shireisburning: (neg: these fucking kids)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was dealing with a god-awful amount of frizz today and the weather was not helping. One of the teens offered to braid his hair, which he respectfully declined.

So he'd just be here all day mumbling to himself and swatting curls out of his face.

[IT'S GROSS OUT. Open]
shireisburning: (pos: that's some great shit man)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie wasn't into sports (shocker), but he was very much enjoying overhearing the divorced dads talk about the championship games this weekend. The Mahomes vs Jackson vs Taylor Swift was funny but Eddie was behind the guy who just kept shouting "LIONSSSSSSSS" at random intervals. That guy just seemed happy to be there, a true Lions fan.

[Open]
shireisburning: (pos: definitely flirting)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was shaking snow out of his hair when he came into work today, proud of himself for not slipping and falling on the ridiculous cobblestone when he was walking here. The teens were acting like it was a snow day, so he didn't expect much work to be done.

Which, fine, whatever. Place basically ran itself anyway.
shireisburning: (neu: hmm)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Being an Indiana boy, Eddie was no stranger to cold. However, he did choose style over comfort most of the time which meant he was freezing his ass off right now.

But he looked cool. So that's what counted.

Still, he'd be warming himself near the hot dog turning machine thingy during his shift.

[Easin' back in with no OCD]
shireisburning: (spec: reading)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was so not a Christmas guy, so the last week or so had been a feat in Ignoring Weird Stuff. He was still attempting to do so, sitting at the concessions of the bowling alley reading Tolkien for about the 50th time. An actual book; he still couldn't bring himself to get into that Kindle shit.

[Open and OCD-free]
shireisburning: (neu: what are you telling me child)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie didn't typically work on Wednesdays but he did typically take an edible and walk around the island fairly often. But no matter how strong that gummy you took was, you were going to notice when your place of employment (that you owned somehow?) had changed names.

He placed his hands on the glass door and peeked in. To his horror there were children running around, divorced dads following them around tiredly instead of bowling against the other divorced dads. There were tickets being spewed out of arcade games and the prizes looked to be sponsored by Peppa Pig and Bluey.

And then he heard the dulcet tones of pop music being pumped through the speakers.

That was when Eddie screamed.

The man had taken over his precious bowling alley/arcade!

[open]
shireisburning: (pos: cool story brah)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The teens had hidden everything incriminating in case any parents decided to wander into the bowling alley tonight. Not that were anything that would be considered a felony, but still. Parents could be weird about some stuff.

Eddie wasn't too worried about it. Not like he had any parents to visit him and he'd like to keep it that way.

[Open]
shireisburning: (neu: what are you saying to me)
[personal profile] shireisburning
One of the teens got themselves caught up in fake spider webs while trying to decorate the joint for Halloween. Eddie wasn't surprised, but he was disappointed. He'd help get him out eventually but first he'd see if the little guy could free himself on his own first. That's how you learned.

[idk I want to go home and play Starfield. Open, no OCD]
shireisburning: (Default)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The stereo was on the fritz again which meant that, for some reason, all it was doing was playing calypso music. Eddie had recently educated himself on Beetlejuice so he wasn't actually complaining. That movie ruled. He hoped this place was haunted with goofy ghosts, that'd be sweet.

[Open, OCD-free]
shireisburning: (neu: girl please)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The teens were bemoaning about the back to school ads and sales they've been seeing, which put Eddie in a good mood because that so wasn't his problem anymore. Who needed a degree? Not him. He owned a bowling alley without one, thank you,

Song of the Day
Dead Man's Bones - Lose Your Soul
Free drink whenever the song plays


[Open]
shireisburning: (neu: girl please)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie had a style to maintain, which meant he was miserable today in all of his layers with the heat. It led to questions from the teens on how people dressed in the summer in the 80's which led Eddie deciding there needed to be a team building showing of Sleepaway Camp in their near future.

