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SEPTEMBER 2024 TDM: LUGHNASADH


Welcome to SALTBURNT, a panfandom smut/thriller game based off the film Saltburn, where characters are encouraged to indulge their deepest desires. The money never runs out and the liquor never stops pouring, so you may as well indulge from the bounty. Of course, things are rarely what they seem, and the manor itself seems to have a consciousness of its own. Throw parties, trash the house, engage in youthful merriment, but remember β€” dangers come out at night, and no one, no matter how rich you are, is safe from demons lurking in the shadows.

Threads can be considered game canon, provided the players agree. Players can also start fresh upon acceptance into the game. In game characters can post to the TDM directly, using Β« NEW CHARACTER/IN GAMEΒ» in the header. There will be a spot below for new characters to link their toplevels for easy access. Alternatively, prompts on the Test Drive can be used for in game logs.







WELCOME TO SALTBURNT


It's the hangover more than the light streaming in through half drawn curtains that wakes you up, your brain rattling in your skull, your mouth dry and cottony, your stomach churning with whatever it is you drank last night. If self preservation is your strong suit, you might turn over in bed and see a few painkillers laid out for you on a silver dish, accompanied by a glass of water. If it isn’t, stay in bed and wallow β€” eventually a maid will be in to tear your curtains open, saying, "Breakfast is served," and scurrying out quietly, invisibly. Breakfast? Maybe it’s normal for you. Maybe it isn’t.

You're drawn from the room, either by the mystery, or an undefinable urge that could be supernatural in origin, or could be your hunger catching up to you. It's almost nostalgic, the walk to the dining room β€” have you been here before? Were you drawn up to this estate in a car? Haven’t you done all this already? Maybe you mosey around a library, maybe you run into your suite mate in your adjoining bathroom. Regardless, seemingly all hallways, covered in priceless artworks and ancient relics from times long past, lead to the dining room, where a comically long table houses the Balfours and their many guests, some who seem just as disgruntled and confused as you. No matter. "Breakfast will be out in a minute," they say. What's that?

EDIT SEPTEMBER 2024: For those who have attended breakfast with the Balfours before, a change in routine might come as a shock, given how rarely they stray from form. However, as of September, CARMY BERZATTO has taken over Head Chef position, alongside his cousin RICHIE JERIMOVICH and always the bridesmaid never the bride, SANJI. In place of the self-serve style breakfast, there is an elevated menu, including: a self-serve juice bar, with pitchers of various juiced fruit and vegetables, shaved ice, coconut water, green and black tea syrups, potted microherbs, sliced whole berries, and finger limes. There is also, naturally, liquor and champagne available. Guests can make their own drinks, or ask the allocated staff member to serve them one of the "specials" if they're feeling adventurous.

That said, these are world class chefs, so the gold is really in the menu:
THE EGGS

𝐓𝐇𝐄 π‰πŽππ“π˜: one runny boiled egg shelled and recoated in edible gold leaf, seated on a throne of fried bread soldiers, plated with whipped butter and italian parsley.
𝐄𝐆𝐆𝐒 ππ„ππ„πƒπˆπ‚π“: vinegar poached eggs with hollandaise foam on a bed of toasted freekah and baby spinach.
𝐄𝐆𝐆𝐒 π’π‡π€πŠπ€π’π‡πŽπ”πŠπ€: two eggs poached in a ramekin of pureed tomato, served with a crispy grilled cheese cut to dip.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 π’π˜πƒππ„π˜: french omelette with a light cheese filling, topped with crushed potato chips and chives.
πŽπ„π”π…π’ ππ‘πŽπ”πˆπ‹π‹π„π’: fluffy scrambled eggs in brown butter, served on sourdough.
π’ππ€ππˆπ’π‡ 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓: mini-quiche made with caramelized red onions and jamon pata negra ham.
𝐄𝐆𝐆 πŒπ‚π’π€ππƒπ–πˆπ‚π‡: bacon, egg, cheese and sausage breakfast muffin that tastes weirdly like it was made at a popular chain with golden arches.

