~*Imladris Christmas Party*~

[GaladrielOlden]

GOTO had been talking comfortably when she heard somebody walking right behind her. This being a common enough occurence at a party, she payed no attention until she found herself suddenly in midair. "Shoot," was her first thought, "I didn't even start drinking yet!" "Damn, it's Helka," was her second, as she attempted to kick or punch him in the face (or somewhere more painful) from above, though all she accomplished was making herself look like a rather silly windmill.

"I will take this piece of decoration for inspection if you don't mind." Wonderful, now he's got the whole room staring. She smirked and pulled a knife out of her pocket. Half-mockingly, she declaimed loudly from the air above Helky's head: "If you don't let me go, I will cut your throat." He replied, "You wish you would hate me enough to do it. Because I know you won't missy. Now you and I are going to dance, and then I'm going to teach you the only way to skin a fairy." Helka started laughing as GOTO colored, and dropped her to the floor. "Ouch," she muttered, as they started to dance to some ridiculous cha-cha... "Hey, you had lessons Helka? My feet don't have yours on them." He sneered, "Funny."

Suddenly, GOTO saw Ophe sneaking, bizarrely, behind Helka. Oh, I wouldn't do that. she thought. Tends to end rather badly... she giggled. "BOO!" screamed Ophe. GOTO dissolved into hopeless laughter on the floor as Helka yelled and jumped, by her approximation, about a mile, miraculously not hitting the ceiling. Already doubled up, she could do nothing but quadruple up, and then, when she felt the need to laugh even harder, felt hopeless confused by this foray into higher mathematics, and forced herself to stand up to go gloat over Helky. Well, this is proving to be quite a party, she decided happily. Tops BD! was her last thought as she, somewhat queerly, cartwheeled across a few feet of floor.

[Firondoiel]

"You're Varda right?" asked Oro. Firi doubled over with laughter. "NO! NO! NO!" she said, "ElberethVarda is NOT Varda."

"Did you have to say Firi?" asked an unamused Elbereth. A well known innocent look came upon Firi's face."Uh, yes I think I did."

"You're hopeless." said Elbereth before turning back to the appetizers.

Firi's attention turned to Lossie singing 'I'm Dreaming of a Black Downfall.' Such a touching song. Firi's awe of it was distracted by a fidgeting Orli who apparently didn't care for the line 'And victims screaming.'

"Hush!" Firi whispered fiercely. "Or else." Here the sword got a pat. "You wouldn't." Orli whispered back. Firi raised an eyebrow, "Oh but I would though." Orli sat back and began to sulk but at least he was quiet.

Lossie had now finished and Firi began to loudly applaud. "Bravo! Bravo!" she shouted, "Huzzah! Very lovely."

[Alatáriel]

Ala took out a clipboard and made a few marks with her pencil. Being bartender wasn't at all the job she thought it would be. She seemed to have a lot of extra time, dispite the occasional person here or there wanting a drink, and possibly yelling at her for something she did wrong. Being an underaged drinker, you'd think peeps would cut her some slack. She sighed.

She took out a phone. It had a picture of a tabby cat on it as a cover. Dailing a number, she stuck the phone to her ear and waited. After a moment, she began to talk to the phone. 'Yes... soon, very soon... okay... bye,' she said and put the phone away. She tapped her foot to the music Mip had on and waited.

She heard a scratching at the back door. 'Erm... that was fast...' Ala said.

'What is that?' Elijah asked, raising an eyebrow.

'Erm, you'll see...' Ala responded. She dragged Elijah to the back and opened the back door. A tabby cat, a pitch black stripe ran down its back, walked in out of the night cold. He shook off a bit. Snow had begun to fall outside. Ala smiled, picked up the cat. 'Awww... Twitchy... glad you came... I was bored stiff... Now, you have to stay behind the bar... No jumping on top of it, and I cant pick you up out there. Some of the attenders might not like it. Okay?'

The cat mewed lowly. Ala smiled and set him down. She walked back to the front bar, the cat and Elijah following her. Ala sat back down on her stool. Twitchy curled up on the floor, and Elijah sat down in front of him. Ala's arm hung down from Elijah sitting on the floor. Twitchy went and curled up in his lap. 'Remember, no killing people here,' Ala said to the cat.