Because that movie was an excellent example of guys wearing cutoffs and crop tops in the summer.

Song of the Day
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Free drink whenever the song plays


[Open]
shireisburning: (Default)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie wasn't patriotic by any means but he didn't have any complaints about July 4th. You know why? Fireworks. Fireworks, sparklers, bonfires. It was all awesome to him.

He wasn't a maniac so he wasn't going to allow, like, a full on fireworks show in the bowling alley but if the teens wanted to run around with sparklers to celebrate the holiday, who was he to stop them?

[Open, no OCD]
shireisburning: (pos: chit chat)
[personal profile] shireisburning
It smelled like a mix of flowers and a bonfire in the bowling alley today. But not for Canada reasons -- one of the teens wanted to see if they could light something on fire using a can of air freshener.

It was less impressive than the warning labels would lead you to believe.

Song of the Day
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Free drink whenever the song plays


[Thanks, 17-year-old Sam for the post inspiration. Open]
shireisburning: (pos: head tilt)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The stereo system was on the fritz and only playing 90's country for some ungodly reason. So Eddie would be sitting here with his headphones on at full blast, trying to drown out the horror.

You might have to wave him down if you wanted his attention.

[Going OCD-free today]

Fast Eddie's | Friday

Friday, May 5th, 2023 08:10 am
shireisburning: (pos: proud of you)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The bowling alley hadn't suffered from the excitement last week. In fact, it actually gave the divorced dads something to talk about between frames. They all had opinions on how to get rid of critters on their lawns.

Eddie found it fascinating. Like watching a nature documentary on middle-aged white dudes.

Song of the Day
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Passenger
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: listening sarcastically(?))
[personal profile] shireisburning
Most of the teens were AWOL today. He didn't remember approving everybody having a day off at the same time, but to be fair, he could have been more baked than usual and had done it. He tended to be very generous when he was stoned.

Oh well, he could man this place solo, easy. Unless anybody asked for anything.

[OCD-Free!]
shireisburning: (neg: listening but not happy)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie didn't know who brought in the rabbits but he was fairly sure them crawling all over the counter broke a health code or two. But, let's be real, the food they served here barely qualified as edible anyway so what's some bunny fur gonna hurt?

They were cute so he'd let it go.

Song of the Day
Hole - Miss World
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (pos: definitely flirting)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The teens seemed to have everything in hand today, so Eddie was really not putting any effort into working today. He was still sitting by the concessions, though, just in case someone got their hand caught in the pin reset and he had to scream along beside the victim. Because being useful in that situation was out of the question.

Song of the Day
Guns N' Roses - Live and Let Die
Free drink whenever the song plays!
shireisburning: (neu: oh weird)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The teens decided to get creative with the food and drink they could green today for the holiday. The drinks, sure, that was fine. Mountain Dew was already kind of green. But the nacho cheese? That shit looked foul.

"Nobody is eating that." Except him. Because he had the munchies and nacho cheese was nacho cheese.

Song of the Day
Bo Burnham - 1985
Free drink whenever the song plays!
shireisburning: (pos: head tilt)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The sound system was out of whack today. The culprit, it turned out, to be nacho cheese that had somehow gotten into the wiring. One of the teens insisted he could fix it, but it'd take some time.

"So, what, we're supposed to just sit here and listen to each other breathe?" Eddie asked, already putting in earbuds and putting on a playlist on his phone (thank you, 21st century). "Absolutely not."
shireisburning: (neu: this is serious)
[personal profile] shireisburning
One of the teens had their hand caught in one of the skeeball holes. Eddie didn't want to call the hot firefighters for something so stupid so instead he sent some of the other teens with butter from the popcorn machine to try to lube him out.

Even if it didn't work, the place smelled delicious.

Song of the day
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
Free drink whenever the song plays!
shireisburning: (pos: here's what i'll do for you)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Everybody was on some cool trip or whatever, but the divorced dads at the bowling alley hadn't seemed to get the memo. They were rollin', baby.

