-Overflow- for 24 - Autumn Reception

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Autumn Reception
When: September 30, 6 PM
Where: The Gods' Meeting Hall
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a formal party! Old and new gods alike are invited, so put on your nicest outfits and some good dancing shoes, and come see what this shindig is all about.

Continuing from HERE!

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[redotiertwo]

Unfortunately, we as a species have not evolved to the point of psychic communication of deep and intense personal feelings.

[Which, on one hand, would be a lot easier, but on the other would also be embarrassing as hell for anyone who wasn't planning to unveil said feelings yet.]

So talking like fucking scrublords is all we've got for now.

[kokuyoyo]

...During highly public events. Apparently.

[redotiertwo]

I mean, yeah, have you not seen those tackiest of videos of people proposing to others in the middle of the big game or whatever the fuck else.

[It's kind of a Thing, even if it's not one Davesprite has ever been altogether fond of himself. It's fine if it's not being made ridiculously public, though.]

[kokuyoyo]

...Yeah. No. It's going to be stupid.... but not tacky.

[At least he's honest with himself?]

[redotiertwo]

Good. Stupid is how romance pretty much always is, no getting out of that shit, but only employ the tackiness if you know exactly what you're doing.

[Which he is willing to bet Chikusa doesn't, considering how reluctant he's been about all this.]

[kokuyoyo]

....So never.

[Chikusa has no confidence in himself in this area.]

[redotiertwo]

Pretty much. Nobody knows what the fuck they're doing when it comes to romance, especially the ones who say they do.

[Those people are usually the worst at it, in his experience, down to him claiming to be a romance guru while having irrevocably fucked up the one romance he can remember being in.]

[kokuyoyo]

...It sounds like too much work.... so it's probably for the better...

[But enough about his love life. (Please.) Instead, he stares out at the crowd again.]

....So are you actually going to dance with anyone....

[redotiertwo]

I'm browsing. Mostly for people who want to pretend they're not looking longingly at the dancefloor while everyone else has their back turned.

[Or while they don't, in at least a few instances. It seems to be surprisingly common to come to a party and then pretend you don't want to dance when you actually do.]

[kokuyoyo]

....You have weird hobbies.

[Says the guy who fucks with poisons for fun.]

[redotiertwo]

Hi pot, my name's kettle. Also, pretty sure it's weirder for people to pretend they don't want to dance when they actually do.

[Or maybe that's just the questionably informed opinion of someone who figures that if you're going to fuck up at most things, you might as well go ahead and do it spectacularly.]

[kokuyoyo]

I've never wanted to dance at all, so I couldn't say.

[People are definitely weird about a lot of things, but Chikusa isn't sure when it comes to normal things like wanting to dance.]

[redotiertwo]

Just think of it as like. Being hungry and pretending you don't want to eat. Same sort of deal.

[Except less vital to existence, but it still involves someone pretending they're totally not into something they're actually definitely into.]

[kokuyoyo]

...I mean. I usually am always hungry.

[Just weird shinki things, you know. On the other hand, Chikusa does always show up to events like this half for the food...]

[redotiertwo]

But I'm pretty sure you don't even make a token effort to pretend you don't want to eat.

[He's seen what Chikusa tends to be like with the food at these things, so he's pretty sure he doesn't fall into that particular group of people.]

[kokuyoyo]

True.... [He can't deny it.] That sort of thing seems to be a waste of time....

...People are so weird.

[redotiertwo]

People are indeed weird, congratulations on reaching that most basic of universal realisations.

[Even non-human people are weird, as the various ones here can attest to, so he's not even keeping himself out of this.]

[kokuyoyo]

It's only weirder the longer I know.

[A soft huff, and he reaches for a passing glass of sake on a tray.]

[redotiertwo]

That's how it usually is. It's like when you repeat a word so many times it stops sounding like a word.

[Which is definitely a thing that happens to normal people and not just people like Davesprite.]

[kokuyoyo]

....What word.

[That's the most pressing question here, clearly]

[redotiertwo]

Any word. But usually a weird one, like shenanigans. Or quadrant.

[Davesprite is the master of professional explanations of language phenomena.]

[kokuyoyo]

....What are you doing... where 'quadrant' stops being a word...

[he has to ask]

[redotiertwo]

What am I doing that shenanigans stops being a word, my dude, it's called using examples.

[He feels like quadrant wouldn't be hard to use so much it stops sounding like a word, but he can't put his finger on why.]

[kokuyoyo]

Examples that no one else would use.

[Seriously, quadrants?]

[redotiertwo]

Anyone who doesn't use the word shenanigans on a regular basis is living a sad and unfulfilled life.

[Sorry, Chikusa, he doesn't make the rules.]