She handed Elijah a yellow vest and a black bow tie fit for a cat, 'Have fun'

Ala snickered at him. Merry wouldn't like the vest and bowtie very much.

[Helkster]

Helka jumped up as he got the living shit scared out of him. He jumped a mile up in the air and landed with his dagger already out at the throat of the person behind him. Ophe"s face turned white for a econd, but Helka's face soon turned from a death-seeking look into a kind smile. Ophe's eyes flinched and a second later GOTO had a knife poking in Helka's back. The crowd stared at the three for some time when Helka pulled his dagger back muttering "Stupid females". The whole room gave him a deadly look.

"Okay reminder elves have good hearing." Helka thought. "I need a drink." He added.

[Orofaniel]

Oro watched the whole episode with great horror. Her heart had never beaten so fast ever. Her face had also gone paler….I mean, paler than usual.

"Stupid females". Helkster said. Oro looked at him with great eyes. So did the other females in the room. Suddenly while Oro was in deep thought, Nova jumped over her from behind. "Did you see that?" She said in a loud voice.

"Of course I did." Oro said quite grumpy over Nova's sudden jump. "I'm not blind you know.." she added. Nova looked at her. "Alright." She said and sighed.

"So, do you want to get a drink?" Nova asked Oro. "Yeah...But haven't you already had...like 3?" Oro asked. "Well.....Does it matter?" Nova said and laughed. "No, just curious." Oro said and headed for the bar. "Hey, wait for me!" Nova commanded.

"Okay...some females are….stupid." Oro said behind her teeth and put up a nice white smile as Nova came from behind again.

[Lossentilien]

Lossie was leaning with her back to the bar, her elbows propping her up behind her back, and her hair falling slightly across her face as she surveyed the comical scene.
Well, the party had needed livening up she thought, as she and Nilly fought back their giggles when Helka turned towards the bar. In an effort to take her mind off laughing, she scanned the room for a sign of Ophelia, who she suspected had either been dragged to saftey, or had run there herself...and was probably plotting her revenge...
She adjusted her position slightly to take the weight off her elbows. She felt restless. Gazing around the room, she let her thoughts drift, not really focusing on anything in particular. If anyone had been watching, they'd probably have noticed something almost 'click' in her, and a wildness that came into her eyes.
She turned slowly to Nilly, a smile playing across her lips.
"Nilly, I suggest you and I think of a way to liven this up ourselves. It may be a slow phase, but some of us have short attention spans. What do you say?" Lossie said merrily.
A twinkle appeared in Nilly's eyes.

[Alatáriel]

Elijah got the vest and bowtie onto the cat with only a few scratches. The cat looked awfully annoyed and growled everytime Elijah went to pet him. 'Dude, give it up. You rarely find Twitchy in a good mood...' Ala said to him. Elijah sat down on his stool, eyeing the cat, who curled up in the corner, behind the bar.

Ala sighed and waited for the next part of the party. She tapped her fingers lightly on the bar. It looked really shiny. That reminded her. She straightened Billy's tie, sending a glare across the room, up to a disco ball convienently hung for the Disco King, and sending everyone blind for a few moments. Ala snickered, then set her chin in her hands, pretending to be innocent.

[Niluial]

Niluial smiled evilly at Lossie. Niluial looked around making sure no one was close, no one could here! “Well we could do something with green faeries” Niluial whispered. They both walked into the kitchen. “Oh Faeries!” Niluial called looking around waiting for the small green, sparkly lights. All the faeries gathered around floating in the air except for two. Niluial glanced at Lossie’s bag and eyed it. “Ok, I am giving you permission to do as you please!” Niluial said to the green faeries. Some faeries got a bucket of paint other got some chicken seeds while others just flew out the room.

