102 Percent: Omega Spire PAR-TAY (Backdated to the weekend, after defeating the Baron)

[130percent]

INVITE TO THE PARTY:
[A. Audio and Visual on Omeganet. Text "Event" posting on Rumblr.]

"OH YEAHH guys and gals! We've kicked Dino butt, we've kicked Slade butt, and now, the Omega Spire is open and I'm ready to party like it's 2099! We got all the free pizza you can eat, and I installed a soda fountain with 42 varieties of flavor! We've got the dance floor, we've got the tunes, AND (for those of you who don't like to dance) we've got a Smash Cousins tournament on a 20-foot Ultra HD screen! (I call dibs on Burro Kong.) Oh, and bring a swim suit if you want, because the pool here is kickin'!

All the teen heroes better be here, ya hear me? And bring a friend. Doors open at 5pm.

Oh, and ya villains can stay at home."

((Note: Word gets around, so there's no reason non-supers couldn't hear about this party and crash it. As long as they don't cause trouble, Cyborg isn't throwing anyone out of the party for not being super enough.))

AT THE PARTY (ACTION):
((NOTE: These are not all threads with Cyborg. The assumption is that if you post at one of these locations, someone else at the party will reply. Also, feel free to request other spots.))

[B. On the ferry or train over to Venture Island.]
The Omega Spire is on an island, so most people are getting there one of two ways. Omegafriends can use the underground train, which drops off at depot in the Spire's basement. Anyone can take the ferry, which heads out to the island every hour on the hour. Both provide opportunities to befriend fellow party goers before actually getting in the door.

[C. Buffet]
In the main dining area, a big buffet table and some picnic tables have been set up. The buffet has lots and lots of pizza of different varieties, as well as chips, fruit, meatballs, punch, cookies, and other yummy foods. There is also a soda fountain with practically ever flavor you could want.

[D. Dance Floor]
A huge dance floor has been set up, big enough to accommodate a few hundred people at a time. Cyborg's wired up lasers and strobe lights, and a top-of the line audio system that is playing music a bit too loud. The DJ will play different types of music, from slow-dances to more upbeat stuff, and takes requests. (There is also a row of chairs to the side of the dance floor, for the wallflowers.)

[E. Rec Room - Videogames, ping pong, etc.]
The main attraction in the Rec Room right now is the HUGE monitor that has been set up for a Smash Cousins tournament. Since that game only supports four players a time, there are other games set up for those who don't want to wait: old arcade boxes, ping pong tables, pool tables, and there's even a chess set in the corner, and another table by a cabinet full of different board games and card games.

[F. Pool Area]
On the roof of the Spire is an enormous swimming pool, about the size and shape of two Olympic-sized pools put together to form a big "T". The water temperature is computer-monitored to hover around 89 degrees Fahrenheit, and the area is well-lit after the sun goes down by lampposts and underwater lights. The area also boasts two hot tubs - each capable of seating ten people - and two large clean changing rooms (one for each gender) with lockers and showers.

[G. Quiet Room.]
A lot of the Spire has been locked-up as off-limits tonight, for security reasons. Only the main party rooms are open for the most part, but Cyborg has set up one small open lounge to escape the noise of the party. The room is insulated and mostly sound-proof, has some nice comfy couches, and an espresso machine. This is a good place to take a break, have conversations that don't require yelling over loud music, etc.

[H. The Coat Closet.]
Near the entrance, there is a large walk-in closet for people to stow stuff they don't want to carry around all night. Unfortunately, the door lock is a bit wonky, and sometimes it just won't open from the inside (Cyborg is working on that.) But as long as no one shuts the door while someone is inside, there shouldn't be a problem, right?

Comments

B

[sociallyawkward]

[ Okay, so Ruby's not... officially a hero. But she has a communicator! So she saw the invite. And... let's be honest, free pizza. Who doesn't love free pizza!? And forty-two different kinds of soda!? Ruby wanted to try them all!

Still, now that she's on the ferry, she can't help but feel a little nervous. Very nervous. Too nervous. She adjusts her cape for a moment before gazing out at the approaching island. Too late to back down.

Somebody approach the dork in a red cape on the ferry? ]

[rose_liberated]

Stupid useless. ARGH! Why did I let her talk me into this!

[Ruby, a crazy lady is talking to herself. Are you crazy enough to disturb the crazy?]

[starsburn]

[ WHOA

WHOA that is a seriously bright cape

sorry Ruby don't mind if Shooter just stares for a moment. ]

Red..

[ yes muttering creepily to yourself about colours is the way to make friends a+ work there shooter. ]

Ah-- h--hey! Your cape, it's really bright and red! It's cool, it's really cool!

