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Today, the Magpie Emporium's best customer was going to be the person who was working there. It was Graham's last day, and he was going to take advantage of it before he left to stock up on all sorts of things he'd been eying. He had a list. He was going to have to go back and get Triumph to help him carry all this stuff back with him. But he had a lot of great plans for his little knightly tabletop group, and some board games for when the guards had downtime (ha! Bored games!), some to bring home to his sisters that he thought they would like, too...

And it was a little sad having to think that his little return had come to its end so quickly again, but he was really, really excited about what lied ahead. Who knew? Maybe even King Edward would like a board game or two, or some shiny dice, or some cute little plushies. If they had a war board, he could populate his ranks with awesome minis!

Finishing one chapter was always a little sad, but the nice thing was that there was always another chapter following it, and who knew what one would find in those next pages?

The Magpie Emporium is open!

noonedecidesmyfate

Belle and Graham had arranged a little ice cream date (meetup? get-together?) for this afternoon. It just seemed like a wonderful idea for the day but ice cream was nearly always a wonderful idea.

They hadn't noticed any influx of children on their way here but then the dorms were a generally quiet place and it was entirely possible they'd had other things on their minds.

Like ice cream. What else? Tsk.

Once they'd settled at a table, having ordered sundaes rather too large for either of their frames (but that had never stopped them before), Belle grinned across the table at her companion.

"I didn't know they had jellybeans as a topping." She'd chosen peanut butter and hot fudge and some of those tiny chocolate eggs on top of her own. "Perhaps they heard you were coming, Sir Knight."

Or maybe Easter was tomorrow. One of those.

[Adorable knight modded with permission, open ice cream shop is open for children and adults alike, etc]

x_wondrous_x

It was the first Thursday of the month, and once Stewart had gotten through all the usual business of keeping the shop running, an activity that he was actually finding the he somewhat enjoyed, he turned his attention to getting things set up for the monthly Open Mic night, and a part of him was wondering why he still even bothered with it. After all, it seemed like it was just the same three people who showed up every month, and while that was still three people, and there have been occasionally others coming to check it out or even perform, it all seemed a bit like he was trying to keep alive a dead horse through the power of his electro-dance remixes and Charlie's more folksy bent alone. Why did he bother? What was even the point?

But it was still something, right? And he did feel like he would regret it, if he'd called it off and stopped, and you never knew, and at least performing for a small (miniscule, microscopic) crowd was better than not performing at all...

So he was setting up the lights and testing the sound equipment and getting a nice loop of Armour Plastique playing in the background, something that still had a bop but was a little softer to reflect his more...erm, reflective mood, he guessed.

Groovy Tunes is open!

throughaphase

The dates were over, the bar was still standing, still open (not dirty), and the specials (totally dirty) were still on the board.

SPECIALS
Screaming Orgasm
Kinky blow pop
Cherry Popper
Leg Spreader
Naked Lady
Sloe Comfortable Screw
Pornstar Shooter
G Spot shot
Big O

Your bartenders were there, waiting to serve you (again, not dirty). Whatever you did with your time was your own business, aside from Tino snickering if you ordered a Sloe Comfortable Screw or whatever.

throughaphase

When Kitty got married, she'd said she was hyphenating her last name because aside from "Pryde" being a great name, "Kitty Barton" sounded like a madam at an Old West brothel.

Anyway.

WELCOME TO
THREE MINUTE DATES

A couple minutes before 8:00, Kitty interrupted the zombie-played version of "Pony" to take the stage. You're welcome.

"Hello and welcome to Three Minute Dates! Thank you all for coming, whether you're here by accident, here on very purpose, or dragged here by Tino. I know there are other things you could all be doing." Ahem. "Here are the rules: every three minutes you will get paired up on a date with someone. When the gong sounds, it's on to the next date. It's fifteen minutes of your life, and then afterwards if you want to hang out, make friends, have one of Tino's horrifyingly on theme drinks, feel free. I just ask that you please don't have sex in the bathrooms."

She could not stop you from having sex in the bathrooms.

"Have fun! But not too much. Till later. At home."

[The bar | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | Round Four | Round Five | OOC | Regular bar post]

pun_king

Graham's....we'll call it anxiousness...for the week was manifesting itself that day at the Empooooor~rium in the form of him rearranging and reorganizing a lot of things and also personally testing out the roll quality of so many sets of dice just so he would have something to sort of do with his hand and distract him, and then he decided that he would distract himself by rolling a variety of dice combinations and seeing how long it took him to get to certain numbers, especially when he started adding several dice into the mix.

....the two giant pink chocolatey mocha drinks he'd had before even coming in that morning probably weren't helping with that restlessness, either, but they sure were delicious! He regretted nothing! He might have to get another one on the way home again, for that matter! Surely nothing could go wrong with that!