Niluial and Lossie waited a few minutes then walked out the kitchen acting like two innocent faeries. Nilly and Lossie stopped and packed out laughing and couldn’t stop. Ophelia, Elentari and Alatáriel were screaming at the top of their lungs because they were stuck on the chandeliers, while Elbereth was in the air being carried by a faerie. Everyone was running, screaming and shouting. Helky ran up to Niluial and grabbed her “What on earth is going on! And don’t look at me like that, innocent little look!” Helky said breathlessly. Niluial and Lossie smiled at Helky and quickly explained. Lossie pulled Nilly and Helky to the other side and mixed paint to make a lighter green. Two faeries collected the paint and painted one or two people one of them being GotO and gave them green wings.

By this time Nilly and Lossie were on the floor laughing and kicking their feet while Helky set a few buffet tables a light and one or two curtains. Elvish Hobbit was screaming, “please not the curtains!”

[Helkster]

"Curtains? Do you see curtains? I certainly don't." Helka said as the curtains were already burned up.

He walked to the burning buffettable and took a snack from it. Being heated, it wasn't bad. He sat down in the middle of the floor and looked at the christmas three which was now shining brightly in the light of the burning tables. It was quite romantic. Nilly and Lossie acompanied him on the floor. He eyed both of them and they bursted out in laughter. Kicking his feet trying to control the inmence laughter, he couldn't withstand it. It was impossible.
GOTO cried out that she would kill all the fairies, only making it worse. The green paint was dripping on the floor and the other guests were still running around in panic. The fairies were flying all over the place. Soon many others were hanging from the ceiling. One came flying towards Nilli, but she ducked and shouted at them to be carefull. The Fairy saluted and grabbed Ophe. Helka whiped away the tears and just kept laughing.

[GaladrielOlden]

GOTO ran quickly to a bathroom, and locked herself in. Washing off all the green pain and wings, she toweled herself off, her formerly black clothes now some darkened grey, and the chains on her pants threatening to rust if left wet any longer.

Cautiously sticking her head out the door, she looked around. The coast seemed clear. She saw Nilly and Lossie giggling in one corner, Helky in another. Heading towards a couch between these two corners, she lay down comfortably on it, watching green fairies whizz over her head, shrieking to scare them off when they came too close. Suddenly she felt the back of the couch rising up. Rolling off, her shriek real this time, she pouted at the mischievous fairy culprits, and ran off towards one of the nearest occupied corners.

[Lossentilien]

Lossie lay back with her hand under her head, still in fits of laughter. The light from the burning table sent a nice glow over the three of them. She watched the faeries flying excitedly over her head, leaving tiny trails of glitter behind them.
Her bag made a sudden jolt. Nilly leaned over slightly to see what was happening, and Lossie sat up a little, curious...the bag tore open and the extremly angery faeries flew out. They circled her head once before dissappearing.
"Uh oh." Nilly stared after them..."Hope they don't take it out on us..." She burst into giggles again.
Lossie looked up to see how the others were doing, most of them looked murderous. "Emm, Nilly, think we should let them down before they get really annoyed?" Nilly thought about it, before nodding. It was probably best to let them cool down before the party moved on anyway...no need to stop having fun however...
Nilly waved her hand, and the faeries let their captives drop reasonably painlessly to the ground. One by one they picked themselves up and turned to the three sitting on the floor.
"I think we might've left them up there too long" Nilly whispered as the others moved towards them menacingly.
They got to their feet quickly and began to back away. Lossie stepped slightly to the side behind Helky.
"Got your knife?" She asked slightly mockingly. his nod did nothing to reassure either of them, and Nilly stepped swiftly behind Lossie.

[Helkster]

Helka took out his bow and fitted an arrow on the string. He didn't took aim, but the look on his face was enough to let the crowd stop moving. Nilli stepped forward and placed her hand on Helka's shooting arm to prefent escelation of the situation. With her graceous way she appolagised for the little prank and asked the party to continue as planned. She had the kitchen personell put out the buffet tables and replace the food. They obviously didn't enjoy it too much. Helka just giggled his ass off.

