Event Log: Stepford Summer

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone participating in the event
What: The Stepford Summer event!
Where: Across the city
When: July 16th-July 25th
Warnings: None!

Good morning, neighbor!

On the 16th, everyone wakes up feeling a little more... complete. The sun is shining, your bed is nice and comfortable and when you throw off the blankets, your perfect dog (probably named Spot) is sitting eagerly at your feet, waiting to be fed and walked.

The newspaper smacks against your porch and the paper boy calls out in hello as he cycles off further down the road. Sure, you can't actually read the strange symbols on the paper, but it's nice to have the ritual of it in the first place. Your parent or your sibling or your significant other is busy making pancakes in the kitchen when you come in, filling the room with the smell of delicious cooking. Yum!

The rest of the day is much like this. You straighten your tie, adjust your blazer and head off to work at a normal place, doing normal things. So what if you work with a guy who's actually a demon, or a seven foot tall elf? That's normal, isn't it?

There are cracks in the illusion, of course, but whether you're able to put it together is on you. Why would you want to, anyway? You have so many great relatives and an awesome support system, you're drinking awesome coffee every morning, and maybe you'll treat yourself to some ice cream at night before bed. What could be better?

Certainly not the cave. You don't want to remember that, do you?

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Comments

[requiemshark]

I don't usually. [It's harder to get right. Terrence runs a hand through his hair and finishes his pizza. Whatever. They're just faces, right?] But I kept getting ideas for these six people and bang. Never seen them before.

[braveoff]

[ Drake shrugs, reaches to pour them more beer. ]

Maybe that's just... inspiration? I'm not an artist, don't listen to me.

[requiemshark]

Eh, maybe.

[It probably doesn't matter. Terrence shrugs and goes for another bit of pizza. He's hungry. Not as hungry as Drake, but still.]

How's Liv, anyway? Haven't seen her around much lately.

[Their shifts are hard to work around, sadly.]

[braveoff]

[ Drake makes a bit of a face at that, he's clearly not happy with how little he's seeing his girlfriend, either. ]

All three of us are on different schedules, it seems like. That's the problem with 24/7 jobs, right? I knew that signing on.

[requiemshark]

Yeah. [Ephemera doesn't mind his shifts too much, but it does make catching up with people harder. He shifts into a more comfortable position. Apparently none of the women in this movie wear much in the way of clothes. He approves.]

Hers is supposed to get easier, though, right? Once she's got more seniority. Think I heard that somewhere.

[braveoff]

Yeah, I can be patient. [ He doesn't want to, though. ] I just hope we make it through this part.

[requiemshark]

You will. Liv's awesome.

[She is. Quick and smart and fun to hang out with. Plus she sees the appeal of exploding car movies. Who wouldn't want to be with someone like her? Terrence glances at Drake briefly.]

You really worried?

[braveoff]

A little.

[ It's not that he doesn't want to be with her, he absolutely does. It's rather the opposite he's worried about. ]

She's surrounded by guys all day who are way more more on her level. You know? We go this long without seeing each other...

[requiemshark]

[Honestly, Terrence never had that problem. He's never been with anyone long enough to wonder about that sort of thing. Sometimes he hooks up with Anna from the fire house, but neither of them make much of it.]

I'm not really the guy to ask about that, [Terrence admits.] But she wants to be with you, yeah? So she's with you.

[braveoff]

I guess you're right... I worry too much, huh? It's just.

[ He shakes his head, shrugs it off and takes another drink. Liv's out of his league and everybody knows it. The guys tease him about it sometimes, and he laughs it off but it does bug him. Then there's the thought that she could work anywhere, could go to some big fancy hospital in the city and leave him behind... just like Terrence is planning to do. ]

Nevermind. I guess I could follow you guys.

[requiemshark]

Probably.

[Terrence shifts agains, digging into the pizza.]

Oh? I mean. It's not a sure thing. And Liv might wanna stay. The hospital here's decent.

[braveoff]

It's not bad. It's not great either. She could be great. So could you.

[requiemshark]

And you can't?

[Terrence glances at him curiously.]

[braveoff]

[ Drake shrugs again, considers it. He'd thought about it from time to time. The buzz of a big city, actual crime to fight. Whether or not he'd be any good at it. He's really not sure. ]

Maybe. Small town cops are sort of a joke in the city though.

[requiemshark]

But you're actually good at it. [Terrence says it as a fireman, who's contractually obligated to rag on any police officer within a ten mile radius.] You should go for detective.

[braveoff]

...thanks, man. [ it's that comment that has him actually thinking about it ] I'd have to finish some college, you know I sorta ran out of money at the end there. But yeah, it can't hurt to try. And if nothing else it's a pay bump.

[requiemshark]

[Hey, if Terrence can get himself a genuine scholarship, Drake can totally finish college.] True that. Plus you'd actually get, I dunno, robberies and stuff. Crap that's actually interesting.

[braveoff]

Being the first on the scene is interesting. Not always rushing into burning buildings interesting, but I take what I can get. Shootouts, holdups, stuff like that. [ He's smiling again, and bumps their shoulders casually. ] We can't all be firemen.

[requiemshark]

[Terrence laughs, bumping Drake's arm. It's nice having someone to laugh with, to just be around. It's easy with Drake. Always was.] Damn right. Some of us have to write parking tickets. And get evil cats out of trees.

[Go them.]