So, it was Nina's birthday weekend and Prompto had been planning this for a while---well, okay, so, he'd been planning it since Tuesday, but! That was, like, really ahead of the game for him! And he was feeling pretty confident in how everything was falling into place, getting to the island early so he could make sure everything to set up right and engaging his 'troops' to keep Nina nice and distracted for the day -- Foomy on the front line (he didn't think he could effectively recruite Ms. Dozy and he was not wrong), with Ignis slipping in to ask about some rando obscure detail of Lucis military history and asking her thoughts about a more modern approach, Iris engaging in a super important flailing manuever of what to wear to some school event that night, and then, finally, the real coup to grace of distraction and preoccupation, deploying Noctis with the deceptively simple 'happy birthday' text that should really buy him some time.

And so, by the time the evening was on its way and the sunset arrived to distract Prompto (dressed, of course, in a terrible shirt to fit the theme) with that awful longing for actual sunsets all over again, everything was set and ready to go, and the beach looked like a party store had tropical indigestion and threw fake plastic pink flowers and long grass table skirts up over everything. There was a big bonfire roaring and ready to go and tiki torches set strategically to keep everything nice and illuminated for the night, a stereo pumping out some real sick beats, a disgusting amount of pink flower leis, tons of food....and yes, even a palm tree balloon arch, don't even.

...so now all they needed was people, and, eventually, the birthday girl herself, as Prompto was now bouncing and fidgeting over the sand, really hoping people got the invitations. Or, if anything, that they saw there was a big ass party out on the beach and showed up even just to check it out or crash whatever it was.

It would be nice, though, if it was mostly people here for Nina's birthday, because he just knew how much it would mean to her.

[[ OPEN PARTY IS OPEN! Mod invites, just wander in, crash because it is NOT a subtle party at all! Just please to be waiting for the OCD it's up! Have at it! ]]