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groupiedrifter) wrote in ximilialog2023-03-30 12:42 am
[MINGLE] OPEN TO ALL | Movies, Music, and Mario Kart (Movie Night!)
CHARACTERS: EVERYONE! Post yourselves some top levels!
LOCATION: The Mess Hall
DATE: a few days after the mission
CONTENT: We all could use some TLC, right?
WARNINGS: Nothing serious! People can warn on their threads as they go.
Welcome to our usual little movie night! It's been a crazy last... week and a half? Something like that. Once everyone has settled in and things aren't quite so exhausting to face, Newton proceeds to collect new goodies for yet another sleep-over in the mess hall. For anyone new, they'll find the place is suddenly full of pillows, of sheets and things spread out to do around the tables. Tonight's a triple feature, the final movie of the night being one that definitely isn't good to watch if you value sleep, orbers.
But first, food!
And tonight's theme, carefully selected with love, is Mediterranean foods. Baklava is the obvious one, but there are plenty of others to choose from. Armenian Losh Kebabs! Egyptian Lentils with Rice! Lebanese Hummus! So, so much olive oil! And the reason behind all of this very themed, far more uniformed food might have something to do with the sign that Newton hung behind the food station:
Ah, yes. It seems Andy has been given all rights to the choices on the table. Or at the very least, Newt tried his damned best to cater to her preferences for apparently saving his life at some point. It's the least he can do, right?
(Also, before you ask: yes, there is booze, and there always will be.)
Onto the cinema!
The first movie is an easy one — Back to the Future! A fun little affair, nothing too serious, and always a classic. But would you be surprised to find the next movie staring one of our very own? Rita Farr shines in Spartacus 452, some silly little late 70's, early 80's space movie she had partaken it, it seems... Either way, she looks gorgeous, huh? Total babe alert. And the last movie? That's saved for the very end of the night, with a warning that it's not for the faint-hearted. A scary movie, straight out of Japan: The Grudge. Who doesn't love a ghost story? Just don't go blaming anyone if you have a hard time sleeping tonight! Or if you hear things that you worry might be some ghoulish apparition; the Ximilia isn't haunted, c'mon.
Boo! Ha, it's just a little cleaning roomba. Gotcha.
But before the scary movie, more things of note:
The tea table, joined by a shorter, traditionally set-up tea table, is chockful of different types of teas. It had seemed to be a pretty decent hit the first time, so why not bring it back? Only this time, Sabriel has volunteered her magical tea pot that she'd purchased many missions ago; with this particular pot, you may brew the most perfect batch of whatever tea your heart desires. Relax, enjoy yourself...! Especially before —
Ah, yes. Mario Kart. The best way to ruin friendships. There's an old, very used Wii sitting beside a television. Mario Kart is already there, ready to go, press button to start and all of that jazz. Try not to cry at any sight of Toad on the select screen; we're all a bit tender about Hivawei still, aren't we? If Mario Kart isn't your style, the Wii does apparently have a complimentary disc for Wii Sports. Please, don't break the television with the remote. Pretty, pretty please...
But that's not all! A very old, scratched up, but functional Sega Genesis sits beside the Wii. Maybe there are a few games in the pile you might be interested in? Or you could be totally predictable and uncool and just go straight for Sonic. We know everyone does.
... This is gonna be pretty weird for you before-television-types, won't it?
Finally, a little light-hearted group activity. Newton is quick to approach a decorated corner of the mess hall where a small 'stage' has been built, set up with a guitar and a microphone from the Ximusic Room. It's open to all for their karaoke or music-playing needs, but not before Newton fulfills his next very important task:
"This one's a belated birthday present to a special member of our team!"
He proceeds to play a ditty, one that launches right into:
Just for you, Yelena. Happy Birthday, ma'am.
(And yes, the birthday calendar is as available as ever. Add more birthdays to it!)
There is a table down from the karaoke where a polaroid camera sits — and a paper that says 'PHOTO STATION'. It's clear what the purpose is if you look at the wall, which is already collecting some polaroids on it: it's a place for people to take snapshots together with the old camera so that they, too, can have a little keepsake. After all, so many of them have come and gone... it'd be good to have something to remember each other by, in case someone left. Why not take a photo together? Enjoy the moment.
Congrats on making it another month, everyone.
LOCATION: The Mess Hall
DATE: a few days after the mission
CONTENT: We all could use some TLC, right?
WARNINGS: Nothing serious! People can warn on their threads as they go.
Welcome to our usual little movie night! It's been a crazy last... week and a half? Something like that. Once everyone has settled in and things aren't quite so exhausting to face, Newton proceeds to collect new goodies for yet another sleep-over in the mess hall. For anyone new, they'll find the place is suddenly full of pillows, of sheets and things spread out to do around the tables. Tonight's a triple feature, the final movie of the night being one that definitely isn't good to watch if you value sleep, orbers.
But first, food!
