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Who: Elliott and OPEN to ALL Different!
What: Beach Partyyy!
When: May 31st, all night
Where: Rockaway Beach
Rating/Warnings: Will update if needed

It's a good spot.

Two diagonal picnic tables are parked a within roasting fork distance of the fire pit. It starts as a small, flickering fire, but once everyone's gathered, Elliott takes the opportunity to kick the night off and turn up the heat with the aid of a few magical fireballs.

There's hotdogs and an overlaying grill to cook up Yotsuyu's mix of meat and veggie kebabs. A cooler filled with soda and water bottles sits further away to avoid premature melting. Cookies and marshmallows or s'mores feature as dessert- or dinner, if that's anyone's preference.

For entertainment, Roselia makes a live, musical debut with Lisa as its sole performer. Meanwhile, Elliott does his best to encourage socialization and facilitate any necessary introductions. There's even a volleyball net and ball, and at least one attempt is made to form teams and get a game going.

But for the quieter sorts, dark, ocean waves lap at the shore outside the firelight. The weather is perfectly clear, and the location affords a rare opportunity to enjoy the stars. There might even be a cat playing in the sand somewhere nearby.

Some accouterments (like cutlery or extra chairs) might have been accidentally overlooked.

...He tried okay.

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"Are you kidding? It's freezing!"

He might have been exaggerating a touch for it were actually freezing he wouldn't be out there splashing around, a fact he himself later amended as he swam just a little closer to shore.

"It's about 66-70 degrees maybe. Nicer than hot sand really. Are you coming in or are you more of a wader?"

He laughs and looks down, kicking up a little of the water with his foot. It feels decent enough on his feet but that doesn't mean it will feel that way on the rest of his body.

"I'm definitely coming in. I've always liked the water." He steps back out of it though so he can get undressed. He had thought ahead enough to bring a towel, which he has set on the sand. He places his jacket down on it first and then pulls off his t-shirt. Not a shy person in the least, he pulls off his pants and adds them to the messy pile.

"This is going to be so cold..." At least at first. The key is to get in quickly.

"The trick is not to think about it."

Anthony sneered from the ocean's surface as he switched from floating on his back to treading water. He wanted to watch the shock and horror of Wei meeting his chilly end.

"Just rush in."

"Just rush in. As if the water won't resist that movement." He's laughing though as he puts his feet in the water again and takes a deep breath. "Okay..here goes."

He charges forward until the water gets to his thighs and he can barely move in it anymore, but then he simply lunges forward head first into the water. It is definitely cold and it's a startling feeling but not as bad as if he took it slow.

He pops out of the water a few feet away. "Phew..invigorating."

Anthony's sneer was a full on smirk by the time Wei resurfaced. He had been expecting more spluttering and cold caused expletives, but hey, it had still been fun to watch that momentary flash of 'omg it's cold' that had briefly appeared on the other man's face.

"Invigorating is one way to put it! Probably should have waited for July for this. The water would have been much warmer then."

Course by then the bonfire might have been a little too warm, he considered these as he laid back in the waves and allowed them to buoy him along.

"Do you know many of these people?"

"Next time we do this..warm weather. None of this spring crap." Wei Wuxian is definitely shivering beneath the surface of the water. But he can't resist even if it is cold. He reaches up and pushes his hair out of his face, slicking it back over his head so he can look towards the beach.

"I've really only physically met a couple. I've talked to a few more of those on the network. But there are some new faces."

He looks over at Anthony. The other man has been a part of this for longer then he has. "How many do you know?"

"Two," Anthony splashed around in the water while spotting a few more he had at least a passing acquaintance with. "Eh, fourish. I'd say I only know two of them pretty well."

He allowed his body to stop moving so that he sank entirely beneath the waves, just for a minute or two before he popped back up to the surface. With much shorter hair he didn't have the same trouble keeping it out of his face but his poor hairstyle did slick itself down to his head so that he lost that boy band puff.

"I probably wouldn't have come if Aziraphale hadn't asked me."

Anthony's head bounced to the fussy looking fellow who was, hmm, well... who could tell what he was doing from this distance except wearing that cute smile that one couldn't help but smile back at. He was probably chatting to some one.

"I haven't seen any of those Bureau stuffed shirts around though, so that's something."

"I heard that there was some trouble getting more adults to come. But it seems to have worked out. It's a shame about the alcohol though..." A party can still be a party without it but it does make things more interesting. Swimming and drinking is not necessary the best combination anyway.

"If it takes meeting up like this to have some time away from the Bureau..then I'd be up for this every month instead of those support meetings."

THey would probably still have to move the parties around so that the Bureau couldn't follow them around but it would be worth it.

"I can see why. Beach parties with a bunch of kids, not everyone is into playing chaperon."

Anthony liked kids, at one time he had even thought of having a few before his life had taken off on this interesting spiral, but the age gap could be a stumbling block. Adult parties tended to be more alcoholic, with dancing and illicit activities if they were a really good party! Kids parties tended to be more kool-aide and cookies. Funny enough, Fell had brought the cookies.

"We should get away from the Bureau more often. There has been talk of meetings that would do that but, I haven't heard anything more about them."

"Maybe everyone isn't sure the best way to plan them without the Bureau finding out."

Wei Wuxian leans back and floats along the surface, staring up at the sky above.

"I feel like everyone is more willing to talk about things in a setting like this. It's a good way to forget everything, but it's also something that has drawn us all together so it's a good time to see what everyone knows."

