<Origami>

<"Amethyst, come on," I urge. I can see the hill above us, and a conglomeration of people already gathered there. "We've taken forever already! We'll be the last ones to arrive!! Amethyst!!!">

<"It's all right," Amethyst sighs. "For gracious sakes, Origami, what is a walk for?">

<"For getting to the picnic," I reply promptly. I know Amethyst too well to not have good answers for her. As she pauses to watch a bird fly across the sky, I make an impatient sound. I have no wish at all to be the last one to the picnic. "We'll miss everything," I exclaim, and take a sideways look at her. "Look, Amethyst, could I just go ahead? Pleeease?">

<"Not a chance," Amethyst laughs. "You're waiting for me. Gracious, thank heavens I only have one captcha to look after... what would I have done with two?" I leave her talking and hurry ahead a little, pausing to let her catch up with me. I'm carrying a blanket to sit on, and Amethyst has everything else. It can be very handy to be a hedgehog and be able to get out of irksome chores like carrying what we'll need.>

<We're almost there. I can hear snatches of talk and laughter drifting out to us on the breeze. I can see the clusters of people doing millions of things that somehow all like together into one continuous wave of motion. Help, I think, all that reading Amethyst's poetry is getting to me!>

<I also see something else. A fluffy cat that seems to be only half there, twining among everyone's legs. I wait for Amethyst to come up beside me. "Amethyst?" I quaver. "Um, I mean, what is that - I mean, it's a cat.">

<Amethyst takes a look. "Oh, that must be Writing's captcha Aria," she says. I'm not reassured, but if it's a captcha that's a bit better. And I'm not afraid of cats. They just make me nervous.>

<Now it's Amethyst who's hurrying ahead of me, waving to her friends. I edge up behind her and join the group. I don't know many of the CBers, though I recognize Flamie and Peri, and the AEs are utterly strange to me. That leaves the cat. Never am I making the acquaintance of a cat, I think, even if it's a captcha cat. I walk around, enjoying the view of Chatterbox City and waiting for someone to start serving the food.>

just a heads-up: I won't be able to post at all tomorrow, and probably won't get a chance on Thursday, either :)

Fir

Pangolin, Mirage, and Arum begin to lay out the food we brought. Mir made raspberry amaretti biscuits, which are my absolute favorite. I'll definitely have to steal some later. Or ask politely. Yeah, I guess asking nicely would work for Plan B...

Koi's stretched out in the grass, the sun warming her ginger fur, and Virid scurried off somewhere to go...tend to plants, or whatever he does. He's strangely mature and responsible for a CAPTCHA. Barnacle has already set up our cornhole set. He doesn't have anyone to play with at the moment, so he's just practicing throwing beanbags. Knight flies loop-de-loops overhead.

I don't really have anything to do, so I begin to wander around the park. Inkwell Park is really pretty. The grassy hill we're on is spotted with wildflowers, and beyond that, a path runs through a forested area. All around me, CBers, AEs, and CAPTCHAs are arriving at the picnic and talking to each other. I forgot I don't really know any other AEs. I don't really have anyone to talk to.

I spot a person collecting flowers, a bouquet of brightly colored blossoms clutched in his hands, and I run over to him.

"Uh, hi! The flowers here are SO pretty -- I was noticing them on the walk here. The poppies might be my favorite, 'cause there's so many different colors." I bend down to pick a bright orange poppy, and fidget with its stem between my fingers. "Oh, I'm Fir, by the way. Want me to make you a daisy crown?"

@Writing, I thought this would be a good opportunity for Fir and Oliver to meet and then become friends? I hope this is okay with you :)

Sure, I can probably make that work a little later in the rp, if that's okay? And also sorry all, it's getting late so I won't have time to post the POVs tonight, but I'll try to get to it tomorrow morning :D

I shall post soon (unless I get swamped with schoolwork)

@pangolin, just to clarify - were you agreeing to shipping Kaspar and Arum and to having a rivalry with Stormi and Arum, or just the latter? I'm sorry for the confusion, I just want to make sure so I don't have Kaspar getting a crush on Arum if they're actually not going to be shipped...

Name: Shyla Hyacinth

CBer or AE?: AE

Pronouns: she/her

Shipping (if AE): Yep, with girls, boys, and enbies!

Appearance: Long curly dark hair, half Middle-Eastern, caramel skin, lots of freckles, big grey eyes

Brief Personality: entp 

Other: allergic to almonds, lol--and ~I'm bringing my baklava uwu~

Name: Cyrus Moore

CBer or AE?: AE

Pronouns: he/him

Shipping (if AE): With girls

Appearance: Vanilla skin, wavy, fluffy brown hair, oversized round glasses, has a tendency to always be blushing 

Brief Personality: intp

Other: someone be friends with him! ToT he's new to my ae's so...and cyrria his sister is coming in a couple of days! so! yay!

