Operation: P.A.R.T.Y.

[hatesboys]

Who: The children and teenagers of Mayfield. also any nefarious adults who sneak their way in
What: A Kids Next Door recruiting event cleverly disguised as a house party.
When: idk during a night of some day
Where: 625 Topper Street
Warnings: children

[Private Assembly Regarding Tactical Youth

You've seen posters vaguely referring to this so-called "party" for the past few weeks, always in places most frequented by young people, like the diner and Make Out Point. Well, tonight's the night, and you've decided to show up. Hey, what could it hurt? Parties are always fun.

On first inspection, it doesn't really look all that different from any other house party. There's snacks, music, a section of chairs pushed into a corner for all the losers incapable of basic social interaction-- nothing too out of the ordinary. Except, there's a clipboard, half-hidden between a bowl of popcorn and chips. It reads:

ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT ADULT MAYFIELD TYRANNY?
sign up for the Kids Next Door today!

Are you? There's a box of crayons nearby, if you are.]

Comments

THE CLIPBOARD OF POOR LIFE DECISIONS

[hatesboys]

[On the clipboard, there is a line for your name, age, and area of specialty. Nerds like Slugger who already have codenames can put those down as well.]

Re: THE CLIPBOARD OF POOR LIFE DECISIONS

[hintcoinplz]

[Sign up? Well Luke was a member of the K.N.D. once, so let's do it.

Name: Luke Triton
Age: 13
Specialty: Puzzles and investigation
Codename:

[Luke proceeds to scribble this as his codename:

]

[strike_you_out]

[This takes him back. Back to the day over a year ago when he'd first joined K.N.D. just for shits. But this time he's 'renewing' his membership with a somewhat different mindset:

NAME: Slugger
AGE: 13
SPECIALTY: hitting people things, stealth
CODENAME:
6-66

Apparently some things, like stupid codenames, never change.]

[shallbeavenged]

[Might as well.]

Name: Ai
Age: 13
Specialty: Illusions, stealth, punishment

[witchofthechalk]

Name: Tiffany Aching
Age: 16
Specialty: Witchcraft, medicine and fire.

[a_gentle_boy]

Name: Lucas
Age: 15
Specialty: Psychic healing/defense.

[1_truth]

[ It's probably dangerous for him to be out and about like this but he can't risk the kids of Mayfield getting themselves wrapped up in some sticky situation like what always happens back home with Genta and them. ]

[ He lets out a sigh and moves over to the snack table. Kids pretending to be secret agents and recruiting more kids would probably try and hide a 'secret' sign up sheet near the first place a kid was likely to go. It doesn't take him long at all to find the clipboard-what little information they require. ]

[ With a sigh Conan pulls his ball-point pen from his pocket and scribbles down the information. He won't let these kids put themselves in danger. ]

Name: Conan Edogawa
Age: 7
Specialty: Detective.

Re: THE CLIPBOARD OF POOR LIFE DECISIONS

[infourbooks]

[Well this seems familiar...]

Name: Neville Longbottom
Age: 16
Specialty: Magic. Herbology in particular.

[ra_ra_razputin]

[Let's do this.]

Name: Razputin Aquato
Age: 12
Specialty: Psychic attacks/defense, acrobatics
Codename: 95

Re: THE CLIPBOARD OF POOR LIFE DECISIONS

[selematpagi]

Name: Yūko Aioi
Age: 16
Specialty: Drawing!
Codename:

[ Wait.

Codename? What the heck was she supposed to put down here??

Yukko takes a quick look around the room and shuffles her feet around anxiously. She's not even sure what she's signing for! What if this was a contest of some sort? Could she get away with leaving it blank? No no that would be silly! They have it there for a reason!

Okay, okay, calm down. Maybe all Yukko needs to do is come up with a cool codename. But what if it's too cool? And they get jealous and disqualify Yukko for sounding pretentious? That would be super awful terrible!

Crap! She's wasting too much time! Anxious to finally finish filling the form out, Yukko uses her trembling hand to quickly scribble down her nickname. ]

Codename: Yukko.

[ Perfect. ]

[est33medpouncellor]

[Nepeta's all for it!! This looks like it'll be fun even!! And she has the PURRFECT number...]

Name: Nepeta Leijon
Age: 6 sweeps 13
Specialty: HUNTING! Stealth, reconnaissance.
Codename: [Nepeta being Nepeta, she used a nice green crayon annnnd...]

[imjustpicky]

[Picky's late to arrive, and slow to actually go to sign himself up... especially when he sees some of the stuff OTHER kids have put down. There were so many kids that could do great stuff. What could he do? But he wants to help, so....]

Name: Picky Minch
Age: 8
Specialty: Video games and running

[hintcoinplz]

[After Luke signs his soul away, he decides to check out the snack and music selection. After all, it's still a party, right? He'll be looking over the music, quietly judging it for not being the kind of music he likes.]

[hatesboys]

[oh hey guess who's just

behind you]

You!

[witchofthechalk]

Hello Luke.

[Teenage sister witch is here as well.]

[ceasetoexist]

[For a bit Pokey just pissed around the meeting room. He kept looking out for a moment at the others who may assemble there and then back to himself.

