Happy Birthday, Senku!

[fun_thementalist]

Who: OTA
Where: Dining Carriage
When: Jelly 4
What: Prompts are under the cut. Create your own top levels! Tag around! Get more points!
Warnings: more cake than the recommended serving size

Birthday Prep! (OTA except Senku)


Setting up food!

Plenty of people have offered to bring a number of treats - cookies, savory dishes, snacks ... Gen was placing a half-sheet cake, decorated with planets and with 'Happy Birthday Senku' written in frosting on the table. He looked quite pleased with himself, and would help lend a hand with other food.


Setting up decorations!

There were roughly a hundred origami stars to fold, which Gen would spend most of his time doing, especially if he didn't have any help. But after, he'd be stringing them up all around the dining car, creating an effect like a starry sky from the ceiling.


Setting up party favors!

Then, of course, there were paper flower crowns to fold. Gen had no idea how many people would end up coming, so he wanted a fair number - any extras could sit in the Arms Band or up his sleeves as part of a surprise to spring on people later. You never knew when you needed a paper flower crown!


Setting up the escape room!

This is really what Gen hoped he'd get the most help with. He only had so many math tricks up his sleeve, and he was very certain that Senku knew them all already. At least Nita would be lending a hand! Otherwise, Gen was sure any room he'd make, Senku would solve in minutes.


BIRTHDAY PARTY

Greetings!

Gen would greet the newcomer with a bright smile and an origami flower crown - placed right on their head! He'd direct them to the food, and let them know of the escape room upstairs. Have a lovely time!

Food!

Cake! Cookies! Popcorn! There's some spicy, savory food that's been made by other passengers, too. But hey, at least take a slice of cake. That's what this party's all about!

Escape Room!

Featuring math, puns, and clever little questions fellow Voidtrain passengers could come up with. Of course, anyone can enter and leave as they'd like, but perhaps if they look particularly stuck on a problem, another person could help them out?

Birthday Boy!

Somewhere in this mess, Senku would be available to chat with. Probably. He's not really expecting a party, or gifts, or even a kind thank you - but all would be appreciated.

Comments

[firewalled]

"Well, that's probably the way Life works in your world, anyways. Or universe. I don't really think there's actual magic in my world."

But that said, there probably aren't malicious supercomputers in Nita's world, either.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"It's an open question, at least for some worlds," Nita admits, putting her hand to an open box and having it fold itself up again.

Be glad Logo turned to the good side, Rich. Things could have gotten much worse.

"But you're probably right; everyone knows their own world best."

Compared to having someone else judge it, anyways...

[firewalled]

"That is true. As much as I think I know my world, I really can only know my experience with it. If there's magic, it just might not be noticable to me. Same as you might not notice stuff that's more familiar in my world."

Thank god she doesn't have that experience!

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita nods.

"The worlds are each a lot bigger than they look, too."

Which made the absence of void technology in all of them all the more obnoxious, in retrospect...

"But that makes us having shared frames of reference more important, doesn't it?"

[firewalled]

"You do have a point there... I guess we're both close to the same age. Is that what we're sharing?"

Maybe for now, until he learns a bit more about her, at least. "Or a love of escape rooms, maybe."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Not sure if it's worth checking the roster, but... maybe?"

The next one, though, gets a smile.

"Puzzles, then. What is your favorite kind, though?"

She didn't need to make whole escape rooms everyday - but something smaller and more specialized, well.

It could be something.

[firewalled]

"Hm, hard to say. I think logic puzzles are my favourite? Ones where you get a list of guidelines, and you have to match stuff from column A to column B based on those guidelines. Do you know about those?"

He remembers his mom used to help him solve them by drawing out the little grid.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Those are picture puzzles, sort of, right? Or do they do them with words, too?"

Trying to figure out rescencions in the Speech sort of qualified as the latter, once she thought about it - match words to a guideline, try not to use too much enacture and end up changing something or someone you didn't mean to...

[firewalled]

"I've usually seen them with words. It's like, you've got four people, and four drink orders. You know Mr. Smith drinks orange juice, and Ms. Jones hates apple juice. And then you have to match everyone up based on what you know. Does that make sense?"

He's not sure if he's explaining them completely clearly, but surely he still remembers the gist.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita nods.

"Yup; I'm familiar with those, yeah. Sometimes you only get that much info to work off for other problems, too. Might call it practice, putting it that way."

Assuming (for the most part) that solving the issue wasn't a matter of life and death. *cough*

[firewalled]

"Yeah! You could probably use it as practice for other escape rooms. I don't know, people always like different types of puzzles, I guess. Do you have a favourite?"

He feels a little embarrassed about his own choice, so he'd rather focus on what she would pick.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita finds herself thinking back, not on things like word puzzles or Sudoku, but -

"Ever done those 'Where's Waldo' puzzles? ... Imagine if you had to travel through one of those in realtime."

Though the kernel scenarios hadn't been as populated, they had been more challenging - and, ultimately, more rewarding in what they'd led toward.

[firewalled]

"Damn... do you think you could actually do that? Where's Waldo is fun, but I bet it'd be ten times more if you were actually running through the map yourself and trying to find that sneaky bastard."

Why are you always hiding, Waldo?

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Not sure about recreating it here, but..."

She nods, heading off to the last (well, first) booth that needs resetting.

"Yeah, basically. Could practically turn cities into obstacle courses."

[firewalled]

"That sounds badass! If you ever try it, you should let me know. I definitely wanna see that."

Only danger would be that he'd probably try to straight-up tackle Waldo.

Wrap?

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita turns, giving a bright smile and a thumbs-up.

"I'll let you know first thing!"

And then maybe make a Network post, who knows.