http://laszlo-jamf.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] laszlo-jamf.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] tampered2009-10-06 12:30 pm

You Mean You Can't Take Less...

When; Oct 6th, Mad Hatter Day Curse
Rating; G - PG-13
Characters; OPEN!
Summary; On a day that you can be sipping tea with friends one moment, passing sugar to an enemy the next, only only to find yourself eating cake with a deity, this is merely one of the tables the City's inhabitants may find themselves dining at.

Log; The City is the City is a city, and it is down in the streets, in canyons of steel, "it's making me feel I'm home." It's autumn in New York the City. It's good to live it again.

So Laszlo has set a table too, in sharp and stark and bright and direct and pointed and intentional contrast to the greenery and garden party out in Xanadu. Garden parties. Like picnicking in a cemetery--oh, but they did that, didn't they? The Sunday afternoon walks out to go and spit on ol' Laszlo Jamf's grave.

This would do better if it were indoors, in a penthouse, in some corner apartment--name your other city, he's been to them all. But, close enough, to set it in the street, under the windows and brick and steel. It will do.

A red table. Red and sharp. Dark wood, yes, but red cloth over it, neat and straight--no flow or foam or excess. Tailored--that's the word.

Formality and modernism, that is the center of this table. Black and white dishes, Art Deco, lines and angles and planes. It's an era with which he is familiar. But the effect is striking and cold.

He would have set it in white with stainless steel--medical, clean, efficient--but that idea had been nixed. Damn it.

So red and black and white. And a smattering of steel. He couldn't resist. And better still to sit at the head of the table and observe, the sweep and stretch of the table, the moods and ways of those who sit there--and, always, room for one more.

At least until the bell rang, the gun fired, the call came, and the rush began again.

The Unmoved Mover.

Note; See here! Mark your subject lines with "open" or "to ____" if you like. Prose OR comment log style is alright. Laszlo will speak with any marked "open" or "to Laszlo". Enjoy, and feel free to pop your character in and out as it pleases you and the curse description goes!
bequiet_hescreamed: Girls, take a chill pill! Also, a breath mint. (aaaaaa what!)

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[personal profile] bequiet_hescreamed 2009-10-07 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Whether or not he bought it, Clef continued to look perturbed.

"Is the travel mandatory?" he asked, instinctively clinging to his seat as he did so.

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[identity profile] moresake.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yes," she answered, her lip quirking as she saw the way he clung to the seat. She wondered if it would go along with him if he had to move on. That would be quite amusing. "I believe it's part of the curse."
bequiet_hescreamed: Touya Kinomoto has nothing on me in the "giving no fucks" department. (well then)

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[personal profile] bequiet_hescreamed 2009-10-07 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
He furrowed his brow, a bit frustrated. "This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for that..."

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[identity profile] moresake.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps you could try being satisfied with its relative harmlessness?" Yuuko said, offering him a cake.
bequiet_hescreamed: I'm soaking wet, my princess just went off to kill herself, and now a sparkly bunny is raining down from the heavens. (idk wtf is going on anymore)

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[personal profile] bequiet_hescreamed 2009-10-07 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
He thanked her, taking a piece. "... I suppose you do have a point there."

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[identity profile] moresake.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"I always have a point," she answered cheerily, despite the actual truth of that, and she takes a piece too.
bequiet_hescreamed: I have a clever plan. Oh, yes, it is very clever. (sneaky sneaky)

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[personal profile] bequiet_hescreamed 2009-10-07 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
"You should never over-generalize," he remarked before taking a bite.

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[identity profile] moresake.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Isn't that statement itself an over-generalization?" She laughed.
bequiet_hescreamed: I look forward to seeing which one of you will surpass me first. (something subtle)

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[personal profile] bequiet_hescreamed 2009-10-07 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
He smiled. "It is comforting to know that there are still those in the multiverse who can perceive subtlety even if they never practice it."

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[identity profile] moresake.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
She reached over and poked him. "Just because you haven't seen me being subtle doesn't mean I'm not capable of it."