Eddie was watching from the counter, hoping that maybe there'd be some kind of bowling fight.

[OCD-free]
shireisburning: (neg: jfc)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie, naturally, wasn't into Valentine's Day since it was all corporate and a way to sell cards, etc, etc. But he wasn't going to give the teens shit for decorating for the occasion. In fact, he was helping create construction paper hearts to hang up. His hearts were anatomically correct but still.

Song of the Day
Queen - Fat Bottom Girls
Free drink whenever the song plays!


[Open, naturally]
shireisburning: (pos: cutie)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The song of the day wasn't exactly to Eddie's taste, but considering the subject matter and the catchy refrain he couldn't really complain. Just...don't mention it if you caught him singing along with it.

Song of the day
Felix Hagen - Eddie Baby
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (pos: kind of flirting)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was showing the teens some good ol' fashioned 80's fun by making a couple paper footballs and then showing that the real goal of the game was to flick people in the face and possibly take out an eye.

See, kids, you didn't need your Playstations and X-Boxes.

Song of the day
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: this is serious)
[personal profile] shireisburning
There was nothing weird happening for once (that he could tell), which made it for a slow day at the bowling alley. Eddie wasn't complaining; after Hawkins he knew to enjoy the quiet while he could get it.

Song of the Day
Pink Floyd - Time
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: game plan)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie didn't know where the short guys came from, but they seemed to be determined to fix the nacho cheese dispenser, so he wasn't going to complain. For the last couple weeks he and the teens had just been squeezing it out by hand.

Gloves had been optional.

Song of the Day
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Free drink whenever the song plays!
shireisburning: (pos: cutie)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was not above eating mysterious cookies he found behind doors. There were quite a few doors in the bowling alley so he managed to gather up quite a large pile of door cookies.

Free food was free food.

Song of the Day
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: realizing)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was alone at the bowling alley today. All of the teens were spending time with their families or whatever. So that sucked. To make things worse, Christmas music was playing and he couldn't figure out where the hell it was coming from.

So, no, there would be no song of the day because once Eddie found out where the music was coming from he was going to destroy it.
shireisburning: (neu: explaining)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The teens were talking about their Thanksgiving plans, and Eddie suddenly came to the realization that he'd be alone here next Friday. Maybe it won't be too busy. Maybe everyone would be passed out from their turkey comas and won't want to play pinball.

Song of the Day
Dio - Holy Diver
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: oh weird)
[personal profile] shireisburning
There weren't any cool capes today, which was kind of disappointing. There were, however, some suspicious hot dogs that one of the teens had found in the back of the freezer. The price of how much money it'd take to try one had risen up to fifty bucks. Eddie was looking forward to seeing which broke sap would take up the offer.

...it might actually be him.

Song of the day
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Free drink whenever the song plays!
shireisburning: (pos: cutie)
[personal profile] shireisburning
"Okay, guys, I have an important announcement to make."

The teens gathered around Eddie, looking anywhere from vaguely interested to not paying attention at all.

Eddie flapped one of the sides of his cape. "We look fucking awesome in these things."

Announcement over.

Song of the Day
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (pos: aren't you big boy)
[personal profile] shireisburning
If the town had been quieter than usual this week, Eddie hadn't noticed. The stoner teens were all still there, doing what they did. Which was nothing. He could respect that life.

Song of the Day
The Ramones - Pet Sematary
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: listening sarcastically(?))
[personal profile] shireisburning
The teenagers were trying to decorate the joint for Halloween, and Eddie had the oh-so-important job of making sure if anyone fell off a ladder and broke their face he'd be around to call 911.

So far so good.

Song of the Day
Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: game plan)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Spooky season was among us, and Eddie had 40 years of scary movies to catch up on. He hadn't even seen Hellraiser! That movie was practically made for him!

He had a pad of paper out and was taking diligent notes on the movies the teens were suggesting to him. This was serious business.

