[OPEN] An OTA for any post-mission threads! And Movie Night.

[groupiedrifter]

CHARACTERS: The crew!
LOCATION: The Mess Hall
DATE: After the mission / Movie Night, the day after the mission!
CONTENT: Feel free to use this log as somewhere to play out closed starters or what-have-you for any post-mission needs! There is also a movie night (sorta) in which the crew can contribute to it, as Newton is going to be out sick for this one.
WARNINGS: Nothing severe! But mark your comments if needed.

Upon returning from the mission, things need to take a real breather, huh? Not only have some of their folks returned home recently, but the witnessing of two crews getting gobbled up by pissed off dragons is also a thing. Not that a lot of the crew would probably contest the outcome wasn't somewhat deserved — caging living creatures to steal away from their families would definitely fall under 'stupid games, stupid prizes' that Americans love to say. Or whoever invented that (it was definitely not Tom Clancy, despite what some people say).

Anyway, everyone's back to mingling into the station, tired and victorious and maybe a little put-out by the overall murder and maiming. Business as usual, right?

So, Newt does what he usually does! Attempt to set up the mess hall for another typical movie night.

Only, he has fallen actually sick.

So the movie night is gonna have to rely solely on the crew, this go-around.

Upon entering the mess hall, many will find the usual things half-heartedly strewn about: the movie projector with the DVD player, sitting unused on one of the tables. The white cloth used to project on, half-hung and abandoned, looking like the world's worst sheet ghost on Halloween. Stacked dinner and snack plates with nothing on them are still in the kitchen, not yet moved around. In fact, the only thing that seems to have been fully supplied is a pile of pillows and blankets on the floor and one bag of 5 lbs., unopened sour patch kids on a chair.

Newt, it seems, has been put down for the day with his pirate-world-flu. Pirate Flu?

(It's not scurvy.)

Anyone stopping in will have to fend for themselves and provide any movies, music, food or additional goodies for this movie night, while Newton Geiszler is forced into bedrest by Chishiya and Yujin (who have the patience of saints in this situation).

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FOOD, MOVIES, AND/OR OTHER GOODIES FOR THE MOVIE NIGHT

[groupiedrifter]

Feel free to list anything your character is contributing for this movie night here!

[shadysided]

Ziggy will be supplying sandwiches she made by hand in the kitchen, especially her favorites:

PB&J sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, and egg salad sandwiches.

... Some grilled cheeses might be a little burnt on the edges.

[coordination]

The thing about Yzak is he doesn't actually need to be strongarmed into helping Newton out, though he of course has to HUFF AND PUFF!!! when he finds himself at movie night ONCE AGAIN!! Because Newton ALWAYS INSISTS!! COME ON BUDDY!! ETC!!

Seeing everything halfassed and sad looking though will mean Yzak will do a lot of the setup. Fixing that projection cloth, spreading out the blankets and pillows. Tsunderes himself through that like "jeez the guy couldn't even hang this up right," and "I guess I'LL have to fix this" since clearly he can and he can do it PERFECTLY. His cranky lil hissy cat grousings as he works but really it's clearly a LABOR OF LOVE FOR HIS FAVE LIL SICK GUY. Making sure his night is properly set up. (people are free to help here and Yzak will absolutely take it upon himself to be like NO SET THAT UP THERE! THAT STREAMER ISN'T STRAIGHT ENOUGH (but neither is he, so,) FIX IT!! etc)

Also he'll bring some tea and maybe when he cooks for HIMSELF (something like a light, warm, healthy stew) he'll make A LITTLE EXTRA!! HE GUESSES!!

Maybe he'll even share some of the white choco stash he brings.

Maybe.

[laviny]

Yelena is making spicy mac and cheese. Which is really just boxed mac and cheese doused in sriracha sauce. Enjoy, everyone.

She’s also making Jell-O shots.

[softshoes]

Yujin is preoccupied trying to make sure Newt doesn't break out of the infirmary to attempt to host movie night. However, he does stop by to leave the collection of Sherlock Holmes films Newt gave him on his birthday... as well as... The Gaytrix™️.

You guys can pick the feature, he's trying to Nyquil-drug a guy with 6 doctorates.

