All and Sundries 1/31

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Edmund is not behind the counter. He is upstairs with a cold washcloth over his eyes.

Baldrick, however, is available to ring up your items and help you find things in the midst of his so-called organizational system.

[ooc: Blackadder-mun is sick. I'll probably be back for interaction later because I want to distract myself from my misery, but please, feel free to just mod Baldrick to over- and/or undercharge you as much as you want. I am now in. Up to you as to whether you wish to interact with the stinky guy or ask for the testy guy.]

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory led the group in. "Okay, guys. We need to get as much stuff as possible here. Balloons, streamers, snacks...and all the first aid stuff we can get our hands on. Antiseptic, Icy Hot, aloe, bandages, and so on, okay?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Just point me in a direction. Party shopping is always fun."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory smiled. "Okay, Isabel, why don't you look for snack stuff? Cookies, chips, pretzels...things for a party."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel heads off in the direction of snacks. Chips, dips, salsa, lots of chocolate. Everything that would make a good party.

"Is there anything in particular you'd want?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory shook her head. "Just whatever you pick should be fine. Variety is good." She smiled. "We're not going to be there for most of it, after all."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"True, but hopefully some of it will there when you get back." She picked up a large bag of lime flavored tortilla chips. "These are great."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Always a favorite," Rory nodded. "And for the record, we'll have actual food. I'm getting stuff from my stepdad's diner for the whole group so that we don't have to worry about it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I still need to get down there one of these days. The Humanities dinner was supposed to be there tonight but it's been postponed." She sighed, "It'll be nice to have real food. I think I've been living on muffins from the Perk."

[chasingangela]

"I did that all of first semester," Anmgela chimes in. "I'm still avoiding the cafeteria, but I've added yogurt and fruit once in a while to my diet." She frowns. "Though I guess I'll get to experience the cafeteria firsthand tomorrow."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory shot her a sympathetic look. "Just get Jello or something," she suggested. "And I think we should stop by Luke's on our way back to school. Sam wants a burger, after all."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Really? I thought you were going to lunch with Parker and I?" Isabel asked.

[chasingangela]

Angela brings her palm to her forehead. "I ... just completely forgot I promised that. I'm sorry."

"I need to talk to Parker. Then I'll know for sure," she says. "Long story, sorry. Someone else asked me and I'm not sure whetehr it's a good idea."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's not a problem, we probably should postpone anyway," Isabel said regretfully. "It'd be difficult not to talk about studying out in public anyway."

[chasingangela]

"We could try," Angela muses. "But yeah, you might be right."

"Or .... maybe you and Parker could eat in the cafeteria tomorrow?"

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Rory...Speaking of that," Cordy interjected. "Is there a butcher in town we could get some fresh pig's blood from?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nodded. "Yeah, I was just talking to John about it. My dog likes cow's blood, so I can totally pick up pig's blood at NPC Butchershop when I'm in there next."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

oooops.

"Excellent, good thinking."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"All right." John nods and looks around the store. He heads off in the direction of the medical supplies and, of course, pulls a box of Scooby Doo bandaids off the shelf. "Bandaids right?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nodded. "Absolutely. I like Scooby Doo. Um, and some of this, too," she said, keeping her face expressionless as she grabbed some gauze and heavier bandages.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Okay." John grabs gauze, bandages, medical tape, bandaids, ointment, and, on accident, some hemorrhoid cream.

"Hopefully we won't need any of these..."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I really hope not," Rory said softly, grabbing some Icy Hot, aloe, and ibuprofen. "But better to be prepared and all of that."

It's really too bad she didn't notice the hemorrhoid cream.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John, being taller than Rory, reaches up and grabs some ace bandages, braces, and cold compresses frmo the top shelf.

"I agree," John says, nodding. "And it might be funny to see Angel walking around with a Scooby Doo bandaid. Not that I want him to get hurt. It'd just be funny."

"Midol?" John frowns and then holds it up towards Rory and, of course, he hasn't read the label. "Good painkiller?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory blushed. "Um. Yes, but not for the sort of pain we're talking about."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Ah, okay." John shrugs and sets it back. "Anything else for medical? The heavy duty stuff is gonna have to come from the clinic and we just pray we don't need the heavy duty stuff."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory frowned. "I can try the town clinic tomorrow, since House and Wilson know me and won't give me anything." She shot a look at John. "We won't need it. Just keep thinking that. It's been keeping me sane."

