crocodilesmiles: (☇ smile in mildly amused disbelief)
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.
allucinator: (sarcasm: wiiiiiink)

[personal profile] allucinator 2013-11-18 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
You pine for me for months and then you reject me?

[He kisses hir again-- and again, more firmly, trying to convince his angel.]

Please, you've seen them all night, I want to see you--
oncearanger: (bashful)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-18 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
I appreciate the taste too.

[He just smiles around a bite of potato. Mm.]

What else was there?
oncearanger: (lost in it)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Your faith is strong.

[Stronger than mine, Billy thinks, but this really isn't the appropriate time to say that.]

Sometimes I wonder if I'm destined to wander the universe forever. I think about building my own ship, warping across to go wherever I'm needed.

And then I'd come home for dinner.
moralperil: (;;;;;;;;;;)

[personal profile] moralperil 2013-11-18 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Mahdi looks away, dropping hir hands. Jack happened to tread on one of Mahdi's nerves pretty thoroughly. Ze speaks slowly and quietly.] I'm not rejecting you if I want to see more of my friends. Please don't make this weird. You'll have me all to yourself after this and we can kiss all you like.
allucinator: (anger: resentful)

[personal profile] allucinator 2013-11-18 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, shit, he thinks, belatedly, because of course he'd only been teasing, he'd been thinking he was talking to Katherine, to someone who could and would shove him away. He pulls back, pushing the back of his wrist against his mouth.

(Stupid. Fucking stupid, and he hates that hot shame curling in his stomach, though it had been an accident; he hates it so he covers it with anger-- not anger at Mahdi, but anger at himself, and he tries like hell to keep it under wraps, because there's no way the angel won't think it's the former and not the latter).]


Nah. You ain't. Go on. I'll see you after, yeah? If you want.
governorkang: (Having fun)

[personal profile] governorkang 2013-11-18 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I have to keep hope.

[Kang shrugs.]

I firmly believe that destiny is what you make of it. If that's what you end up doing, make a point to visit us every now and then.
commentboxtroll: (there is no benefit to a long war)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-11-18 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hadn't they already had dessert? Hmmmm. ]

Yeah? What kind?
commentboxtroll: (there is always opportunity)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-11-18 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"No. Gourd-like. There's a difference."

There really is! But no. He's only jesting, which marks him as being in a particularly good mood. Even with the wine question having killed it a notch, that doesn't last long. She doesn't focus on the where, but the what, and he's happy to oblige with answers.

He's one hell of a know-it-all and, for once, this isn't some bizarre futuristic high tech thing!

"You could. Wine made from honey is called mead. I could have gotten some, but I grabbed the first one I saw. I hadn't actually expected to share it at a dinner, you see."
oncearanger: (laughter)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-18 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
I will.

You're just waiting to laugh at me when I meet Fonrar, right?
governorkang: (Having a good day)

[personal profile] governorkang 2013-11-18 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Why would I laugh at you?
commentboxtroll: (draw a line in the sand)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-11-18 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
He finds an empty spot on the counter to deposit his own stack of plates and frowns. He doesn't leave quite yet, but why is she even looking?

"The ones in there aren't even done yet, so there's nothing to even put away. We'll just be standing around doing nothing until then!"
gevurah: (tattoos make me mysterious)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-18 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shakes her head. That sort of laziness wouldn't fly at USMA. ]

More work for us.

I'll be by the sinks. Holler if you need anything.
gevurah: laughs he who laughs last (today's pb: ruth wilson)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-18 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"It doesn't take that long." She leans against the counter, watching Caesar. "Collette's said quite a few people already walked away without bothering to clean up."
commentboxtroll: (feign disorder and crush him)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-11-18 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it was only a matter of time before people began figuring out just how to guilt him. Now would be one of those times and it isn't entirely lost on Caesar. He really wants to go back to sleep, but he doesn't want to abandon Collette.

It's a strange feeling, when he kept meaning to try and remain distant.

"What a bunch of ungrateful jerks."

Ugh. Fine. He'll stay, turning to lean against the counter as well, folding his arms across his chest in a bit of a huff while he's at it.
gevurah: (trolling stepmoms since 2009)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-11-18 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
She blinks back her surprise at how he suddenly remains where he is. There's nothing she can do to stop him besides a verbal scolding and stink eye, but now that she's mentioned Collette...

Kate's eyes flicker over to the girl on the other side of the room, silent and watching.

"Think of it as a character building exercise."
moralperil: (relaxed)

[personal profile] moralperil 2013-11-18 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Mahdi of course looks concerned, uncertain. After a moment ze offers a small smile, taking both of Jack's hands and squeezing them.] You probably won't even want to kiss me! I'll have eaten so much I'll be the size of this moon! [Mahdi brushes hir lips over Jack's knuckles.]
oncearanger: (bashful)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-18 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Because, try as I might to maintain social graces, I would do something awkward. As always.

[He smiles as he scoops up another bite]


But that's okay. I'm sure I could find a colorful story to share.
commentboxtroll: (to subdue the enemy without fighting)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-11-18 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Of all the things to ask! It's always so hard to figure out what Collette might say when he kids around, which is something he's very much reminded of right now. Are guys supposed to like those? No one told him!

"It's not as though I see your butt all that often, so how should I know?"

The rest, however, remains uncommented upon, as he settles on being vaguely embarrassed instead.

"Oh, you know. Have deep and meaningful conversations with the empty bottle. I never did get around to it, though I think that's for the best."
governorkang: (Looking up)

[personal profile] governorkang 2013-11-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be more worried about the younglings not leaving you alone.
commentboxtroll: (the king is only fond of words)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-11-18 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I already have enough character for three people, though. Why would I need more?"

He's going to pretend he didn't catch that look, the one shot over towards Collette. If he did, he would end up following it, and that would only be all the more telling!
firstgoldson: (pic#4483550)

[personal profile] firstgoldson 2013-11-18 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aurican has a very dry smile gracing his lips. ]

Thank you.

[ He takes the strip, cutting it down with his knife and fork. ]

By the way, I mean to ask you: how often do you go on the missions for the Initiative?

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