spellbinders | open shenanigans

Entry tags:

open shenanigans

Who: dave strider & open to all!
Where: around about the planet!
When: days 15 - 20!
Open/Closed: perfectly open with some closed prompts. just pm this account or pp me on plurk if you would like a specialized prompt rather than anything here!

07/22 (day 15) fruit juice acid trip apparently

[ fruit juice is basically dave's favorite drink (he has yet to hit upon apple juice here but he lives in hope) and he's bad at turning people down sometimes; so when juice is pressed into his hands he'll gamely take a sip and will get...

well, hyper dave apparently still looks mostly chill, but there's more of an actual visible smile than usual and he talks a lot faster and is a little more...affectionate? if he recognizes you he'll sling an arm around your shoulders and immediately burst into: ]

So anyway I'm thinkin' jobs may be a thing everyone needs and film seems to be a huge industry so what if, like, as a group we make a movie and market it? It could be fun. I can write a script. It'll have the dumbest plot imaginable, or maybe on that like, is subversive - but no I'm feelin' "dumb" just now. Hey, do you want some?

[ SHOVES JUICE AT YOU, CHEERFULLY. say no. it lasts only fifteen minutes thankfully, but. ]

07/22 (day 15) time travel...

[ ...alternately, maybe you see dave drag someone off chatting a mile a minute and hear a sigh from the side. dave, despite clearing dragging someone in the opposite direction, is standing there with his arms crossed, frowning. ]

Do you know how much worse regret is when you know you technically have the capability to take back a stupid thing but you don't actually because you didn't really?

07/25 (day 18) cooking mama

[ so the palai brought them lots of raw cooking materials. dave...doesn't seem to know what he's doing exactly, but he's sorting through shit looking for any familiar fruits and vegetables. mostly he's looking for apple-like things, honestly.

still. ]

Hey. I think I'm gonna try to make a sandwich? [ hesitantly for some reason. do you want one also? it's kind of the most effort he's put into feeding himself so far, since usually he just relies on being dragged to meals or handed things, but. may as well.

it seems to be open for everyone to use, anyway... ]

07/26 (day 19) the arts

a. art gallery
[ this is fun? this is fun. dave's never actually been to an art gallery before so he's taking his time and viewing every single painting and sculpture and creation. while he doesn't really talk about them much he does seem to reserve like five or ten minutes to a piece to kind of eye this way and that. some he likes better than others; he doesn't try to buy anything, though.

what he likes best is a weird avant garde scenic view of the city, all angles and weird lights, and that's where he'll stand the longest. ]

Cityscapes are kind of fuckin' awesome, even on alien planets.

b. play/film screenings
[ while he just wandered into the galleries in a group, he actually needs to find partners for this kind of thing; anyone new he doesn't know or anyone he recognizes and likes gets flagged down, with a simple: ]

Want to go see a thing together?

[ alternately, maybe you're already sitting down and he just dips into a seat beside you with a quick "sup". ]

07/27 (day 20) solo practice

[ after trios are assigned, dave can be found kind of perusing the script he got tossed, which contains three roles (one for each palai gender) trying to solve a mystery about who ate the last head of lettuce. he's just muttering lines to himself and occasionally making hand gestures, and seems completely involved in it for all that the script and resolution are pretty bare bones. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[If he notices anyone else acting alarmingly peppy and more enthused than Dave, yes, he'll realize it's pretty damn freaky but as it is he's just allowing himself to be draped on because okay, whatever. There's a small laugh even as he turns his head to face him, puzzlement still written in his features even among the mildly affectionate look.]

I never read the best friend clause, let alone the subclause? So that does not count. [He's used to Dave rambling but this is amped up even still.] But sure, maybe. I could probably work a camera decently enough. Can't you just draw some of those umbrellas, by the way?

[ any other coven member could be infected. it is a DISEASE for fifteen minutes. maybe john, already generally happy, should not be allowed to have any of the juice anyway?

dave's eyes behind his shades widen. ]

I could. Why didn't I think of that? Here, hold this [ THE JUICE as he draws like. twenty tiny drink umbrellas.

does he need that many probably not? ]

[Oh jesus what the fuck OKAY. He takes the drink and almost drops it but manages to hold on even as Dave goes to town with his umbrellas.]

...are you planning to make Can Town's sister city, Umbrellaville? [He'll pick up a blue one though once it comes into creation, twirling it between his finger and thumb.] What're you going to do with all of these? Actually can I have some of them? Maybe I can make stuff with the paper later.

Sure! [ you can hear? the exclamation point? as dave happily shoves like half of these at john. a bunch just dumped in his hands and then dave fusses with another to kind of pin to john's shirt like a corsage or something. ] I don't know if I'd make a new Can Tiwn or successor, shit feels kinda weird without the Mayor around y'know but maybe my business job thing can be paper umbrella manufacturing. Fanners of Shit or some other company name that's terrible? There are like a million puns and rhymes you can get goin' on for fans and while these are umbrellas I think there's somethin' to the notion of marketing one thing but selling a completely different thing??? Isn't that what capitalism boils down to anyway?

[/INTERNAL SHRIEKING INTENSIFIES? He's quickly grabbing the umbrellas and shoving them into his 'dex because he can do that now, listening to Dave chatter even as he watches him carefully.

It's...different. It's something he doesn't mind, but it's not exactly the Dave that he knows. It sounds like him, sure, but the unabashed enthusiasm isn't Strider.