Meg

I never like social gatherings. I don't know why I come this time- I suppose it's time I make a few friends. I've never had one of those- not even my siblings, really. Ever likes me but we don't talk much, Ellerie seems to like me but Im too protective over her to really be "friends". Five and I dont get along.

I trail along with Starli's other AEs. Starli is ahead, holding a basket with who knows what inside of it. Ever and El walk slightly behind her, talking, probably about something like a TV show. They're best friends- they have been since the beginning. Five walks a little behind me, but we don't talk, that wouldn't be a good idea.

Ellerie comes back to talk to me, Ever trailing behind her. ":You okay?:" She asks. She knows I hate social events. "Im fine. I think I might socialize today." Ever smiles at me. He's nice.

We get to the picnic eventually. Starli starts setting up and Ever and Ellerie help her. Five goes off to talk to someone- or maybe he's just exploring. Personally, I walk up to someone who I believe is Mirage. What? I read the forms.

"Hi, I'm Meg," I say. Out of courtesy (and needing to know if I'm right) I add, "What's your name?" 

Friendo:

"Guys guys guys we're laaaaate!" I say racing into the hangar, where Skree, Chaser, and Jay, are gathered around one of the airskiffs, packing things into payload in the back of it. Knowt is also nestled into the payload in a nest of ropes, picking apart a knot in one of them. Currently Knowt looks like some kind of baby falcon-owl thing, with fluffy downy feathers, only he's neon orange and hot pink and bright blue instead of the normal gray and brown and white.

"We know," say Skree, giving me a Look, "you're the one who slept in."

Meanwhile, Jay is going through a checklist of the things we're bringing.

"Ice cream?"

"Check." says Skree, hefting a tub of Blue Moon ice cream into a cooler in the skiff.

"Basketball?"

"Yup." says Chaser. He's hoping there will be a basketball court or something at the picnic.

"Ropes?"

[rowpz]! Knowt cheerfully chirps from his rope nest.

"Oreos?" Jay says with a grin in his voice.

I sigh pointedly. Jay knows I have no control over the oreos that magically appear in my pockets.

"Alrighty," Jay says, "lets go."

We hop into the skiff and zip through the hangar doors, zooming over CB city to the grassy hill. I can see the Admin castle frome here--where the Admins work, and possibly also live? Not much is known about them. There's also possibly a mysterious being known as the Webmaster in the castle somewhere, who oversees the servers that keep CB city running. Even less is known about the Webmaster than the Admins.

Pretty soon we're there. Chaser runs off with his basketball to the basketball court at the bottom of the grassy hill, Skree heads off to set out the ice cream, Jay scoops up Knowt and goes to watch the Go game, and I go looking for Barnacle. Barnacle is this really nice AE--I think he's pangolin's--I met a few days ago at the park.

I find Barnacle near a cornhole set, tossing some beanbags. I pick up the other set of beanbags.

"Want to play?" I ask him.

AGH IM LATE! (@Writing, ship Cassidy with any Ae you want!)(I'm posting 2today and the rest tomorrow)

Luna silvermoon

Cber 

She/her 

A:Long wavy blue hair, one silver eye and one blue eye, tall,  very pale skin.Wearing a imagine dragons t-shirt with black shorts and shoes.

Bp:quirky and reckless and funny

Name:& Noa Wittabane &

AE 

She/her

Shipping?: open with girls and demi girls 

A:long Indigo hair with black highlights, pale skin, emerald green eyes,tall.I'll be wearing a Panic at the disco tee and blue jeans and boots.

Bp: confident, extroverted,funny,good with people

Name:@Chairy Mabel Serenity-Pines!

AE 

She/her

Shipping?anyone! 

A: short,pink hair.pale skin,"normal " height, sea blue eyes.I'll be wearing a green dress with pink leggings and sandals.

Bp:cheerful,dizzy,sweet and kind.

I'll post more later!

@Poinsettia, I actually didn't see what you said about shipping Kaspar and Arum, so I was just talking about the rivalry with Stormi -- however, having gone back and read your post again, I'd definitely be open to shipping Kaspar and Arum! So yeah, I guess I was agreeing to both! Sorry about that!

And I'll post my AEs' POVs later, I don't have the time right now :)

@Cori@

"Ugh. Why did I have to carry the heaviest baaag.." Lore whined, lagging behind. "Come on, dude your the strongest out of all of us." I replied. "Yes, Lore. Why are you complaining? " Crawaline quipped. "Whatever" He huffed. 

Finally reaching the top of the hill, Lore put down the basket of food. "Good thing that hikes done. Cori! Unpack that stuff will you!". 

"Yeah yeah. Whatever." Taking the loaves of bread and cold cuts out of the cooler, along with three big bottles of strawberry milk (per Strawberry’s request) and A lot of different sweets. After setting them on the table, I found Lore. “I finished taking this stuff out. If you guys don’t mind” I said looking around. Spotting the tan skinned and black/red hair boy “I’m g-gunna go down to the beach. Ok?”.

