afallenstar: (christmas spirit)
Anna Milton ([personal profile] afallenstar) wrote in [community profile] kore_logs2012-12-26 12:10 am

Santa Claus is coming to town

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.
manofiron: (thinking no)

[personal profile] manofiron 2012-12-28 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. It's her.

He recognizes the accent immediately, unconsciously straightening up a little further as he wishes, somewhat futility, for another earthquake to hit and swallow him into the ground. She hasn't been anything but pleasant to him, during the few times he's encountered her. She isn't rude. She certainly hasn't done anything to earn his avoidance. But he still thinks that he can hear her judging him.

Howard would have never been so clumsy. Howard wouldn't have been so stupid as to have lost his sight in the first place. And Howard would, if not have found a way out of this mess by now, certainly would be closer to it than Tony.

"No, it was me. Definitely my fault. Sorry." He hates the inferiority that makes him so quick to apologize, but there's nothing he can do about it. It's one thing to spend his life trying to combat a ghost. It's quite another to be relegated to the role himself. Taking another step backward, already retreating, he dips his head in a tiny bow. "Merry Christmas. Enjoy the party."