Midnight Manor Boarding House's Living Room, Wednesday Night

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Okay, sure. Arden didn't know much more than what TV said about throwing movie nights, but surely she had the gist. Many moddable pizzas and sodas had been ordered from Pizza Planet - look, Arden loved sweet tea, but even she knew soda was necessary for movie nights. A truly disturbing number of bags of popcorn had been popped and put into bowls and a quick stop at T&C had been made to grab a couple of different popcorn seasonings in case people wanted to experiment with popcorn flavors.

All that was left was to wait for people to show up. She'd texted both Kamala and Cal in full capslock mode about the glory of this movie, and then had handwavily tried to contact as many other residents as possible to tell them about the movie night - texts, email, sign on the door, whatever. Sure, nobody had to come, but she at least wanted to make sure everyone knew they were welcome. She'd also invited Steven and Watts (while double checking that, yes, it really was okay to move furniture around the living room and also eat in there) and had made sure to get a few bags of unbuttered popcorn just for them. Did she think the butter flavoring had any actual dairy in it? No. But she was gonna be careful all the same.

Now she was just pushing the furniture around to make sure that every possible seat had a good view of the incredibly large TV and was in reaching distance of a bowl of popcorn and places to put their cups of soda and plates of pizza down. Midnight Movie Night was about to begin, showcasing the absolute work of art and cultural tour de force that 2 Fast and 2 Family 4 Oceans, the fifteenth 2 Fast 2 Family sequel that was also a prequel to the Oceans Edge series.

This was gonna be great.

[Open to all Midnight Manor Boarding House residents!]

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[singlenakedwhat]

"What does 'strategic not-biting' even mean?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Mostly? I was using it to say 'heard and remembered,'" Arden said with a shrug. "I don't bite people, I don't even really joke about biting people--" that was Illyana but 'joke' might be stretching it a bit, it was more a threat, "--but on the off-chance either of those change in the future, I'm still not going to bite you because you've been very clear that you're not into that."

Honestly, considering this island could turn you into a gremlin or a vampire or make you think you were a giant fucking mosquito or whatever, 'strategic not-biting purposes' could cover a large swathe of scenarios.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[singlenakedwhat]

"Cheers to that, then," Henry said, holding up her root beer in a mock-toast.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Huzzah," Arden said, holding her can of Coke up right back. "Now that that's cleared up, should I get veggie pizzas without olives next time?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[singlenakedwhat]

"I suppose that would depend on whether or not you like olives," Henry said.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"If I liked olives enough for it to matter, I would have offered to leave them off of half."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[singlenakedwhat]

"I think olives are fucking gross, personally," Henry told her.

She still wasn't gonna tell you what to do with your own pizzas, Arden. But yeah, she wouldn't mind if next time there weren't any fucking olives.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"And I don't really eat veggie pizza, so it doesn't matter to me one way or another," Arden said. "But I think you're the only one eating the veggie pizza right now, and if you don't like olives, then it makes sense to leave them off."

She pulled out her phone, quickly typing something into it, before tucking it back away.