[open mingle]

[badfeyth]

WHO: Anyone helping with prom renovations!
WHAT: An open mingle log!
WHERE: District 4, Science Discovery Center Planetarium
WHEN: Anytime until December 2!
WARNINGS: Please warn for content in individual headers!




An open mingle for threads relating to prom setup and the planetarium renovations!

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Possible renovation activities include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Ripping out and disposing of a couple of rows of chairs in the planetarium to make room for a dance floor
• Laying down flooring for the aforementioned dance floor
• Clearing room for and rigging four stations where food can be prepared
• Kitschy photography station design
• Installing light fixtures, darkness shutters, and other aesthetic additions provided by Kaveh
• Playing toolbox dodgeball (IF YOU CAN DODGE A WRENCH...)
• Impromptu caber-tossing match feat. lumber somebody probably intended to use for something important
• Assorted various OSHA violations

Anyone is welcome to drop in a top-level, just please warn for content as needed on individual thread headers!

Comments

[excaliburden]

[She saw the invitation, of course--but a fancy party like that probably isn't the place for her. Surely it'll be much too grand and lovely?

But! That means she has to work extra hard in the preparation part of things, and doing what she can to help out. Then she can enjoy it still in her own way, right?

So she peeks her head in on the prom set-up, and upon seeing Ghost bouncing between every single aspect of this prep work, she can't help but divert her path that way instead.

Interrupting is probably the opposite of helpful, but you know, she's not great at thinking things through before she does them.]

Excuse me...!

[badfeyth]

[Ghost is, at this point, moving with the unbridled energy of someone who's either on their fifteenth cup of coffee in the past six hours, or so aggressively in "fix-everything" mode that she's running on willpower and adrenaline. Or possibly both.

Either way, it makes for an authoritative, matter-of-fact experience when Altria eventually flags her down; she raises a finger to wait, yells at someone across the room about where a spool of copper wire does and doesn't belong, and then pivots back like a champion figure skater, all without missing a single beat of rhythm.]

Hi. You're who and why do you need me?

[excaliburden]

[Oh, this lady is prompt and business-like, and clearly holding five hundred strings at once. That warrants a prompt and business-like response in return, so as to note waste her time.]

I'm Altria Caster! I'm here because it seems like you're helping everyone with everything, so I wanted to see if you need help on anything yourself?

[It feels like that's the most sensible option she's got; everything seems very in hand by capable people, so...! Support the competent leader!]

[badfeyth]

Ummmmmmmm. Oh. Right. That's me, I'm Ghost, I'm facilitating this project. And you're Altria Caster —

[She says, like a person distracted by about twenty different things and repeating things to herself to be sure she'll remember them.]

— Right, okay. What's your skillset?

[excaliburden]

[Oh boy. This lady is working way too hard, and yet she can't help but be impressed by the work ethic and juggling of responsibilities.



Unfortunately, she does not have a good answer to that question.]

Um...

[What can she do, what can she do...]

I can do some magecraft...?

[badfeyth]

[SHE IS WORKING SO HARD ALTRIA SAVE HER BE THE INTERVENTION SHE NEEDS RIGHT NOW]

Magecraft. Okay, let's see. Would that involve illusions, by any chance? Levitation? Any kind of practical application?

[excaliburden]

[SHE TRULY NEEDS ONE. Altria tilts her head at that, but ultimately nods.]

Practical magic is what I'm good at! I'm not so good at illusions, but I can lift things with it or things like that. I'm especially good with boundaries or protection spells.

[A contemplative pause. As much as she wants to show off her magic, she's at 20% right now and also:]

But also... are you okay?

[badfeyth]

[Has Ghost ever been okay a single day in her life for the past ten years? Signs point to no.]

Fantastic, that'll come in handy when we start doing some of the wall enhancements, dealing with things that might fall, things like that. I'm sure we'd all welcome the extra protection.

[She jots a note on her clipboard — and then kind of stalls out, looking up with a sort of bewilderment.]

Sorry, am I...what? [...] I'm...I mean. I...guess?

[THAT SOUNDS CONFIDENT.]

[excaliburden]

I can definitely do that.

[Yeah that doesn't sound confident at all....... Altria blinks, gathers her thoughts and her confidence, and tries again.]

... Are you sure though? It just seems like maybe you're handling a lot of things all at once, so I was worried that you might be overdoing it a little.