He nodded slowly, “Sure, but is everything ok?”. I quickly put on a happy smile. “Yep! All peachy! Just hoping to find inspo for a song.”

“If that’s all then sure, go right ahead. But come back when your ready.”

“SURE!” I yelled running towards the beach.

My other aes 

Name:{ Nimona }

Ae  

She/her 

S?:open with anyone

A: long brown hair, one green eye and one blue eye. Pale skin, freckles. Tall. {I'll be wearing a white button up shirt and a plad skirt with green shorts and a Jean jacket.

Bp: quirky, nosy, quiet, extroverted/introverted. Nerdy.

Other:agh I'll post the other two tomarow promise.

Stormi

As we enter the park, I give a little gasp. It's much more beautiful than I had imagined - there are blossoming trees everywhere, their petals shining against the azure sky. There are lots of CBers and AEs here already, and I can hear their voices floating toward us on the breeze.

"How come we never knew this place existed?" I exclaim. Kaspar shrugs. I'm pretty sure he's just as fascinated as I am, but he never likes to show his emotions - he's fond of playing it cool, something I could never do. Poinsettia wanders off by herself, saying she'll rejoin us in a few minutes, and Kaspar and I stand around enjoying the fresh air.

After a moment we start looking around for somewhere to put the picnic blanket we've brought. We find an empty spot near some other AEs, who are starting to lay out food - it looks like raspberry amaretti biscuits. There appears to be a small white dragon flying over their heads. He strikes me as really cute, and I find myself smiling.

"Hi!" I say. "Is it okay if we sit here? I'm Stormi, by the way. Poinsettia's AE."

~Mirage~

~I've always loved drawing birds -- the sharp beaks, the gentle curve of their heads, the intricately detailed wings. I watch the robin hopping through the grass a few feet away from our picnic blanket, as I refine the rough pencil drawing of it in my sketchbook.~

~A person is walking in the direction of the picnic blanket I'm sitting on, and -- oh, gosh. She looks really cool. She has a platinum blonde bob, and bright, bold clothing, and looks like everything I'm not. There's no way she's coming over to me.~

~"Hi, I'm Meg. What's your name?" she asks me.~

~Well, this is certainly unprecedented. And probably a mistake on her part. Why am I, of all people, worth talking to? Deep breath, Mirage. Don't mess this up.~

~"~Oh, uh, hi! I'm Mirage.~," I reply. I pick up a plate of raspberry amaretti biscuits and offer them to Meg. "~Do you want one? I, uh, made them myself.~"

~

Barnacle

Though I've always loved social events like this, I've found myself tossing beanbags alone. It's strange, having no one to talk to. It's almost like I'm waiting for something. Or someone. 

I toss a beanbag (it lands on the board), and a person approaches me. I recognize that pink stripe in his dark hair, and those brilliantly green eyes, and I find myself grinning before I can stop myself. 

"Want to play?" asks Friendo. 

"Yeah, of course! You can go first" I reply. "So, what've you been up to lately?"

~

((btw, I'm changing Arum's pronouns to she/they :) ))

|Arum|

|This...is not what I expected. The atmosphere of the picnic is much more relaxed than I thought it would be. It's a beautiful day, and now that more people have arrived, the air is alive with chatter and laughter. Mirage has some calm songs playing on her speaker. I don't have to do anything besides set out the food, and then relax. It's nice, having no responsiblities.|

|"Hi! Is it okay if we sit here?" I glance up as the speaker introduce herself as Stormi, one of Poinsettia's AEs.|

|"|Oh, yeah, sure|," I reply, moving over slightly to make room for the AEs, remembering what Pangolin told me about being nice or whatever. "|I'm Arum Lily, but you can call me Arum. I'm Pangolin's newest AE. Oh, what's your name?|" I ask the other AE, who hasn't yet spoken to introduce himself.|

Omg guys, I'm so sorry! My commitment skills are nonexistent lol but I'll try and make more consistent posts!! Also Sine I'm sorry I still have very little idea of how to play Go, but I tried looking it up so h o p e f u l l y it's at least partially correct

Peri

"Uhhh." I look at the board and tentatively place a stone six places above the middle of the board.

*Quinn*

"*Oh, actually, that'd be great! I love trying new colors, but have been a little more wary of it ever since the Great Neon Fiasco…*" I grimace. "*But uh, yeah! And if it's not too much trouble, could you maybe add a pixie cut? My hair's been getting in the way so much.*" I laugh. "*I figure it'd be more convenient if I just cut it off.*"*

Callum

"Hi, Callum!" Ronin says, giving one of his adorable smiles. I try very hard not to blush, but I still feel my face grow a bit warm and I see Quinn smirk at me. Choosing to ignore her, I smile at Ronin. "It's good to see you again."