video/text; @falcon: the first memorial tony stark (616) and wanda maximoff mousting tournament

[wingedman]

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[The video takes place in a living room, with all the furniture pushed up against the walls to leave a wide open space in the middle of the room. A circle about six feet wide is marked off with blue painters' tape, and a number of small mice in eclectic homemade clothing are clustered around different spots outside the circle and cheering, waving small banners, flags, and other miscellany in either red or blue. Although the cheers are indistinct, it's clear that it's actual language, rather than simple mouse squeaking.

In the center of the circle, two roombas hum and maneuver around each other. Each vacuum has four balloons in either red or blue, and knives are duct-taped to the front of them. In addition, there's a small team of mice clad in their respective colors on each roomba. Somehow, they're steering them, although it's not completely evident how.

As the video goes on, the roombas pop their balloons - red starts out with a clear advantage, taking out two balloons in quick succession, but blue manages to stave them off for a time, long enough to catch up. Blue pulls ahead, followed by a tie, but ultimately, red succeeds in eliminating their competition's balloons first. Somehow, all of this is done without injury to the mice, although there are a few close calls, and occasionally competition will pause to switch new riders in.

At the end, the gleeful red fans swarm in and present their winning team with an assortment of cookies, cheese, and crackers, a few young mice mopping sweat from spiked fur with small towels.]

text; closed to Sam's CR among the Marvel casts

Anyone want a splinter colony of mice? Seriously, I've got, like, fifty of them, and I need to get rid of a few. They'll be happy to find new homes, I promise. They're well-behaved, you just have to remind them of the rules sometimes, and you can always bribe them with food. They just want to have people to hang around and worship, so, uh, you'll find them singing songs about you and having weird rituals and festivals about minor things in your life, but they're cute little bastards.

Also, if anyone's looking for a place to live, let me know. Or if you want to help me cook brunch on Sundays, because man, I can't cook food for everyone who shows up by myself.


[ooc: In case anyone's curious, this happens to be a colony of Aeslin mice from Seanan McGuire's Incryptid books.]

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video | un: iron.man

[buildsomething]

[There's a pause, broken only by the sound of more cheering, a handful of mice currently perched on Dum-E's upraised arm appear to be going ecstatic.

Tony, completely deadpan, starts slow-clapping.]

I will admit, I did not expect to be taken quite that literally.

[wingedman]

Congratulations, you and the other Tony are officially the worst mouse influences.

[Because of course he's the one who modified the roombas in the first place. Sam's just glad the mice didn't try to use the hover mode. And he's glad that he made sure to get roombas that didn't have flamethrower mode (because of course the world needs vacuums that can set things on fire, thank you Tony Stark).]

On the bright side, now we know how to settle all our arguments in the future. No more airport battles.

video; un: stranger.things

[potentialed]

[ Oh wow. WHat an inventive bunch they are. ]

Is there a betting pool on which side wins?

[wingedman]

Not yet. I don't think they'll bet because it's a religious matter - although since one side represents Tony, there's a possibility betting might be religious for them.

-not our Tony or the other Tony, the one that was here and left. But, honestly, there's a certain similarity among all Starks.

video: un: j.whale

[jolting]

I'm... not sure what I just watched.

[wingedman]

Mice jousting on souped-up roombas armed with knives.

...they're bored.

[That is a terrible explanation, Sam.]

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[likeacoupon]

I have no fucking clue what this is but I'll put twenty down on blue.

[It reminds her a little bit of some of the random shit that Walter used to do and she will not admit it but it's nostalgic.]

[wingedman]

Man, people really will bet on anything.

[He's not knocking it, he sounds amused as hell.]

video // @strange.magic

[suckstobestrange]

The mice's tree grew a bit, so feel free to send some more my way.

[A wood-on-wood thump can be heard from not far away, and a tiny chorus of 'why are you like this?' from somewhere to the left of the sorcerer.]

They're expanding anyways, might as well get some use out of it.

[Stephen's not helping them. Nope, he's not.]

[wingedman]

Are you hammering anything?

