bakerstreet | THE OFFICE PARTY MEME!

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THE OFFICE PARTY MEME!

It’s the end of the year at your place of business, legitimate or otherwise! It’s a time to drink, socialize, be merry! Whether attendance is truly voluntary or politely mandatory, you are at a lovely holiday party with your colleagues. If your canon doesn’t lend itself to stiltedly festive holiday parties, or if you find this setting funnier than your canon setting, then this is the perfect setting for an office AU!

“Icebreakers” // Prompts

1. Mixing and Mingling // You just arrived at the party, picked up a light drink to start with, and now you’re catching up with your fellow coworkers. Is it someone you see every day? Or is it someone from a department you didn’t even know your business had? I’m sure whatever the case, though, there’s SOME juicy office gossip to share.

2. *Charlie Brown trumpet noises* // In keeping with the family friendly spirit of the holidays, your party is completely non-alcoholic! Hopefully whoever planned this wasn’t too cheap not to give you any games! Or... Or to at least make sure the catering is decent! If not, well... Hope your CEO’s speech is short, since you’re going to be trapped at this party for a couple of hours...

3. Mystery box! // Gift exchange! Are you participating in your office’s secret santa this year? Or is it a white elephant exchange? There’s some kind of gift-giving game happening. Hopefully, you chose your gift wisely!

4. Reindeer Games // HR has organized some fun, non-alcoholic activities for you and your coworkers! Participation may not be mandatory, but it’s very strongly encouraged. Do karaoke, open party crackers, throw beanbags, any of those ~~tortuous~~ fun team building games!

5. Do You Hear What I Hear? // Karaoke alone deserves its own prompt, honestly. Are you being pressured by a coworker? Lost a bet? Honestly inspired by the setlist offered? And most importantly... Can you actually sing?

6. Oh What Fun // You actually don’t work here, you’re someone else’s plus-one. Are you their best friend, or are you their date? And are you going to stay that way by the end of the night?

7. Under The Mistletoe // Relationships are of course discouraged in the office... but you’re not in the office, are you? Still, unless you’ve been lingering at that open bar, you probably want to keep this little hook-up discreet...

8. Festivus For The Rest Of Us // Maybe you greased your social wheels a bit too much at the bar, or maybe you’re just always a grinch, but you have some grudges you’ve been carrying with you all year, and this may be your last chance to settle it. Directly, passive aggressively, or just complaining, it’s your choice.

9. Oh Fudge // Ah, the holiday party incident. Someone drank too much at the bar, or snuck in something they weren’t supposed to, and now.... We have an incident. Whatever that is, indecent exposure, caught snogging your boss’s wife, slipped off the karaoke stage, broke up a fight between the accountants, it’s going down and you need to either do damage control, or record this for tomorrow.

10. eggnog eggnog eggnog eggnog // YOU are the one causing the scene, actually. You’re completely wasted and someone’s got to get you the hell out of this party before you tell your boss what you ACTUALLY think of her.

11. Last Christmas // Your CEO just stood up in front of the whole party, and instead of the usual bland ‘happy holidays, you worked so well, we’re all so close’ speech, he has instead told you that there will be no christmas bonuses this year, and there will be layoffs in the new year. The future is bleak. The bar is open. There’s nothing to lose now. Go out with a bang, whatever that means to you.

12. Die Hard // Wildcard option, in case an apocalyptically drunk christmas party isn’t wild enough for you

For more inspiration/to kill time between tags, 1, 2, 3

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[ ~~Avengers~~ Office, School. Same difference. ]

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babyavenger - 2018-12-19 05:39 (UTC) - Expand

3 or 5 or 6? idk XD

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6 I guess since Loki isn't an Avenger and Peter's not official yet

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Ok! Give me a sec. After breakfest. :D or you can, if you want. But I can in 20 minutes if you

wearenotdoinggethelp - 2018-12-19 07:59 (UTC) - Expand

it's cool, I can wait

babyavenger - 2018-12-19 08:10 (UTC) - Expand

hey, Peter only got snapped, he will get another chance, no worries, like other snapped people :D

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[Bet you don't really want to know which angel might have hired him to come here and why.]

( info in journal. )

[The Christmas parties for dead inside, immortal hot messes is always absolutely fantastic and horrible. There's blood. Probably his, going by the way he's holding a bierkrug in one hand and dragging his claws over his chest with the other.]

[Fighting game Christmas parties get wild. It's about the only time there's any sort of peace treaty between everyone, which means that even immortal, unfeeling monsters like Raven here can relax enough that they can go absolutely blotto on the bar tab.

Unfortunately for Yashiro, it means that said off-his-gourd beansprout is wobbling and tottering over in his direction, one hand loosely gesturing at him and the other holding a stein of beer that's sloshing everywhere.]

HOLY SHIT IT'S CHIPP ZANUFF. PRESIDENT...MISTER PRESIDENT...I have a friend, a friend, who would love your autograph. She loves things like that, things that are 'hip' in this era! I'll...