[zune]

shortly after he arrived here and learned he could request things in the supply drop, homedawg did indeed request a bunch of random space candies, including a big bag of gear shift candy. (and then a request of sour patch kids, reese's peanut butter cups, starburst, nerds, skor, maybe some others i'm forgetting idk)

so there will likely be a bowl full of these delightfully bad-for-you treats because sharing is caring.

[deadanimemom]

Yuri will make rice balls. Some of them are plain. Some have tuna fish salad in them. You can figure out which are which on your own.

Sickly Newton Geiszler | OTA

[groupiedrifter]

[Apparently, you can get sick visiting planets which you don't have a usual tolerance for, when it comes to viruses and disease. It's not like Newt isn't heavily educated in the subject. Nooo, not him, Mister 6 PhDs. When he comes back with a scratchy throat and a steadily rising fever, he figures that's just what he gets for sitting out in a forest for days, overexerting himself when he has the cardio of a pug. Instead of admitting to defeat, he opts for pretending he's not feeling sicker and sicker — fake it 'til you make it is a quote only beaten out by fortune favors the bold, in his household. "I'm not sick, I'm just stuffy", or "I'm fine, I'm just stressed and busy", or the famous "I didn't get my 8 hours in." All golden commentary to distract from the obvious.

Anyways, back to preparing things.

Newt collects blankets, drags out the usual equipment needed after a mission, and starts getting the Mess Hall ready for the typical Movie Night. It's kind of just his job now, you know? It feels like if he missed doing it, it would be a curse on the station. Like, total 'a curse be upon ye' kind of curse.

But as he wanders around the station to do his usual thing, he looks pretty flushed. The occasional cough or sneeze ricochets off the metal walls and travels easily down the halls of the Ximilia, and anyone who investigates the sound will find Newton carrying around plates in the kitchen, or blankets from the communal area, or pushing tables around to make the proper arrangements in the mess hall. Not to be dramatic, but he definitely looks like you could cook an egg on his forehead, with how sweaty and hot he's become.

Newt is, indeed, sick. For real for real, for the first time since... he doesn't even wanna remember.

And like past times, he is stubbornly pretending it is totally not happening.

Eventually, Newton gets forced to return to his room, where he is going to be on bedrest for the next week. If anyone dare visit, they will find this pathetic little guy bunched up with blankets, surrounded by mountains of treacherously teetering handkerchief piles, and playing some random movie on his own portable DVD player. But sometimes if you're quick enough, you'll find him trying to sneak back out into the lab to work on his notations, or shuffling into the sunlight room to go collapse into some grass and lay there like a half-chewed piece of jerky. Feel free to prod him and make sure he's alive out there.

Sometime during his sick break, he sends a text to the network:]

TEXT | UN: Newt

I'm BORED!
Someone do something about it.
Or I'll kick my feet and cry. 😭

text; un: romanoff

[deaddrop]

Guess what movie this is.

👴🏠🎈🐿️

here he comes

[coordination]

[ If the disarray of the attempted set-up of the mess hall wasn't enough of an indicator, the station's small enough that word will get around that Newton's been forced into bedrest.

So that only means one thing is happening here.

Newton will hear the clack clack clack of boots making its way down the hall, growing louder and closer. Quick, with purpose, ominous.

The door swings open.

Yzak is framed in the doorway, face pinched into a scowl, prosthetic arm out, finger pointing accusatory; Newton's own creation turned against him! ]

You bastard! You ARE sick!!

[dispassioned]

[As it happens, on one of the days Newt is attempting to sneak out to the lab, Chishiya is on his way to check in on him. See if he needs any fluids or Tylenol or anything. You know, doctor stuff.

So, when Newt's door slides open before Chishiya has the chance to do anything, he looks extremely unimpressed.]

Where do you think you’re going?

( text )

[offseers]

Bored? How come?

[ how can anyone be bored here, you all have so much time on your hands?? ]

text; un: clarke

[romancekiller]

Isn't that a bit too dramatic?

[softshoes]

[Fortunately for Newt, he's sneaky enough to get out of the infirmary this time because Yujin left the room for a good fifteen consecutive minutes. Unfortunately for Newt, Yujin is already onto him, because he's made at least two escape attempts on this infirmary shift alone.

Congrats, half-chewed jerky man: one of your doctors is hovering above you in the grass.]