[Yes, that's what he's choosing to take from this. LOOK STEPHEN HE KNOWS HOW YOU ARE.]

@maverick

[deploy]

You better hope Riverview doesn't have PETA.

[wingedman]

Hey, I only let them do this with adult supervision. And I have a first aid kit.

text: un scavenger.rey

[talentedscavenger]

I'm not sure what is going on.

Is this...normal in your home?

[wingedman]

Pretty much.

The other Tony - the other other Tony, the one who left a few months ago, souped up these robots. Normally they're just cleaning robots, but he went all-out, because he's Tony Stark. And then the mice started riding them.

text; → actualwizard666

[wiccant]

Wow, that was intense. Do mice wars happen often?
Should I be on the lookout for tiny mice armies?

[wingedman]

You know, I don't think they have wars. This is just their idea of sport.

You should say hi to the ones in the Sanctum sometime. They're in a tree in the living room - well, they're everywhere, but that's where they live. They could use a new god to worship, I think they're a little down after Wanda left.

video; @fromTV

[spellslots]

Holy shit, these guys are still kicking?

[Does Taako know how long mice live? Absolutely not.]

Is anyone taking bets on the teams cause I think I recognize one of the little dudes on blue and I'll put money on him.

[wingedman]

[dryly:] And reproducing.

[Though not at the rate normal mice would, thank god.]

Yeah, I got Tony running the betting ring. Blue seems to be a popular choice so far.

[Like, two out of three. Look, the mouse betting just hasn't caught on yet.]

video; @polaris

[polarising]

[ Lorna just watches. A couple of times it might look like she's gathered her thoughts enough to say something, but every time it sort of peters out before she can say it.

Finally, all she can come up with is this: ]

I have no idea what I'm looking at.

[wingedman]

Mice jousting on roombas, basically.

One of my friends has bad ideas - well, more than one friend, but I'm largely blaming the one who's still here.

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[inebriety]

What makes you think I know how to cook?

[Sadly he doesn't want mice.]

[wingedman]

I'm sure you don't, it was just a general question to anyone who might be interested.

No mice? They seem to be fond of all your incarnations.

text » @LOKIOFASGARD

[ikols]

I hope your mice-room is well-proofed, because Freyja may have her own house-guests over soon for a party and I will not be held accountable for rodent genocide.

[wingedman]

She's having a snake sleepover?

[Normally he'd bet on the mice against smaller snakes - he's seen them in action - but any snakes Freyja knows probably aren't normal.]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll see if Stephen can put some wards on their tree.

[Yes, the mice live in a tree in the living room, because that's just how the Sanctum is.]

[11calls]

Wow, I didn't think robot fighting would actually be so much fun!

[wingedman]

Apparently it works better when you hack the roombas and soup 'em up a bit. The guy who made these had some with flamethrowers, too - that wasn't such a good idea.

Video @the.boneless

[ragnarsson]

[What is he watching? Seriously, what sort of madness is this?]

...and just when I thought I'd seen everything here.

[But he won't stop watching. He's kind of fascinated now by the little critters and their apparent close brushes with disaster each time a knife comes close.]

[wingedman]

[The mice seem to be surprisingly adept at dodging the blades; clearly they've had plenty of practice. Plus their relative size helps.]

If there's one thing I've learned here, it's that there's always something weird and new happening when you least expect it.

text; un: captain.rogers

[neversurrender]

[What]

How exactly did you get stuck with all these singing, worshiping mice, Sam?

[wingedman]

They were Wanda's, I just sort of...inherited them.

[Sam, that's the worst explanation ever.]

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[mannerism]

for the love of God.

at least attempt to get them under control, they're acting like barbarians.

[wingedman]

Look, I can't control the mice, they pretty much do what they want. And they're actually very cultured when they aren't roomba jousting.

@nat [text - private]

[unmakeme]

[Natasha debates for a while, planning more than once to just ignore this. Not her table. Those were mice riding roombas with knives strapped to them, though. Roomba wars.]

A splinter colony of mice. Who want to worship people.

When did this become normal?