[Mingle]

[randomly_modding]

[So you're in the studio and the camera crew has instructed your characters to break into your teams to discuss 1) the client's personal fashion comfort zone and preferences, and 2) how to give them the Stylecation makeover they obviously need, while 3) working in the episode theme of "animal".]

[Or that's what you're supposed to be talking about, to obey the host.]

[Please don't mind the cameras focused on you at all times, even following you to the snack table to grab coffee and danishes and donuts. But feel free to crash one of the other team mingles!]

Comments

[onehotpepper]

[these snacks are not ideal, but being the first thing she's had all week that she hasn't seen someone kill or gut, she'll take it. she can taste all the sugar and processed grains, the things that make hard core dieters weep -- and it's pretty much glorious. that and coffee~! delicious, bitter coffee.]

[excuse her. she's just going to stand here for a second. this is a pretty normal place, after all]

[waytobreakithero]

[ Exasperated, she sees someone who looks like she's familiar with this place. ]

Do you see anything that resembles tea? Or hard liquor?

[onehotpepper]

[motioning to a little tray by the coffee dispensers] Those are tea bags, and there's the hot water. No liquor, though. I think they want us sober until this is over.

[waytobreakithero]

[ She picks up a "tea bag" and shakes it a little. ]

This is tea? [ SKEPTICAL. ]

[onehotpepper]

[nodding] You put it in a cup or a mug and pour hot water over it, then let it steep for a few minutes.

[you don't look vert impressed :/] I apologize on behalf of my country.

[waytobreakithero]

[ Okay, that makes her laugh. ]

I wouldn't go that far, serah. Not unless you're going to take credit for any successes too.

[ Takes a look at the thing she said had hot water. ] More buttons. [ Half to herself. ] I should point Stark over here.

[onehotpepper]

[thinks about it for a moment] Better not.

[chuckling] Usually I'm the one who gets his coffee, so I don't know that he'd be up for the challenge. Unless you wantes to upgrade the coffeemaker beyond recognition.

[waytobreakithero]

He was very helpful explaining how to use the "communicator". Though I noticed using the word "magic" made him twitch. [ So she tried to use it often. And will keep on doing it! ]

So you're both from the same world?

[onehotpepper]

[you can definitely stay, in that case!]

[nodding] We are. We're engaged, too. Bonus points for both of us being stuck in the same, weird game.

[...did the boom guy just-- grin? great. just great.]

[waytobreakithero]

[ It's probably good she doesn't see the grinning people. So she just offers a wry smile of her own. ]

Are congratulations in order? Or condolences?

[onehotpepper]

[laughing] Do you want to give a toast at the wedding party? Congratulations, of course. [condolences had been given during his three month disappearance, actually, so]

[cleanedslate]

Am I the only one who was really hoping for an open bar?

[onehotpepper]

I think they're saving that for the wrap party.

[cleanedslate]

Damn. But I want them now!

[onehotpepper]

[arching her eyebrows at you, mostly managing not to look amused. mostly.] I can't change the rules.

[cleanedslate]

Not even for me? [ these are his puppy dog eyes ] Come on. Rules are for other people.

[ not even a little, Tony ]

[onehotpepper]

[nope, sorry] I didn't make them, I can't break them. Besides, do you really want to have a drink right now, after a week of eating only what you could forage?

[bit of the pot calling the kettle out, really, because coffee, but at least caffeine purports to make you more alert]

[cleanedslate]

That's the best time for a drink. [ he directs this helpfully into the cameras ] You get drunk way faster on an empty stomach, kids. Pro tip.

[onehotpepper]

[Tony oh my god NO]

[to the cameras] No, don't do that. [glaring at Tony] It's a terrible idea.

[everwalking]

You look like you're enjoying that coffee. [Allen has eaten quite a bit already and so he has slowed to a more reasonable pace of one pastry per minute, but he spares her a smile anyway, sympathetic. he doesn't fully understand these cameras, or this premise, or anything that's happening right now, but he does understand that it is civilization, which is a far cry from the beach where they've been stranded for a week]

[onehotpepper]

[she's not going to hide that fact, so she smiles at him when he asks] After a week of nothing but plain water or coconut water, this is just the thing. [noticing the danish he's currently working on] How are those?

[everwalking]

Wonderfully starchy! [which is all he asks for. right now] Right now I feel like I could eat an entire banquet of these. They might need to get extra. They don't know how we've been living.

[onehotpepper]

[duly noted. she'll have one or two with her next cup of coffee]

[smiling] Bet they didn't expect their contestants to be famished.