THE SWEETS

❖ momofuku's "cereal milk" ❖
❖ fette biscottate with a sour cherry jam and peanut floss ❖
❖ a warm cinnamon bun served with a shot of espresso coffee for dipping ❖
❖ a macadamia-marzipan croissant with a wattleseed and burnt-honey filling ❖
❖ poffertjes with a liquid nutella injection ❖


If you want to leave, you’ll have to tell Giles, the housekeeper, who will arrange a car for you that mysteriously, or perhaps suspiciously, never arrives. Unfortunately, confronting Giles about it is near impossible, as he’s as good at being invisible as the rest of the house staff. Of course, there’s no reason why you can’t just walk out. The front gates are easy enough to jump over, even if the walk towards them gives you a strange sense of foreboding, or just outright discomfort, as if the ground itself doesn’t want you to leave. Those more sensitive or fragile might find they can’t make the jump, no matter how physically able, or desperately wanting. Still, a strong person could continue on, over the fence and into the lush English countryside. The feeling doesn’t dissipate, though β€” this sense of wrongness, almost sickness, like a weight on your back. Walk into the evergreen, carry on, but the strongest will make it perhaps a mile or so before the weight of dread and paranoia brings you to your knees, and then to your face, flat in the middle of a dirt road. What were you thinking? Is this really better?

Wake up with a hangover, in a bed, the curtains drawn, the maid saying, "Breakfast is served," before scurrying out. The painkillers are there, just like you remember. In fact, it’s all exactly how you remember, as if you never left an imprint the first time, or any mess you made was cleared away while your back was turned. Walk to the dining room, find everyone there eating away at their breakfast.

"We dress for dinner," says Portia, with a kind, if discerning smile. "Black tie."




ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE

CONTENT WARNINGS: drugs, alcohol, nudity, potential for nsfw.
POOLSIDE PLAYLIST courtesy of Robin

It's an innocent enough, offhand suggestion from the mouth of one (1) DIARMUID about wanting to learn how to paint, and honestly, the house couldn't agree more: a party is necessary. As August winds down, it's important to go out with a bang, and what better way than through an explosive end of summer pool party? To say goodbye to the waning summer nights, the manor is throwing a pool party with an artistic neon twist. Per the growing complications of everyone's relationship status in this new age of bisexuality, polygamy, and pegging, glow-in-the-dark bracelets with matching solo cups have been set out with the appropriate labels β€”Β TAKEN, SINGLE, OPEN, and IT'S COMPLICATED, depending on your interest. Lounge by the water in your cutest bikini or trunks or nothing at all and engage in some very relaxing full-body painting using the supplies provided β€” that is, the paint is supplied, though brushes and sponges are few and far between. Better just to use your own body to paint your masterpiece. Put yourself on display as a model by the pool, or engage in a brutally competitive game of chicken fights, wherein the loser loses their clothes and the winner gets to keep them.

Not your style? Sneak off somewhere more private like the twinkling gardens illuminated with multicolored tiki lamps, lakeside decorated with bio-luminescent rocks, or the (perfectly safe, wolfless, we promise) maze to indulge in your inner desires. You might find that certain colors glow beneath the moonlight and unlock desires you’ve kept tightly under lock and key. It's hard not to feel impulsive or unrestrained under the full moon's light, with your body paint as armor. People might appear more attractive to you under this witching light like a magic spell cast β€” but really, you haven’t had any trouble with that, here. Have you?

If you’re thirsty, the house has tasked RICHIE, CARMY, and SANJI (dressed as cabana boys) with an extensive poolside drinks menu, since they’ve been so helpful with breakfast. Thanks, boys. Ask them for anything. In fact, ask them for everything. They're here to serve.

