Movovie Night

[fracturedsoul]

Characters: Everyone
Format: Whichever you prefer
This log is: open
Location: Rakuen Public Library's media viewing room
Summary: Dirk shows off some 21st century cinematic masterpieces.
Warnings: Horrible movies. Swearing from Striders. The usual.

The time has come. Seven o'clock on the dot and Dirk is standing at the front of the viewing room in the city library to one side of the screen which is currently tuned to static, remote control in one of his hands.

There's plenty of room for everyone who shows up. The accommodations are a bit more classroom-like than he'd have liked -- tables and chairs for everyone to sit at -- but scattered about are some snacks and drinks he's scavenged from the Fortitude cafeteria.

Sit down. Watch these films. There are ten of them, and Dirk can go all night.

Comments

BEFORE SEVEN

[fracturedsoul]

Dirk can be found setting things up in the viewing room. Care to bother him or, alternatively, lend a hand?

At about 6:45, he can be found sitting in a corner, asleep. Have to go find Jade and let her know it's time.

[greenspaces]

She's asleep, of course, curled up in the middle of her and Sora's shared bed. But on Prospit she's in the middle of an excited conversation with no less than five Prospitian pawns, a crown of golden flowers on top of her head. When she spots Dirk, she waves.

"Hi Dirk! Are you here to have fun with me? Do you want to meet my new friends?"

[fracturedsoul]

This is weird.

Prospit is surprisingly similar in architectural design to Derse, but everything is so bright it would have blinded him if he weren't wearing his shades.

Dirk spends a few minutes figuring out the general lay of the land. He instinctively wants to keep to back alleys, and whenever a Prospitian spots him it's all he can do not to start wandering aimlessly, pretending to be sleepwalking. Old habits die hard.

He does find Jade before long, though, and waves when she sees him.

"No time for that, Harley. It's almost seven."

[greenspaces]

Jade seems exactly where she should be: right at home in the middle of a bunch of admiring new friends. She thinks about that for a minute -- she's still a little scatterbrained on Prospit, that much hasn't changed -- before nodding.

"Your movies, right? We're watching them?"

She excuses herself from the gaggle of friends, hugging them each and wishing them well before slipping away to meet Dirk. Jade takes his hand and starts walking. "Do you like it here? Isn't it nice?"

[fracturedsoul]

"Right." He glances down, surprised when she takes his hand, but walks alongside her.

"It's definitely something. It's gonna take a while to get used to. I kind of miss the horrorterrors," he says sardonically.

[greenspaces]

"Why would you miss those?" She seems incredulous.

[fracturedsoul]

Is it just Dirk or is Jade ditzier than normal right now? "Hey, don't say that. They were like my best horrible, terrible friends. Constantly whispering shit from the black depths of space and turning my dreams into nightmares. Wouldn't you miss 'em?"

[greenspaces]

"No!" She seems extremely vehement. "They are really scary and horrible! I'd miss my clouds!"

[fracturedsoul]

He just shrugs. "Okay. You can have your clouds, and I can have my monsters. Well, and the clouds for now."

He looks up. So bright... So unlike what he's used to when he sleeps.

"It's nice, yeah."

[greenspaces]

"It's my favorite place to be. I don't really want to wake up..." She sighs. "But I can't watch movies here."

[fracturedsoul]

"Can't spend your whole life here, Jade. Not just because of the movies. There's important things to do back down there."

[greenspaces]

"But nothing can hurt me here. People don't leave. Nothing ever changes."

[fracturedsoul]

"Until someone falls into the red and you get hit with a penalty. Until you get hungry or thirsty, or have to go to the bathroom. Prospit is nice, I'll grant you that, but you can't neglect your waking self just to hang out here for the rest of your life."

As he says so, he briefly flickers out of existence to check on things back in the viewing room. It isn't long before he reappears, though.

[greenspaces]

She looks at the ground, shuffling her purple shoes on the golden brick sidewalk. She supposes he's right; she can't spend all of her time here, no matter how much she wishes she could.

"I'll be there in a minute, okay? I don't actually know how to wake up once I'm asleep..." She guesses she can go back to the tower she came from and lay down, fall asleep again. That would work.

Re: BEFORE SEVEN

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

Alex said he would show up early; there were less people after all. He finds Dirk a bit early, standing by the sleeping teen for a moment before trying clearing his throat. If that doesn't work, he'll move on to calling his name a few times, but if things get really dire, he might even try shaking his shoulder.

[fracturedsoul]

One second he's on Prospit, and the next he's back in the viewing room, shoulder being shaken by Alex.

Dirk blinks, lifting up his shades to look around and get his bearings. Ah. Right. Well, the message has been delivered. Jade should be here soon. "Hey, Furest."

WHAT IS SLEEPING?

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

Alex smiles when Dirk wakes, but the moment he hears 'Furest' he goes a little green and a little pale and his smile falters. He manages to recover though, ignoring it and regains his smile with twice the force, "Hey, Dirk. C-came early, l-like you suggested."

SOMETHING YOU SHOULD DO

[fracturedsoul]

Dirk frowns slightly, but doesn't press.

"Good plan. Sorry about that, I was finding someone to let her know it's about to begin." He gets to his feet and heads over to the DVD player to put the first movie in. Well, not the "first" one chronologically but the first one on top of the stack, which is SBAHJ the Moive. It really doesn't matter what order they watch them in.

Yeah, probably... last tag for the night~ Aren't you special? <3

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

Alex looks confused at that. He had been asleep, hadn't he? "F-finding someone?"

He follows Dirk over to the DVD player and picks up the next one from the stack, muttering, "lieber Gott," to himself over just how bad the movie looked.

[OOC: translation is basically "dear God".]

[fracturedsoul]

"On Prospit," Dirk replies, gesturing to the pendant around his neck. "Been keeping up with the message boards?"

He boots the disc up to the menu, which is... not a menu at all but just static. Horrible, eye-paining static.

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

"Ah," he remembers the post and finding it really strange, but sort of cool. If only he had the raks to dump into getting a pendant.

He was going to avoid looking at the not-menu for now, considering how terrible the movies looked.

"T-two questions; What's it l-like dreaming on the moon, an' how are there enough p-people on one planet that c-can appreciate irony enough to make this p-popular?" Really. How?

[fracturedsoul]

"It's okay. You're basically awake while you're asleep. I highly recommend it if you've got the cash to spare."

He just leaves it there on the menu for now. "Beats me. This is some high-level shit. At the time these films came out I doubt there was anyone who could actually appreciate them. But they still made their creator a very rich man."

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

He nods about the pendant. He'd definitely get one as soon as he could afford it.

As for the movie, "H-how'd it--" He was going to ask how it managed to do that, but then he remembered what was in movie theaters. "Right, right market an' any movie'll sell." He laughs a bit, "Some day I'll have ta show you K-Killer Clowns from Outer Space."

[fracturedsoul]

"Precisely. Well, that along with some of the side ventures he had going on. Made a bunch of shit that was so awful it cost him negative money. Not that the money's what mattered."

Dirk raises an eyebrow. "Eh. Sounds just bad enough to be worth giving a shot."

[afraid_of_my_shadow]

"N-negative money?" Really? Wow.

"And the alien clowns have c-cotton c-candy guns. They t-trap you in cotton c-candy." Need more be said? "Troll 2's another one."