( a visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. )
in the G R E E K / R O M A N section - you are strangers who happen upon each other at the museum. what do you talk about? is it a debate about art or pure smalltalk? will you want to meet again?
a stop at the C A F E - all that wandering around art and history has made you hungry. how's the food here, dull or delicious? sit down and have a talk or see if you can smuggle a snack with you into the next exhibit without getting caught!
special E X H I B I T on the first floor - you've arranged to meet here! is it a romantic date or just a bit of a good time with friends or family? are you fascinated by what you see or already bored before you get started? under any circumstances, enjoy your outing together!
T O U R this way, follow along - you've signed up for the tour! are you alone or with someone? do you ask questions with interest or hang back and whisper among yourselves? are you actually more interested in your phone? do you maybe get lost on the way?
before "W O M A N with black S T O C K I N G S" - these paintings are rather raunchy and you're both suddenly feeling like a little round of public sex. well, this is your chance! who will see you behind that statue, that column or in that corner anyway?
E X I T, emergency only - is there a scenario that hasn't been covered or something else you'd like to do at the museum? this is your option!
How to play -
1. Comment with your character's name, fandom and preferences in the subject line.
2. Others comment to your top level with an option for a scenario and either leave a starter or ask you to start the scene.
Peter's school is on a field trip which, historically, have not been kind to the teenager so while his class is off milling about and looking at pictures, Peter is staying well away from anything that looks like he could somehow accidentally knock it over. Something bad is going to happen and he knows this because something bad always happens when he's on a field trip he's just hoping he can keep it from involving a phone call to May explaining he accidentally broke priceless art in a London museum.
Art's not really Peter's thing either but he can still appreciate it just fine. He glances around the exhibit, taking in the sculptures from a safe distance and getting no where near any of the oil paintings.
"This room making you uncomfortable, penis?" One of his classmates asks, a few of the other giggling. Peter just fixes him with a look but doesn't otherwise say anything since he's definitely not trying to start a fight here, of all places. "Better be careful though, if you spaz out like you usually do, you could end up having to sell yourself to the museum."
Peter suppresses a sigh as Flash and his friends go back to whatever they were doing before. "That didn't even make sense." He mutters to himself before noticing he's not the only one standing away from the exhibits. "Uh! Hi! He was just kidding. That's all."
There's a new, big Baroque exhibition on, she'd said that morning while he was pouring coffee and John had really, honestly gone for a neutral expression, because Rebecca, his current girlfriend who would undoubtedly be off the list again as soon as he aired his first intentions of returning to Afghanistan, next opportunity he could get, was an art history major and felt rather differently about galleries than he did. Rather than applauding him for not audibly groaning at the suggestion, she had thrown one look in his direction and continued: oh, don't be that way, John, it'll be fun! We'll do the tour!
Because he'd actually like to continue to get some, he deliberately hadn't replied that unless it was overseas, he wasn't much interested. Instead he'd nodded and smiled politely, offering to take her out for lunch afterwards. She'd been very appreciative.
The tour managed a head start of a good fifteen minutes before Rebecca ended up in an undoubtedly relevant discussion with the guide about the dating of a specific painting that to John just looks like gloomy splotches on canvas and maybe the outline of a skull -- and he mostly wants to face-palm at the sheer awkwardness of it, the other tour guests throwing him dirty looks while the two women turn increasingly more enthusiastic, borderline hysteric in their debate. He stays back while they continue into the next exhibit, telling himself he'll go find the loo and then catch up, shouldn't be too difficult, the tour guide gave him a map before they started.
That's when he overhears a bunch of teenagers, obviously American, gang up on one specific kid. Watching them out the corner of his eye, he frowns slightly, the kid seemingly noticing him after a few seconds and making a rather pathetic attempt at seeming unbothered. John purses his lips. "You act out in museums often?"
