12956/Titans Social at the Tower

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Titans Social at the Tower
Date of Scene: 03 October 2022
Location: Main Room - Titan's Tower
Synopsis: It's Movie Night for the Titans! Goonies is watched, Rocky Horror Picture Show is discussed, and plans of various natures are developed.
Cast of Characters: Gar Logan, Kate Bishop, Victor Stone, Karolina Dean, Rachel Roth, Terry O'Neil




Gar Logan has posed:
It's...Movie Night! The main room is set up with pizza, popcorn, pretzels, soda, and many more snacks, not to mention a plate full of Baby Ruth candy bars. Why?

The large TV screen is playing The Goonies, a classic kid's adventure film with memorable scenes and lines. Gar is decked out in a 'Goonies Never Say Die' t-shirt, wearing a pirate hat atop his head along with an eyepatch. "HEEEEY YOOOU GUYS!" he calls out, well before that line is even due up. The characters are still just trying to figure out the clues that will lead them to the treasure so they can save their home.

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate with flawless accuracy flings and bounces a lemonhead off Gar's head at jumping the gun on the line delivery.

    She is curled up against one arm of the couch wearing comfortable clothes not her Hawkeye superhero gear or her street Kate Bishop clothes. Just comfy yoga pants, no socks even, and a ESU Tanktop

    She was lured out of studying freshman calc for her class to socialize with the gang. Since it is movie night she went all out with snacks, hence the lemon heads, and a big bowl of popcorn and a half liter of diet coke on the end table by her.

    "I have to admit Gar, this old movie held up pretty well, it's probably cause they didn't try to use crappy 80s CGI or anything like that Tron movie you had us watch."

    Reminder that Kate was born in 2003 if there ever was one.

Victor Stone has posed:
    "You're early, Gar!" Vic calls as he brings a big bowl of popcorn with caramel drizzle and a 2-liter of cola over to the couch. He's not projecting the movie tonight, letting his circuits rest since they've been on the fritz a bit lately. He grins at Kate as she flings the lemonhead at Gar.

    "And no dissing Tron, it was a /pioneer/ of CG and 3D animation," he adds as he plops down on the couch. "A true classic. But I gotta admit--Goonies is more of a /Titans/ movie, you know?" He settles back a bit, grabbing a handful of popcorn.

Karolina Dean has posed:
    "I thought you paused it!" comes a laugh as Karolina makes her way out into the main room. She'd made some snacks, too! Agedashi-style tofu in a small mountain on a big plate with dipping sauce. The blonde has her powers dialed down so she isn't shining up a storm, though she's dressed casually in loose pajama pants featuring the Yellow Submarine-style cartoon heads of the Beatles and an oversized teeshirt with a pumpkin wearing a pirate hate and a skull carved into it.
    "I hope I made enough for everyone. I started some new cooking classes focusing on Japanese cuisine after summer break was over..." She plunks herself down next to Kate and flashes her bright smile at Gar and Victor.

Rachel Roth has posed:
    Raven has been, begrudgingly, present for the whole of the movie. On occasion, there is a small note left for her in their shared room. Usually, this note details important tasks that Donna has left for her- Raven, of course, reciprocates in kind by leaving Donna the same thing sometimes. As their waking hours can often differ, it's helpful to keep things operating smoothly.

    Today, when Raven awoke promptly when the sun went to bed, the note left for her read simply, "Movie Night" and was underlined several times. This was Donna reminding Raven to be social.

    She would pay for it later, dearly.

    Regardless of this, it was advice that Raven heeded. She had brewed up a pot of coffee for everyone at the start of the film, as was her tradition, and anyone that wanted a cup of caffeine at night was welcome to have it.

    She has not commented on the choice of film. That itself is enough to know what she thinks of it. She still /watched/ it, but occasionally, she glared at the screen, as if momentarily considering that movie night could come to a sudden but harmless end if only she knew how to only temporarily disable the television. A mental note she takes to learn later.

    "I do not eat tofu." are the first words out of her in perhaps an hour. Idly, she sips at a cup of coffee. Her fourth.

