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] talks2objects.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
"The family that quests together stays together?" Dor ventured.

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[identity profile] grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Or gets left behind to watch all the little people," she sulked. "You're definitely more of an optimist than I am, Dor."

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[identity profile] talks2objects.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Well I thought it'd be nice you have a family unit like that," Dor said with a shrug. "I mean... well my parents are always off on missions for the king and I'm usually stuck in a room getting tutored by a centaur or something."

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[identity profile] grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"...getting tutored by a centaur? That's so neat!"

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[identity profile] talks2objects.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"It's neat until they whip you with their tails when you don't know something," Dor grumbled.

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[identity profile] grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay, yeah, ouch." Not that she really knew, being a city kid, but it sounded painful. "What did they teach you?"

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[identity profile] talks2objects.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
"History of Xanth. Reading and writing and a bunch about the magical species of Xanth," Dor said rubbing the back of his head as if imagining a tail smacking him there. "Unfortunately I'm not that great with the reading and writing. That might be one reason I'm here."

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[identity profile] grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"I could maybe try to help, if you wanted?" She offered, shifting her weight a little from foot to foot. "Or I could stay out of it completely."

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] talks2objects.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Dor gave her a doofy grin at the suggestion.

"Only if you promise you won't smack me in the head."

Re: Mingle!

[identity profile] grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com 2008-09-11 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Molly grinned back, not quite as doofily. "I promise not to smack you in the head."