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!]

Comments

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[hasaknightjob]

"Oh!" Steven said, then remembered to lower his voice again. "Like trapping them in the lift?"

Who knew Steven's need to research TV Tropes for an island event would come in handy yet again?

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[slothbabyproductions]

"Yes! Excellent example. Or perhaps their doors now lead to a merged room of their own but there is only one bed," Kamala said with a slow nod in appreciation of Steven's trope studies.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[hasaknightjob]

"Oh, I like that!" Steven said. "Especially as I think that'd be less confusing for Midnight. It knows it's not normally supposed to trap people, so the nuances ahem of the lift scenario might be difficult for it to wrap its head around.

"And of course it's the sort of thing we'd make clear if these two - er - hypothetical - " Steven gave Kamala a large wink " - people were truly unhappy about it that it all should stop. But luckily there it's able to read their minds to know what they truly want."

Since the two people in question had given Midnight permission to read their minds as needed. Midnight wouldn't go digging around on it own.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[slothbabyproductions]

"Oh, so if we were to strongly suggest the matter to Midnight they may be willing to go along with this scenario," Kamala said winking back. "All in theory of course."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[hasaknightjob]

"Precisely," Steven said. He made a motion of pushing his hands gently together. "Not forcing anything. Providing the opportunity for a nudge."

This was absolutely what happened when Steven had a lot of energy regarding wanting to interfere in someone's life to help them do things that would make them happy, only he couldn't channel any of it in Marc's direction.

(Well, Steven could but he was trying to behave himself and not.)

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[slothbabyproductions]

"Riiiight. Just forming or strengthening their hypothetical connection," Kamala agreed. "Thank you, Steven. This has been very productive."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[hasaknightjob]

"It was an interesting thought exercise with no real world applications whatsoever," Steven said, giving her another large nod and a wink.