http://vitaelamorte.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] vitaelamorte.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2010-12-18 04:50 pm

+ Now the Jingle Hop has begun [OPEN] +

Who: Everyone [OPEN]
Where The Ballroom
When: December 18th, 6PM-midnight (oocly however long you want to keep logging)
Rating: Well gosh, that really depends on you folks and how you behave, doesn’t it? I’m going to tentatively guess PG-13 though.
Summary: The mansion's decided to throw you all a party out of the goodness of its heart. You know, if it has one. This is the open log for the Jingle Bell Rock portion of the event!
the Story:

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring
Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air.

What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jingling feet
That's the jingle bell,
That's the jingle bell,
That's the jingle bell rock.


The ballroom is decorated extravagantly for the occasion, with all of the same sorts garland and holly and lights covering the rest of the mansion, at the moment. There is another tree at the far side of the room as well, though not nearly the size of the one in the front hall, decorated in a very classy white. From the ceiling, fake snow is falling from somewhere that can’t quite be seen, but it does not seem to gather on the floor more than a flake or two.

There are tables with chairs to one side, near a table filled with delicious food and beverages of all kinds, from wine to wassail to eggnog and more. The rest of the space is reserved for dancing.

We could tell you that the mansion is going to force you to dance forever and ever or something, perhaps until your feet fall off, but we won’t. Gosh, you’re all so suspicious. I mean really. The party-goers may wonder at first, some entering very suspicious of the mansion’s intentions, but it will quickly become apparent that for once…for once, it doesn’t seem to be a trap.

So giddy-up, jingle horse, pick up your feet and jingle around the clock. You can even go mix and mingle in the jingling feet. That’s the Jingle Bell Rock!

two in a row because well I am just a bastard alright

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-18 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
J does not like dances.

He especially does not like fancy-dress balls.

Why he leaves his apartment somewhere around 3, he doesn't know. He knows perfectly well he could get a sandwich from his closet. But no, he has to go up to the kitchen and make himself such a labour-intensive sandwich that it takes three hours to make, consume and clean up, and then his feet find themselves wandering their way towards the dance.

No. No. No no no nonono. He tries to avoid it.

But eventually, the poor thing gets dumped right into the ballroom, staggering, in his socks and white t-shirt and sweatpants. But that doesn't even last long, and he finds himself in a humiliatingly trim tux.

He'll be standing over by the door, glaring at his shoes and rolling his camera in his hands if you'd like to rub it in a little talk.

[identity profile] paper-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-19 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Mark has also been coerced into attendance; shanghaied from a coffee run. He is hovering nearby, similarly awkward in a tailcoat.

"Does anyone remember," he asks quietly, "what happened the last time the mansion threw a party?"

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"... No, I don't," J replies uneasily, mistaking his question as conversation.

[identity profile] paper-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
He notices J and gives him a nod.

"Exactly my point."

Mark had ended up locked in a closet with a black eye, no clothes, and no idea how he got there. If J escaped that event, he can count himself lucky.

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
J snorts and shakes his head. "I don't think this is one of those, unless you drink too much."

[identity profile] paper-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
More nodding, fervent this time.

"I hope not."

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-24 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
J shrugs and fidgets, looking around. "...Soo..." But he's at a loss for words, and he just looks down at his feet.

[identity profile] paper-knight.livejournal.com 2010-12-25 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
It occurs to him he might have been rude.

"I'm sorry."

He offers a hand; if nothing else he's meeting people tonight.

"Mark Meltzer."

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
After a brief, awkward moment of staring at the hand, he shakes it. "I'm J," he replies, giving a brief, awkward smile. "I'm ....sure you've seen me around," he adds, to give that awkwardness a special, super-awkward kick. "On transmissions and stuff."

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[identity profile] timisnotme.livejournal.com 2010-12-19 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
What the hell are you wearing?

*Tim is wearing a loose dress shirt and jacket over his bandaged ribs.*

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
A tux. [His voice is SO FLAT.] What's it look like.

[identity profile] timisnotme.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
*Tim is just a bit tipsy here so have a half drunk grin.*

You look ridiculous.

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You've got nothing to say. At least this kind of fits me. [But he grins anyways, shrugging.] I didn't... really want to be here.

[identity profile] timisnotme.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"I only showed up because I figured if I didn't the mansion would drag me here in a frilly ball gown or something."

He grins and takes another sip of his drink.

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess I'm lucky, then." He sighs, shrugs, looks away again. "I don't know what made me leave my apartment."

[identity profile] timisnotme.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Can't lock yourself up forever. Eat! Drink! Be social!"

Tim's gonna keep working on the drinking thing.

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"It's just easier to stay there," J mutters, scuffing his foot on the ground and watching the dancers uneasily. "Parties aren't really my thing, anyways."

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hey bro long time no see how are the sandwiches

[identity profile] blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good evening!"

Oh hey, it's that one Victorian guy. There's a glass of mulled wine steaming in his hand, and a smile plastered all over his face. If Daniel came from the appropriate century, it's likely that he would use the word 'party' as a verb.

"It's been rather a while, hasn't it? Did we ever exchange names, do you remember?"

sup bro they are delicious as per usual

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uhh..." J shifts uneasily and raises an eyebrow. "..No, we didn't, I don't think."

nothing pickled in them you are still making them wrong

[identity profile] blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com 2010-12-22 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, in that case: I am Daniel, and... yourself?"

He transfers the wine to his left hand, and sticks out his right for J to shake. There's quite a bit of wine on his breath.

.... maybe there IS something pickled in them.

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
J rocks back just a little as the intense wine breath washes over him, and he grimaces slightly and uneasily takes Daniel's hand. "I'm.. J." A quick little shrug. "... Nice to meet you." Ish.

.........IS IT EGG.

[identity profile] blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
He's a bit too wankered to notice the subtleties of J's discomfort.

"And you!"

He does let J have his hand back, though, after a clasp and a brisk if unsteady shake.

"What's that?" he says, nodding towards the camera in J's hands. "Some curious trinket from years to come?"

....MAYBE IT IS.

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Uhh," he tries helpfully, and frowns, wiggling it a little and pointing it back out over the dancers. "It's ... a camera. For taping things. I'm taping what's happening right now. Recording the dancers."

it could really be anything you can pickle anything

[identity profile] blimeyjamwalls.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Daniel's pretty proud of the fact that he knows what J is talking about.

"In the same vein as the communicators?" He moves around to peer over J's shoulder at the LCD screen.

maybe it's pickled EVERYTHING, ever think about that?

[identity profile] 41810.livejournal.com 2010-12-23 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
"...Yyyeah. Kind of." J's never really had to explain cameras before, since he comes from film school, and everyone has at least a starter course in cameras there. "Except this one doesn't transmit to anything. It saves everything on an SD card and then I transfer it for later."

delicious~!

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