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Collette ([personal profile] crocodilesmiles) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-09 04:24 pm

( open ) happy moonsgiving, everyone! (forward dated to 11/15)

Date & Time: All Day, November 15th, 3313
Location: Focused centrally on the Moon Base Cafeteria.
Characters: Any and all!
Summary: It's a feast on the moon under the guise of being a new sort of Thanksgiving! Food, drink, merriment, food comas... lend a helping hand, fill a few plates of goodies, and meet friends new and old!
Warnings: None right now. Please PM this account should anything go beyond a "my grandmother is also reading this and that is okay" level of appropriate.
Notes: Tag in action or prose, and please specify a time of day, location, or activity your character is participating in! (Set-up, the feast, clean up, etc.) Feel free to offer multiple prompts, as your heart desires! Also, Collette is asking for people to write something they're thankful for on butchers paper on the wall before getting their first plate of food. This is 100% optional!

In the morning, the setting up begins. It's hard to say what's a morning versus what isn't on the moon, but using the lighting system as a sort of guide, those who offered to help set up the feast or continue on with the cooking will all be there bright and early.

After things are cleaned, the cooking continues on while further set up of plateware and silverware and hard to break glasses are left to those helping hands with a mind for arrangement details. The whole of one section has been converted into a sort of buffet-style lineup, waiting for the dishes to be complete and set at ready. All varieties of the usual dietary fare have been offered, some in greater quantities than others.

Then comes the time where people stopping by or trickling in aren't just turned around or co-opted into assisting; it's feast time, though not before an announcement that each person getting a plate of food must write at least one thing they're thankful for on a large sheet of butcher paper taped up to the wall. There's a variety of colored markers and pens provided, from someone's personal (and eclectic) collection. It's a soft price to pay for free food and plenty of it!

When the feasting has wound down, so begins the clean up. Tired, drunk, well fed, over fed, or simply content, people will be shuffled out or dragged into helping turn the cafeteria back into working, normal form. What decorations were added will need collecting (or stealing), plates and dishes and cooking implements and pots and pans will need washing, and floors a good sweeping and waterless mopping before things are all back in order. Leftovers, if there are any, will need to be placed in sealable containers and put into refrigeration.

And then, blissfully unaware of anything impending on the horizon, to bed, or different haunts, for the night.
quackery: (there's only one word left to sing)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Was that one of the presidents?

[She shrugs, tilting her head in thought.]

I don't know, they're pretty! All graceful and stuff. Ooh, yeah, I like pigeons! What's L.A. like?
firstroar: (pic#6891970)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-15 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
[his hands free up from the folding business, leaving it on the table, letting him turn and give her more of his attention.]

Well? [what's wrong, Collette. your problems are better to focus on, should there be any.]
quackery: (goodbye! it's a happy ending)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Swan Princess? What's that?

[A smile spreads out on her face upon hearing Collette's obvious love for the place.]

It sound incredible! Big cities like that are always fun. So it was right by the sea, then? Did you get to go to the beach a lot?
quackery: (there's only one word left to sing)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Pause.]

Wait, why does he kidnap her? Why does he hate everything? Why is her boyfriend dumb? I don't think I follow...

Was it a nice beach? I've never heard of an ATV!
mach_n_roll: (Whistle)

Open

[personal profile] mach_n_roll 2013-11-15 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Before dinner.]

Sonic shuffles between people half-again his height on the way to the kitchen. He looks like he's trying to be clandestine, which is laughable because he's got all the clandestine guile of a mack truck at speed, and he's holding onto a small stack of boxes which doesn't help his sneaking ability at all. He glances around and darts into the kitchen, tossing the boxes onto the counter.



"Hereyago! Man, it took me a while to find these too."

[During dinner]

Sonic is boisterous and happy at the table, quick with a short story or a laugh, and eating more than a little guy like him could reasonably hold. Runner's metabolism, you see. Care to talk? Comment on his status as a bottomless pit?

...Tell him he's just eaten some of the tofurkey?

