Rock Band Party, Tuesday Evening, First Floor Rec Room

[glacial_queen]

Karla and Warren had celebrated their return to their proper forms in the way that many teenagers would find appropriate: they'd headed back to the modern mainland, found a toy store, and bought a gaming system (or three). Along with the games they bought to go along with said system, they also picked up a few guitars, a keyboard, a drum set, and two microphones.

Once back in the rec room, the rest of the afternoon had been spent setting up the systems and buying every single song available for the game. Waiting for them to finish downloading actually took longer than the initial setting up, even taking in Karla's attempts to 'help'.

But now the system was set up, the songs were ready, and the instruments prepared.

Fandom High? Get ready to rock.

[Open for anyone who wants to play. not_a_parakeet modded to an ungodly degree with permission! Just a warning about SP and Karla's threads--I will be AFK all day, but if you're willing to wait until Thursday that's fine by me.]

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[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn poked her head in, eying the instruments. "Is glee club starting up again already?" she asked suspiciously.

Though there was some covetousness in those eyes. She might want to sit in on a song. Or three. You know, just because there was nothing on TV.

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god, there's a glee club at this school? I totally have to sign up."

Someone was bursting with energy.

"Aw, you don't have your initial stuck to you anymore!"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"You just can't see my tattoo," Quinn said, with almost a straight face. "Hey, Miley. There's one in the school year. Talk to Ariel about it sometime, it's kind of her thing."

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

"I totally will," Miley said, laughing. "Is it cool? I mean, it's not, like, instant loser status, is it?"

Because she had been there and done that, sans glee club, and it wasn't something she was anxious to repeat.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Nobody here calls anybody else a loser," Quinn said. "It's still seriously dorky, but I had fun with it."

Okay, so she'd signed up mostly because she wanted to keep an eye on Puck around Ariel. Miley didn't need to know that.

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

"Really? No one?" That was new. "Like there aren't popularity lists or anything?"

What, did Amber and Ashley's reign not extend this far? That was surprising.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Sadly no," Quinn said wistfully. "You just have to be nice to almost everybody, 'cause you never know who's friends with who. It's like we really aren't teenagers."

[wwiii]

"Rock Band night," Warren replied, with an almost apologetic little smile in Quinn's direction. "I can't promise anything resembling talent or even rhythm, tonight. But at least it should be fun?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"If nothing else, it's better than trying to kill a night watching funny animals on YouTube," Quinn shrugged. "I sing. And I used to play piano. I may not suck at this."

[wwiii]

"There are definitely worse ways to spend an evening," Warren agreed. "You sing, huh? Maybe you wouldn't mind giving me a few pointers? I've... never done this before."

Ever. Karaoke was its own special breed of 'not really a Worthington activity,' that he had managed to completely miss out on through his lifetime.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"I just pick easy songs and try to sound sexy," Quinn admitted. "Probably works better if you're a girl."

[wwiii]

"Yeah, I guess it would." Warren laughed a little, though it was a slightly nervous sort of laugh. He still wasn't so great with 'confidence,' sometimes. "Easy is a good start, at least. Any favorites?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Honestly?" Quinn almost looked a little embarrassed. "I like old R&B. Motown, girl groups, James Brown ..." She trailed off. "The melodies are so good you don't need to do a lot of flashy stuff to make them sound right."

[glacial_queen]

"Close enough to count?" Karla said, offering Quinn the microphone. "I don't think this counts as a concert, though. Even if we do have more instruments."

For one thing, this band couldn't perform flawlessly after getting the music mere minutes ago. Hell's fire, they couldn't perform flawlessly on the fifth iteration of the same song.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"It's probably more fun if it's not a concert. Less pressure." Quinn said, and scrunched her nose thoughtfully. "Even if I'll kind of miss the pressure."

She bounced the microphone in her hand. "How many of us can sing at once?"

She'd played the game, but never in a group this large.

[glacial_queen]

"Uhh, two I think," Karla said. "One can take melody and the other harmony. But I'm willing to pick up the drums or something. It's not like I know most of these songs anyway."

Though they might have to pry a microphone out of Miley's hands.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn was so shocked by that. Really.

"I can do harmony," she volunteered mildly. "It's more my thing, anyhow. Unless it turns out no one else can sing at all and I have to take over for the sake of everyone's ears."

Which would not surprise her.

[glacial_queen]

Karla took a seat at the drums, settling her foot on the pedal. This shouldn't be too difficult, right? Like she told Warren, it was just pushing buttons--or, well, hitting things--at the right moment.

"And it's not like you'll have to fight Warren or Tony for the microphone, either," Karla pointed out. "Show it to them and they look like they want to hide."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"It's not like singing is even that hard," Quinn said. "Most people can at least carry a tune, right?"

Only in your weird little universe, Q.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"We have a glee club?" Said the guy who'd never gone to high school before here and was basing all his knowledge of such things off bad television.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"We did last year," Quinn said, tilting her head at him as she tried to figure out why he was asking. "Weren't you here part of the school year?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Look, that would imply Tony paid attention to things. "...yes?"

A beat.

"I might have been busy with Science Club."

SCIENCE.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn gave him a blank look. "We had a science club? What does it do, experiment on each other?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Science... stuff." God, Quinn. "What does the glee club do?"

Gleefully.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Spread joy," Quinn said flippantly. "We sing. Eat food. Watch the advisors try not to act on their sexual tension." She shrugged. "Normal Fandom stuff."