Vino:-Pouts for Stet and crosses her arms defiantly to Chrys.- -Spots a Mocktail she's never met before.-"Aw, aren't you just the cutest little darling. What's your name love?"
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[1] or [2]? I think number one is more appropriately formal? It's killing me that TekTek doesn't have the butler clothing up yet.
Chrys
Sorry Vino, gotta keep things PG-13 here... *eyes Stet untrustingly*
Stet would like to say that the less, the better - or in less Stet-terms, the one without the jacket. C:
Vino
Vino: :T "What if I promise not to touch or approach Stet in any sort of sexual way?" -Pauses, realizing the difficulty.- "Or what if we keep a foot of distance?"-Holds up her pinky.-
Kent
Kent: smile I like the one with the jacket, Miss Vino. It's pretty and tasteful.
Vino:"See how important you are to us all Kent? Wouldn't be the same without you, love." "I'm also rather fond of your floaty." -Secretly holding a safety pin behind her back.-
Kent
Awwww, thanks. That's sure swell of you to say, Vino! smile
Sometimes I worry I'm just the big dumb muscle, so that makes me smile to hear. smile
Vino
Vino:"Of course you're not. You have more of a brain than me and Stet combined."-Shrugging with a grin, not minding at all lack of intelligence over beauty.- "At least it's better than a gigolo reputation like Stet's."
Kent
*Frowns slightly* Stet has a reputation...? *Headshakes, then smiles*
Oh, I'm sure that's nowhere near true. You're a very smart young woman, and I know Stet's smart.
Vino
(Ohhh, burn. Kent says Stet doesn't have any rep. Ouch.) Vino:"Pfff, you're heart's as big as your biceps, Kent." -Flicks the safety pin away, feeling guilty.-"So, is it that you can't swim?"-Pokes his inner tube.-
Jeanemon
[[Oh, the bad sort. xD Stet's his bestest buddy. RAD BROMANCE.]]
Oh... Last summer I wasn't very good. I'm afraid I'm still not the strongest swimmer. I'm not very graceful, Miss Vino. xD You must be good at it, though. smile
Stet
Stet: Mydearlady,IassureyouIrepresentthataccusation. *offers a dashing grin* Butonlyforyou. *he winks before arching a brow with a more bemused expression at Kent* Iknowhemeanswell,andIsupposehe'dknowbetterthanmost.ItrustHero'sassessment,heartbreakingasitmaybe.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:17 pm
PRELIMINARY SIGN-UPS
Start professionally and send Maxwell your: ♠ 1. Resume, which should include an explanation for a) why you want to be human-sized and b) why we should make you human-sized. ♠ 2. Planned Working Attire, which is your planned final outfit for the RP stage. It must be a pictorial depiction, whether it be tektek, photos, drawings or otherwise. - Please note the usual dress-code in a bar/cocktail party setting: black tie to smart casual.
♠ What I Want It's not a wonder why any of us would want to be bigger than our bodies; why, the perks of being able to look down with all the ladies around experience such a change would surely give any of us a large amount of gratitude and obligation to the bar, would it not? Each one of us has a personality too big for that rooftop, and sure as the sun shines, we all want to meet our potential - something that's a mite bit short of a winning set, if you get my meaning. I've got a good hand with what's been dealt, and if I can just get that last Ace, sport, we'd have us an arrangement.
♠ Why You Want Me I may be 'small' by most terms but let me tell you chief, this bar is too small for me. I am the biggest, grandest part of our little show; I'm the entertainment, the level-head when East gets it in hers to cull some of our numbers in a spastic race across town, the target when Vino is bored - that needs no embellishment. You pick me and all will be right as rain. I'll entertain the folks in one manner or another, and being a bigger target for my darlin' Vino can't be a shabby call.
KEEP SWIMMING "Your objective -" Maxwell declares, loudly and self-importantly, striding and pacing with arms folded in front of 24 inch and smaller beings, " - is to entertain. You know what happens in entertainment?" He doesn't wait for an answer; he stops and peers down, looming ominously. "People die. That's the best case scenario. Else you humiliate yourself. You panic, you scream, you do whatever you can to achieve this visceral desire to win, win, win, I want to be a winner I want to be BIG and people watch and laugh and say, that's glorious, that's fun. This is what leads people to watch atrocities on the Internet. People being executed. Animals being crushed."
