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George Milton ([personal profile] bindlestifflost) wrote in [community profile] apocalypsehowcomm2022-04-22 01:46 am

(Open Log) You gotta know when to hold 'em

Who: George Milton, Nick Valentine, and anybody who shows up
When: April 22, starting around 6 PM until
Where: Apartment A-3
Summary: A night for playing cards, drinking beer or b.y.o.b. if harder, snacks and unwinding. Feel free to thread jack and jump all around, at least in my threads. This is just for some relaxed down time and catching up or introductions in a smaller, casual space.
Warnings: None expected. If your characters get to discussing anything triggery or get up to anything spicy, please CW in your individual threads.



Over the past week or so, hand printed signs drawn in sharpie on plain paper have shown up taped to walls around the apartment complex and on any easily accessible bulletin boards at ADI. A couple of them were also delivered to the flophouse with the request they be displayed somewhere the residents might see them.

They read:
Cards and Beer
Friday April 22 6 PM
Apartment A 3
George and Nick's place
You want more than beer
or chips and popcorn
bring your own.
Extra decks appreciated.


The night of, the door to A 3 is propped open. In addition to the dining table, a couple of card tables and cheap folding chairs are set up for games. Two bowls on the coffee table contain chips and popcorn respectively. There's a cooler on the floor in the kitchen filled with ice and cheap beer.

George or Nick will greet people as they come in and tell them to make themselves at home.

((OOC: Feel free to top level with your own character and make whatever prompts you like. George is generally easy-going, but if he catches anyone stealing, getting too hot and heavy in a bedroom, or otherwise being a general jerk about the apartment or the other guests, he will try to throw the offender out. If you want that kind of thread or want to succeed at something nefarious, let me know so we can work it out.))
abrightboy: (concession)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-06-04 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
“Ah, yes. We had some excellent banter earlier. He’s very witty.”

Which seems like the sort of thing Aziraphale would like in a friend.

“I can see how he’d be fun to spend time with.”
oldbookshop: (according to the encylopedia of aljdsfk)

[personal profile] oldbookshop 2022-06-10 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, that's lovely to hear." Crowley out and about in the human world making good impressions. Aziraphale is both proud of him and prepared to point and laugh at him about it later, as is the natural order.

He has a sip of his wine, in the very well-practiced fashion of someone with experience pretending not to have niche uppity taste in wine (for manners' sake).

"I've found that nearly anyone can grow on you, provided you give them enough of a runway to start on. Very socially enriching."
abrightboy: (concession)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-06-11 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Malcolm shrugs his concession to that.

"That's how I've made pretty much all my friends. You know. Gave them time to let me grow on them."
oldbookshop: (tartan! is! stylish!)

[personal profile] oldbookshop 2022-06-14 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
This, as the kids say, does not compute.

"Malcolm, you're a delight to be around. If you've been told otherwise, kindly point me in their direction and I'll correct them post-haste."
abrightboy: (concedes happily)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-06-14 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Malcolm gives him an almost shy smile.

"I think it's just... the killer baggage that can put people off. And. You know. Just. Being kind of... weird." Or so he's been informed for his entire life.
oldbookshop: (wtf where'd this snake come from)

[personal profile] oldbookshop 2022-06-18 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. He supposes that in theory there are people who are likely to find the 'killer baggage' off-putting.

"Then it's their loss. Odd ducks are one of the joys of humanity as a whole. I'm quite certain of that." Which Aziraphale can, of course, assert with the full depth of authority available to him. He's been on the planet. This is the culmination of his opinion. "Although I imagine that can only hold so much merit coming from a fellow odd duck."

He will stand by the principle nonetheless.
abrightboy: (pretty pleased)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-06-20 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"It holds more merit," Malcolm assures him with a smile. He glances over at the poker table. "Looks like they're finishing up. I'm going to see if Neal wants more wine."
oldbookshop: (Default)

[personal profile] oldbookshop 2022-06-27 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, by all means."

Ungentlemanly to leave a lover waiting, after all. It's sweet.

"I'm sure we'll cross paths again before the evening is out. As you were."