Mauvaise Chance Office/Lobby: Tuesday

[needsaparrot]

Through the doors and past the glittery Guy With Tools signs there's a counter. On the counter is a row of four triple-grande mochas. Behind that, there's a head of dark, tousled hair just barely visible. As if its owner's face was in fact pressed against that very counter.

Occasionally you might hear a muttered, "Whhhhhhhy..." in between the grumbles and the intermittent snores.

[OOC: Openaroonie!]

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Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

At your own risk. So very not dirty.

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge is the kind of person who doesn't actually *need* caffiene to be cheerful. Still. It's nice. Which is why he'd made a stop at the Perk before coming here... and ended up with two hot chocolates with lots of whipped cream. At least the sugar should do... something? And then there was J,GoB for a doughnut run. Not that *he* could partake in the doughnut-ness right now, but Xander likes doughnuts, and he likes Xander, and so that works out nicely.

"Hey," he says in a whisper as he flops down in a chair behind the counter, peering curiously at Xander. "Uh... you okay?"

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"Smmurgffle."

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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Xander?" Now he's actually a little worried. "I brought sugary things?" he tries.

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"Smmmrf?" Well, that gets a slight lifting of the head.

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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey," he says again, sliding the hot chocolate over towards him, followed by the bag from J,GoB. "Hot chocolate, 'cause they seemed to be out of normal coffee or something," he wrinkles his nose at that. "And doughnuts! Which they weren't out of, as evidenced by the fact that they sold me some."

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

Xander shakes himself a little more awake. "Sugar?" he says plaintively.

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh," Bridge nods. "...Are you okay? You're not coming down with something, are you?"

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

Xander points to the row of coffee cups. "Maybe?"

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[perfectmissyork.livejournal.com]

Yawning quite a bit and inspired by her conversation with Juli (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/2716553.html?thread=118151817#t118151817) yesterday, Charlotte had come in to see if Xander might be available to check out her possibly demonic stove for her, but she paused a bit to see that it looked like Xander was a little....out of commission at the moment. She bit her lip against a frown, shifting a little as she tried to decide if she should just leave him or if it would be okay to attempt to wake him. There were sounds emerging from him, so at least he wasn't dead, which had been a worry for her until that first grumblemutter emerged.

And then she yawned, shaking her head to try to shake off the tiredness that hadn't gone away all morning, even without her coffee, and then considered the situation. She could just leave him and then go back to the apartment for a little nap, and bother him about it later, but she had come all the way over here...

She should at least give it a try. She took in a nervous breath, still apprehensive about disturbing him (but really! Sleeping on the job!) and gave a very half-hearted, quiet little whisper of, "Psssst. Xander. Wake up. It's, uh, no big deal, if you wanna keep sleeping..."

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"Mmwake. Rlly." He was. Sort of. Just not entirely functioning. The sugar high from Bridge's doughnuts had worn off way too quickly.

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[perfectmissyork.livejournal.com]

Even the lethargy in Xander's voice was making Charlotte think that she should just wave it off herself and just go for a similar nap. She yawned, hand covering her mouth politely, though she started talking before the yawn had finished. "S'rly 'o big," she ended the yawn with a breath, "deal. I just have a problem with my stove. I'm pretty sure it's just possessed, but I figured I should call in a repairman to check it out before a priest, just in...just in..." Yawwwwwwwwn. "Case."

"Ugh," she shook her head again. "I just cannot wake up this morning!"

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"Did you get coffee from the Perk? There's no caffeine in it today." Xander pointed to his row of empties. Then, "Possessed how? Talking, spitting toads, or blood pouring out of the underbroiler?"

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[perfectmissyork.livejournal.com]

"From the Perk? Uh, no, I just made it at ho--" Charlotte's eyes closed tightly with another shake of her head, because she could have sworn Xander had said...No. No, he did say all that. "Eeew. Ew, no. No, thank God. Nothing like that, ugh! It just...any attempts to bake anything just results in an apartment full of black smoke. And, before you say anything, yes, I can cook. I'm usually pretty good at it, too."

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"Could be a smog demon," Xander said thoughtfully, reaching for the box of doughnuts again because at least a brief sugar rush was something. "Or really cranky genie." Belatedly, he realized it might be nice to share the sugar-rush, so he pushed the box Charlotte's way. "Or a piece of toast stuck under the bake element."

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[perfectmissyork.livejournal.com]

Charlotte eyed the box for a moment before giving her head a light shake, politely lifting a hand to show that she would pass on the doughnuts. She should watch her carb and sweets intake, really. One doughtnut could turn into five, five doughtnuts could turn into giantic hips.

"Juli did throw out the option that it might just be malfunctioning," Charlotte agreed with a nod. "But it isn't like I'd know the difference once way or the other, and that's where you come in."

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"I can take a look, sure. If it's a smog demon, I might have to call in some experts, though." Also if it was anything much more complicated with the oven than replacing said bake element, but shhh.

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[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

And that would be a ringing phone! The phone! The phone is ringing!

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

The phone was in fact playing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. He was still looking for a good ringtone for her, okay?

Which was actually loud enough for Xander to answer said phone reasonably coherently. "Xander's house of Decaf, how may we [snoring noise]?"

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"DUDE!" Mel yelled into the phone. "I'm talking on the phone and making a twinkie at the same time! How rocketship is that?!"

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"PRETTY ROCKETSHIP!" Xander yelled back, which he thought was only fair.

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"THIS IS WHAT I'M SAYING!!" Mel shouted back. "Where are you? You sound like you're next door!"

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[needsaparrot]

"I might be. Are you at the junk yard?"

Re: Poke the Carpenter

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"I'm in the room! This is how awesome this phone is! And look! More twinkies! ... Oh wait. You can't see. WAIT! There's a camera! Hold on!"

And suddenly there was a picture of Mel's desk with about two dozen on it and one half eaten twinkie making it's way to Xander's phone.

"Rocketship!"

OOC

[needsaparrot]

Mmmm, caffeine. *wants more*