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!]
thatsamilkshake: (dress-distant)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-09-06 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Much as Francine would have liked to hide by the buffet table all night, the skunk that mistook her white purse for the fuzzy animal version of the Porcelain God was enough to drive her out into the fray. Sans hastily-dumped purse.

Seeing at least one familiar face, she waved shyly at Chuck with the hand that wasn't holding a mug of cocoa.

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] rocksthescarf.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Chuck raised his drink to Francine in a greeting and made his way over to her. "Francine, you are looking beautiful tonight."
thatsamilkshake: (dress-closeup)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-09-06 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Francine resisted the very real urge to look around and make sure there wasn't some other girl named Francine at this party he could possibly be talking to. Well, she mostly resisted it. Just a quick glance over her shoulder.

"Oh, um. Wow. Me? Thanks," was probably not the most graceful reaction ever. "Hi, Chuck."

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] rocksthescarf.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Hi, Francine," Chuck said, hiding his amusement over her being so flustered with a sip of his drink. "Glad you made it. You enjoying yourself? Drunk skunks aside, I mean."
thatsamilkshake: (nervous)

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[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-09-06 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
"One of them dropped an olive down the front of my dress," she said, shaking her head and somehow missing the 'aside' part. "And then tried to crawl in and get it back. Well, that's what he said he was doing."

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] rocksthescarf.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Smooooooth," Chuck said playfully. "You have to give him points for effort though."
thatsamilkshake: (dress-closeup)

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[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-09-06 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"I gave him a new olive for effort," Francine answered with a small snort.

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[identity profile] rocksthescarf.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Chuck snickered. "You got lucky. Half of these skunks I've seen are so drunk they wouldn't even bother pulling the ol' olive down the shirt trick before trying to cop a feel."
thatsamilkshake: (headtilt)

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[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-09-06 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
"He was much more polite than the one that threw up in my purse," Francine agreed.

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[identity profile] rocksthescarf.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
"A skunk threw up in your purse?" Chuck asked. "You slapped that one, right?"

He imagined that Blair would kill anybody or anything that threw up anywhere near her purse so he figured that most girls would react that way.
thatsamilkshake: (explaining)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-09-06 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I mostly just grabbed my keys and threw the purse at it and ran," she said. "It may be drunk, but it's still a skunk."

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] rocksthescarf.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"...Good point," Chuck admitted. "I keep forgetting that part. The drunk thing is distracting."
thatsamilkshake: (dress-closeup)

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[personal profile] thatsamilkshake 2008-09-06 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Which makes me wonder, who goes around giving booze to skunks?" Francine asked. "I heard that bar in town doesn't card students, but skunks?"