MASS MINGLE LOG, GO!

[these_balls]

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: May 31 - June 2
Summary: GET IN HERE AND MINGLE
Rating: BUT PLEASE MARK YOUR THREAD CONTENT ACCORDINGLY
Log:

Callin' out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat?
Summer's here and the time is right
For fourth wallin' in the streets
They're breakin' it in Cianwood
Down in Mahogany
In New Bark "City"

All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swingin', swayin', B-G-M playin'
And fourth wallin' in the streets

Oh, it doesn't matter who you bring
Just as long as it's your thing
So come on, every guy grab a girl,
Everywhere around the world
They'll be roleplayin'
Fourth wallin' in the street

This is an invitation
Across the nation
A chance for the folks to meet
There'll be laughin' and singin' and music swingin'
And fourth wallin' in the streets...

Comments

[nostabbing]

[So Parker's been in Johto about three months now, which some people might argue is far longer than someone like Parker should ever be left on her own in a world where tiny adorable animals do your fighting for you and there's always background music in the air. But really, it hasn't been so bad! Alice made a couple of friends, sorta (she still has some trouble generalizing that over into Parker, they're your friends), and she's got a cute team of Pokermans, and they tried to draft her into the Sinister Organization of Evil while having absolutely no appreciation for the fact that she takes down corporations like that as part of her day job. So yeah, it's been okay.

...But it just got a lot better in a hurry.

Most people start shaking in their boots at the sight of Eliot's scowl; Parker couldn't be happier. DON'T MIND HER JUST POPPING UP TO SAY HELLO.]

Eliot!

[AND AIMING AN E.T.-ESQUE POKE AT HIS FACE TO MAKE SURE THAT'S REALLY HIM, BRB.]

[distinctions]

[ if the scowl isn't enough to convince her that it's really him, perhaps the growl that comes immediately after she shoves the-- that thing into his face will be sufficient. ] Parker! Get that out of my face.

[ he would be glad to see her if it weren't for the fact that he's been kidnapped into a place that is alltogether too stepford for his tastes and that she's here means she's been kidnapped as well. that anyone would manage to grab both him and parker — they're quite possibly the most difficult to surprise, both of them. none of this is good. ]

[nostabbing]

[Yup, that's Eliot, all right. She peers at him in silence for a brief moment, then figures that the best course of action here is to do what all of the socially competent people have been doing when they've been reunited with people they haven't seen in forever — and spontaneous bear hug him instead.

Nope, she hasn't been on the happy pills. She's just trying to be normal, okay? Being normal is hard work when she has to do it all by herself.]

You should call me Alice. [She hisses, sotto voce.] I told people here I'm Alice. You know, 'cause she's nice. And not...us.

[HI, ELIOT.]

[distinctions]

[ the first reaction for someone with eliot's training and background would be to drop the person so suddenly touching him (though someone with eliot's training also has more than enough control not to do that when it's obviously a hug and not intended to do harm), and there's very few people in the world that eliot trusts enough that his first instinct - his only instinct - is to wrap his arms around them in return. parker's one of those people.

it's strange, but he doesn't question it and her next sentence, well. that explains it, right? ]

Damn it, Parker. How long've you been here?

[ long enough to tell people she's alice. ]

[nostabbing]

[Had it been a hug born purely of relief and other assorted emotions Parker doesn't always have the best grip on, it probably never would've happened at all; however, the added practical element of letting her whisper these important bits of information was enough to tip the scales into making it worthwhile. Also, it's never a bad thing to attempt to demonstrate social competence when in public. People take well to things like that.]

Three months. Actually it's eighty-nine days but it's about three months. I woke up here after the job at Wakefield Agriculture. You know, with the Steranko.

[Also with her semi-real dad. That was a good happy ending, even if it ended up short-lived thanks to her arrival in Johto.]

[distinctions]

I saw you yesterday. [ so that can't be right. this is parker and the parker he'd seen yesterday had been parker as well and that doesn't add up with the timeline she's talking about.

then again, there's those things here so maybe eliot's actually on drugs and hallucinating. that's probably the most likely explanation, even though he doesn't feel drugged. ]

[nostabbing]

Oh. Right. And we're in a video game and time is weird.

[An explanation that probably doesn't help with the theory of being drugged any.]

And there are aliens and that little ninja rat guy is your starter. He's supposed to fight for you. [She casts the Mienfoo a suspicious look.] He's not evil, is he? They gave me a horse when I got here and it's evil.

[More evil than she usually maintains horses to be, that is.]

[distinctions]

[ if anything, that explanation very much supports his theory of being drugged. his starter? an evil horse? ] What are you talking about?

[ he doesn't know this mienfoo thing, how would he know if its evil? but it hasn't tried to bite him or anything. ]

[nostabbing]

You know that game that Hardison plays? With the Pikachu and you run around collecting all the little guys for some reason and that's the whole point? And they keep making new ones and adding more little guys so people will keep buying the games even though nothing ever actually changes about the games except how many little guys there are to catch?

[She motions for emphasis.]

That's this. You're supposed to catch all the little guys.

[Suffice to say, Parker did not have nearly so difficult a time accepting this as a reality on her first day here, but there's always been something a little (or maybe a lot) wrong with Parker that way.]

[distinctions]

[ that — eliot doesn't even know where to start describing all the things that are wrong with this. his theory shifts, however, from being drugged to this being a really messed up nightmare. the background music can be explained by hardison sitting somewhere and playing that very same game in his vicinity and he'll growl at him for that once he manages to wake up, he really will. ]

This is a nightmare. [ definitely. and, squinting at parker because at least his subconscious is getting her right, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need to point this out: ] There's something wrong with you.

[nostabbing]

I named my hitter after you.

[It's so comforting to be in the presence of Eliot's scowling disgust once again. Like one little thing is right with the world again.

She bends down out of direct line of sight, briefly, and when she returns she's holding a Breloom, which she proceeds to shove at Eliot's face.

The Breloom scowls impressively, too.]

He used to just be a mushroom but now he's a punchy mushroom.

[distinctions]

You're kidding, right?

[ there is absolutely nothing right with the world, okay. nothing about this is right and eliot's scowl eloquently expresses as much. or at least it should. ]

Tell me you're kidding, Parker. [ she named a mushroom thing after him. there is no way in which he is okay with that. ]

[nostabbing]

[But Eliot. Mushrooms are delicious. :c ]

He punches really fast.

[LIKE THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.]

[distinctions]

[ mushrooms are for eating. delicious in risotto. are you saying eliot would be delicious in risotto? are you? ]

He's a — thing.

[ IT EXPLAINS NOTHING. okay maybe it explains the association but still. ]

[nostabbing]

So's your kung-fu rat!

[Eliot would be delicious in anything, let's be real.

...That's in like a "girls like him" way and not a "Parker is secretly a cannibal" kind of way.]

You better not try to rip his head off like a piñata.

[distinctions]

It's not mine. [ he doesn't want it.

and yeah girls do like him. he'd rather not be put in food, thank you very much. but the delicious in a sense of girls liking him? he approves of that. ]

Fine.