The Magpie Emporium is open!

mustbeawitch

Was meeting up with a group for an evening coffee the best idea in the world this week? Absolutely not, but since when had it been said that Lydia Bennet had only good ideas? She had announced this on the radio, after all, and she couldn't go back on that! She was sure it would be fine! A lovely evening would be had by all.

No, not like that. A very lovely evening drinking coffee, or tea for those of them with the sense to recognize that coffee tasted awful.

She was already uncertain what to do about the fact that the barista had given her her phone number, but welcome to Supper Club, everyone!

x_wondrous_x

It was the first Thursday of the month, which meant it was time for another Open Mic Night at Groovy Tunes, so Stewart had spent the majority of his day in the store getting prepared for it, which, this time around, included setting up a light display in the window around the sign in it advertising the event to flash in time with the beat of whatever was playing on the stereo at any given time.

It took him a few tries, and he somehow managed to shock himself more that once, but after a while, he almost found himself trying to figure out how not to avoid it, but rather to do it intentionally to purposely get that little burst of electric shock running through him again.

You know. Totally normal response to unexpected electrocution.

Groovy Tunes is open!

pun_king

You know what Graham's favorite thing about the new Braille dice was?

The fact that he didn't have any, so it was a good excuse to buy some because it wasn't like anyone could make the excuse that he didn't need them because he had plenty of dice already!

(Just kidding, he would never let something like that stop him from buying more dice ever).

And, of course, there was only one person he knew that would directly benefit from having a set of dice like this, so there he was, occasionally dreaming up a campaign that revolved almost entirely around food....and getting very hungry as a result.

The Magpie Emporium is open!

x_wondrous_x

Coming back to Fandom after going home to Letterkenny for the break had been incredibly difficult for Stewart, to the point where he almost didn't want to. To the point where he'd questioned why he'd even bothered. His time there hadn't been bad by any margin of the word, but it had been different and challenging in ways he wasn't used to and, most of all, lonely, something that always sort of lingered there under the skin but became this heavy, palpable thing when he realized how less lonely he was back home. Hanging out in the basement with Roald (and Connor and Darien). The Christmas party at the farm, where Wayne actually got him school supplies and Katy told him she was actually proud of him. Reconnecting with Aly-cat and Bianca-Donk for New Years in the city, and finding out that Gae, of all people, had actually been asking about him. It had been a good couple of weeks, and the only thing that prevented him from pulling out for good and staying was that inevitable look of disappointment on Katy's face if he did.

Unbelievable, what that face could do. Unprecedented. Unrelenting.

Besides, it was the first Thursday of the month. It was the first Thursday of the year. And Katy had thought it was cool that he was getting into his music again, and doing something that involved bringing people into it. So he was back, and he was here, and he went almost straight to the shop to get things set up for that evening, even though every fiber of him wished he was still back in Letterkenny.

But the show must go on. And if he was going to breech an attempt to reach out to Gae, it was not going to be from some darkened corner on a sagging couch in his mom's basement.

throughaphase

It was New Year's Eve, and Caritas was decked out for the holidays. The bar itself was decorated with silver fringe, there were gold, black and white balloons arranged in corners (so anyone trying to hide either couldn't, or they could really hide), silver and gold garland hung from the ceiling, and Tino had even dressed up. Meaning he was wearing a short sleeved t-shirt that looked like a tuxedo. It was the thought that counted.

The zombie band was playing the hits, the bass player dressed in a dashing red velvet jacket for some reason, and Kitty had had fun with the specials for the night.

SPECIALS
Dumpster Fire
Yule Mule
Baltimore Egg Nog
Whiskey Shamash
25th Hour
~~Fergeue~~ ~~Fruerzangble~~ ~~FuerahsksdahdsadhasjdhWTF~~ Flaming Sugarloaf Wine Thing

Kitty stared at Tino when she saw that last one added. "There's a USB-powered menorah because fire and drunk people is a bad combination and you decided to do this?"

Anyway. There was also a very easily accessible fire extinguisher on top of the bar if needed. Don't let it be needed.

bigdamnprincipal

Hopefully, no one had partied themselves out completely yesterday, because it was time for Homecoming! The park had been decorated... well, it had started to be decorated in a comfortable fall theme because something had to be done with all the extra pumpkins people had, but then the pillow fort showed up, and there was lofi music coming from somewhere and, well, it wasn't a bad vibe, so here we were.

Enjoy your comfy carnival everyone!

needsacatchphrase

Well, there was still a poorly written banner up, but it now just said "HAVE GOOD BAN" which Jane wasn't touching because Tino was sulking at having it ruined. But other than that, the bar was good and open for anyone who needed to drink away their sorrows, celebrate a new connection, or maybe do a little people watching.

Jane enjoyed the people watching part the most on nights like this.

Specials
You Make Me Blush
Some Like It Hot
Heart's Remedy

Enjoy yourselves, folks!

throughaphase

Caritas sort of looked like a Party City threw up, because Tino had offered to do the decorating. Of course there were balloons, streamers, glitter though it was hard to tell where it was supposed to have come from, confetti on the tables, and a butcher block banner up over the stage with "THREE MINUTE DATES" written in what was maybe paint? It sort of looked like puff paint but that had to be way too much work, right? Right?