Peter watches his classmates a moment, he knows that they're talking about him and Flash is undoubtedly plotting something so he'll need to stay on his guard the whole tour through the museum. Just once, he'd like to get through a field trip that didn't go all to shit. Or maybe next time, he'll do a better job at hiding the form from Aunt May.
"Oh god, no! No, of course not!" He answers quickly, brown eyes wide with slight panic. It's clear he might actually be a bit of a spaz as the one kid had said. "I'm just uh-he was kidding it's just that uh last field trip we went on uh a thing.. happened that was totally not my fault and I guess I don't really have the best track record when it comes to field trips-they're just being jerks about it." He explains, nodding his head slightly and pursing his lips and an eager expression on his face.
It might have been more accurate to say he has the worst track record when it comes to school trips but he's always overshared quite a bit and this man is a complete stranger. It wasn't like he owed him his entire life story. But it's just what happens-get nervous, ramble and over share until he can finally find a stopping point and hopefully just swallow his whole tongue.
"I bet you probably didn't want to spend the tour with a bunch of teenagers from Midtown-it was kinda a last minute thing. Mr Harrington told us all last night that we would be visiting here. Which is nice-just our whole trip since we left the airport just kinda uh... been a mess."
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Greek Roman Section, because why not?
Art's not really Peter's thing either but he can still appreciate it just fine. He glances around the exhibit, taking in the sculptures from a safe distance and getting no where near any of the oil paintings.
"This room making you uncomfortable, penis?" One of his classmates asks, a few of the other giggling. Peter just fixes him with a look but doesn't otherwise say anything since he's definitely not trying to start a fight here, of all places. "Better be careful though, if you spaz out like you usually do, you could end up having to sell yourself to the museum."
Peter suppresses a sigh as Flash and his friends go back to whatever they were doing before. "That didn't even make sense." He mutters to himself before noticing he's not the only one standing away from the exhibits. "Uh! Hi! He was just kidding. That's all."
oh, this should be fun.
Because he'd actually like to continue to get some, he deliberately hadn't replied that unless it was overseas, he wasn't much interested. Instead he'd nodded and smiled politely, offering to take her out for lunch afterwards. She'd been very appreciative.
The tour managed a head start of a good fifteen minutes before Rebecca ended up in an undoubtedly relevant discussion with the guide about the dating of a specific painting that to John just looks like gloomy splotches on canvas and maybe the outline of a skull -- and he mostly wants to face-palm at the sheer awkwardness of it, the other tour guests throwing him dirty looks while the two women turn increasingly more enthusiastic, borderline hysteric in their debate. He stays back while they continue into the next exhibit, telling himself he'll go find the loo and then catch up, shouldn't be too difficult, the tour guide gave him a map before they started.
That's when he overhears a bunch of teenagers, obviously American, gang up on one specific kid. Watching them out the corner of his eye, he frowns slightly, the kid seemingly noticing him after a few seconds and making a rather pathetic attempt at seeming unbothered. John purses his lips. "You act out in museums often?"
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"Oh god, no! No, of course not!" He answers quickly, brown eyes wide with slight panic. It's clear he might actually be a bit of a spaz as the one kid had said. "I'm just uh-he was kidding it's just that uh last field trip we went on uh a thing.. happened that was totally not my fault and I guess I don't really have the best track record when it comes to field trips-they're just being jerks about it." He explains, nodding his head slightly and pursing his lips and an eager expression on his face.
It might have been more accurate to say he has the worst track record when it comes to school trips but he's always overshared quite a bit and this man is a complete stranger. It wasn't like he owed him his entire life story. But it's just what happens-get nervous, ramble and over share until he can finally find a stopping point and hopefully just swallow his whole tongue.
"I bet you probably didn't want to spend the tour with a bunch of teenagers from Midtown-it was kinda a last minute thing. Mr Harrington told us all last night that we would be visiting here. Which is nice-just our whole trip since we left the airport just kinda uh... been a mess."