OPEN MINGLE | 🍿🎬🍿Movie Night / sleepover 🍿🎬

[spacedisaster]

CHARACTERS: Everyone!
LOCATION: The common living area
DATE: First weekend after the mission
CONTENT: Movies, lots of pillows, junk food....hopefully people just having a good time.
WARNINGS: None, will add if needed.

↠ MOVIES

[ It's time to relax after a (mostly) successful mission, and what better way to do that than to put on some comfortable clothes and watch a movie? The whole floor and almost every section of the common living areas have been covered in blankets and pillows. Walking around barefoot and lying down to rest is not only allowed but encouraged.

The movies that will be projected are: Indiana Jones- Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Die Hard, and Galaxy Quest. Peter had asked for the first two specifically, for Ziggy and Dean, while he had found the latter by pure chance and had no idea what it was about. It looked fun, and that was enough. ]


↠ FOOD AND JELLO SHOTS

[ No party is a party without food, and no movie night is complete without popcorn, both salty and sweet. If that's not your thing, there are many other options to choose from: chocolate chip cookies, different kinds of pizza, nachos with guacamole, and smores.

For the thirsty, instead, there are jello shots or all the color of the rainbow, beer, milkshakes, and daiquiris. ]


↠ GAMES AND MAKE UP

[ If someone just wants to be there for the company but doesn't find themselves too invested in the movies, they are free to play some harmless pranks on the people who might have fallen asleep, like drawing on their faces with crayons and sharpies. Because yes, there are crayons. Peter also brought here games like Cluedo, Jenga, Scrabble, a bottle to spin, and Trivial Pursuit. Some might have a few pieces missing, or ask totally incomprehensible questions about the universe or alien races no one has ever heard of before.

On one of the side tables, there's a makeup kit box with nail polish in different colors, including glitter. It also has different curling irons, eye shadow, lots of hair accessories, eyeliner, and lipstick. Braid your friend's hair, paint your nails (or theirs!) and practice your make-up skills. The sky is the limit, and looking like a clown is allowed. ].


↠ TAROT READING

[ Does Peter know the Tarot? Not at all. He just found a deck when he was checking the new stuff they got during a supply drop and snatched it. So he's mostly shuffling cards, and then coming up with random readings on the fly for fun. He's sitting cross-legged on the carpet, using a really giant pillow as a makeshift table and placing the cards there in no particular order.

The moment someone sits close or even looks at what he's doing, he's going to ask them to pick a card, then stare at it intensely as if he's looking for the answers to the secret of the universe, and announce in a solemn voice: ]

Okay, the cards say....uhm. [ He's holding The Tower and looking at it with slight concern. ] Well, things are exploding and on fire. Two people are throwing themselves down a building...this card is trying to say you shouldn't have protein bars for breakfast.

[ Correct him? Ask him for advice? Grab the cards from him...? Throw a pillow at Peter's head and steal the bowl of candy next to him? All options are good and valid, he won't even be mad if someone grabbed the cards. ]


↠ WILDCARD
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Comments

[callada]

I hadn't either. Not with cards, I mean. Made the usual kind of predictions, based on judgment and reasoning. But... these look cool.

[And the jello shots have encouraged him to keep doing it, especially as more people come seeking tarot-based entertainment.]

You want to each pick one? And then I'll tell you what yours means, and you do mine? Or are you looking for some very professional mystical future-seeing services? Starting to think I have a new career lined up.

[romancekiller]

Yeah, sure we can do that but I'll probably need a little help with the readings for yours since I'm not sure what these cards are supposed to mean. [from a quick glance the cards were pretty self explanatory based but beyond that she doesn't know how they're really meant to be interpreted]

[callada]

I've never seen these before today, so don't think I'm some kind of expert either. But that's probably the beauty of fortune telling, right? All up to interpretation.

[aka it's all some bullshit, but that doesn't mean it's not entertaining. And hell, people seem to appreciate his bullshit, but he's also a professional liar, and tying pictures together into stories about people is admittedly fun.

He selects a card and pushes it toward her, then flips it over. The Fool? Well. He can't argue with that if that's the card that's supposed to represent him. He laughs a little at the result.]

