open ♔ socialization log (april through july)

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, Andres, etc!
WHEN || Any time in April/May/June/July
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of these few months. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.   Characters participating in the following missions are asked to wait until their missions have concluded before tagging into things that take place chronologically after said missions:  Dead of Winter, Curse of the Homo Magi, Ravenloft, Shadow Bermuda, and City of Blood  If you aren't certain if that applies to you, please ask!  Characters who are not currently squired in may also post, as their characters are living in the castle awaiting their ceremonies.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:

Wynn/Section Heads @ Various
Cheryl @ Front Desk
Myri @ her room & various
Skye @ Various
Buffy & Rafael @ the Kitchen
Peter @ Rec Rooms, Bowling Alley, Etc.
Liam @ Rec Room
Baal @ Various
Malina @ Dragon's Fire Wing/outside/kitchen/bar/library/Rec Room
Sweets @ Dragon's Light wing/Rec room/music room
Kali @ training room / firing range / outside / etc
Elena @ firing range / gym / kitchen / common rooms
Vi @ firing range / garden / rec room
Dean @ firing range / billiards room / library / kitchen
Jaina @ garage / training room / roof / computer room / bar
Lazarus & Vi | closed
Nick @ training room / firing range / rec rooms / computer room / bar / various
Des (& Zarad) @ NYC / firing range / training room
Elena @ 21st birthday party!
Alex @ garage / airfield / London / firing range / rec room / etc
Dante @ training room / old man bar / library
Andrew @ his room / computer lab / rec room
Alcide @ bars / grounds
Faye @ Gold's room / her room / various
Thoster @ hallways
Ollie @ training room / Dragon's Hoard wing
Mars @ library / room / gardens
Doyle @ the bar
Sebastian @ training room / his room
Neal @ various
Klaus @ rec room / kitchen / bedrooms
Adam @ Dragon's Light wing / various
Aedan @ training room / Dragon's Light wing / outdoors / rec room
Thea @ training room / grounds / bar / rec room / pool / various
Carol @ training room / grounds / roof
Kate @ training room / library / grounds / London
Ric @ Dragon's Hoard labs / bars / homeschooling kids
Jo @ lobby / various
Abigail @ firing range / gym / grounds / library / Dragon's Fire wing
Steve @ training room / various
David @ training room / library / grounds / kitchen
Emma S @ the pond / library / firing range
Amy @ library / kitchen / etc
Clark @ various
Erica @ grounds / training area / library / etc
Natasha @ firing range / training room / gym / bar / billiards / rec room
Sara @ bars / training room / gym / various
Hook @ bar / kitchen
Taradiddle @ Dragon's Light wing / grounds / places she shouldn't be
Sam @ library  / shooting range / castle grounds
Alice @ Dragon Light's wing / rec room / kitchen / training room / outside
Cora @ her room / grounds / training room / library / kitchen / TV room / computer lab
Will @ pond / firing range / castle grounds

Comments

[incantatio]

Right... [Still a slight case of side-eyeing with a side of considering spells that could be used in a pinch if the next answer isn't a good one.]

And your stance on half-elves?

[bluffcheck]

You've no idea how glad I am to find someone who understands.

[badexample]

Oh. [He looks instantly sheepish.] No, sorry. I'm just-- It's sort of something I'm not used to many people... getting.

[badexample]

Oh. [He wasn't expecting that, but hey, that works for him. He'll get a report from the mission leader too, but hearing how she felt about it is more important to him, honestly.]

Yeah, no that sounds great. Want to just- have a seat? [He reaches to pause his movie.]

[badexample]

Wouldn't say no to that. [He laughs and goes to turn off the game so they can get to business. But thinking about what she can "teach" him takes him from sex to the consequences of those actions and then-]

Oh, hey- You remember that Light member who married us? She's fucking having a baby! [He's just.... not paid any attention all this time until Felicity mentioned it whoops.] How crazy is that?

