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sam wilson ([personal profile] wingedman) wrote in [community profile] riverview2018-01-08 07:02 pm

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

video; open

[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.]
wiccant: (the sun is out.)

[personal profile] wiccant 2018-01-15 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
They even do musicals?
I'll have to make sure Elliot doesn't find out, he'll get jealous.
Since he knows how much I love them.
likeacoupon: (Um Face)

[personal profile] likeacoupon 2018-01-15 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
I knew a guy who could have benefited from that kind of thing.

[She will not admit that she misses Walter.]

There a lot of war vets here?
talentedscavenger: (Pensive)

[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2018-01-15 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
No, none of those names look familiar. I haven't really met anyone who has a double. [She's not counting Poe, considering she views him as the same version that left and then came back.]

If he doesn't shock or stun you, then you're getting along just fine. Learning binary isn't too hard. I could recommend a book to you, if you want to be able to understand him without Poe or having BB-8 text you.

Then you are roommates with those creatures? I just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly--and to keep an eye out for any other creatures that suddenly decide to start this 'jousting' thing.
ragnarsson: ([19.6] Use the terrain against them)

[personal profile] ragnarsson 2018-01-15 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
What interesting little creatures. I approve of them. My father and I do something similar. You throw an axe or shoot an arrow at the other person while they balance a cup on their head. If you miss, you take a drink of ale.

[Why, yes, most Viking games are this dangerous, and yes, this might count as one of the more terrible ideas for a father-son bonding experience.]
spellslots: deeper than any grave (your love will always be rooted)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-01-16 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
It happens quick.

[Even Clark didn't have time to say goodbye, and Clark has superspeed.]

I'm sorry, my man, she was a good kid.
11calls: but i can't decide if it's good or a shitty one. (empathy is my superpower)

[personal profile] 11calls 2018-01-16 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[That makes Alex laugh, the beginning anyway.]

How weird is it that we get kidnapped and then need to get jobs and pay security deposits and stuff here?

[And then more seriously:]

I'm sorry. Did he go home?
wiccant: (hold your head up high.)

[personal profile] wiccant 2018-01-17 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to buy some pastries, woo them into reenacting some of my favorite scenes.
ragnarsson: ([17.21] Mmmhmm)

[personal profile] ragnarsson 2018-01-17 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Not yet.

[Key word there being yet. If you hear of any emergency room accidents involving ancient weapons, it's probably these two getting up to some idiotic activity.]
mannerism: (039)

[personal profile] mannerism 2018-01-17 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you can manage making them try their hand at a decent poetry reading or a play.
neversurrender: (is my staring getting akward?)

[personal profile] neversurrender 2018-01-18 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Where did they come from? Are all rats around here like...that?

[Which isn't impossible considering the strange kinds of wildlife that are beyond the perimeter.]
neversurrender: ([Sam])

[personal profile] neversurrender 2018-01-18 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
So it's pulling in not just people but animals too. Good to know.

What are the different teams about?
inebriety: (tony › this isn't the worst thing)

[personal profile] inebriety 2018-01-18 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have figured out how to make my own so no need to worry there.
11calls: Could you pause the recorder a minute? (Recording)

[personal profile] 11calls 2018-01-19 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I can imagine. Or make them go out into the garden or something. But that probably wouldn't do very much good in the long run.

[There's a note of humor in her voice that dips before she sincerely says again:]

I'm sorry. That's got to be hard. We can leave and come back and then still be stuck here even though they got the thing working once?
ikols: you lost me when you lied (it breaks my heart)

[personal profile] ikols 2018-01-19 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
You can be her agent. :)
mannerism: (063)

[personal profile] mannerism 2018-01-19 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
if this is your way to ask me to take them off your hands then the answer is no.
neversurrender: (pic#7819742)

[personal profile] neversurrender 2018-01-23 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Like from that game on the cell phone that was popular for a summer?

[Pokemon Go was big news okay. He was there.]

There's another Tony? How many Tonys has this place had at a time?

[This is cause for concern okay.]

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