Gar Logan has posed:
"Ack!" With Gar's attention more on the screen, the lobbed lemonhead bonks off the back of his head. It's such a small thing, no harm done by it. He still overreacts, moving around like he's about to pass out before stabilizing himself via hands to the back of the couch.

He scoffs, "This was back when movies had more soul because they were out there doing everything themselves." He keeps his voice down, just enough. "The one you're talking about is fine, but the original Tron was way better even if it looked like a B-movie. I'll have to tell you later about how they made it look the way they did."

Karolina's offering is at least sampled with a quick "Thanks," but upon tasting it he takes on a thoughtful expression and hmms under his breath. Rachel's opinion of tofu is noted, but he doesn't make anything of it. "Did you know people go to Astoria all year long to see the Goonies House?" he asks in general.

Kate Bishop has posed:
    "Tofu isn't bad, not sure about movie theater fare but not bad." she demonstrates by leaning away from the arm of the couch past Karoline to snag a piece of the tofu and dip it before popping it into her mouth.

    Seems she is willing to risk a team members cooking even if it is a bit of a risk as it sounds like one class down not like all of cooking school. Still it is more cooking classes than she has had. She has always had a chef or the finest restaraunts growing up. Spoiled kid.

    She settles back in against the end of the couch and flips her arm around the back behind Karolina. "Vic, you said the same thing about the first jurasic park... the water.. look at it ripple. Just because something was ground breaking thirty years ago doesn't mean it holds up today."

    "I was talking about that original 80s Tron.. the reboot did look sweet..." yup she is definitely not a movie cinemiphile. "I found that strange... like the helter skelter house in Long Island.. wait no the Amityville house... the helter skepter one is out west right... Manson?" okay she knows about murder houses evidently.

Victor Stone has posed:
    Vic sighs and shakes his head at Kate. "No appreciation for the classics," he mutters. But he goes ahead and snags some tofu to try to it out, popping it in his mouth and chewing thoughtfully.

    "Huh. Deep-fried tofu isn't half-bad." He experiments a little by dipping the tofu in some of the caramel sauce on his popcorn. "Huh." He glances at Raven. "I bet they could make tofu that tastes like coffee. Might be good, even."

Karolina Dean has posed:
    It's crispy! It's soft! It's not as good as that expensive steakhouse where everything's so fresh you could swear it was fresh picked and caught the moment you ordered it, but Karolina's no slouch at cooking. "I'd lvoe to see a movie theater that serves stuff like this," the blonde says cheerfully. "I think I've heard of them. Big comfy seats, you can order drinks and meals..." she wiggles into her seat some more, leaning into Kate's arm.
    "I missed dinner, so I'll be snacking on stuff anyway. I tend to make my own stuff for movie night, microwave popcorn's usually got milk in it, even if it's just microwave stuff... unless you just salted it?" she asks, hopeful at whomever made the popcorn. She's still looking at the screen, though, between crunching down on the tofu. Vic's suggestion makes her eyes twinkle. "...I'll bring that up next class, thanks!"

Terry O'Neil has posed:
"Sorry I'm late!"

That's Vorpal. The Rabbit Hole that drops him off into the main room also carries with it the heavenly smells of Agatha's kitchen. Caramel, chocolate, and the smell of something warm and fluffy. Someone has been baking. The Cheshire Cat carries a tray of warm cookies into the room.

"Don't forget, tomorrow at nine." That's Agatha's voice, just off-screen from the Rabbit Hole's main focus.
"Yes mom-"
"Say hi to your friends for me."
"Mom they're /right/ here-"

Agatha, floury and apron-clad, leans into focus and waves briefly, and starts saying "Garfield, make sure he keeps his appointment? He has been scratchi-"
"MOM for the last time I do NOT have fleas!" Vorpal turns around, flabberghasted and wide-eyed.
"I'm only sayi-"
"Oh no the magic seems to be weakening some sort of flux with the time space discontinuuum mom I'm losing-"

The Rabbit Hole closes.

Vorpal turns around and stares at his team-mates and his boyfriend. And then, attempting a reset, "RIGHT. Who wants mom's cookies? oooh, is that The Goonies?"

He hastily proceeds to lay down the tray for easy reach, and plops down on the couch, his eyes daring Gar to say, even think of saying /anything/ about what just transpired.

