olive garden

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🎈GET YOUR ASSES TO OLIVE GARDEN🎈

Sometime in the morning on Sunday, there are little notes that have been slipped under everyone's doors. Written in markers reads the following:

Let's celebrate getting Knuckles back at Olive Garden tonight at 6pm!!!!
Also I'm bored
-Percy

…Yeah………but hey, at least these notes will be customized! Each note has two characters, but, uh, these might not be accurate to who's actually in the room. He doesn't know who everyone's roommates are, so he's just hoping for the best I guess. (Someone's note includes the new guy, More. Shizuka is also on one of these as a pink dolphin with glasses.)

Anyway, the Olive Garden seems to have some balloons floating around. With the current state of the residents, nobody seems to care! There are also chefs in the kitchen who will make whatever you ask, but pushing them around enough will get them to leave the kitchen to anyone who wants to make something. (Thank you Redd.) Drinks are available for everyone, alcohol and regular soft drinks alike, and really? The world is your oyster. … Olive? You get the drill.

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MINGLING

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PARTY GAMES

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[ised]

[Ed is just...looking around]

...where are the olives?

[.....]

...where is the garden?

[darkgame]

[NO ED]

Hey... I think I found some for you. There's not that many, but there are olives in the salad... see?

[he can't bring himself to explain that Olive Garden is just the name]

Would you like them?

[akademise]

[ Chicago is overwhelming and exhilarating to More - a world so much like what he once imagined, with buildings rising high to the sky without giving praise to any God and only one tribe united in their magic-less daily lives. He could spend hours getting lost in the cityscape, observing what had been nothing but flights of fancy to him before.

By comparison to that grand revelatory experience, the inside of Olive Garden feels mundane. In the end, a tavern is a tavern. In some ways, the united one tribe and the eight tribes are still aligned.

Still, More's heart is pounding in his chest as he sits at one of the corner tables and observes the goings-on. While he's seen more of the world by observing Will from the inside of his prison, it's been forever since he's been in a place like this. Smelling a variety of dishes, hearing laughter and conversation... How is a man meant to experience such pleasures without a little sentimentality?

So. You may find More sitting here, looking so touched that it is as if he's attending a beloved relative's wedding. He's fine, don't worry.

Later in the evening, you can also see him sketching in a little notebook - just impressions of the scenery: the Chicago Bean(TM), the streets, the interior of Olive Garden, maybe even a little absent-minded drawing of some of the group. He's a very decent artist, yay! ]

[guffawsungraciously]

[Jasper is entirely aware that he shouldn't just order desserts. He really shouldn't.

...Well. He'll go ahead and order a little pasta and a bottle of wine, but he is definitely going to spend most of his time debating over the desserts menu...]

Hm... you really cannot go wrong with strawberries and cream, but I have to admit, I am curious about that chocolate lasagna... am I in the mood for something lighter?

[he takes a sip of wine as he debates. someone get the cork away from him.]

[ungratefuloz]

[...You know. Despite the nightmare she had last night, this may in fact be the lightest that Dorothy has felt in a while. She's at least a little less explicitly worried about leaving the base unattended when they decide to do this, and Dorothy simply seems immensely charmed by this place. Humans just do this? This is just a place one could go to...

Well, Dorothy will take a booth for herself, and it looks like she's already diving into some of the wines that they have on the menu, a couple of glasses set aside. But she's also got what seems to be a little sampler platter of some of the pastas, too...

All things considered, Dorothy's genuinely the happiest she's been in a while. If she sees you, she'll call you over.]

Have you had a chance to partake in some of the items on the menu? They're simply splendid; you simply have to try some of these.

[Of course, you could also find her a couple glasses of wine in, and she's definitely more jovial after that. Though...lonely. She could use the company, maybe.]

[holeful]

[Fukuda, overhearing;]

A sweet tooth, I suppose that's your gap moe, Mr Jasper!

[scythegun]

Hmm... I wonder who those glasses could be for!

[Hey, Dorothy, did you miss him?? Anyway, Yeager's taking the seat across from her, stealing a breadstick as he goes.]

Are you enjoying the evening so far, miss Dorothy?

[ungratefuloz]

[Ew, no? That implies feelings, gross--]

I don't know. Surely you can use that brain of yours to figure out that maybe I'd like some company...?

[Dorothy does smile just a touch, though, gesturing across from her at the booth. Come on, take a seat.]

Truthfully? I'm completely charmed by this little place. I've never seen anything like it at home; are these quaint little establishments common where you come from? Because I am delighted that these people will just give you whatever you ask for.

[hexalding]

Eh...a little too much for my taste, really. Opulent food like ths was never quite my preference.

