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Mask or Menace | MODERATORS ([personal profile] maskormods) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2015-11-20 04:33 pm
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OH, SUGAR, SHE'S REFINED ALWAYS NORMAL PRICED

WHO: imPorts!
WHERE: De Chima, Virginia.
WHEN: November 20th, 4:00 - 10:00 PM.
WHAT: Registration in motion, with a little baking on the side!
WARNINGS: None anticipated; please let us know if this should be changed. OOC sign-ups for good deeds and the thankfulness wall can be found HERE.



When imPorts walk into the Swear-In, they will be confronted with a rather homey sight, despite the fact that they were requested to wear semi-formal clothing. All along the hall are long tables set up in front of the stage, and each place at the table is already set up with plates and cutlery, as well as familiar American Thanksgiving iconography such as cornucopias and decorative squash and pumpkins. At each place setting there is a sealed envelope. Once opened, imPorts will discover that children's drawings are inside, and while some of them are drawings of Thanksgiving and families, others are drawings of famous imPorts that the children had seen around town. On the back of each drawing is the child's name and age, a sweet addition to tug at the heartstrings.

Across the stage, a banner reading PAY IT FORWARD is hung. Once everyone is seated - or is at least standing by the sidelines in a quiet manner - a man in a well-tailored suit and a gleaming white smile steps up to the podium, tapping on the microphone twice as a sound check before clearing his throat. He's a man in his mid-30s, with brushed brown hair and a pleasant, handsome face to go with his sonorous voice. His speech is as follows:

"Good afternoon, imPorts, friends, family, and all of the above! I realize that we're a few days shy of Thanksgiving, but hopefully you'll forgive us for getting into the spirit a little early. Here in America, we treasure Thanksgiving because we have an awful lot to be thankful for. Just take a look outside; all around, you'll see neighbour helping neighbour. We take care of our own.

We are in difficult times, but that has not impacted the American spirit! No, more than that, such difficult times are what makes us stronger. It is up to us not only to show how strong our forces are, but how strong our hearts are as well. To that end, I ask each and every one of you to look outside of yourselves today, and to show the world what good, kind people Americans are, everything that the Russians are not. We are not built on military force alone, but in the goodness on our homefront, in gestures as small as volunteering at the local food shelter, or helping an elderly neighbour mow the lawn.

To that end, my friends, I urge you to do good this Thanksgiving, and to help your neighbours and friends. I have faith in your ability to do so. Thank you, and eat well! God bless you all."


With a winning smile to the cameras at the back of the room, the man steps off the podium, and the festivities begin.

Each imPort will find themselves served with traditional American Thanksgiving fare, complete with vegetarian options with a helpful waitstaff hovering around, refilling glasses and making sure that no plates go empty for long. Today of all days, select people from the non-imPort population have been invited to break bread with the imPorts, but there's no hostility to be found; they have been chosen for their unerring etiquette, though there are a few beaming children from the Granted Dreams Foundation present, quick with questions at every turn.

At the back of the room are a collection of tables. Paying it forward may be a concept that is occasionally restricted to buying coffee or helping neighbours, but for all of the less outgoing imPorts, there are a list of charities that need volunteers in the upcoming weeks: soup kitchens, English teachers, animal shelters and more are eagerly represented.

On the eastern wall of the room is a small banner that reads: I'M THANKFUL FOR... Underneath it is a small table with post-it notes and pens in a variety of colours on it, and all attendees are encouraged to write down what it is that they're thankful for, though there's certainly nothing stopping them from causing a little mischief. The contents of the notes will be listed HERE.

For all of those that tire of the endless good cheer and food and want to do a little work of their own, there's a hallway that leads to a huge room with several kitchens inside. At each workstation there are ingredients and recipes for an assortment of cookies from chocolate chip cookies for the novices to tuiles for the more senior bakers. A note on each recipe lets the bakers know that the cookies they bake will be packaged up and shipped off to charity... but surely, nobody will notice if imPorts sneak a taste or two of their own hard work.
glitterateur: aces (The fatalist nature of West Virginians.)

[personal profile] glitterateur 2015-11-21 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Resisting the call of cookies (cookies for charity, dang) is near impossible, so Mabel's doing an eeny-meeny thing to choose between a couple of recipes when she notices Kaneda. It would probably be polite to go up and say hi to him before he wanders off to to cool stuff.

But instead she starts flicking chocolate chips at the back of his head from across the kitchen. It's basically the same thing as saying hello.
]
rassera: (Ridiculously happy)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-11-21 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Kaneda was just about to leave too, and he would have, if not for an incoming chocolate chip to hit him right on the back of his head. doink. A hand reaches up, rubbing the place it bounced off of, wondering if it was...

No, there's another one, and this time he felt it!

There's a spin around as he looks for the assailant, eyes eventually resting on Mabel, right in the middle of flicking another, which bounces off the bridge of his nose this time.

