[log] New Year's Mingle [open]

[rubikscomplex]

Characters: Anyone in the Bunker
Location: Bunker
Date: Let's go with January...
Summary: Mingling in the Bunker
Warnings: Add to subject line!

[All of the rooms within the Bunker have been opened. The latest, Room 19, contains computer parts. They'll need to use those, the soldering gun and other equipment in that room to create some sort of interface with the last locked door in Room 4. There are cables to connect up to the tablets, so maybe that will help, as well. And they still have other computers in Room 24 and 26 to use.

There are other things to be about, as well. The Bunker is, as ever, cold, slightly glowing, and moldy. And there are plenty of other rooms to check in on.]

Comments

[phaseshifter]

Beckett doesn't want me being a battery, dude. Um, neither of them.

[ She finally looks up, at least, even if she still doesn't seem very engaged. Yay? ]

And the monster's name is Chester. Rhys met it first, so he has dibs on naming it. Iunno if it'd need a battery for anything, either? Unless - unless it has a giant freaking Zune down there.

[rubikscomplex]

[It's progress.]

Chester is a lame name. I'm calling it Ironfist. It tastes and feels like metal when you bite it.

[phaseshifter]

Like metal? Not like calamari? Huh.

[ Yeah, she's just going to casually accept that if anyone knows how Chester tastes, it's probably House. No, definitely House. No other potential Chester-chomping candidate comes close. Sure, Beckett would maybe bite it if it was somehow necessary, but she has the distinct feeling that House would slurp down on some eldritch-ass tentacles both to sate his own curiosity and so he could weird people out by saying that he did it. Like. She's 99% sure about this.

Oh, and also because he's a weirdo old man pervert. That too. ]

There go our hopes of it being a viable replacement food source, I suppose. Also "Ironfist" is a stupid name for something that presumably doesn't have fists.

[rubikscomplex]

It has, like, a thousand fists. And eyes. Probably more eyes than fists.

[It was a while ago and it was in a traumatizing dream. He can't remember it that clearly.]

[phaseshifter]

Well, the eyes are hardly surprising considering the cult iconography. I always figured it was whatever was in, um - the pit? But all I remember of that is teeth, not eyes or... fists.

[ For the record, she's imagining Ultros but with boxing gloves on the end of every tentacle and it's fucking beautiful.

But also -- ]

You're trying to perk me up.

[ That's not a question. ]

[rubikscomplex]

[Why do you have to call a spade a spade, Angel? This was going so well!]

I'm bored, and you're the only person in the room. You're more interesting to talk to when you're perky.

[phaseshifter]

You know other rooms are available, right? Many of them containing perkier people?

[ Grumble, grumble. Stupid House and his stupid everything. She's at least motivated to drag herself into a seated position now, though, because looking pathetic enough that House feels the need to perk her up is completely unacceptable. ]

You could probably even get a party going.

[rubikscomplex]

Not enough hookers or booze for the kinds of parties I to throw. And this room has all the beds. Don't be selfish. You girls and your privacy.

[phaseshifter]

Mmhmm. Well, be the change you want to see, right? Have you considered becoming a hooker yourself?

I'm referring to your missing hand, of course. You could replace it with a hook. It'd suit you.

[ SHE'S FUNNY ]

[rubikscomplex]

[He rolls his eyes.]

I told your boyfriend and I'll tell you: You get two of those. Third time I'm throwing something heavy at you. I don't care if you're a girl.

[phaseshifter]

I don't have a boyfriend.

 

 

 

And, I mean, can you really lift anything that heavy with just one hand?

[rubikscomplex]

[Angel... Well, at least this is properly getting her engaged. He should have known to needle at the romance crap first.]

Does he know you're being unfaithful? Denying him?

[phaseshifter]

[ HOUSE NO!!! ]

I'm not being -- I mean I am denying it, yes, because he's not my boyfriend. It's not a thing! So of course I'm denying it, because that's what you do when people make accusations that aren't true.

[ s m o o t h ]

[rubikscomplex]

Yuh-huh. Are you still a virgin?

[That's at least got to get her throwing something, if not up and over for a slap.]

[phaseshifter]

[ Hey you know how Angel's real fucking good at the pokerface thing when she wants to be

Well that doesn't actually work at all when she blushes bright red

It's a problem, ]

Why is that even relevant? You can get -- you can have sex with someone without them being your boyfriend, geez!!

[rubikscomplex]

You little minx. Seeing more than one boy, then?

[phaseshifter]

What? No!

 

 

But I could, if I wanted to, because no boyfriend.

[rubikscomplex]

Anyone else you got your eye on? Personally, I think that Gray guy's got a nice ass.

[He hasn't particularly looked, but hey! If it's in the name of making Angel uncomfortable. She might have noticed at this point that he mostly hangs around with Will, though.]

[phaseshifter]

Then why don't you go and tell him that? Are you afraid of upsetting your boyfriend?

[ She doesn't know Will well enough to be really comfortable with bringing him into this even indirectly, but. IF SHE'S GOTTA, ]

[rubikscomplex]

My boyfriend's in a body locker. Twice now, actually. Thanks for the reminder.

[He'll just go with making her feel bad about Wilson. That's a much easier thing to deal with. Particularly when he isn't around.]

[phaseshifter]

Oh? I didn't know you had a dead boyfriend. You sure moved on fast, geez. Not that I'm judging! I clearly have no idea what the deal is with boyfriend etiquette. It comes from never having had one.

[ bold of House to assume that Angel believes he has feelings that can be hurt, ]

[rubikscomplex]

[Rude, Angel.]

So much for you being the gossip girl. Whatever happened to the whole connecting people who were in love with Epps? Didn't you learn anything from that troll kid?

[phaseshifter]

It's been a year, dude. I've become incredibly jaded and cynical since then. It's terrible.

[ And she never really connected with any of the troll kids. Weird how they weren't super into befriending someone named after the terrible mythical demons who usher in the apocalypse, right?? ]

[rubikscomplex]

Tsk! Letting a little thing like the end of the world get you down. You seriously need to work on that optimism shtick, babe. Jaded and cynical is my thing.

[phaseshifter]

Was your thing. It's mine, now, dude. Stolen from you like the finest vicodin.