[Viktor shrugged, in a much lighter mood than usual himself as he took a seat.]

You seem to be having fun, Dorothy.

[scythegun]

You're not familiar with them? Well, admittedly we don't have anything quite like this, [he means a chain business] but we do have some smaller establishments that serve food and drink. Though most of them are more focused on the latter!

[There are so many pubs and bars in Dahngrest. So many.]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[ What's Ashley doing here?

Did you guess writing in that old notebook? Then you would be correct!!

She stops to eat! But mostly she's glancing around nervously, scribbling in it. Girl, your hand is gonna cramp, stop! ]

[ised]

Yes, please. Ed was promised olives, after all.

[No such promise was made, but, well, in a hunter-gatherer society like his there probably aren't restaurants, so yup, he's just coasting along]

[ised]

[Oh, someone is doing art!]

You is will run out of paper soon.

[That's a lot of things drawn already, and just from that sample Ed can tell this guy is the kind who would immortalize so, so many things he'll need far more space than just one little notebook. Who knows how full the rest of the pages are -- but Ed is willing to bet they're crammed full of stuff]

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Not yet. Everything is...unknown. Ed is had never seen this before.

[He's willing to! But at the same time, everything seems so...new and unknown and a little puzzling. True, there's stuff he can kind of guess what it is, from equivalencies and the such, but they have things added that are less familiar to him. Look, I doubt hyenas are known for consuming garlic and the such. Probably can handle it from time to time -- and they really like mead, it seems! -- but yeah, this stuff is likely not to be plentiful in his tribe]

[ised]

[Woah, someone pushed a plate with a bunch of breadsticks towards Ashley. Where did that come from, who knows]

[ungratefuloz]

Mmm. I can understand that; I suppose it's so charming to me because I've never really had anything like it before. Even when we were first created, nothing like this existed...

[Come on, take a seat Viktor. It's amazing over here.]

I really am, I must confess. Even when the times were okay, we never had anything like this. I've never really felt so at ease...is it the same for you at all, Viktor?

[ungratefuloz]

No, not at all. Even when the war first started, we had nothing like this at all; any buildings were being used to house what people could fit in them. We didn't have anything like this at all...

[Dorothy's expression brightens, and here--let her get you a glass to start us off.]

Will you tell me about them? Were they always so fancy, or do they take a different form in your world?

[hexalding]

Places not wholly unlike this exist in Piltover, but I tended to avoid them. That said...

[He tilted his head thoughtfully, looking over the group gathered with them for a moment.]

No, I think you are correct. This is...not so bad, is it?

[scythegun]

[Yes, please do, we have to make sure we get some before Raven steals it all!!]

Most of them are much smaller - cozier atmosphere, fewer people working; typically run by families rather than a great number of employees. Like this, they serve quite a variety of food and drink. Though some of the bars don't bother with food at all and instead focus on importing drinks from the Empire; quite the long haul for alcohol, but well worth it for those who don't make the trip themselves!

I suppose this means you'll have to visit other places like this while we're here, ja?

[just dine and dash from every restaurant in chicago, it's fine—]

[reallyfishy]

[Hopefully More doesn't mind being approached by a scruffy guy with a bottle of wine and a few glasses in hand.]

If ain't the new face 'round these parts! You a drinkin' man, er...More, wasn't it?

[Raven can't think of any better way to help someone get settled in.]

[scythegun]

[Just gonna take a seat across from her. Hello. He's here now. You cannot get rid of him.]

What are you working on, miss Ashley?

NEVER HAVE I EVER

[sacrificialpawn]

[So. SOMEONE has been taking advantage of the alcohol that technically no one here is going to be paying for and may be about half a bottle into some sort of ridiculously expensive wine by now. (This is it, this is how we get banned from Olive Garden--)

And frankly, this party is a little boring because no one here seems to know how to have a good time?? Everyone is just sitting and chatting quietly??

Time to fix that.]

Hey, hey. If we're gonna be havin' a party, let's make it a real party! What do you say to playin' a few games?

[He's not even going to give anyone the chance to answer, RIP.]

We can start out with 'Never Have I Ever.' Rules are simple: you say "never have I ever" and list somethin' you've done, and then anyone who hasn't done it has to take a drink. The goal is to see how many people you can get to drink when it's your turn, so be sure to pick some good stuff!

I'll start: never have I ever been to an... [give him one second while he tries to remember the name of this place] ... Olive Garden before!

[It's low-hanging fruit and he knows it and does not care one bit.]

[hexalding]

That is not fair.

[Said with a thin smirk before taking a drink from the glass in his hand, because...this is actually kind of fun.]

Never have I ever...hm, received a failing grade in school.

[Nerd.]