Santa Claus is coming to town

[afallenstar]

Who: Secret Santa participants, but also EVERYONE!
Where: Town Hall
When: Evening of day 24
What: Present giving! The Secret Santa reveal, and anyone who wants to have a christmas party is welcome to join too!
Notess: Party style thread guys, so go nuts. No order, everything is chaos, tag to your hearts content, feel free to break off into separate threads, and no spiking the punch! Also I think she's sort of mentioned it to a bunch of people but want to do me some lovely favours and handwave the actual name drawing? I will backtag if people want but it seems a little pointless to thread that out.


There's another message on the network that morning from Anna, just audio again. It's about as garbled as her first one regarding the Secret Santa idea, but for anyone who is listening closely enough they'll make out a few details. Namely this evening, town hall, and bring your presents before she shuts it off.

She's spent the rest of the day trying to do what she can to make the place look nicer. She's hardly got Christmas decorations on tap, but she's done what she can with what she has all the same. There's paper snow flakes up around the place, some of the food from her house placed in bowls to make it more party-appropriate, and it's no fir but she has relocated a small tree from the edge of the woods and placed it in the hall. Barely decorated, not even the right kind of tree, it's the best she can do with the resources she's been given.

Now all there is to do is wait for people to come.

Comments

[gleans]

"I don't know if my hips can take it," he grins, giving the instrument a strum. Wow, it's way out of tune -- and he realizes he has no idea how a ukulele is supposed to be tuned. Whatever, he'll figure it out later. Galen tucks it under his arm with the torn wrapping paper and goes for the second present.

... A bottle of whiskey. "Ha, nice, we can share this."

[onteamdyson]

Share the--... gaaaaasp. She grabs his face and smooooches his cheek. Good Galen. Best friend. "I knew there was a billionth reason I liked you." Now it really feels like the holidays. She releases his squishy face and opens the bag so he can stuff his gifts in there if he doesn't feel like carrying them around.

"Who'd you get? Gift-giving-wise, I mean."

[gleans]

Grinning, Galen carefully sticks the ukulele and the whiskey in the bag in places where they won't end up breaking each other.

"Uh, Castiel? I've never met the guy, so I just threw some stuff together. Socks, a pocketknife... a garden gnome... y'know, only essential shit."

[onteamdyson]

".... That stuff is perfect for him." Mostly because he won't understand ANYTHING. Wait, Kenzi doesn't understand one of those things. "Why a garden gnome? Where a garden gnome? It's not the Travelosity gnome, is it? Ugh, that guy creeps me out. Gnomes are douchebags."

Real gnomes. Not the garden variety-- OHOHOHOH! She laughs at her own mental joke because it's just that funny. Too bad she can't actually tell anyone except Hale.

[gleans]

Galen kind of peers at her, wanting to know the joke, but -- okay. "That's a fact, huh? Uh -- it looks like it's at least related to the Travelosity guy, anyway. And I don't know, it was kinda just... there. Begging for a home. Why not, right? Who'd you get?"

[onteamdyson]

"Legit fact." Stupid gnomes. But his logic is sound. She nods her approval. "I got DONNA! We made bread and she is awesome. You should totally talk to her. I got her the greatest thing ever."

... That sure is a devilish smile.

[gleans]

Yeah, he sees that. Galen grins and raises his eyebrows. "The greatest thing ever being...?"

[onteamdyson]

"Philliam." Muahahahhaha. At least she kept the evil laugh inside this time. This time. "Okay, so I got her this chocolate and wine and stuff but I also dragged Philliam here so he can dance with her and junk and she can have a MAN for Christmas. Awesome, right?!"

Kenzi is secretly a hopeless romantic. Tell anyone and die. There are probably about three pirate romance novels under her bed right now. Big secret. Totally lame. She loves love.

[gleans]

"What up, Yente? Here's hoping they're a good match." Ah, a joke that would be even funnier if he knew she was Russian. "And if they aren't, I guess there's the wine and chocolate.

"Phil lives with us, right? I keep missing him."

[onteamdyson]

Kenzi just smiles and tells him how witty and hilarious he is in flawless Russian and a dry, dry voice. Yeah. You just heard that right. Deal with it, Galen.

"Yeah, it's technically Phil's house. I just followed him home. You two should hang out. Bond. He's really chill, you'll love him."

[gleans]

Whaaaat! No, back up, he's impressed. And a little confused. Don't make fun of him! "Yeah, yeah, for sure. Holy shit, was that actually Russian?"

[onteamdyson]

So much eyerolling, Galen. "No, it was French-- Of course it was actually Russian!" Sure did have a similar conversation with Party under EXTREMELY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. Circumstances with less clothing. Ahem. This isn't weird. Not at all. Now she's babbling in Russian even faster than she does in English, mostly just saying random phrases, but then she starts describing the clothes he's wearing and finally stops talking.

"I'm kinda fluent."

[gleans]

Nope, he's beaming, now. Dying to know what she just said, sure, but also beaming. God, Kenzi, you are so cool. In fact, he's going to say as much, because she deserves to know.

"You are so fucking cool."

[onteamdyson]

"I know." But she's still blushing a little. Her ego is only so big, okay? "You promise we're gonna jam when I get back home, right? Might be a while. I got ... a thing. To do."

Ha. Do.

[gleans]

"A thing." He grins. "Yeah, for sure. Maybe you'll finally get a song out of me." Except she won't, for mysterious box reasons, but they have no way of knowing that.