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

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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

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[malting]

Hilarious. Nat let's him go on his roll, waits for more, knows she should have expected this. No Thyme? "You're lucky you're tall, I could smack the hat right off your head. Oregano? In a Whisky? I might be hovering the line between witch and mad scientist, but I have lines I won't cross."

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[halligan]

He shields his hat with his free hand, look of offense PALPABLE. "This's a never-before-worn, Super Bowl-winning piece of American sports history memorabilia, Stokes." A SCOFF. "Sure it'll end up on the floor after a couple more drinks, but that'll be part of the history. What you're doin's a crime." Like, to be clear? He's probably already sweated into said hat's band. The damage has been done. There's already no going back.

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[malting]

"I can't even reach it," she rolls her eyes, unmoved by his passionate defense of the hat. She's smiling though, it's hard not to. Utterly ridiculous. "I'm sorry, I didn't know the hat won the Super Bowl. I, an athlete, should have recognized a fellow champion."

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[halligan]

"Game recognizes game," Arlo acknowledges with an emphatic nod, pleased at the 'game' metaphor. Analogy. Smiley. Whatever.

"It tastes better than Miller High Life 'n not better than Four Loko, but not worse." Please understand: this is a high compliment.

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[malting]

Nat does not understand that and it's clear on her face, but she takes it for what it is. "Swing and a respectable run to first base," she sighs with some disappointment, pretends like she can use sports terminology because she has the confidence to do so, whether she should or not. "More tinkering then, thanks," she flashes a smile before nodding towards the half finished bottle. "That is going to fuck you up though."

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[halligan]

"Shit." This time when Arlo knocks it back, it's with a laugh his incoming joke definitely doesn't deserve and also like no foresight about what drinks like this will do to him. Even though Nat literally just warned him. "Been a hot minute since I got to first base, I'll take what I can get."

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[malting]

"Going to be the first base you regret in the morning because you passed out in their lap before you even got to second," Nat assures him, wondering if she should be impressed he's literally packing away a pint, or horrified. At least she hadn't brought the litre. "I didn't think you were hard up, fine ass redwood."

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[halligan]

He gives this a hard think before determining — no, she's right, he hasn't done that before. He shrugs.

"I'm on a journey of self-discovery," he replies. This also gets a much easier think, and he snorts out a chuckle at how it sounds (to be fair, not far from the truth–). "Glad Mud's branching out though, it was fine-ass fireman before and ain't no part of an FD no more. So we're gettin' closer to accuracy."

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[malting]

"Do fires stop in an apocalypse? Why can't it become true again? Beyond your stint at the Lobby of course," Nat corrects and it's obvious she's enjoying herself.

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[halligan]

"No. But now it's Redwood Responder and that just sounds like a TLC show about a guy who's called in to look at trees." He smacks his lips after another drink – a reasonable sip this time. "Responders don't even get a calendar, it's a step down."

SCENES: Mingling - Arlo & Nat

[malting]

"Responders didn't get a calendar before the Fever," Nat corrects, quirking her brow. "It's a whole new world. Mara likes to take pictures, why not a photoshoot."