riverviewlogs | It's a party, ya'll

who: Everyone's invited!
what: That potluck he mentioned
when: Saturday afternoon
where: The park
warnings: None so far!

[True to form, Remy pulled out all the stops for this particular potluck. He has it on good authority that Rogue's bringing cornbread, but he's got what seems to be a wireless two-burner setup that he's brought along to the park, one of which is dominated by a very large pot of fragrant and spicy gumbo, and the other by a very large pot of cooked white rice, on warm. There's a small table with plastic-seeming (but totally biodegradable) bowls and utensils, two large coolers (because people might be bringing drinks), two big folding tables (for all the things that might be brought) and a big expanse of the park to cop a squat in and have some good grub, place some outdoors-y things, and have some fun! The park as a grill too, if someone wants to fire it up!]

(OOC: Feel free to post your own starters and have a ball! This is meant to be fun, after all. If you want Remy specifically, let me know! He'll be wandering around.)

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[That makes Alex frown all the harder, because between that and things at home, Alex has just lost faith in believing that most people make good parents. Sure, a lot of them do, like hers, but there's been enough hearing about bad parents to make her just want to shake a lot of people and ask what the hell they're doing to their children.

But she also can recognize when someone doesn't want to talk about something, so even when her journalist instincts kick in and want her to press, she doesn't. Instead she just smiles and takes a sip of her drink.]

Hopefully this'll mean no more creepy water monsters. The ones we had were more than enough. But I'm looking forward to see what summer is like here. I'm from Seattle, so I'm pretty used to a whole lot of rain and fog.

Hopefully. Though I wouldn't rule out creepy monsters of other kinds. There's a lot outside those walls that are pretty different to what I'm used to.

[And as part of the Guard she gets to play with them in the name of protecting the city. Which she is okay with, when that's where the majority of her skills lie.]

But if the rest of summer's anything like today, we should be in for a good one. At least as far as the weather goes. Makes me wonder what festivals they've got lined up for it, too.

[After all, she wouldn't have figured spring to be a season for remembering the dead and yet here they are. Who knows what they might think is appropriate for summer months here.]

Yeah, I definitely haven't been outside the city actually. I mean, I'm good with a lot of things, but I'm not really a fighter. The closest thing I got was the self defense lessons my dad taught me when we realized I wasn't going to get any taller, and that I was eventually going to go off to college. Well, I always knew I was going to college, I think he just hoped I wouldn't.

[Because her Dad had been a cop in Vancouver before they moved to the suburbs, and well, he didn't want her to live there. Fooled him, now she's in America.

At the mention of the festivals, River just grinned for a minute.]

Well, considering everything else, maybe we should start having a holiday bingo game, right?

Well. That's a start but probably not enough for venturing too far beyond the walls. Not without back-up, at least.

[Which is really more a means of suggesting to Alex how she might get out there rather than prohibitive from Shalimar. Heck, she's about the last person to dissuade someone from bad ideas if there's a way to make them slightly better ideas - maybe still not wise, but better's a start, right?

She can't help but grin at the rest.]

Bingo game, drinking game or both? Though I guess we'd need to speak to people who have been here longer to figure out what makes the list either way.

Yeah, I mean, trust me I do a lot of stupid things, but going out there and getting eaten really isn't all that high on my list of priorities right now. So, I definitely would want a fair amount of backup and good hiking trails or whatever.

[If nothing else, she's sure Richard would murder her for being stupid enough to do that among everything else.]

Drinking bingo, obviously. We can put up a network post and be like "okay guys so what do we think will be the next holiday and when." And then we can go all Superbowl on them and give prices to the winner!

Well if you do decide you want to head out, let me know. Can't say I ever mind an excuse to get away from the city for a while.

[For as territorial as her feline DNA can make her, it also leaves her with strong wandering urges on occasion, and getting out beyond the walls tends to help with that.

There's a reason she signed on for Search and Rescue, and it's not entirely for concern over others.]

Well if we did it that way, people who've been here longer would have an advantage. What we really need is for them to tell us what we should be looking out for so we can get the drinking cards ready.

[Given the timescales quoted to them, she figures it's not a push to assume some people have been here long enough to see the full twelve-month line-up.]

Yeah. I definitely will take you up on that offer once this month settles down. It's kind of crazy you know?

[ It goes unsaid but this stupid illness and Richard showing up and everything else makes it seem like a bad idea to be beyond the city walls, but from the sparkle in Alex's eye, it definitely promises to be sooner rather than later. Alex may not have a wandering gene, but she definitely has investigative ones.

But onto other things! ]

Hmm. Well I know Halloween was ghosts. So maybe there's some tie in with earth holidays? I mean Americans have Memorial Day this month...

[Alex sounds just so Canadian when she says it, eh? ]

That does make sense, considering how many of us there are here from Earth and how this place is supposed to be about supporting all cultures. So we could probably use those as a starting point.

[It doesn't really help the people not from Earth but Shalimar's not really in much of a position to do much about that yet. Though she supposes figuring out the bingo cards would be a good way to learn.

Which leads her to another thought.]

I suppose that would also explain why the calendar's the same. Must be pretty rough being dragged here if you're not already used to time working the way it does.

It's a party, ya'll

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