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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!
young_tmriddle: (veddy British)

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[personal profile] young_tmriddle 2009-06-15 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Tom is pleased the party turned out so well. Truly, he was going on Ingress' word for most of the madness of the design. Bouncy castles? Ball pits to swing over? He'd never had experience of much of this, and he is glad he bowed to Door's wisdom to include those odd little plastic balls in the pit instead of snakes. The snakes could have been harmed by people falling on them, after all!

Anyway, he is here, greeting guests, sitting with Door, and enjoying the day.

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
The hedge maze is definitely the most wheelchair-accessible route of entry; Susannah is still slightly out of breath when she reaches the clearing. Mingling is out, but if people want to come to her, staked out by the refreshment and the table of presents, she's in a pretty good mood regardless.

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Happy birthday, sugar! I'm glad I could come."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Manners are nice!

"Some water would be lovely."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm no sure it would work, no," she says.

Also, dignity. (Eddie would love it.) "I'm sorry, sugar."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"I am having fun!" she says. "And I like seeing you enjoy yourself."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
"That does sound exciting."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure," she says, setting the glass aside and gripping her wheels again.

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

[identity profile] shadowsusannah.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
"All right," she agrees easily. She'd rather not, but there's not an easy way to explain that to a child.
nomorekaraoke: (big smile)

[personal profile] nomorekaraoke 2009-06-15 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
It should go without saying that Lorne opts for the Bouncy Castle. He also opts for taking his shoes off beforehand, as he's given to understand shoeless feet enhance the experience. They're very bling-y shoes, this pair. A silver pair that perfectly glitzes in the sunshine, because he remembers Ingress telling him one time he should have glittery shoes too.

Since he does, well... Maybe his favorite birthday girl is a year older now, but he hopes she can appreciate the sentiment. He hopes she'll never be embarrassed by his antics, either.

Meanwhile, there's a green and red demon bouncing like a little kid in a Bouncy Castle. With the past few months (and with the months to come, revealed in OOMs), boy does he need this.


"Wheeeeeeeeee!"

Re: Hedge Maze

[identity profile] azure-mercy.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hedge mazes are part of Delvian religious tradition, although they are not mazes as such but winding paths to meditation gardens. (Also, on Zhaan's planet, they are blue, not green. But that's neither here nor there.)

It is partly by virtue of its familiarity that Zhaan picks the hedge maze, and partly because she isn't too keen on the bouncy castle or the obstacle course. She proceeds following the left wall with her hand on that side, and holding Ingress' present (it's a small present, but she'll like it!) in the other.

She'll come out the other end before too long.

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