taxonomites | [location: John Everton's House] [OPEN TO ALL!] BLOCK PARTY!!!

The time had come. Charlotte left John in charge of setting up the bar, giving him only the one request that he have a decent selection of beer, and did the work of dialing up the food. She knew she was going way over board. For all she knew no one might show up, even though she'd gotten a bit of a response to her invite. How could people resist, though. Food, drink, Dean's music, kittens? Okay, and an ex-vampire, but that wasn't his fault.

Pushing that thought away, she continued laying out the food and the carefully crafted warding spells that would protect it from the kittens. They had been given run of most of the patio, but not the yard, and not the food area. That meant they'd still be popping in and out of people's laps, but at least they wouldn't do it to plates.

When everything was ready, Charlotte ran up to change into skinny jeans, a crisp white button down and a ridiculously shiny pair of cowboy boots. Not unlike Dawn, not that she knew it, Charlotte was having too much fun with the fashion options the replicators afforded. Properly armored for the event, she headed back to the patio to wait for their first guests.

OOC: This is an open event, folks, anyone should feel free to tag in, even if they just discover the party. Start a new thread with a label if you want or just tag in on another thread. Feel free to hop around, too. IT'S A PARTY, PEOPLE! Also, this will go on as long as people are interested, so backtag all ya like. We know people will be in and out all weekend. Have fun, drink all the booze.

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That set him to laughing. "Meat with a side of meat, washed down with liquor. You got it." He got himself another beer, then looked around. "Well, don't let me keep you from mingling. I might be the most boring guy here."

"Sounds good to me!" Brigitta laughs, raising her bottle before taking another gulp... Hopefully people will get a lot more liquor than expected, but you didn't hear her think that, shh "hey, you're the one throwing this party after all, that makes you a little interesting."

He snorted at that. "This is Charlie's party. I'm just the manservant." He did wink at that, showing her that he was mostly teasing. "It is Charlie's party, though. I am just along for the ride."

Brigitta chuckles again at the wink and takes another gulp to top it off, by now almost finished with the bottle and beginning to feel a faintly pleasant state of happiness beckoning her from somewhere, though it'll take a lot more than that to get her properly smashed "Well, at least you showed up, you guys engaged or something?"

He glanced off in the direction that he'd last seen Charlie heading off in. "Engaged? No. We just live together." He managed to leave off the 'in sin' part. It was no joking matter, really.

"Ah" Brigitta finishes the bottle and smiles slightly, nodding "hey, hardly gonna judge, used to be doing that with a friend, fun times."

Except with a little less romance, perhaps if she hadn't been snatched away... But she never thinks about that, Kirilli was her best friend and there's more to life than constant romance.

He smiled and nodded again, then reached for another beer. He handed it to her, clearly not planning to take no for an answer. "It's a familiarity thing, you know?"

Good, because Brigitta would've gotten a little snatchy had another beer been denied her, her plans to get drunk are progressing nicely "Yeah, best to be with somebody you know that you like than being alone."

Anything is better than being alone.

He nodded. "Wasn't always that way. The woman wanted my head on a platter for a while. Sometimes I think she still might."

"Well, it's nice to see things evolve" Brigitta nods thoughtfully, always swigging away "most grudges don't last forever, unless they're serious ones."

"I've always been convinced that it was just an excuse to get to kiss me." He chuckled, then leaned back with his own drink and watched her for a moment. "Anyone here from your home?"

Brigitta's expression dips into a faintly wistful moment but then she smiles again, shaking her head slightly, she just has to hope that her son and her best friend will turn up someday, you don't get anywhere if you give up on all hope "not yet, plenty of people with demons but none with Demonata, I'm sure some will show up someday though."

As long as they know about demons and aren't complete wimps she'd be fairly happy with most people.

"Demonata?" Drinking and party atmosphere aside, this word has got John interested. "What's that?"

Brigitta smiles slightly, she's always perfectly happy to explain about the Demonata, and then explain why killing all of them is such a priority "well, usually we call them demons, they take their shapes from earth animals and all of them are completely evil, I fight them."

"So, demons that look like animals? How do you tell them apart from regular animals?"

"Well, they don't get it right, they're always mixtures like... Tiger and vulture, or monkey and hedgehog, they're never pure" she takes another swig, looking thoughtful "...Plus, I can kind of sense them, they give off magic."

"Sense magic." He doesn't sound as surprised or incredulous as he used to. He lives with Charlie and teleporting kittens, magic's not so foreign now. Still a sin and he was still Hell bound, but it wasn't surprising anymore.

"That must help a little, that tehy are so obvious and that you can sense them."

"I'm not so good at it" Brigitta admits, chuckling slightly "but you do tend to notice when something that looks like a particularly large chicken tries to rip your arm off with teeth."

That actually happened too, her life is rather fun.

"Yep, it makes my job a lot easier."

"if any of those show up here, you'll let us all know what to look out for, right?" The whole concept intrigued him and he made a mental note to talk to her again about it when there wasn't liquor or guests involved.

"Of course" she nods firmly, a small, determined smile coming to rest on her face "the more help the better, best to kill all of them if they do show up."

Hopefully they won't.

"Well, enough about that. Come on, let's go be social." He lead her into the fray of the party with an amused grin.

[location: John Everton's House] [OPEN TO ALL!] BLOCK PARTY!!!

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