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ximilialog2022-11-25 06:41 pm
groupiedrifter) wrote in ximilialog2022-11-25 06:41 pm
[OPEN] Movie night, and again, movie night!
CHARACTERS: Everyone! Mingle!
LOCATION: The Mess Hall
DATE: After the mission, somewhere in the tail-end of November.
CONTENT: A movie night! Typical business, enjoy relaxing.
WARNINGS: None! But feel free to add them if you need to, to your threads.
This isn't much of a 'Thanksgiving' celebration. In fact, the only thing that really seems to constitute 'thanksgiving' is the pie and wine that is available — everything else, not so much. This month, the mess hall is arranged with the usual sort of system: a table for food and drinks, a table for Activities (tm), and a comfortable, blanket and pillow-fueled space where movies are projected on a sheet — because what better way to watch a movie than to rig up someone's old sheets?
The options for food had been, once again, stolen from the old 'survey' Newt had posted months beforehand, so some of you may find your favorite foods here. Firstly, and most importantly, there are pies. Pies of many assortments, as far as the ol' eye can see (exaggerations may apply). Alongside it, a mishmash of cultures — szechuan-themed noodles, onion gratin soup, black beans and rice... though most oddly, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
What? Someone had them on their favorite foods list. Sometimes we love a good outcast.
The other desert of choice to top off the night: white chocolate. Yzak's favorite, of course, and served in a few ways.
But drinks! Drinks are important, too, and you tea-lovers are in for a treat: a section solely dedicated to tea leaves. That's right, a Tea Bar, with all the mixtures to steep to your heart's content! Jasmine tea, seiros tea, your basic sweet teas and even more casual green teas — it's all here, served right next to the wine and champagne, in case you feel like getting a little — as the kid's these days don't say anymore — turnt.
Also yes, the glowy weird 'please only cybertronians consume this' Energon is there as well.
The activities this time are less involved, mostly because they come from boxes that merely have to be opened up to be enjoyed. A stack straight out of Walmart's kid science section, just for the crew of the Ximilia to enjoy. If you're thinking 'wow, this has Newton written all over it', you'd be very correct: geode breaking kits, fossil digging kits, rocket and gundam-building kits — you name it, it's there, straight from his childhood years and into your hearts.
The best selection is, obviously, the kit that makes gummy candy bugs.
Mmmm. Bug-shaped food.
And per usual, movie options are selected, and play in the following order through the night: Moana, Lord of the Rings (the first movie only, sorry, we're cutting you off at movie one), and Honey I Shrunk the Kids!
... And, when the night is at its end, another movie is snuck on when people are falling asleep or scattering to their rooms:
Oh dear.
Happy holidays, or something!
LOCATION: The Mess Hall
DATE: After the mission, somewhere in the tail-end of November.
CONTENT: A movie night! Typical business, enjoy relaxing.
WARNINGS: None! But feel free to add them if you need to, to your threads.
This isn't much of a 'Thanksgiving' celebration. In fact, the only thing that really seems to constitute 'thanksgiving' is the pie and wine that is available — everything else, not so much. This month, the mess hall is arranged with the usual sort of system: a table for food and drinks, a table for Activities (tm), and a comfortable, blanket and pillow-fueled space where movies are projected on a sheet — because what better way to watch a movie than to rig up someone's old sheets?
The options for food had been, once again, stolen from the old 'survey' Newt had posted months beforehand, so some of you may find your favorite foods here. Firstly, and most importantly, there are pies. Pies of many assortments, as far as the ol' eye can see (exaggerations may apply). Alongside it, a mishmash of cultures — szechuan-themed noodles, onion gratin soup, black beans and rice... though most oddly, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
What? Someone had them on their favorite foods list. Sometimes we love a good outcast.
The other desert of choice to top off the night: white chocolate. Yzak's favorite, of course, and served in a few ways.