You'd be far more comfortable in bed, Newt.

[zune]

[ It's in the midst of Newt dragging chairs and tables around in the mess hall, looking overheated and sweaty and downright like his body could just melt into the floor like something from a cartoon, that Peter happens to be out for a quick rehydration stint before he returns back to his training.

(A guy's gotta keep up, after all, if he doesn't want to end up in a potato-state that gets him made fun of, and then has everyone fawning of that freakin' god of thunder guy, and then he winds up being the schlub that everyone leaves behind, and yeah. YEAH it's a whole thing, but it's not a thing he's even remotely going down the rabbit hole of while a buddy's in need of a hand.

And maybe some cold medicine.) ]

Whoa, dude. You might wanna slow down, huh?

Ziggy | Fear Street | OTA in the kitchen during movie night

[shadysided]

[After Yzak shuffles in to through his big tsun energy around, Ziggy slips into the kitchen a little more quietly (and with an additional dollop of hesitation). The truth is, she hadn't really been all that involved in the social aspects of the crew — like, parties and sleepovers and all of that. It's always been easier to be solo in a lot of what she does to occupy her time...

But some of that has eased up a little, being around decent people who don't let her hole up in her room and drown everyone out in favor of being an unresolved mess of a person. So! When that weirdo punk nerd gets sick, she finally decides to offer some of her help for the stupid movie sleepover cause.

Her way of helping? Making sandwiches.

Anyone popping in will hear her curse, louder than the sizzle-pop of grease in a pan, as she urgently moves a slightly burnt grilled cheese from the oven to a plate of other slightly-burnt grilled cheeses. She's got eggs bubbling away in a pot on the stove, to be turned into egg salad sandwiches, and half-eaten tubs of peanut butter and jelly on the other side of the counter.

She's either chaotically working on a new grilled cheese, running water over a grease burn on the back of her hand, or far more peacefully cobbling together PB&Js, taking scoops of peanut butter and eating as she goes.

At one point, if other company agrees to join in, she finds herself reminiscing out loud:]

I had to learn how to cook more after dad left, and it was pretty much always sandwiches. I'm starting to wish I'd learned how to make desserts, though; pie, brownies, those little lemon tart things Mom used to make when I was really little — making eggs and sandwiches kind of feels pretty uncool in comparison to sweets, now that I think about it.

[offseers]

[ "dad". a father who left? who would conceive of such a thing? noah certainly couldn't. but he's never had a father. parents are a bizarre concept to him still. ]

I know a little, but I wasn't very good at it. We were used to receiving food from the castle.

[deferences]

[it's during making the peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches that sizhui encounters ziggy, an amused little smile quirking his lips as he watches her meticulous motions for a long moment, the back-and-forth of applying each of one condiment on the bread and her taking bites in-between, before he eventually offers to help.

after they've exchanged a few words and he's settled in with his own knife and bread, the jars placed in-between them for better access, he's listening intently, nodding in acknowledgment here or there.]

Sandwiches and eggs are perfectly acceptable as snacks. [he gestures one hand toward their still growing stacks of the formerly mentioned item, flashes a full-on grin then continues,] And we'll have more than enough to feed everyone at this rate. However, if it's desserts you would like to make, I could help you out there; I've recreated things we've seen while on missions and I know some from my homeworld that I could share.

[deadanimemom]

I'm sure there's a cookbook around here somewhere if you want to try baking. [Yuri offers, while she peels eggs.]

Yzak Jule | Gundam SEED/Destiny | OTA come at me

[coordination]

#01: Prepwork ( mess hall )

[ So Newton is sick, as evidenced by his half finished set-up of what is clearly going to be yet another movie night. It's come to be expected by now, that every downtime between missions is going to include this. Since Newton was a dirty lying gremlin man about his health over the network earlier, Yzak's first course of action was to go yell at him.

His second course of action finds him back in the mess hall, grumbling to himself about "jeez, he couldn't even get this set up right," and "can't believe he actually tried to do all this in the state he's in, the idiot," as he goes about fixing the cloth used for a screen and basically picking up whatever prep work Newt started on to set up for this movie night. Despite the fussing, he's very meticulous about how he sets up, gee it's like he's doing this because he's actually extremely fond of Newton and wants to make sure he does right by him or something.

