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[lyingheart]

WHO: OPEN.
WHERE: De Chima.
WHEN: Saturday, December 13th, 2014.
WHAT: Earlier in the afternoon, there will be base-jumping in elf costumes. Later on is the charity silent date auction and different performances by USA celebrities fundraising for charity this holiday season. OOC information post here.
WARNINGS: None now, will update later. To avoid seeing all the silent auction threads, simply press on the (Hide ## comments) under the header comment for the auction section!

[ BASE JUMPING from TARTARUS TOWER ]
For those imPorts who volunteered to jump from Tartarus Tower, arrivals for fittings into their costumes begins at 2:00 PM sharp. Each costume comes with a name-tag attached, and make-up artists are on hand to help affix elf ears to participants and work on their eye make-up for the ease of the cameras catching all this live.

The jumps will start at 4:00 PM, and after all imPort elves have jumped and successfully reached the ground, they'll join the bus transporting presents and Malik to the De Chima children's hospital to deliver gifts to the children in the cancer ward (and elsewhere). ImPorts will then be transported over to the main facilities for the fundraiser event as a whole, invited to attend the Silent Date Auction as well as listen to any of the various performances occurring over the course of the evening.

[ CHARITY SILENT DATE AUCTION in DE CHIMA ]
Starting at 4:00 PM, the doors to the conference hall made available for the ImPort Charity Silent Date Auction will open. Live music will be provided, along with refreshments and catered hor d'oeuvres, and televisons displaying both the news stories and live coverage of the fundraiser events occurring over the course of the evening. ImPorts will be encouraged to attend any of these performances in person, but will not be required to leave the conference hall unless they wish to do so.

There is lounge seating available, and free wireless throughout the building. Different conference halls are hosting different events in this event center, and the largest productions are happening on a built stage outside. There's a massive lit tree in the central front courtyard of the event center, and many small stands selling hot drinks, good foods, and wares outside by the stage and surrounding streets, all with a portion of proceeds going to various named charities.

Please comment to this log with your own starters! Only the Auction Thread will be set-up under its own sub-thread, for ease of tracking. Auction Threads can be threaded in, but initial comments to those threads should be the bids that a character is placing on someone else (or themselves). Bidding will close OOCly by this time next week (or when a player states bidding is closed on their character - send me a PM to close that thread, or comment to close it on your own). ICly, all bids close at the end of the night.

Comments

[hands4healing]

[Huffs.]

It's to raise money, Ed. It doesn't mean anything!

[And then she gets a little evil grin.]

You could always bid on me yourself!

[braided_icarus]

That's not the point if that guy is bidding! Probably has more money than I do even if I did try stop him.

[Yeah the actual idea of a proper date with Winry as she is suggesting isn't entirely sinking in just yet. Give him a minute. Or two.

Or five even. Points for most oblivious and stupidly dense not boyfriend as he pauses at that, his face flaring a much brighter pink.]

W-wait, what?

[hands4healing]

[Such innocent eyes, Ed.]

If you don't want someone else to win a date with me, you could outbid everyone!

[You just know she's snickering in her head. That evil snicker.]

[braided_icarus]

What, now you want to drag me into this?

[Except that he probably is at least considering it. If Kimblee is a jerk and bids on her. Ed just kind of stops in place at that as he blusters a bit.]

[hands4healing]

It is for a good cause, Ed.

[And, well, she'd prefer you winning than Kimblee.]

[braided_icarus]

Not saying it isn't. Just saying I didn't expect to get involved when you dragged me down here.

[Ed would prefer pretty much anyone winning over Kimblee, of course.]

[hands4healing]

[Airily.]

It's up to you whether you want to or not!

[Please bid, Ed. Don't let me go to Mr. Kimblee.]

[braided_icarus]

I know. And I don't want Kimblee winning either.

[He's already put Winry through enough back home let alone toying with her here like this.]

[hands4healing]

[Winry knows what Ed's thinking about. It's been on her mind, too.]

Well. Maybe I should go see if I can get some other bidders, too.

[braided_icarus]

I'm sure pretty much anyone would be better than Kimblee winning.

[Even though whoever does win will likely still have to deal with Ed basically stalking and all but tagging along himself to keep an eye on things regardless.]

[hands4healing]

Yes.

[Because, well, Winry doesn't know all the other bad stuff that goes on in this world, and other less than savory characters around.]

Why don't you go get something to eat, Ed? The food at these things are really good!

[Whatever happens, Winry's hoping things will turn out all right.]

