http://bluffing-ruffle.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bluffing-ruffle.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2010-12-19 10:37 am

C&C HOLIDAY JAMJAR ICE HOTEL HELL: PARTY

WHO: AHAHAHAHA. Just... just tag yourselves in.
WHERE: The Gorsewick Hotel
WHEN: December 19th. 5PM-7PM for setup, 7PM onward for dinner.
WARNINGS: Let's just cover for your basics unless something more specific comes up.
SUMMARY: Miles Edgeworth and Remus Lupin are hosting the second comm-wide holiday party and have rented out the dining hall in the Gorsewick for the night. Everyone comes in for food, warmth, and (relatively... hopefully...) civil company. Whether or not they can leave is another story.
FORMAT: IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT! Long prose, action brackets, rapidfire dialogue, present tense, past tense--whatever floats your narrative boat!



The Gorsewick is not all that large a hotel, although it would very much like to grow up to be one someday, a mere five stories tall and having only a small parking garage to its name. The owner is clearly an optimistic sort of fellow, building a place like this in the City despite the risk the existence of imPorts poses to it and the hits the tourism industry has taken from their antics; bigger places than this have been smashed to pieces by enormous grey lizards with bad cases of heartburn.

Sadly, it just isn't paying off. At a time when people should be on vacation, packing his rooms to the max, the Gorsewick is... really, really empty. The groups renting out the dining hall are pretty much the only things keeping it afloat this month.

Still, appearances must be upheld, and although it is mildly understaffed, it is currently no less well-cared for. The handful of people on duty that night are friendly and the place is clean as a whistle--no bugs, no rats, no dust, nothing like that. He may be running a sinking ship, but the owner is damned determined to keep it a tidy one on the way down.

Come on in.
dragony: (oh right i'm 11 lol)

[personal profile] dragony 2010-12-20 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
"It's okay," she says as she follows, in the 'I mean this honestly' way and not the 'it's really not okay at all and how dare you believe me' way. "I don't mind it."

It's a pattern she's noticed with him, and their relationship; Ruka, who rarely ever lets herself fully depend on anyone (who isn't Rua), has the tendency to mask and buffer the wants and opinions that matter. It only makes sense that the people closest to her would compensate her held back reactions by drawing her out.

The real trouble is trying to hook into the right place.

[personal profile] natureinblood 2010-12-20 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Remus just smiles. Though it would take a great deal of prodding from someone to get him to admit it, part of the reason he did try and draw Ruka out was because he recognized the same behaviors that he had shown while in school. Even if the attempt didn't work, he had still put in the effort to make it simply because he had wanted to.

They were similar behaviors Miles still showed too, something that wasn't lost at all on him.

"It's appreciated. I know Miles and I can't be everywhere and you're as much of a host as we are," he says, pausing to think. "Have you had a chance to talk to your friends?"
dragony: (it is a very nice not-van...)

[personal profile] dragony 2010-12-21 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
There's a moment where she wants to ask what friends?; between last Christmas and this, she's lost a great deal of the people she cares about most. Most importantly among them her twin brother, Rua.

But it's a party, and it hasn't even started yet, so Ruka holds that back and simply shakes her head. "No, not yet. It'll be easier when more people arrive, I think."