He wouldn't deny help on the setting up end of things, but be prepared for a perfectionist making super sure that everything is just right by way of: ]

That's not even! Pull the right side down a little bit more — just a little.

#02: Results ( also mess hall )

[ Yzak does more than just pick up the slack on setting up. He needs dinner for himself, so decides that evening to make himself something earlier than he usually would (and that something is a light, healthy but tasty stew, comfy and a good match to being wrapped up in some blankets as one relaxes and watches a movie) and make some extra - enough that he can bring it to drop off once the movie night gets underway. And what dinner he preps for himself usually comes with something to drink - so there's some freshly brewed tea also brought along. He'll leave everything else about prep to the others, people better equipped to pick good movies and set up fun games - that's not really his area.

And really, depending on things he only pays partial attention to the movies anyway. If it's something silly and lighthearted, he'll probably hang around but stick to his own little corner with a book, either reading or writing. Horror movie? He will ignore completely, thank you very much, don't @ him. ]

Water for the tea should still be hot. [ He'll call to anybody checking it out later in the night. ] It's an enchanted pot that keeps it that way.

#03: Wildcard ( whenever, wherever, shakira joke here )

[ Wanna run into Yzak while he's cooking in preparation? Going to his room for some tea leaves? Heading back to his room to sleep at the end of the night? Somewhere or sometime else for an entirely unrelated reason because I have no idea if I'm going to make my own log? Drop any other kind of starter here or send me a DM here or hmu at urtv on Discord (i'm still not around plurkside for a few more days) with an idea and I can put up a personal starter for you! ]

[shadysided]

Stop being so bossy!

[He's not even telling her what to do, she's just bringing a bunch of sandwiches over to the table near him. It's just, you know. She's also bossy, so she has the impossible to ignore impulse to boss him around about bossing people around.]

This is a dumb sleepover, not a beauty pageant!

for the baguette man (ryunosuke)

[coordination]

[ The simulation room is on the fritz, which is the absolute perfect time for Yzak to decide to use it. He is unaware that the sims are glitching right now, of course, otherwise he wouldn't even consider going in.

And when he does go in, all seems to be in perfect working order at the start. It's a touch of homesickness that brings him here today - homesickness and a block of free time as he's gotten through his usual routine faster than he usually does. And when he considers heading back to his room, he thinks about the fact that he doesn't like being in his room on the Ximilia if he doesn't have to be. It makes a particular constant, sitting loneliness in his heart feel that much more prominent. So instead, he figures, he'll take a break in his room back home instead.

Yzak lives in a big, bougie-looking two floor mansion. Huge windows with beautiful views (of the city in the distance, a thin orbital elevator in the center that moves upward toward the center of this half of the hourglass-shaped colony his people live on - the sky looks natural and blue at a glance, too, but upon a closer look one can see the plating that the space colony is made out of, faded behind it), high walls, lushly furnished and clean rooms. Spotless carpets, vases with flowers and full bookshelves. Though on the counters the photographs, if one happens to note them, seem to say that only two people live here. Yzak, and a woman who he looks so much like that it can only be his mother.

Yzak pulls in a slow breath when the scene constructs itself around him, nostalgia wrapping around him like a warm, comforting blanket. It's been so long since he's actually been here, and he wonders when he will again.

This is the scene that greets Ryunosuke when he enters the simulation room for whatever his reason for coming is. He can poke around as he pleases, as it's peaceful and quiet and— ]

What - what - WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?

[ Oh nevermind.

Yzak's voice comes from the first room on the right. Followed by a computerized feminine voice that says "it's good to see you again." He steps out of the room with a quick urgency, and in front of him a hologram of a young blond woman in a maid outfit sparks to life and asks "do you require something to drink?" He skids to a stop, bristles up and yells. ]

I didn't program these things into this!! What's going on!?

[ He makes a sharp turn to the right. Another of the same hologram appears, only brown-haired now, and says, "you've been gone all day, do you want to rest?"

There are three of these hologram maids speaking to him like this, disappearing and reappearing in whatever direction Yzak is trying to head in order to escape them. The exasperated look in his blue eyes says that this is something familiar, something he's dealt with before. ]

Go away!! Stupid things!

