14604/A Walk in A Park

A Walk in A Park
Date of Scene:	04 April 2023
Location:	Astoria Park
Synopsis:	Sometimes New York isn't a walk in the park!
Cast of Characters:	Bunny Macleod, Mary Jane Watson

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Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Monday Night in the park is generally quiet. There's always a couple of ne'er-do-wells in oversized jackets hanging around the edges, keeping a wary eye out on the streets for law keepers.

    However, one of them was eyeballing the roller-skating girl in bright pink yoga pants and an oversized sweatshirt, wearing a helmet with pink sparkles, wings, and a foam unicorn horn that's sparkling with different LED colors. She gives a wave to the guys, and then slides herself through a hole in the gate.

    In the dark, she's a heck of a target.

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson is humming 'Saturday night, here in the park'.. Walking along amiably while keeping he rhands in her jacket pockets. Wearing an extra-large t-shirt that reads 'Bueller Was Right' along the front with a picture of Ben Stein's confused face.
    Passing by the uni-horned girl, Mary Jane would give a wave over at her, "Love your outfit!"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Thanks!" the girl in pink states, giving a waves back to Mary Jane as she circles on her skates the red headed woman, giving a small thumbs up.

    "Like your T-shirt. /Classic/. One of the best thing to come outta the 80's other than the soundtrack to Stranger Things!" she gives a bright smile.

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would grin, "Thanks! Can't say I was around when it originally came about but it has that perfect blend of ennui and making your own fun that everything from John Hughes." She would smile over and cross her arms. "You definitely have put a lot of work into your outfit!"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Huh? Oh, no, this old thing?" she asks, tucking her hands into her sweatshirt pockets. "Actually this is new, it's my boyfriend's, but he's on a mission for whales at the moment, I think. Or something like that." Bunny gives an easy smile back to Mary Jane. "How about you? What brings you out to the park at night?"

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would laugh, "I see. That sounds like he has a rather unique sense of costuming. So kudos to the two of you on it. And for wearing it out and about. And just stretching my legs some really. Just got off my shift at a bar so stretching my legs."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Oh? Tender? Performer? Barback? I sometimes play piano at a piano bar. Fun times. Always looking for new places to show off." she gives a small smile, and then draws out a business card. Like the girl with the bright pink hair, it is also brightly colored with neon laser-light effects on the words
    BUNNY MACLEOD
     PIANO PLAYER -STAND IN DUELING PIANIST - SINGER
    THERE CAN BE ONLY BUN.

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would laugh, "Bartender. Was covering someone else's shift that I owed a huge favor to. A very, very huge favor given she's keeping all the tips I made tnoight." Yeah, that sort of crowd in late night New York..
    "Now that's one I haven't heard. So where did that come from?" She would inquire to Bunny. "I've heard of Cabbits, I've heard of Devilbunnies.. Haven't heard o Buns."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "I dunno, bunch of people started referencing this old fantasy movie with that guy who was one of the James Bonds in it and yelling 'there can be only one' -- so I'm all 'no there can be only BUN!' and it kinna stuck." she replies, and she gives a slight shrug to Mary Jane.

    "But if your bar needs a piano player, I play everything from Lizst and Chopin and Mozart to Joel, The Weekend, and I'll even break out the Glee soundtrack if I have to."

    She pauses.

    "Seriously I do need the money though, hundred business cards almost broke the bank."

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would ah, "I can't play the piano. Neve rmade it far in theatre just as I sing like I'm tone deaf. So never going to have a career in a musical anytime soon." She would smiel. "And I'm just covering a shift. I'll pass along your card to the shift manager next time I go there though. And I shudder to think of what circumstances require Glee to be brought out. Bar Mitzvahs? Angel invasions? Aliens? Huge killer robots? Elves?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Or their really bangin' cover of I Need a Hero being done by a pair of dueling pianists with a band backing!" Bunny gives a grin, delivering finger-guns and a ka-chow!

    She's a kid, what does she know?

    "I will totally soundtrack Bar Mitzvahs, but during the whole Angel thing I was in Gotham with my siblings. That sucked. I hate Gotham. Depressing-ass city." she grumps a moment.