She consulted her list. "Rubbing alcohol, cotton balls," she said, pulling them off the shelves. "Um. Can you think of anything else?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Not right now," he says, looking over their stuff so far. "Get the other stuff and then, if we remember, we can pick it up before we check out."

"Food next?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I put Isabel on food detail," Rory mused. "Though - wait. What does Angel eat?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Angel eats just about anything," John says, smiling. "He needs the, uh...red stuff but he was eating baked goods earlier."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Gotcha. Do you know if he has a preference from, um, what sort of red stuff?" Rory asked, making a note on her list. "Vladdie drinks cow's blood, for instance."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Angel likes pig's red stuff," John whispers. "I think he'll drink anything but I usually get the pig's red stuff from the local butcher shop. Should we make a stop there?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I can get it when I run to the clinic tomorrow, since I have to get some stuff for Vladdie, anyway," Rory shrugged.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John nods. "Okay, so party stuff? Balloons? Streamers? Candles?"

[chasingangela]

"All of the above?" Angela suggests. "And glitter. We need glitter."

No, she doesn't know what she needs glitter for.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"We do need glitter!" Rory said, giving Angela a weird look, wondering if she'd been listening in the library. "I promised Anakin I'd get him some."

[chasingangela]

"I wonder whether all Jedis love the glitter, or it's an Anakin thing?" Angela says. She reaches the shelf of craft supplies. "Do you think he'd want red, blue, gold, silver or multicolored?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Anakin likes glitter?" John makes a face. "That's kinda girly, isn't it?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"It's an exercise thing. Like, a way for him to practice his powers, since there are so many pieces," Rory said softly, picking up a container of silver glitter and examining it. "He has gold, blue and...um, pink. The pink and blue are from me, so no, not girly. So maybe silver? The blue one kind of turns silvery."

She might have been devoting a bit too much thought to this.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John nods. "Okay, I take that back. Wow. Good for Anakin. Does he let you watch?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory smiled kind of stupidly at the container of red glitter. "Yeah. If you ask, he'll do something glittery for you, too."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nodded and wandered over to said items. "What color theme, do you think?"

She picked up the balloons. "These could be filled with, um, special water. If they wanted to try to maneuver them."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel walked over, arms full of snack food. "I'd say purple. No particular reason. I think I'm in a purple mood today."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Purple. I like purple. Dark purple, maybe, so that the guys won't get all stupid and," Rory adopted a deep voice, "'Dude, that's a gay color,' about it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Now come on, they're all manly men. I bet they could handle pink balloons without any problems." But she reached for the darker colored balloons.

[soldtoarmenians]

"Hey, light purple's not a gay color," Xander protested. "My frog is totally straight."

He frowned. "Probably. Since I've never actually seen him around any other frogs, and I'm only about 90% sure he's actually a him. Still."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I'm thinking of Logan specifically," Rory replied, giving him a significant look. "He'd be very anti-purple and loud about it, especially if we're expecting them to use the balloons as...study aides."

She frowned. "Where do we get special water, anyway?"

[soldtoarmenians]

"Because the color matters when you're using a balloon to save your li--" Xander cut himself off. "grade?" He shook his head.

"It's the special water that's important. I've got some back in my room, but..." He thought for a second. "Oh, I know where we can get more. The, ah, little place down the street with all the candles. The manager's long gone, and I'm pretty sure the owner would be happy to donate all the water we can take, considering it's for education."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Oh, duh," Rory said, smacking her forehead. "Can you go get some, then? I don't know, um, procedure, and you're an old pro at this and all. Get as much as you can, I guess? We're keeping all this stuff in my room, and space isn't an issue."

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander nodded. "Roger that. If somebody wants to deal with this--" He set his basket of cleaning and emergency surgical supplies down near Rory. "--I'll buy some of those big Rubbermaid bottles and then take a side-trip over there."

He headed for the kitchenware aisle.

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander, seeing John heading for the medical aisle, did a u-turn and went for the cleaning and household supplies. He filled a basket with antiseptic (because who knew if they were gonna have to perform emergency oh god don't stick that needle there please on somebody, an have to clean up a table, before or after), the aforementioned needles and some basic white cotton thread, and a whole hell of a lot of paper towels. Good for cleaning up blood or party spillage. Then he headed back to join the glittery people.