Most of the people went to the restroom to check up on them or get rid of a certain green glow on their bodies. But afther 30 minutes or so, most of the people were back at dancing, chattting and drinking again. From the back of the room came a little bang and GOTO came out of a corner with a blackened face. She immediatly knocked Helka over and flinged three punches at his face. Helka took em all three, stood up and laughed, it seemed that the fireworks in GOTO's hair had finaly exploded. It was really funny to see. He appolagized to her as she was being picked on the entire evening and because a writer can do such things, GOTO's hair was suddenly in a magic way back to normal and even more beautifull than the girl could already have fixed. Helka just eyed her for a second.

"Care for a dance Mylady?" He said as he offered her his right arm.

"Okay, but if you try something, you will most certainly get wounded." She replied.

[Niluial]

Niluial sat back in a chair ignoring all the looks people were giving her. She was use to them by now because of the earlier shooting. Nilly was most certainly doing harm to her good reputation, maybe as a trouble maker or a prankster. But Nilly was past that stage in her life where she actually cared what people thought of her like me or don’t was her motto to live by. Niluial looked at Lossie and they both just sank into there chairs. “How about a drink of our favourite friend?” Lossie said and then winked at Niluial. Nilly clicked her fingers at the passing faerie and asked her for two extra large green faeries. Ten minutes later two big glasses of absinthe were placed on the table. With out a hesitation Niluial and Lossie gulped the green mixture down and sat back in their chairs. Niluial had a sudden blast of energy and ran onto the stage.

“Ok hello!” Niluial said into the mic and there was immediate response from the audience, they must have been too scared for another shooting or faerie strike. “Well, there is lots of joy in the air and laughter so there is no better time for a dance than now” Niluial paused and took a breath “What dance… well the only dance where you can dance like a chicken. So its time for the chicken dance! Elvish Hobbit hit it!”

Everyone gathered on the dance floor. Yes everyone, every person, every faerie, every living thing in site! Even GotO! They all started pecking the ground then spinning all around and then everyone put there legs up in the air and then everyone went wild and made chicken noises. The music was barnyard style and it was funny indeed! Everyone was going wild on the dance floor which was a peculiar site!

[Elentari the Second]

Elentari the Second runs in madly and slips on the floor. When she has gotten up, with as much grace as she can muster, she announces to everyone that a friend is probably arriving.

"My friend the Wood Faery is coming. Please welcome her. And act like you're not always lost in Middle-earth."

[OOC: She is coming. I think. And I know you're interested in other things, and while I still love LOTR, Koyal isn't as interested in it as I am, but she's registered anyway because I told her what wonderful people you are - and you are all lovely people so don't deny it. ]

Elentari (the Second) then turned and, limping slightly but trying to hide it, retreated into a quiet corner of the room whereupon she proceeded to watch the merriment of everyone else.

[OOC: Just as an interesting side-note, I took the Enneagram test, which places me as a Five (the Observer) with a Four (the Romantic) wing. I do tend to sit in a corner and watch in real life, so bear with me in this. But if you wish to chat to Elentari II please do. I just probably won't mingle of my own initiation.]

[Feeling slightly bemused at myself, I sign off for now. Namarie, noldonyar.]

[Niluial]

Niluial was exhausted after the dance but enjoyed it very much, it was fun acting like an idiot. Nilly walked onto the stage carefully, she had already ripped a part of her dress but one wouldn’t notice. “Is everyone having a good time?” Niluial screamed into the microphone. Everyone shouted, whistled, clapped and screamed which was a good sign, everyone was having a great time! “Well guess whats next on the time table?” Niluial paused and smiled “Our Christmas Debate of course!” Niluial laughed. Everyone was all hyped and happy. “Well I made it a simple debate! Something fun and ridiculous and of course Christmas related. Now before we begin I would like to add that no party activities will happen until the debate is over… we don’t want too many things happening at once, now do we?” Niluial said politely. Everyone cheered once more and gathered closer to the stage while Elvish Hobbit grabbed a extra microphone so everyone could voice there views.

Should Christmas Tree’s Be Other Colors?

As we all knows Christmas trees are green. Ok so I have seen some other colored Christmas trees but it was odd seeing one around. What is your view, should almost every home have a different color Christmas tree? Should we scrap the green and rather bring in pinks, blues, purples, reds etc?

LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!