The juice is going into his sylladex too and he's calmly grabbing both of Dave's cheeks, squishing his face a little.]

I don't think lizards believe in capitalism, Dave. So maybe it's not even a point? But if you want to create Fanners of Shit then I will support you in that, I guess.

[ what the fuck gay

so anyway in a completely heterosexual manner dave reaches up to cover john's hands with his own and also to stop the squishing a bit. ]

Lizards can totally believe in capitalism? The nakkodiles did! Also is there anythin' you would not support me in? You didn't even comment on my eatin' cake. Maybe I should make use of all this unfettered acceptance and go find me some nice lizard people to marry, which is the weirdest thing I can think to do right now? I am not sure how the fuck else I'd even halfway prod the grandma like nice thing you're currently pullin'. Holy shit you're like your nanna? Probably. From what I know?

[Look he wants to see what he can get away with? And Dave always makes things worse anyway so whose fault is it? So yeah, that's happening. Good job, idiots.]

The nakkodiles don't count because their stock market was stupid. Also shut up, I am not! If I were like my Nanna I would be shoving more cake in your face instead of just accepting that you were eating it at all? What did you even do with the rest of it, did you eat it already?

But you're right, I would maybe object at your lizard wedding.

[ apparently they're standing in a street with their fingers kinda entwined to stop the squishing jointly cradling dave's face, then. i hate them. ]

You can't object 'cause you already refused to marry me and Rose? This means we are both totally free to find the lizardpeople of our dreams. Mine will be into art films and macaroni sculptures? Also I got rid of the cake days ago? Cake doesn't last forever dude. I mean, it could in a sylladex maybe but. Also fuck you my consorts always count if yours always do? That umbrella matches your eyes. Where did you put my juice??

[Look it's fine, the Palai probably assume it's just perfectly normal. But also okay, he can play along.]

Have you even seen Rose lately? ["Does Rose know you're like this???"] Also I think Kanaya might have some objections too, no offense to the Palai. But sure. You would be surprised how long cake lasts. Trust me. [That's said in the most flat tone possible.]

Mine count because salamanders are closer to chameleons than the nakkodiles. [But oh. He's not sure what to answer first and instead he just sort of blinks stupidly before looking at the umbrella that Dave managed to hook into his shirt before they started doing this.] Well. Yes. They are both blue? [Um. Anyway.] And it's in my sylladex.

[There's a very sly grin after that.] Why, do you want it back? [He really should probably not but. He's still testing.] Are you sure you're okay?

Why wouldn't I be? I think I'm finally, like, settlin' down about everything. [ brightly. ] The alternabro shit doesn't bother me at all now.

[ for the past like, five or ten minutes. which gives john either ten or five more minutes of giddy dave. OKAY, THEN... ]

And I guess in that case you can recruit Kan to ruin Rose and I gettin' married to the lizards of our dreams. Chameleons of our dreams?? Salamanders and chameleons feel like mostly the same thing, what's the difference, just the color changing??

[It's that sentence that finally gets his attention and for a moment he actually looks startled. He's still holding onto Dave's face and he taps his fingers on his jawline almost thoughtfully while he does some quick thinking.]

That, and salamanders are technically amphibians so they can be in the water and on land. Not sure about chameleons. [He shakes his head though. Whenever...whatever the fuck happened wears off, Dave is probably going to kind of freak out? So maybe...] Is there other stuff you're usually not settled down about? Besides lizard matrimony apparently.

I'm always fine with lizard matrimony, even if you refuse to do the matrihomie thing with us. [ a little more dy but john asks a question and dave usually answers those even if he lies or jokes. to stop the finger tapping on his jawline he just twunes their fingers together more and squeezes in a Stop That gesture and maybe just shove john off instead dave why ] You want a list of shit I'm bugged about? I'm generally chill as a cucumber, dude, or somethin' actually more chill than that. Like ice cream. Or, ugh, snow. What the hell would bug me usually?

[ his brain supplies "jade" and that does make dave pause and take stock, because while it's a relief to be too euphoric to bother about other people, none of his friends fall into the category of "other". ]

We'd have to drop them in water to find out. [ distracted. ]

[He doesn't bother to address that, though he does raise his eyebrows again. The movement of dave's fingers do get him to stop though so there's that.]

Yeah. What was I thinking? [It's still calm and he glances behind them once he notices they're still just standing in the middle of the street.] But maybe we shouldn't drop them in water. I think that is the thing we wanted to prevent. [But he shakes his head and finally wriggles his hands free once he realizes that this is probably a little weird.] So okay. We can either stay here, or you can come with me and get your juice back. Which is it?

[ that took john five tags to notice it was weird he gets no points. further loss of points comes from a complete lack of reaction to a masterful matrihomie pun??? rude ]

Why do I gotta come with you to get somethin' you have on you?

[ and yet he follows... ]

[Look he's doing his best while his best friend is clearly drunk or something, he's not even sure. Good boy, come along away from the Palai that are probably staring.]

Because something's up with whatever's in the drink, and I want to check it out. Is that so bad?

[ okay, wait, that is enough to get through the haze of cheerfulness to make dave almost frown? ]

If somethin' is wrong with it, you shouldn't have any?

[Hey hey hey.] I didn't say wrong, I said up. There is a difference. Also if I shouldn't have any than neither should you?

Entirely different matters. [ SAYS ONE OF THE STRILONDES WHO WENT "HAHA NO YOU CAN'T GO ON A SUICIDE MISSION JOHN" directly before going on a suicide mission ]