There was something he wanted to say. And just a bit ago in the scheme of things - hell at least before he got to Mayfield two years ago - Pokey would have had no problem just getting up and saying it. But in time he'd learned at least a little about humility and while Pokey still didn't have too much trouble making a spectacle of himself he almost felt...guilty that he should try this. And embarrassed since it was crap so unlike him.

In the end he decides he has to. Pokey gets up on one of the chairs and starts whistling and shouting and waving. After drawing enough attention to himself he starts to speak.]

So hey.

[And he just pauses a minute at that. Brilliant introduction. And God. He can't believe he's going to do this.]

A lot of you here probably weren't here the first time we tried this out. That was a couple of years ago and because of the way this hole works it didn't work out. People left, confusion set in, yada yada yada. You know how crap like this works probably. So I guess it'd seem stupid to try again.

In a way yeah. It is stupid. But it's....

[God. He pauses at this. Because it's so sappy and something he's just...so unaccustomed to saying. But when he does manage to say it? It's clear there's sincerity there.]

It's important to try. The worst thing you can do in this town is try and go it alone. Trust me. I tried. And it sucks even for someone as awesome as me. I mean if I can't do it you all sure can't and-

[Oh right. He meant for this to actually be somewhat inspirational.]

...Sorry. What I meant is that if you're alone here you're going to get chewed up by this place. And even if you make friends here, or get along with your "family" here...it's nice to have an actual place to belong. And you will belong here. It doesn't matter who you are or where you've been. You'll belong here. If anything I guess I can promise that.

If you haven't figured it out yet, there's also the fact this place is dangerous. And there's strength in numbers. And while it might seem like you could go it with any group....I guarantee you'll be happier here if you just give it a try.

Because if you're new here you don't know the type of trouble this place can bring. There's the town switching what it's own nature on a common basis, or mind controlling you or others, or sending out swarms of murderous thugs. If you're in this town you're already in trouble, so hey. We might as well get into trouble together. I...guess I just wanted to say this because...joining up here the last time is maybe one of the things I don't regret I've ever done. And I think it could work this time if we just try.

That's all I wanted to say. You losers can go back to doing whatever now.

[And with that Pokey will solemnly get off the chair he's standing on. By which I mean he will nearly fall off the damn chair he's standing on as he tries to get down.

It doesn't matter he guesses. He made an idiot out of himself enough.

But he had to say it.]

[battlestations]

[oh.

It had its ups and downs, but there was something interesting about seeing this. Unexpected, maybe, from the Pokey he knew before. But, all this talk of being happy together and accepted ... yeah, there's a lot of value to just making friends in the KND. He's happy that, if nothing else came out of it the first time, that there's this.

But no need to get all mushy. He'll just say this while the other boy's getting down.]

Excellent speech, Pokey.

[hatesboys]

[There are times where Frances will sit back and think that, if things had gone differently and planets had shifted, Pokey could have been born into her world. He could have easily climbed the ranks of KND's high command. With her.

She's actually there to steady the chair as he gets down, though she'd rather die than reveal how much his speech got to her.]

... I'm glad I forced ya to join, way back when.

[imjustpicky]

[Picky's been there, and he was watching from the back while stuffing his face with chips. But the face-stuffing stops when Pokey actually speaks. It's pretty good. It's pretty inspiring. It's... pretty impressive, coming from his kind-of-not-brave big brother.

When enough attention is off of Pokey, he'll sidle on up, hem and haw for a moment, and then speak.]

...that was kinda cool.

[battlestations]

[Don't mind Nigel. He'll just be over here with his back to the wall, stoically watching anyone that comes in.

He's really hoping to see familiar faces. But he's not about to take control of the situation. That didn't work so well last time, so he's going to let 86 do her thing. Maybe her ironfisted style is what they need here. Although he'd hate to admit that out loud.

Yeah, he's still a little affected by all of the lost time.]

[hatesboys]

[Nearing the end of the party, Frances will come up to him, clipboard in hand. She holds it out to him.]

So! What do ya think? [Because this is the hard part about leadership, the part where you deal with people you aren't going to brainwash in five minutes. Nigel is somewhat more experienced in this realm.]

[ra_ra_razputin]

[Wait, is that...! OMG IT IS]

Nigel! You're here! When did you get back?

[1_truth]

[ There's a boy in glasses leaning against a wall with his hands tucked casually in his pockets and bored expression on his face. He's watching the room carefully and making note of everyone there just in case. ]

[ He'd really much rather be back at home watching the window for signs of Gin, but since he can't in good conscience leave these kids to their own devices, he's infiltrated their meeting with every intention of keeping them all out of danger. It's just like dealing with the Detective Boys. ]

[ ...Which means this won't be easy. ]

[battlestations]

[Conan will eventually be approached by a rather serious-looking kid looking down at him through a pair of sunglasses.]

Excuse me. Are you Conan Edogawa?

[dumbfabric]

Name: Sweetie Belle
age: 8
specialty to be determined

[These guys can definitely help me get my cutie mark]

[infourbooks]

[Secret organizations, Neville is used to. The party aspect? Yeah, Neville's still a bit awkward with that. He'll just sit off to the side for now.]

[imjustpicky]

[Parties are kind of an awkward thing, yeah. Picky's off to the side and wallflowering, too, munching on popcorn and trying to think of something to contribute. Seeing Neville nearby, older and just as awkward looking is... comforting? Encouraging? Not quite either of those, but somewhere in the neighborhood.

He edges over to him.]

...hey.