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

ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECKS: Edgar

[swordwife]

Lola observes Mara and now Edgar acting a little off.

"Who's scaring the hoes?" she wonders out loud.

ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECKS: Edgar

[orator]

"Language," Edgar says, which is one of those things that just pops out and makes you realize how old you've become. But enough thinking about mortality. He forces a smile for Lola. "You enjoying yourself?"

ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECKS: Edgar

[swordwife]

“Uh huh,” she nods, but this is a really low bar for Lola to clear. She could enjoy her way out of a sealed metal box. “Are you?”

ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECKS: Edgar

[orator]

"Always am." Edgar is less than an hour away from quitting Thanksgiving. "Don't worry about me."

ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECKS: Edgar

[swordwife]

“Oh,” Lola replies, in a tone of voice that suggests she will be worrying about Edgar. “But like, it’s okay to be like sad and stuff. Like when Billie got majorly jacked down and you got bitten and Mara’s head got blasted up, that sucked a—”

Lola pauses, peering at Edgar carefully.

“—sucked eggs.”

ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECKS: Edgar

[orator]

This gets a smile out of Edgar. A small one, but more genuine than not. "That was a real mess, huh? You did well, though."

ARRIVALS/VIBE CHECKS: Edgar

[swordwife]

"I always do well," Lola shrugs. Scooter was the same way, perpetually fine until the day he was not. "Anyway, rock on, rock steady, hang in your buffalo stance and all that. I need to go find where they're serving the full glasses of milk. BI-ZARRE."