Planned summer evening family re-union/get together... evolves...

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... by slow degrees... into something else. A large, extended family, grandparents downwards, re-unites from all parts on the promise of a hog roast/barbecue and plenty of drink flowing. Venue: a large country house and, more specifically, its gardens. The semi-darkness and the drink play their part. X goes off with Y etc. etc. A good time has been promised for all... and so it comes to pass... The sound of chatter is gradually overtaken by... other sounds...
 
Yep, we can all imagine what those other sounds might be! I like the idea of morals being loosened in that way. The thought occurs that people might be even more disposed to cast off inhibitions if this party happens after or at the end of some extended period of effort by all concerned. It's well known that office Christmas parties and end of term revelry in schools/colleges have a sexual edge to them and can result in high jinks.

What that 'effort' might be in the case of a family, I'm hard-pressed to imagine - maybe the family's just finished successfully fighting off some legal claim on the family estate by an outsider? But I do like the idea of Granddad playing in some half-hidden corner of the garden with granddaughter, mother with nephew etc. All by flickering firelight.
 
the initiation of the year's fresh 18 year olds is always fun
the previous year, thry had been 17, and sent to babysit all the underage kids. That was horrid. It now seems even worse now that they discover what fun they have been missing.
 
What are you rambling on about? This isn't about 'underage'.
that's my point. At 17 they were just ungappy about beinfg forced to babysit. At 18, when they learn about the fun, they are even more uposet... but happy
 
Sorry. I don't get this 'point' of yours. Where did I say there had been a 'previous' year? Where did I say there had been any 'childminding'? Your post leaves me neither 'uposet' nor 'ungappy', just mystified, as it would anyone...
 
Sorry. I don't get this 'point' of yours. Where did I say there had been a 'previous' year? Where did I say there had been any 'childminding'? Your post leaves me neither 'uposet' nor 'ungappy', just mystified, as it would anyone...
My post said "the previous year, thry had been 17, and sent to babysit all the underage kids. "
I thought that was pretty clearly a device to exclude the under 18s from the play.
 
Well I also see no reason to bring in mention of the year before or, for that matter, any need to feel defensive about age when the OP made no reference which could be construed as alluding to underage people. People can be both grandparents and grandchildren in their forties, after all!

I can only repeat that the idea of the scene, as described, does appeal. In particular I like the idea of the slowly disappearing sound of conversation and laughter being replaced by the "other sounds" and that these come to urge and encourage the more hesitant on until everyone's caught up in debauchery.

It is just a scene, though. A bit light as regards being a story, OP, no?
 
Sort of. I write only short stories and had this scene in mind as the end point or near end point of a wedding party 'reception' held on a balmy summer's evening. I had thought originally that it would be the husband from one pair of guests having fun with the wife from another... and then the whole scene might evolve into a kind of general, orgiastic pairing-off situation, possibly the newly-weds included. Maybe a couple of thousand words, max.

Later, the idea of it being a family incest scenario struck me so I put it up here for people to comment.
 
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