[ Help. ]

anakin skywalker | ota

[facultative]

[Anakin had lost all interest once the mission had been successfully completed and the fate of his former crew didn't even register to him. What did it matter what their actions had lead to when they had bigger goals to reach for?

So he comes to the movie night, not to find comfort, but to kill some time while they wait for their next mission. He's fixed himself a plate of spicy mac and cheese with various kinds of candy sprinkled on top. No, he doesn't know what these foods are, but the flavour combination doesn't seem to bother him as he absentmindedly chews his meal while examining the movie options.]

Hey, it's not all just old people shows, right? [What was that one called again...] Like Jurassic Park?

[deferences]

[while not his first movie night, lan sizhui's still a little extra watchful near the beginning of it; the remnants of adrenaline coursing through his veins are more present than he would like too, but he isn't totally standoffish, and he does eventually branch out, partaking in conversation and some snacks.

the handful of sour patch kids he has is dwindling, so he makes a brief detour for peanut butter cups, then he beelines toward anakin, expression initially brightened with excitement, though he softens following the question, humming in thought before lifting his left shoulder in a half-shrug.]

Unfortunately, I cannot say. None of these sound familiar to me. [however, once sizhui learns what jurassic park is, he's going to feel some kind of way.] But I'm not against watching them to find out.

Phoenix Wright // Ace Attorney

[servesyouwright]

A. Movie night

[ Although Phoenix is new enough he's only been to one of these, he's gathered that it's a regular thing. So he arrives to the Mess Hall. Unlike last time, though, there's not a movie already on.

Lips pursed in thought, he grabs a Reese's peanut butter cup, then goes over to what looks like a meager collection of DVD's. And he finds the Sherlock Holmes movies Yujin provided, picking one up with a sort of puzzled frown. ]

'Sherlock Holmes'? Do they mean Herlock?

[ Once he's done being confused about the name, he's putting one on. A story he doesn't recognise, so that he can get the chance to do some case solving. Flex those muscles. ]

B. Post movie night

[ Just like Newt, someone else is refusing to admit he's sick, though he's not so badly off that he couldn't throw a movie night if he wanted to. It does mean, however, that one late morning he's in the kitchen whipping up some breakfast and a cup of coffee, sniffling and occasionally coughing.

Don't worry, he'll get himself a mask soon. ]

[evicerated]

[There's an icy snort of derision from nearby.]

I assume they mean whatever name is printed on the little box there.

[Arctic is just on his way to the kitchen. He isn't here to socialize... But that doesn't mean he can't take time to be a total prick en route. After a short pause, he actually leans a little closer, too, stretching his long neck out to squint at the DVD box.]

...What IS that, anyway?

The Darkling / Aleksander Morozova | Shadow and Bone

[cruelyethuman]

i. Movie night- old man drinking jello

[It has been months since he was here last, watching the flickering images that explode from the screen. Or, perhaps exploding is too strong a word for what is going on.

He sits back in a soft chair, black boots discarded next to it and small plate of jello shots (thanks to Yelena for making delicious treats) resting on the low table next to his chair.

And he watches as strangers are talking on the screen, a lot of it looks like technology centuries in the future for his own world, the bright colors and the fortunate explanation from an elderly gentleman, about the existence and manipulation of dna.

The tiniest building blocks that make up everything living.]

It makes me wonder if my Science would show in my dna...

[Aleksander trails off, eyes riveted on the screen.]

ii. Post movie night- old man on station, reading

[Once the movie ends, when the lights up up a little and he has cleared the area around himself from garbage and the aftermath of jello shots, he finds a book- it title looks promising of adventure. Another life, a different world- and he sits down in the darkness of the sun light room, back braced against a tree and a portable light in his hands, cracking the boom open.]

[greenpower]

[Fun fact: Ivy has never actually seen Jurassic Park before. Like, she knows about it because she's an age where she can't not know about it. She may have been excluded from anything approaching popularity in grade school and/or middle school, but she was alive. She had eyes. She watched TV.

So apparently that's changing now.

Harley would be proud, if she were here. It might be some kind of feeling related to that fact that provokes her to respond to the statement. Could it be loneliness?]

Yeah, uh... I have no idea what that means, but I can say that the science in this movie is like... wildly unrealistic. So if you're getting ideas about DNA from it, maybe don't.

[Or more likely the need for a distraction.]