defenderofdesmoines | MHA #2 | Friday Evening and probably onwards

MHA #2 | Friday Evening and probably onwards - the THIRD ANNUAL Christmas Rager!!

It was a Christmas miracle: an even tackier, way-too-early ugly sweater party.

With way, way too much alcohol, and a kinda ridiculous number of activities.

There were, of course, the ubiquitous plastic snowmen haunting (almost) every corner of the apartment, and one out on each of the Smokers' Balconies for good measure. There were strings of lights lining the ceiling, as well as tracing the edges of each window. There were cookies to decorate (and eat, because you definitely should eat, and there were moddable snacks aplenty as well.) While there was, of course, Christmas music playing, those with keen eyes (or at least, enough wherewithal to look around an apartment before you started potentially drinking heavily in it) might spot a karaoke machine that would come out later. One particularly tinsel-y corner had an abundance of Santa hats and reindeer antlers and wearable strings of lights to wear while taking photos, and in the guest room -- of course -- there was a much-fabled craft table, where you could make an ornament that didn't have to be in an immature shape, but definitely could be.

There was also, hovering slowly through the party, a drone with mistletoe dangling from it. A Mistle Drone, one might call it, even.

And, because this was the Christmas Rager, there was alcohol. There was so, so, so much alcohol. The kegs of Christmas ale had once been reordered, there was a Make Your Own hot chocolate and coffee bar, and while Annie would never argue that Summer's shot table wasn't the star of every party...this year was a little different. Mostly because of how they'd decided to serve Annie's punch: in a freestanding bathtub, just slightly off-center from the room.

Welcome to the third annual Christmas Rager. Hope you wore a sweater, because the hostesses both have glitter cannons in case you didn't show up festive enough!

[~~please hold for way too many threads~~ and we're off! open to literally every single adult on the island -- students are welcome to attempt to crash, but they'll be busted.]

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Raiden would never say no to a party! Or to a really cool sweater that he, personally, thought was beautiful.

"Wow," he said once he'd gotten a good look at the place. Just wow. It was too bad Gray wasn't invited; this might finally be enough Christmas in one place for him.

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"I am genuinely really impressed at your adherence to a theme, Raiden," Annie greeted him with a bright smile, wandering over and actually giving him an enthusiastic thumbs-up for his efforts. "And welcome to your first Christmas Rager!"

"Well, the thing said to wear a sweater?" Raiden said. "Did I do it right?" He could take it off if he hadn't, but then he would be shirtless. Oh, no, how terrible. "And thank you! Glad to be here!"

Christmas at Krave could probably give this event a run for its money as far as absolute buckwildness went (or at least he assumed no one would be having sex right in front of his shoes tonight), although it wasn't quite so...Christmassy about it. But this was his first official Christmas Rager, so. Yeah.

Yeah, no, that was pretty unlikely. Not impossible? But unlikely. There was the Mistle Drone, but at least in Christmas Ragers past, it had not been that successful/inspirational.

"You did it perfectly," Annie assured him with an approving thumbs up, tragically denying herself without even realizing. "And you saved me having to glitter you, so thank you for that."

As though she would not have been delighted to do so.

"Aw, but I like glitter!" It was so sparkly.

"I mean." Annie hefted her cannon up a little higher, leveling it at him with a grin. "We can still do it, if you want?"

She really did not mind. And she even had a special vacuum for the consequences come tomorrow morning!

Raiden seriously thought about it for a moment before he said, "Nah. I don't wanna confuse people about how the rules work. Thank you, though!"

Raiden hadn't brought any pizza crimes with him, had he?

"I like your sweater," he said. And its lack of crimes. "Very fitting."

He had thought about bringing some pizza, but he wasn't sure if that would be welcomed by the hosts or not. Whether or not his pizzas were crimes was entirely in the eye of the beholder.

"Thank you!" he said. "I had to rush order it but I did manage to get the right size!" Look, even if he hadn't misinterpreted Stark's words, this was sort of an accomplishment considering, well, Raiden's general largeness.

"Summer found my shirt for me." Which also fit him but then Stark was not terribly hard to find tops for.

"That was nice of her!" But now Raiden wanted cupcakes. Mm, cupcakes. "Are there cupcakes here?"

"I haven't seen any cupcakes. But I haven't gone in the kitchen yet, either. There might be? There's some sort of food at least.

"I would hope so," Raiden agreed, "with this much booze. I love the 'this much booze' part, but you gotta have food or things get messy real quick."

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"That... is a sweater," Jane said, laughing at how very much like Thor Raiden could be.

Raiden leaned over to stage whisper to her, "Really it's a sweatshirt, but they let me in."

"It's the spirit of it." So it counted!

"It's got pizza!" Come on. Pizza! "I like your sweater, too!" It was even an actual sweater! "I didn't know they made hammer sweaters."

Why did that sound dirty?

"Oh! It's specifically a Mjolnir one too!" she said, lifting the hammer up to show it off. Or let it see the sweater? It was fifty-fifty. "Thor has a ton of merch out there."

"Oh, that's so cool!" Raiden told her. "We don't really get merch...because no one knows we're real, ha. I mean, Gray leans into the whole sloth craze sometimes, but that's not, like, on purpose."

“Raiden,” Watts greeted, drawn of course by the fact that someone else had ended up in a food themed sweater.

(Well, Watts’s was a sweater vest ~~despite the link showing an actual sweater~~ but, you know. Close enough.)

“How are you?”

"Detective Watts!" Raiden greeted him cheerily. "I've been good! How are you doing?"

“Quite well,” Watts replied with a nod. “This party is somehow- what I expected and yet not what I expected at all.”

"Oh, I didn't know what to expect," Raiden admitted. "I just found out there was a party happening the other day, and I'm always up for a party! Although it's the first time I've seen a bathtub that's just for punch, gotta admit." He was pretty impressed with it.

"Well," he said. "I can't promise a bathtub of punch. In fact, I can promise there won't be a bathtub of punch. But if you're fond of parties- Steven and I are hosting one for Hanukkah in a few weeks. On the 19th. You're welcome to come."

"Oh!" Raiden said, definitely more surprised that Watts was inviting him to a party than when he'd been invited to a party by a flyer in a bar. "I do love a latke! Or...any fried potato product, really." They were all winners. "But I might be out of town by then? My brother and I will be going home for the holidays after his classes let out. I'm...not sure when that is," he admitted.

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