http://bonhomme7h.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bonhomme7h.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2011-08-08 08:05 pm

It's like paradise, spread out with a butter knife :: [OPEN]

Who: EVERYONE
What: Réjean has decided that more people ought to celebrate and help raise a bit of dosh for one of his favourite bars. See: flyer.
Where: The Apache.
When: Misdi night and into the wee hours of the morning.
Warnings: Discussion of Pickman's manky feet.

The Apache is much the same as it always is: dimly lit, with the jukebox playing in the background, and the bartender serving whatever's on tap. Tonight, the bar is packed with people from all across the city, different cantons and cohorts, all out to celebrate surviving the fungal plague. Patrons are encouraged to buy tickets for a door prize with the proceeds going to repair the damage tunnelling ants made to the cellar.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (and i'll be the beauty beauty ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-08-09 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
At some point later into the evening, Ilde - who has been busy flitting from person to person, dancing, drinking more than she probably should and at one point sticking a neon dolphin sticker to Réjean's backside - can be found climbing from a barstool onto the bartop itself with an enterprising expression. This little adventure would probably be a much better idea if she'd taken her heels off first, but she's not exactly putting them down anywhere and they'd be a bitch to carry; it seems perfectly reasonable as far as she is concerned.

"Cynthia!" she shouts, from her new and interesting vantage point.
deservesadaisy: (indulgent)

[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-08-10 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ivan, who happens to be passing by, doesn't even really think it through. He just reaches over and, where a normal man might have steadied her, he picks her up and puts her back down, balanced, on the floor. "Nice shoes," he comments, with a little smile.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (i'd be filled with pride ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-08-10 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Having not seen that coming - or him, specifically - Ilde yelps, "No lifting," while she's still mid-air, digging her nails into his arm as she reorients down off the bar. It takes her a moment to realize that that's Ivan, at which point she's still taking a moment to decide how she feels about being unceremoniously moved about.

"I'm almost sure I could put the heel of one through your neck," she says, slightly mollified.
deservesadaisy: (listen to them wrecking the place)

[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-08-10 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably," he acknowledges. He leaves a hand on her shoulder just long enough to make sure she's steady. "You might've by accident, if you'd gone head over feet, you know."

[identity profile] tropfatale.livejournal.com 2011-08-10 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Sonja is not far away, and not moments after that incident, she is a few steps closer. She leans forward just a bit, glancing to the side; Ilde seems fine, but she arches her eyebrows at Ivan just a bit. Pro tip: just because she's smiling doesn't mean it's friendly, though also not open hostile, merely exploratory. This is just the general stage of 'explain your presence, vamp', though she has a general intuition as to who this one must be. Her motions have all the trappings of amiability; reading between the lines to discern her ready skepticism depends on one's observational skills.

She makes eye contact with Ilde, too, whom she suspects may also be handling the introductions.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (strung and seen and thrown aside ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-08-10 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Steadying on her feet, Ilde's likely response to the suggestion of falling on her ass (which wasn't as unlikely as she'd piously claim) goes to the wayside as she catches Sonja's eye and brightens a little, just on general principle.

"Sonja- this is Ivan." And Ivan, this is the by this point slightly mythic Sonja, who actually is a person and not the monster hiding under your bed. (Presumably she doesn't feel obliged to do a lot of hiding.) "He was about to buy me another drink." She's just decided that, evidently, but it seems fair to her slightly corkscrew-like logic.

[identity profile] fuckyouboots.livejournal.com 2011-08-11 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Cindy's not quite sure who that jerk is or what's his malfunction, but Ilde's expression is enough for her kick a pause into her jukebox conversation and make a beeline right for the bar to stand next to Ilde.

"Hands off the lady, asshole."

Ilde is a "friend". Nobody touches a "friend" without his or her permission. Or Cindy's.
deservesadaisy: (two rules for Ivan's car)

[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-08-11 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ivan raises his hands. "As the lady so aptly observed, I was about to buy her a drink, which will be hard to do if I'm dead." Deader. "Miss Sonja. Ma'am," to Cindy.

[identity profile] tropfatale.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sonja, conversely, leans back against the bar, elbows balanced on top, and smiles, a little. Make of that smile what you will. She studies the incident unfolding in front of her very eyes with the certain inscrutability she almost always wears; she doesn't disapprove, it's just a misunderstanding, and he's rolling with the Amazonian inundation with relative ease, considering. That doesn't mean the casual menace that radiates from her is any less, but that's...also just Sonja all the time. She wears scary like perfume.

(Her actual perfume is by Robert Piguet, though.)

"You're making one hell of a first impression," she comments to Ivan. "Nice to meet you. You enjoying the festivities?"

