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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: NYE Cooking

[personal profile] st_ealthless 2018-01-21 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fixing things? That sounds fun! Have you met Percy? He likes fixing things too." She smiled, "I have a spell for mending, but I'm not sure if it will work on something like this."

A whole year. Pike knew that people had been here for awhile, but she hadn't realized it had been that long. "Sounds like the perfect day to start baking lessons. Maybe we'll start with a cake to celebrate."
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Re: Sam - Mistletoe -tag Bo, Caroline, OTA

[personal profile] st_unaligned 2018-01-21 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact Caroline knew any of that really drove it home that she was good at organization. Bo would not have been so helpful. It was all she could do to not pushed her hands under Caroline's shirt as they stood there and she hummed a little to distract herself from the need. "King size bed. Room for lots of fun." Said a need but experienced voice.
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_eelyourself 2018-01-21 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am glad you think so." Piotr nodded, "Like I said, my world was not kind to us."

But that wasn't something he wanted to keep thinking about.

"And you, where does your enhanced strength come from?"
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Re: Dorian - OTA

[personal profile] st_eelyourself 2018-01-21 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"What kind of magic?" Piotr leaned forward, genuinely interested. "In my world, magic is very rare. It is more common that mutants who use energy manipulation call it magic, but it is nothing like what I've seen people here do."
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_illfighting 2018-01-21 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Leave it to witches to be bitch ghosts. "Yeah we have that in our world, too. Well they aren't witches - uh magical people, but some ghosts if there is something important tied to them, any object, destroy the object and they're destroyed." He took a sip of his beer, "it's easier to just salt and burn the bones though if you can find them."
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Re: At the Party

[personal profile] st_alksthroughwalls 2018-01-21 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's not harder teaching two people than one, and since I'm not using most of what I know, it's a good way to keep it fresh," she assured him.

Somewhere, she was pretty sure, Moonstar and the rest of the teaching staff at Xavier's were laughing at her. But Jean and the Professor always had said she was destined to teach.

"It's really more a question of what you want to learn. We can probably treat schooling here like college, since we've got people who can teach just about anything you might want to know. Or I can finish up your high school math and science curriculum, easy enough."
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Re: Corbie - OTA

[personal profile] st_rikingblueeyes 2018-01-22 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Corbie hadn't had a big screw up like that, but she did know the feeling of just learning a spell and not really knowing what to do with it, so her laugh was loud and raucous, but not without sympathy.

Because that was beautifully ridiculous. "Oh no!"
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_andingtall 2018-01-22 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Jerk."

Sam stayed where he was, but he unfolded his arms and his smug to say, "Something could be wiping memories. It would explain how we get here without remembering the experience.

"So far, you're the only one who has come back, so it might be worth trying hypnosis or magic to see if the other memories are buried. But the more likely explanation is the many-worlds hypothesis. You weren't here before. Some other Dean from a similar but not identical world was."
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_ealthless 2018-01-22 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Liches are more like zombies than ghosts. They cast a specific spell and do a ritual on the object and poof!" She shuttered a bit. Binding her should to something seemed so extreme. "Salt and burn? Oh! Do you know Sam? He mentioned something about that when we were on a field trip with the Inn's ghosts."
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Re: Sam - Mistletoe -tag Bo, Caroline, OTA

[personal profile] st_andingtall 2018-01-22 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yours.

No. Not his.

Why?

His thoughts moved like sludge through a drain. Not his, why not. Oh. River. River and Mom next door.

King size bed.

Yes, yes that was good. Who had that? Sam's had skimmed up Caroline's side to cup her breast. Bo was humming. The seam of his jeans was cutting off circulation to his dick. Again. Christ.

"Caroline's," he forced out. The answer emerging from desperation. "Outside entrance."
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Re: For meeter and greeter

[personal profile] st_ellarnavigation 2018-01-22 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Moana thought about that. "You didn't want your Aunt May to worry, so you hid what you are."

She smiled in sympathy. "I did the same thing for many years. And my father hid what we are from me for the same reason. Being chosen by the ocean was ...my secret identity, I guess."

She tilted her head. "Do I need a super hero name?"
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Re: For meeter and greeter

[personal profile] st_ellarnavigation 2018-01-22 12:47 am (UTC)(link)

Moana would find out.

"Thank you, Emma. This place is very strange to me"

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Re: Sam - Mistletoe -tag Bo, Caroline, OTA

[personal profile] st_raighttovampire 2018-01-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Continues Here]
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_huntermom 2018-01-22 02:25 am (UTC)(link)

She smiled just a little as he tried to correct himself. John tried to do that too. "As long as you boys know what you're doing." She couldn't do anything about it anyways if she tried. She paused, and then shook her head with a bit of a bitter laugh. "I never thought I'd be talking about hunting with my children. Your grandfather used to tell me you can't leave hunting and I guess he was right."

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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_unaligned 2018-01-22 02:26 am (UTC)(link)

"That's because you're better than me. I'm nosey." She wiggled her eyebrows playfully. "Although being at ass level is kind of nice for some things..."

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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-01-22 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Dean. Right. Got it. Not a name he'd choose, but whatever.

"I'm thinking more 'young and boyishly handsome Dean' and 'old Dean'." His smirk somehow mirrored Dean's. Alec couldn't help thinking that there was definitely some of this guy's DNA inside of him.
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Re: Assigned Threads

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-01-22 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
His head cocked every so slightly to the side. This guy was big and maybe not as dumb as he seemed. "Not sure what you're talking about, friend."
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Re: Xavin - OTA

[personal profile] st_unaligned 2018-01-22 02:37 am (UTC)(link)

Bo noticed how the woman felt uncomfortable. She understood being worried about giving out real information. "Wow. I thought you had a pretty interesting travel life before, but now that you said you're from space I'm even more lame in comparison." She grinned.

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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_ealthless 2018-01-22 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"It only seems fair for me to mind my own business," she shrugged, swallowing a bit more of her drink. "I've...I keep a lot of things hidden. To pry would seem hypocritical."
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_unaligned 2018-01-22 03:13 am (UTC)(link)

That caught Bo's attention and she leaned down a little more, her breasts getting a little smooshed in the process against the countertop. "Nothing too heavy, I hope."

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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_ealthless 2018-01-22 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, the usual." Pike tried really hard not to notice Bo's position. "Unrequited love. Broken heart. Occasional bouts of religious doubt. Potential dark blood curse that will turn me evil."
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Re: At the Party

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-01-22 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"No, no," Peter says shaking his head. "College is fine. I was taking college-level back at Midtown." And doing pretty well at it, too.

"I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do when I get back home and graduate high school," Peter admits. "I was thinking about biochemistry or biophysics, but I don't know if Liz would be interested in that stuff, so it's not something we need to study all the time. I like other stuff, too, like photography and filmmaking. But really, the only thing I have here for that kinda stuff is my cell phone."

Peter scratches at his elbow (this suit is really starchy), then looks around the room before setting his eyes back over at Kitty.

"Can I ask you something? About the whole superhero thing?"

And then once Kitty gives her affirmation, he continues:

"Is it really possible to be an adult superhero and have a regular job at the same time? I mean... Mr. Stark kinda does it, but I don't know enough about the private lives of the Avengers to really know if they really do anything else."

The Captain America promotional videos notwithstanding. Peter's pretty sure that's not really a real job for Mr. Rogers.
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Re: OTA

[personal profile] st_unaligned 2018-01-22 04:44 am (UTC)(link)

There was a lot to unpack there, but Bo couldn't help but focusing on the last part. "What do you mean, blood curse?"

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