A very Pirate-Ninja baby shower. And, er, Happy Hour!

[try_corsets]

Elizabeth doesn't know what to expect from her first baby shower and is, in fact, rather apprehensive when she arrives in the bar this evening. Not that she would let reticence keep her away however, and once the door is shut and she's had a chance to look around she is too busy taking in the decorations to concern herself with how strange the idea still seems.

Mike has outdone himself. He's gone and turned what was once merely a watering hole at the end of the universe into an intergalactic tiki bar. Each of the free standing tables has been decorated as its own private island by way of blue table clothes and cray paper palm trees. Some even have palm-sized plastic fish hanging from the hem like fringe. Booths are done up like various mainland ports of call with salt and pepper shakers in the shapes of ships and barges. And as if there wasn't enough in the way of horizontal surfaces to decorate, Mike brought in two full length tables to serve as anchors for the buffet and gift station. After all, what's a baby shower if not an opportunity to wheedle presents from those nearest and dearest to your heart. Just... ignore any passing resemblance these tables have to The Flying Dutchman and The Black Pearl. Along the floor are lines marking distances in latitude and longitude, with large red Xs denoting the various important features of decoration.

Though... strangely absent from this Pirate Ninja themed baby shower are... well, the ninjas. One might have to look close indeed to find them, but there are inch tall ninjas hiding in every nook, cranny, and shadow of the decorations. Just waiting for any opportunity to flip out of a palm tree, streamer, or egg salad sandwich and steal your life.

Glancing down a the large 'X' upon which she's currently standing, Elizabeth stiffens when someone -- a brave someone, she presumes -- removes her hat and slaps another on her head. It feels vaguely... conical.

"Arrrrrr. Permission to come aboard?" says Mike in one ear. Then, moving to her other side, "Permission granted!" With that, he prods her toward a very proud Bar, whose finish fairly beams with it (though please don't go asking her for drinks during her party).


[OOC: Welcome to the first ever Milliways Baby Shower/Happy Hour! Come one, come all, come in pirate or ninja costume... yeah, the invite on the noticeboard probably put that out there as an agreeable option. We are running this as a traditional party post, so there will be several comment sub-threads ASAP: Introductions/Reactions/Arrivals, Drinks & Food, EVIL KARAOKE MACHINE, Presents (to be evenly distributed among all expectant parents, if not expressly labeled for certain people), and dancing... to the evil karaoke machine? Who knows! Go crazy. :D

Pauses likely on our ends for commuting and food, but... thread hop away and party on!]

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The Main Land - Introductions

[mnt_mike]

Here's where you'll be meeting and greeting.

Re: Introductions

[try_corsets]

Unsurprisingly, the pregnant Captain Turner is dressed as a pirate. She quickly replaces her hat and sits beside Bar, though she is very careful not to touch her, not even to lean against the wood and rest her aching back. As has been shown time and time again, she is rather fond of being alive.

Elizabeth isn't smiling, but there's a certain anticipation evident in her gaze if one looks closely enough.

Re: Introductions

[mnt_mike]

"Here, try this. It's awesome." In his hands Mike holds a frosted mug with some sort of thick liquid in it.

Liz has had a smoothie before, yes?

[fighting_mad]

Plourr squints at the figure at the bar for several long seconds before finally deciding that yes, it is most likely who she thinks it is (it is a little hard to say from the side, and with the hat). Decision made, she approaches, carrying a squirming red-headed toddler held firmly under one arm. Ianna is kicking her feet and trying to pry her mother's arm loose, but given that her mother's bicep is about the size of her head, she isn't having much luck.

From the looks of the princess's clothing, her father let her loose in her own wardrobe today. She is a riot of colors, fabrics, and textures, perhaps most notably a bright red tutu.

Her mother, meanwhile, is mostly dressed in shades of cream and purple; a pencil skirt, a form-fitting tunic in a complicated violet design, a silver bangle, silver earrings that lightly tink as she moves. She's wearing heels (though they're low, as she likes to be able to move and also she already towers over her entire cabinet) and her hair is swept back neatly.

"Elizabeth Swann," says Plourr, cracking a bemused look as she comes up. "Has it really been that long?"

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[mnt_mike]

When the idea first began to take shape Mike had this grand notion of the baby shower consisting of him and Liz just holding court in some out of the way corner. But...now that it's here, and it's TODAY and it's GOING ON RIGHT NOW! he finds himself unable to sit still.

There's food to keep stocked and drinks to keep flowing and...damn it, is that the Karaoke machine?!?

So while he should be sitting in one place "glowing" as everyone has been telling him he does, he's not. He's waddling his wider self here and there making sure everyone other than him is having a good time.

Catch him, if you can.

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[dreamer_fray]

Harth is skulking.

...Look, there's no way he's missing this. He is agog.

in deference to the theme, his jeans and t-shirt are today all black, and he's sneaking about, mostly stealing drinks.

He's also contemplating switching the condiments for something more interesting, but holding off.

For now.

[OOC: Mun is GMT, so going to bed soon. But hi!]

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[gorgonfondness]

Mia had seen the notice and decided she would go to the party if she wasn't in the middle of any contractions.

And she's not, so here she is, a present in each hand.

"Perhaps we should have started a support group."

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[wheatencrown]

Demeter's mood is still on edge but today is for celebrating life and that is something that she knows how to do quite well.

