B-Squad Common Room, SPD Headquarters, 2023

[needsaparrot]

"So we're on seven, right?" Xander asks Bridge as he strikes a match. He knows the answer, because it's not exactly the first Hanukkah celebration he's been to (not even counting the previous six nights) but it never hurts to confirm with the experts.

[OOC: Shh, yes, we know 2023 wouldn't match up with this year's Jewish calendar. Shh. It's another dimension and G-d knows these guys are so timefrakked anyway that who knows what day it really is for them. OH ALSO open for the locals, and/or calls from FH friends.]

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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh," Bridge calls out as he wanders in to the common room with a tray full of food- only some of it Synthetron-made, really.

What? It's hard to cook for more than two people in the tiny little kitchen their quarters include.

[needsaparrot]

"It's wrong to be a little relieved Mel's not here, right?" Xander asks as he lights the center candle. "Just because of the whole tackling whenever she sees me with fire issue."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't tackling someone holding a match only make the problem worse, anyway?" he wonders.

[needsaparrot]

"I guess there's the whole Stop, Drop & Roll thing?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Somehow I don't think 'drop the burning match on the floor' is what they meant by that."

[needsaparrot]

Xander shrugs. "It works when your aim is 'stop the Watcher from setting himself on fire.'"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"But you're not going to set yourself on fire," Bridge points out, and then narrows his eyes suspiciously. "Are you?"

[needsaparrot]

Xander rolls his. "No. But this is Mel we're talking about."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Good, because flame-broiled Xander isn't part of the plan ever," Bridge says solemnly.

[multiplez]

Z wandered into the common room, closely followed by Ghost. They were holding a lively debate over whether an interstellar organization should pay overtime for working on Earth-based religious holidays when Z caught sight of what Bridge was doing and stopped dead. Ghost nearly ran into her. "Oh, frak, that's now?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"It's after sundown," Bridge points out. "So, yep."

[multiplez]

"I totally knew that," Z lied. To a psychic.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"We're on day seven, by the way," Bridge supplies helpfully. "Or night seven, depending on the calendar you feel like going by."

[multiplez]

"I thought it was earlier, for some reason," Z said because her player can't resist a dash of meta.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hanukkah always starts on the same day," Bridge says. "The 25th of Kislev." Which is true enough, even if that's not always the same day in the Gregorian calendar.

[multiplez]

"Yeah, I don't see 'Kislev' on my calendar," she said wryly.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Because you're using the wrong one," Bridge says oh-so-logically.

[multiplez]

Z frowned. "Am not."

[needsaparrot]

"Technically it's been now for six days now," Xander pointed out, lighting the seventh candle.

[multiplez]

"Yeah, for some reason I thought it had, like, already happened and I missed it," Z said because her player can't resist a dash of meta.

[needsaparrot]

"Y'know, I had that feeling too," Xander admitted. "I think the calendar on my laptop is still a little wonky from all the time-travel."

[multiplez]

"Stupid time travel," Z said. "So how's Hannukah '23 going so far?"

[needsaparrot]

"I haven't burnt the place down yet," Xander replied. "I'm counting that as a plus. And? Chocolate coins are never, ever a bad thing."

[multiplez]

Z laughed. "Guess I can't argue with that. And please don't burn the place down. They just got done remodeling it."

[needsaparrot]

Xander snorted. "If I burned the place down, guess who'd have to repair it?"