Thanksgiving @ Lundegaard (Forward-Dated to 11/28)

[lineman]

Thanksgiving at Lundegaard

Order of Events

ARRIVALS/VIBES @ 3:30 PM

MINGLING, DRINKS, & APPS @ 4:15 PM

DINNER @ 5:00 PM

LEADERSHIP BINGO @ 7:00 PM

LINE DANCING @ 8:00 PM

Vibes & Playlist

Mismatched furniture, tableware, and cutlery in the B&B, dining hall, and town hall. Wooden carvings of animals hung up with burlap ribbons and hand turkeys made by schoolchildren. Bouquets of dogtooth daisies and boughs of marescent leaves in red, orange, and gold. The smell of freshly baked bread, hay, and woodsmoke. Warm lights from firepits, candles, and dim, flickering fluorescent bulbs.

John played some of these chill tunes.

ON THE MENU

Drinks & Appetizers
🍹 Maggie's Pear Kombucha
🥛 Malted Milk
🍹 Whatever other drinks folks brought
🧀 Charcuterie board

Mains & Sides
🦃 Turkey
🍗 Pan-fried goose in (mostly) huckleberry sauce
🥗 Green and red leaf lettuce salad in lemon vinaigrette
🥬 Mustard greens with salt pork
🥔 Mashed potatoes au gratin
🍞 Sausage hand pies
🍞 Dinner rolls
🍽️ Any other food folks brought

Desserts
🥧 Apple pie
🍮 Baked egg custard
🫐 Wild berries in cream
🍽️ Any other dessert folks brought

VOLUNTEER SLOTS

VOLUNTEER 1 arrives too early and is enlisted to help whip cream by Lundegaard's resident tree whisperer, Alice Samayao. On the bright side, your forearm strength is going to be off the chain once you're done...

After they're released from hwhippin' it, Volunteer 1 sneaks away with some whipped cream to playfully smash it into VOLUNTEER 2's face.

DUTCH and DUKE RATTRAY spy a ladder leaning against the roof of the barn and climb on up. They get a nice view of Lundegaard in the crisp autumnal night. But—whoops—Bill Rhoades takes the ladder away when they're not looking. Dutch and Duke have to jump down (safely) from the roof into a bale of hay. Oof.

VOLUNTEER 5 stuffs themselves on food. Feeling wretched and incredibly sleepy, they knock out in an empty barrel. VOLUNTEER 6 finds them 30 minutes later. You good?

COURT SLAUGHTER makes a daring request during line dancing and gets all the dancers grooving to Rihanna's "S&M" (feat. Britney Spears). Vrow.

GAMES & DANCING

Leadership Bingo
Quaid and John have prepared 3x3 bingo cards using old notebook paper (so... bingo leaves), each randomly populated with the names of community leadership (sans John). The winner gets the honor of being THE BIG TURKEY of the evening and a dozen apple donuts.

Line Dancing
To these classic tunes! Before the outbreak, John spent some time at his local senior citizens center carefully observing line dances and at times participating. So while he claims he can't dance, he is able and willing to help anyone pick up the steps.

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Comments

OOC/Questions/Comments

[lineman]

Sorry this is a bit late! Big thank you to LA for your help and willingness to yes and!

I cross-checked the game docs and a bajillion homesteading and Depression-era recipe blogs to try and make sure all the food and drink served here is canon-compliant. BUT!!!! Any canon non-compliance, other errors, and general shit that sucks are solely attributed to meeeeeeee.

Claim a Volunteer Slot

[lineman]

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[castnet]

can I get slot 7 for this hooligan because this indeed sounds like something she'd do? plz and ty

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[deadhunter]

Caaaan I take 3 for Dutch please 🥰

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[dukeofrats]

Can I nab 4 for Duke please?

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[castnet]

this is perfection :3 ty for throwing this together!

ALSO I'D LOVE TO DO THREADS WITH EITHER OF MY IDIOTS <3

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[agriculturalist]

This is so cute, thank you!!!

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[hosinsul]

thank you sam!!!

all my guys are here probably but i might be late throwing them into things because of irl holiday things i gotta do. lmk if they are needed somewhere!

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[odinochka]

Thank you, Sam!!! I’ll sin-eat any general shit that sucks for you. Easy lift … there is none!!!

My husband and I are having a quiet, writing/reading/eating focused holiday, so I will be around the next couple of days to scene if people want Maggie for anything.

She is in her ‘Be Nice 😬’ Era, so she will … be nice!

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[lineman]

THAT’S FUCJING RIGHT!!! YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND!!!!!!!!!! Happy one month(ish)!!!!

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[toughleaf]

THIS IS CUTE T-T

i need to finish my work for the day so i can go HOME and PLAY MY LITTLE PEOPLE at a CUTE THANKSGIVING

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[blissout]

tank u sammmm what fun research :<

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[halligan]

sam this is so cute! tysm! i'll tag in after work~

both of mine are here! it's a regular old weekend (except for pwhl puck drop..... YES) so i would love to thread!!!!!!!!!! i'll put opens up but also hmu ty & goodbye

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[malting]

Ah I love this! Thank you Sam and happy Turkey days for American friends ❤️

Nat is here and I am very down to thread if anyone would like to. Will be back after work!

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[fixeddown]

Thank you for the dayyyy!!!! I have to finish my work day and then go home to like make a pie and I’ll probs be out of commission almost all day tomorrow and am one of the unlucky few who has to work Friday. But when has that ever stopped me for asking for threads n all my kids will be in attendance

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[dukeofrats]

I have a half day Friday which I know is a blessing but also ughhhh what about NO work universe??

Good luck with your Friday work 😭

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[dukeofrats]

Yay, thank you!! I'm Busy but if people don't mind me being pokey I'm always happy to thread!! I'll try to post an open or two or something at least

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[agriculturalist]

PS happy thanksgiving, American friends!!!

This is the wrong journal, but if anyone wants to thread, lmk!

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[afairtrade]

HELLO all four of my characters are here! i'm already in a lil bit of a holiday stupor but i will be around this weekend if not tonight and I'd love to do stuff 🥰

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[youmightrabbit]

already the nonsense holiday prep has begun, but this is great thank you!!! will be in and out but definitely available for nonsense.

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[orator]

thank you for thanksgiving!! happy turkey day @ the americans

edgar, beau and henry are all here, if anyone wants them. i will try to tag them in later (tomorrow at the latest lol)

OOC: Superlatives!

[halligan]

HELLO! w/ sam's blessing,

all PCs will receive superlatives from Court and Arlo! everyone who tags into the arrivals thread will receive one, they just won't be in order because it's a busy time — so if your character doesn't receive theirs ASAP, please don't worry! we'll get to you 💜

you can assume your character found theirs upon arrival~

eta: in retrospect all of them should have ! on the end but i'm too lazy to fix it now.

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[transferswitch]

okay.... hi........... I'm very nervous but I'm going to try and get back into the game. If anyone would like to talk to Gideon or Angel I'd be so happy. I'm going to sleep now but in the morning I want to have some fun. :(

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[halligan]

WE MISSED UUUUUUUU

if angel doesn't wear her bracelet cal will be Sad

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[lineman]

I’d love to talk to them both with both my guys!!!!