...

A moment.

Before he backs up....and up...and around the counter....to flick some back.


Maturity at its finest.]
glitterateur: sugarplums (Andre! get us some horses.)

[personal profile] glitterateur 2015-11-21 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Retaliation was not something she was prepared for. Mabel has to scramble to take cover, laughing when he lands a hit on her ear. Rude!]

Just surrender now! You're almost out of ammo, Kaneda, the end is near!
rassera: (I'M IN THE COOLEST DRIVERS HIGH)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-11-22 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Be warned, Mabel. He's an expert at chocolate chip flicking!]

Don't be so sure! You're forgetting I have...

[Quick, Kaneda. Look around.


Ah, here we go.]


...

[And he holds up some M&Ms.]

What are these.
glitterateur: That's what I call my mouth. (I'm takin' them to the bud shack.)

[personal profile] glitterateur 2015-11-22 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[She squints over the counter (this could be a clever trick!!) to see what he's talking about.

Oh. Oh, yeah. Kaneda is deprived.
]

M&Ms! They're chocolates covered in candy coating. But sometimes there're peanuts inside.
rassera: (Coolest (Nerdiest) Biker)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-11-23 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Educate this cyberpunk caveman, Mabel.]

...

[And his pathetic attempt to pronounce that. You know what, he's giving up trying.

He'll just open that bag and start to walk over, trying to make it rain candy on her head.

You know, like a good sibling.]
glitterateur: sugarplums (i am mildly illiterate.)

[personal profile] glitterateur 2015-11-23 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Kaneda what're you-- hey!!

[There's nowhere to hide from candy rain except for inside the cabinets, and those are full of dumb junk like bowls and cookie sheets. Mabel gives up on trying to escape, accepting her fate and tipping her mouth up so that she can catch at least a few of those candies on her tongue. Like delicious, terribly unhealthy snowflakes. Waste not!!]

That was cheating.
rassera: (That's what I'm sayin')

[personal profile] rassera 2015-11-23 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Points for originality Mabel. Because what a good strategy. He laughs when he sees it, maybe directing a few INTO that mouth before setting the bag down, leaning against the counter.]

Hey! Cool guys like me don't let rules stop em.

I'm in it to win it.

[Dropping one more into her mouth.]
glitterateur: aces (¿dónde están los thunder lizards?)

[personal profile] glitterateur 2015-11-24 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Okay yeah but this one counts as a draw! [Because in the end she got his attention plus extra candy. That's basically a win for her.]

You're just lucky there's no licorice in here, that stuff's killer! Are you gonna make cookies at home?

[She says, pointing at the recipes he's grabbed.]
rassera: (Working on something)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-11-24 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Licor...[Oh my god what is with this country and its candy. HE CAN'T SAY ANY OF IT]

Fine, I guess I can accept a draw. You caught me off guard. But next time...I'm not showing ANY mercy.

[There's a soft tap to her forehead playfully, before he follows her gaze to the recipes.]

That's right. No way I'm sticking around here to cook 'em.

[Bake. The word is bake.]
glitterateur: chesswar (Your mom's not gonna come back)

[personal profile] glitterateur 2015-11-25 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She sticks her tongue out at him. The last laugh will be hers, once she assembles every hard to say candy and shoves it all in his stocking this holiday season.]

Bring it on.

[Bake, cook, same thing. Mabel looks around at the kitchen-- maybe it's a lame setup? But there are mixers and ovens and it's clean, sooo what is the issue here.]

Because you want to give them to Ken and Charlie and Bull and Tetsuo instead? I think you can still do that! Even if it's for charity I don't think anybody's gonna tell on you.
rassera: (WHO'S A CUTIE NOT THIS GUY)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-11-30 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Mabel you are one cruel mistress.]

...

[How exactly do you tell a 13 year old girl that you want to escape before the propaganda machine out there tries to paint him red white and blue...]

Well--just think it'd be more...traditional if I used the Nonah kitchen, don't you think? All this...cold hard ceramic...it's not OUR house, right?

[Mabel doesn't even live there, Kaneda. But shut up, he considers her a part of it.]
glitterateur: (Explode the piano! Kill his dad!)

[personal profile] glitterateur 2015-11-30 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mabel's spent enough time there and adopted enough of the residents that she doesn't even question it. Nonah 5's just one of her places.]

Yeah.... yeah! You're right. And cookies are better when it's in your kitchen and you can watch movies and stuff while you decorate. Way to be a holiday spirit expert, Kaneda! [She didn't think he had it in him.]
rassera: (Selfie time!)

[personal profile] rassera 2015-12-02 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Tell you what, let's make it a date, alright?

You plan it out, and we'll make these cookies at Nonah 05. You'll be my assistant.

...



[A look at the papers.]

Because they'reeeee in English.