E

[thedarkheir]

[Soma was going to play some Smash Cousins, but an Arcade machine gets his attention. It was for an old 2d fighter called Pentient Machine, and started to feed the things quarters and heavy metal music blared out of the box]

Auuuugh! Darn that Witch!

Re: E

[sonicheart]

The trick is to jump right after you release the duck, I think? Or was that for the Sirene?

[distorts_space]

-D-
No wall flower here. Parley's shakin' it, in her Mystery Lass outfit, and feeling perfectly at ease.

-E-
Parley just wrecked three other random party-goers at Ping-Pong in a row, and was now doing a little victory dance at her end of the table.

"Ha ha! I am invincible! All hail the Ping Ping Queen!"

It was probably time for someone to take her down a peg.

-H-
Slam! Parley turned to open the door, only to find it stuck. "Hey! The door's stuck! Someone open up, it's too fun out to spend today stuck in a closet!"

E

[stalksindarkness]

Turning his head to watch the ping pong ball go back and forth, he resists the urge to jump on the table to get the ball. Not an easy impulse to fight either, as he now suddenly bares the appearance of those synchronized head tilting kittens on the internet.

Once George knocks it behind her opponent, however, he launches himself towards it to catch it.

He returns with the ball in his teeth, seemingly having no shame in the fact that he's playing fetch.

H

[tiny_revolutionary]

Hark! Is that a cry of distress?! ...Um. That's not what you really expected to hear at a party like this.

"Hello? Who's in there? Did you say you're stuck?" she calls out.

[rose_liberated]

Huh, who's the blond? She's been watching for a bit, but now she's stepping up to take a paddle.

"Do go easy on me. It is my first time playing."

-E-

[generallyaguy]

After her next party goer left, a masked guy in Green appeared to be wobbling at the other end. Sergeant Guy had finally found Parley and even clearly had the best thing to duel her out.

"I challenge you to a duel of Ping Pong!" He said, pointing his racket at her.

C

[pega_pony_princess]

Princess Pegasus has a plate loaded down with pizza slices and a cup that is ridiculously large. Currently, she's mixing together what looks like every flavor of soda into her cup.

All 42 of them.

[widerthanthesea]

The host sister watches with alarmed fascination.

"I was gonna stop you, but now I just want to see what happens."

Re: C

[see_more]

See-More waits until she has finished filling her cup, and then intentionally bumps into her, trying to splash its contents all over the poor girl.

"Oops."

He doesn't sound very sincere.

C. Buffet

[the_ko_stands_for_tiger]

[Looks like SOMEBODY'S been shanghaied to try and make sure there's no trouble here, like spiked soda or anything. Being a nearly middle-aged man in the midst of teenagers is no picnic, though, and he's sitting by the buffet with a plate of food, messing around with his cell phone. Close inspection reveals it to, in fact, be some sort of cheap match-3 game.

Our esteemed veteran, ladies and gentlemen.]

Re: C. Buffet

[bemoreflexible]

[Helen is in her old super suit, in case she needs to break up a fight between super-powered teens without breaking her cover. She walks on over to Ko.]

They convinced you to chaperone this thing, too eh?

C

[stalksindarkness]

[The masterful hunter crouches behind some cover, his prey in his sights. He moves in, low to the ground. Closer. Closer.

And closer.

Until he's right behind Kotetsu, ready to spring up and scare the bajeezus out of the man. He rises, preparing to belt out a mighty roar right behind him!]

Re: C. Buffet

[see_more]

If Ko bothers to look up from his phone, he'll see some jerk of a kid with a goofy helmet pushing the other teens around at the buffet, insulting them, dumping drinks on people... basically being a big pain in the butt.

Really shouldn't be here!

[generallyaguy]

-C-

Several Shy Guys had taken turns to getting food for their table from the buffet, looking over out of place, running here and there, with their mask. Sergeant Guy was here to learn about the enemy... or so he told General Guy. In reality Sergeant Guy wanted to join a party. Also find out what these mysterious "Teenagers" were like. Just was no where near his men at the moment so they were just stuffing themselves.

-H-

Poor tiny Sergeant Guy had instead locked himself in the closet instead, not totally thinking over the situation as he was disgorging his things in the closet. So now he was banging on the closet to get out. He was alternating between making bold speeches to his men and whining it sounded like.

[omnitrixter]

[B]

Ben was among the people who'd seen the post up on Rumblr for the party. Well, technically he counted as a super (the watch wasn't coming off any time soon after all), so it wouldn't be a bad idea to drop by. Hopefully there wasn't a power demonstration requirement.

He rode the ferry over, whistling as the Spire came into view. "Nice."

