[OOC] Wolf Manor

[Kirah]

Yes but now I have to function at work... and getting out of bed this morning was one of the hardest things I've done... like this year.

[Kirah]

Question about the building layout that other people may find useful. Is there a bar inside the ballroom? Or are we all going back and forth from the ballroom to the bar if a drink stronger than champagne is wanted?

[Jig]

You have a very attentive Félix at your disposal for precisely this purpose. There isn't a bar in the ballroom, and the house's bar is locked.

[Kirah]

Okay thank you :)

[Callthecops]

Thursday drunk is one of my favorite drunks. Then again, purposefully making bad decisions makes me feel alive. True freedom is the freedom to get trashed, make the later awkward mistake of making out with one of your friends, and take a quiz the next morning worth 10% of your final grade (and ace it anyways)...

In other news, if anyone wants to get swept away by a southern gentleman collab during the ball, I'm hoping to have Gray hop around and work the room.

[Jig]

Thursday drunk is one of my favorite drunks. Then again, purposefully making bad decisions makes me feel alive. True freedom is the freedom to get trashed, make the later awkward mistake of making out with one of your friends, and take a quiz the next morning worth 10% of your final grade (and ace it anyways)...

@Callthecops

The drunkest I ever got on a Thursday was the only time I've been sick at uni, and I did it properly, head out of the window on a busy, touristy street, and threw up in the most glorious fashion, watching the passers-by watching me. It was a beautiful moment of human connection.

[MyCatGinger]

I only wish I was present to capture its beauty in song and dance and poetry.

I've also been sick as a dog and told to go out to see friends for a barbecue which was fantastic but I came home feeling like my head was going to explode, oh Christ.
Bliss your love has nursed me back to health enough to be able to get on and write. <3
And we're all out of chicken soup, I'm afraid. Lemon and honey and various other spices are traditional Indian remedies.
(I can still speak. Hallelujah!)

...I also don't know if I'd ever get drunk on a Thursday ever.
Though where I am, Thursday night is the start of the weekend.
So...
too bad

[Jig]

Oh, Ginger, get better soon. :)

[AuntFlavia]

I never drink wine, and yet I'm writing as the drunk character. :P

[Jig]

I feel like I'm being poorly represented in this RP. So far, I've been referred to as 'The Jiggernaut' and it's been suggested that my catchphrase should be:

[Callthecops]

I never drink wine, and yet I'm writing as the drunk character. :P

@AuntFlavia

Wine is absolutely my favorite type of alcohol, and I tend to drink a lot of it whenever I get my hands on any... Which is probably why Gray drinks so much of it...

[Jig]

It's all about mixed drinks. If I make a Blue Lagoon (with orange juice, apple juice and midori) or a 'Ginger nuts' (Amaretto, Kings Ginger, Bailleys, Chocolate Liqueur), you'll put your wine down and leave it to ferment.

[Kirah]

I have family who works for a winery there is no escape for me.

I now have an oddly specific knowledge set about wine bottles, their labels, caps, and corks.

[AuntFlavia]

I can't stand alcohol, the smell the taste. I've tried, I know it's an aquired taste but I just hate all of it. :x

[Callthecops]

I love a good mixed drink, especially to start. But wine just has this great drinkability, at least when you develop a taste for it. If I'm trying to get wasted I'll always go for the wine if I can. It's faster than drinking beer (and so much better tasting imo), but easier than taking shots and doesn't require a lot of difficult (especially while impaired) preparation...

I think my record is somewhere in the realm of 2 bottles of wine over the course of 3 hours... So yeah, I don't drink wine like normal people, I drink it like a God damned viking.

[Jig]

My record was my 18th birthday, where I put away a litre bottle of vodka and 350ml of rum.

I don't know how, I don't know why. It was not pretty.

[AuntFlavia]

So I sat down to write about an hour ago, and then I got distracted by endless clips of Parks and Rec. :x Rest assured though, if all goes well my post will be up much later today.

[Jig]

and then I got distracted by endless clips of Parks and Rec. :x

@AuntFlavia

Easily done. :3

[Kirah]

<Still needs to edit the shit out of her post

[Jig]

No worries. :)

Well done, everybody: Where next

Just worth mentioning how well you've all been dealing with having clues and lies thrown at you from every corner, and doing collabs and shit off your own bat as well. Top banana.

Remember that it's 100% worth reading everybody's posts in minute details. As I try to spread the clues among you (in order to make life difficult and give everybody stuff to do), it's unlikely that any one character will ever have enough information/the right opportunities to work out what's going on at any point.

Therefore, a little later into the RP, it's going to be worth working out the total amount of information/opportunities available to the cast, and, even if your character doesn't have the right bits, perhaps nudging your characters to work together and pool resources. Obviously there's no great reason to do that just yet, but my next main plot thing that I have planned will definitely start to inspire some questions.

After the ball, I'm almost certainly going to request a 'Jig works out where the hell we go from here' breather, which can either be in the form of an IC day where not an awful lot happens apart from hangovers, resentments, and any character development/further exploring you want to do (so I can work out how the plot progresses next), or it can be an IRL breather so the action in the IC doesn't stop, but I just put a hold on it until I know where we're going.

I'd be interested to hear what you guys think about the above.

Chronologically speaking, the trip to Wolf Manor is supposed to be ten days long (if you make it that far >:D), but this is very much a ballpark from me, because I'm not sure how much content I'll need to squeeze in in order for the plot to make sense, or, whether I'll have enough. This means that it is likely that, at least at some point in the RP, a 'nothing day' or two will have to take place, so some time can pass without the plot happening all at once. When it comes to nothing days, we can tackle them in one or two ways: I can gloss over it in the same way I progress the plot, just saying that a day has passed, you guys can do that yourselves, or you can take the time for your characters to think and pool resources. While I'll ask you again when it becomes of more immediate concern, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this, as well.