[ OPEN ] turkey-time and all that follows.

[falcony]

Who: open to all. (see note(s) below!)
What: it's the time of year and with all these new faces as well as with everything going on, sam thinks it's time for another all summoned not!thanksgiving
Where: sam's horizon
When: end of November/beginning of December
Warnings: will update as necessary.

THE SETUP

As per Sam's invitation, come dinner time, his horizon is going to be full fall aesthetic. The trees will have changed, there will be a slight chill in the air (no matter how it's usually hotter than this in Louisiana in November), and everything will be decorated in prime Fall Decorations - so many pumpkins, so many candles, so much Hallmark Card Thanksgiving, minus any weird pilgrim/puritan bs. Inside the house will be a kind of organized chaos - tables and ingredients and food everywhere. Because while Sam could magic the whole meal together, he's much more about putting in the work, so this not!thanksgiving is old school. If you show up early, you will be assigned a job, and Sam can tell if you cheat and just Horizon something together.

Outside in the front lawn area is a large, long dining room table. Come dinner, it will be a picture-perfect image of a Thanksgiving Meal. Everything you could want and then more will be set out, and there will be a setting for everyone, no matter how many people show up. There's no seating arrangement, so find a place and take a seat, chat it up with whoever is to your right, left, or sitting across from you. The only magic that Sam is going to allow at this point is the fact that the table will always be the perfect size - whether that is smaller or larger. There is plenty of booze, plenty of food, and more than enough desserts, and Sam is really just looking for a casual, nice time of it.

Afterwards, there will be plenty of opportunities for more people to help - just imagine the dishes, y'all. But even then Sam will be playing host, making sure everyone has what they need, even if what they need is an Adirondack chair by a fire pit and a blanket to pass the hell out. Either way, his entire Horizon is open, save for the one room upstairs that is always locked.

OOC INFO

- this is a totally open post! I've got a TL below for various scenarios you can find Sam, but otherwise have fun, meet some people, put up a TL of your own!

- Sam's only Rule is there will be no fighting. You want to duke it out? Take it somewhere else. There will not be warnings or second chances. Don't be an ass. This is his home, respect it, or he'll have your ass thrown out. He's not afraid of squaring up, but you will not be invited back if you chaos too many issues. :)

- this is open to any and all Summoned, no matter loyalties or factions. Sam is going to be going overboard to be welcoming, especially to new faces. Even if your character didn't see the big invitation, feel free to have them invited by word of mouth.

- any questions? message me at disarmingly

Comments

[nadine_he_loves]

Wow.

[Nadine isn't exactly shocked, she's heard all sorts of impossible sounding stories from other Summoned. But still. She can't imagine that. The difference between the 40s and the early 2000s...talk about a culture shock. Maybe worse than the adjustment to here. Everything's strange and new here. Jumping, essentially, into the future would mean all the strange and new was in trappings of the familiar.]

Yeah, that's a long time to miss. I was born in 1983, and I came here from 2020.

[She's not about to ask for any more details - though his story raises a lot of questions.]

You've had a whole lot of adjusting to do, huh?

[assembles]

[ It's unexpected that Nadine doesn't get caught up on the how of that, but Steve also imagines she's heard all sorts of strange tales from the other Summoned. This might not even make the top five weirdest things list.

1983. She's about Natasha's age, then. That checks out, and he gives a quick nod at her question. ]

It was a lot at first, but it was 2023 last I checked, so I've had about ten years to adapt by now.

[ Of course, five of those years they'd been missing half the population and society had changed a lot as a result, but he doesn't want to get in too deep. ]

... And then I came here, where there was more adjusting to do. [ He lets out a small chuckle and a shrug. What can you do? ]

[nadine_he_loves]

Yeah, I'm not sure which would be harder, honestly. Adjusting to a new time or a new world. I guess they both have unique challenges.

[Not that different from adjusting to a new world versus adjusting to the end of the one you know. They have that in common, at least. If in differing ways.

At least adjusting to life in Cadens had been easy enough. In some ways it's more familiar than Thorne had been. ]

But the human mind is really pretty amazing, it can accept a lot as reality and adjust to conditions we'd never imagine. Most of us are proof of that.

[assembles]

You're not wrong.

[ Steve stares at the fire for a few seconds and then locks eyes with Nadine, wondering if he should substantiate that some more. He's already said enough for one conversation, probably. He doesn't want to overwhelm her. ]

We're tenacious and we don't give up, either.

[ Sometimes it's important to focus on the good stuff, when there can also be so much ugliness in the world. In Abraxas and in the places they're from. ]