He nods grimly, then says "and if you thought this would lead you out of having near-death experiences - my apologies, you'll have to do more for that to happen."
In one motion he scoops the little contestants up, then glances goodbye to their owners, takes his motorcycle to the nearest body of water and puts them down.
"You'd best change into your swimsuits first, then secondly find an animal in this vast expanse of water to bring you across to the other side, where I will be waiting. This is Gaia, so I've no idea what could be in the water. Just find something. Thirdly! When you get there, I expect you to shake the wet off with an interpretive dance that expresses something that will seem meaningful to the viewers."
"Then," he says, softly, almost a whisper, "two of you will be taken off this treacherous path to glory. And strangely, you don't want to be these two, do you?"
"I'll see you on the other side." He hands out reminder cards:
Maxwell's Instruction Summary
1. Tek/grab a pic/create a swimsuit. 2. RP your finding a nice animal willing to bring you across the lake. 3. Find a Youtube video - or make one, if you'd like - of intepretive dance.
1. Tek/grab a pic/create a swimsuit. Stet wouldn't be caught dead wearing shorts in water that had living things in it; thus, we have a compromise.
2. RP your finding a nice animal willing to bring you across the lake.
Standing at the lip of where the water met the land, Stet didn't do so much as stick a toe in, staring grimly out over the watery depths that held East-knows-what. He put his hands on his hips, watching his companions and strangers alike finding their own means across - some more successful than others - feeling the slow trickle of mirth in his throat at Vino's stellar choice of comrade. Really, who bit who in that relationship?
"Letloosethedogsofwar," he mused to himself. Well. Not like dogs would help him get across. "Wrongquote," he chuckled, not minding if he was cracking jokes to himself, "howabout--RELEASETHEKRAKEN!" The little C*cktail puffed out his chest before pausing for thought. "Thattentacle-girlmaynottaketoofondlytothat..."
Something caught his eye, a ripple of movement beneath the water. "Eh?" Oh? Had Vino's pet come to chew on him now? "Learningallhertraitsalready,areyou?" he asked the water. There was a soft *plip* as a single tendril of something long, slimy and very not-shark-like emerged from the water, facing him. At least, he thought it was facing him, for something that didn't have a face. "Oh,no.Ohno.Nono." Stet raised his index finger, ticking it side to side like a pendulum. "That'stooawfulajokeevenforme--"
It was about as fast as lightning. One moment the nasty seaweed thing was just there, and the next, the C*cktail found his torso rather wrapped up in the foul-smelling appendage. "YouhaveGOTtobeshi--" was all that left his stunned lips before the 2' man was rather hurled across water, complete with a rather unmanly shout of something between shock and fright. The bank was closing in fast, and as he put his arms up to break his fall - or at least to break his arm bones first, whichever - the little tendril whisked out and swatted at him, deftly changing his course from becoming a literal stick-in-the-mud and instead plunking him into the shallow water nearby.
Spluttering, he rapidly crawled out of the water and looked back, a touch worse for the wear. The tendril gave a little wave before disappearing beneath the surface of the water, a single ripple the only mark of its passing.
A shiver ran down Stet's spine. It was a damn good thing he'd decided on the wet suit bottoms with tentacle monsters around...
3. Find a Youtube video - or make one, if you'd like - of intepretive dance.Natalie Imruglia - Torn and, because it probably doesn't count since he isn't actually dancing, we get an additional Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:27 pm
LET'S DANCE "Take care, Edgy - your time may come yet." Maxwell says gently, almost affectionately - then he puts Edgy in an ice-cream box and floats him back across the lake.
"You dance better than I thought!" He says to the remaining contestants, sweeping the area. "I am impressed. So impressed that I would like you to dance!"
He waits for murmurs of displeasure to die down before continuing, having an expression of displeasure himself.
"Right, sissies - you know what they do at impromptu dances. You start by grabbing a partner, you get dressed in your hilariously somewhat matched outfits, you come out and dance for your life. Then I suppose since you're being judged you can stand here uncertainly in your silly little clothes and tell us why you did that dance. Make it entertaining and QUICK! Chop chop."
He tosses out the reminder card:
Maxwell's Instruction Summary
1. Settle into pairs 2. Tek/grab a pic/create a magnificent dance outfit that sort-of matches each other. 3. Together, decide on and post a Youtube video of a two-person dance. 4. Explain, in character, why you decided on such a dance.
