Party Time

[loveandduty]

Who: Everyone who wants to attend.
What: It's a party for all, but the pairing up part is for singles only.
When: Day 19 of Fiddlesticks
Where: Gym Carriage
Warnings: Who knows atm just Minako being Minako will add more as things happen.

[Minako figured she did the best she could for the party. Though she also wondered if perhaps she might not have that many people come. Sure she wanted to put singles together, but at the same time, she simply wanted people to have fun.

In the dressing carriage, people will find costumes and masks that were more gothic in nature. There was food and hopefully some forms of sweet treats for those looking for it as well as a variety of drink, mostly non-alcoholic.]

OOC: Examples of the type of outfits and such can be found here: costumes and
masks]

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[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo had followed Minako with an amused, yet suspicious smile. He was directed to sit, so sit he did. He leaned against the table, noticed that there was one seat on the other side, and his suspicion went up a notch.

He tucked a strand of loose hair behind his ear and dropped his chin into his hand. "This should be interesting." He muttered to himself, wondering just what the blonde bombshell had in store for him.


(OOC: No way to IC do this without looking awkward. Duo's outfit, his mask and his hair)

[goingthroughaphase]

When Minako had come to find her, Kitty wasn't entirely sure what the other girl had planned. But she had followed regardless, and eventually they had entered a room where someone was seated at the table.

She frowned, looking a bit wary as she was instructed to sit at the other table. And then they were told to "Have fun!" before the blonde left them alone, and Kitty realized just what was happening.

Oh, she was going to get Minako later (she knows where you sleep, Minako!).

Well, might as well try and get this over with. "Uh...hi," she said after a moment. "I'm Kitty."

((OOC: Kitty's dress and mask))

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo was looking very amused when Minako appeared again with one of the newbies in tow. The girl, Katherine, if he remembered correctly from the roster, was sat down in the chair opposite of him. And then Minako was gone again, presumably off to bother some other unsuspecting victims.

"Kitty?" He made the mental adjustment and his smile widened. "I'm Duo. And I'm guessing this is what I think it's supposed to be?" His amusement had managed to up several notches. Was this supposed to be some kind of blind date?

[goingthroughaphase]

"Nice to meet you. And yeah, it's looking like it." It definitely seemed like a blind date scenario to her.

"Though to be honest, I've never really...done something like this before. Being on a blind date, I mean."

[maxwellsdaemon]

"You and me both. Never had the time." Where would he have possibly had the time between missions and hiding to go on a date, blind or otherwise? Nope. Duo had never been on a date in his life. Though he had seen them being done on tv. Not that it helped in this situation of course.

"So I guess... we start by getting to know each other?" He smiled. "You came in with the last batch of Inmates, huh? How're you findin it here?"

[goingthroughaphase]

Kitty had at least been on a date or two, in between school and saving the world. But this was a bit different somehow.

Still, taking a breath, she returned the smile as she nodded and brushed back some hair from her face. "Oh yeah, I got here just a few days ago. It hasn't been too bad, to be honest. Most of the people I've met so far have been pretty nice."

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo's smile was wide and open, he was going to be friendly here, because why not? She seemed nice enough.

"Yeah, most people here are good. Really chatty." He chuckled to himself and then gave a little nod toward her. "Why not tell me about yourself? Can't say I got to meet you when you first showed up. Then the mission... I've missed a lot. So what's your story?"

[goingthroughaphase]

"Oh, um..." She hesitated a moment, playing with the tablecloth a little bit. He certain did seem nice enough. But she was never sure how much to talk about things back home, since she couldn't predict how people might react.

"Well...where I come from, most people are pretty normal. But there are some people that have...special abilities. I actually go to a school that helps us train and control our abilities, and use them to help others."

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo gave a low, impressed whistle at that. He leaned forward a little, unable to help himself. "Special abilities? So you have special abilities?" He asked with a wide grin, really curious of what it was. "You don't have ta tell me, course. But what about others? What kinda abilities are 'special'?"

[goingthroughaphase]

Thinking for a moment, she then smiled a bit as she leaned forward onto the table.

"Something like this," she replied. Then suddenly she climbed up onto the table, sitting in a crouched position. After another moment, though, she phased through the table, disappearing underneath it.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo leaned back when she climbed onto the table, looking amused and confused. But then, when she moved though the table he burst out laughing and pushed his chair back to peer under it. "That's... that's awesome! It doesn't hurt to do that? Are you alright?"

[goingthroughaphase]

Rising to her feet, she stood halfway through the table with a triumphant smile. "It can depend," she admitted. "If something is too dense, it can be difficult to phase through it. But this?" She walked out from the table effortlessly to stand beside it, then leaned one arm against it. "No problem."

