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: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, hello," Viki said mildly, but cheerfully. "How do you do tonight?"

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] time-flyer-5.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Better than earlier," Jen replied, her smile a touch crooked. "I had a run-in with a skunk that I'm pretty sure was hitting the Olde English really hard. How've you been?"

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Not bad at all," she said. "And I do believe, from what I saw, that quite a few of them were so aflicted today. I merely moved any that decided to be fond of me to a different location."

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] time-flyer-5.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Useful skill," Jen replied. "I guess it could have been worse, right? It could have been giant Australian insects again."

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Viki made a face. "Those went the same way, I'll confess. It's very all-purpose."

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] time-flyer-5.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I bet. Almost makes me wish my parents had decided to have me genetically encoded with some kind of power," Jen remarked. "Which is silly; the gene-techs couldn't do that anyway."

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Genetically encoded?"

Yeah. Viki had gotten lost right about there.

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] time-flyer-5.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Almost," Jen added, with a slight grimace. "It bothers me, now, thinking about it -- custom-made kids? Bad enough they could make sure we had the eye color they wanted us to have, or the height, or the intelligence . . ."

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Magic can't do that from where I'm from," she noted, unsettled.

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] time-flyer-5.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Good," Jen said with vehemence that surprised her and didn't, all at once. "It never bothered me growing up, but it does now."

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
"What changed?" Viki asked curiously. "Merely the realization of what it was?"

Re: Eat and/or drink!

[identity profile] time-flyer-5.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Jen moved one hand around in a vague arc-like gesture. "This time and place, mostly. Here, and the place I was before this. Meeting --" She bit off Wes's name just in time. "Someone who fought so hard to be his own person, not what other people wanted him to be. All of that made me realize how wrong it was."