Halloween Beach Bash!

[runningred]

On the warm sands of the Caribbean inlet, there’s music, fire, food and fun. Come down and play.

{Open all through the weekend and beyond. Starting early to give everyone time to join in. Party rules – thread hop, start your own adventures, and enjoy!}

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Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

"Nah, this place snuck up on me like it always does, and hey, there was a party." She doesn't seem too terribly worried about a stalker-ish interdimensional bar... I mean, objectively, it's less creepy than, say, a psychopathic janitor.

"I'm one hundred percent grade-A nuclear engineer." She knows, she knows, she's awesome, it's a burden she's learned to deal with.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

"The very definition of a surprise party," he chuckles.

"And I do believe that you are the first one hundred percent grade-A nuclear engineer I have ever met. And you dance, no less!"

He has no idea what nuclear engineers do but he figures a lot of science is involved.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

So much science, so much awesome, sexy science. Holtzmann very honestly does not understand why people aren't physicists. Or engineers. Or both! Both is awesome.

"Well yeah, it would be a crime to deprive the world of these moves." She retorts, completely unashamed of her ability (or lack thereof) on the dance floor. "How about you?"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

"I am an entertainer at a nightclub," he says, which would explain...everything? From the sequins to the penchant for calling people 'darling' to even the name. "I sing, I dance, I tell a bawdy joke or three to make an audience of stuffed shirts blush."

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

Holtzmann feels there were probably enough clues to have figured that one out, given the full equation, but... well. She lives in NYC, and Patty has given pretty much everyone a nickname at this point, so honestly it comes as a surprise.

"Oooh, fun! Making them blush is honestly the best." It's (one of the) reasons she started teasing Erin, after all.

Even though currently, Kevin is succeeding in that arena more than she is, just by standing there with his... himness. Holtzmann claims unfair advantage.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

"Mm, these days, they're all a bunch of upper-crusters looking to get their kid gloves a bit dirty," he says with a roll of his eyes. "They have no idea how dirty things used to be."

There's mini Jell-O brains in little cups. And there's also vodka. Should ever the twain meet?

Instead he pours himself some punch.

"So, where are you from? I am currently in Berlin, and currently planning to leave it."

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

Brains and vodka sound like an ultimate win-win to Holtzmann, so she mixes the two together with abandon.

(She chooses extoplasm-green. It seems appropriate.)

"New York City. We just got some sweet new digs so the moving's been... exhausting." Not that it's stopped her from... anything, really, sleep is for the weak.
"I've never been to Berlin. Switzerland is as close as I got." It was in the plans, eventually going there, but... welp. Things happen.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

"Oh! New York City, that's where I'm going! Well, a decidedly different one from yours, I'm sure. But still, what a coincidence. Berlin for me is--" A range of emotions suddenly flutter across his face, but in the end he shakes his head. "It was beautiful, but it's time to move on."

He looks over at what she's doing with the vodka and brains.

"...What are you doing?"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

"The jello probably already has vodka in it, I'm just... improving the potency." She explains, deciding that two brains per shot glass is probably the ideal ratio of jello to extra vodka.

"Oh, and don't stay at the Mercado, just.. baaad news there." She can't imagine it's any different in any other version of New York City (versions of NYC, well, that's not worrisome at all, nope). "Pretty much anywhere but there."

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee stares at his punch. Yes, it's kind of rummy, but why is he drinking punch when he could be having brains and vodka.

"I-- didn't know that was a thing. May I?"

He reaches for the vodka and eagerly starts mixing his own shots. This is fun!

"Why is the Mercado so terrible?"

The art deco must look fabulous in his time.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

"Well, mostly the ghosts. Actually, entirely the ghosts." She modifies with a shrug, before slugging back her shot.

Whooo, that is... that is raw, that is... pain. It makes her feel alive, yup.

"Otherwise it's very nice, very swank. I always wanted to stay in a place like that."

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee follows Holtzmann's lead and also knocks his shot back and holy shit he didn't know gelatin and alcohol could do that.

"Ghosts?" he half-wheezes. "Is the building really very haunted?"

He's totally gonna do another one.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

"According to Patty, things have never been right there." Holtzmann explains as she drops a few more brains into her glass. "Mix that with a psychopath with an inferiority complex and..."

She mimes an explosion, grandly.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee's eyes widen.

"Sounds extremely-- supernatural! Were you-- were you witness to it?"

This is fascinating!

--Oh yes, another Jello shot.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

"Watching is for dudes." Holtzmann snorts, "I still have bruises."

Vodka makes the brains bob merrily.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee blinks. Is it really? Perhaps for this dude in particular, because he wouldn't have wanted to stick around for there to be bruises.

"Bruises-? What happened? The ghosts attacked you?"

Or was it the other way around?

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

"Oh yeah." It's stated as a definite, as a 'of course they would', a foregone conclusion. "I mean, it didn't do them any good, but..." She shrugs, grinning.


(OOC: I'm back, baby! Sorry about the delay)

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee tilts his head at her, eyes still wide.

"I have a feeling that you are more than a nuclear engineer," he says, a faint smirk on his lips.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[cutting_edge_physics]

"Yeah, I'm a hot dancer too." She allows cheerfully with a little shimmy. "And an experimental physicist, but that's pretty much just an extension of the first thing."