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Karaoke Time!

Bishop has pulled out his coveted karaoke machine to make sure that the vibe onboard the Mnemosyne stays high. He has curated a list of Appropriate Songs (sorry, folx, but Don't Stop Believing is still banned), but if it's not on his list, chances are he can scroung it up.

And if he can't? Well, that's what acapella is for!

Games

For those who are a little too shy to sing in front of everyone, don't worry, there's something here for you, too! A stack of puzzles & boardgames has been set out for everyone's entertainment, including:

• Ticket to Ride
• Monopoly
• Jenga
• Battleship
• CLUE
• Candyland
• Risk
• Scrabble
• UNO

The Secret Club

For those of you in Bishop's very good graces, he has set up a small area in the library for video games. The collection is very minimal, but systems include: N64, PS, PS2, Gamecube, and the Wii.

To facilitate group play, he has only pulled out racing and fighting games. Oh, and Mario Party. Can't forget that.

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Congrats, the can is offered back. "Not the vampires over there? Strigoi, whatever they're called."

"Incompatible," Dom replies before a sip. "I couldn't give up garlic."

"I get it. I wouldn't want to squeeze into a coffin either."

There's an 'Oh.' noise when he hands the can forward again. He's going to pretend the little shake at the end there never happened and laces his fingers behind his head instead, safe and sound. "You've just a way found the way to make the bunks here sound preferable. Thank you."

"Always happy to help." The hand tremor is noticed, but Jax doesn't comment on it as he takes a slow, considering drink, before: "So how d'you feel about parades?"

"Wistfully fond? In that 'They don't make them like they used to' way."

"Can't say I even remember how they used to be before the Veil coma. I remember taking my niece a couple times."

"We attended more than a few," Dom offers. "I preferred them to most malls, in any case."

"Lemme guess. Malls have fewer people squashed together?"

He shakes his head with a scoff — you can leave a mall. "Developers love to hire architects who don't care enough and they design some soulless monolith to greed." In case it's not clear, this is what happens when the scale's angling beyond tipsy.

"Oh, you feel that way about it." He scritches the back of Dom's shoulder playfully. "Not their fault they're soulless capitalist zombies, y'know."

"This was endemic to the field far before the Fall, Jaxson," Dom insists, feeling—yes—that way about it.

Jax nods in understanding as he sips the beer, even though he doesn't remotely understand. "Alright, well. Malls, sore topic. Wouldn't've guessed. How 'bout kiss lists?"

Dom claps his hands on Jax's hips with a melodramatic sigh. "The lot of you grow hornier every year. I don't have one. Tell me about yours."

"It's just you, Dom. You're all I have eyes for."

"And if I wasn't available to kiss, into whose arms would you want to fall?"

A thoughtful frown. "I guess... Jamie? That's kinda it." Jax opens his mouth after a moment, closes it. Nope. "Yeah, that's it."

"And the network celebrated him for being an excellent kisser yesterday," Dom points out. Look, he's being encouraging!

"I'm already kissing two different people, and that's fine. Plus," the can is held up to drink, "I'm a whole decade older than him."

A little eyebrow quirk at that. "You're both adults. He's not twenty-one and he'd be lucky to be your number three."

Jax makes a little noise of doubt in his throat as he drinks. "Yeah, real lucky. Three's insane for me, if I'm honest."

"The point you need to worry is when you consider a new planner designated only for liaisons." He reaches up for the can while Jax is mid-drink and doesn't apologize for it. "Or when you confuse their names."

Edited 2026-01-23 19:42 (UTC)

"Oh, that been happening to you? 'cause I can't relate."

"I've managed to avoid it for the past twenty years."

"That'd be embarrassing for everyone if you couldn't. Do you know anyone who even has a dangerous liaisons planner?"

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