House of Cards RP

Avery is on her third fourth menu draft for the Winter Festival and can be found in her office near the Diamond kitchens perusing recipes for roasted vegetable salads and butternut squash risotto. She'd probably love to be interrupted.

Maggie gained approval from Ceiro to challenge up to Eight. She knows what form the challenge will take. Now, all she needs is a victim opponent. She's writing notations next to her list of Eights. Unlike most people contemplating a challenge, Maggie's inventory doesn't list each candidate's strengths and weaknesses. No. Maggie's criteria are far simpler.

Hmmm, who do I dislike most?

Because she is Grown Up, Eileen has new methods of getting out of doing the work her tutor assigns her.

Because Julien has been teaching her to cheat at cards literally since she was a baby, she is doing so by grifting said tutors, first into letting her out of lessons, then out of moneys.

So really she's behaving her age by being ill-behaved and avoiding school work. Everyone will approve of this, right?

The Clubs' castle was bustling with the holidays just now. It smelled like trimmings and cooking and the sweet burn of good pine in the fireplaces. Eileen tended to smile more than her usual wont these days. Everyone seemed to smile more than usual, honestly.

Too bad Lancelot was not headed back there.

There was a part of him as he raised his hand to knock on Julien's study door that hoped the man was out. These days... well, they hadn't truly gotten along in years, but now it all seemed worse than normal. He didn't want a black eye if he was going to be escorting Elani anywhere.

He knocked again.

[Failing to work an ipod.]

Damnit.

Victor has borrowed someone's ipod, probably Zoe's if she has one, in order to attempt to listen to this song that Elani wants them to sing together. Yes, he knows it- but since he can't actually play the piano, the only real way to hear the music for it is to...listen to someone else play it.

And he doesn't have a vinyl for this one.

He hates technology.

Drunken stupor? Not good for poetry.


In which John shares his wisdom and life lessons.

Something or someone's upset Rachel. Maybe she heard bad news about the ice sculptures. Maybe Lindsey ate another poisonous mushroom. Maybe the Diamonds Castle just isn't shiny enough. 

Whatever it is, she's definitely not happy about it.