And Let Us Gather 'Round [ Video + Action ]

[universal_charm]

Who: Kirk and The Fine People of the Fleet
Broadcast: Yes
Action: On the Iskaulit, Specifically at the Melting Pot - Note: After the Broadcast
When: After they start heading away from the system

Video
<sub>[ Kirk appears on the screen, and probably like many people he looks tired and a bit beaten up. Scratches not yet healed on his face, one even covered with a bandage on his cheek, that sort of drawn look around his eyes after all the sleepless nights and the battles and general horridness. A little to pale, perhaps.

Even so, he gives as warm a smile as he can as he begins to speak. ]</sub>

For those of you who might not know, I come from a world called Earth - or at least, one of the versions represented here. On my world, in the country I hail from, we celebrate something known as Thanksgiving roughly around this time of year if I've done my calculations correct. Some people call it Friendsgiving, but it's all the same really.

Essentially, it's a time to a give thanks for the good things in your life, your friends, and your family. In the spirit of that, I've arranged for a gathering at the Melting Pot - a thank you to Jarvis for that. Everyone who wishes to come is welcome.

I just thought we all could use a day, a place, to be together and to just enjoy each other. So I hope to see you there.

Action: The Melting Pot
<sub>[ The restaurant is set up to allow as much mingling as possible when people arrive - places to sit, of course, but there's gentle music playing for those who might want to dance and just to give some atmosphere (but not loud enough to stop conversation at all). Food and drink is laid out - things to nibble on rather than the usual feasts associated with a Thanksgiving. Not particularly ideal, but it's what could be managed. Unless, of course, anyone decided to bring something else to add to the spread.

Not a fancy party, to be sure, but it's warm and inviting, which is what Kirk had hoped for. A place for them all to come together and enjoy each other and just be glad they were all there and if not quite completely whole, then, well, able to be there. ]

[ooc: Open mingle! Feel free to create your own starters and do as you like - tis a warm Friendsgiving party for the Fleet! ]</sub>

Comments

[servantnotserving]

[Felix, if he had feet he would absolutely sweep you off yours and right onto that dance floor right now. Alas, he does not. That is the real tragedy here. ]

Well, I know there are definitely better ways. But, unfortunately, this is a public place and Jarvis probably frowns upon that kind of thing here. Something about health codes?

[THEY SOUND FAKE. ]

You look like you would prefer to be dancing, mon ami.

[lord_wizard]

I can imagine it would upset the kitchen staff.

[That's more likely, really.]

Is it that obvious?

[servantnotserving]

That technically includes me, but I suppose it would upset the rest of them.

[Tragic, Speak of tragedies. ]

Ah, then you should find someone to whisk you across the dance floor. Had I legs, I'd offer myself, but unfortunately...

[lord_wizard]

I won't hold it against you. Though...it's not really ideal for dancing. Not the way I'm used to it, at least. A big hall full of people dressed in their finest, candlelight, and a live band playing. Drinking and dancing with anyone and everyone until you stumble back to your room with one of them. Or...a person in particular.

[servantnotserving]

That sounds like the perfect ball to me. Perhaps we will be fortunate and find another venue on the next planet. Preferably one without a heist going on at the same time.

[THAT piques his interest, and his grin widens, glancing around for who this possible person is.]

Oho, do you have someone particular in mind?

[lord_wizard]

[Felix smirks, though it's gentle. Almost bittersweet. Not because his daliances were limited to one person these days, at least mostly, but because of the distant echo of his time back home. A world that seems so far away he's almost forgotten it and he isn't sure if that's all for the better.]

I have a reserved partner for that these days...well, at least for the latter part.

[He points Crowley out across the room with a lazy gesture]

Honestly I've almost always had someone for that.

[servantnotserving]

[Lumière catches sight of the guy in the weird dark glasses and gives an appreciative nod. Sure, he's pretty enough. ]

Ah, I see, quite the catch there, mon ami.

[But like. One person? JUST one??? What's that like? That sounds weird.]

There is a certain joy in being able to bring someone back to warm your bed at the end of the night. It takes a certain amount of charm, no?

[Sweet LORD, he misses that. ]

[lord_wizard]

[While Felix has had many stable lovers in the past, few of them managed to contain him for more than a few years, largely because there were always things he wanted that his partner did not, and so he found ways to satiate those things with others. The difference now is that the place that fed the darkness in him is far behind him now, and that the benefits of courting the personification of temptation is that it hasn't quite allowed Felix to get bored enough to want to.

He smiles brightly at both compliments though]

I've never found it a particularly difficult task.

[He's flirting with the candle again and it's starting to feel normal, saints preserve him]

[servantnotserving]

[Lumière would understand that way of thinking only too well. He's far too full of life and light to keep still and steady with one person for any real length of time. Stagnation would come far too quickly, he needs the variety to keep going.

...That and the absolutely cannot do sincerity to save his life. If you want to be GREAT and the job he does, you kind of need a certain level of two-facedness that just doesn't work in a long term relationship. ]

Oh, that I can well believe. You really are a sight to behold.

[He will never turn down some good old flirting. Never. ]

[lord_wizard]

[Felix laughs]

And you have a way with words. Both have their uses.

[servantnotserving]

I do have a natural gift.

[Which really does serve him well. Flattery gets you everywhere. ]

That they do, mon ami We survive with whatever we have to hand, no?