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JANUARY 2021 MINI EVENT
NEW YEAR'S EVE MINGLE
let's start the countdown for the best year ahead of us!
Santa Rosita’s got just a bit of snow left on the ground and only a touch of chill come in from the north. You wouldn’t know it though - not when celebrating is the one thing on everybody’s mind. It’s New Year’s Eve!
SEVEN...SIX...FIVE...
FOUR...THREE...TWO!
"TEN...NINE...EIGHT!"
While the mayor’s on some well-earned rest at home and Chief Harding is making sure that no teenagers are causing mischief, the citizens of Santa Rosita are having their last little bit of holiday pleasure. With tinsel aplenty and housewives having handed out invitations to all their distant relatives, it seems everyone and everywhere is busy tonight. Are you?
Over at the Blue Moon Diner the owners have thrown up a big hand-painted sign advertising that they’ll be your one-stop shop for all New Years’ celebrations. Throwing open their doors until the late, late hour of two o’clock AM, they have rented a big-screen TV, taking up one whole booth in the corner of the dining room, to have it tuned to the broadcast from New York City. Have your own television? Well what you don’t have are Margie’s thick milkshakes (half off tonight only!) and little plastic flutes of (non-alcoholic) champagne, free with every order of tonight’s End of Year Smorgsaboard Extravaganza meal!
For the low, low price of $2.99 you can get yourself a Blue Moon Big Boy Burger (two patties on a sesame bun, soaked in grease and cheese and bacon grease with a splash of chef’s special dressing), a half pound of French fries, a slice of gooey chocolate lava cake and a Pepsi-Cola with a splash of something special!
(The special is cherry syrup of course! Cherry soda - wowie!)
Over at the Blue Moon Diner the owners have thrown up a big hand-painted sign advertising that they’ll be your one-stop shop for all New Years’ celebrations. Throwing open their doors until the late, late hour of two o’clock AM, they have rented a big-screen TV, taking up one whole booth in the corner of the dining room, to have it tuned to the broadcast from New York City. Have your own television? Well what you don’t have are Margie’s thick milkshakes (half off tonight only!) and little plastic flutes of (non-alcoholic) champagne, free with every order of tonight’s End of Year Smorgsaboard Extravaganza meal!
For the low, low price of $2.99 you can get yourself a Blue Moon Big Boy Burger (two patties on a sesame bun, soaked in grease and cheese and bacon grease with a splash of chef’s special dressing), a half pound of French fries, a slice of gooey chocolate lava cake and a Pepsi-Cola with a splash of something special!
(The special is cherry syrup of course! Cherry soda - wowie!)
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"SEVEN...SIX...FIVE..."
Naturally, half the town has come to celebrate such a great deal and not the least of it is that it keeps them from having to throw their own New Years’ get-together. But hey, for those suspiciously antisocial citizens among Santa Rosita, you can watch the ball drop yourself at home!
All the local stations have been spicing up the evening with variety shows - Ginger Rogers dancing, Nat King Cole singing, and a whole brass band on the Jack Benny Show in tinny goodness. Just be sure to go get sparklers and shimmery foil crowns over at Honeybee’s before you do - Margie’s cleaned out all the stores and is giving them away at the diner.
Whether you’re spending the late hour home alone with just the family and close friends, or you’re crammed in a booth at the Blue Moon trying to shove that last little bit of Big Boy down your throat, the time is nearly at hand.
All the local stations have been spicing up the evening with variety shows - Ginger Rogers dancing, Nat King Cole singing, and a whole brass band on the Jack Benny Show in tinny goodness. Just be sure to go get sparklers and shimmery foil crowns over at Honeybee’s before you do - Margie’s cleaned out all the stores and is giving them away at the diner.
Whether you’re spending the late hour home alone with just the family and close friends, or you’re crammed in a booth at the Blue Moon trying to shove that last little bit of Big Boy down your throat, the time is nearly at hand.
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"FOUR...THREE...TWO!"
Get those sparklers lit and crackers popped!
For with a bit of static fuzz on that big old screen, the ball strikes its landing and the flashing white numbers switch from 1961 to 1961!
Raise your glasses up to the new year, with all its potential and wonder to come! For Santa Rosita has seen strange things these last few months but all of that is in the past, and there’s bright new hope on the horizon! With the clink of plastic glasses, smooches on the lips from guys to their dolls, everyone is sure.
1961 sure won’t be at all like 1961.
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OOC INFO
Just like the mods are backdating this mini-event, feel free to have your characters do the same!
We don’t intend to retcon any New Year’s Eve activities you might have previously threaded, only to give a chance to have some holiday fun now that real life holidays (and stress) have passed. This will count for January AC, despite the December date in our header. No mod-controlled NPCs are available for this event but we do have an ongoing event with Chief Harding you can tag here.
Got any questions for the festivities? Feel free to ask them over here. Have a happy 1961, everybody!
We don’t intend to retcon any New Year’s Eve activities you might have previously threaded, only to give a chance to have some holiday fun now that real life holidays (and stress) have passed. This will count for January AC, despite the December date in our header. No mod-controlled NPCs are available for this event but we do have an ongoing event with Chief Harding you can tag here.
Got any questions for the festivities? Feel free to ask them over here. Have a happy 1961, everybody!
this is where we can wrap up a thread if you want! i am baffled by how i mixed up threads like that-
all the same, the look of puzzlement morphs into an expression of confidence — one clearly meant both for her and for him, with how he tries to sound convincing and certain as possible: ]
I’ll do what I can! Even if some bumps and bruises happen, I think it’ll be worth it for us if progress is made or ground is covered.
[ he gives her a thumbs up and grins all the while. maybe something will happen, maybe something won’t happen. daylight won’t know until he tries and he will try. better than doing nothing, when the unknown and the mystery is looming over them. ]
Sure, let's wrap this one up! And it's fine, don't worry about it.
And will have hopefully figured out something new between now and then. That would be nice.]