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.
khajidont: (Jaime - idek I'm running out of words)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-22 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
Something like that. But if anyone wants any more than that - well, someone's set up a sort of Chapel in one of our empty rooms. Everyone here's gonna have to be satisfied with, you know, all of this.

[He's gone to the Chapel a few times since they got here. Not - hah - religiously, but often enough. He's not sure if it helps or not. He thinks it might.]
khajidont: (Jaime - Heard this story a million times)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-22 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Jaime's expression turns sympathetic - though he wouldn't know what it's like to be distant from your parents, not in a million years - and he leans forward, resting his chin on the heel of his hand.]

That sucks, man. You were a superhero back home?
awarlock: adenine @ dw (Default)

[personal profile] awarlock 2013-11-22 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't a difficult task. [Says the guy using ~magic to do this] They shouldn't have left you with it.

[He watches her expression briefly and changes pattern the light shows every now and then.] This is trivial compared to what I was made to do.
quackery: (is goodbye goodbye)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-22 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes things just end, you know? I mean, it's natural, and it makes way for new things that can be good, too.

[Normally she might be more somber answering a question like that, but on a day like this, specifically made for being thankful for the things in your life, the smile stays on her face.]

You could always go back to them! You never know.
Edited (yells "icons" into the sky) 2013-11-22 17:08 (UTC)
governorkang: (Home / Hatchlings are a handful)

[personal profile] governorkang 2013-11-22 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose I should start from the beginning, then.

[People are beginning to clear out now, so he's not as worried about others overhearing.]

The dark goddess Takhisis had the eggs of the metallic dragons, her enemies, stolen, while they slept. She made them swear an oath that they would get their eggs back safely if they didn't intervene in her latest attempt to take over Krynn.

[His tone and expression turn bitter.]

Most did. The few that refused were punished by the other metallics, for not believing Takhisis's lies, and for not giving up on their children.

When the metallics realized what had truly happened, that their eggs had been warped by magic to create us, they joined the war.
firstroar: (pic#6892337)

[personal profile] firstroar 2013-11-22 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Whenever they wish, here. No one will tell them to forget, to change themselves if they're not ready. It's safe.

[his smile goes a little crooked.] But it's only a memory, and not a flawless one. We're asleep, you and I. Others are here, too.
khajidont: (Jaime - Mild)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-23 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Technically all the food here is free. It's just not usually very good.

[Jaime takes a couple steps back as she does, then gropes around behind him on the table until he comes across a pen. He holds it between his index and middle finger, waggling it in Collette's direction.]

So, d'you want to do the honours of the first signing?
oncearanger: (lost in it)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-23 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I still am. But I had to swear that I would never reveal that to anyone...and fighting took up so much of my time that I hardly saw them.

Inventing excuses for my absences and injuries took up even more time.
oncearanger: (lost in it)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-23 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Well. He takes in a sharp breath.]

Classic villain maneuver...yet I've fallen for it before.
khajidont: (Jaime - sidelong glance)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-23 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He knows what Billy's talking about - not with his parents, thank god, but time suddenly slipping through your fingers, the lies, the fighting, ducking out of your regular life time and time again because all of a sudden you're somebody, you're needed.]

You couldn't even tell your family? Why not?
oncearanger: (lost in it)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-23 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
The mentor who assigned us the powers threatened to take them from us if we told anyone.

The rule was for our own protection, to prevent the citizens and media from hounding us, but I never thought it did much good. Our enemies always used their magic to discover our identities right away, and the rule never stopped them from attacking our families to get to us.

[He bows his head]

If I ever see them again...I'm not supposed to have my powers anymore, but I don't care. I'm going to tell them and hope they forgive me.
khajidont: (Jaime - we've already been over this)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-23 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
That's dumb. I mean, not the secret identity thing, but not being able to tell anyone? No way anyone can keep that up.

[It's a good way of separating yourself from everyone you love, he thinks. There's a reason he told his parents and his best friends pretty much day one. There's only so much you can do amongst other heroes. He offers Billy a tight smile.]

I'm sure they'll forgive you. If you have to lie about anything, lying about helping people is about as good as you can get.
oncearanger: (Default)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-23 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I'm hoping for.

[He shakes his head sharply to rid himself of the darker thoughts]

Anyway...the separation's easier with friends. Thanks, Jaime.
charming_jerk: (smirk)

[personal profile] charming_jerk 2013-11-23 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
A winged mountain shootin' rainbows. [He grins, and pops some more food in his mouth.]
governorkang: (Body language)

[personal profile] governorkang 2013-11-23 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
They knew Takhisis's nature, her tricks. They should have known better.

During the war, they killed us. That's to be expected, being on opposite sides. But that wasn't the only reason they did it; they thought it a mercy, that we were perversions and better off dead. Some of them even tried to change us back to dragons, and failed. I can still see the looks of revulsion, of pity, in their eyes when they killed us during battle. They didn't stop after the war ended, either, continuing to hunt us down.

[His wings rustle and his scales click at the memories.]
commentboxtroll: (the slowest route to victory)

[personal profile] commentboxtroll 2013-11-23 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. She most definitely is.
khajidont: (Jaime - Talking)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-23 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, no problem. [He feels a little guilty, honestly. Here Billy is talking about his superhero life, and Jaime's not quite ready to talk about his.

Maybe one day. Billy's a good man, and there are worse people to know the secret.]


What name did you go by, anyway? Maybe I've heard of you.
galactically: (greetings from the galactic fairy)

[personal profile] galactically 2013-11-23 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's truly a sight to behold!

[Her grin falters a little, but quickly sets it back in place. Her voice sounds wistful towards the end.]

Too bad the space shuttles around here won't take you to Frontier and other fleets, but maybe someday I'll give you a tour.
moralperil: (laughter is the best medicine)

[personal profile] moralperil 2013-11-24 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, um! I think we might've gone to this theater to steal a dress, and I changed into it and kind of stuffed tissues up here. [Mahdi indicates hir chest area.] We walked a little bit around, and he showed me the city and said we should go to a really fancy restaurant... and then we realized I wouldn't be allowed in! [Mahdi forces a smile.] So we got some picnic foods, and went to Central Park and ate there and laughed for a long time.
quackery: ('cause i wanna leave on top)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-24 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Why wouldn't they let you in? Or, well, why do you think they wouldn't have let you in?
moralperil: (FROWN.)

[personal profile] moralperil 2013-11-24 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Because I have dark skin. America in 1890 was not a good time for people like me. People even gave me dirty looks for being near him, being on his arm... [Mahdi sighs.] I thought someone would say something. I thought something might happen. Because to... to people who look like you, and Jack, someone like me is not a real person at all.
quackery: (there's only one word left to sing)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-24 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
But nobody said or did anything other than the glaring, right? I mean, not to say that's not something important in itself... But they didn't try to hurt you, did they?
oncearanger: (answers)

[personal profile] oncearanger 2013-11-24 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well...that was sure something. Something rather nasty.]

That's horrid. But...he doesn't think that way, does he?

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