HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIK

[daughterofthefifth]

Lwaxana had elected to leave all the additional furniture in the Taj Mahal room after the unveiling party, so the setup tonight was comparatively simple. By nine o'clock Friday night, she was standing back, admiring the effects of the orange and green paper lanterns she'd found. In the spirit of Erik's decade, she was wearing a long sleeved tunic-length dress in a purple and ivory paisley, over matching purple leggings and black mid-calf boots. Her wig was loose and long in the back, flowing from a bouffant wrapped in an ivory scarf. All in all, she had found the effect rather reminiscent of old Starfleet uniform style, but Earth was strange like that.

The table was laid with an assortment of mid-twentieth century foods, including a number of things that Lwaxana was almost 100% certain were not from Earth, as well as something the computer had identified as "Ambrosia." The centerpiece was a three-tiered display of sugar cookies all iced with purple and red, cut to resemble small helmets. Crowning that was an oddly-shaped cake, the only cake the computer would produce, and it had done so over and over again until she had given up and taken one: sides iced in white, topped with red and edged with black, cut to the telltale curve of a u-shaped magnet. Apparently the Proserpina had a sense of humor today, further evidenced by a number of alcohols that were not gin and one set of a Gin Rummy game.

Here will follow two top-level comments: the first, an initial Everybody Except Erik Arrives post! Tag there to mingle, comment on the slapdash '60s mod theme, poke holes in the Magnet Cake, and pat yourselves on the back for your part in the party planning! The second, an Erik Finally Arrives SURPRISE post, for all your hilarity needs.

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Re: Everybody Except Erik Arrives

[girl_who_waited]

Amy doesn't really know who Erik is, but it's time for a party, and she and Kate have already talked about doing the whole surprise-birthday thing so it's not a shock that she's on hand the second that Lwaxana sends her email. She grins at Lwaxana, and it's sort of the first big thing on the station that she's been to, and it's... weird, trying to put names to faces, so she's hoping people introduce themselves, or at least say something.

Feel free to tag Amy as a top-level!

[daughterofthefifth]

"What do you think, Amy? Not as terrible a place as most of the rest of the station? You know, you have your previous iteration to thank for most of the furnishings--tables, chairs, lighting. Not the lanterns, of course, those we added today."

Lwaxana paused. "Don't worry, dear. I'm sure it's strange, but I sense you are not entirely unused to strangeness in the timeline. And we would rather have you from a different moment than not have you at all!"