As the night closes out, turn your eyes heavenward for a spectacular fireworks show. Many apologies to those of you who suffer from PTSD; you can head inside for an early night and cover your ears with a pillow, but do be careful not to suffocate yourself, unless you're into that. The fireworks shimmer and shatter, and those watching closely might start to see hidden messages written in the stars for you, though is that your eyes playing tricks? Better ask that friend you’re snuggled up with. As anxiety weighs a little heavier on your heart, you might feel compelled to confess a few secrets on this last night of summer, big or small, something loving or not. Seek out that destructive habit, or take some steps toward healing. Let the fireworks drown out the noise.






FRUITS OF LABOUR


CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror, gore, cannibalism.

Saying goodbye to summer means welcoming in the new season, and as August nights turn into September mornings, the landscape of the grounds changes from verdant greens to egg yolk yellow and sunburnt orange, a gradient of autumnal colors. To that end, a week long festival erects outside to enjoy the last of the year's good weather β€” a generous harvest bounty fills up tables and tables of ample displays, full of ripened fruits and fresh baked breads, baked potatoes roasted in the coals of a bonfire, sausages, wheels of cheese, marshmallows, cider and apple juice, tomato soup, apple and blackberry compote, rhubarb crumble, all richly decorated in sunset hues. Among the servings, anyone with a birthday in August or September will find themselves a individualized cake, perhaps with some motif to define them, otherwise just with the harvest decorations of gourds, leaves, wheat, and fruit. Alongside that, a new smaller maze has been made from hay bales on the lawn. During the day it's just a silly and fun maze, but at night it takes on a new form and characters can easily become lost and find themselves in a maze that seems to go on forever, with the ominous lowing of a bull somewhere in the distance. Luckily, everyone is released at daybreak, maybe a little traumatized, but all in one piece.

What would a festival be, without some games to indulge in? Around the celebratory grounds, there are four pumpkins painted gold, hidden around the festival. Anyone who finds one is entitled to a boon from your very generous hosts (join the race HERE). Hunting not to your tastes after the last few goose chases? No worries, there's plenty still to do β€” from apple bobbing, jumping over bonfires, throwing discus/shotput, horseshoes, and more, it's a festival jam packed with games and prizes to be won, from little jars of handmade jam from France, to stuffed chicken plushies, to tin cans with the labels ripped off, full of ... well, it's anyone's guess, really. Crack it open and find out!

In honor of the handfasting ceremony, characters are selected at random and tied together at the wrist, much to everyone's amusement. Once knotted, the ribbon will not give way under any physical or magical duress, meaning you'll be stuck together until the tie undoes on its own. It could be day, a night, two nights, or more, but it seems like the ribbon is waiting for something in particular β€”Β a genuine heart to heart, maybe? Consummating the marriage? Hopefully you like the person you're tied to, because you're going to be spending a lot of time with your temporary spouse, in immediately close quarters.

At the end of the week, there's a final end of summer ceremony, wherein the vampire ARMAND is given special homage for being an especially adored guest, donned in floral regalia and ordained with crowns of flowers, much to his growing malcontent. In fact, he and all the vampires present in house seem to be given the regal treatment from the staff with less grand flower crowns of their own, honored at the head of the festival's final gluttonous table, lined with naked, giggling bodies covered in autumnal produce, sprouting mushrooms, blooming flowers, and distinctly meaty dishes β€” steak and kidney pie, blood sausage, pumpkins stuffed with zebra meat. It's only after you drink the wildflower tea and locally (Very, Locally) crafted beer that things start to feel a little off. The happy bodies used as serving platters look sometimes, between one blink and the next, like masticated corpses, the gourds and fruits set more deeply in the cornucopia their opened chest cavities make. Despite that, there's no real sense of death in the air β€” get a better look, and you might find the veins of the dead work more like the vines for the plants, giving them life.

The question becomes: which is the hallucination? The smiling faces or the blooming corpses?

Though hysteria rankles through the crowd the more people come to terms with the visions they're seeing, given the population at the head of the table, it's a fairly easy riddle to crack. Can vampires eat the cursed food? In short: yes, they can. Sorry we made you eat people again.



