1st Floor Rec Room, Monday Evening

[spin_kick_snap]

'Somehow' (Kathy was blaming Dante), dinner at El Burrito Loco had involved not one but several alcoholic flights for them to share: it had started with a cerveza flight with appetizers, turned into a sangria flight before their entrees had come out, and finished up with a tequila flight right before they'd finished eating. It was the tequila flight that had done it; they had been just fine after the sangria, but the shots of tequila, even when divided between the three of them, had sent them right over the edge from 'pleasantly buzzed' to 'gigglng and tipsy.'

The trip home hadn't sobered them up much, which was why they'd somehow ended up in the first floor Rec Room instead of heading up the stairs to the third floor. It was also why the discovery of a fully-functioning karaoke machine was pounced on with delight. Normally, Kathy would have been all over the DDR machine in the corner, but karaoke was a much, much better idea--for one thing, there was far less movement involved.

"We are doing this," she informed the guys, plugging the machine in and pulling out the track listings. There were an insane number of tracks from all over the world. Kathy was shocked to find songs listed by prominent K- and J-Pop artists, as well as the standard fare of Broadway, 50s ballads, and 70's rock. "We are absolutely doing this. In fact, Dante, I challenge you to an 80s power ballad-off right now."

The first floor of the Dorms was in for a very long, very musical night.

[Dante and Anders modded with permission, post very definitely open for anyone who wants to come in and sing! Beat the Mondays with secondhand karaoke!]

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[rebelseekspizza]

Dante squinted at her as he processed that statement.

And processed. And processed. And--

"Total Eclipse of the Heart?" Beat. "Or Cyndi Lauper? I could do Cyndi."

He was pretty drunk.

[spin_kick_snap]

"Yeah, but we have to open this with a show-stopper," she said, flipping through the books. "Total Eclipse of the Heart all the way. At least if we're doing it as a duet. Otherwise, you take Cyndi, I'll take Bonnie."

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante wandered over to see what she was doing. "No, no, no," he said, "Now you gotta do Bonnie with me, Kathy."

As per usual when tequila had been in the recent past, his Brooklyn Limbo City accent was out in full force.

[spin_kick_snap]

"Fine, but if you don't go over the top drama with this, I'm taking your part away and giving it to Anders," Kathy declared, hands on hips. "Go big or go home, Glowstick."

And she was entering the track number for Total Eclipse. Because this needed to be done right now.

[not_every_mage]

"I can do "Hungry Like the Wolf,"" Anders offered. "Best song there is."

Which meant he'd heard it once when he was drunk and now it was stuck in his head.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante grinned at him. "Darken the city, the night is a wire," he managed, not completely on-key. "I dunno, it's kinda terrible. But you could rock it. Probably."

[not_every_mage]

"All these songs are a little bit terrible," Anders informed him. "At least that one's about something. Wolves are a thing."

Anders' logic on alcohol was special.

[not_every_mage]

"I don't know most of these songs," Anders informed anyone in the viscinity as he thumbed through the list. "Does that matter?"

[spin_kick_snap]

"Bah! Hardly!" Kathy said, slinging an arm around his waist. "The words are on the screen and no one's going to blame you if you mess up the tune! The point of karaoke is to get really drunk and have a great time with your friends!"

And lo, here they were.

[not_every_mage]

"Then I'm already halfway there," Anders said, yanking on a piece of Kathy's hair. "I'm drunnnnnnk."

He wasn't that drunk. Not blackout drunk. Just tell-everyone-how-drunk-he-was drunk.

[spin_kick_snap]

"Which is why you have to sing!" Kathy insisted, twitching her hair out of Anders' fingers and retaliating by reaching out and pinching his bottom at top speed. "Cause you'd never do this while sober!"

[crimson_sister]

Lucille had planned to spend the evening practicing the piano. As soon as she entered the rec room, she realized that wasn't going to happen. She stopped for a moment in the doorway, taking in the scene.

Why would anyone want to sing bad music badly? Although considering the people present, perhaps she shouldn't be surprised.

Giving them a very unimpressed look, she spun around and left. Reading would be a better choice tonight, obviously.

[I'm going to bed now, but I couldn't resist. Lucille hates you for ruining her evening.]

[spin_kick_snap]

"It's okay if you're scared to sing," Kathy called after her. "We don't judge. Unlike some people."

And just to prove that she could sing bad music very well, even tipsy, Kathy launched into another song.

[I'm so glad she showed up! And SP is love if you decide to have her respond to Kathy's taunt when you wake up!]

[crimson_sister]

Acceptable singing didn't make bad music good, but Lucille felt it was beneath her to get into an argument about this so all she did was give Kathy a look that said this just as well.

[Sadly, piano and karaoke wars are reserved for Mabel]

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy was busy holding a note like a boss, eyes closed and hand outstretched to notice Lucille's look. If she didn't want to stay and sing, that was on her, they most certainly weren't going to stop having fun.

So she was just going to finish rocking this song and let that stand as her goodbye.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante spotted Lucille immediately. She might have been headed out the door, but he was fast enough that she probably would have still heard, "Don't you! Forget About me! As you walk on by, will you call my name?" being directed at her back.

[crimson_sister]

She certainly wouldn't call his name, even if she knew it. And Lucille really wished she could forget about him, but just ignoring him was the best she could do.

[not_every_mage]

"Hey!" Anders shouted after her. "Come sing with us! We're friendly!"

[spin_kick_snap]

"But she's not," Kathy hissed, far more loudly than she thought.

[not_every_mage]

"I don't know that!" Anders insisted. "Maybe she'd be friendly if she just got to know me."

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo hadn't been planning on stopping by the rec room, either, but when she'd come in after a nice evening run, she'd heard voices. Voices singing. Which could only mean one thing: karaoke.

She burst into the room, a huge grin on her face.

"Hey, did you guys forget to invite me?"

Wait. Dante was here? This was going to be amazing!

[spin_kick_snap]

"Ringo!" Kathy said, grinning. "Nah, nah, it wasn't so much that we forgot, but that you'd already suffered one crushing defeat at our last singing contest. So I was being a good senpai and not calling you in to relive that."

Kathy got extra- sassy when she was tipsy.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Huh." Ringo shot Kathy a thoughtful look. "I don't seem to remember that being what happened at all."

Yes. It was.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Hey Ringo!" Dante called, waving at her. "You gotta do Cyndi with me!"

Somebody was pretty drunk.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Oh, yeah. Ringo had noticed that.

She suppressed a snicker and grinned at him. "Do Cyndi?" He wasn't too drunk to speak coherently, was he?