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milliways_bar2005-06-20 06:29 pm
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Alain's birthday
It's almost sunset, and the preparations are almost finished.
Cuthbert, Lilly, and the waitrats they've roped into helping out have set up tables with food out by the lake. On one of them, there's a small CD player currently playing The Beatles.
A few games are set up in the surrounding area--the kind you'd find at any country fair or picnic--but on the whole, there's nothing elaborate.
All that's needed now is for people to show up.
[Summary: Alain has a birthday party. Roland, Cuthbert, Susan, Lilly, Faith, Ace, Meg, and Gavroche attend. There are snow cones and lovely presents and a general mood of "there's doom all around, so let's make this one thing tonight happy and fun".]
Cuthbert, Lilly, and the waitrats they've roped into helping out have set up tables with food out by the lake. On one of them, there's a small CD player currently playing The Beatles.
A few games are set up in the surrounding area--the kind you'd find at any country fair or picnic--but on the whole, there's nothing elaborate.
All that's needed now is for people to show up.
[Summary: Alain has a birthday party. Roland, Cuthbert, Susan, Lilly, Faith, Ace, Meg, and Gavroche attend. There are snow cones and lovely presents and a general mood of "there's doom all around, so let's make this one thing tonight happy and fun".]
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"Okay, so you've been exposed to movies and tv and all in the bar, right? Well, Snoopy started out as a character in a paper cartoon called Peanuts but then he got an animated cartoon and there were toys like this machine and specials and there's a Christmas one where he does a dance and ohhh, Xander does a great impression of the Snoopy dance and it's totally not obscene no matter what you might have heard about Bernard's party."
The trouble with Lilly's explanations is that they're often more enthusiastic then, well, explanatory.
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"All right."
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She pauses.
"Did you guys have Christmas in Gilead?"
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From Roland's tone, it seems like he's wondering if that's all she ever thinks about.
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"Yes, parties, and no, that's not all I ever do or did, even. They just make for better casual conversation than the real stories about growing up rich and fucked-up in southern California. Infidelity and suicides and abuse and murder aren't exactly popular topics, you ken?"
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"I kennit, yar."
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"I think you'd be surprised at how much of what I do is really very understandable when you think about it, Ro. There is method to my madness, I swear."
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"I know."
He does, really.
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And she smiles a bit more.
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"Rocketship."
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"Rocketship. It means the same thing as shiny or five-by-five or even," she pauses, does her best to imitate Roland's tone, "it is well. I learned it from my friend Mel."
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"Yeah, that's where I got it. I picked up some great Chinese curses from Mal in exchange for his nickname. Captain mu ji. And Wash taught me some for being his baby dinosaur backup. I like the Serenity folken, they're good people."
[ooc: I'm going in a bit, move to wrap or slowtime or something?]
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Maybe he'll tell Lilly about the Academy some time. But that's not tonight.
He spies Alain, and nods to the box at his side. "Suppose I ought to deliver this."
[ooc: Wrap works. :) ]
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