[romancekiller]

Right, yeah. I guess so— [she can totally roll with bullshitting especially since that is how it goes with most things she is unfamiliar with. she watches as she selects a card and reveals it to her shortly after— the fool. well that seems straight forward enough] So this is the part where I try to analyze what it means? Like be cautious of doing anything stupid in your near future?

[callada]

Yeah, that's the part. Too bad I'm pretty prone to doing stupid things.

[And self-deprecating jokes. He gives a half-smile, then shrugs.]

Then again, maybe that makes you an accurate fortune teller after all. How bad's it gonna be if I screw up?

[romancekiller]

I don't want to be accurate about something like that though. [especially if it does come true but as for his question, she stares at the card for a moment] I'm not sure how bad it'll be. Maybe that'll depend on the next card you pick.

[callada]

Oh yeah?

[Well, he can definitely draw another. He slides a few cards around face-down before selecting one and flipping it over - The Empress.]

Huh. Are those strawberries on her dress?

[romancekiller]

[clarke pauses, looking at the card a little more closely from reading the name to scanning the details of the card as if that would make it easier for her to determine what can be interpreted] Maybe? Or it could be some type of flower.

[callada]

Maybe. What do you suppose it means? Hope I don't have a floral dress in my future, I don't think I could pull that off.

[He grins at the really horrendous mental image. Nope, he does not have the figure for a dress, or any desire to wear one for that matter.]

[romancekiller]

Well I definitely don't think it is that literal but maybe you have something new to look forward to in the future. [she glances over at the card again only to give a shrug]

[callada]

Suppose I'm glad for that. Better than nothing to look forward to at all, right?

[Okay, hold on, that sounded dark, but he meant it in a lighthearted way. It's nice to have a future, given he very nearly didn't.]

See, reading these cards isn't so hard. That's a good one.

[romancekiller]

Right, yeah. [she isn't all that phased by how dark that sounds since she knows it could be worse] So do I pick up a card for you to do a reading for me now?

[callada]

Sure, go right ahead. Here -

[He gathers the cards up and shuffles them, then fans the deck face down in front of her.]

Your pick.

[romancekiller]

Alright, I'll give it a try. [clarke moves to pick up a card and in flipping it over to reveal death she can't help but find that all too ironic. it seems like death follows her no matter where she goes including this deck of tarot cards with how it's her first pick] Huh. Well that seems ominous.

[callada]

... Huh. Yeah, it does.

[Look, he's not gonna lie. But he gives the card a good examination anyway, as he fiddles with his cigarette. Death on a white horse, with dead and dying people around it, and then some kind of priest begging? The sun is there, but it's either rising or setting, and he has to assume setting is more likely to suit the theme.]

But, well, we all die eventually, don't we? And look at this guy, making some kind of deal. That's a bit like what we've done, isn't it? Bargained with the orbs. Maybe not to prevent death itself, but to pray for a better outcome.

[That's not really specific to her, though, that's just something that works for any of them. He can do better than that, surely, he just needs a second to think about it.]

I think this is a card not about dying, but about resisting. There's some powerful, frightening force heading your way, or maybe following in your path. This says instead of hiding, you should confront it head-on.

[romancekiller]

[clarke listens, taking that all in and while she had assumed the worst of the potential interpretation prior to it even being voiced, she is pleasantly surprised that he manages to give it a positive spin] Yeah— that's a good way of looking at it. I definitely thought it meant it more literally.

[callada]

[For all he knows, it is meant to be literal. But if he was faced with death, as he has been in the past, why lay down and take it?]

Always got something, or someone, to fight for, right? I guess I can only speak from experience, but if there's something you value, or someone - you're not gonna do them any favors if you just give up when things get hard. I hope everyone has something they care so much about that they'd fight death itself to protect it.

[romancekiller]

[clarke considers his words and for as much as she doesn't believe in this kind of thing, it hits a little too close to home. she doesn't just have one person she's willing to fight for, in her case, it includes all of her people despite how much they might hate her right now for everything that happened with the aftermath of mount weather.

she is quiet for a moment, her expression doesn't waver as she just nods in response] Yeah, I have people I'd do that for back home too and I know that from experience too. [which coincidentally only reaffirms her regret that she wants undone]