A couple minutes before 8:00, Kitty took the stage with the zombies playing her on, and she shushed them to stop. "Hello and welcome to another Three Minute Dates!" she greeted them. "You know how this goes, unless you don't. Your names will be called into pairings every three minutes. You get together, you talk, the buzzer sounds, you go to your next table. If three minutes isn't enough time, maybe hang around a little, scope them out at the bar. And if you hate it, you just have to last five sets of three minutes, I believe in you."

She wasn't sorry if Tino signed any of you up. She was sorry for the letter banner he'd strung up over the bar reading "Have Good Banging," which was terrible English and odds were excellent that it did not stay up all night.

[OCD ~~coming!~~ is up, AHEM
Before the dates | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | Round Four | Round Five | OOC
After the dates bar

afraid_of_marshmallows

Friday had been Graham's birthday! Which meant that they needed to celebrate with sushi from the Sushi Station. Sushi for Graham's birthday had been a standing tradition for almost twenty years now, whether they were in the same place or not. Though since they all were this year, the only possible thing to do was call Sushi Station, put in a reservation that would fit all of them, and then send out a message on the old group chat:

Don't ig-nori this message, because it's tamago out for Graham's birthday! So let's roll on down to the Sushi Station to show him how matcha you care! No gifts necessary, just bring your raw enthusiasm and join us for dinner fit for roe-lty and we'll shoyu a good time.

Also, Graham, this message is your birthday present for the NEXT twenty years.

Hopefully that would be enough to bring people out, because Arden had not pummeled her brain for a good half hour coming up with stupid sushi puns for people to skip out on this, dammit!

[And in true Fandom fashion, anyone with a connection to Graham, Arden, or anybody else present is more than welcome!]

afraid_of_marshmallows

It was the first day of break and Arden was going to spend it the way the goddess had intended it: out on the beach with the salt and the sea and the sun ~~and the sand, sorry Anakin~~. She was sprawled out on a blanket with a towel or two next to her and a cooler of drinks and snacks. She had a book with her for later, but right now she was enjoying the warmth while sending out a text to all the usual suspects (and a few new ones for good measure) inviting them to come and spend the day out on the beach with her.

[Open to all! If you think you got a text, you did, or maybe you just happened to be wandering up the beach and decided to chill!]

afraid_of_marshmallows

With Graham heading out to Daventry in a few days for the Knight Trials (and, if he won, staying there), they were running out of time to give him a proper sendoff. And so Arden had pulled a couple of late nights pulling a quick beach party together. There were tiki torches all around and a volleyball net, some hula hoops, some inflatable rafts and floats, a couple of beach balls...basically, she'd raided T&C's summer aisle for as much as she could scavenge and dragged it all back here and set it up around a bunch of blankets, beach towels, lounge chairs, and big umbrellas for folks who needed to hide from the sun. There were also plastic sand buckets full of sunscreen at various levels of SPF because she didn't want anyone getting sun poisoning at Graham's goodbye party. Seemed like a bad omen.

The most prominent aspect of the party was a hand-painted paper banner that said GOOD LUCK GRAHAM!! Arden was going to try to get everybody to sign it before Graham showed up, so he'd have a banner full of well-wishes from all his friends at Fandom. There were pens, markers, colored pencils, and even paints for people to use.

Okay, so decorations, food, activities, music, drinks, various kinds of sun protections...was she forgetting something? Arden had never once in her life thrown a party before, so she was probably forgetting something... Oh well, too late now. Hopefully if it was anything major, she could run into town and grab it. Or maybe ask someone else to. Were you allowed to ask people to help you with things if you were hosting?

Somebody needed to teach a class on how to throw a party. That was her takeaway from this endeavor.

But okay. This party was as ready as it was gonna be. Now just to wait until people arrived. Which they would. Right? Right.

[Open! Whether you got an invite directly, heard about it on the wind, or just decided to randomly take a stroll on the beach, please feel free to tag in! And, magically, it ends with plenty of time before graduation by the power of sparkles]

afraid_of_marshmallows

It was weird, but out of nowhere, Arden had gotten this abrupt craving for ice cream, one so strong that there was nothing for it but to head over to Chilly Boulder immediately. Maybe it was because she'd been reading outside on her balcony and even with her innate climate control, eighty degrees was still pretty sweltering. On top of ice cream, it turned out she also was really jonesing for interaction, so on her way to Chilly Boulder, she sent out a text to the usual suspects - everyone she went to school with, everyone who lived in Midnight, maybe three or four others, including a few numbers she didn't even recognize, but hey! Who didn't want ice cream on a hot day?

Hey, heading to Chilly Boulder, people should join me!

Hopefully that would get a couple of people's interest, too!