[After dinner]

Food coma? Not for this hedgehog! Sonic's helping with clean-up, although if someone doesn't take that tower of dishes out of his hands, they're probably going to wind up broken...
firstroar: (ʜᴇsɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴs)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-15 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not certain there's any solid rule about it... [tilting his head at her.] But if you're determined to carry on, it's fine. [it's not like there's much worry about sunrises or sunsets to sleep through.]
firstroar: (pic#6165264)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-15 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[wow, Collette. Blue is like...a professional sleeper and he thinks this sure is something precious.

he's gone only in the time it takes to move those plates she's stacked, finding her and the magical fork.

he carefully plucks it out of her hand before leaning down:]


I've done what I can here. Would you walk me back to the quarters? [the closer he can get her to bed the better the world will be.]
quackery: (everything that's left to say)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
But even if she was a princess and he could have been king by marrying her or whatever the plan was, he couldn't force her to say yes even if he kidnapped her, could he? Oh— Odette, like Swan Lake?

[There's a little pang in her chest at that, remembering Jinx and Gabriel, and the smile fades for a moment (in surprise, not necessarily sadness) before returning.]

You mentioned the food there too, though! What'd they have that was different?
charming_jerk: (confused/suspicious)

during

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2013-11-15 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Johnny looks up at Caspian with a mouthful of food himself. He tries to talk around it. What are table manners.]

What, me? Hell nah, I can't cook. I just helped collect a lot of the stuff, 'n some of it was pre-cooked.
charming_jerk: (confused/suspicious)

during

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2013-11-15 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Johnny was slightly more chipper than he had been lately, though it might be hard to tell. A bad mood certainly hasn't curbed his appetite any. He talks with a half-full mouth.]

The fuck? Why a turkey?
moonlitlove: (dreaming rabbit)

[personal profile] moonlitlove 2013-11-15 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
It was really that bad?

Wow. Even the powder stuff must seem pretty good.

But that just means you have to try everything, right? Don't forget the cranberry sauce.
oncearanger: (bashful)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-15 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
...oh!

[He holds up his hand]

I didn't mean it like that. I enjoy the food as well. I just meant that I should be able to think of more than that. And...after a while, I was.

That there's still a chance that things can improve in the future, and that I have friends now.
allucinator: (happy: kind)

[personal profile] allucinator 2013-11-15 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well, good.

[He brushes his thumb against the back of Mahdi's hand. He's fairly happy himself, truth be told; he likes the simplicity of eating supper with someone he quite likes.]

You wanna come over after supper?
copia: (this is the remix)

[personal profile] copia 2013-11-15 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's cool to go back in time, but yeah, that's horrible that you had to deal with such treatment.

I do not. But, it looked familiar to my language back home, so maybe there's a tie-in with this Japan and my country...
blondtactician: (turn around)

[personal profile] blondtactician 2013-11-15 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what's going to happen to him. To either of us, or his sister, or any of our friends. That was easier when I could see his stupid, earnest face all the time."

Armin glances at her hand and sort of wants to take it, but he hardly knows her. If it were Eren or Mikasa, well, they spent plenty of nights in the old warehouse huddled up against each other for warmth, when they lost their homes. A little cuddling was not strange to any of them. But that feels like a lifetime ago.

He really regrets not being close to Eren every moment of the day, now. "My best friend," he clarifies, "We've known each other since we were little. HE and his sister... after they took my grandfather, we were the only family we had. Being brought here, it was the longest time I'd been away from him since we met."

Embarrassed at his own candor, Armin quickly takes a few bites and chews, slow and deliberate.
blondtactician: (turn around)

[personal profile] blondtactician 2013-11-15 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
Worse than I'm making it sound, for so many reasons. [Armin says quietly.]

Um... which one's the cranberry sauce?
moralperil: (zap!)

[personal profile] moralperil 2013-11-15 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
New York! We stole it from a theater, I hope they don't miss it too much!

[Mahdi does a quick spin, hand over hir punch, just to show off the movement of the skirt. It really is a lovely dress, though perhaps showing is years of use up close.]

How are you, Ahiru?
moralperil: (zap!)

[personal profile] moralperil 2013-11-15 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
Here you go!

[Mahdi hands over the fork, and an extra napkin.]
moralperil: (hearts & shoujo bubbles)

[personal profile] moralperil 2013-11-15 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to help Collette and everyone clean up, I think. And I was kind of thinking of making a post on the network about some stuff I've been working on... but I might just fall asleep! Unless you think we could think of something else to do? [To hir credit, Mahdi's good enough at playing innocent that it genuinely sounds like ze might not have a clue. Of course, it helps that most of the time ze really doesn't.]

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