Let's all small-talk!
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (luxury is not a necessity to me ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-08-12 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"...Cynthia, Ivan, Ivan, Cynthia," Ilde says, a moment later, boosting herself up to sit on the bar beside Sonja, because what is fate if not something to be tempted. (Look, she's sitting, it's fine, she can't fall off this way.) Her tone isn't placating so much as rueful; she wasn't expecting to be moved, she's fine now, and accidentally subjecting Ivan to Sonja and Cindy at once strikes her as sort of hilarious, if only because she has a propensity to treat him like a mobile scratching post that talks.
deservesadaisy: (outward show)

[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-08-12 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
He eyes her - he sees what you did there, Ilde - but lets her sit. "Miss Cynthia," he clarifies, from his earlier 'ma'am.'

In response to Sonja's question, he says, "I am. I like watching people, and there's plenty of occasion for that." She's a threat, but not threatening, and Ilde's relaxation seems to have bought him a reprieve. He can small talk.

[identity profile] fuckyouboots.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Introductions are done by other people (because hell if Cindy was going to introduce herself. Manners, what are they?) and now Cindy's eyes the infamous Ivan from head to toe and back again. Not too bad looking in the face department. She takes a step back and eyes him hard. Acceptable in the body department as well. No wedding ring and no visible issues.

He scores a B so far. Cindy's rather proud of Ilde.

"So you buy drinks by literally picking up women? Gotta give you credit for that one."

[identity profile] tropfatale.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Sonja doesn't say anything here--it's probably pretty obvious Ilde is far and away the extrovert, as evinced by which one of them has been flitting around from person to person tonight. (Hint: it's not the girl with the sword.)

She just watches, head tilted to the side just slightly, smiling a little as she listens.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (in the silver of the showers ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-08-13 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
While Cindy sizes up Ilde's recent gentleman company, Ilde herself orders another drink and helpfully points out who she intends to be paying for it (e.g. said company). "I hate being lifted," she adds, in case anyone's getting any ideas about doing it again and in an unintentional underscoring of the difference in temperaments between she and Sonja.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-08-13 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, not always literally. While I'm here, shall I just buy the round? What will you all have?" Since Ilde has helpfully ordered her own.

[identity profile] fuckyouboots.livejournal.com 2011-08-14 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Free drinks? Well, who is Cindy to refuse that offer? "I'll take bourbon, but Ilde going to be the only one fucking you, so your days of picking up boozed up chicks are over," she says as she hops onto a bar stool.

Jesus, Cindy. What kind of princess are you?

[identity profile] tropfatale.livejournal.com 2011-08-14 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sonja laughs, a little, at that remark of Cindy's, and reaches in her jacket pocket to acquire cigarettes. Said cigarette is lit by a mysterious singe of orange at its end that occurs without any lighter; she smiles wordlessly at Ivan for a moment before taking a drag.

"Bourbon suits."
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (luxury is not a necessity to me ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-08-14 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sonja would break him in half," Ilde tells Cindy, authoritatively, as though speaking as the one of them who has indeed fucked him already she can best assess his ability to withstand her friend here. "Just like that." There's some miming, at this point.
deservesadaisy: (my indulgences)

[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-08-15 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I have no desire to be broken in half," Ivan says, casually, "and I am nowhere near ambitious or greedy enough to even try to pick up three ladies at one time. I assure you, the drink is simply a...friendly gesture." As one does, when meeting the friends of one's one-night stand, apparently.

[identity profile] fuckyouboots.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Not like you could even if you were. I have standards when it comes to other people's belongings and I'm sure Sonja does too." Lovely conversation these four are having, discussing the man's sexual hobbies and interests like he's not even there. Oh well. This is what Ivan will have to deal with if he continues with Ilde. Package deal or something.

She sticks out a hand to Sonja and curls her fingers in repeatedly, a sign she wants some of that cancer stick. Don't be greedy, Sonja. "That said, I don't know what you two kids have between you, but keep it safe and if I hear you fucked up, I'll fuck you up." That's not to say Sonja won't have a part of him, right?

[identity profile] fuckyouboots.livejournal.com 2011-08-10 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Even over the music, Cindy can hear her cover name being yelled out drunkenly by a familiar voice. She looks up from the conversation she's taking part in by the jukebox and raises a hand to the wino on the bartop as a way of saying "Is there a fire somewhere I need to know about?"
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (you that are the brat of heaven ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-08-10 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ilde is about halfway through waving back when Ivan unceremoniously hauls her drunk ass down off the bartop, at which point her enthusiasm turns briefly into indignance. The very nerve!