[open! If you're part of the above groups, you got a text. If you're someone Arden chats with regularly, you got a text. If neither of those apply to you, your number is clearly one of the random ones in her phone. Or maybe you just also wanted Chilly Boulder! ANYWAY IT'S OPEN TO EVERYONE IS WHAT I'M SAYING.]

afraid_of_marshmallows

Two days after the eclipse and Arden was back on the roof, enjoying the height and the sunshine. It had gotten warm enough that she was back in her preferred outfit of tank top and shorts, and the decision to splurge on some sushi takeout had resulted in her being given far more than she could eat by herself and a cooler to carry it home in???

(One of the sushi folks had confessed that they made more on purpose, because they got to eat anything extra at the end of the day, and the manager had overheard and made them give Arden the extras, too, and the cooler to boot, which had started an argument, which had then turned into a whole thing about their secret relationship and Arden had fled because wow, overshare much, y'all?)

So now she was chilling on the roof with all the sushi she could possibly want and then some. Clearly the only thing to do was to send out a selfie surrounded by her sushi spread and a text that said, Sushi party on the roof? (Non-sushi options available!) Free for all! to her friends and neighbors.

And if it ended up getting sent to a few other folks as well, that just happened on Fandom sometimes!

[Open for residents and visitors! I'm trying to get this girl out more and making friends, so please feel free to mod getting a text from her whether it makes sense or not, because people, yay!]

seriesofbaddecisions

It was an interesting week, and Sabine figured it had to be over soon, right? She did miss being able to think straight without the pollen fog getting in the way, which was also why she decided to take a walk and get some space. It was a small town, there was a decent chance she wouldn't run into anyone and this wasn't a terrible idea!

She walked a little, and lo and behold, there was the Waffle House back after a long absence. A beacon.

For some reason there was a parking lot in front of it. Why? Listen, everyone had bigger problems this week, it was fine. Especially since there were a couple folding tables set up with a bunch of ~~moddable~~ kinds of alcohol and mixers, because nothing said "sex pollen party" like a tailgate in a parking lot in front of a Waffle House. Also there was a padded area back a ways but still illuminated by the 'House? Surely that wouldn't come up later.

Sabine took a picture of the setup, planning on sending it to Lana in a "hey, remember when I used to stumble on these parties in the dorms?" sort of way, and who knew how it ended up getting sent to everyone in her contacts and then some. The Fandom phone system had a long and storied history of doing weird things.

{It's back! All are welcome! Feel free to have gotten the text, or you can just be drawn in by the shining light of the Waffle House, or also noise or whatever.

Spin the bottle signup | Spin the Bottle game]

afraid_of_marshmallows

Well, apparently Graham had gotten some kind of great news, news so good that it somehow even trumped the 'I successfully stood up for myself to a flamingo today' merit badge she'd earned. (Yes, she was aware that that wasn't actually the flex she was trying to make it into. But also, she was getting bullied by birds, just let her have this, okay?) Which meant the only possible thing to do was to celebrate with ice cream!

Even in this sudden cold snap, yes. Look, there were some things too important to let crappy weather interfere with, okay?

She was also gonna send off a quick Hanging out at CB with Graham! text to the group chat, so more people might decide to come join them and also get to hear Graham's good news.

[If you think you got a text, you totally did, and if you wanted a reason to join into the post, you also got a text! Fandom phones are fun!]

sharp_man

There had been rumors all weekend of people from the Big City coming in and buying up local businesses to turn them into soulless malls and parking lots, and Hannibal could not have that! He loved this quirky small town where love was constantly in the air.

So he had opened up his ~~psychiatry office~~ banquet hall and gone full-out on the catering and set up a party to fundraise for all the businesses under threat. There were totally tasteful and non-gaudy red and pink decorations, hearts (of the valentine, not the anatomical) variety throughout, and somehow the air itself was glittering in a way that wouldn't actually show up on anyone's clothes or in their sinuses.

There were moddable foods and tables and chairs all over! There was a dance floor where only slow dances ever played! Anyone not from the Big City (or who was from there and wanted to find new purpose in a small town and switch sides) was welcome!

[Open post!]

grenadesandohana

Captain Steve McGarrett was on shore leave from his work in the Navy and so naturally he'd chosen a tiny, adorable town in order to relax from all of his stressful...Navy stuff.

He was now sipping a giant coffee and doing his best to relax while still wearing his uniform (because how else would people know he was in the Navy, right?)

pun_king

Graham had cheesecake, Graham had a squirrel that agreed to move this Jenga match from the radio station to the Emporium, and he was intensely focused on both, somehow, carefully moving a fork with a bite of cheesecake on it to his mouth while also hunched over the teetering tower as his finger of his other hand gentle poked and prodded at a piece to loosen it from its spot in the deteriorating structure.

The tower quivered. The tower shivered. Graham held his breath as the edge of the block slipped away and time seemed to stand still for a moment as he slowly, carefully, pulled both fork and block away and chewed...

