the rolled up newspaper?

Faye says “sec “

Darrow gives a small up-nod of greeting to Blaine as he wallflowers when Maise greets him and then looks over toward Conrad, “Do we want to go try to help out with that? I actually have my bow on me this time..” He looks a little uncertain.

Faye says “Ah hey, Jasper everything okay, I spaced and you dipped.“

Blaine has his eyes fixed for a time on his phone for a moment before his brows flash in slight surprise at Maise’s greeting, and he gives a slight upnod, a brief, cordial closed-lip smile presented before he replies softly, “Happy New Year. I’m Blaine.” he adds, before punctuating that a beat thereafter, “Blaine Harrington, to be specific. The third, to be more specific.” he adds, before trailing off somewhat at that latter statement with a lift of his shoulders.

Peri looks at Faye with a start, “What I am not ignoring you.” She makes a face then readies… ANOTHER MUFFIN. That’s right, she has more than one. “See ? Not ignoring you.” Toss. Except Faye is probably like right next to her so it’s not really much of a toss this time.

Maise says “The third, while I’ll be.“

Conrad looks to Maise curiously, just like the first day they met. his brow arches. “Some Legion from hell who want control of the city. One borough at a time.” He then murmurs, “Or so it feels like it.” At Darrow’s question, he ponders for a moment. “I mean, I’ve got my gear. So I’m ready to go.”

Peri asks Faye, “So someone asked for your myhaven handle. But like, I don’t want to give it without permission..”

Maise asks Blaine, “What happened to the first two, Sugar?”

Faye glances at Darrow and looks at Conrad. “Yeah speakin of that… I mean I am a” she turns a palm up to let that muffin land right in it. “wolf.”

Peri frowns a bit and then adds, “And she’s kind of pushy and domineering if one of my friends is to be believed..”

“My father and my grandfather.” Blaine replies softly to Maise, before adding, “I assure you they’re doing quite well.” with dry amusement.

Faye still chowing the first muffin smirking at Peri. “You know these are gonna go straight to my tits and ass right?”

Darrow pulls himself up from his chair and says, “Let’s see what happens.” He then lifts a hand and waves to those gathered, “Nice to meet you all, or see you again. Happy new year!” Then to Blaine, “Darrow. Nice to meet you.”

Darrow says “Ten if I leave now.“

Peri looks Faye up and down and says, “I mean, if you have a healthy work out regeme you should be fine, also you’re pretty skinny, so it’s probably fine right?” She pauses then leans over.

Maise gives Blaine a little smile, “Well, it’s a pleasure to meet you Blaine Harrington the Third. I’m just Maise and I wish you the Happiest New Year.”

Conrad nods and waves as well, “It was an excellent part, Maise. Also, Happy Near Years!” He then hurries out to the street to catch a ride.

Peri has the shame to look a little sheepish as she whispers to Faye.

Maise says “So do it Sugar.“

Peri nods a little to Faye and starts typing away on her phone again.

“…Mm. I suppose I was late.” Blaine mumbles to himself, gaze downcast for a time before he looks over to Maise, giving another uptick of his chin. “Just Maise, then. The happiest of New Years to you as well.” he supposes, his gray eyes drifting down to his phone for a moment before then looking over to the various offerings, subconsciously tucking his hands slightly into his pockets.

Peri tells Faye, “There, sent it to you. Just be warned, I’m told she can be really really pushy.”

Maise looks around, “I’m sorry that it quieted down before you got here.” She says to Blaine, “Still lots to eat and drink. An, I’m always happy to learn about a new friend.”

Faye smirks at Peri and gives her a playful chuck on the arm. “She’s a wolf.” As if she herself wasn’t she says this, chuckling a little. “Every one of us is pushy bout something, somewhen.”

Peri looks sidelong at Faye and says, sounding disbelieving, “Really. What are you pushy about then? Cause you’re like not at all pushy.” She noms on the hot pizza some more and starts fanning her mouth some more.

“You’ve never let me get hungry.” Faye reveals to Peri with a wink.”

Maise says “Can you sing though?“

Maise says “Holding out for a hero?“

Peri gives a sidelong look at Faye, “You love candy and sweets that much? I mean I can kind of relate even if I am like.. not really.. ” She pauses and looks at Maise, “Who is singing? You should Maise.” a look back at Faye, “Oh .. what is your favorite food?”

Maise smiles at Peri, “Oh don’t tempt me, I love singin. But I don’t think it’s appropriate.”

Slowly, surely, inch-by-inch, Blaine peels himself away from the wall as he seems to warm somewhat to the idea of seating himself at one of the nearby benches, crossing his arms and turning his head down as his gaze not-so-subtly turns to the various treats on hand with mute interest.

