Caritas- Monday

[throughaphase]

Kitty had never been angrier in her whole life, and she'd started a lot of fights in her life! But this time they'd messsed with her kid and do it was entirely possible she would try to murder whoever caused it this week!

But for now, she looked like a happy little plastic Kitty in her bar, which looked more like a kitchen-type play house, with cabinets were you could pull out teacups and pieces of plastic snack food.

The fact that Tino was a finger puppet? Not gonna touch that right now. Or ever.

But since she knew of at least one other person who thought this was weird, she'd set up a tea party in the back room, along with a "NO SQUIRRELS CLUB" sign to discourage spying.


[I've decided to offer up Caritas as a meeting place for anyone who might want to find people who broke off the brainwashing, and in case anyone wants a safe place to plot.

Open!]

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Stage

[throughaphase]

No zombies, because those are scary. Today they're dinosaur toys!

Bar

[throughaphase]

It's all plastic food and water as "tea", maybe a real soda. You can talk to Kitty or mod your finger puppet!

Re: Bar

[heartinabox]

"Kitty!" Regina greeted, her plastered on grin stretched just a touch too taut after a day of playing happy diner times at Luke's. "How are you?!"

Her cheek twitched. She hadn't wanted to find something to murder quite this badly in a really long time.

Re: Bar

[throughaphase]

"Never better!"

She wanted to stab whoever did this in the face with a bone claw!

"This is definitely maybe the happiest I've ever been."

Re: Bar

[glacial_queen]

"Oh hello," Karla said, sidling up to Regina. "I know you! You're that little witch that runs the diner, aren't you? How adorable. I'm so sorry I haven't had a chance to come over and have a little chitchat with you before. I'm sure we have lots in common."

Re: Bar

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Did a robotic plushy panther kitty belong in a bar?

...probably not, but here Shuri was anyway!

"Hi!"

Re: Bar

[throughaphase]

"Hi!" Kitty greeted her. "How are you this evening?"

Please be normal, Kitty hated this act a lot.

Re: Bar

[uncertain_dume]

... Huh. Kanan wasn't expecting Caritas to be open today. But then, he wasn't expecting... much... from today. He squinted a little at the bar for a minute, and then, not even certain if this was or wasn't against his better judgment, he made his kind of clunky way inside.

Stupid base being fused to his stupid plastic feet.

"Oh, hey. Look how... cheerful everything is in here!"

That smile couldn't possibly be more plastic if he tried. Really.

"Great."

Re: Bar

[throughaphase]

On one hand, she was beginning to recognize that tone. On the other hand, she'd heard radio.

"It's extremely cheerful," Kitty said. "Just like it's supposed to be."

Re: Bar

[arboreal_priestess]

"Hi Kitty!" Verity said, twirling into the bar. "Wow, isn't today just a super-great day?"

No. No it was not. Especially not when your live-in boyfriend was the Sheriff of Oceania in this super-great 1984 ripoff. "After all the...excitement...of this morning, I thought I could sure use a cup of - " goddammit did this hellscape even have alcohol? " - something delicious!"

Everything was awful. Especially her creepy ceramic face.

Re: Bar

[throughaphase]

From someone whose brainwashed husband was home with the plastic baby, she got you!

"You sound a little stressed from the morning," Kitty noted, watching the reaction.

Re: Bar

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had stayed out most of the day, knowing something had to be done, but not knowing exactly what. Sure, staying out meant maybe having to deal with more people taking notes if she said the wrong thing, but she couldn't be the only one who knew what was going on. So she wandered.

And and it was a relief to sense people that felt different.

So she went inside the bar, and when she didn't see many people in there, she followed the sense towards the back room.

Re: Bar

[glacial_queen]

The sound of birdsong rose extra loud in the air and then the door opened, revealing...nobody.

At least until Karla dropped from above the lintel, strings catching her before she hit the ground. "Kiss kiss!" she called cheerily, giving everyone a little wave with one articulated arm. "Why look how full the bar is today!"

[Crazy running around getting ready for tomorrow's surgery, but I couldn't not ping these two. SP?]

Re: Bar

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hi!" Summer called out brightly as she swept into the bar, brandishing a covered try. "I brought scones!"

Sure, they were made of Play-Doh, but she was really leaning into this whole 'tea party' thing, okay??

Then she blinked when she saw all the people already here. "Wow," she stated, "busy night."

Pause.

"Which is, like, suuuuper great, ohmygosh, so fun."

There.

But she so didn't think she brought enough scones now.

Re: Bar

[imafuturist]

Kitty. Kitty, this was all terrible.

"Hi there, Kitty," Tony said. He was at a bar and didn't have a mouth for drinking right now because he'd have to swap his head and that was a step too far right now.

Lounge

[throughaphase]

In case you want to sit happily and play by yourself.

Back room- NFB

[throughaphase]

It's totally a private tea party where squirrels are not allowed!

Which means if you're gonna have any sekrit conversations, this is the place to do it.

Re: Back room- NFB

[heartinabox]

Regina made sure the door was shut firmly behind her, and gave the room a thorough once-over before she let herself relax.

Then she let out a string of curses that were absolutely unbecoming on a maternal doll like herself, but felt really good to say.

And look! Her fireballs were working properly. That was very good to know.

Re: Back room- NFB

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"What is even happening?" Shuri wailed as soon as the door shut. "They killed the dean on television and everyone is just fine with it?!"

Re: Back room- NFB

[uncertain_dume]

"My feet are fused to a plastic plank."

Which was not actually Kanan's number one complaint today, but... he had a lot to process, regarding Skywalker.

A lot. And it didn't help that the island felt like it was packed in gauze. He felt halfway to headblind here and he hated it.

Re: Back room- NFB

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity pirouetted into the back room, singing "Tra la la, I just love to dance!" over her shoulder before kicking the door closed and letting her smile fade for the first time in hours.

"I fucking hate everything."

Re: Back room- NFB

[thatwaslucky]

Rey was very glad to see this many people back here, even if she didn't recognize most of them.

Excuse her if she rubbed her cheeks a little, her face hurt from smiling.

Re: Back room- NFB

[somethingwithturquoise]

When Summer finally made it to the back room, she was honestly a little...astonished at how everyone just sort of...let loose so easily. Like, how could any of them be sure they could trust each other? How could they be sure they could trust Kitty? This whole thing could have been orchestrated as just a giant trap...

...but she also didn't want the others thinking they couldn't trust her, so, as soon as she was inside, she tossed aside her container of Play-Doh scones and flopped into the nearest chair with a big, relieved groan, tilting her head back, closing her eyes, and just reveled in a moment where she just didn't have to fucking smile all the god damn fucking time! Ugh!

Even just doing that felt good.

Re: Back room- NFB

[imafuturist]

"So, this is a brand new sort of awful, right? I'm not hallucinating." He was still kinda rejecting the weirdness in his brain.

OOC

[throughaphase]

I love this plot already.