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

[nothingsodivine]

Bet you're a real hoot at career day, then.

[icouldbe_bess]

I was a magician's assistant and not actual thief before I got here. I slayed at career day. Use your degree worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to pull a rabbit out of a hat, kid!

[nothingsodivine]

So how's a magician's assistant become a knight?

[icouldbe_bess]

I stole something they wanted. [ a beat. ] And then put it back. Now you see me... [ she drifts off with a shrug, assuming he knows the rest of the phrase. ]

[nothingsodivine]

Magician's assistant and thief. This is why people used to tell me not fitting the criteria for knight was no excuse for not joining this dog and pony show.

[icouldbe_bess]

Not actually a thief, I return the things I take with no harm done.

[nothingsodivine]

[eyebrow.] So what's the point of taking them?

[icouldbe_bess]

To point out flaws in security features, mostly. And because I can. Have you ever held "The Scream"? I have. I've touched a van Gogh, three of them.

[nothingsodivine]

[DOES HE LOOK CULTURED, ALICE???]

Van Gogh's the one with the star painting, right?

[you are the worst ex-immortal ever, Descant.]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ s t a r e s. ]

Seriously?

[nothingsodivine]

I'm not an art guy.

[yes. seriously.]

[icouldbe_bess]

It's va-- [ she holds up a hand, looking away like no you disgust me, you're a horrible human being, get out. DEEP BREATHS, ALICE. ] Criminals know more art than you.

[nothingsodivine]

Probably because they gotta know what they're stealing. I've never had a moment where I thought 'gee I should know what that is.'

[icouldbe_bess]

I mean criminals off the street, not just art thieves. [ she rolls her eyes. ]

Vincent van Gogh's works have had tremendous impact on art history and the modern cultural conception of "the artist". His revolutionary approach to painting had a strong influence on the next generation of artists, and his innovative and radical use of unnatural color, his angular lines, and particularly, his stylized distortion and exaggeration of reality, often to grotesque ends, all offered early modernists a powerful alternative to the avant-garde centrality of delicate Parisian Impressionism and post-Impressionism. His legendary medical problems never overshadow the incredible spirituality and intense humanitarianism documented in his hundreds of articulate, intelligent, sensitive, and downright heartbreaking letters to his brother Theo. That he was able to complete so many masterpieces in his short career to become one of the most important painters of his day is a tribute to his extraordinary drive, focus, and capability, and proof that disease and pain and loss don't have to hold you back, but can make you better.

[ she huffs. ] Google him.

[nothingsodivine]

[it's cute that you... really think he didn't tune most of that out.]

That'd be impressive if I cared about paintings. You wanna talk to me about Purcell, maybe I'll actually have something cultured to say.

[icouldbe_bess]

Baroque? Ew. [ tbf she was already assuming he had shit taste in anything arty, now she is sure. ]

[nothingsodivine]

[rude.] Oh, don't be judgy.

[icouldbe_bess]

If A Clockwork Orange and overly ornamental is your thing... more power to you, I guess. [ but ew. ]

[nothingsodivine]

[WOW THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH STANLEY KUBRICK. He shakes his head and laughs. The pretentiousness is almost adorable, really.]

And this is why I let people believe I only listen to country music and watch Gunsmoke reruns.

[icouldbe_bess]

Um, Gunsmoke is awesome, you should always lead with that.

[nothingsodivine]

[stares] Your tastes are just all over the board, ain't they?

[icouldbe_bess]

I prefer eclectic and varied. I can like art and know about opera and still watch Gunsmoke. I also watch Gene Kelly and Audie Murphy movies and those really shit movies they played at 8am on Sci Fi in the 90s like the one with killer ants that descend upon an unfortunate town en masse and devour horses and humans in a matter of seconds. I also like the ballet and math and listening to my boyfriend talk about serial killers while fishing. [ she smiles, eyebrows lifted like were you expecting me to be a one trick pony because of my youth? I HAVE INTERESTS. ]

[nothingsodivine]

Considering I can count the kinda culture I appreciate on one hand, and tend to be single-mindedly focused on whatever I've got goin' on in my life at the time... That's impressive.

[Des does this to everyone. It boggles his mind that knights think about things besides knighting because he rarely can distract himself that way.]

[icouldbe_bess]

I think if I was single-mindedly focused on anything, I would go insane. I can't even listen to songs I like for too long before I started to hate them, I can't imagine doing that with everything else in my life.

[ probably why she and will work so easily. he has his own thing that she doesn't ask questions about and she has the same. she doesn't need to be with him 24/7, otherwise they might drive each other nuts.

a trick she learned from her parents' 30+ year marriage. ]

[nothingsodivine]

Well. That might explain a lot about me. [SELF-DEPRECATING SMIRK OF SMIRKINESS.]