DIRECTORY


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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-18 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
For Richie it's like something sacred and precious, getting to see this side of Carmy. Soft and vulnerable and a little stupid, but in a good way, all his edges discarded for the sake of human feeling for maybe an hour or two at a time. He thinks, with the recently acquired wisdom of the self-improved, that it's probably good for him, like a float tank. Some time just to exist. So he'll keep doing it, no matter what, no matter where, because he loves him too much to stop.

And he loves, especially, getting to hear him laugh like that, pulls back away from his eager boner just to look up at him and grin.

"Yeah, fuck, cuz." He hums as he returns his attention to the dick in question, a low hungry noise he doesn't bother disguising as anything else. Like he's been waiting all day to be eye-to-eye with this particular cock. Reaches for it, to stroke it a little, thumb underneath to feel the ridge and the silky skin moving over the hard throbbing core. Pretty damn cool to make his cousin go 0 to erect like this, even if Carmy is still a kid and pops one with every strong breeze.

"Got such a good fat dick, cousin. Good job I love some fuckin' Italian sausage, huh?"

With all the confidence of a man who has done this before and means to keep doing it regularly, but also who has learned how to do this mostly from porn, he leans in to get his mouth on it, pushing his hand up near the base in the blond curls of Carmy's pubic hair to keep it at the right angle while he puts a good two or three inches into his mouth, hollows his cheeks and sucks gently, bobbing his head to start getting into a rhythm.
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-18 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Italian sausage hitches Carmy's chest in a horrified splutter of laugher. "Don't fucking, why the fuck would you say that," Carmy objects, and he can't even get a good argument going against Italian fucking sausage because Richie is blowing him, Richie has his dick in his mouth. Carmy has to cover his eyes so he can have a private come to jesus with himself for a sec.

It's not huge, his good fat dick, which he only ever really appreciates when someone else has their mouth around it, because he's - okay, he has sucked exactly one dick, ever, but it was annoying to have to use his hand on half of it or risk the head gagging him. Like petting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time, trying to concentrate on two disparate things. Richie isn't gonna have that problem unless he decides to get esoteric with it. Or slips him a couple of fingers.

Carmy shifts his stance a little wider at that thought. Just to steady himself, make sure his knees are locked in.

"You're such a dickhead," he murmurs, and he sounds annoyed but his hand is so gentle as it rubs circles over Richie's crown, and he follows it with a low noise as he rocks on his heels. Flustered and thrumming. He drops his hand to his mouth, curling it into a fist to bite down on, something to try and shut himself up even though the low vibrations of noise in his chest as he's sucked off are unmuffleable.
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-18 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
In his current position Richie doesn't much care about what Carmy has to say vis-a-vis his being a dickhead, not when he has a much better dickhead sliding over his tongue and he's concentrating pretty hard on making sure he does a good job. Under the noise of the party and the music thumping out over the pool, he can just about hear Carmy's little sounds and it's that as much as anything that's spurring him on, trying as always to keep learning, to make a study of the complex pleasures of Carmen Berzatto.

So he leans into it once he's pretty sure he can do it without choking or making a fool of himself. Pulls his hand away and puts it on Carmy's hip along with the other one so he's holding onto him, thumbs bracketed either side of his Adonis belt, both braced against him and tugging him in towards his face. Like that, he forces himself to relax and breathe so he can swallow Carmy down as deep as he can go, then pulls back, slick and wet and aching in his jaw but enjoying himself. Goes in again like that, back and forth, long slow deep wet pulls, sucking a bit on the backstroke once he's found a good pace. Eyes shuttering closed so he can get really into it, the feelings of being uncomfortable but happy and not wanting to be anywhere else right now except right here.
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-18 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Carmy thrusts a couple times against Richie's hands, hips rabbiting into the grip just to feel it keep him in place because it's turning him on as much as everything else. His head is tipped back a little, eyes almost closed in pleasure, but a sliver of blue remaining because he doesn't wanna stop looking at Richie, transfixed watching his dick disappear into his mouth over and over.