And tonight's theme, carefully selected with love, is Mediterranean foods. Baklava is the obvious one, but there are plenty of others to choose from. Armenian Losh Kebabs! Egyptian Lentils with Rice! Lebanese Hummus! So, so much olive oil! And the reason behind all of this very themed, far more uniformed food might have something to do with the sign that Newton hung behind the food station:
Ah, yes. It seems Andy has been given all rights to the choices on the table. Or at the very least, Newt tried his damned best to cater to her preferences for apparently saving his life at some point. It's the least he can do, right?
(Also, before you ask: yes, there is booze, and there always will be.)
Onto the cinema!
The first movie is an easy one — Back to the Future! A fun little affair, nothing too serious, and always a classic. But would you be surprised to find the next movie staring one of our very own? Rita Farr shines in Spartacus 452, some silly little late 70's, early 80's space movie she had partaken it, it seems... Either way, she looks gorgeous, huh? Total babe alert. And the last movie? That's saved for the very end of the night, with a warning that it's not for the faint-hearted. A scary movie, straight out of Japan: The Grudge. Who doesn't love a ghost story? Just don't go blaming anyone if you have a hard time sleeping tonight! Or if you hear things that you worry might be some ghoulish apparition; the Ximilia isn't haunted, c'mon.
Boo! Ha, it's just a little cleaning roomba. Gotcha.
But before the scary movie, more things of note:
The tea table, joined by a shorter, traditionally set-up tea table, is chockful of different types of teas. It had seemed to be a pretty decent hit the first time, so why not bring it back? Only this time, Sabriel has volunteered her magical tea pot that she'd purchased many missions ago; with this particular pot, you may brew the most perfect batch of whatever tea your heart desires. Relax, enjoy yourself...! Especially before —
Ah, yes. Mario Kart. The best way to ruin friendships. There's an old, very used Wii sitting beside a television. Mario Kart is already there, ready to go, press button to start and all of that jazz. Try not to cry at any sight of Toad on the select screen; we're all a bit tender about Hivawei still, aren't we? If Mario Kart isn't your style, the Wii does apparently have a complimentary disc for Wii Sports. Please, don't break the television with the remote. Pretty, pretty please...
But that's not all! A very old, scratched up, but functional Sega Genesis sits beside the Wii. Maybe there are a few games in the pile you might be interested in? Or you could be totally predictable and uncool and just go straight for Sonic. We know everyone does.
... This is gonna be pretty weird for you before-television-types, won't it?
Finally, a little light-hearted group activity. Newton is quick to approach a decorated corner of the mess hall where a small 'stage' has been built, set up with a guitar and a microphone from the Ximusic Room. It's open to all for their karaoke or music-playing needs, but not before Newton fulfills his next very important task:
"This one's a belated birthday present to a special member of our team!"
He proceeds to play a ditty, one that launches right into:
Just for you, Yelena. Happy Birthday, ma'am.
(And yes, the birthday calendar is as available as ever. Add more birthdays to it!)
There is a table down from the karaoke where a polaroid camera sits — and a paper that says 'PHOTO STATION'. It's clear what the purpose is if you look at the wall, which is already collecting some polaroids on it: it's a place for people to take snapshots together with the old camera so that they, too, can have a little keepsake. After all, so many of them have come and gone... it'd be good to have something to remember each other by, in case someone left. Why not take a photo together? Enjoy the moment.
Congrats on making it another month, everyone.
lmfao A
But hey, it's Finn over there and with the mission and shit going on, he hasn't had a chance to really reconnect with his Secret Keeper ™. Dean's picking his way over when a friggin' roomba nearly conks him on the head, ducking just in time, hands over his head as Finn runs over to check on the robot. ]
Dude!
no subject
Are you okay?
[ There's no pain thrumming through the Force, but hell, this happened because of the Force. It could definitely be out of whack in his head, easily. ]
no subject
[ He's never had a roomba zoom at his head, but mercifully it didn't make contact. ]
The hell happened?
no subject
I couldn't sense it and the movie was playing and- and I've... been using the Force a little more-...
[ He pauses, exhausted. ]
It just happened-... I can't watch scary movies anymore. [ Yeah, that won't be a big hardship for him, to be honest. ]
no subject
[ He glances at the screen and makes a face. ]
Too similar to shit back home. Why watch that when I dealt with it in real life? I like the B rated stuff, Hellhazers, the All Saint's Days movies.
no subject
[ Maybe. Hopefully. ]
Are those scary like that one?
no subject
Some of them are, yeah.
[ He pauses. ]
Most, actually. I've only met a couple who weren't malicious. [ Molly hadn't been. God he'd felt bad for her. ]
no subject
What happens to them? I mean, what do you do with them?
[ Are they helped? Destroyed? It's crazy to think about. ]
no subject
[ Do you really wanna know? ]
We usually help 'em pass on. Otherwise they just get angrier and angrier and kill more and more people.
no subject
... Sounds like you save people, then.
[ There's something here about saving people and hunting things, can't put his finger on it. ]
no subject
[ No probably not. Dean's gonna leave it at that. ]
Uh, yeah. Basically. It's kinda the family business.
[ ba-zing ]