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo sat up with a delighted laugh when she just popped right through the damn table! This was, from his perspective, some damn fine magic tricks. But he also knew it was real. On his world this kind of stuff was unheard of outside of illusion tricks.

He shook his head and sat back in his seat, a broad grin spread across his lips. "Well, colour me impressed. That's definitely somethin I'd call a special ability!"

[goingthroughaphase]

With a small laugh, she took her seat again. "Thanks. I wish you could meet some of the people I know back home. There are a lot of different kinds of abilities and powers."

[maxwellsdaemon]

"Wish I could too! Don't have anything like that back home." Well, nothing like that in any case. "Super powers? Nope, just normal people where I come from." Duo said with a grin. "Which sucks. Normal is so overrated. Think you guys have the right idea." A world where people had unique abilities? Sign him up! Though, if Duo really thought about it, he knew Fate could throw him a curve ball and he'd either end up painfully normal or with a special ability so boring he's be shunned by all the awesome people with abilities.

[goingthroughaphase]

She shrugged a bit. "Not everyone in my world has powers. The majority of people don't. And there's nothing wrong with being normal."

Some days, she still kind of wished she could be.

[maxwellsdaemon]

"Normal is highly overrated." Duo repeated with a grin and went right back to leaning his arms on the table. "But that's still really amazing! Never thought I'd be able to see someone do a thing like that. This train is... really amazin like that!" The things he'd seen, the people he'd met, he never would have had the chance back home. Say what you like about the Voidtrecker, but at least in this respect, Duo was impressed with it.

"Can you do anything else or just the..." He gave a vague gesture with his hand. "... Slipping through things, thing?"

[goingthroughaphase]

She nodded, because she had been enjoying getting to meet different kinds of people on the train. That had been one good thing about being here.

She thought for a moment, debating a bit before rising to her feet again. "Well...technically the stuff I can do is the same ability. But there's this..."

Coming around the table again, she concentrated a moment before taking a step, as though she was walking up the stairs. But her foot came to a stop without touching the floor, and as she stood she was hovering several inches off the ground.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Duo leaned back a little more to get a better look at Kitty when she moved around the table, wondering what she had planned to show him. When she took the step and just floated there, it took Duo a second to remember that this wasn't an illusion and she wasn't some magician doing tricks at his table.

"Holy shit! That's awesome!" He enthused and turned in his seat to get a closer look at the girls feet. "You're actually floating? Can you actually fly or... is it just this? ... I have never asked another person if they can fly before, This is wild!"

[goingthroughaphase]

She laughed a bit, taking a few steps around while hovering over the ground. "No, I can't really fly. Even this can take a lot of concentration, and if I slip up even just a bit, I can fall. But I can control how fast or slow I move through the air."

She took a few more steps, like climbing up a couple more stairs to get a bit higher. Then she slowly descended until her feet touched the floor again.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Another low, impressed whistle and he was grinning from ear to ear. Duo couldn't get over how amazing this all was. There was magic on this train. People who could do amazing things. Kitty could walk through things and step on shit like there were real steps there!

"So that's why you go to a school, huh? To teach you how to control that more? So if you were still there... maybe one day it could seem like you were flying? You could run across the sky!"

[goingthroughaphase]

Taking her seat again, she nodded. "Pretty much. The day I discovered my powers, it was because I had phased from my bedroom into the basement while I was sleeping. So being at the institute has really helped me with controlling and developing my powers. I definitely couldn't hover when I first got them."

She grinned. "So yeah. Maybe someday I'll be able to stay up in the air longer."

[maxwellsdaemon]

Propping his chin in his hands, Duo couldn't stop grinning. He had a million questions he wanted to ask, but he also knew 99% of them weren't going to be about Kitty and more about her world and the other abilities people had. And that just wasn't what you did when you were getting to know someone.

"I hope you can! I'm jealous, I gotta admit. Being able to do things like that... Guess it must have been scary when it gets away from you though, huh? Are there others here who can help you with developing them?" He didn't know anyone other than Danny who could move through things, and that was only because the guy was a ghost! ... It really was such a strange place to be.

[goingthroughaphase]

"Yeah, it can be." She still had fears that she was just going to phase through the earth someday if she lost control. "But I know there's someone here who's from...a similar world to mine, I guess? He's actually familiar with how powers back home work, so I think I could ask him to help if I need to."

She couldn't imagine what kind of training she'd get from Creed, but it was nice to know that she had someone to turn to, at least.

[maxwellsdaemon]

"That's good news." Duo grinned broadly. "Nice you can maybe keep learnin more." Mainly because he was fascinated at what the limits were to a power like hers. Were there limits? She could float, so could she eventually fly? Or at least run at a height that seemed like flight? What about taking people and things, could she make those go through things? Damn but that would have been a neat power to have back when he was fighting...

"This is really amazing! I've never met anyone who can do what you do." He continued cheerfully.