Maise says “Isn’t there a white night..upon a fiery steed?“

Peri claps her hands together, cheering Maise on. She tries to form something of a beat as if she can encourage full on singing.

Faye shakes her head. “Nope, not even going to put you through that one. You can’t exactly catch my favorite food.” She smirks and looks around, clearing her throat as if she just now noticed how uppity she’s been getting. “Ah sorry, don’t mean to be uh…”

Maise giggles at Peri, “Shh, I’m just bein a lil silly thing.”

Peri does not shh, she keeps claping along to Maise even though she’s stopped singing. The temptation, the beat, the grin, the stare, expectant stare. She is a bad friend, but she does not relent.

A brief, slight smile is presented to Maise as Blaine gingerly peruses the selections, before Faye’s question gets his brows to lift in curiosity. “…That’s an oddly specific smell.” he states half-to-himself, seeming to consider that question for a beat. “…I’m not sure?” he supposes.

Faye actually joins in with Peri in making a bullshitica beat. Her right hand smacks the bottom of a soda bottle onto the table, left hand makes a crunch sound smacking the wooden woman corpse. Bonk bon crunch, bonk bonk crunch… etc.

Maise lifts a curious brow, “Acute smell, I’m sure. For the record, I can’t smell you.” She says to Blaine.

Faye nods at Blaine, confirming Maise’s suspicions. First time I ever transformed I didn’t change back for an entire month. Schnoshtril hairs got stuck that way.

Faye nods at Blaine, confirming Maise’s suspicions. “First time I ever transformed I didn’t change back for an entire month. Schnoshtril hairs got stuck that way.”, she says this part fix.

Peri eventually tires of the beat and it probably doesn’t help that she’s positively awful at it. “Okay, fine no one is singing.” She starts playing with her phone again, it’s blockblast because of course it is. “I need soaps so I can smell like nice things too, like lavender and .. .. cinnonmin.”

Jasper comes back a little bloody, slumping onto his chair as he takes a pizza slice to eat.

Maise gives Jasper a worried look, “Are you alright Sugar?”

Faye says “Well I mean at least lycanthropy’s not an STD. You’d have desperate guys everywhere turning sheep and watermelons into werewolves.“

Blaine lifts his arm not-so-subtly to sniff as if doubtful of this smell-claim, closing his eyes, though no sort of ‘revelation’ crosses his expression. His attention drifts languidly to the tomato pie, and he gingerly slips up a slice for himself, though his attention drifts a moment after to Jasper as he arrives, staring for perhaps more than a moment at the bloodied guy perhaps out of concern or curiosity, before he brings that slice to his mouth with a crunch.

Maise looks Jasper over, “Why…do you need anythin?” She hops off her spot at the table and moves over to him, “You sure you’re okay?”

Again Peri is fanning her face after trying more of the bomb bizza thing, you’d think she would learn, but no, she’s drawn to the spice, the crunch the everything about it. Probably going to need to run a marathon to work off these calories, but that’s future her problem

Maise says “Why phrasing Sugar.“

“I’m going to be okay,” Jasper tells Maise, revealing a small smile. “I can heal up.”

Maise eventually gives a nod to Jasper after her stand-offish assessment is completed, “Guess, I won’t ever not be a nurse. An even with..powers and all here. My first instinct is to jump.”

Faye sighs, shaking her head at Blaine. “N- It… It’s not unpleasant.” She turns to head for Jasper. “Sorry… for missin the raid, I shoulda fuckin been there I… ugh. I fucked this up for us not showin.”

“It’s alright,” Jasper tells Faye. “There were other people fighting against the Legion there too, and I’m not the fastest to head into raids.”

Maise gives a little cute salute to Jasper, “Worry is tucked away there Sir. I will be sure to check in tomorrow.” She giggles and returns to her spot, “How’s the pizza?” She asks casually to Blaine, “Any new years resolutions?”

Maise waves at Kai, “Happy New Year Gadfly!”

“Okay everyone this is a robbery. Get down on the floor, nobody look at my face!” Kai shouts as he wanders in and heads over to stand by Nemi, he gives a returned wave to Jasper and makes no other actions or statements that might indicate he’s actually robbing anyone.

“I’m Kai, who are you two?” Kai asks Faye and someone with a lift of his brows and a little grin on his lips.

“I’m Kai, who are you two?” Kai asks Faye and Blaine with a lift of his brows and a little grin on his lips.