1. Settle into pairs Stet and Kent - BROMANCE BBY
2. Tek/grab a pic/create a magnificent dance outfit that sort-of matches each other. and 3. Together, decide on and post a Youtube video of a two-person dance.
4. Explain, in character, why you decided on such a dance.
Stet:
"Why?" The Sunset male chuckled, taking a drag out of the cigarette he held between his fingers - something he'd picked up in the last five minutes and it wasn't any wonder why. "It'ssimple.IwaspairedwithHeroandastightasweare,neitherofuswerekeenongettingourwaltzon,ify'getmydrift." Smiling, he rolled his almost-bare shoulders in a shrug, flipping back his over-stylized hair like he was Jimmy Dean in leather rather than a 2' man in drag. "Idon'ttouchguys-theydon'ttouchme.Thataside,itwasfun,yeah?Theladieslikethosetypesofmoves."
Smashing the rest of the cigarette against a glass, he sighed and looked down at his ensemble. "Believeitornot,thisiseveneasiertoexplain." With a good humored tug of his lips, he pointed to his partner. "MypartnerisHero.Itisassimpleasthat."
Pulling another cigarette out, the thing nearly the size of a cigar to the smaller male, he shrugged his indifference and gave his most winning smile. "Canwegetthisoverwithnow?"
Kent:
"Gosh, I'm not sure, really..." Kent says, his brow furrowing. He's wiping at his face constantly; trying to get the glitter off of it. "I really think it was a joke that spiraled out of control. Stet and I decided to pair up, and we were talking about dances to do. I suggested some ones, he suggested a few. He didn't wanna do anything that'd be weird, yenno. We're friends, but there's a line that's friends and, yenno, weird. Somehow, belly dancing came up. And things just spiraled out of control from there...."
Kent sighs; the glitter is proving hard to remove. "I mean, I know we didn't do too horrible. But still... It was real embarassing. I don't really like when people watch me for... Reasons. Golly, I'm bad at talking about this stuff." The C*cktail's face is coloring, he rubs at the back of his hair. Of course, this only serves to put more glitter there. "Let's just say I really, really, REALLY don't ever wanna do that again. I'mma go burn the clothes and scrub myself till I bleed now. I think there might be glitter in my blood...."
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:29 pm
18th June 2010 ...in which Stet is somewhat sentimental before resuming being a pig.
Stet
Stet: So,betweenyou,meandtheiBar, *he smiles, putting one hand on Kent's shoulder and taking one of Vino's hands to kiss the back of it* I'mgladwe'restillstucktogether.
Jeanemon
Kent: *Smiles, rubbing one ear* Awww, you big moosh. smile *Gives Stet a little punch to the arm*
DownSight
Vino:"Like two pieces of paper and some superglue." Nodding her agreement, playfully nudging Stet in the side and patting Kent on the back. "To another long term of our crazy antics, dangerous stunts, and keeping the smiles and liquor flowing."
Stet
Stet: Ilookforwardtomeetin'allthenewfolk. *unabashedly smiles at Sukkubus* Yoursespecially.
Vino
Vino: Spotting the eye-catching new Martini glass and possible competition, she calls out a playful claim, "Dibs!" "Sukku's going to need to keep an eye on that darling, lest us vulchers catch her." Even as she thinks the warning outloud, her eyes twinkle mischievously with an impish smirk.
Stet
Stet:What?Ithinknot! *he counters, half teasing, putting his hands on his hips* YoualreadyclaimedHinder,Ineedalittlelovin'too,Vinobaby.Youhavetoshare!
Jeane
*Squishes Stet* xD I love him.
Chrys
He has needs. And though he doesn't mind watching the ladies get close and personal, he wants to play his cards too. ]: Pathetic little man.
Stet
Stet: I'mquitefondofyoutooJeaney. *smiles with a flourished bow*
Sukku
poor mink. not even out of her glass and there's trouble afoot! roflheart
she is a pretty drink, though... :V
Stet
Stet: OhJeane,youknowthequickestwaytothisman'sheart. *he laughs, tilting his head to look at the drink, very lightly touching the garnish on the glass* She'llflushoutourrainbowentouragehere.
Sukku
weirdly enough, i kinda trust you wacky c*cktails. *ruffles stet's hair, baha!* mink will be in goood hands!
congrats, rabid! heart
Stet
Stet: IpromiseI'lltreatherright. *chuckles and tries to smooth out his hair, though it just curls beneath his efforts*
Chrys
Until he sees what she's wearing anyway, then he'll probably have permanent jaw ache from his chin being on the floor.
