Fandom Island Museum, Thursday Daytime

[hasaknightjob]

Once again, Steven had a hungry cat to thank for making sure he woke up in time to make it to work. Of course Steven still had to run over to his flat to get ready and quickly eat some cereal for breakfast.

He ran out so fast that he forgot to bring a cup of tea with him. So he was actually grateful for the polar bears who had set up outside of the museum and were currently handing out bottles of soda.

"Cheers," he told them. "You're not related to the ones who were performing out here a few months ago, are you? No? All right then. Laters gators!"

With that Steven set himself up inside behind the Welcome Desk. He tried to focus on work, and not any nerves he felt about who may or may not be stopping by that day.

Though of course anyone who wanted to stop by was welcome, planned or not.

[open!]

The Magpie Emporium, Thursday (12/8)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph had woken up with the kind of persistent headache that felt like her head was being clamped in a vise, and it hadn't gone away even after breakfast and coffee.

But here she was anyway, having dragged herself stubbornly into work, and never mind that if Vi or Graham did the same thing she'd tell them in no uncertain terms to go back to bed. She wasn't ridiculous enough to be climbing up on the stepladder, at least, so her work on decorating the store was on hold for the day, but she was still shuffling around restocking shelves.

And setting aside a few things as presents for people, shh.

At least the polar bears were being helpful, providing her with extra caffeine.

[OOC: Home sick with an utterly miserable cold so this is maybe slightly method RP and I'll probably keep dozing off. Open, though!]

Devil's Nest | Thursday Evening

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie was at work.

There really wasn't much else to say about it, besides that. There was no needling of Tiny, no admiring of his Eurodance posters (which, on Thursdays past, would have gotten so much attention.) She hadn't even bothered filling out the specials board, because that seemed like a lot of effort for someone who'd dragged herself to work out of sheer guilt over taking last week off.

(To set up for a party. That seemed so trivial now.)

Annie posted up behind the bar with a beer and her phone, because if she could keep scrolling and reading and finding little things to occupy her mind, maybe she would be able to stop thinking about what had happened.

Her cuts and bruises -- a few faintly visible on her exposed skin -- were a good reminder, too, but they were already healing fast. The mental and emotional stuff was going to take a lot longer.

So, until further notice: Annie was playing Tetris. And she could also get you a drink, if you wanted that for some reason.

Magic Box | Thursday

[dishesonthetoprack]

So, you know what was cute? Making sure the giant skeleton was dressed appropriately for the holidays, of course, and Scott had found enough decorations in the back to start making a decent inroad on both Jeff and the rest of the shop.

But no, that wasn't what was cute, actually. What was cute was how when Scott was outside, trying to determine if Jeff needed to hold a giant candy cane (probably), a freakin' baby polar bear came over and handed him a bottle of Coke.

It took a little while for Scott to negotiate one for Jeff, too, but -- as always, it just didn't seem like a good idea to exclude him?

And his little polar bear friend seemed to agree, too.

[open!]

JGoB, Thursday afternoon

[stykera]

There were polar bears everywhere with bottles of soda and as a result Stark was fairly well loaded down with bottles by the time he made his way to the bakery.

"We got Coke cake if you want some. And cookies. Those bears are everywhere!"

"You can have some of my bottles," Stark offered, putting them on the counter. "And I'll take some of the cookies, for now. Please."

He took one bottle with him to a table along with a box of assorted cookies (most of which contained some Coke). He could watch the bears outside offering more bottles to more people if nothing else from his spot by the window.


[I'm at work for another 7 hours probably please entertain me and take my mind off this headache I've had for 3 daysNOW THE BATHROOMS ARE ALL FLOODING AND I'M HERE THREE MORE HOURS HELP]

The Park

[wildgalegirl]

Polar bears offering soda? Yes, please. Charlie was delighted to see them - would have been been without the gift of soda - but then she was fairly easily delighted by things. It seemed only fair to offer them something in return, which would be why she was hanging out in the park with her guitar singing Christmas carols -and for some reason a song about teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony.

The bears seemed quite taken with her and the music and there always seemed to be a group listening, handing out cokes and offering hugs. Charlie was fairly delighted with those as well.


She was having a grand time all things told, though she'd certainly be happy if others dropped by to join in the singing or just hang out with her and the polar bears.

The Photo Hut - Thursday

[flamesburned]

Liz was still looking through the different wedding themed Pinterest boards but she did have admin work to do as well so most of her time was spent trying to work on some of her reports and answer some emails but every now and then she did have a look through Pinterest for more inspiration.

She didn’t get as much work done as she would have liked because aside from Pinterest she was rather distracted when Cocoa Cola Polar bears (tm) kept coming in to give her bottles of coke, which she did let herself have a few bottles because she found them to be rather good, even though she was trying to not drink all of the bottles that she kept being given throughout the morning.

[the Photo Hut is open!]