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Larxene ([personal profile] twelfthspark) wrote in [community profile] recolle2017-07-17 09:27 pm
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[open] all through my city, all through my home

WHO: Arlene and OPEN
WHERE: Somewhere in Tisse for prompt A, Peach Beach for prompt B
WHEN: Friday evening, 7/14 (prompt A); Saturday evening, 7/15 (prompt B)
WHAT: If you need to serenade a stranger, karaoke is really the only way to do it. Also, the bonfire Arlene promised.
WARNINGS: References to alcohol, otherwise ???


A: KARAOKE
Let's get together again, she'd suggested to a strategically chosen group (i.e. the handful of Retrospeccers who'd attended the last couple parties.) Bring your friends.

The place is going to be typical-Friday-night busy, so she aims for a somewhat early start to get the best chance at monopolizing the karaoke machine. If ever they do have to wait their turn, there's foosball, and a couple old arcade machines in the corner, and seating that's well broken-in and actually pretty comfortable.

B: BONFIRE
Arlene seriously considered burning Jim in effigy to start the fire, but the shirts were already more effort than she feels justified in putting into Retrospec's image. Fueled with regular old wood scraps, the fire burns merrily in its pit just above the high-tide line, throwing off a pleasant warmth as the heat of the day wanes.

On a folding table at a safe distance from the flames sits a short stack of T-shirts, white with "I ♥ Retrospec" in gray ironed on. She obviously didn't put much care into making them; the logos are crooked on a couple of them and didn't transfer completely onto one. There's a jar on the table and a note that says "$5 EACH (honor system! don't piss off the chick with lightning powers ♥)" in Arlene's spiky handwriting. She's also parked a small cooler there, stocked with a couple sodas and a six-pack of her favorite beer, but it's obviously not enough for everyone. Hopefully you B'd your own B.


[ooc note: anyone is welcome to the karaoke prompt even if she wouldn't have invited you- after all there's that "to a stranger" requirement- and assume that if she's on good terms with your character, she passed along a note via Retrospec with the time and place. also, brackets are fine even though I didn't use them here]
frisyr: (ansikte)

A

[personal profile] frisyr 2017-07-19 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Emil gets handed a mic and-- wh--whaa ]

Sure?

Wait, what are we doing?
digthefuzz: (watch | groove thing)

Karaoke

[personal profile] digthefuzz 2017-07-19 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Local celebrity and college student Kurt Wagner has decided to attend the hell out of this karaoke party!

When it's his turn at the karaoke machine, he'll be ready to sing any number of cheesy songs, either by himself or with a partner! And if he sees any strangers around? Then it may be time for him to sing a power ballad at them!

Or, chill with him playing a game of foosball or at the ancient arcade machines!]
destiny_key: (Happycry!)

B

[personal profile] destiny_key 2017-07-19 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sora's walking over with a soda in one hand and a t-shirt in the other. Yes, he brought his own soda, and yes he paid for the shirt.

Walking up, he laughs at the remark.
]

Maybe, if it's small enough. Just don't zap the whole ocean. The note said you have lightning powers, right?
frisyr: (bestämning)

Re: A

[personal profile] frisyr 2017-07-19 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
What? No!

[ Oh god he's sweating bullets just thinking about it ]

Let's do Total Eclipse of the Heart! I love that song!

[ If there was a wipeout equivalent of karaoke though... ]
darkinferno: (★ lately i've been loving losing sleep)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-07-20 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, hey, Kurt. Dante knows him vaguely between his fame and that one game of truth or dare a few months ago, but beyond that he knows basically little about the other guy. That counts as a stranger, right?

(And let's be honest, that's the only reason he'd ever agree to touch a karaoke machine--he's not completely tone-deaf, but Dante does not like to sing.)]


Hey, Kurt. What do you say to letting me take care of a bingo square while we're here?
frisyr: (rädd)

Re: A

[personal profile] frisyr 2017-07-20 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ BRIGHT EYES... ]

🎼 TURN AROUND, EVERY NOW AND THEN I GET A LITTLE BIT LONELY AND YOU'RE NEVER COMING AROUND ♪

[ He is half a beat off, please prod him in the side ]
prometheanflame: (listening/neutral)

A

[personal profile] prometheanflame 2017-07-21 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Mohammed eyes the mike with a bit of suspicion. Yes, the karaoke machine is a cheap and easy way to sing a ballad, but he has never done this before. Because he's a nerd that doesn't go out enough.]

Sure. [He'll gain nothing if he refuses to take it.] Are we going now?
digthefuzz: (watch | friendly neighborhood acrobat)

[personal profile] digthefuzz 2017-07-21 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He does remember seeing him at that party but he is virtually a stranger... but Kurt's not sure if he's connecting that dot as well. He responds with a shrug.]

Sure man, knock yourself out! Who knows, I might do some bingo-ing of my own.
frisyr: (glädje)

Re: A

[personal profile] frisyr 2017-07-22 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
🎵 And I need you now tonight!!

AND I NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER!! 🎵

[ He gets so loud. He is so nasal. He is definitely breaking some eardrums. ]
darkinferno: (★ song for the reluctant heroes)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-07-22 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have the ballad square too?

[He saw Emil and Arlene's, ah... emotionally-charged duet a little while earlier. Maybe the two of them can do the same thing?]
digthefuzz: (watch | sly)

[personal profile] digthefuzz 2017-07-22 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
You got it, dude!
destiny_key: (lol dis bitch)

[personal profile] destiny_key 2017-07-22 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That's pretty cool.

[Sora plops down in the sand beside her, sticking the soda into the sand where it won't fall over, and starts idly digging through the sand with his fingers.]

Did it take long to get them? How long have you been on the network?
prometheanflame: (what)

[personal profile] prometheanflame 2017-07-22 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Great, now his musical tastes are going to be put on spot. He flips through the selection of modern hits, pausing over Beyoncé.]

How about something old? It's more fun when it's a song everyone has heard of.
darkinferno: (★ just no telling how far i'll go)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-07-22 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
All right, how about we tag-team this then? Better we both look like idiots than just one of us.

[Here's a mic, Kurt! Dante's just kind of. Assuming that he's going to say yes, but Kurt is more than welcome to demand that he serenade him and up the ante if he wants to do a solo show.

His own mic in his other hand, he's using his middle and ring finger to page through all the song selections.]


What do you think? "I Just Died (In Your Arms Tonight)" or "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing?" Or do you have a different song in mind?
Edited (A BETTER OPTION) 2017-07-22 23:25 (UTC)
digthefuzz: (Default)

[personal profile] digthefuzz 2017-07-23 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a plan, my man! [he says with a bright grin as he accepts the mic.]

Man, you had it right the second time. I don't wanna miss a thing, including that song!
darkinferno: (★ somewhere we just lost hope)

[personal profile] darkinferno 2017-07-24 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
All right, then. Let's do this.

[He cues up the song, taking a moment to just. Steel himself for this. Singing is not his gig, not one bit. Give him a piano any day.

That doesn't mean he's entirely tone-deaf, at least, and when the music starts Dante's not necessarily off-key... he's just pretty average, and visibly a little bit uncomfortable with the way their voices ring out through the speakers.]


I could stay awake, just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile when you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming

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