http://gameknowsgame.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] gameknowsgame.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2008-09-05 05:07 pm

The boardwalk, Friday evening

Blair didn't have ice to work with this time, but she tried to do what she could with the location she had. Luckily the beach was pretty. Besides, too much gold in the decorations tended to cross the line into tacky.

So she kept the decorations to twinkling gold lights and candles. Most of the linens were a crisp white, with golden napkins and table runners to provide pops of color.

The bulk of the gold went into the food. There were brandied apricots, lemon and chocolate cheesecakes, mango sorbets, small cups of saffron vanilla pudding, miniature stuffed yellow peppers, and any number of foods that followed the theme, along with the pies that Ned had made.

Drinks were mixed, but naturally included Goldschläger, as well as coffee and cocoa decorated with tiny gold letters which said things like "Fandom" or "Goodbye Summer."

Blair had staked out a prime table with a view of the water. She sipped at a passionfruit martini, listened to the music coming out of the various speakers she'd had set up, and looked forward to a night of judging watching the crowd.

She was also going to make sure nobody served those skunks. Clearly they didn't know how to hold their liquor.

[ooc: OCD up! Party down!]

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] meg-powers.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Pretty good. Still dealing a bit with the weirdness," she shrugged. "But everyone keeps saying I'll get used to it." Maybe when she was eighty.

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Naomi nodded, "it does takes take some time getting used to," she said, "I never thought I'd be able to get used to Fandom when I first came here,"

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] meg-powers.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
"You mean things like drunken skunks aren't an everyday occurrence where you're from?" Meg teased.

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Not exactly," Naomi smiled, "where I'm from is hardly considered normal but the drunken skunks are definitely a new thing,"

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] meg-powers.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"What's it like?" she asked curiously.

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
"I grew up on a starship that was stranded 75 000 lightyears from Earth," Naomi explained, "The Captain always used to say that weird was part of the job,"

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] meg-powers.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't even imagine," Meg admitted. "We're still just orbiting the Earth, only a few of the older space craft are making their way out of our solar system."

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Naomi nodded, "what is it like where you're from?" she asked.

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[identity profile] meg-powers.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"It's normal," she said. "I can't think of any other way to explain it. There are no aliens, no unicorns, no sentient robots. I guess it's pretty boring."

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
"There's nothing wrong with it being normal," Naomi told her.

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] meg-powers.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
A skunk stumbled by, leaving a lingering odor of eau de skunk in the air. "No, probably not."