Song of the Day
Godsmack - Voodoo
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (pos: you cute lil' man)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The bowling balls were back to normal, though the scent of old pumpkin still lingered in the air. At least it covered up the lingering smell of weed in case any of the teens' parents came in to see where their kids worked.

Song of the Day
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: could we not)
[personal profile] shireisburning
All of the bowling balls had turned into pumpkins somehow. Eddie wasn't about to question it, however he was questioning the people who were still trying to bowl despite this setback. It was making a mess and you weren't even going to get a good score.

Song of the Day
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (pos: chit chat)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie had spruced up the manager's office a bit, adding a couch he had gotten cheap so he had something not a pool table to sleep on. A few Iron Maiden posters and a new guitar and he'd really be at home.

One of the teenagers even gifted him with Christmas lights to put up. Because nothing said "burnout" like Christmas lights in September. Or you were trying to contact someone in the Upside Down. Either/or.

Song of the Day
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (neu: listening sarcastically(?))
[personal profile] shireisburning
One of the teens had locked themselves in the storage room. At first it wasn't obvious if it had been on purpose or not, but then the door handle shaking and calls for help started.

Eddie decided to leave him in there for a little bit. Builds character. It was also where the tortilla chips were stored so it wasn't like the kid was gonna starve in there or anything.

Song of the Day
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (Default)
[personal profile] shireisburning
It had been a pretty uneventful week for Eddie, so he had caught up to the early 90's when it came to discovering new music. He couldn't believe he missed out on Metallica's Black Album. He'd be making up for it now, by listening on repeat until one of the teenagers yelled at him.

Song of the Day
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Free drink whenever the song plays
firehousehimbo: ([h] flirtin)
[personal profile] firehousehimbo
It was a weekend for bowling it seems. There wasn't much to do around the house, and the chances of their services being needed in an emergency was super low. So why not spend an afternoon with a couple rounds of totally friendly and non-competitive bowling? Nobody's feelings would get hurt at all, really.

"Get ready to get your ass kicked." Oh, Evan.

[Buck is here for Eddie obvs but open post is open]
shireisburning: (pos: cool story brah)
[personal profile] shireisburning
The men's bathroom was repaired! Eddie didn't know who did it, but it wasn't him, and for that he'd be eternally grateful. It still reeked of weed, but it was a bowling alley; you could only expect so much.

Song of the Day
Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Free drink whenever the song plays!


[Open]
shireisburning: (pos: cool story brah)
[personal profile] shireisburning
There was a clog in the men's bathroom, and Eddie and his fellow useless employees were doing all they could to not be the one to handle it. He was willing to have this go on for as long as he had to. He would not be the one to break first.

Song of the Day
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Free drink whenever the song plays!


[Open]
shireisburning: (pos: here's what i'll do for you)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was in his usual spot behind the snack bar today. He had spent the last couple days learning the ins and outs of his phone and eventually found himself trying to google the people from Hawkins to see if they had ended up anywhere or if the town had been engulfed in flames. He was disappointed when nothing showed up. Guess he was really alone in this dimension.

He was going to eat nachos behind the snack bar to make himself feel better.

Song of the Day
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Free drink whenever the song plays
shireisburning: (pos: you cute lil' man)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie wasn't really much into gimmicks, but having an excuse to play songs he liked multiple times in one night was really treating himself, so he'd make an exception for this one.

Song of the Day
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
Get a free drink whenever the song plays!


There. That was enough management work for today. He was gonna get a hot dog at the snack bar.
shireisburning: (pos: in it to win it)
[personal profile] shireisburning
Eddie was sore, confused, and still wearing the gross FHFD shirt that one of his shirtless rescuers gave him because his Hellfire Club shirt had been rudely ripped off of him. Ignore the fact it needed to be done to save his life, it was still rude.