Rachel Roth has posed:
    There is more sipping as Vic informs her that somewhere, out there, a crime is to be committed involving the merging of coffee and tofu. Raven's expression remains neutral, but her response somehow conveys a nigh infinite amount of disgust.

    "No."

    This is when a hole opens up in the world and deposits Terry, hounded- as it were- by his mother. "Hello, Agatha." Raven, always polite to the woman who harms Terry the most. There is the sort of intrinsic wound that only a mother can inflict, and Raven respects that. However- "Fleas, Terry? We will have to get all three of you checked. Victor, please construct a suitable shaver."

    A pause.

    "And three large plastic cones."

Gar Logan has posed:
"Hopefully it's not mange," Gar calls out as Agatha puts Vorpal on the spot. "You'd /better/ not be carrying fleas, or you're getting a bath and a collar," he adds, looking directly at the feline, no matter the fact he's bearing treats from his mother.

Rachel's verbal threats do not sway him. "You all might find this hard to believe, but I take /more/ showers than you think. I /know/ the kinds of things animals can catch, and I check myself everywhere. Now let me have my popcorn in peace. Look. They're going to find the Fratelli hideout." A green hand indicates the screen.

As a small afterthought, he adds, "For Halloween we should reserve a big room at the theater and invite people to see Rocky Horror."

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Kate archs an eyebrow at Vic. "I'm pretty sure the original Tron movie isn't a classic in any sense than it is old Vic. I mean technically music from the 90s is classic rock now on the classic rock stations. Though you would have been a toddler so I guess your dad's music or something."

    She relaxes against Karolina and snags up her soda. "Pretty sure mine has fake butter and salt on it, Vic's has caramel it looks like.. which no idea how you make caramel..."

    Her eyes light on the tray of cookies, she makes gimme gimme grabby hand at them after setting hersoda down. "Me me..."

    She nearly chokes on a cookie though when Rae demands the trio of boys get flee dipped and cone of shamed though.

Victor Stone has posed:
    Vic waves at Agatha, calls, "Thanks for the cookies, Ms. O'Neil!" and then turns to regard the others. He considers Raven's words. Considers them /very/ seriously. "Alright," he says. "Although Gar's right--I suspect whatever might be up is /probably/ just him. Probably."

    He focuses back on the screen. "Caramel's usually made with sugar, butter, water, and sometimes heavy cream. So--milk. Sorry. Rocky Horror sounds great, Gar--although Kate here will probably protest it's outdated too." He shakes his head and grins at her briefly.

Karolina Dean has posed:
    "What's in them? The cookies, I mean!" Karolina asks, attempting to deflect the conversation from her teammates' various personal hygeine or lack thereof or risk of fleas and such to a different topic. "And thank you very much!" Well, that and the Goonies are about to run into creepy villains and their creepy gang and the true hero of the hour: Sloth. "You'd be surprised, even the stuff from Wal-Mart has milk in it..." she says with a quiet sigh at Kate. "One of the biggest reasons I do all the cooking I can, little pitfalls like that..." she shrugs her shoulders and snuggles in a bit with Kate.

    The talk of what's classic vs old is something she rather dodges out of, considering her particular fandom that she's literally wearing on her legs right now. "A lot of old movies do have their own kitschy charm though~!" she adds helpfully. "I wouldn't mind seeing Rocky Horror on the big screen, and I should consider a costume for Halloween proper..."

Terry O'Neil has posed:
"I do /not/ have fleas!" Vorpal crosses his arms and stares daggers at Gar. "I was chasing this dude through the docks earlier tonight and I slipped and fell into an open crate full of /sawdust/." He grumbles and reaches over, brushing at his shoulder, and extracting something small and brown. "And woodchips and I'm pretty sure I've got splinters on my a-- the point is I don't have fleas!"

Vorpal frowns, "Sorry, K, mom hasn't quite mastered the art of making vegan cookies. Maybe I can convince her next time."

He shoots Raven a glance, "... nobody's going to shave me. I am not going to look like one of those creepy bald cats. BUT anyways. Rocky Horror. We should go watch it for Halloween. In costume. I call dibs on Magenta!"

