The preference, he did have a preference didn't he. Unfortunately, parties were not his natural modus operandi and most of the ones he attended was because he had been dragged by Julia, Eliot or Bambi. "Actually, if I'm being honest-- and I am. I'd probably just want to be left in a library with a bottle of booze." a social gathering with books, where the only bad decision he could make was magically.. with an arcane tome.

Still not better, but that was how 'choose your own adventures' went.

"Have you ever had anything crazy happen at a party?" crazy party stories was always a good thing, he was not sure if this elf would understand what a flash mob was much less have heard the song 'eye of the tiger', but maybe he could describe strip beer pong with something remotely involving a straight face.