[C]

Free food. Two of Ben's favorite words put together. And, boy, could this guy chow down. Not just regular teenage boy hunger either. He wondered if it was because of all the transformations he kept doing. That probably messed his metabolism up.

Still, be amazed as this scrawny guy downs his fourth or fifth piece of supreme pizza, munching away happily with no sign of slowing down.

[E]

Smash Cousins? Ugh. Give Ben Sumo Slammers IV: Tournament Edition any day. Oh well. He could watch at least. Maybe even get a chance to play with someone who wasn't a random online opponent for once.

Of course, he could be lured away from the video games for ping pong or something, too.

[G]

Ben flopped down on one of the comfy couches, tilting his head back to stare up at the ceiling. Man, it'd been a while since he'd been at such a busy party. The birthday parties he'd had to share with his cousin Gwen had always full of her friends until he finally just let her have the entire party to herself. It wasn't like he had any friends to invite after his weird falling out with Kevin. (He still didn't know what he'd done wrong even after five years...) Being off to one side in your own party was no fun, so he'd decided not to attend anymore.

It was nice, though, to hang around people and feel like part of the group. However, it seemed being by himself for so long meant he needed a break from it all from time-to-time.

G

[stalksindarkness]

Look who's snoozing on the couch? Or at least he was before the other boy flopped onto the same couch. The young lion lifts his head up, blinking against the light only to see someone he'd met a few weeks back. Ben! Suddenly he's alert, or he's trying to be. A big yawn before he can really focus on him.

"I didn't know you were a superhero." He at the tail end of the yawn.

[descendsfromshadow]

C.

[When you spend your childhood being trained to be part of paramilitary superhuman group, it doesn't leave much room for things like parties. Still, at the insistence of... certain parties, Blake was actually convinced to at least try some social activity.

It only took a little while for her to discover that she's no good at parties.

So, after that discover, she'd quietly slipped away with the excuse of getting something to eat. Now, you can find her with a cup of soda in her hands, dressed in civvies with her ears concealed from anyone not in on her secret by a black bow in her hair as she partakes in the proud tradition of quiet teenagers everywhere: wallflowering to the max.

Somebody might need to drag her away from there.]

[rose_liberated]

[The unenlightened migth think that Rozalin is too shy to not wallflower, or is overwhelmed by the music and the food and all that. Pish-posh!

Rozalin has been to balls in hell. She has heard the tortured screams of the damned when her mother confirmed her as heir and she knows all about Lust and Gluttony. There is no aspect of parties that she has not mastered.

She's simply wall-flowering it up because she's too good and too rich to be seen actively having fun here.]

Party crashing C, F, and D in that order

[see_more]

Look out! The students from Crookstone have heard about this little gathering, and are looking to make a splash!

-C-
See-More was all gung-ho about causing some chaos here... but then he saw that buffet table.

He is helping himself to far more than he can eat, piling multiple plates with pizzas and desserts. He rudely shoves past anyone who is moving too slow or blocking the item that he wants.

-F 1-
"CANNNNNON BALLLLLL!"
Yeah, See-More is that guy. Unfortunately, when he cannonballs into the pool, he does it with a big force-field around himself, making a MUCH more sizable splash.

-F 2-
After scanning the girl's changing room with his see-through vision and seeing that no one is currently in there, See-More decides to rob the contents of all the lockers.
(He may be caught either in the changing room - giggling like an idiot as he goes through a wallet, or just as he is exiting with a gym bag over his shoulder.)

-D-
Time to tear up the dance floor! Literally. See-More savors the dance for a few minutes, checking out who is around, and when he gets bored of that, he fires an eye beam into the disco ball, causing an explosion loud enough and bright enough to distract everyone around from the blaring music!

"HAH, you guys all dance like DWEEBS!"

F2

[rose_liberated]

One of the items in the changing room is a purse-and if See-More was scanning with his see through vision he might have seen-well, it ought to be something that Cy's sensors caught before this point. But there it is, under a makeup compact, and with a wallet shoved to the side to make room in the tiny handbag.

A pistol. A tiny one, pink alloy with a gold inlay on the sides, probably not holding more than a handful of bullets. But somebody came to the party packing heat.

[steamboatkilly]

C

Hot damn, lookit that spread!

[The buffet's the first thing that catches her eye, and she zips over as soon as superhumanly possible, leaving a Peacock-shaped cloud of dust where she used to be.]

Let's dig in, boys!

[Watching Peacock is, on the whole, a pretty unsettling experience. Like watching bunch of sharks in a feeding frenzy, except even less distinct and with more teeth. Avery stands off to the side, shoving the occasional morsel in his hat for later.]