Rachel Roth has posed:
    Raven sips.

    Over the rim of her coffee cup, through the light steam, her eyes remain ever visible, even in the dark of the room on movie night. "A likely story." she begins, before turning her head and offering a nod of thanks to Vic. Glad to see someone is taking this seriously.

    She does not take a cookie, for the moment. Instead, she remarks quietly to Terry naught but two things: "Body shaming an entire breed of cat. How cruel." Allowing that a moment to sink in, she gestures over to Gar. "Also, your shouting is ruining one of your boyfriend's favorite movies. Not to mention the fleas. Is there no end to your audacity?"

Gar Logan has posed:
"If there is, I haven't found it yet," Gar deadpans to Rachel's question about Vorpal.

Then he says quickly to the feline, more than the rest here, "I don't have any tiny gold hotpants, and I /know/ that's what you'd suggest for me. Not that I wouldn't make them look good. Now shush, cat. They're about to..well, look."

The movie's adventures continue within the hideout, as they get closer to finding the lost pirate ship. He looks between Karolina and the rest as the matter of ingredients that are and aren't okay are discussed. "I respect that you gotta do what you gotta do with your foods," then he stage-whispers, "For the record, he's had fleas before. We had to bomb the whole apartment. Nobody's getting cones of shame, though."

Kate Bishop has posed:
    "Can't wait for the flea rumor to hit the capewatch site." she spreads her free hand. "Feline Titan Fleas Responsbility.... Bugle headline."

    She thinks about then decides to keep quiet she hasn't seen Rocky Horror. She is pretty sure it will be an experience the way everyone seems keen on it for Halloween. Not going to respond to Vic's jab about panning it either as outdated, not without more intel. Anyhow she is a sport about movie nights, she may say they are bad, but only after suffering through them.

    "Halloween party sounds good to me."

Victor Stone has posed:
    "As the tallest and shiniest, /I/ should obviously be in the tiny gold hotpants. That, or I should be in a wheelchair." Vic shrugs, and having rendered his verdict on his potential Rocky Horror costumes--the scientist or the creature, obviously the best options for Cyborg--he settles in to watch this key part of the movie.

    "Why shouldn't Terry have a cone of shame?" he whispers at Gar. "I mean--just in general, you know?"

Karolina Dean has posed:
    Karolina waves a hand dismissively at Terry, "Don't worry about it~" she says with sincere cheer. "I don't expect people to bend over backwards for my diet. And besides, if I can cook up some stuff that's Kosher for me and everyone else likes too, then that's a win~" her words are directed both at Gar and Vorpal. She snags another misshapen cube of fried tofu and crunches on it happily. And promptly almost chokes on it at Kate's punnish headline. She snickers quietly, shaking her head and works on recovering her snack.

    "Vic, you'd look great in gold hot pants," she winks, "I don't know if I'd want to go in-character for a Rocky Horror night but I'll go in -A- costume if I canfigure out what?" she says quietly, not wanting to talk over the movie. "...maybe Elvira..." she idly tugs on a lock of her bright hair, as if contemplating how long black dye would stick to it.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
"I think Raven's got dibs on Elvira," the Cheshire says, trying his best to both divert, and also get his own tease in payment for Raven's. "The only thing about the costume is that I don't think we should let Rae have the dagger. It would prove far too tempting."

He looks from Vic to Gar, and back to Vic, "I'm sorry, Vic, you'd look great in gold hot pants, but you know where my vote lies..."

His eyes twinkle when Gar mentions that lie about fleas, and one could swear the flash of glitter appears for a moment in his hands, and it is gone. "Be careful, mister Logan. I know where you sleep..." he muses, and then turns his attention to the TV, "Oh I love that pirate ship. Didn't they actually sail it out? I remember reading something about that..." he says quietly.

Rachel Roth has posed:
    "You were our last hope, Beast Boy. Truly the well of audacity is bottomless." There is a silence, and her eyes roll somewhat as the set of them discuss who should play the titular Rocky Horror, though Raven sees through some of the ruse for what it is.

    "Naturally, Victor should play Rocky Horror." she notes, deferring to Victor for his own taste. "I will not be going to any parties as Elvira. I will not wear a beehive." After all, she's already going as either Morticia or Gomez, and honestly, she'll probably have to fight Donna to see who gets to be whom.

