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Lillith Anioska Daturai ([personal profile] st_rangepalette) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2017-12-31 09:40 pm

[GP] Réveillon & New Year's Eve & Check-In

Emma had said, during Winter's Crest, that she missed a tradition from home called réveillon. She seemed also to miss her cousin, as Lillith missed hers. Since she wished both to learn to cook and to be of comfort to her friend, it had been decided they would make a réveillon dinner for New Year's Eve.

Yet when Emma began to lay out the courses -- oyster soup and potato & leek soup, salad, a gumbo, venison roast, cheeses, and creme brulee, plus several hors d'ouevres not yet decided -- Lillith quailed at the size of the undertaking. Surely she would wish someone to assist who could contribute more than roasted rabbit, wheat or potato flour dumplings, and koláč.

Since Sunny likewise missed her family and would certainly wish a distraction, when she entered the cafe where they were planning, the other two seized upon her almost at once. Sunny could hardly resist their dual entreaty, even had she wished to, and Lillith thought she seemed even more ready for company than previously. Of course Sunny had offerings of her own: jolloff rice, peppered chicken, and fried plantain.

Between they three, the planning and the cooking were very nearly merry, and Lillith kept them liberally supplied with champagne (her personal favorite), too. By late afternoon of the eve of the new year, they had begun lining tables with dishes, and enlisted the help of other friends to make the evening event widely known.

Of course, in addition to the réveillon feast that took over the steakhouse, alcohol flowed freely, lights sparkled brightly, the nightclub had music for dancing. And at some point the Inn or Caroline or Regina hung mistletoe from several of the primary entrances and exits so that unless one wished to or was unaware of the tradition, no one (not even any new arrivals) need greet the new year unkissed.
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_illfighting 2018-01-07 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Seriously?" Dean shifted his demeanor from ten year old boy to Hunter that quick. He raised the beer to his lips and took a nice swallow of the liquid. "So, Raven Queen and goddess of Death. We talking reaper or Death itself?"

He knew different worlds, different times, whatever but he was trying to picture Death as a female with long black hair and he was coming up empty. He had a creeped out picture in his head.
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_ealthless 2018-01-07 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Um, neither, I think," Pike's head fell to the side. Death seemed like the natural force, not something that could be personified. It just was. "From what I've been told, she's the protector of the natural order of life and death. So, she really hates the undead."

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Re: At the Party

[personal profile] st_oneswidow 2018-01-07 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
The last person Curnen had danced with must have been her husband. But she didn't say this. Not because she was ashamed of Brushy or because she didn't want to remember him right now, but because it was just too heavy a topic for tonight. If she mentioned him, she'd only be forced to talk about how she'd been widowed and that was a conversation she couldn't bear, especially with a child.

She had not been exaggerating when she told him about general aversion to her hands, either. It wasn't a conscious thing sometimes, only the sensation of an extra finger tended to unsettle on some level. Peter went up in her estimation for not being among them.

But his dancing... oh dear.

It was sweet. Curnen wasn't anything special when she danced, but she was entirely un-self-conscious and it showed. And like any Tufa child, she'd been dancing since she was old and coordinated enough to do so. "Loosen up," she told him with a smile. "Don't think about it so much."
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_igmatized 2018-01-07 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Might want to start with Darryl." Sunny offered. "He's the man at the desk. Though... man might be something of an exaggeration. And in the realm of practicality, he'll have a room waiting for you."
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Re: Sunny - OTA

[personal profile] st_igmatized 2018-01-07 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
They were all so exposed here. Even though they all had their own rooms, it was just like that line from Gatsby about parties. Their community was such a small one that there was no possible way to have real privacy. Sunny had no interest in who was screwing for example, but damned if she didn't know anyway.

But she shoved that aside and smiled at the compliment. "Did you try the jollof rice? If you don't like it, I don't know if we can be friends."
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Re: Corbie - OTA

[personal profile] st_rikingblueeyes 2018-01-07 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
"There definitely should be," Corbie agreed with a sage nod. Then she grinned big, dropping any semblance of dignity. "But I'm pretty sure by midnight we'll all be too drunk to remember one anyway."
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-01-07 05:13 am (UTC)(link)

He could hear Max in the back of his head saying things like 'no' and 'compromised' but he inwardly rolls his eyes and outwardly nodded. "A drink sounds great. Especially if it's strong."