So she's wearing a beautiful green dress and beaming as she searches for LiPr

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy isn't very dressed up (having come straight from work) apart from a pirate hat.

He's not entirely sure Mike will want him here (perhaps too much of a reminder of the whole surgery thing), but he drops his present off at the table then hovers around with an orange juice.

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[notascreensaver]

AndrAIa hasn't been around the bar much recently, and thus hasn't had time to see the invite posted on the notice board. When she arrives today, though, the Bar's new decor is enough to coax the very pregnant sprite over to investigate.

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[pirate_jack]

The door opens and Jack saunters through into Milliways, humming.

Two seconds later he skids to a stop and stares in absolute horror.

"Oh bugger."


He's clearly on the verge of turning and bolting back through the door.

Re: The Main Land - Introductions

[bushel-o-apples.livejournal.com]

"Mistress Turner..."

The voice behind her trails away into silent amusement, filled with gravel and malicious glee as it ever is in his good moments. And out of the shadows, there stands the dark Spaniard in his scraggly but impressive pirate finery, arms slightly outstretched and head partly bowed, just enough so he never needs to break eye contact.

"A... Charming little celebration."

The Black Pearl - Drinks and Snacks!

[mnt_mike]

All sammiches on deck! Or, at very least it looks as if every kind of sandwich known to man is represented at least once.
Possibly twice.

And that down there? By the end? Why yes those would be bento-style lunchables.

Drinks run the gamut from Rum to fruit smoothies to Sake.

Re: The Black Pearl - Drinks and Snacks!

[dreamer_fray]

There is suddenly one less bottle of sake than before.

:O!

Re: The Black Pearl - Drinks and Snacks!

[gorgonfondness]

Some of those sammiches are made of grog loaf.

All of the grog loaf sammiches belong to Mia.

Dare to disagree and a woman due to deliver tomorrow will bite your hand.

Unless you wish to bring a smoothie for negotiations.

Re: The Black Pearl - Drinks and Snacks!

[wheatencrown]

Baking is good for the soul so Demeter has with her a basket full of cookies in various shapes most of them babylike so baskets, there might be a turtle or two, also two beautiful loaves of bread that are braided and have red dyed Easter eggs in them for Liz and MikePr

Re: The Black Pearl - Drinks and Snacks!

[pirate-gibbs.livejournal.com]

There's a gamut of drinks beyond rum? That is news to Gibbs.

He takes a tankard of rum and studies the food. And feels homesick for the Pearl. And wonders if Jack will show his face. And ponders if it's bad luck to be at a baby shower. And wonders why Mike is so out of shape, as if pregnant. Which is impossible.

Rum is good for pirates with questions. It makes them forget. And relax and enjoy themselves.

The Kraken - Eeeeeevil Karaoke and possibly dancing.

[mnt_mike]

There...lurking in the shadow left by the Dutchman. Could it be? Oh crap...it very well might be! The scourge of the briny deep!

THE KRAKEN!

...

Wait, are those googly eyes?
Now just hold on a second here! You're not a Kraken at all! You're an evil karaoke machine!

The Dutchman: The gifts that keep on giving!

[mnt_mike]

Should you feel so inclined to help a fellow patron out by gifting, this is where that gifting would go.

If, you know, you were up to feeling generous.
Which you totally don't have to be. This isn't like, a requirement or anything.

Or maybe it is, and we're just not telling you.
Time will only tell.

Re: The Dutchman: The gifts that keep on giving!

[dreamer_fray]

It's practically mandatory on these occasions, right?

So here, Mike -- a demon bunny, fresh and still steaming, just for you.

(Harth disemboweled it himself.)

Re: The Dutchman: The gifts that keep on giving!

[gorgonfondness]

Mia dropped her presents off before discovering the sandwiches. Elizabeth's package contains a remarkably soft receiving blanket. Almost magically so. Mike's package is some of Lemia's strawberry tarts, much like the ones they made together much earlier in their respective pregnancies.

Re: The Dutchman: The gifts that keep on giving!

[wheatencrown]

Demeter has two smaller baskets that have special beautifully braided bread with red dyed Easter eggs in them and a collection of teas and various herbal remedies that are food for someone who's pregnant. They're both tied with wheat that's been woven into hearts and strung with symbols of good luckPr

Re: The Dutchman: The gifts that keep on giving!

[guppy_sandhu]

Difficult to know what to give a wood-based lifeform baby.

In the end Guppy and his family settled for a CD of baby lullabies, a small plushie turtle, and a giant size bar of Dairy Milk.

Re: The Dutchman: The gifts that keep on giving!

[a1enzo]

Well, one thing from Enzo's world is always reliable for babies.

In deference to this baby's particular nature, the "fur" areas of the (entirely smooth and unfurry) bear are wood-grained brown.

Re: The Dutchman: The gifts that keep on giving!

[bushel-o-apples.livejournal.com]

Barbossa limps up to the pile of presents left for Elizabeth's baby. All of them very nice, all of them very pretty...

For a moment he purses his lips in mild amused disgust, then one long hand disappears in the depths of a pocket and reappears with a flourish, holding an ancient-looking silver coin. Pinching it between thumb and forefinger, he taps it once against the edge of the table, then raises it to his ear to listen to it hum.

A gift that you would wish you'll never need to use. Isn't that what one would expect from Barbossa?