Faye takes Kai’s comment dead ass serious and springs off the bench and table and wooden woman corpse to grasp Kai by the hair and arm and slam him right down into the clam casino pizza

Blaine looks curiously over to Faye, tilting his head thoughtfully after her, giving a soft “Hm.” before he goes quiet for a time as he listens to the dialogue between Jasper and Faye, gray eyes drifting over to Maise as he squints, considering for a moment. “…That’s not usually ‘my thing’, I guess? I don’t know… Maybe I guess going out and ‘doing things’ with other people more… For once, or something.” he mumbles somewhat half-heartedly… and then Kai is wandering over and shouting, and the rather tall man shrinks somewhat, staring doubtfully nonetheless. “… I’m Blaine.” he states after a beat.

Faye meant the robbery comment btw

Kai yelps when Faye slams his face down against the table, “Hey!” he complains, “Oooww fuck… be nicer,” he complains to the woman and peers up at Faye, though he tells Blaine, “Nice to meet you!”

“NO! None of that.” Maise yells, hopping up on the table and stomping her feet, “No violence!”

Maise says “I don’t run.“

Peri looks at her phone then at someone and utterly confused, which only gets worse when she leaps up to grab Kai and apparently slam him into the piezza. “Woah. What the heck just happened?”

Peri looks at her phone then at Faye and utterly confused, which only gets worse when she leaps up to grab Kai and apparently slam him into the piezza. “Woah. What the heck just happened?”

Maise says “I skip. “

“Don’t cause any ruckus here,” Jasper tells Faye, looking from his chair. “Just chill. He’s not an enemy.”

“Hey he fuckin said it was a robbery and ain’t no fuckin body robbin Peri!” Faye says to Maise and Jasper, but specifically talking Kai with the tone part and the defensiveness. But she does sight and let him up out of the pizza after people seem to be against her on this. “Tch.” She lets Kai go and walks back to her corpse bride on the table there, the wooden woman, shaking her head. “Just… don’t fuckin scare me like that this close to a full moon.

Maise hops down off the table, “Fuckin..what a way to ring in the new year.” She runs a hand over her ponytail, giving Kai a glance, “You sure are a ..well, I can’t even think of an analogy to describe it. Somethin…though.”

“Oooowww,” Kai whines to Faye, “You need anger management,” he says and wipes pizza-juice off of his face, angling it for the top of the pizza, “Okay, at least the pizza is salvageable,” he rubs at his face with his sleeve, “Name?” he asks Faye and resettles on his seat.

Blaine lifts a hand to his mouth and clears his throat, seeming unperturbed as Faye grabs Kai and slams him into pizza, squinting as the young man wipes pizza juice off of himself. “…Good evening, Kai.” he states evenly, tucking his hands back into his pockets then for a beat.

Peri looks kind of shocked still and says, “I’m pretty sure Kai isn’t trying to rob me Faye.” But her expression belies the what the f of the whole slamming his face in a pizza. Also she seems troubled about something, a concern she voices, “Why did I see Kai get his ear bitten and his face slammed into a pizza like within twelve hours of each other? Is there like something in the water?”

Faye chuckles softly and rests her elbow on the relatively fresh corpse of a wooden woman. She puts up a finger. No, not the middle one. “Alright so let me get this straight.”, She redirects to Kai, going through several hand gestures. “Okay. So… I… I make friends in this college, we go ahead and have a pizza party, now… Halfway toward the ends of the old year a guy comes in saying this is a robbery, in front of me, right next to my best friend, and next best… and I, who could god damn just have saved lives from an actual mugger, ame the one who needs to get help?”

“I mean, yeah? Look at your hair bro,” Kai replies to Faye with a shit-eating grin, he looks to Peri, “Someone’s definitely cursed me,” he nods to her a few times, “I’m usually very loveable,” he says with a little lift of his chin, he looks back to Faye, “Anyways, friends?” he offers a hand to her.

“You can still help people,” Jasper tells Faye. “You can channel that anger to make a change for good.”

Crunch. Blaine lifts his slice of tomato pie to savor another bite, closing his eyes as he enjoys the flavor.

Maise says “Everyone can do good, if they want to.“

Peri makes a face at Kai, “Pink hair is totally awesome I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She frowns then adds, “Just like mini top hats would be totally cool too and don’t let Bekki say I’m wrong.”

Nemi leans on Peri and hovers around her.

Maise asks Blaine, “What’s your MyHaven?”

