recolle | it's a national holiday for stuffing your face

it's a national holiday for stuffing your face

WHO: nazuna nito, students & professors of recolle university, their +1's... and you!
WHERE: recolle u dorms; common room 4th floor
WHEN: 11/18
WHAT: a thanksgiving dinner for a little bit of home away from home.
WARNINGS: none!!

I. BEFORE THE EVENT.

[ from the evening leading up to "dormsgiving", you can find nazuna nito in the dorm kitchens, his sleeves rolled up as he's arm deep in whatever sort of cooking that needs to be done. if it's the night before, you might even find him in his pajamas, brining a turkey and yawning into a mixing bowl that looks like it might be full of cream cheese and sugar. he looks like he might even fall asleep... but there's so much work to be done...

the next day, he'll be prepping various dishes right around noon. bright and early, nazuna's rolled out of bed, and he's set up several different prep stations for different folks who offered to come help; there's a pile of potatoes that need to be peeled, stuffing pieces that need to be chopped and mixed and baked, and a few other things set out on tables.

mostly fluttering around, occasionally nazuna settles down to make what looks like a lattice apple pie. he's got his phone open across from him, flour smudged fingers carefully laying dough on top of the pie, and... all of his stripes are crooked. literally all of them. they're cut unevenly, too. maybe don't bring it up. ]

[ folks in the kitchen may also notice that off to the side, far from the food, there's a carefully cordoned off area of wire caging, which has been topped with what looks like...petroleum jelly, or something sticky, but nonetheless, inside is the tiniest, fluffiest rabbit, with a checkered red and gold ribbon around his neck. he seems fairly content to hop around and munch hay, since anyone arriving early enough may have heard nazuna tell him it's a holiday, tsuchin, don't get any ideas about being fed this much all month and feed him a treat. by the middle of the afternoon of nazuna cooking, he starts to get fussy and starts hopping around the cage, occasionally attempting to make one of his great houdini escapes up the top of the cage.

if you don't want to cook, maybe pay attention to the bunny? ]

II. ICE BREAKING.

[ as guests start arriving, nazuna takes his post downstairs to welcome people into the dorm if they don't have an entry card, leaving people to fend mostly for themselves. the kitchen is a ways down the hall from the common room, but the tables are set nicely, with big fabric tablecloths and...plastic plates, but, look, they're in college, okay? there's bread on the tables, a little area for drinks, and at the front of the common room, there's a collection of notecards and some tape.

there's someone posted at the door (an npc, most likely), who greets you, takes a notecard and a piece of tape, and tapes it (very carefully!) to your back. the npc will explain that there's a famous person or character on the back of the card, and your job is to ask questions to other people in the party to try and figure out who you are. participation isn't required, of course, but there's a $25 coffee shop gift card to the first person who can figure out their card and report it back. the people on the card vary from famous celebrities -- tom h*nks -- to local celebrities -- maurice, janet, jim, anya vasilieva -- to silly -- bugs bunny, the cat in the hat, count chocolua. play a game, win a little money courtesy of the RA's at the recolle dorm, and break the ice! ]

III. CHOW DOWN.

[ and, obviously, it wouldn't be thanksgiving without food. and there is a ton of it, between everyone's dishes. it takes nazuna a little while to reappear, flitting from kitchen to front hall of the dorm to common room and back again, but he seems delighted at the overall success of the event, and rarely sits down long enough to eat.

that being said, he's encouraging: please, please eat! there's so much food. sit down at the table across from a friend, or someone new. get in a fight over the mashed potatoes. (please don't throw the mashed potatoes, though.) do whatever you want, just enjoy the fact that this commercial holiday was designed for you to stuff your face. ]

IV. FOOD COMA.

[ it also wouldn't be thanksgiving without the epic nap that comes after the meal, so. there's a college football game playing in the background of the common room television, but your gracious host is the first one to start pushing tables a little out of the way to direct folks to the couches and comfortable chairs, instead. there's a pile of blankets on each couch, too, and with the lights dimmed kind of low, this might be the best place for a little nap. maybe even a little snuggle, if you're here with a sweetheart.

at this point, tsuchin has in fact houdini'd his way out of the kitchen. the little rabbit makes his way up to the common room as if he's done this a thousand times (he has) and hops directly onto the couch. in fact, he may just hop straight into your lap. he clearly loves to be held, and he will burrow his way into anyone where they're warm and soft and sleepy and full of thanksgiving food.

as for nazuna, he's in the kitchen, washing dishes and plating up leftovers. there's a pile of tupperware in the kitchen, and he's grateful for any help at all, rubbing at his eyes as he machines his way through little packages of turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes and corn to send as many guests home with as possible.

eventually, someone will probably chase him out of the kitchen. and when he collects his rabbit, apologizing profusely, nazuna will drop onto the couch...and almost immediately pass out asleep. ]

V. WILDCARD.

[ if i haven't made a thanksgiving prompt you want, feel free to make one!!

this is an open log, so please make top levels as you will! i'll try to get to as many top levels as i can, but feel free to treat this as OTA to everyone and anyone. enjoy your dorm thanksgiving! ♥ ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[I.]

[Makoto visited Nazuna around noon to see if he could help set up or help in any way. He's not very good at cooking (he just got boiling water down) but he can help out in other ways. He walks over to the cage after greeting Nazuna to smile at Tsuchin. He snaps a quick picture of him before reaching down to pet him.]

Hi Tsuchin! Are you going to help too?

[Makoto laughs when Tsuchin hops off to some more hay.]

I hope it was alright that I came early Nito-senpai. Is there anything I can help with? Anything I can set up? Oh and don't worry about this outfit I'm going to go change soon.

[He's here and ready to help!]

[III.]

[After helping out with Nazuna and sort of staying in the corner on his phone during the ice breaker (he's not ready to mingle like that yet!) it's time to eat! Makoto tries not to fill up his plate with mostly bread or dressing, but it looks so good he can't resist! He does manage to get some turkey and cranberry sauce among the bread, dressing, and the slice of pie he has. It's his first time not having to follow his parents' strict diet that he may have gone a little overboard with the food. But he can eat it!

Now it's time to find a place to sit while balancing the food on his plate.

He hopes it will be a good dinner. Nazuna did such a good job setting it up after all!]

[IV.]

[Makoto wanted to help Nazuna in the kitchen, but he shoos him into the living room. He really want to try to get back home, it's hard when he sinks into the comfortable couch and takes his glasses off to rub his eyes. The dinner was fun, really fun! However, being around a lot of people at once has made him tired. He ends up sleeping the minutes he tries to watch the football game. He tries to convince himself that he'll only take a little nap then be recharged enough to go home.

However, that's not happening when Tsuchin hops into his lap and burrows against him. Makoto opens his eyes long enough to grab his glasses and take a sleepy selfie with Tsuchin before putting his phone away and taking his glasses off. He dozes off again while he's petting Tsuchin it's okay if he takes a little nap here. Even if he's snuggling against the pillow, hopefully it's a pillow.]

[Wildcard]

[If you have anything else you want to throw at Makoto please feel free! You can also PM the journal or hit me up at

sunnycrow! ]

[ As it turns out, Mao knows more people here than he expected, but he does his best to make sure he's never too far from Makoto, partly because he's the person who invited him in the first place and partly because, well. They're supposed to be important to each other, at least in Mao's memories, so if Makoto doesn't know it yet, maybe them being around each other more is the best way to help him remember, too.

Which means when he sees Makoto looking a little lost, Mao lifts a hand and waves him over, motioning to the chair he saved for Makoto at the table. ]

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