hell of a party

[middlingalong]

Ivan must be drunker than he thought he was. He could have sworn he knew his way around Vivienne's parents' house, since she wanted to introduce him last week and showed him the place, but maybe they have a... secret... upstairs... bar? where Vivienne's room is supposed to be? And most certainly was last time he checked? He's never going to find the sweater she sent him up looking for here, anyway. Why is there a secret upstairs bar in Vivienne's parents' house?

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[isthisart]

"Do you need it subsidized?" asks Linya.

[or_the_broken]

"Sure, if you're offering. I get the impression you make a lot more than I do, and it's a pretty long list."

[isthisart]

"It's no trouble. Bar, what are we looking at...? Yes, go ahead and put that all on my tab. Do you want it in nexus electronic formats or on hard copy?"

[or_the_broken]

"Depends. How big is the stack in hard copy?"

[isthisart]

About twice as tall as you are, Bar says.

"So, slightly awkward if you take it in one trip, but no fussing with exotic data conversion," says Linya.

[or_the_broken]

"Yeah. I'll take hard copy. And something to carry it all in."

[isthisart]

There appears a large box with handles, full of plastic-flimsy books.

[or_the_broken]

"Thanks."

Off he goes with his huge box of books.

[isthisart]

Linya starts rummaging around in the rest of her pen's data storage for things for Isabella and Lalita to take home with them.

[middlingalong]

Ivan conspicuously isn't looking at Stalas and Mark holding hands.

[thisvorlunatic]

"The flat, the building, the city block, and everything else in a five-hundred-meter radius," mutters Miles.

[middlingalong]

"Oh, shut up."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Fine, fine," says Miles.

Stalas, although he doesn't get the exact content of the reference, is now blushing.

[dream_me_up]

And isn't that just adorable.

[unmarred]

It is, it is just adorable!

[thisvorlunatic]

"Oh, shut up, Mark-and-a-half," grumbles Stalas.

[unmarred]

"...I mean," says Mark, "he looks to be at least six feet tall, so if one of us is half of the other..."

[warpfairy]

"Bar, I don't suppose you can clarify what you actually mean?"

Mark is simultaneously both an alt of Lalita and also something else.

[unmarred]

Mark comes close enough to read the napkin.

"Huh, so he's half of me after all. I stand corrected."

[middlingalong]

"Must be very cramped in there."

[unmarred]

"Oh, Ivan," he giggles. "I'm sorry Stalas and I are making you uncomfortable. Just not sorry enough to stop."

[middlingalong]

"I'll probably get over it. Or my head will explode! Who knows."

[unmarred]

"I would be sad if any part of you exploded. Please try to avoid it."

[middlingalong]

"Generally do."

[unmarred]

"Good!"