Ziggy Stardust Nexus Album Release Party

[ziggyplayedguitar]

Why not in the Nexus had started all of this and now skekSa's bar had glitter and space themed drinks for the night, karaoke and a band playing for the release of a new album. Ziggy had decided this was the best course since so much of his family and friends couldn't go into his world to be there for his own party in his own world.

Of course, as with any good party this one was open to any who had stumbled into it and there were those directly invited as well. And flashy posters too. He was going through the ends of a sound check with the band when the bar opened.

There was a merch table, with the usual swag and new album to buy on CD and Vinyl, where they would be signing autographs and doing the whole meet and greet thing. Why not have fans in more than one universe? It had been a trip explaining this all to Mick. Weird and Gilly before dragging them through the portal. Ziggy still imagined there was going to be some crazy moments later in the night. They didn't even know he was an alien, or half alien anywway. All of this was going to blow their minds for sure.

After the show they had plans to spend the night just hanging out with drinking, karaoke, a DJ, and the usual bar fare. Ziggy had left Sa to the food and drink though he had put in a few requests for food his own species could eat.

Ziggy fussed with everything before heading backstage to drink and get dressed. About an hour after the bar opened they came out on stage and played through the whole album front to back plus a few from the previous.

[OOC: Feel free to mingle, karaoke, DJ, dancing, drinking, etc. Will post the band meet and greet below at the swag table as a top level. Any questions feel free to DM me here or on Discord.]

Comments

[ginger_firebird]

"Given that it was part of you meeting actual aliens, I'm willing to give it a pass. I don't know much about space science and the- The interdimensional things, but I do know that a lot of the rules we think work usually don't the moment we find something new."

Mantis leans foward a bit, holding on to the back of his seat for protection. "Humans are not designed to handle isolation. I don't think any species really can after a certain level of intelligence."

"I haven't seen him feeling a negative one thus far. He seems to be genuinely happy in this place and from the way Hiroki talks, they're living a life of roses and bright, contrasting patterns. Hrioki even asked me to be his best man at the wedding."

[hellomajortom]

"I know a good deal on the subject. Near as I can tell it has to do with their propulsion being gravity based." Black holes and high gravity time dilation was beyond Tom.

"Isolation was only part of it. I think constantly lying and suppressing what I know was worse than the loneliness." Mantis was right though. Isolation wasn't healthy. The institution he was in left just as many scars as anything else.

"That is the impact of the species." Tom tells him between sips. This was something he was very acquainted with. "When they are up everyone around them is high and hopeful. The other side is just as far into the darkness. Anger though..." Tom pauses trailing off for a second. ".. when they are angry they can start wars with their minds and emotions. It is a hold over from their own wars centuries ago."

[ginger_firebird]

"I have no idea what that means, but it sounds like something you can write a paper on if you ever come to understand it better."

Tom will feel a couple of pats on his shoulder, as if from an invisible hand. Mantis is holding onto the seat for nothing short of dear life at this point. He definitely drank a little too much, too fast. "Everyone needs someone else. Even if it's someone you want to see die slowly, you need someone to help justify existing."

He laughs a little. "Tommy gave me a peek of that. I like him, but I don't think he likes anyone that could charitably be described as human. He likes cats, though. The most broken of men tend to find the greatest of solace in animals. Wolf, Sniper Wolf, she loved wolves and their kin more than her memory of Big Boss, and I know she idolized that bastard."

[hellomajortom]

"I can't. Technology that alien would have me back in interrogations." That was the disappointing part of it. Tom tried again with an explanation. "Gravity propels their ships, the same way air pressure works for lift, the variable gravity propels the ship. The problem is that changes in gravity extreme enough to propel a ship alter how time flows. It is a very complex subject. I don't grasp all of it either."

"No man is an island? Sometimes you want to hug the other person on your island and others drop bombs on them." Tom said with a bit of a chuckle. It was an apt description.

"I've talked to him about cats before. If you can get him to, it is intriguing." Tom had an interest in Tommy because he was the only male Anthean he knew who had insight into humans. His opinions and thoughts have value to Tom who was navigating the space between the two species. "He doesn't just like them. He thinks they are kin. Apparently, there are things in their behaviors and motivations that mirror Antheans. He says the mind of a cat is something that an Anthean can understand intuitively and the opposite is also true."