He only stops looking when he has to, like has to. Who knows how long it's been, he's lost all sense of time, but it still feels way too soon to be about to pop, and he whines and squeezes his eyes shut and tries to eke out a little more time thinking the least sexy thoughts he can manage. Except that's all insane traumatic shit, that's Chef Fields over his shoulder, and his psyche is already fucked up without reenforcing that he associates being mentally destroyed with sex. Fuck that, he can't, he's too in the moment, too in his body, every time he starts slipping sideways Richie sucks and pulls him right back into it.

His eyes peek open again, groaning loudly into his own palm. Gritting his teeth, heaving and panting and trying to get his shit together so he can pull his hand away and warn Richie before he nuts in his mouth. He manages with sheer force of will. "Hey. Hey, fuck, Richie, you're gonna make me come, man, I can't... I'm so fucking close."
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-22 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
In the end Richie does get a little esoteric with it, partially because he fucking loves the noises that Carmy is making and the feeling of his body trembling along the edge of something vital, and partially because he wants to find out if he can deep throat his cousin just to know if he can. So he goes all in a few times, jaw and knees hurting and feeling the spit slide out of the corners of his mouth, huffing short little breaths through his nose. It's more than worth it, though, for Carmy's reaction.

Lost in concentrating on it, he doesn't hear Carmy's voice properly at first. Belatedly registers what he's being told and pulls off, panting and coughing a bit, replacing his mouth with a quick stroke of his fist. He shoots Carmy a look, then turns to spit onto the ground, clearing his throat.

"Fucking hurry up and do it then," he croaks out, and returns to what he was doing without giving Carmy time to argue. Faster this time, really sucking and working his tongue like he's felt girls do sometimes, sliding his hands around under the waistband of Carmy's shorts to take a good double handful of Carmy's ass, pulling him in good and tight to shoot his load right down the back of his throat.
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-22 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The ornery spitting shoots a laser of heat through him because it's so fucking trashy and so fucking Richie, really brings home whose mouth he's fucking when it wraps back around him. He swears almost angrily, doubling forward slightly, but it turns quickly into the needy-bitch whimper that means he really is gonna come.

Afterwards, light-headed and overstimulated, he stares down at Richie in disbelief. Keeps running hands over his cheekbones and ears and scalp and neck, his cock throbbing with the aftershocks of it, a feeling like all that sucking bruised it a little. When he pulls it out it does that fucking porn thing where a line of thick, cummy saliva stretches between the tip and Richie's mouth for a moment and he catches it on his fingers and then lifts his hand, holding eye contact, and puts his fingers in his mouth.

Sucks contemplative for a moment, eyes lidded, cheeks flushed.

"Come, the fuck, back up here," he suggests, intense, and truly he's been remade by the orgasm, all sweet pliancy despite the control freak order.
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-22 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fucking gross, yo. We gotta get you eating more fruit," Richie rasps out, though the stupid grin on his face and the fact that he swallowed totally undoes any possibility of sounding like he means it. His mouth is full of the taste of Carmy, cigarette-sour and salty; he wouldn't exchange it for anything else.

He groans as he climbs to his feet, brushes shmutz off his knees, maybe trying to cover for the way his own hard-on is tenting out the front of his board shorts to a slightly ridiculous degree. But he does as he's told to, even anticipates what Carmy wants by leaning in to kiss him a little, slow and sweet again.
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-22 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Carmy makes another soft noise into it, fucked up by this, by how nice it is. He doesn't even give a shit about the gross aspects, his eyes closed as he just lets himself feel good for half a minute.

Richie's performed a minor fucking miracle, so Carmy touches him with the appropriate reverence, right up until his wandering hands brush over his cock. Pulls it out and hot into his hand.

