The All-Purpose Room, Midnight Manor, Saturday Afternoon

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

As far as Cal was aware, Arden had set this whole thing up to celebrate his win in paintball. After remembering the All-Purpose room existed and getting permission from Steven to use it, Arden had programmed in a decent-sized mountain for them to climb. If her side had a lot more hand- and footholds than Cal Climbing-Would-Be-My-Middle-Name Kestis' had, well...sometimes mountains grew that way. Or whatever. Hush.

Of course, what Cal didn't know was that while Arden was keeping him busy with a climb, BD-1 (the true architect of this party) and Kamala were busy setting up everything for the party proper. The top of the mountain turned into a beautiful landscape dominated by verdant trees so big there were houses built into them, with mountains shrouded in mist far in the distance, dominated by a tree even larger still. Arden had been very glad that BD-1 was able to communicate with Midnight, too; he'd had a very specific idea of how Kashyyyk was supposed to look and there was no way that she could have translated binary well enough to have pulled it off. Of course, beautiful alien vista or not, this was an Earth birthday party and some things were absolutely required. So there were a bunch of moddable pizzas (including two vegan, and several with very spicy toppings), soda, bowls of chips and popcorn, a fruit and a veggie platter, and, the centerpiece of it all: a chocolate and pistachio ice cream cake from Chilly Boulder with HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY CAL! written on it.

And probably red Squishies, because Kamala had been deputized for setup.

Welcome to Keshyyyk, everybody. Hope you brought your party hats.

[Friends, neighbors, frenemies, and especially GFFA folks, please feel free to assume you've gotten an invitation emailed, texted, sent via droid and/or carrier pigeon...whatever! However it got to you, please show up and help Cal celebrate his twenty-first birthday in style!]

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Arden relaxed at the reminder that Lana's Empire was the evil one that Cal was fighting. Not that she thought it would be, since she and Cal got along, but again, it was a lot to keep straight.

"And you're...thousands of years before his time?" she hazarded.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[unusual_sith]

"Roughly three thousand, if I remember the times correctly," Lana said. "And some things I've learned from other people make me think they may not even be the same galaxy, just different versions of it, like people here are from different Earths."

Which was another level of complication, but she took it as heartening, since nobody in later times seemed to have even heard of the Alliance.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"I mean, I guess that makes sense," Arden said thoughtfully. "I mean, why should Earth be the only one with alternate realities?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[unusual_sith]

Lana nodded in agreement. "It still seems bizarre to me, but it does make sense. And I suppose those of you from Earth have to deal with it every day."