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Ingress of the House of Arch ([personal profile] smallestopener) wrote2009-06-14 08:08 pm

Ingress' 10th Birthday Party Extravaganza!

Out by the lake, there is a large construction dedicated to the 10th birthday of Lady Ingress of the House of Arch. Ingress has had birthday parties on this site before - there was a birthday princess ball her 7th year, a playground party for her 6th.

This party is different from either of those. Tom, Door, and Ingress worked on the design for months.

There are three ways to get into the birthday party.

Guests can go through the hedge maze. It's enchanted, of course, but the walls shift places at a docile rate. The path is wide and firm, so this is the easiest way to enter the party.

Guests might also try the obstacle course of tubes to crawl through, walls to climb, ropes to swing over deep ball pits, curly slides to fling themselves down. The only enchantment on this entrance are anti-falling charms.

Or guests can bounce through the giant bouncy castle!

Once they've passed through either of the three entrances,they will enter the clearing for the birthday party proper. Picnic blankets are spread out over the grass, and there are plenty of chairs scattered about. Paper lanterns float above people's heads with purple and green streamers linking them together.

A long table overflows with plenty of cold water, birthday treats, and other refreshments. There is a cake with lots of icing roses, of course, and ice cream. Each guest may help him or herself to a Wizarding cracker in a large basket at one end of the table, and there is space beside it for gifts, should guests wish to bring one. Gifts are not expected, however.

Most importantly, there is Ingress, a little girl in the comfortable gray uniform of a Herald-in-training, who is not so little anymore.

Come and have fun!

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] of-atlantis.livejournal.com 2009-06-21 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Kida has not seen Ingress in many, many years, to her sense of reckoning. But the blue hair and smiling face is quite unmistakable to her.

"Ingress?"

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] of-atlantis.livejournal.com 2009-06-22 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
The woman--she is a woman now, but still similar-looking to when she was a child--smiles.

"It has been years since I last saw you, for me. I remember you, meeting me one of the first times I was here." She chuckles, gesturing to Ingress' hair.

"Your blue hair has not changed."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] of-atlantis.livejournal.com 2009-06-22 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I was, smaller than you, even. It has been quite a while," she says, crouching down. "I wish you a happy birthday, since it is yours."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] of-atlantis.livejournal.com 2009-06-22 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
She chuckles. "How old are you now?"