"Just from sucking me?" he murmurs, and he meant to be mean but it comes out so soft. Knocks their heads together and strokes him.

In the distant dark, a sudden shock of the fireworks starting, and Carmy thinks, insanely, of Claire. Has to push that out of his mind completely, a little wild eyed as the lights in the sky colour them both. "You want I should get on my knees for you?" he asks Richie seriously. Spits in his palm and wraps it around Richie. "You can have whatever you want."
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-22 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The touches feel really good, Carmy's hands warm on his chilled skin. Richie stays close, his own hands stroking up and down over Carmy's biceps and shoulders, just sort of appreciating the shape of him until he reaches down into Richie's shorts and it's Richie's turn to cut out a soft sound up against Carmy's templle.

"No," he says, maybe a little too quickly. His grip flexes on Carmy's shoulders, tense and release, bowed down to be close enough to kiss but not getting there, just sort of nuzzling over the side of his face. He can feel himself throbbing in Carmy's fist, resisting the urge to push up against him because it feels kind of good to have that friction.

"No, cuz." A little tremble on the exhale this time. As much as he likes the idea of having his mouth on him, he can't stand the thought of Carmy kneeling down right now, even that much distance feeling like too much. "Stay here. Just -- fuck. Keep doing that."
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-22 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay," Carmy murmurs, a little bashful. They're not kissing, so he can close his eyes an concentrate, get a good stroke going. Use his other hand to get more of Richie's shorts down so that he can play with his balls a little. Taken aback by all this hot skin. Sliding around under the elastic to rub slow and interested over one hairy ass cheek. Wildly attracted to Richie, as fucking always.

"Richie," he murmurs between crackles and pops. Pressing a kiss to his cousin's jaw, nuzzling the beard, over his neck. A hot kiss there, sucking a little. He's in the zone, like he gets with food, doing three things at once and all of them about getting Richie off.

"That good?" He asks stupidly. "Feels - feels pretty fucking good, your big dick."
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-22 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's so close and intimate like this, somehow just as much as being naked with him in bed. More thrilling because it's outdoors, right next to where anyone could walk by, and they're supposed to be working, so maybe someone is going to come looking for them any minute and find them right there, in each other's arms, Carmy jerking him off -- the thought alone is electric enough to make Richie moan a little, shaky and wanting. He does it again when Carmy sucks on his neck; digs his fingers into his shoulders when Carmy touches his balls.

"Yeah. Yeah, fuck cuz, it's wildly fucking good." Muttering right next to his ear, face half-buried in Carmy's curls, eyes closed as well.

"You feel so good doing that. Your hands on me. Fuck. I want you to touch me all the time."
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-22 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"I will," Carmy promises, nonsensical. Bites him, though not too hard, just marking his neck up at the edge of his stubble. "My hand," he murmurs, strained, quite focused on the steady movement of the hand in question. "My mouth, my hole, all the time, whenever you want it." Making the impossible sound possible with the sheer heated intensity of it.

Then he lifts his mouth and they're kissing again, Carmy all pliant tongue and eager hunger. He, too, is thinking about the possibility of their getting caught, turned on by it and also a little rushed by it, covering Richie's mouth with his own, speeding up his strokes.

He doesn't actually really have a plan for what to do when Richie comes, pressed close and not particularly careful.
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-25 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
It might be the way Carmy sounds when he says my hole, which is scorching hot in a way that's going to sit with Richie for the next year probably, or it might be the feeling of Carmy's tongue against his, all open mouthed and eager, sharing the taste of his own cum. Either way it doesn't take Richie much longer; he gives himself over to Carmy's fist and groans into his mouth and comes like tripping over something, suddenly one way and then the other, hunched over against Carmy as he busts all over Carmy's shorts and his fingers and bare stomach.

He shudders and grits out a curse as he comes down, kissing Carmy clumsily in the aftershocks. His heart is racing and it feels like the fireworks cracking overhead are inside his skull, ringing in his ears.

