[OPEN Mingle] Happy Anniversary and Happy Holidays!

[robintohood]

Who: Mingle post! Jason Todd robintohood is also available in a separate top-level comment
What: Festivities at the Descendant Karaoke Bar and Lounge
When: Week of November 27th and throughout December
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: N/A for now. Will edit if needed.

[By god, the weird (and only sometimes shady) New Jerseyian karaoke bar in the middle of Michigan has made it. The Descendant Karaoke Bar and Lounge has hit its first anniversary. To celebrate, there are special discount rates for customers and even deeper ones for the repeated loyal clients.

Because Descendant’s birthday is also at the very beginning of the winter holiday season, the whole place has been decorated to reflect the occasions. There’s the usual colorful tinsel, wreathes, Santa hats, and fake holly plants but there are also special additions the Descendant’s staff did. There are hidden Santa Gritty figures and decorations throughout the building. More blatant are the Christmas trees throughout the building adorned with Gritty baubles. Instead of an elf on a shelf, behind the bar on the top shelf is a Gritty figure next to the maneki-neko figure Mayuko gifted Jason last year during Descendant’s grand opening. Both figures are there all year round but for this time of the year, they’re rocking Santa hats too.

As for the Descendant’s owner, his presence is oddly sparse despite his business hitting a milestone. Jason’s still monitoring daily operations and is still making sure tasks are being properly delegated but during these last weeks of the year, he’s not at Descendant as often as he usually is. He can still be contacted though, namely if there’s an emergency.

Meanwhile, if one were to carefully eavesdrop on some of the Descendant’s more shady customers, one might hear that the Backbreakers gang and their leader, the Red Hood, might be having… problems holding their remaining territory. The rumors have been going since mid-November after the mysterious bombings to several of the Backbreakers’ safehouses.

So come in from the cold and celebrate, be it Descendant’s birthday or a winter holiday. Have a holiday drink like a spiked eggnog, a gingerbread martini, or a wassail. The karaoke machines are full of holiday songs to sing to as well.]

((OOC: Mingle post! Go have fun, folks. Jason’s own top-level is right here. My contact information is on this journal's profile and I'm in the game's Discord server. Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns as well. I also have a feedback post.))

Comments

[welcome_summer]

[See, that sweater on Sleeper is almost cute. And with accord having been reached with Jason again, Mayuko feels a little more comfortable engaging with Sleeper. She doesn't know that the two bonded in this universe, but she's seen they are close.]

You went thematic with this one. Surprisingly less chaotic than expected, and I do like the beer steins on the edge.

[definecat]

The inappropriate beer steins are what make it work here. I mean, really, beer is not generally considered a holiday beverage. I have others. I am the official critic of all things ugly sweater.

[welcome_summer]

Beer is a good, solid holiday beverage! It goes great with another holiday staple: fried chicken. It's not a pretentious choice.

[Her tastes aren't complicated; she'd take beer over most other drinks. But she orders the complicated stuff here so she has cover to tip well.]

So does being "the critic" make you the ringleader or a senior collaborator on the sweater gifting front?

[definecat]

But the traditional eggnog and wassail are easier to think of. You don't really see anyone putting together a picture of Santa kicking back with a brewski.

[They shrug a little. It doesn't really mean anything to them.]

I definitely took my job finding the perfect sweater in regards to personality and tastes seriously. Several of the finds involved real blinking lights.

[welcome_summer]

I'm sure there's been more than a few ads to that effect. You'd have to find something other than cookies to put out with it, though.

[Mayuko gives Sleeper a scrutinizing look.]

Personality and tastes? There's that much... variety for sweaters like that?

[definecat]

[Sleeper gestures at both customers and staff sporting their festive ugly sweaters, some barely qualifying in their educated opinion, and a few quite splendid examples.]

The ugly holiday sweater is a fairly new but quite amusing tradition. It's about inappropriate themes, tacky colors, but not getting quite so hideous it doesn't make you smile at least a little or feel ashamed to be seen wearing it.