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson nods, "Yeah, it definitely gives off vibes of that. Miserable place. It feels like it's dragging you down and everyone there with it. IT's.. Sort of like something is forcing a malaise onto everyone there." Her expression softens.
    "But, weirdest tune you've had to play for something that the crowd liked."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Preeetty sure it's because the last time I was there a ninja broke my ankle after a giant rhino and warthog wrecked a lab I was delivering things to." she states and she leans back against a bit of a bench.

    "Hrmm.. tough one. I think either Merry Go Round Broke Down, at a nursing home, for someone who was claiming he was the reincarnation of Mel Blanc or having to break out Freebird for that ONE jackass in every crowd." she considers.

    "Weirdest drink you've ever had to make for a patron?"

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would just look over at Bunny for a moment symapthetically, "I've nearly been run over three times by a two story tall robotic wheel that had rocket boosters and spikes. I completely understand. And was it a real rhino guy and warthog or just ones wearing costumes of them?" What a world where those things can be entirely different individuals.
    "I'msure that if he was the real Mel Blanc he could have done the voices. All of them." She would deadpan.
    "ANd nothing exotic. I don't do anything close to part time bartending. I'm did this as a favor to a friend that I owed.. Very, very much. So my drinks are all pretty ordinary."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "He was alive when Mel Blanc was, so I have no idea hwo he thought he was the reincarnation, but hey! Bunch of old people thrilled about old music, why not?" she shrugs, and she gives a smile at Mary Jane.

    "So when you're not bartending for friends and letting them keep your tips, which is weird by the way, what do you do?"

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would grin, "Well, in fairness my friend lent her motorcycle to me when I needed to get to an audition and it was run over by a garbage truck and a total loss. so I kind of owe her about two thousand bucks." Oof.
    "Well, I want to be an actress. Same with about three million other people in the city. It means working jobs very randomly so I can drop them as soon as I get an audition to go to which I won't hear a callback from or I'll end up being 'Girl #71 Gasping in Background' as set backpiece."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "ooh, yeah, nah good luck with that. Acting's a hard business to get into. Luckily the guy at Rain Beau Brite's owed me a favor, so I was able to get in and start up the dueling piano thing." the girl explains, rubbing the back of her neck.

    "Don't make a whole lot of money for it, but it helps, yknow? During the day I'm a document courrier."

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would laugh, "So long as the dueling pianos bit isn't like it is in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. That would probably be a bit expensive to keep replacing them all teh time. Much less if they kept exploding. And do you enjoy the courier bit more, or the piano playing more?"

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Probably would not be able to conceal-carry a cannon in a piano!" Bunny laughs, aghast.

    "An' definitely enjoy the piano playing more. Music was kinda my life. I don't... really get to do it anymore iother than at the bar. And I can't tell people I work there."

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would nod, "Okay to ask why? I understand if not or it's something you can't get into. Just no matter what don't do it on a night I'll be there or I might try and sing along."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Ah... nnnnooooo probably not something you wanna share with the sometimes-bartender that crunched a motorcycle under a trash truck." Bunny gives a slight smile, and rubs the back of her head again.

    "So you gotta name, or are you just Mysterious Redhead in the Park?"

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would laugh, "Mary Jane. And I'm not mysterious. I happen to have awesome taste in fashion sense and in 80's teenager movies, I'll have you know. And in fairness I didn't have the bike parked on the curb, it was the trash truck that went up on the sidewalk and ate the bike."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "You're hanging around a playground, at night, in Queens. You're Mysterious. IF this was the Bronx? Maaaaybe dangerous. BRooklyn? Nuts." the pink-haired teenager replies, rolling her feet back and forth on her skates as she consideers

    "So the trash truck jumped the curb and ate the bite."

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would nod, "Oh, pretty much. I thinkt hat the driver just pulled a little too far to the right and just slammed it over. Driver probably had the radio on loud and didn't hear a thing, and it just got sucked up. And I happen tot hink late night playgrounds in Queens are rather casual, miss sparkly unicorn helmet piano girl."