"Fuck, cousin," he murmurs against Carmy's cheek. "Made a fucking mess."
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-25 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't worry about it." Who is this and what has he done with Carmy. He wipes his hand on the shorts, plays his fingers light over the back of Richie's sweaty neck, letting himself be close and listen to the fireworks without thinking too hard about any of it. Summer-sticky and shaken up in the aftermath of a panic attack and an orgasm in quick succession.

"Might go cool down in the lake," he says eventually. "You should get back." Because people wil actually notice Richie's absence. Also, Richie isn't covered in cum. "Fuck," he murmurs softly, not at anything in particular.
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-26 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, fuck."

Agreeing with nothing in particular. Richie knows he should get back, probably pretty soon, but he doesn't feel like he wants to pull away from Carmy just yet, even though they're not really doing anything. Just standing close like they're slow dancing except not, one hand on Carmy's hip, the other sort of drifting up and down his arm. Letting his heartrate slow down. Stretching out the seconds.

When he does move, it's only to lift his hands to touch Carmy's face, thumbs over his cheeks as he looks down into his eyes. Then he leans in to kiss him again, softly and carefully, like it's something precious and fragile. He nudges his forehead against Carmy's, murmurs quietly:

"Hey."
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-26 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh, hey," Carmy responds, a little unsure but in the same quiet tone. His own eyes going soft at this treatment, melting easily for Richie, all over again.

"Love you, cuz," he says, trying to make it sound the way it always does instead of like, a huge deal just because they got each other off. Another little kiss, Richie's lips all red. "You wanna come swim?"
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-26 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's difficult to know how to say I'm glad you're still here from the hollow pit of his chest, so Richie just looks into those big eyes for a moment, then nods like he's satisfied with things anyway. He releases Carmy and straightens up a bit, moves away to tuck himself back into his shorts and settles everything back in place. Rubs his mouth with the side of his hand.

"Nah." He glances off back to the party, then flashes Carmy a grin. Good old Richie, back on the case. "Someone's gotta run this show. Gimme a cigarette."

He'll smoke it on the way back to the bar, probably. Get his thoughts back together enough to be presentable to people again.
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-26 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
The confidence of a guy who has Bill Murray's message on his phone. He'd fucking hated Richie when he got back after - after, full of shit and in the way and a permanent reminder of Mikey in the absence beside him. But he's always known he was charismatic, magic, a little wowed by him. He's glad Ever brought some of that back. If it's a facade - so the fuck what? Maybe they need that.

Carmy lights two cigarettes in his own mouth, headrush, and kisses him again instead of passing one, dazzled and wanting to β€” impress, somehow. But then he passes it off. "Thanks," he says, one last thing before they split, an afterthought but no less meant: thanks for calming him down and for running the show. It's getting easier, to give the reins to Richie and trust he won't fuck up. In β€” all things, really.
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-26 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The kiss tastes better than the cigarette, gives a better kind of high. Richie puts out a hand to pat Carmy's side affectionately before he goes, unable to stop himself touching him as often as possible, then ambles off towards the party. Doesn't look back even though he wants to, because he's trying to stay cool and Carmy would probably just be smug about it if he did.

Back into the fray, it's easier now, more relaxed. Maybe because everyone's a little more drunk and a little more blissed out, or maybe it's just because Richie's feeling good. He fetches drinks and towels and blankets, ferries clean and dirty glasses back and forth from the main house, keeps an eye out for his cousin's return. Bombs out with Grace, but that's okay. The party goes on, breaking up a bit as people pair off or head back to their rooms for privacy. Not everyone needs it -- an hour or so later, when Richie looks up again from cleaning behind the bar, more than a few couples and throuples are getting hot and heavy on the sun loungers and in the pool. There's a lot more casual nudity.