[badexample]

Not like I'm doing much of anything for the rest of the day. Got plenty of fucking energy drinks to keep us going for awhile too. [He grins. He likes this plan a lot.]

[badexample]

I think they're scraping the bottom of the barrel on those, honestly. The only one who actually manages to be mildly entertaining is the 90210 bloke.

[badexample]

New group seems to be doing alright. [Not that he's interacted with them a ton.]

What about you? Still getting along?

[badexample]

That's mad. I mean good mad, but still...

[byyourleave]

[that's fine, Baal is going to just talk ship things back and forth with him (Wis 16) and compare what Thoster tells him to the kinds of ships he knows from his life, and they can just sit there and bond over being ship geeks!]

[nepotism]

One of strength. Stability. That kind of thing. Things you like to know that the people you joined up with have in spades.

[necessaryevil]

Magic's not really my area. ... Dark powers, I guess, might be more appropriate.

[unhappily]

Why do you ask? [ she's instantly on edge from the question, casting him a look ]

[likedillinger]

I don't need to.

[incantatio]

Unless there's like a secret lever in here - which, not ruling out the longer I spend in this place. A-bout as far from a library as you can get.

[Grimacing.] But if it helps? I was looking for the library too so we suck together.

[incantatio]

Me and sharp things... not really friends. Seriously I'm even careful around sporks.

[At least her grin suggests she's joking about the latter.]

So, looks pretty mastery from where I'm standing. [A beat.] At a very safe distance.

winter ⋇ open

[hivern]

[ sometime mid-june, a woman in her twenties stomps into the castle in combat boots and a pale yellow lace sundress under her leather jacket like someone never got the memo that the two styles don't go together. look at the negative fucks she gives, pushing her sunglasses into her hair and looking around like ah. this is good..

after dropping her keys at desk and dumping her bags unceremoniously in her room, winter sets off trying to hunt down the friends she's kept in touch with and reacquaint herself with the ones she let slide while she was stationed at the hq in france. if she runs into new people, it comes with a flash of a bright smile and a genial hello in her melodic catalan accent.

once everyone is all greeted and meeted and hugged to near death, she spends the rest of her time in the dragon's hoard wing building bombs from scratch while rocking icelandic trance on her ipod and then immediately disassembling it to start over or in the firing range practicing her aim with so many tennis balls.

(look, you really don't want her throwing frag grenades indoors.)

she spends a decent amount of time in the chapel and the billiards room, though only one really promotes conversation. not that winter would mind chatting in the chapel, she doesn't mind chatting anywhere, the epitome of bubbly and effusive. ]

[impetere]

"Oh," she frowns, before glancing over her shoulder. "No, I'm not busy, I'm just ... not used to people talking to me for no reason." They usually have a very specific reason to seek her out.

[ambitionist]

your loss.

[ambitionist]

You know ... that's not a bad idea. But what about the people like me who just happen to stumble across it?

[ambitionist]

Sounds delicious.

[mydesigns]

[mmmm, he's so pleased. he did a good present. a+ boyfriending. aw yeah.] You're welcome.

[thetokenaussie]

Hey now, I could always have gone with Samantha. [A huff of laughter escaping as she unwinds the cord of the soldering iron and moves to plug it in.] So... gotta say. Would have picked you more for Hide than Hoard.

[thetokenaussie]

Now if we can just bribe somebody to get us a pizza... If I could, I would learn magic just so I can use that take-out spell. [Know Arc Lore Nat 20... most ridic Nat 20 ever but I'll take it.]

[delicere]

[See Thoster. This is why you're her fave. Not only are you okay with her lack of physical boundaries, you embrace it.

A trill of joyous laughter escapes as her arms move around him in kind, the smile that stretches her mouth wide, making her eyes turn to slits, the brilliant blue of her eyes peaking out from beneath her lashes as she finally pulls back enough to regard him.]

Dearest Thoster. [A warmth in her voice that speaks more of friendship than lovesick puppy-ness.] You should not have stopped your performance on my account. It has been the highlight of my whole week.