HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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[Visitors to the Velvet Room are in for an unusual sight.

Gorb balloons. Streamers. Banners that not only read, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GORO AKECHI! but also...

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FRIENDSHIP!

This particular banner has cutesy illustrations of a normal Akechi and Falcon. Yes, really.

There are multiple, multi-layered cakes. One is an angel food cake, decorated to resemble Robin Hood. Then there's another cake, fashioned after Loki, with lovingly decorated dazzle camouflage frosting. Inside is a heavenly red velvet.

Lastly, there's a purely chocolate delight, patterned after Hereward.

There are even little Gorb cupcakes, designed to look like the myriad Akechis resident in the Velvet Room. Fresh brewed coffee and Jazz Jin mocktails await those who seek a beverage, and there's even some curry. How thoughtful!

So... care to mingle?]

Comments

[lostgemini]

A dance pad?

Something inside him curdles. That doesn't sound appealing at all right now... he doesn't have any energy, let alone to do something more physical.

"... Whatever," he says anyway, because he doesn't have the energy to protest, either.

[wipingallout]

"It'll be good to get your energy up!! Do you want me to go easy on you?" she asked, tugging his sleeve towards the dance pad and hopping onto the player two pad. "I'll even let you pick the song!"

Get that brain working on a few things besides the pain, and all.

[lostgemini]

Something about that rankles, actually. Enough that he narrows his eyes, finally really looking at her for the first time since they met up.

"I don't need your pity," he says, plainly, stepping onto the player one pad, "and I don't need to be handled with kid gloves."

Going easy on him... that won't make the pain go away. That'll just make things worse. Still, the burst of annoyed energy comes and goes just as quickly leaving him deflated as he turns to the screen. The machine beeps and blares loudly with every move he makes, a horrid sensory overload that's giving him a headache, but fine. Fine.

He picks the first song that looks even somewhat familiar, not really caring what it is. The machine happily shouts encouragement, before the first notes of Deep Breath Deep Breath start playing.

[wipingallout]

"Oooh, I love this track. Get your stompers ready," Hamuko already was tapping along to the beat before the first arrows started scrolling - and then started stomping properly, matching the prompts on time easily.

Don't slouch, Kou, you specifically asked for her best!!