Fireworks bloom and crackle overhead. Richie heads out to the edge of the party and tilts his head to look up at them while he slots a cigarette into his mouth.
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-26 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
When Carmy finds him he's lost his shirt somewhere, a little shivery at the night air on his damp skin, his colourful uniform shorts still damp and drying β€” no longer messy with cum, at least. His hair is wilder than usual, the lakewater tightening and tangling his curls. He badly wants to come up behind Richie and faceplant in his shoulderblades, but they're not quite there yet, so he doesn't.

At least Carmy also looks chilled out, still. He's got a cup of hot water from the zip tap that he dunked some cocktail ingredients into, mint and lemon and shit, it smells good. Stands shoulder to shoulder with Richie and sips it as they watch the fireworks. Richie's mouth still looks like he's been sucking dick, and Carmy keeps looking at it as he smokes, sidelong, corner of his eye.

"Thank fuck we don't have to clean this shit up," he says, with a head jerk in the direction of the end of the party.
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-26 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's nice, in a way that's also exhausting. Richie really wants to just go back to their room and sleep for twenty hours. He also kind of wants another drink. He also kind of wants to suck Carmy's dick some more, not even to make him bust, maybe just to have it in his mouth. Weird. He thinks about that while he smokes, leaning sideways a bit to bump his arm against Carmy's shoulder.

"Yeah, fuck."

He glances sideways at Carmy, noticing how he's holding himself like he's cold. Swapping his cigarette to the other hand, he lifts his arm and puts it around Carmy's shoulders.

"Good party though. Fucking fire party." A beat. "I spoke to Grace."
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-26 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Richie's arm around his shoulders makes Carmy stiffen and then relax, a little embarrassed but leaning into him. The warmth. Sipping his drink. It's cosy.

Carmy has been to like, three parties that weren't filled with his family and the landmines therein, so he doesn't have a good metric. Can't really agree. He didn't have a good time, except for the moments that were like, life-changing good, but those didn't have much to do with the party.

Speaking of: "Yeah?" he responds, affecting a level of casual he doesn't really feel about Grace right now.
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-26 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
They haven't really done this before, being physical with each other in public in a way that isn't passable as coworkers or family. Maybe really good friends stand like this, but really good friends don't necessarily turn their head and drop a kiss into their friend's damp hair that smells sweet and green like lakewater.

"Yeah." Richie taps his cigarette ash onto the grass, only doing a slightly better job of being casual about things.

"She like, hit on me? Which was amazing. So I told her I was flattered but, you know. You like her, and I didn't want to ruin that."
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[personal profile] chaosmenu 2024-09-26 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Carmy looks up at Richie at that, and for a moment it's probably possible to read his slack mouth and offended expression as betrayal or something, and then he kinda shoulder-hip checks Richie hard. Wishes they were closer to the pool so he could dunk him. "Are you fucking with me right now? Dude."

But Richie isn't, he thinks he's being a good guy, stepping back, classic fucking Richie. "That's not β€” you should have kissed her. I kissed her." He kissed her a lot, actually, and it was great and he wants to do it again, do more, but it's not β€” they were casual about it. He thinks he would be more likely to get a little pissy about Richie wanting someone else, low key jealous, but that's true often and he's good at swallowing it. Besides... it doesn't sting so much when it's great. "If we're gonna, fucking, Italian Beef sandwich, I think we're both gonna be kissing her. C'mon."
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[personal profile] microbasil 2024-09-26 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The shove earns a slightly outraged "ow, hey!" from Richie as he stumbles sideways, pushed off the comfortable if damp shape of his cousin he was just then getting used to. He scowls his confusion at Carmy, trying not to enjoy the whole Italian Beef Sandwich thing too much because it would ruin the whole pissed off vibe he's got going.

"Wait, you didn't fucking say any of that to me," he points out, overrunning the end of Carmy's speech and gesturing with his cigarette. He might also be a little drunk.

"I was trying to be a good guy! I was looking out for you, cousin!" Probably speaking a little too loudly for privacy at this point. "I didn't want to get in the way of your fucking crush or whatever, I was just trying to be fucking chivalrous, okay."

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