[braided_icarus]

Maybe. They usually are. Probably find something new I haven't tried yet. Were you hungry?

[Because if he is going to grab something, may as well check if she wants to come along or have him get her something to eat as well. He turns to her to see her response to the question, head slightly tilted as he seems to calm down slightly from the initial flushed flail of the idea of Winry on a date.]

[hands4healing]

Yes, please. Just something small, though...not as much as you'd eat. Oh, and nothing really spicy!

[Okay, Winry is kind of nervous tonight, and spicy food might upset her stomach.]

[braided_icarus]

Sure, sure.

[Ed is well aware he probably eats a bit much. A bit more than Winry or most others given he's theoretically still also eating for Alphonse too. It's not long before he returns with a plate for her however, with less than what is on his own, handing it to her.]

Not like I don't get the idea behind this. I do. I just don't see why it needs to be.....dates.

[hands4healing]

[Winry accepts the plate gratefully - oh, look, some fruit and cheese, as well as some chicken wings cut up so they're drumsticks.]

Thanks, Ed.

[A nibble at a cube of cheese before she answers.]

Well...I don't know. I mean, it's harmless, isn't it? Mr. Castle - have you met him? He's engaged to be married back home, and he's doing this. It's a...[What had Mr. Castle said?] Platonic.

It's not like I'm going to fall in love with whoever wins this, Ed. [Just a little exasperated.]

[braided_icarus]

I don't know. It's just weird. Dates and stuff. That's supposed to be....

[For people looking at a relationship. At least, from Ed's opinion. Unless they are stupid womanizers like the Colonel, because of course he has no idea they are actually the girls working with his foster mother he's seen Roy with. He's thus a little put out even as he munches at the food on his own plate.]

I know that.

[Or more likely he hopes that. Not that he has yet actually confessed his own feelings to her.]

[hands4healing]

Dates are supposed to be what?

[Winry asks patiently. Maybe she can work out why Ed's acting so over protective.]

[braided_icarus]

W-well, you know. With someone you....care about and all. If you call it a 'date' anyway.

[That and like hell he's letting the likes of Kimblee anywhere near if he can help it. But that's as far as he gets in attempting to explain himself for the time being.]

[hands4healing]

Oh, I see. [She does. But it's still kind of fun to tease Ed.]

You still don't have to worry. I mean! There isn't anyone here I'd really like to date.

[Especially Kimblee.]

[braided_icarus]

Of course.

[Surely if that were the case, Ed would know if she did have someone in mind, right? And he'd then have to meet and hopefully not literally interrogate the poor guy. Oblivious to the truth there that she has him in mind, of course.]

I hadn't really.....thought about it myself either.

[hands4healing]

[Do you even know if you like girls or boys, Ed? Winry's unsure. Not that she's going to ask. Hoping that it's girls, after all.]

We're young yet. There's time.

[braided_icarus]

[He really hasn't thought much about this stuff beyond his obvious reaction at Hawkeye asking if he loved Winry. He knows he cares for her, and that this whole dating thing has him worked up but whether this protectiveness is because he wants to be the one with her or it is just him wanting to look out for her he can't quite figure right now.]

Y-yeah. I know that. I mean we're only sixteen, so.....lots of time for that stuff, once we get back from the Promised Day back home.

[hands4healing]

[Winry nods her agreement. She knows how she feels about Ed, has come to that conclusion some time ago. But she also understands why he'd want to wait. And he hadn't spoken to Mr. Mustang, she guessed...she didn't know if she survived the Promised Day.]

Right. And we're all together again.

[braided_icarus]

Exactly. I'll...think about all that once things are sorted.

[He hasn't talked to Roy yet, not wanting to hear if it is true and his superior simply neglected to mention that. Preferring to assume it all works out because if it were otherwise surely someone would have mentioned something. Not everyone was at the center of the circle and they seem fine.]

I hadn't even considered things here, or how long we might be here....

[hands4healing]

[And there were people who'd been here a long time, Winry knew. Long enough to have thriving businesses, for example. But she doesn't say that to Ed, because his main goal has always been getting Al and his bodies back to normal. Even separated, Ed's thoughts are probably still focused on how to get back home and help Al. Winry understands. Al has a deadline, after all.]

I guess it doesn't matter, does it? We won't remember anything when we go back.

[Not 'if'. Because she doesn't want to think she won't be going home, some day. And she's not going to talk to Ed about it again. She can be brave enough about it to not bring it up.]