lucetilogs | Beach Party!?

Who: Anyone who wants to come!
What: BEACH PARTY! (For Katara or something)
When: In the evening, about 7PM
Where: On the beach! Somewhere!
Summary: It's Katara's 17th and while all friends of Team Avatar are invited, anyone else can gatecrash too.
Rating: E for everyone (for God's sake there's going to be seven year olds!)

[A few days before the birthday, Katara's housemates began birthday preparations. Not quite entirely secret, but they made invitations, told friends, spread the word, and so on. Birthday on the beach. Be there or be a loser McButtface without friends.

And so there's a party! With tables! And chairs! And umbrellas! And the sun is setting, but the Malnosso had no taste and put the ocean on the east side of Luceti, so it's a sunset over the mountains which isn't as cool as an ocean sunset. But anyway. There's a volleyball net and, you know, an ocean to swim in. Also Sokka ordered a generator with his mission points and abducted the karaoke machine. It was mostly to provide some music, but people can get up and sing with it too.

As for the food? There's a table for that. It's a bring your own dish affair, since Katara is kind of their team cook and they can't exactly make her own birthday meal, right? So anyone coming can bring whatever they like and set it out. The gang brought some meals of their own, so there's bound to be some cool dishes from the air nomads, water tribe, and fire nation. And cake. A big chocolate cake. Someone made it! We don't know who. (Feel free to dibs being the baker or something if you want.)

And a table! A table for presents! Bring a present, set it there. It's very organized.]

((ooc: It's out on the beach and just a general sort of party affair, so feel free to have characters show up even if they're not friends with the birthday girl. It's a free for all. SO YOU BETTER MINGLE OR THERE'S GONNA BE WORDS.

Now have fun.))

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I'm sure we'll all be just fine.

I hope so. She is a real sweetheart after all.

And it's not as if she won't have a lot of people to help look out for her. We'll see how it goes. It'll still be a couple of months before it reopens.

[He feels the internal Luceti clash from the timeframe of a "couple of months". Part of him selfishly wants to keep Ikki around for as long as he's here. But the other part of him is worried about what Luceti can do to a person, especially someone as young and precious as Ikki, in just a few months. But he keeps up his smile for Raine.]

I'm definitely looking forward to it. And I hope I still remember everything I learned by then!

If you're worried that you've forgotten anything, I can always give you a few assignments to help get you on track.

[There's a mix of curiosity and dread at more schoolwork.]

I might like that... but I don't want to put you through the trouble.

Nonsense, it would hardly be any trouble. Studying is a valuable skill.

I can't argue if you're that okay with it. But if you're gonna do that much for me, do you think you could put something together for Ikki too? Maybe just some minor things, you know, to help her get started.

Of course! She might not be used to it, so having others encouraging those habits around her would also be a help.

Thanks, Raine! I'm sure it'd be good for her. [And hopefully keep her away from anymore depressing journal entries.] It looks like she had some good teaching back home, but the more knowledge, the better!

I'll drop them off at your house when I have it all ready.

You're real great, Raine. Hey, why don't we play something? We might be able to get into the volleyball game!

... The volleyball game? [She glances over to where the net is set up.]

Yeah, wouldn't that be fun? Just like that time we played at the rec center!

[Played at the rec center.

... At the rec center.

Oh. That experiment. Well then.]

I ... well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try... is someone explaining the rules?

It doesn't look like anyone's there right now, but... I think I heard enough from Sokka before that we can practice! [He walks towards the net while motioning for her to follow.] Y'know, there's a game just like this back home, but it's called Kuai Ball.

[His turning around allows her a good look at that scar, but she only quietly takes note of it without asking.] We didn't really have organized sports back home. What does Kuai mean?

You should try to make one up then. They tend to make things fun. And "Kuai" is a way of saying "fast". I guess because the ball moves fast. But volleyball makes sense too, since you're... volleying the ball.

Ah, I see. It sounds simple enough, although I imagine it calls for a lot of coordination.

Yeah, but I'm sure we can manage it.

[As they approach the net, Aang lifts the ball out of the sand. He then holds it up to his head in thought.] Now how was he saying that this was different from Kuai Ball? Oh... right, you can't use your feet for this one. Just hands and you can't touch the net.

So volleying the ball... keeping it in motion. Or rather looking for the opponent's weak spot...

[He blinks at the mention of "weak spot" but continues, as he begins to toss the ball around between his hands.]

Yeah, you have to make the other person miss and not miss yourself.

Sounds like a lot of running around is involved.

Yeah, doesn't it sound fun? [He motions to the net] Hey, let's try volleying it around a little!

All right. Did you want to hit it to me first?

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