I imagine the entire Burton family (now including Natalia) competing against each other in a game of darts, with Moira being the champion. The darts board was previously used by Piers, who thought that being the BSAA’s best marksman means his aiming skills with darts are equally unbeatable, but he was wrong. So after losing a game against Chris, the two of them are now sitting at the bar, eating a steak that is nowhere near as good as it is back home, and Jessica is with them because she had been looking for someone to buy her dinner, whining and annoying everyone until Chris finally agreed.
Also sitting at the bar is Jake, who is trying to get Sherry drunk so he can go home with her and get acquainted with Supergirl’s superpowers, if you take my meaning. What he doesn’t realise is that the G-virus in her body doesn’t allow for her to get drunk even though she has already had ten cocktails, and the bartender Lottie is well aware of that, but doesn’t say anything because she finds it so amusing.
Someone who has definitely had too much to drink is Leon. Under the painfully ashamed gaze of Hunnigan, he’s singing and dancing and making a fool of himself on the karaoke stage, trying to impress the Foley sisters who are chatting and giggling in a corner of the room, not even noticing him. They are far too busy celebrating the newest achievement of Gina, who is usually the more sensible and responsible sibling, but today has done something incredibly reckless for the first time in her life: She left her home without making the bed! The real reason is that she had an appointment in the morning and was out of time, but Rachael doesn’t need to know that.
Before the stage was occupied by Leon, the other party guests got to enjoy Alexia’s incredible talent. Even though the lyrics of her song, called Berceuse, were a little dark and weird, she made up for it with her beautiful singing voice, and no one even noticed it wasn’t actually Alexia, but Alfred in drag. The real Alexia had to go home early after a failed experiment in the bathroom, where she tried to inject herself with a new prototype virus, but accidentally confused it with a sample of animal sperm and got herself pregnant with a nice little monkey baby.
The reason for Alexia’s confusion was that she intended to keep the whole thing a secret, but that wasn’t easy because there was someone else in the bathroom: Rebecca, who was taking care of Jill after Jill had injured herself playing an arcade game. In an attempt to rush to her character’s aid when it was being attacked by a pixelated ogre, she hit her head so violently on the screen that it started bleeding. Thankfully it’s nothing serious (not for her at least; the arcade character got eaten by the ogre in the end), and Jill and Rebecca have since moved on to a less dangerous game: pool.
There’s also a literal pool outside, where some of the ex-members of both STARS units are currently enjoying themselves. Richard insists that he can hold his breath longer than Joseph, who has been a smoker for most of his life, but Joseph scoffs at that, saying that the idea of his lungs being weaker than Richard’s is just as laughable as the aiming skills of their friend Forest, who couldn’t even hit a big fat crow with his grenade launcher if it flew right past him. Richard says he’d rather be eaten alive by a shark than lose his honour like that, and challenges Joseph to a diving contest – if Joseph loses, he’ll have to let Richard take a photo of himself cuddling with Richard’s aggressive doberman, and it will be posted on Facebook.
They need an impartial arbiter, so they turn to Alex, who is overseeing the pool area from the balcony. After wasting hours hopelessly trying to explain to Claire why nuts don’t necessarily have to taste like nuts just because they are nuts, Alex was declared nuts and sent into exile, which is the upper floor. Albert is keeping her company, discussing important topics like who of them came up with the better plan to take over the world, the institute of astronomy’s newest insights concerning extraterrestrial life, asteroid impact avoidance and quantum physics, and the colour of Chris’s underwear.
Speaking of Claire, she’s still depressed because her boss Neil not only failed to reciprocate her feelings, but also turned into an Uroboros creature and died before he could give her a raise, so she has resorted to emotional eating at the buffet table – nothing that contains nuts of course, because she’s now also suffering from PTNESD (post-traumatic nut exposure stress disorder) thanks to Alex. The only thing that comforts her now is that others are even worse off: Pedro has to find a new optician after the old one refused his request to make him glasses for all the eyes all over his body, and Gabe is experiencing an identity crisis since the T-Phobos virus caused his body to merge with a helicopter, and now he doesn’t know whether he’s human or machine. Claire probably made things worse by using him to fly to the party.
In the meantime, Ada is trolling everyone by lurking in the shadows and grabbing butts whenever the victim least expects it, always dodging their attention to make it seem like the person the victim is talking to is the culprit. Keith has already slapped Quint because of this, but in the case of Sheva and Josh, it actually led to a hot romance behind the curtains. And this is where the curtain drops, because I can’t tell you any more details!
