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The Beach [afternoon]

Jan 14, 2012 13:55

Phil Keoghan strode down the beach as the waves crashed magestically against the rocks behind him.

"Welcome to Fandom, Maryland," he said, "the fifth leg in a race around the world for $50,000. Our some number of teams are currently sleeping off their 37 hour flights from Windhoek, Namibia and are totally suffering from killer fatigue." He arched ( Read more... )

juliet darling, jeremy darling, ben skywalker, dean mccoppin, howard stark

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Get your assignment! momslilassassin January 14 2012, 19:00:42 UTC

For you and your partner to find where your first Road Block is and to discover that you have 34 dollars (mostly in fives and ones) for this leg of the race. This is also an excellent place to recap your Dramatic History!

Road Block is totally moddable!

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 19:15:05 UTC

Howard had just been trying to get out of his lab for once when he found himself shanghaied over to the beach for something they kept calling 'The Amazing Race'.

He didn't have a television, so this was more than a little confusing.

"Namibia? Where the heck is that?" Oh, time differences.

Re: Get your assignment! advanceapology January 14 2012, 19:18:03 UTC

Yeah, Dean had no idea. Hell, he'd just been taking a walk before heading back to town for coffee. And then there was this, and....

Whatever, he was going with it.

"No clue, man," he offered, "but it sounds exotic."

Or something.

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 19:23:02 UTC

Howard shot the man a look, judging his stubble with all his might. A card was shoved into his hand by a helpful production assistant to explain what was going on.

"We're... college friends who are on this race to earn money to adopt a child from China." Wait, what? "What?"

Re: Get your assignment! advanceapology January 14 2012, 19:26:00 UTC

"News to me," Dean reported, leaning over to look at the card. "So we're, what, actors now?"

A beat.

"Wait, this is a race?"

Yeah. The adopting a kid part wasn't on his list of weird things about this situation. Hell, the 'friends' part wasn't all that bad, either, though it wasn't something he'd just casually bring up in conversation. Being a beatnik meant he was open-minded, but come on, he was still fresh out of the fifties, here.

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 19:36:07 UTC

"It seems to be one of those weekends," Howard replied dryly, offering the card over to Dean so he wouldn't have to deal with that ridiculous back story. "I was killed in the last one after being betrayed at the alter."

So don't get any ideas, Dean.

Re: Get your assignment! advanceapology January 14 2012, 19:39:50 UTC

Hey, now. If they were 'friends,' they probably didn't have any altars in mind. Possibly they were from one of those states that didn't allow it.

Or they'd gotten married in Canada and just learned that they were now divorced.

The news these days baffled Dean a bit.

"I've only heard a bit about these things," he admitted, raising an eyebrow. There was not enough coffee in the world for this. "Not really in the mood to die, though. So, what, we just play along?"

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 19:42:32 UTC

Him and Howard both. Then again, neither of them had hit Stonewall yet, so it was all very surprising to be so open still.

"I was afraid you'd say that." By afraid, he meant annoyed. "Howard Stark."

Re: Get your assignment! advanceapology January 14 2012, 19:46:46 UTC

"Dean McCoppin," he introduced easily, offering Howard a hand. For shaking. Not for whatever it was that college friends were supposed to do with hands before a race, thanks. "Art teacher."

Of course.

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 19:53:21 UTC

Howard was already halfway through shaking his hand when the 'art teacher' part was said. "New in town?"

Re: Get your assignment! advanceapology January 14 2012, 19:55:43 UTC

"Yeah," Dean replied. "Just came into town for this semester. It's not bad. Kids are enthusiastic if you feed them enough coffee, anyhow."

He was under no illusions about why any high school student would take an art class. Odds were that it wasn't because they were hoping to pursue a career in the arts.

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 20:01:15 UTC

"That sounds like my shop," Howard admitted, trying to figure out just where they were supposed to be racing to. "Hopefully less crying."

Topher. Seriously.

Re: Get your assignment! advanceapology January 14 2012, 20:05:23 UTC

"No crying, yet. And only one kid's tried to eat the paste so far."

That was encouraging, kind of.

"So. Which shop is yours, man?"

It would be helpful to know what his college friend did for a living, after all.

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 20:11:45 UTC

That sounded about right.

"Stark Industries," he replied with a proud little smirk. "It's a nice break from California."

Re: Get your assignment! advanceapology January 14 2012, 20:25:45 UTC

"I imagine anything would be a nice break from California," Dean noted, shrugging a bit as he placed the name mostly as 'that repair shop in town, I'm pretty sure.' "This place was supposed to be a nice break from Maine, too, and so far the highlight has been finding out that there's a decent place to get coffee, here."

Look, it was important.

Re: Get your assignment! doyoufondue January 14 2012, 20:31:02 UTC

"It could always be worse," Howard replied, frowning at the production assistant who kept prompting them to do the roadblock.

"Is that a dance?"

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