E

[For someone who refuses to take her gloves off, Peacock's got a pretty impressive winning streak going. Probably because she's just been playing against George this whole time and he doesn't have any eyes, but that's not the point. After her latest victory, she raises her controler into the air and cheers.]

That's the ticket! Now somebody c'mon and gimme a real challenge.

[She doesn't mean an actual fight (though that would be pretty great too), but it looks like somebody should come along and make her stop hogging the console.]

D

[Peacock's not much of a natural dancer, but it looks like a couple of her goons have taken the opportunity to bust a move out there. Anybody out on the dance floor will be treated to the sight of a ten ton weight with a face on it teetering back and forth while an anvil on legs tries to do the splits.

Don't judge, alright? They don't get out much.]

D & E - FIGHT!

[notyourluckyday]

-D-
All these lame heroes enjoying themselves on the dance floor? Can't have that!
Jinx glides to the center of the dance floor, her eyes glowing pink as she grins a mischievous grin. She spins herself around in circles, arms spread wide, and lets out wave after wave of what appears to be pink lightning! It doesn't hurt anyone, but it does mess up hair-dos, lift up dresses, cause high heels to break, cause people to trip and fall, and cause all sorts of other bad luck!

"HAhahehahHAha!"

-E-
Jinx walks into the Rec Room, and immediately frowns at the lack of attention she is getting. All these people are far too engrossed in their games.

She walks over and watches the Smash tournament for a minute before snapping her fingers, causing every game in the room to short-out and/or break in some way or another!

"This is just sad. Instead of fake-fighting on some game, why don't you take on a real challenge?"

Jinx assumes a defensive stance and makes a beckoning gesture with her finger.

ddddd!

[birdarang]

Robin wasn't even paying attention. There was a lot more to worry about other than someone breaking into this party (which he didn't even think would happen, anyway). There were plenty of people over to celebrate the Spire's completion; with him being the leader of the Titans, didn't that basically make him the party coordinator? He'd just assume the role anyway.

He was watching from the sidelines as the others were enjoying themselves, making his way over towards the soda fountain. Robin grabbed himself a cup, pushed down for one of his favorite drinks....

...until it started blasting soda right into his face.

After the pump was all out of soda, Robin rubbed his eyes. That would only happen to him. Of course it would.

He was just about to dismiss it, until he saw someone familiar in the corner of his eye. Jinx was a villain; she had caused more than enough trouble back home. But he wasn't angry. Nope, Robin was just merely annoyed.

Robin approached her, crossing his arms and frowning. "How do you expect this to turn out?"

[birdarang]

d.

To dance or not to dance. That was the question.

He didn't dance; that would be the first thing he would tell you if you bumped into him in this kind of situation. Usually all he did was either make himself look stupid, or got into trouble of some kind. He could remember the last dance party he went to, and the cops had been involved. It was just great to know that the Teen Titans had been to one party, and the cops were there to meet them at the door.

So for now, he stood against the wall, propping one foot up behind him. Robin watched as the others twisted and turned with the beat, the lights flashing from one color to the next. Music like this was amazing; it had just enough to grab your attention and gave you that urge to drag yourself onto the floor and move a little. But he was the party host; dancing probably wasn't the best thing to do right now.

Robin's head nodded along to the music, watching as the guest twisted and turned. Maybe some other time...

[titansno]

For Raven's end? The answer was definitely not to dance. For this part of the party, she'd decided to play the wallflower, and who else should she spot pulling the same trick? It wasn't really surprising, knowing him as she did, but...hm.

She had to admit, the beat had a certain draw, but she wouldn't even know where to begin. Something for another time, maybe.

"Well, I can tell you're having fun. Any reason you're not over there?" She raises an eyebrow, gesturing towards the dance floor with a cup of punch in her hand.

[flickerwing]

[C - Buffet]

[Holy guacamole, there is SO MUCH FOOD. Sparkling Wing's just going to stand there and stare at all the delicious food in awe, just before she grabs a plate and starts loading everything on. She's not really paying attention to anyone else - so she doesn't notice when she snatches that one food you wanted, or that it's the last on the plate. Whoops?

She looks nice enough though, she'll give it back if you ask!]


[E - Rec Room]

[Score! Sparkling Wing's managed to snag a controller, and the pigtailed magical girl is all smiles as she looks at the character roster.] I call Princess Plum!

[For all her enthusiasm though, she's not really great at Smash Cousins...]

Enjoy playing with my other character.

[rose_liberated]

[ Ask? Ask? The daughter of Overlord Zenon does not ASK. When a peasant takes your food, you reprimand them!

Though perhaps some decorum is called for when one is currently bound in human flesh.]

Excuse me, but I wanted the last slice of the quintupple-meat pizza. Surely you don't really need it with all that...that.