He had been skulking around town ever since he was released from the clinic, still not sure what was really going on. When he walked past the bowling alley, it at least looked like something familiar. And his name was literally on it.

So he went in, feeling right at home among the NPC teenage workers who all looked like they had smoked up before arriving for their shift. Then they started calling him "Mr. Munson" and showed him to the manager's office. Which was...weird. He wasn't entirely convinced he wasn't on pain meds still.

He was gonna put a stop to the Mr. Munson thing real fast. He was only 20!

[Pls hold for some ocd. Open! I cannot stress enough how useless these NPC employees are gonna be. Eddie too, for that matter]
myfifthrodeo: (nah sure)
[personal profile] myfifthrodeo
There was an idea in recovery that routine was important for sobriety, so Rosa was back at the bowling alley for the second Thursday in a row. Not actually bowling yet, but perched on a stool by the snack counter, her sketchbook on her knees, as she doodled various features of the whole bowling aesthetic.

The NPC bowlers themselves made great models for gestural drawing.

[open!]
myfifthrodeo: (nah sure)
[personal profile] myfifthrodeo
"I can't believe I let Dallas talk me into this."

To be fair, Dallas hadn't actually told Rosa to try bowling. He'd simply suggested she try stepping a little further out of her comfort zone and find activities that used her occasional excesses of energy without reminding her of when she used to get high. She was the one who decided that meant bowling.

She finished tying the world's ugliest (and yet also weirdly delightful in their ugliness?) shoes and went to go look for a good bowling ball. "Suspicious footwear and ball fondling. Michael would be proud. Or probably mock me for days." Which, with Michael, was kind of the same thing. "Let's see, ugly, ugly, boring, ugly -- oo, sparkles!"

She picked up a shimmery, swirled green ball and held it up. "Stick some giant almond eyes on this sucker and it'd fit right in back home." She hefted it the way she saw people heft their bowling balls on television, stepped awkwardly up to the line, and rolled.

The ball went immediately into the gutter.

"And I suck. Cool." She looked around, wishing Liz or Kyle or Isobel or even Michael himself was here. "I need more friends."

[open! Please distract me from medical device legal document hell.]
scarlet_chaos: ([pos] giggles)
[personal profile] scarlet_chaos
Wanda had promised Thor merriment, and what was more fun than drinking and bowling? It hadn't taken long to explain the game to Thor, but it did take some coaching to get him to not hurl the ball down the lane at full strength.

Luckily Wanda had the power to fix those first couple dents on her own.

[Opeeeen, pls hold for some PW OCD]
chef_chocobro: (dramatic snap!)
[personal profile] chef_chocobro
Since Seivarden was having a guest that evening right around the time Ignis and Prompto rolled back into town for their class tomorrow, they agreed to make themselves scarce. Ignis probably would have preferred to use that time to go to the bar, but since he had Prompto tagging along (not that Prompto couldnt' find his own entertainment, of course, but it just seemed the thing to do something together), he thought of something a little more up to his compatriot's speed.

"You?" Prompto fairly gawked when Ignis revealed his master plan and they made their way up to the counter to get their shoes. "Ignis Scientia? Specs? Learned how to bowl?"

There was a faint trace of amusement in the cool, superior look that Ignis passed over to Prompto. "Well, I was stuck in a cavernous hole for several week," he reminded him. "Might as well learn something."

The response made a grin break out across Prompto's face, who had a new spring in his step as he got his shoes. "I cannot wait to see this in action!" he declared. "Even with pics, Noct is not even going to believe it!"

"I doubt you'll be telling him anything," Ignis responded. "You'll be far too embarrassed by how completely you're about to be destroyed to even think of it."

"Ohhhh," said Prompto, because, really, Ignis shit-talking was, like, always a cause for excitement and/or celebration, "you are on, my dude! You only wish you could crush pins like this guy!"

Well. It was nice to have that kind of spike in his ego while it lasted, anyway!

[[ post is totally open! Come bowl with my boyos! ]]

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