He did it! It was still standing! It was...

Coming crashing down as a feline who was supposed to be referee came crashing into the tower and sent it all crumbling in a cascade of clattering wooden blocks.

"Saffron!" Graham complained. "If you were gonna call a foul move, you could have just said something! You didn't have to take down the whole tower!"

Oh, but Graham! She was a cat! What did you expect, honestly?

He looked over at Saffron, unremorseful as she sat down and started grooming her back leg, and shook his head, turning toward Leroy, already starting to gather the blocks, and asked, "Rematch?"

The Magpie Emporium is open!

needsacatchphrase

Well, Tino had contacted Jane that morning, claiming that Kitty had put her in charge of a New Years Eve party at the bar with zero evidence to back it up. But, since it wasn't as though Jane had any plans for the holiday beyond watch a ball drop and feel nostalgic for ~~Thor~~ past things, here she was, putting up sparkly decorations with a smug looking Tino.

Welcome 2024!

It was just a little crooked, but that was on Tino's end of things.

Specials
Pointsetta
Cranberry-Aperol Spritz
Apple Cider Mimosa
French 75

pun_king

As he went about various cleaning and tidying tasks about the store, Graham kept uncovering jelly beans that had somehow gotten everywhere since his jelly bean party last week (he'd tasted a few of them, actually, to make sure, and they were definitely stale). It was a little surprising that Little Bot had somehow managed to miss them, but he thought up a good secondary solution that he knew was practically fool-proof. So he put up a "Be Back in 15 Minutes!" sign on the door very briefly, so he could run back to the dorms, and come tearing back to the shop mounted atop of Triumph, who set about rooting out the scattered jelly beans much like a pig might root out some truffles.

"Ooooh, truffles!" Graham said, and then got lost daydreaming a little bit on which he would like better, truffle jelly beans, or truffle jelly beans??

He should see about finding some of each so he could compare!

The Magpie Emporium is open!

pun_king

Even though Graham had announced the Jelly Bean Party at the Maaaaaaagpie Empooooor~rium tonight, he knew not everyone had the chance to catch radio, so he was absolutely sending out a text to all his friends and pretty much anyone else that Fandom decided needed to know about as soon as he got to the store that morning after his broadcast (and after picking up breakfast, because he was really craving waffles after that!), and then he very, very quickly took care of all his usual tasks when he came in to get them out of the way so he could work on making a big sign to put up for all passersby to see:

JELLY BEAN PARTY!
Here! Friday! Tonight!
Bring your favorite jelly beans
and let's PARTY!

And, with that done, and without there being...much set-up involved in a jelly bean party, Graham then decided to show his new best friend, Squire Axe O'Lotl, around the store (Garret, it turned out, was going to be spending the day with Triumph in the stables--cavies gotta cavy!), which eventually lead into....well, an adventure.

And adventure that basically meant having Axe A'Lotl axing a lot of the shelves and boxes, with a great deal of enthusiasm and sound effects, in their great hunt to discover the mysterious famed Jellybean Tree, so that they may chop in down in time for the grand Jelly Bean Party!

Look. He had fun here, alright?

The Magpie Emporium is open!

bigdamnprincipal

Things were a little quieter as the carnival was being set up this morning, but after the last few days that was kind of a low bar. The weather was perfect for an autumn themed event - a little cool and crisp, but bright and sunny with no advertisements anywhere in sight. What more could anyone ask for?

imafuturist

The looming monolith that was Walmart stood out in the woods, parking lot and all, just waiting for customers to come and shop. Nothing at all ominous about it at all.

Just ignore the television headed drones pushing carts back into the store. How did the carts get out there when it has only just appeared? Don't think about it. Just... enjoy.

( Was Crashing Through The Doors REALLY Necessary? No. But Here We Are )

--

( Where They Try Their Best Here )

--

( Where They Just Keep Tackling People )

[preplayed for all the ridiculousness this plot deserves~]

throughaphase

Caritas was decked out tonight for tonight's event with balloons and a giant glittery sign over the stage.

WELCOME TO
THREE MINUTE DATES!!

And a few minutes before 8:00, Kitty took the stage with the zombie band playing her on. As the music stopped, she began, "Welcome, everyone, to our semi-annual Three Minute Dates! If you're new to this, you've added your names to the list and when your name is called, you'll meet your first date and have three minutes to get to know them. Then when the buzzer sounds, it'll be on to your next date. Easy peasy! We've done things a little differently tonight, and gone through the painstaking process of picking some great matches for you all-"

It was then that Tino took it upon himself to come by to show off something like a miniature version of SNL's upcoming hosts board, with everyone's names attached in pairs. It was really a work of art.

And then he slipped on a patch of glitter and the names went flying everywhere.

One of the zombies played a sad "wah wah" sound.

For a moment Kitty just stared in horror, and then said, "Give us two minutes," and dashed off the stage.