DownSight
Vino@Stet: Tsking, she crosses her arms but struggles to appear serious as a smile twitches the corner of her lips. "By no means am I selfish in my conquests, Stet love, to not share. You're simply too slow to catch the first bite."
"You'll give me a run for my money anyways. How could I ever compete with THE Stet." A roll of her eyes accompanied her words as she finally breaks into a teeth-showing smile. Turning her attention to making a drink, she laughs under her breath. "I tease, I tease. Go get that game on and I'll play fair."
Vino@Kent: Unable to help it, she bursts into laughter at the story and almost falls into the large margarita glass . "Poor Superboy, WirlyGirly's just out to ravage you of your dignity. Anyone is helpless against that twang and whip."
Wirl
Wirl: *shakes her head at both Stet and Vino* All yer competin' would be over iffen ya'd just let me lasso one of ya and keep ya. ;P
Kent
Kent: ... It puts the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again.
Wirl
Wirl: Sheddap!
DownSight
Vino:"Yes, I know how devastated you must be not knowing the color of my sheets, love. Just think of that conquest as a goal you can work yourself towards one day, and I may give you the pleasure." Passing by on her way to talk with Chrys, she sneaks a warm kiss from Stets lips. "Darling, all you had to do was ask before. Now I get to torture you by making you wait." She waves over her shoulder and shakes her head, still merry with laughter, and turns her attention elsewhere.
Strutting up to Chrys, she nods at her approvingly at the evaluation. "The better to seduce you with, my dear." Suggestively arching a brow, she continues while bowing and sweeping a hand out, "I was built attracted to beauty, no matter the equipment. And may I add dear, you broke my radar with yours."
Stet
Stet: *lifts a brow at Wirl* Thereinisourblock,mysassylady-weallliketodothelasso-- *looks utterly dumbstruck by the stolen kiss, staring wide-eyed after Vino; his head snaps to the side to look at Kent with a didyouseethat?! expression before resuming staring at Vino's retreating backside* W-wait,IthinkImissedsomething...
Chrys
*eyes Vino* She may be 2' but for rendering that one speechless, I'm not against giving her a chance. *SHOT* Vino, you are the belle of this ball, any of us would be honored to blip on your radar at all.
And yes. OMG I love Kent so much. ;3; I need a female so I can flirt with him too. *SHAMELESS*
Vino
Vino: "Here, here. Although our morals might be questionable, we'd hardly corrupt a child. They're safe Charlè, for now." Seeing overwhelmed Stet is still shocked from the kiss, Vino tilts her chin up triumphantly and smirks behind the tendrils of her hair. "And you really wanted more?"
Pursing her lips at the bath scene, she sits on the edge and watches Mink resting on the little machine. "I wonder how fast that boat can go though. . . . "
Stet
Stet: *blinks owlishly at Vino* IfIthoughtI'deverhadachance,Iwouldn'tbetryingtoswattheheartscirclingmyhead. *puts a hand against his own cheek for a moment before giving his head a good shake, running both hands through his hair, mumbling under his breath* Whoknewpoisonivywasmykryptonite... *after a moment, he moves to join Vino on the edge, tugging his slacks up about his calves and watching the new drinks zip by in various fashions* Atleasttheyfitrightin.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:30 pm
25th June 2010 ...in which Stet and Kent wish the new guys safety.
Stet
Stet:Congratskids,yousurvivedyourowners. *buffs his nails on his shirt* Nowyouhavetosurviveus. Imeanthatwithalltheloveandrespectintheworld,naturally.
Kent
Kent: xD Stet, don't scare them. We're not all bad like him, I promise.
Wirl
Wirl: *Trying to lasso one of Charle's horns*
Stet
Stet: *looks mock-offended* Me?I'mthemostharmlessoutofthelotof,withyoubeingtheexception,Hero. *looks to Wirl and Vino* Wearetheleastoftheirworries,now...
Sukku
Mink:W-what? ... D:
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28th June 2010 ...in which Maxx D shares his conceptual art for all the troublemakers.
Maxx
You're all so indulgent to me, I hope the mystique isn't lost. lol Well, I went to dig around and I could only find these, so I do apologise to those whose C*cktails aren't here; my concept drafts are drawn every which where, most of the time scrap paper.
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