first one to make that doctor who joke loses

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Everyone! All of you!
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Definitely!
When: Anytime during the toxic moon event!

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[boy oh boy, isn't everyone just so excited to explore this... charming... place...?

this is a game-wide mingle and the timeframe isn't super-important, so throw in with whatever you want! play war games, go shopping for gas masks, get lost in the wilderness, hide up in the Iskaulit and refuse to set foot on the moon, anything goes.

here's the main event info post for reference! have fun!]

Comments

[winn]

What can I say, I love the cookies.

[ he chuckles and shrugs ]

[passingthrough]

Winn, you almost make being abducted fun.

[winn]

[ that wins her a genuine kind of moved smile. he's not sure that he can actually think of a better compliment. ]

If I'm embroidering a motto on a t-shirt, I may as well live by it.

[passingthrough]

Actually, I think that should be the new motto. Think about it? A motto about embroidering shirts on an embroidered shirt? Genius!

[She likes that kind of smile enough that her eyes move from his down to his lips.]

[winn]

Shirt-ception!

[ he nudges her, did he just ruin another moment? ]

We should start a business.

[passingthrough]

[Maybe a little. It's his super power.]

A shirt business? Like where you do all the work and I get money? We could do that.

[winn]

[ super not realizing the pretty girl wants to kiss him. he was wrong, there is a lamer power than evil interviewing! ]

You're gonna have to do the selling -

[passingthrough]

[The pretty girl is trying not to be so impulse driven and to think through things before acting. Of course everything seems doomed when she thinks it through. So, right now she's considering missed signals to be a good thing.]

Because I'm so hard to resist?

[winn]

[ falling for someone from another dimension does seem kind of like a losing battle. but just because he won't stop trying to get home get - kara home - doesn't mean that a part of him doesn't realize that it may not happen. and if it won't happen - is it really so wrong to make this place suck less? ]

Exactly! It's a nice business when we all stick to our strengths -

[passingthrough]

[Sucking less would be nice. It sucks less right now even if they aren't kissing though. That's something.]

You should have more faith in yourself, Winn. [Not that she thinks he's particularly serious with the shirt idea.]

[winn]

[ yes, it is.

for a split second, he considers answering with another joke, but something about her kills it in its tracks. they've only known each other a short time, but somehow it feels like they've been friends forever, and that doesn't happen very often, especially not to winn. suddenly, he doesn't feel like joking anymore - for just a moment, he wants to be sincere. ]

Thanks, Kitty. [ he really has been trying; letting go of constantly coming up short in the contest he wasn't even really ever in the running for for kara's heart definitely helped, but he still appreciates and needs the encouragement to see himself as properly worthwhile.

whether it develops into a business or not remains to be seen - but he's going to be making at least one. ]

[passingthrough]

[Well, if he's going to treat her serious comment as serious then she'll just reach out and take his hand, intertwining their fingers and giving it a squeeze.] Sure. Confidence is free, right?

[winn]

[ he'll give her a little grateful squeeze in return ]

Here's hoping, because after this shopping spree I'm going to be completely broke.

[passingthrough]

[She smiles at him and holds on a beat or two longer than strictly necessary before letting her hand pull away.] I can help with the money. I need to save some for the claws, but I made some extra on the station that I didn't spend.

[winn]

Thanks. If it comes down to that -- of course I will absolutely pay you back.

[ maybe that shirt business isn't so bad an idea. who doesn't like a clever t-shirt! ]

[passingthrough]

I'm not that worried about it. Money is actually kind of new to me as strange as that probably sounds.

[winn]

That...is strange, yeah.

[ quirking a brow ]

E..laborate?

[passingthrough]

Well, when I was a little kid there was money. But I was also a little kid so I didn't have a job and any money I had was just an allowance so it was mostly going to the occasional treat or something since parents handled the heavy lifting. I saved most of it. And then civilization collapsed and people care a lot less about money. It really only means something if you all agree it means something so when that stops happening... [She shrugs.] And then the prison didn't have money either and now I'm here. [It still doesn't really mean anything to her, but she understands it's a means to various ends.]

[winn]

[ for a moment, she actually stuns him into silence. how do you really respond to and then civilization collapsed? 'I'm sorry' doesn't really seem to do the trick here.

he seeks out her hand again to offer another little squeeze. he's not going to offer pity, because he's always hated being on the receiving end of it himself, but it feels wrong not to acknowledge it in some way. ]

Kitty, I'm sorry. [ he really needs to be more mindful of the questions he's throwing around. ]

[passingthrough]

[She squeezes his hand in return and then surprises herself by stepping in trading up for a hug. She didn't mean to make him worry about her.] Hey, I'm fine. I'm here looking for parts and living and it's good. [Her past is so much darker than just "civilization collapsed" too.]

[winn]

[ he returns the hug gratefully and with a smile - determined not to make her feel like she has to comfort him in all of this. ]

It's an excellent adventure.

[ he pauses for a moment before pulling back so he could look her in the eye ]

But look, if you ever need to talk -- civilization didn't collapse where I'm from, but I do know a little bit about what it's like to have your world come crashing down.

[passingthrough]

[But who is Bill and who is Ted?

She tilts her head up to look at him.]

You do? [She's realizing she doesn't really know that much about his life.]

[winn]

[ that -- is the million dollar question, right there!

he didn't really want to say this in front of the cameras - it kind of feels like playing right into their hands, but friendship is more important than any considerations he has for keeping his past private. at least it seems pretty unlikely that kitty would start calling him 'toyman jr', (because he won't mention that nickname, if nothing else). ]

When I was a kid my til then loving dad snapped and tried to kill a guy, and ended up killing a bunch of other people along the way - he went to jail, my mom bailed. [ he shrugs ] It's not exactly the whole world but, uh, for an 11 year old...

[passingthrough]

[She wouldn't use it against him even if he did.] No, it's a lot. [She was thirteen when her parents were murdered. The only bad choice they made was trying to protect their daughter, and as far as bad choices go it's a pretty great one. And pain isn't a contest.] I'm sorry too.

[She isn't thinking of the cameras. She can't see them. She hasn't seen the "show" they're making. She doesn't even really know if that's happening or just a line they use to get different results.] Do you want to get out of here? [She's not sure where it would even be more private on the moon especially if they want to go without gas masks, but they could look.]

[winn]

It's ok. [ he offers a reassuring smile. in a way, it's gotten easier since he's had to confront his fears, his feelings, his dad. since everyone found out and he didn't constantly have to worry about people knowing. it was messed up in ways he can't even express, but being kidnapped by his father gave him some sense of weird semi-closure.

he nods ]

Yeah, sure. I'll just - pay for this - [ taking the tool to the register and going right back to her side ] Lead the way.