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The Boards, Thursday

Kenzi was mistress of all she surveyed! ... except for AliasKitty, who was playing in the old costumes she'd dragged out to inventory.

Also, there were candles. A lot of candles. Tea candles. She was mistress of those, too.

Kenzi might have been confusing Jekyll & Hyde for Phantom of the Opera. Don't spoil it for her.

[ooc: Boards is open! Kenzi is doing techie things, but if you got business there, feel free to wander in. She'll be happy to be... sorta helpful.]

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Of course Jono had business here-- He lived here, though he was a little baffled when he stepped inside to top up his cat food supplies and make certain he had enough power packs for his collar, only to find that his theatre appeared to be lit entirely by candlelight.

"Erm... Hello?"

Who was trying to burn down his Boards?

"Helloooooo!" A head popped up from under a table covered by velvet. "Oh hey you're back! How'd the war go?"

Like he was just back from a new bar.

"It's not actually over yet," Jono replied, shaking his head a little. "We're still walking into the tiger's den, so to speak. I just needed to recharge."

He gave Kenzi a bit of a side-eye.

"What's with all of the fire, Kenzi?"

"You like it? I got the best deal on them over the internet." With someone else's credit card, maybe. "See, isn't this primo Goth atmosphere?"

AliasKitty sneezed on one, almost putting it out.

Joni, meanwhile, just seemed way more interested in trying to reach out and bat at the fire. Jono had to remove her from his pocket and hold her up on his shoulder.

"It's ... definitely a lot of fire. Jog my memory, why are we going for a goth atmosphere, again?"

They'd had gas lighting in Victorian London, Kenzi. Gas.

In some worlds! In some worlds they were probably still working with torches!

"Hello, Victorian times?"

Possibly those worlds were in the unread history book Kenzi still had somewhere.

Jono was going to refrain from pinching the bridge of his nose, now.

"Victorian times weren't the dark ages, you know. There were some candles, certainly, but..."

Well, there was such a thing as overkill.

"Never mind. Still, rather than using actual fire on my stage, perhaps we can replace these with those battery-powered ones, at least," he sighed.

"Awww, maaan. I have a fire extinguisher!"

You didn't survive a year with Karla "Yes I Can Too Cook" in the dorms without one.

"And if it comes down to using one because of your tealights, I'll find myself seriously reconsidering my staffing choices," Jono replied dryly as Joni squirmed about, getting restless on his shoulder. "Now, before I'm trying to put out a flaming cat, can we please get rid of a few of these?"

Kenzi sighed. "Fiiiiine." She pulled out a squirt gun and started dousing the ones around the edges, then the ones closer to Jonothon. "Gas lights, gas lights... well, at least Bo's not going to run out of tea lights."

Her roommate had a real thing for that bath tub of hers, and 'atmosphere.'

"She'll likely appreciate it working out this way about as much as I do, then," Jono replied, smiling faintly as he watched her put out the lights.

Meanwhile, Joni was getting her claws snagged in his shoulder as she did an impressive wiggle, trying to get free.

"We'll use electric lighting, because I'm not in any mood to blow up the building, either. They sell some fairly realistic wall sconces on the internet, I'm certain."

"Whither authenticity?" Kenzi asked in melodramatic tones. "Never mind. Greater challenge for your sets arranger, that's all fine, fine, it's good."

As Kenzi was mumbling, AliasKitty came closer to Jonothon, trailing a pair of Victorian lace bloomers on her tail, and leaned up to chirrup at Joni.

"There's an interesting look for your cat," Jono noted, checking to be certain the majority of the candles were out before putting Joni down and letting the cats sniff at one another.

... Also effectively saving his shoulder from further mutilation.

"I see you're not wasting time getting costuming started, considering we have yet to have a rehearsal."

"Well, we have the casting already. And the double-casting." Kenzi picked up a pair of boots and clapped them together on her hands. "We're gonna have to have them practice the costume changes as well as everything else, right? It didn't look like any of them were too close, but...."

AK rubbed her face all over Joni's, purring happily, then turned to pounce on the bloomers, showing off her kill. Lace! For tangling!

Oh, Joni knew all about the tangly lace. She was a theatre cat through and through by now. Lace meant she got the bad kitty spray bottle if she got tangled up in it, generally.

"Of course we will," Jono agreed with a nod. "Best to know they can handle all of that changing, considering."

Especially since, in one case, three roles were split between two girls sharing one body...

Yeah, that one was going to be a hoot.

Kittens were now rolling around in lace. At least AliasKitty was. Kenzi sighed, and shot the squirt gun in the general vicinity of her cat. To very little effect.

"So yeah, I figured, at least get what we already had on hangers, work out the extras... think we're going to need some coats. I have hats!" ahahah did she ever. "From my basement. Our new place having been a hat store and all."

"Kaeleeran fashion is actually fairly reminiscent of Victorian London, somewhat," Jono noted, thoughtfully. "I might be able to get a lot of costuming we don't have from there, provided it isn't a warzone by the time we need fitted clothing for dress rehearsal."

And it would give him another excuse to spend more time in Glacia without people getting on his case about taking things easy, which was a plus.

"Cool cool." Kenzi grinned, clapping the boots again. "Well, except for the war-zone thing. Not cool. Are you guys close to winning?" Because any other alternative was unthinkable.

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