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.
fullmeasure: (pic#6845182)

[personal profile] fullmeasure 2013-11-15 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Mike tilts his head at the question, then gives a shrug. He didn't really understand why kids kept approaching him in this place - maybe he actually looked like a grandfather or something. Sigh]

I'm enjoying myself. Are you?
quackery: (the last goodbye goodbye goodbye)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[She grins, nodding.]

Yeah, I am! It's really nice, everybody getting together like this. Everybody seems so happy and lively, you know? It's good to see.
fullmeasure: (pic#6845164)

[personal profile] fullmeasure 2013-11-15 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's good to see, but that's why I'm over here. A little too lively for me, you know?

[it's only a half-truth, but hey]
quackery: ('cause i wanna leave on top)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so you're more — what's it called again? Oh, introverted! So you're more introverted, then?
fullmeasure: (quirk)

[personal profile] fullmeasure 2013-11-15 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Something like that. I'm a little too old to run around with the rest of them, don't you think?
quackery: (everything that's left to say)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it probably depends!

[Especially in a place like this, appearances can be deceiving; she's known people who looked far younger than him but were centuries old.]

I guess if you think so, though. You'd probably know best! Still, I bet it would be fun if you could try for a little while.
fullmeasure: (pic#6845171)

[personal profile] fullmeasure 2013-11-15 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
I can have plenty of fun not running around with them.
quackery: (to every night alone goodbye)

[personal profile] quackery 2013-11-15 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
You could have fun doing both things!
fullmeasure: (pic#6845149)

[personal profile] fullmeasure 2013-11-15 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
That's true. But I think I'll save that for another time, maybe.