He feels like out of everyone here he probably knows the least.

"Maybe, though it seems like to me they already suspect something's up."

He spoke as he bobbed in the waves, likewise taking note of the stars but Anthony noticed an odd sense of familiarity with them. He had studied the stars at University but there they had just been interesting balls of burning gases. Now after his memory of having created them he suddenly understood them like they were old friends.

"You get a visit from that Bureau creep?"

Wei Wuxian turns his head slightly to look over at Anthony, quirking his eyebrow in curiosity. "What Bureau creep?"

He definitely didn't get a visit but now he wonders if he missed out on something important. He'd hate to think he missed out on some important memo about a meeting he should have been at.

"What's his name... Martin. That same guy who showed up when he had that first memory explosion."

Or whatever those events were called. Anthony was a touch foggy on the terminology mostly as he had been too stricken from the experience itself to pay much attention.

"He showed back up last month asking about people stirring up trouble for the Bureau and being generally creepy. He really didn't speak to you at all?"

"Now..I never met him after that first time. I got some strange postcard recently but that was about it." He had thought that was weird junk mail or a chain letter or something and had just thrown it away without much thought. But now he wonders if maybe it had some secret meet up message he should have been able to decode.

"What did he say when you met him? Anything important or just..creepy 'don't mess with the bureau' crap?"

Anthony's ears practically perked up in the water. He hadn't before now heard anyone mention the postcard. He had always assumed they didn't get one or else they had thought it was some sort of prank just as he had.

"I got that postcard. Didn't know what to make of it... it looked like some kind of creepy chain letter."

Maybe it wasn't and he should have paid more attention to it. Ah, but there had been so much family drama going on! How could anyone successfully split their focus in so many directions at once??

"He basically accused me of being involved in something," Anthony's voice grew deep and mocking in an approximation of the Bureau man's voice, "I thought I told you to say out of trouble."

Anthony snorted a laugh like that was some how amusing and not actually one of the most worrying conversations he'd had and his voice returned to its normal cadence.

"I think he was trying to get me to squeal on the others, which is so not happening... I'm not a snitch. And then he went on about aliens! Saying there aren't aliens behind every bush."

This drew out a measured frown, as he lowered his tone to a much more thoughtful one.

"It seemed to imply there were aliens behind some bushes... What do you make of that?"

"Aliens? Like..little green men? I knew the Bureau gave off Men in Black vibes...what if our memories are like some sort of weird mental probe?" He shudders in thought as he looks up at the stars again. Is the Truth out There?

"I think if he is worried about people getting together and trying to figure things out, then the Bureau and him are definitely up to no good."

Wei Wuxian doesn't like it..he still hasn't had another dream and he would like to keep it that way, especially if they are being caused by the Bureau in some way.

"No, like illegal immigrants. Of course little green men... or little purple men," He shrugged in the water causing a small ripple of a wave, "They could be purple, we have no idea."

Anthony didn't like the idea either especially that added bit about alien mind-probes. That was only Sci-Fi stuff! It wasn't real! Then he found himself being reminded that past life memories weren't supposed to be real either... Damn. He really didn't want that to be true!

"He's a creep. 'I've never lied to you,' he says... meanwhile his group is out there spying on us all the time. How else would they even have heard that anyone was planning outside meetings?"

"Sounds like all he does his lie..so saying he isn't lying is also a lie. I guess there isn't a whole lot we can do about it..They are going to keep track of us like rats in a maze regardless. The only difference is our maze doesn't necessarily have an exit."

Because what happens when someone fully remembers their past? The end game is probably a dangerous one to think about. Especially for the people who have powers. Fully realizing what they can do could make them a threat to the bureau.

"Either he is lying or just not telling us anything!"

Both of which he found frustrating enough to splash about. Anthony didn't know what the end game might have been, whether the Bureau was planning to use people with powers or eliminate them but the game was tiresome. He blew a few bubbles just under the surface of the water, tasting the saltiness of the sea which seemed to fit his mood.

"Right now they're just a nuisance really."

"Agreed. But hey..we are at a party. So let's forget about those jerks and just focus on the fun."

Wei Wuxian sent a splash in Anthony's direction. He'd rather not think any more about what lies the Bureau might be telling them and why they think they have to lie.

A splash which pretty effectively drenched the other swimmer.

"Bastard! That's a sneak attack that is!"

And it warranted some payback as Anthony drew back both of his arms to send a two-armed splash towards Wei.

Wei Wuxian laughs as he reaches up with both arms to try and block at least some of the splash heading his way. "Sneak attacks are the most effective!" He sends another one back at Anthony even as he starts moving backwards in the water to get some distance before another attack can come.

"That sounds like something other me might have said!"

The chilly wave smashed into his face but it no longer mattered how wet he became the only thing that was important was making sure Wei got even more drowned!! As Wei retreated Anthony transformed into a human wave machine, sending volley after volley of water after the fleeing man.

After taking a few of those waves fully, he decides the only way to avoid those waves is to go under. So he dunks his head under the water. He's a pretty avid swimmer despite growing up in the city so he swims quickly to try and circle around to behind the wave of water with a goal of getting behind Anthony.

The splashing continued until Anthony noticed his missing target between rounds of sea foam.

"Wha... he's gone?"

He turned this way and that in the water, looking for Wei like one might have searched the waters for Jaws.

"Like a bloody fish that one!"

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