    "Do not let him distract any of you. He is assigning every role except for Frank for a reason."

    Sip.

Gar Logan has posed:
Gar Logan shakes his head. "I don't think they can handle that much heat. Vic can wear them." He fingersnaps at Rachel, not so much for the part about Vorpal's audacity, but the other part. "See? If Rae and I agree on anything, that means it is decided. It shall be. But that still leaves..wait, what? That's Dick, obviously. And we don't have Riff Raff yet, or Eddie, or Columbia."

As the ship comes more into view, he answers the part about where he sleeps first. "Yeah, next to you. And I'm pretty sure they built a whole ship for the filming, and they were gonna give it to someone on the crew or something like that, but it got scrapped instead. Can you imagine that? What a waste."

As somewhat of an afterthought, he replies to Vic about the cone. "That's what I'm saying, dude. And Karolina, I went through a vegan thing once, but I couldn't give up all the stuff I liked. Plus, I believe in the whole 'circle of life' thing."

He almost spits up his drink at Kate's headline, coughing once. "Nice one. And have you seen RHPS? You've been kind of quiet about it."

Kate Bishop has posed:
    Put on the spot. "Maybe. I've endured a lot of movie nights here in the tower. It's the one with Tim Curry in it right?" yeah she is bluffing. She thinks it is that one. Though no she hasn't seen it. She sips her soda and acts cool though.

    Soda set down she leans and reaches to snag another tofu and dip it in the sauce before relaxing back arm slinking behind Karolina and the couch once more..

    Be cool Kate.

Victor Stone has posed:
    Vic grins at Gar and Rachel both. "Guess it's settled, then, without /strenuous/ objection from non-Vorpal quarters." Look, if Donna protests Vic in tiny gold shorts he's not sure he could argue. Would she? Hard to say. But he'll leave some wiggle room.

    He snorts at Kate and shakes his head. "Uh-huh. Sure. I mean, you're right, but..." He shakes his head, and ponders the movie for a moment.

    "I wonder if there's any pieces of it left? The ship, I mean." He muses to himself and then falls silent, watching the movie, because it's in the really good part now.

Karolina Dean has posed:
    "That settles it then, Elvira it is. I know Arctic Fox makes a good dye that's temporary... though I do worry about the styling," Karolina says with a nod to Raven and a soft laugh. Then she shrugs at Gar. "I was raised on the lifestyle, I'm used to it, and I love it, so I do my best with it~" she notes with her typical cheer before frowning at the status of the boat. "Oh.. that *is* a waste.." she shakes her head and sighs, leaning into Kate a little more, yawning quietly. "Mmh. I love this team..." she returns to her smile, enjoying the back and forth banter around her as much as she enjoys the movie.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
"Elvira it is," the Cheshire nods at Karolina. Vorpal narrows his eyes at Victor, Raven and Gar. It's a very wide stare. "I see. Conspiring against me, are you? Well, I shall have my revenge. One day. Surely." He doesn't mention that he already had a Frank 'n Further costume already ready to go. Now where was he going to wear that? Now that he was no longer at the Planet, he couldn't wear it to the office party.

And he wasn't quite sure how Karen Starr would react to /that/ costume. He thought Miss Starr was awesome, but she had a tendency to get huggy, which means his mascara would probably run and there'd be awkward lipstick smears.

So many things to consider. He pops a cookie into his mouth and decides to drop the discussion, although by no means is he going to concede defeat. No siree, the war was not yet won.

He does start to make immediate plans to glitterbomb Gar in the shower tomorrow, though.

Gar Logan has posed:
Gar Logan gets out of having to commit to a particular role, for now. In lieu of that, the movie reaches its climax and /finally/ it's the right time for him to shout, "HEEEEY YOOOU GUYS!"

Oblivious to Vorpal's dastardly plotting, he adds before the movie night comes to an end, "We should take a field trip out there soon and see some of the spots. The school they used for Kindergarten Cop is right down the road from the Goonies House!"

Yeah, times like this remind him why he's glad he came back after everything that happened with Doomsday.