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[momchester]

Who: the Siren's Port Lonely Hearts Club! (and YOU!!!??)
When: Valentine's Day, from siren to siren.
Where: the Underground Mall
Summary: all the single ladies people, all the single people~
Warnings: Uhhh nothing I guess? Probably language?

[The lonely hearts that Mary called out in her post eventually wind up in some restaurant in the Mall, somewhere with a bar, but in all honestly it's a long night and they'll wander.

Tag in, tag around, enjoy!

For her own part, Mary will get a very panicked text message from Tom Hanniger someone early in the night, and take off into the Darkness with an air of distinct "oh SHIT" without any explanation at all. But she'll be around for a little while at the beginning.]

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right after sirens

[momchester]

[Mary's parked her ass near the bar, munching on some free chips, working on a beer, and looking out for anyone she knows or recognizes.]

[slipperysoul]

[ Angel doesn't do Valentine's Day. He doesn't really do... a lot of days, actually. But especially not this one, so he's hiding in the underground mall with the rest of the lonely hearts and getting himself sloshed. Or at least attempting to, as he plops himself down next to Mary. ]

You're the one who arranged this, right?

[momchester]

[Mary lifts her drink with a smile. She very dimly remembers seeing him on the Network before, but never spoke to him.]

Guilty, your honor. My name's Mary.

[manipuleights]

[ Despite all her huffing and hawing, Vriska is quite lonely, regardless of the holiday. So she's morbidly curious, and if anything feels like making fun of other lonely people will help her feel a bit better in the end...

So have an alien girl peeking around the corner of the bar. Nope, she looks way too young to be there. ]

[momchester]

[...Huh. The girl's definitely an unusual sight, but doesn't get more than a second third look from Mary. She's not the strangest thing Mary's ever seen in this place.

She looks really young, though, and kind of curious and out of place, so Mary smiles at her from across the bar. Someone like that? Yeah, definitely not a resident. The residents here are mostly human-looking.]

[calm_tempest]

[Retsu finds Mary easily enough; it just seems like the most logical place down in the Underground Mall for people to meet. She isn't blind to the fact that Mary is trying to cover some emotional issues, but for tonight, she will be merely offering companionship along with others.

[Besides, it had been some time since she had been out on some group outing in Siren's Port. It's time for that to change.

[The smile she offers Mary is an honest one, though she keeps her usual maternal quality out of it. She's not here in that capacity tonight.] And so here we are.


[[OOC: She would absolutely follow Mary out when she leaves with that "oh SHIT" air, if that's okay?]]

[momchester]

[Lifting her glass] Here we are.

Nice to meet you.

[In person, that is.]

It's- oh man, I'm so sorry, I don't remember your name.

[[OOC: actually, it's not. It's part of the Mary-gets-fucked-up-by-Tom-Hanniger plot, and she needs to not be followed. If anyone tries, she'll pretty much bite their heads off out of pure stress and in the moment internal panic.]]

[cheerhealer]

[ claire, meanwhile, just had a water (free, with the same effect alcohol would give her) in front of her. ]

Hey.

[momchester]

Hi, there.

[Lifting her glass in greeting.]

[laurice]

Hey.

[Larry walks up to her, raising a hand in a little wave. He's got a drink too - although it's a virgin cocktail. The Butz may be grieving but he's not much of a drinker.]

[momchester]

Hey, nice to see you showed.

[walkinthruwalls]

[ And there's one young girl appearing in the bar. Yup, she's sticking to the juice but she figures that this could be fun - more fun than the movies and candy that she'd planned for herself. Okay, she hadn't really planned it but that was probably what she'd end up doing.

When she spots Mary, they've spoken a couple of times so she quickly recognises her, Kitty heads over, giving a smile as she pulls out one of the stools ]

Hey.

[momchester]

Kitty, hi!

[Mary puts her drink down and turns the stool around to greet her.]

Nice to finally meet you.

Re: right after sirens

[athermercy]

Can I sit here?

[ Elaine asked after she approached Mary. She was pointing at the stool beside hers, hoping it wasn't taken. ]

[momchester]

Yeah, help yourself. Thanks for coming.

Around the mall

[cheerhealer]

[ getting attacked by some manic earlier in the day made claire a little anxious, if only because there was a chance that somebody else - somebody she knew - would probably suffer the same fate.

After mary leaves, she just wanders around, maybe goimg to see a romcom in the theater or something. ]

[laurice]

[Larry is seated at the restaurant, picking at his food after greeting Mary. He lets out a sigh and calls a waiter to refill his fancy glass and to get him a new umbrella thingy for his next virgin cocktail.

Someone should tell him that putting elbows on the table is RUDE. Or maybe not...he looks too lonely to care. He'll either snap at you...or just wail and cry over his poor beloved Leah.]

[paranoidbastard]

[ Let's just point Bobby to the whiskey. It's been his very good friend lately.

He hasn't come here to mingle so much as he's come to have somewhere to be, to keep sort-of-company to Mary and to look out on the off-chance that some new big disaster decides today is the day to rear its ugly head. Could happen.

He stays near the bar for the most part, but with enough time he gets it into his head to wander a bit. Ever in the business for antiques that would just end some uneducated moron's life early. It's an exciting life. ]

[notadisneygirl]

[Snow is hanging by the bar right now; she's not really in the mood to talk, but still. She takes a sip of her drink, peeking at the guy at the bar and deciding, you know what, today was the day she would branch out.]

So how did you get roped into this club? [Asks drily.]

[balladeer]

[ Aurican doesn't understands this Valentine's Day. He wishes time will speed up once more and be done with it. The decorations are painfully searing.

So he takes a little refuge in a store of diamonds. He is always fond with jewelry stores - it reminds him of the grotto back home, with a nest made out of wire and precious stones and gems. ]

[notadisneygirl]

[She was thinking of buying herself something, but would that make things awkward, later? Buying her own jewelry? In any case, she's looking through some of the diamonds, accidentally bumping into him.]

Oh, I'm sorry! I must have been lost in thought.

around the bar

[notadisneygirl]

[Things had been tiring lately. And today, with no one to spend it with again... she couldn't even get a valentine sent off to her sister, and she'd done that no matter the relationship between them. Still, for all cold front that she put up, it would be nice to have someone around.

Or someone to get her some flowers. That would be nice, too. For now, she'll have another martini.]

[athermercy]

[Did someone say flowers? Because Elaine was holding a steam with two alstroemeria flowers in bloom to Snow. A safe, friendship flower. She grinned.]

I hope you like these.

OPEN!

[slipperysoul]

[ Angel is getting himself properly smashed. Why? Because he can, because he hates Valentines Day, and... because he doesn't do it very often. That should be more than enough excuses, don't you think? He could probably come up with a few more if prompted, though.

And, well, he's more like trying to get himself smashed since it's kind of hard to do when you're a vampire. So he's going through quite a few scotches at the bar, and they're not doing... much at all. Feel free to bother him. ]

[notadisneygirl]

[Oh, she'll bother him. If only because he looks like he's in as much pain on this day as she is, and she takes a seat next to him at the bar.]

I can't help but notice you've had a few drinks tonight. Trying to forget something?