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[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-01-07 05:18 am (UTC)(link)

"Nope. Not my room. Not yet. There's a party here, right?" He grinned widely. "I'm not about to miss out on a party." Or take time to size up the people here stuck in this place with him.

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Re: At the Party

[personal profile] st_hotflashes 2018-01-07 06:01 am (UTC)(link)

"Oh!... There was a war. And they, the, um, the royalty there that ran the planet? They were killed so people who supported them, they sent their, well, their essence I guess? More than just their DNA - I don't really know - but, anyways. Um, so they crashed." It was nice to talk to someone about this who felt like Maria or Alex.

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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_rayed 2018-01-07 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Wyatt shook the other man's hand, and smiled wryly. "Believe it or not, I was leaving the Alamo before I came here." It seemed like another life and in a way it was.
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[personal profile] st_eelyourself 2018-01-08 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"This is good place to be if you like parties. There is free alcohol all the time." Piotr took a long drink from the glass of vodka in his hands. "I am Piotr."
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_illfighting 2018-01-08 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Dean gave a soft snort. She'd really hate him and Sam. He'd lost count the number of times that they'd died and come back or at least gone to Hell and come back.

"Man, she'd really hate this place with people out of time and reality. It's definitely not the natural order of life and death here."
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_illfighting 2018-01-08 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Well at least it's a start." Dean glanced in that general direction. "Darryl, huh? Okay, I'll start there and I hope to hell the room isn't as pink as the hotel." He winced and looked back at her, "it's not is it?"
Edited 2018-01-08 01:15 (UTC)
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_illfighting 2018-01-08 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Dude! Seriously? Like THE ALAMO? John Wayne fighting - uh yeah, you wouldn't know John Wayne. Never mind. That is AWESOME!" He was like a kid in a candy store - or Dean in an armory or strip joint.
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_igmatized 2018-01-08 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Sunny's eyes went flat with restrained anger. "That you'll have to wait and see, but don't expect the Inn to have taste. I got assigned to a safari themed room." She did have the option to alter it with magic temporarily, and she'd done this more than once, but it still pissed her off.
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_illfighting 2018-01-08 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Seriously?" Dean looked at her incredulously. "That's just messed up. Did you deck Darryl?" He would have, but then Dean was a fan of punching things.
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_igmatized 2018-01-08 02:09 am (UTC)(link)

Sunny smiled so sharply that she felt herself wanting to bite something. "It was a narrow thing. In any case, I wish you more luck than I had."

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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_ealthless 2018-01-08 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't even begin to understand how she'd feel about things," Pike she shrugged, "But she's helped me bring Vax back to life, so maybe she wouldn't mind this?"

Pike laughed, shaking her head slightly, "Here I was trying to flirt and somehow it's turned into a theological discussion about death...and I still don't know your real name."
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Re: Alex Kamal - ota

[personal profile] st_unaligned 2018-01-08 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Bo was at the bar mixing drinks whens he saw him walking about. When he got close enough not to yell, she spoke up. "You want something to wash all that down?"
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Re: Xavin - OTA

[personal profile] st_unaligned 2018-01-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Bo brought a bottle of Baileys up and put it on the table near the machine. She gave a small up-nod to the woman in front of her. "In case people want a little extra in their coffee."
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_arknaked 2018-01-08 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
He laughed, a real, genuine chuckle and sipped his beer again before reaching over to pour the woman another shot.

"You asked." He pointed out.
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Re: For Regina

[personal profile] st_arknaked 2018-01-08 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
"That could be arranged," one arm slid around her waist, the mistletoe hanging from his fingers against her hip and his drink in his other hand.
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_huntermom 2018-01-08 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
She had already a good idea that Sam and Dean were very different, but this confirmed it for her. Mary caught the way Dean spoke about John and she sent him a soft expression. Her voice was soft. "Sam told me about what happened to your father."
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Re: For Regina

[personal profile] st_oriedqueen 2018-01-08 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Because she could, Regina pulled the mistletoe from his fingers and magically lifted it into the air above their heads. She stepped in close to him, and then slid her hand behind his head to draw him into a deep, and deeply loving, kiss.

Maybe she hadn't said the words yet, but there was no pretending she didn't love him.
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_andingtall 2018-01-08 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Dean wasn't surprised to see him. Sam wasn't too drunk to miss that. "Who told you I was here?" Because he needed to break Mom to him gently if it wasn't Mom.

"And when are you here from?" Somehow, he managed to avoid adding 'this time' but he didn't stop himself from walking over to try to hug him.

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