Narrowing her eyes slightly at Kai, canting her head toward Peri, Faye reveals, “The safety of my friends is what I’m pushy about. That’s why you watched Kai eat table.” She brings her focus back to Kai and steps up on the bench, plopping her ass down onto the wooden corpses thighs. “So tell me, Kai, what part of making me think my bestie was about to get mugged makes you think you’ll be calling me anything other than Queen Bitch? You came straight into this party behind on trust with m-” She looks at Jasper absolutely incredulous that she’s still blaming her for someone elses coming in claiming he was going to rob everybody here, and her potentially saving everybody’s life. “You really don’t understand how much i am not in the wrong for instantly yoking someone up who walked in on me and my best friends saying this is a robbery huh?”

Maise says “I’d say he was wrong for sayin it and you were wrong for reacting.“

Blaine blinks, tilting his head to Maise cluelessly. “…My what?” he states, seeming fresh into town for the end of Winter Break despite his apparent nonchalance; his attention drifts with mute interest over between Faye and Kai, and his arms draw a little closer.

Maise looks at Blaine, “I..oh its a social thing here in town. I..” She looks at her phone, “I was hoping to ..”

“I mean I already know your name is Faye,” Kai replies to Faye, “But if you want me to call you a bitch I can do that,” he grins at her a little and says, “No no, I had it coming! I fucked around and found out, Faye did the right thing. I could be a robber,” he nods in support of Faye and grins a little, “She wants you to come back to her dorm room,” he informs Blaine.

Peri clapses her hands together and murmurs something under her breath while she’s watching this unfold.

“I would’ve beat his ass if he pulled that shit on me the first time,” Jasper replies towards Faye. “He’s a bit of a… jokester, and with a sword too.

Maise gasps at Kai, “I do not!”

Peri doesn’t catch what Kai said to make Maise gasp, but she gasps too and insists, “Maise does not!”

Jasper says “Umm… “

Blaine hums, tilting his head over to Maise. “…I guess I can make one.” He taps at his phone for a moment. “There. Blaine. he states with a shrug.

“Truuuue, I do have a sword, it’s just sheathed but… she’s not wrong to think I could be a problem,” Kai tells the group and nods at Faye, “Uhh oh, it’s the full moon already?” he says, perking up and looking around, settling his gaze on Jasper, “Uh, you good?”

“The full moon’s tomorrow night,” Jasper says to Kai.

Maise says “Good Riddance..“

Jasper says “I do have some things to prepare and get some stuff.“

“Hmm…” Kai looks after the pink haired woman and back to Jasper, “You sure? I can feel it,” he tells him, but ultimately shrugs, “Oh well,” he looks to Blaine and nods, “You’ll get to her room, don’t worry. Suggest protecting her for the full tomorrow.”

Jasper lets out a sigh, almost of relief, before he looks at Maise. My handle’s Sparrow.

Nemi says “Might drag myself and Peri to bed on that note before she possibly returns to yell nonsense…“

Peri looks at Nemi with a hopeful expression.

Blaine lifts a hand to rub at his neck awkwardly after the other girl storms off, looking to Kai. “…What?” he states with mild amusement.

Jasper says “Got it.“

“The plums… are more like grapefruit,” Kai tells Jasper and waggles his brows at the man, grinning a little, then he looks to Blaine, “I dunno.”

Maise sighs and gives Blaine a shake of her head, “Sugar, ignore him. I just wanted to be able to say hello.”

Maise says “Do..you think she can attack me? “

Darrow wanders back in after a while and says, “Well.. that could have gone better.” He then waves to everyone and finds his way over to a chair to plop back down in it.

Kai nods to Maise, “She’ll probably be under your bed tonight.”

Peri tells everyone, “I’m going home for a bit. ”

Blaine rolls his eyes at Kai, then giving a slight upnod to Maise thereafter, a brief glance levied over to Jasper as he tippity-taps yet another handle into his phone.

Darrow waves to Peri. “Be safe. Happy New Year.”

Nemi nods in agreement. “I shall be accompanying her. For the night. You guys stay safe, and yep! Happy new year to ya’ll.”

Peri nods and waves, reaching to keep close to Nemi.

“I’ll discipline her, then kick her out later before I sleep,” Jasper tells Maise. “Actually, I’ll do the latter first.

“Hey I’m Kai, who’re you?” Kai asks Darrow, offering the fellow a quick wave, he grins at Blaine after his eyeroll and rubs at the back of his neck lightly.

“Darrow,” Darrow introduces himself when Kai asks. “How’s it going?” He then squints and glances over at Jasper and asks, “Who is under whose bed?”

“Faye is hiding under Maise’s bed to kill her because she’s a stupid cunt, according to Faye,” Kai informs someone and claps his hands together and rubs them, “Let’s see… pizza time…” he says as his hazel-eyed gaze dances over the pizzas hungrily.

