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

[wingedman]

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.]

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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.

video; un: stranger.things

[potentialed]

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

Is there a betting pool on which side wins?

video: un: j.whale

[jolting]

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

Video

[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.]

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.]

@maverick

[deploy]

You better hope Riverview doesn't have PETA.

text: un scavenger.rey

[talentedscavenger]

I'm not sure what is going on.

Is this...normal in your home?

text; → actualwizard666

[wiccant]

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

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.

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.

text;

[inebriety]

What makes you think I know how to cook?

[Sadly he doesn't want mice.]

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.

[11calls]

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

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.]

text; un: captain.rogers

[neversurrender]

[What]

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

text;

[mannerism]

for the love of God.

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

@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?