I'LL GET YOU A DECENT BEER. If you can trust anyone on that, you can trust a German! Haha, wow. CHIPP FUCKING ZANUFF. [Honestly, punching Raven when he's actually drunk enough to look distinctly unhinged at all times is a public service, and he won't feel much of it anyway. It's self-defence, man.]

oHM Y GOD I LOVE THIS LMAO

hakkeshu - 2018-12-20 03:48 (UTC) - Expand

IM SO GLAD we gotta unite under the fightan game silver haired animen banner

paaaanzer - 2018-12-20 05:27 (UTC) - Expand

( Most likely to have been bought by someone else OR to have broke into the party. Or if we're going for crack, most likely to have materialized for your character because either 1) They were bored or B) They needed some good words of encouragement. )

[ bitch i am the party ]

[Ain't no party like a Warehouse party!]

[Party in the Batcave(?)]

[m/m for any shippy scenarios]

[[8!! Or wherever this takes us, and a bit of an AU to make things work:]]

[Jack Ryan is one of the lesser-know faces in this holiday party for the rich and famous. Primarily because it's his father who's both - Andrew Ryan is famous throughout the city and much of the business world outside of it for being a hardass. Not necessarily cutthroat, but definitely cold, definitely merciless.

Jack isn't here because he's Ryan's son. Honestly, if Andrew Ryan could get away with it, he'd probably keep refusing to acknowledge his existence. Unfortunately for the both of them, the 'issue' had been forced out some years ago, and now here Jack was, Andrew Ryan's official, illegitimate, son. That's not why he's here, of course, because Andrew Ryan doesn't believe in hand-outs, doesn't believe in unearned advantages, doesn't believe in not working for your place. No, Jack's here because he's part of the company. Specifically, he's the secretary for the admin level of the company. He's the front desk receptionist for the company heads and whatever staff they need around them to do their jobs, making a sliver of their pay to do it.

(Before that was a brief stint in the mail room; Jack suspects he got 'promoted' because his father found out he was enjoying his work too much.)

It's not the pay he has a problem with, though, it's the people he has to deal with, on both sides of the desk, and the fact that he has to attend functions like this holiday soirée for the biggest companies in the city with the rest of the administrative department to represent the company. Not to network, of course, that's for everyone who does real work at the company, but for the sake of having the whole department out (and, Jack suspects, because despite how much his father would like to forget he exists, there must be some pressure to make sure both Ryans are present), here Jack is.

Here Jack is, loitering not far from the bar, two drinks in and not slowing down any. There's some faces in the crowd that look familiar, probably from magazines or billboards or news articles, but hell if he can put names to those faces.]

[She's probably running the show. As usual.]

Good evening, Isabelle!

[Why, it's Mayor Sato headed straight her way! He's been here six months now, ever since Tortimer retired and went off to the island. Since then, he's been very busy helping the town out with all kinds of things, like improving Main Street and helping complete the museum's collection. And of course, who could forget all those wonderful public work projects?

Keeping in line with a full year of successes, it's time for the Christmas party! He's been out all day pulling weeds, digging up pitfalls and checking on the village's citizens, but he's back just in time to get things started.]

The decorations look wonderful! How can I help?

[~~Pack party?~~]

[Pack party, school party, college party(?), pet clinic party (but they would just be two. or four if there's a +1)]

[Y'know, Sean figured that if he ever went to an office party, it would be because he went legitimate and got his paperwork in order, and worked in one. Maybe he'd work in the mail room and his job would be pushing around the cart, handing out packages and stuff. That sounds like something he'd be good at.

He really didn't expect to be attending as someone's unintentional plus-one. At least if he was going to be arrested, being picked up for loitering was better than being caught doing any real crimes. But he'd still rather not be handcuffed to the wrist of a detective who'd lost the keys to his cuffs.

Even if he is handsome.

Sean looks longingly over at the punch table, and then up to Detective Gumshoe.]

Uh... do you think we could go get a cup of something to drink? I'm feeling kind of thirsty.

[ Egil’s a dull and boring accountant in a larger firm, can be handwaved to include any number of other branches/etc so that our characters are at the same party. okay with first time meetings (work at different departments?) or some mild assumed CR. permissions and some background.

mostly interested in 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, or wildcard options! ]

[Of all the news Sean expected to hear at the office party, "Merry Christmas, nobody's getting a bonus and we're starting layoffs January 2nd" wasn't anywhere on the list. Mr. Fontaine's never been Sean's favorite boss and he always got the sense that the creep probably got his jollies off making everyone feel small, but now he knows for sure that Mr. Fontaine's getting off on this. Nobody should look that happy to announce that half the room is going to be laid off in less than two weeks.

Jesus, and you know they'll lay off the customer service reps first, so fucking goodbye to Sean's job. Not that it was a nice job, and not that he liked being screamed at while sitting in a cubical he shared with four other people, but it paid his rent. Which is due January 1st, which means he'll have a month to try get a new job and if the landlord gets even the slightest hint that Sean's not working, that bastard's going to start the eviction process right away so he can toss Sean out sooner.

He's not even sitting with any of his goddamn friends because everyone was forced to sit beside random people as part of some mingling shit, and now Sean's convinced that the assigned seating was absolutely mean to prevent people from forming alliances and throwing shit at Mr. Fontaine before he could get off stage. Instead, he's got an accountant sitting beside him-

Wait...]

Did you know this was coming?!

[They manage money, don't they? Which means they must have seen the corporation's finances. Did they know this was coming and say nothing?]