“Faye is hiding under Maise’s bed to kill her because she’s a stupid cunt, according to Faye,” Kai informs Darrow and claps his hands together and rubs them, “Let’s see… pizza time…” he says as his hazel-eyed gaze dances over the pizzas hungrily.

“That escalated quickly,” Darrow observes, brows rising slightly. “Or did I miss something before I left earlier.”

Maise shakes her head at Darrow, “No, she went off…wildly.”

Darrow says “Ooooh kaaaaay.“

Kai gives a two-fingered salute to Victoria, “Hey, I’m Kai, who’re you?” he asks and then looks to Darrow, “In her defense I did say I was robbing everyone, but I was joking,” he does, however, go on to rob a slice of pizza.

Blaine taps at his phone in reply to something in a manner that suggests it’s not a usual habit of his, before he looks up to Darrow. “…It seemed excessive.” he supposes with a lift of one shoulder.

…And promptly thereafter Blaine takes another not-so-subtle crunch from his slice.

Darrow offers a faint smile to Victoria as she arrives and says, “Hey. Glad to see you made it back alright as well. Sorry I did not make a very good carrier… I dropped immediately after.”

Maise smiles at Victoria, “Hey. How goes Tiger?”

Victoria steps in with light steps and looks around. She smiles Maise and nods in recognition to Darrow. “To be fair, I didn’t last much longer. They brought a lot tonight.”

“Oooh, I didn’t recognize you cause I was having trouble looking at your face!” Kai replies to Victoria and continues to eat his pizza, talking around a mouthful, “What’s that?” as he points at her espada.

Victoria makes her way further into the room lifting her sword so Kai can see it etter. “It’s called and espada. A sword my people made to blend in when the Spanish colonized.”

“Oh yeah? I didn’t know you were Spanish,” Kai tells Victoria and lifts his hand to her, “HOLA!” he almost yells at her with a shit-eating grin.

Victoria rolls her eyes at Kai. “Filipino. Though, I suppose there is plenty of Spanish blood mixed in these days.”

“Oh cool. Uh… Ni how,” Kai tells Victoria, a little grin on his lips.

Maise giggles at her phone for a moment.

Maise says “Sometimes, people are a lot of fun.“

“Kamusta,” Victoria returns to Kai before finding a spot against the table to lean.

Blaine rustles a bit from the sound of his coat as he holds his phone close to himself, a look of mild amusement on his expression as he texts briefly before cooling once more.

“Soooo…. Victoria, Maise might be bi if you want me to hook you up?” Kai asks Victoria, turning a bit more toward her, a little grin on his face.

Maise spits her pop slightly mid sip, “Gadfly, what..why you cheeky.”

Darrow grabs another slice of pizza and carefully holds it over a plate, partially folded so that he doesn’t drip everywhere. “So what are you studying?” he asks Blaine curiously.

Victoria shakes her head at Kai, smirking. “I swear you’re more invested in my love life than I am.”

Kai nods to Victoria, “Anything I can do for a lesbian,” he presses his hand to his chest, “It’s my calling and I don’t question it.”

Blaine squints down to his phone, brows furrowed in thought. It takes him a brief moment to realize he’s being talked to by Darrow. “…Oh. Um. A mixture of coursework in polisci and philosophy to start. I’m told it’s good prep work for law school.” he supposes absently, before adding, “Though, to be honest, I’m not all sure what I really want to do.”

Maise gives Blaine a little nod, “You’ll figure it out, that’s what we’re here for.”

“Oh really? In that case, can I interest you in a slice of apizza pie?” Kai asks Victoria and waggles his brows at her a little, grinning just a little.

Darrow nods and says, “Yeah. I mean, that is the point of college and all, right? Figuring it out. Seeing what classes and what really interests you.” He glances down at his own phone but it is silent and he frowns slightly. “Conrad shoulda been outta there by now. Wonder where he went.”

Maise says “You don’t think he got taken by that silly wolf?“

“He’s probably dead, it’s best just to move on,” Kai tells Darrow and Maise, leaning against the table as he finishes off his slice.

Victoria eyes the food on offer. “It is Sofia’s, and it is very good.”

“Better not be, he pays half the rent,” Darrow chuckles.

Blaine squints at his phone, holding it out, his lips curling slightly to a closed-lip half smile before he’s snapping a selfie before tapping at his phone a moment after, assessing the picture and giving a hum. He gives a couple short nods to Maise and Darrow at their observations, expression thoughtful as he seems content to listen for the time being at least.

“Who’s dead?” Jasper wonders of Kai as he gets up from his seat. “I should probably head to bed soon.”