“Ah, archeology. That must be in surprisingly high demand lately, given how many relics of the past are coming back to haunt us and try to bring the whole region down,” she mused in reply. Ironically enough, that did remind her of @amor and the talks she had had with the man before she knew that he was in Rocket as well. Then again, she had never ever seen that man doing any archaeological work, only reading up on what others had found.

Then again again, she hadn’t seen this man at the bar work much to begin with, either. She did not doubt that he did work though, so she probably extend the same courtesy to the one who had left.
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Eh, maybe another day. This day, she just chuckled at the thought before the gift exchange and ensuing antics took everyone’s attention. Fortunately, the toxic goblet of the kiss cam passed her. Not that she would have minded all too much. But it wasn’t what she had come here for. If she just wanted something meaninglessly physical, she had a few numbers she could call up if needed. She didn’t though, which was part of the point.
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Instead, she allowed the initial onslaught to the settle before picking up her own gift for the time being and carefully unwrapping it, with one eye following the misadventures of the archaeologist. [break]
And speaking of, she kind of found something applicable. Something that seemed like a map, presumably in a tube. Violet half-unfolded it briefly, but then decided to roll it up again. She could tell delicate, high quality items when she saw them. The staining potential of this place was far too big to actually properly take a look. She’d save that for later.
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Instead, she more closely looked at the globe, which looked to all but be an artifact. Vio briefly had a suspicion, but considered the evidence too circumstantial to be useful. Still though, she did try to briefly flag down the man that just got done kissing, howard slayte . “Seems like fate wants me to look into that field too, doesn’t it?” She playfully asked, globe still in hand.
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Her Poipole, still intrigued by being around another of its kind in this place, simply continued to dance around the other one, trying to upstage it with more exaggerated versions of the moves shown – half to show off, half to try and entice Lulu Flint ‘s Poipole to escalate further.
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+ let's the madness happen (I still am bad with big threads), Vio unwraps and half shows off Howard's gift to the man while her Poipole tries to goad Lulu's into going harder with dance moves

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running around and dodging nomi is fun in theory. and it's easy in practice. and in reality, it's absolutely terrible. 'cause she's had like four bubbly drinks and she misses nomi and she wants to hold nomi and put nomi on her arm and parade her around and show her off and tug on her adorable little bow - 

but no. NO!! she has to be strong. she can be strong. she can make her super powerful reality-bending girlfriend wait for the hottest makeout session of her life. maybe she'll steal her away and into the casino's pool and do an x-rated runback to their r-rated shenanigans in meteor falls. 

one paragraph later and her 'she has to be strong' is fucking decimated at the picture. if this were a cartoon, parker jones would be standing there one minute, ogling the photo, and the next she would just be a silhouette of white lines and a gust of wind in her wake. 

she passes the poker table, bleating out in one breath: "ohey-jayden-and-is-that-yumi-you-look-great-have-you-seen-nomi-no-okay-bye."

and scampers around. another glass ends up in her hands. this time it's not shitty bubbles. it's some creamy, sugary confection and it's literally heaven. sorry, nomi, but it does distract her for a bit. long enough, though, that she's standing in the perfect position when the lovely done up pink-haired woman walks right by her. 

reflexively, a hand comes out and she does what she's been wanting to do all night - she tugs on the ribbon at her neck. 

Naomi Sato
hi besties Hitoshi Inoue Yumi Hasegawa BARNABY FINCH jayden cross

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the drink was marvelous.

mar was so invested in it that she initially missed the kiss cam, only catching it at the last moment. she laughed at his response, good-naturedly. "not a problem; yer a little on the, ah, manly side fer me." she was far more attracted to femininity, though she did enjoy the company of masculine women when the opportunity presented itself. even still, she was pleased to hear he valued that relationship of his; for all the unsavory characters rocket gathered, she had to admit there was something about infidelity that would never sit right with her.

she swallowed the rest of her drink. then, she satisfied herself with watching as he made something fruity for Calpurnia Kubrick, though she wasn't sure was curious enough to ask for one herself. grinch, however, was quite the evocative name. she raised her glass as he slid the grinch drink to the other rocket, echoing his "ho, ho, ho," with unveiled amusement.

"a great drink and a great party. i love being on the winning team."

dorian westcliff Calpurnia Kubrick

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