Off to a great start!

[~~Hold up for all the OCD!~~ Go forth and date! A regular post ~~will go up on Saturday for after the dates~~ is up!
The Bar | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | Round Four | Round Five | OOC | Caritas after the dates]

pun_king

As with most break weeks, there was at least one player who wasn't around for the gaming session that Friday, so Graham decided to call it off that Friday until they could all be there for it. Which wasn't to say he wouldn't welcome if anyone still showed up and they could poke around at some other things or do some kind of one-shot, but sometimes, it was just nice to have a break and recharge for the next session.

And for him to get some new idea, too, flipping through some source books and maybe even some books for other systems, just to try to mix it up a little, which meant that, on occasion, he'd find something really interesting and oooh and ahhhh about it and then try to tell Saffron all about it, but of course, Saffron just seemed to be on some plane of existence where Graham didn't exist at all, so his excited ramblings and musings went entirely unnoticed.

Which was fine! He'd always been pretty used to just talking to anyone who'd listen, even if that anyone was simply just himself.

The Magpie Emporium is open!

[[ and no game tonight, so no ocd! ]]

pun_king

The day had finally come! The stars had aligned, and Graham was finally taking Belle out to the preserve so she could see Triumph's favorite rock!

It was a pretty good rock, after all, no one could really blame him for deciding that was his favorite, but they'll get to that when they arrived!

Which might take a little longer than normal, because they were making it there on foot, all three of them, because Belle had expressed that she'd like to walk, and Graham wasn't about to ride when a lady was walking, and Triumph was occasionally letting out confused little squeaks about the fact that they were walking when there he was, a perfectly good mount, that no one was riding, what was even the point?

So with another apologetic smile toward Triumph and a rub of his head between his ears, as they started down a little decline that wound around a tree, Graham looked over at Belle and risked sounding unbearably repetative as he asked her, again, "Are you sure you don't want a ride? We do have him, after all; it's sort of what he does."

[[ Graham's obviously here with the decorously modded book work, but the post is most certainly open for all your preserve needs! ]]

pun_king

A thrilling and exciting excursion to the onsen had been planned, and, even though it took a little bit of doing (and a few useful Internet videos!), Graham had convinced the staff at the onsen that Triumph had just as much a right as both himself and Belle to partake in the relaxing hot springs...more, even! Because look at how cute!

Once they got in, Triumph wasted no time in prancing up to the edge and then pausing, taking extreme caution before slipping in and finding a good spot, and Graham, chuckling, grinned over at Belle.

"Well," he said, "I was going to say ladies first, but apparently, chivalry is dead."

Still, he ducked his head and gestured with an arm and offered, "Ladies second?"

[[ Graham's there, clearly, with the trusty mount and the gently modded bookworm, but the onsen is open for all your onsen needs! ]]

bigdamnprincipal

This year's prom had an elegant black and white theme, and the Community Center was decked out with tasteful decorations that had all been covered in black and silver glitter. It was still fancy by at least some measures!

The food and punch were untainted (and unglittered) for the moment, and the dance floor was open for a fabulous time!

pun_king

Graham was a little bit late for work that day, due to clothing reasons. He wanted to head back to his room to see if his cloak and cap had been somehow magically transferred over there when he turned into a bandicoot in the first place, and was very relieved to find out that they had, indeed. He would have felt terrible if his mother needed to make him a whole new cloak and cap! But everything was back to normal, and he figured, since he was already at the dorms, he'd bring Triumph along with him to the store, since he didn't get to spend as much quality time with him while bandicooted, and this was a good way to make up for it.

And, surprising no one, especially after hearing about it from Summer during their broadcast, he was thrilled to check out the gelatinous cube plush, and he and Triumph spent a good deal of time between customers camped out in front of the counter with it, speculating on what would make for other good things to put in there.

A conversation that was mostly centered around just one, simple, innocent question: "What kind of jelly bean do you think a gelatinous cube would like the most?"

You'd be surprised, how many different branches of philosophical ponderings a question like that could inspire! And it was especially nice when Graham did, in fact, have a bag of jelly beans that had been waiting for him in his cloak all week, pretty much!

The Magpie Emporium is open!

throughaphase

Love was in the air! Well, not really. That was later. But metaphorically, love, air, etc!

Caritas was decked out for Valentine's Day, with bunches of heart-shaped balloons in strategic places, copious amounts of pink and red confetti at the tables (a conversation starter!) and heart-shaped string lights above the bar and stage. And don't forget the glittery pink banner:

TONIGHT!
THREE MINUTE DATES
IT'S LITERALLY ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE

A few minutes before 8:00, Kitty took the stage. She was probably covered in glitter now. "Hello, everybody, and welcome to Three Minute Dates! If you've never done this before, the rules are simple. At 8:00 on the dot, we'll call your name along with one other person's. You'll get to know each other as well as you can in three minutes, and then the gong will sound and you'll get another name to meet. You'll do that for five rounds, and then if there's anyone you want to talk to more, you can meet up at the bar. Good luck, everybody!"