But drinks! Drinks are important, too, and you tea-lovers are in for a treat: a section solely dedicated to tea leaves. That's right, a Tea Bar, with all the mixtures to steep to your heart's content! Jasmine tea, seiros tea, your basic sweet teas and even more casual green teas — it's all here, served right next to the wine and champagne, in case you feel like getting a little — as the kid's these days don't say anymore — turnt.
Also yes, the glowy weird 'please only cybertronians consume this' Energon is there as well.
The activities this time are less involved, mostly because they come from boxes that merely have to be opened up to be enjoyed. A stack straight out of Walmart's kid science section, just for the crew of the Ximilia to enjoy. If you're thinking 'wow, this has Newton written all over it', you'd be very correct: geode breaking kits, fossil digging kits, rocket and gundam-building kits — you name it, it's there, straight from his childhood years and into your hearts.
The best selection is, obviously, the kit that makes gummy candy bugs.
Mmmm. Bug-shaped food.
And per usual, movie options are selected, and play in the following order through the night: Moana, Lord of the Rings (the first movie only, sorry, we're cutting you off at movie one), and Honey I Shrunk the Kids!
... And, when the night is at its end, another movie is snuck on when people are falling asleep or scattering to their rooms:
Oh dear.
Happy holidays, or something!
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[She doesn't seem all that serious, but like, don't trust that.]
Listen... Just try to keep yourself off the front lines if you want to avoid ending up in the infirmary. [She reaches over, taps on her leg.] I broke this one when a tower fell on me. And the scar's from an enchanted castle attacking me with my own bad memories. This place, it's not exactly a walk in the park.
But if your regret's worth it enough, you do what you have to.
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[ He's teasing, of course. But it just so happens Ziggy is sitting on his good side, the side that hasn't been punched in repeatedly. As it turns out, continued damage and concussions have consequences that sometimes involves mild hearing loss.
But that's not something that's much on Steve's radar. ]
Yeah? [ Steve knows he's not cut out for the front lines compared to everyone else, but at the same time, he hates feeling like he's doomed to be delegated to background roles, every time. Still, he knows he has his uses. ]
My regret is worth it, though. I'd do whatever it takes to make sure it gets undone. [ No matter the cost. That's been the way of things for a while, for Steve. Toss himself in harm's way to make sure everyone else gets out alive. ]
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... Mine, too.
Life and death stuff. My town's kind of... cursed. Literally. If there's a chance I can undo it all and make it the curse never hurt anyone, I'll do whatever I have to.
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Still, Steve refuses to believe in luck and fate and all that shit. He has to believe there are ways to change one's destiny. ]
Yeah, where I'm from, there's kind of a curse, too. And I was too late to keep my friends safe, I just-- [ He draws in a deep breath, his voice going hushed, as he tries to keep from making too much noise, interrupting everyone else from enjoying this movie night. ] I don't even want to change that much, I just want to make it so they're okay, so the bad guy doesn't win. [ He just hopes that by eliminating Vecna before he can kill Max, and before the bats can kill Eddie, that it'll eliminate the main problem altogether. That Hawkins won't be decimated by earthquakes, that the Upside Down won't bleed into their world. ]
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Yeah. So the bad guy doesn't win.
Mine got hit with a witch's curse. We figured out it pretty much causes random members of the town to become serial killers — we got pretty close to ending the curse, too. Unfortunately, those serial killers got to us first.
[It was an ugly way to go. One of the worst things to see before you go.
But hey, she's here. She's going to fix it. She's willing to do whatever it takes.]
Sorry, it's not exactly prime conversational material for movie night.
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Shit. He suddenly thinks about what might have happened if it really were Eddie doing those killings like the town assumed he did. ]
Yeah, well. It kinda helps talking all this stuff out. Makes a guy feel way less alone and screwed up around here.
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Yeaaaaah. We're all just screwed up together, right?
So that's kind of cool. The whole — less alone angle.
Back home, people would've probably just called me crazy.