Returning home with more than what she left with, Emily put the bulging bag from her neighbors into the refrigerator.  They thanked her for the cookies, put the toilet tissue away, and then made room for her at the dinner table, eager for her to join them.  Explaining each dish and smiling at her willingness to sample them all, Emily’s taste buds were treated to a mouthwatering exhibition of flavors: green papaya salad with grilled prawns, stir‎ fried chicken and garlic with lemongrass and onion over vermicelli noodles, and stuffed tofu with ground pork and jasmine rice.  Listening to the two children, Henry and Linda, talk about the American dishes they liked, Emily had a game plan to make a few and take it over as a surprise. Somehow she needed to tip the scale in her favor.<br/><br/>Checking the laptop, an email alert from Innocent Innuendos confirmed 47 had replied to their conversation.  She settled down to read his message after starting the kettle for a cup of tea.  His Care Bears comment made her laugh out loud and the idea of RPing with someone with a wicked sense of humor was inviting.  Agreeing with his logic behind selecting an RP based on Alien, she quickly typed a response,<br/><br/><i>Hi 47, focusing our RP on the Alien franchise sounds very doable and I agree, let’s leave out Predator.  No one needs the additional anxiety of writing about the kick ass hunter!  So where should we start?  I’ve heard some members like characters to have a profile summary, is this something you’d like us to work on?  Have you thought about age of the characters, names, and what they might be doing when the story begins?  </i><br/><br/>Hitting enter, hot water boiling, Emily began to feel an actual RP might very well be a possibility.