[~~Hold for OCD!~~ OCD is up! Your regular bar post will go up sometime Saturday for post-dates play!
The Bar | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | Round Four | Round Five | OOC]

throughaphase

The year was over! Almost!

Caritas was all set up. There were lights all around and the Christmas tree was still up, sprigs of non-yelly mistletoe hung from a couple spots in the bar, and there was great music for people to enjoy. All anyone had to do was show up and count down to 2023 with other people!

And maybe prepare for confetti at midnight. Sorry not sorry.

SPECIALS
Confetti Champage (Available in non-alcoholic)
Tom and Jerry Punch
Kir Royale
North Pole-adas
Dirty Snowman

so_hawkward

It was probably a good thing that most of the carnival was set up on Friday night, so when people woke up as kids, everything else adjusted too. The weather was perfect for playing outside - not that a little rain would stop anyone - and it was time to have fun!

bigdamnprincipal

Homecoming in November meant the community center was decked out in harvest-themed decorations for this evening's festivities. There were pumpkins that had somehow survived un-carved after Halloween, baskets of glittery vegetables (not for eating, please), decorative hay bales, and... a disco ball?

It's a dance, some things get dug out of the decoration closet no matter what the theme might be.

The food table was full and the drinks were un-spiked for the moment, so it was time for everyone to get their dance on!

pun_king

It had started in the dorms, a chance approach to the common room at the same time, distracted by greetings so that neither of them noticed the gremlin, one afflicted by that rare hunger to go biting that seemed so uncommon in this day and age, and now King Arthur and the brave, brave Brave Sir Robin set forth from the Round Table at Camelot (which was not, in fact, only a model) in their divine search, their Quest for the Holy Grail. And now they were prancing...no, no, sorry, riding....across the park on their horses that were definitely there and not just someone following behind them with two empty halves of coconuts that they were banging together.

Eventually, though, King Arthur brought his mighty steed to a neighing halt, taking a moment to look around at the fair isle their quest had led them to, and turned to his good knight. "I pray, Brave Sir Robin, if only we had some sort of sign to show us where to begin our search! Perhaps we may fare better if we should ask some of the common folk and villagers to point us in the right direction...."

[[ because it's been a while since a good old fashioned gremlim bite! "Brave Sir Robin" lovingly modded with permission! Open park is open...especially if you might happen to point them in the direction of a Holy Grail (or Grail-shaped beacon, at the very least) ]]

fates_jaye

Another successful Three Minute Dates, probably! Possibly! Who knew!

But once the dates were over, Jaye was back behind the bar, making Tino do the work, especially when she saw the specials he'd put up over the last fifteen minutes.

SPECIALS
Liquid Panty Dropper
Screaming Orgasm
Loneliness

Tino. TINO.

throughaphase

It was that time of year again! New people were here! New people to date, get to know, or perhaps make a mortal enemy of!

You never know.

Signs were hung up in front of the bar, both obviously, and easy to miss for anyone who might wander in and get signed up without their knowledge. Above the bar was a banner (in glitter):

TONIGHT!
THREE MINUTE DATES!
GOOD LUCK WBRURBODY

Your hostess wasn't gonna question it. And a few minutes before 8:00, she took the stage.

"Hello, everyone! And welcome to Three Minute Dates!" Kitty greeted them. "If you're new to this, the rules are simple. We call your name along with one other person. You talk to this person, get to know their likes, their loves, their dreams. After three minutes, a buzzer will sound-" Pause for the sound. "-and you'll hear your name paired with a different person. Et cetera. If there is anyone you'd like to talk to more, the bar will be open afterwards for drinks and conversation. Remember that any violence will get you transported into the pond, but also please don't attempt violence in order to flee, that is rude to the rest of your dates. Now I'm going to get off the stage. Have fun, and good luck..."

She trailed off, not going to attempt to pronounce the word on that sign.

[~~Hold for so much OCD~~ OCD up! Date away!
The bar | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | Round Four | Round Five | OOC]

weirderthanthou

Fandom's reunion mixer was as tasteful as last night's party had been, even if it was twenty years later. And by 'tasteful', we meant 'full of retro 50s robot statues'. They were everywhere, hovering over the food, lurking by coat check, hidden behind the curtains in the dark curtains...

Be careful, folks. They were Out There.

[[ open to all! ]]

drumsticksandd20s

Yesterday's rainbow was still intact in the sky today, and the weather was pleasant and sunny -- maybe it was like Yang had said, and Pride got the island's stamp of approval. In any case, it was good parade weather. Sunscreen was still a good idea, though.

The parade route this year might be a bit different than it had been previously, starting up at the lighthouse to come down Jones Parkway, then east along Serendipity Place to Loon Drive, then down Unicorn Way to Apocalypse Avenue before turning back up Chimera Court to Mallard Street. It shouldn't be hard to follow the route, either: rainbow bunting was strung up between light poles, and Steph might have gotten a few of the businesses along the way to put flags up, too.

