Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

[mypartnerintime]

Who: Max and OPEN (especially whoever is watching X-Files/Twilight Zone)
Where: One of the tea rooms on the ground floor, converted into a home theater
When: Evening of February 11 (what are timezones idk)
Rating: Let's go with PG to be safe?
Summary: It's a mingle! With cool TV shows! What could go wrong!
The Story:

She'd sent out the invite, but just to be sure she also put up another text to the network: "Ground floor tea room, 8pm for Twilight Zone and X-Files!" By 8:00 she'd set up a wicked home theater, with a massive TV and top of the line sound system. Hooray for unlimited and magical closets, though how that TV fit in one will forever be a mystery!

The tea room had expanded to accommodate a larger than normal crowd. There's a big couch along one wall, bean bags spread around, and throw pillows on the floor. A long, low coffee table is situated in reach of most places, on top of which Max has laid out some pizza, chips, and soda.

Finally, to get just the right atmosphere, the room is slightly cold (though there are blankets around) and the lights are dimmed so that shadows seem to jump around as the shows run their course on the TV.

What shows, you ask? She decides to play them in this order:
Twilight Zone's The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Twilight Zone's Five Characters in Search of an Exit
And finally, X-Files' Bad Blood

All in all, it's a few hours' worth of interesting, amusing, and sometimes downright disturbing TV.

[OOC: Max's invite was more popular than I expected, lol. I thought I'd put this up in case anyone wants a mingle! Feel free to post a top level comment about what your character is doing, and comment around. :D]

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[mypartnerintime]

For the most part, Max spends the time bundled up on a beanbag with a blanket, next to the couch. No opening speeches or anything, of course. She greets some people with a cheerful "Hi!" as they arrive, or engages in a bit of small talk until she starts the ball rolling at 8:00.

After that she's pretty intent on the shows, staring at the TV. Though she does look around at the viewers now and then, wondering how she managed to get this together, and amused that people actually showed up.

And, of course, because it's Max, once in a while people will hear the click of a camera from her direction, as she takes pictures of people lit by the gray light from the TV as they watch.

After each show she's very free to talk and speculate on the implications of the series', as though these are very real and important things (aren't they?).

ota

[rosswood]

Alex gets as far as halfway into the room before the video screen starts to glitch a bit, and a few more steps in reduces the entire thing to white noise.

Oh. Right. He'd almost forgot the debilitating awfulness that comes from living with this weird-ass technological curse hanging over his head. Too many run-ins with a faceless monstrosity seems to have left him permanently tainted, and therefore an instant mood-killer at movie parties. Joy.

He sighs. "Jesus Christ."

He appropriates one of the bean bag chairs and drags it over to the furthest corner of the room where, mercifully, his electrostatic radius doesn't seem to be interfering too much with what's happening on screen. He wants some goddamn Twilight Zone, damnit, and he's not about to let some dumb nonsensical thing that happened to him months ago mess that up. He just...has to watch it at kind of a distance. That's all.

With few exceptions, anyone who draws near to his isolated corner wayyyyyyy in the back of the room will be pinioned with a fierce glare. This here is his little patch of isolation. You can run along and find your own.

Dipper | ota

[krmvgivv]

Dipper is... a terrible person to watch things with. Between his experience with real supernatural occurrences and being himself younger than good computer animation, he tends to be very critical and talkative, though he mostly keeps it to whoever has the misfortune to sit near to him.

He's... better when it comes to X-Files, partly because he really is a fan of his world's Y Cases, and partly because it turns out Dana Scully is just as attractive as Donna Skilly and Dipper really likes redheads. Especially smart ones that are as skeptical as he is and solve mysteries, even if she doesn't believe in the supernatural.

Honestly, as much as he's always reluctant to admit the non-his world versions of things are good, he has to admit, X-Files is pretty awesome.

Wirt | OTA

[singloversing]

Wirt should probably be a little more concerned when Dipper turns up to his room and just drags him to things. He hadn't really been paying attention to the network, but even if he had been he probably would have assumed this invitation wasn't meant for him. But Dipper had turned up at his door and literally grabbed his arm and dragged him along and Wirt didn't question it much. Dipper said he'd explain and that was enough, probably.

Once he's there though, he's kind of glad he came. He's always really liked the Twilight Zone, and though he's a few years shy of being able to watch the X-Files (from what he's gathered, it won't even start airing until he's in college) and has no context as to who anyone is, it's a pretty good episode from what he can tell. He can be kind of a wimp about horror, but well-written science fiction is an entirely different story. The Twilight Zone is exactly the kind of show that can get in his head and make him think about life and human existence for days afterwards, and he's the kind of person who enjoys having his world shattered by a good story.

Rather than take a seat on the couch or a beanbag for himself, he claims one of the pillows and sits right on the floor, leaning back against the couch. He's polite enough to take off his pointy hat (leaving behind some awful pointy hat hair), even though he's sitting low enough that it's not actually in anyone's way.

OTA

[exceedinglybright]

It was a hard invitation to pass up-- there have been other movie nights in Wonderland since Lily's arrival, and she's always been curious to see what sort of things might have been produced after her time, although in this case, she's already familiar with some of the material. The Twilight Zone has been around for a long while, and there's something comforting about having the opportunity to revisit something she already knows.

The theater itself is impressive, and she vaguely wonders how long it took Max to set things up as she helps herself to pizza and something to drink, making herself comfortable. The atmosphere is right, given the viewing material, and she's more than happy to make herself at home and enjoy, though she'll be visiting with both familiar and unfamiliar faces alike in-between-- after all, what's the point of coming if she's only going to keep to herself?