PARADISA LOST

Who: Jo Harvelle and ANYONE
When: Holy Backdating! December 24th.
Where: At O'Sullivan's Rebel Bar
What: Drinking! Pool Playing! Fairy Induced Kissing!
NOTE: Feel free to just use this as a location to have your character hanging out before the fairies stopped being around. I know I missed a lot, so I'm just tossing this up here.


Moving to stand on top of the bar, Jo wolf-whistles to get the majority of the customer's attention. Once she feels the level of noise has dropped from all the conversations to a few of the conversations, she takes a breath and smiles at everyone.

"It's Christmas Eve and everyone could be doing something other than hanging out at a bar. I know when I was a kid, this is exactly where I was when Christmas rolled around, because my folks owned a Roadhouse. I was running around, between tables, getting underfoot and waiting for Santa. Well, tonight - as my Merry Christmas to all of you - Drinks are on the house!"

The roar of approval makes Jo laugh a bit. Her hands rest to the shoulders of a few guys near the bar as she uses them for leverage to drop down to the ground once more. She figures, the fake Paris or the real Paris can afford the hit in tabs tonight. Plus, she really likes the way that cheering was for her.

[It's late, Jo's just come back to her place after pulling a long shift and she's just now noticing the plethora of cleaning products and ... movies staring Reese Witherspoon that have accumulated in her front room.]

Why do I suddenly feel like I developed some weird form of OCD in my sleep?

[Muttered to herself:] Who needs this much bleach?

[Do smells go over the journal? Jo hopes so, because the Lux smells so good.]

Does anyone not have Thanksgiving day plans? Because, if you don't, which I'm sure some of you don't, you should come down to the Lux.

I cooked all day and all night and it smells so good that you all will be really sorry if you don't come.

Also, Julia made an English Trifle... [SO CLEARLY YOU NEED TO EAT THIS. Mmmm... jam and custard and ladyfingers and... beef and peas. Please don't make her the only one eating this.]

It's just an informal gathering with a lot of food.


(ooc: here's the LOG for the event!)

Who: Jo, Jet, Spike S., Max, Julia, and Gwaine.
Where: Jo's house in the city.
What: Gwaine returns after the expedition. Julia is upset. Clearly.
When: ... when Gwaine returns.
Notes: Friends Loss Continues.



[Apparently, when you're raised in a military-like compound and not exposed to pop-culture while you grow up -- you miss out on a lot of things. Max has recently realized that she doesn't exactly know all of the movies that Jo and Julia grew up loving. We'll skip over the part where Jo and Julia know all the words to Lawfully Pretty and skip right to where they're trying to explain to Max that hard work does pay off and that the core message is really about accepting you for yourself, and that the sequel deals with a side of animal rights. Which, they figure Max will appreciate.]

We can watch the next one, too. [You know, in case Gwaine isn't back yet. She glances to the boys, because she is not putting in Die With Difficulty again. This is supposed to be making Julia feel better.]

Who: Anyone!
Where: The Castle Lobby - Just outside the entrance to the Lux
When: Saturday - All Day
What: Hanging out, Coffee, Scrabble, board games!
Note: Prose or [action] are a-okay. If anyone has Words with Friends I can ICly play with you! my username is Lollobrigida. If you have Words with Friends, just drop your username in a comment and people can play with you!



Jo has raided the game room and the library. All the board games that she could find, without actually wishing them up, were now placed out on the tables that she'd set up earlier in the week. The biggest thought she has is that this'll just be a lazy weekend for people to relax and enjoy some actual normal company. Of course, there's a chance that this will turn into something else, but for the moment (which would be just while she's setting things up) she'll remain hopeful.

With the games set up around the varied tables, Jo takes a seat at the Scrabble board and starts to flip the letter tiles upside down in the lid of the box. She'll try to rope people into games as they walk by.

Who: Anyone!
What: Trick-or-Treating through the castle and the city, PLUS a party at the Lux.
When: Halloween!
Notes: Backtagging = Welcome. [brackets] = Welcome. Prose = Welcome. Costumes = ENCOURAGED. Sections = FORTHCOMING.




Halloween wasn't always Jo's favorite holiday. To be honest, a day of the year where all the creatures and monsters she'd been trained to hunt down and kill being a novelty item was a bit unsettling. Mostly, she blamed it on the fact that not many kids dropped into a bar during the holiday to ask for candy. After the first year in the castle for the holiday, Jo changed her mind about the whole thing. Granted, she had missed out the previous years activity where all the decorations came to life. It was possible that she was tempting fate by decorating the Lux in the theme. Maybe she wanted to get her monster massacre on.

Now it was a tradition of sorts. Caterina had gone home, but she was hoping to rope someone new into the position of child wrangler with her.

The kids were to meet at three in the afternoon in the lobby of the castle. Jo had a list of all the residents that were going to offer up candy to the kids and the businesses. Considering last year, she wanted to be better prepared. Thankfully, there were only seven floors this year and it seemed the elevators were in perfect working order.

Once they made their rounds in the castle, they'd head out (through the leaves) to the city. A few businesses had opted to join in on the festivities and Jo wasn't going to let the kids hard work on their costumes go to waste.

After the trick or treating was done, they'd head back to the Lux where the kids were welcome to trade candy amongst each other or trade it in for something else at the Lux (where Jo had plenty of candy -- unless Dean ate it all).

Of course, once it hit nine o'clock, most of the kids would've filtered out and the bar would shift its focus to something of a more grown-up event. Halloween themed drinks and different foods were available and for the most part, it was just meant to be a good time for anyone that wanted to just hang out and drink.