The route would take everyone to the park -- cleaned up after yesterday's festivities, amazingly, but there were still drinks and pastries waiting for everyone in the picnic area afterward. Hey, doing a parade on all those stairs deserved some kind of treat and definitely some rehydration.

[OOC: Come get your Pride parade on, Fandom!]

noonedecidesmyfate

When you had a newly formed inexplicable threesome you clearly needed to go on dates. Dinner dates. Wait, no, coffee shop dates at coffee shops that had always been coffee shops and had certainly not been chinese restaurants earlier in the week. If there happened to be some delicious dumplings on the menu to go with your coffee, well, this coffee shop needed something to differentiate itself from all the others, didn't it?

So Belle, wearing a low-cut top and a shorter skirt than usual, was at Ching Tai Coffee with her two handsome suitors (who may or may not have been wearing shirts, that had not been established yet), enjoying a meal. Or a coffee. Or maybe a coffee and some dumplings.

[What, we didn't need more coffee shops? Of course we did.]

bigdamnprincipal

In response to how uncomfortable this week had been, the theme of this year's prom was a Winter Wonderland. The Community Center was decked out with shiny fake snowflakes, plastic fuzzy snow creatures, and plenty of glitter snow. Cold decorations might not actually chill out anyone's hormones, but it was worth a shot.

The food and punch were as normal as anything could be with all the pollen still floating around, and hopefully everyone would be on their best behavior. If not, you might have some children to explain your actions to in the morning.

[Arrive & Mingle | Food and Punch | Dance Floor | Chaperones | Prom Court | OOC]

throughaphase

Come one, come all! It was time for ~~everyone's~~ some people's favorite event, maybe!

TONIGHT!
THREE MINUTE DATES!!!

The bar was open before the dates, and maybe you hung out. Maybe you mingled. Maybe you signed up. Maybe you'd be surprised when Tino or someone else signed you up against your will! But regardless, a few minutes before 8 pm, Kitty hopped onto the stage, which was bedecked in a red sparkly curtain that someone had probably gotten on Amazon for $6!

"Hello, everyone! And welcome to this installment of Three Minute Dates!" Kitty greeted them. "If you're new to this, the rules are simple. We call your name along with one other person. You get three minutes to get to know that person. After three minutes, a buzzer will sound-" Pause for the sound. "-and you'll hear your name paired with a different person. If there is anyone you'd like to talk to more, the bar will be open afterwards for drinks and conversation. Remember that any violence will get you transported into the pond, but also please don't attempt violence in order to flee, that is rude to the rest of your dates. Now I'm going to get off the stage. Everyone have fun tonight!"

Or like, at least attempt it.

[~~Please hold for an obscene amount of OCD posted while babysitting!~~ OCD is up! A regular bar post will go up later on Saturday. If I spelled anything wrong, it's because none of your characters' names make sense to me anymore.
| Before the dates | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | Round Four | Round Five | OOC]

throughaphase

Hello to New Year's at Caritas! The bar was open and ready for everyone to say goodbye to 2021 in a totally classy way, for real. The place was decorated in lights and garland, there was an actual DJ this year, there were fancy drinks including a coffee thing to get you to midnight, and if you weren't here for classy... well, there were mini liquor bottle ornaments hanging from the Christmas tree in the back room for people to take. This party was for you too. This is still a bar with zombies under a Febreze sprayer, let's not kid ourselves too much.

Also feel free to grab a hat or a completely impractical set of 2022 glasses at the door!

Classy.

SPECIALS
New Year's Sparkler
Poinsettia
Chocolate Candy Cane Martini
Driven Snow
Espresso Martini
Lemon Lavender Mocktini

[All ages party! Go wild!]

noonedecidesmyfate

It was possibly a bit too cold out to really be proper ice cream weather but Belle had been reading a book with a lovingly described ice cream sundae in it and as a result had been struck with the urge to go get one of her own.

She was a bit surprised to find a child-sized ice cream bar set up along one wall of the ice cream shop, along with a "Make Your Own Small Sundae If You're Small This Sunday" sign but had to admit it did make sense.

"I'm my usual size," she said, regretfully, eyeing the wide variety of toppings.

"You're short," the boy behind the counter said. "Close enough!"

That was how Belle ended up with a dish of ice cream absolutely drowning in toppings in front of her at a table, along with the book she'd been reading that had inspired this outing in the first place.

[open for weetinies or regular sized people in search of ice cream, of course! I will be slow for a little bit while I grocery shop but I'm very much around!]

bigdamnprincipal

So, brunch was normally a chill affair - food and coffee and people getting in their last visits before folks go home. Today was... probably slightly less chill. The candy-induced transformations hadn't gone away, so who knew who might show up here. Hopefully monsters liked pancakes too?

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