17584/There's a Sandwich at the End of this Scene

There's a Sandwich at the End of this Scene
Date of Scene:	07 April 2024
Location:	Main Kitchen
Synopsis:	As foretold by the prophecy, a sandwich appeared.
Cast of Characters:	Ruth Aldine, Bishop, Patty Sloan, Julio Richter

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Ruth Aldine has posed:
Ruth Aldine, a.k.a. the baffling BLINDFOLD, is in the kitchen.

Right now Ruth is wearing an outfit that qualifies as athleisure because it is clearly athletic - sweat pants and a shirt with the faded imprimatur of the gym-class supply, along with some comfortable sandals - but she is not doing anything athletic at this time.

What Ruth seems to be doing is taking things out of the refrigerator one object at a time. It's a visible cycle: take a thing out - sometimes a jar, occasionally a vegetable (a half-a-white-onion is already out there, and just this moment she put down a somewhat battered iceberg lettuce) - close the refrigerator, place it on the countertop, stop for about four seconds, repeat.

Nobody has interfered with this behavior pattern... UNTIL NOW.

Bishop has posed:
Bishop walks in with his head bobbing to the music in his earphones, hanging out of his left ear to allow him to hear, the music is hip hop. He dances with the beat, over towards the fridge stopping to look at Ruth, waiting dressed in a simple black leather jacket, and jeans and a pair of combat boots. "Sup?" His voice is calls out to the girl, as she is moves from the fridge he starts for and than she is moving back watching her pattern, waiting fingers drumming on the counter to the song, as he waits. "Sandie it seems, I was on my way to make one too!"

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty has been having some rough thoughts since returning from the dead planet around the Methuselah star. What she saw there has kinda been freaking her out a bit. Nothing makes you feel smaller than something that can eat all life on a planet. She shudders a little even now as she is silently walking towards the kitchen.

The blonde quietly walks into the kitchen. She was hoping there would be no one here. Those hopes were dashed by the sight of Ruth and then Bishop. "Crud... Umm Sorry." She looks around. How is she going to soothe her troubled mind now? She was going to get ice cream to make things better. After all, it was Storm that gave her that idea. "Ummm hi... We didn't get to do introductions did we. Nice to meet you, I'm Patty. Nice to meet you both."

Ruth Aldine has posed:
Ruth turns and opens the refrigerator. She holds IT open for like four seconds, and frowns a little, before telling Bishop, "I know. Could you look in here for a moment, please?"

Cold air keeps filling up the room, specifically and explicitly bankrupting Jean Grey in the process.

"Sorry, that's my line," Ruth answers Patty without looking into the refrigerator. "You should come and make a sandwich. Thank you," Ruth says - reaching in to decisively pick up a jar of smooth peanut butter, which goes to sit on the countertop. She closes the refrigerator afterwards.

"I'm Ruth, please," says Ruth, before she walks over to the bread drawer and opens it, turning her blindfolded face down to look at it. Her nose twitches a little. "Nobody bought bread or made bread," Ruth continues, bleakly. "Our choice is frozen bagels or that religious bread in the back of the third shelf of the left side."

"You had to do my job," Ruth tells Patty. "Sorry."

Bishop has posed:
Bishop walks over to peer into the fridge for Ruth with a nod of his head, bouncing to the music still. "I'm Bishop." His voice is friendly, as he peers into it trying to find the ham, than he finds the cheese pulling them out with a frown. "Did you say religious bread, what makes it that is it holey!" His voice is calls out with the bad pun, as he looks at Patty with a nod of his head. "Yeah, well we will handle that space trouble, we never fail you know. It's scary and stuff, but we can handle it." He beams at her, trying to show confidence, tapping his forehead. "The Prof is smart and so is Jean, they got us!"

Patty Sloan has posed:
"What do you mean?" Patty asks curiously. She doesn't know anything about Ruth. How did she do her job? She ponders this a moment. "Well I was coming to raid the freezer for some ice cream. That was suggested to me by Miss Munroe." She blushes a little.

Patty then turns to Bishop. She smiles. "Nice to meet you Bishop." She raises her eyebrows and winces a little. "I have no idea how anyone could deal with something that big. I mean that guy was huge!" She frowns. Then with a shrug, she walks over to the counter and joins Ruth in making a sandwich. "PB and J works I think." She smiles, "Bagels work. PB and J bagels are really good, especially toasted." She gets a bagel and finds the toaster.

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"I don't know why, I just know it's the religious bread," says Ruth, who once more opens the refrigerator and starts rummaging around. What comes out is a bag of Ezekiel 4:9 bread, which Ruth feels out. It has a number of slices, and so, it goes on the counter.

"One of y'all tell me if it's mouldy," she says, before her attention turns to Patty.

"Then, sorry: Ice cream sandwich," she says.

After a moment, she says, "I answered you out of order. It's difficult. I was there when they met the Collector. I felt I should come along. It sounds like you had to fight someone. I'm not good for fighting, but I'm sorry that I wasn't there, even if I suppose I always wasn't going to be."

"What was the big guy?"

Bishop has posed:
Bishop stands there moving back to look over the bread with a shake of his head. "It is religious bread, damn." He starts to pick up the bagel, pulling it out with a little chuckle placing it down on the plate, than he starts to load it with cheese and meat. "Yeah bagel, melted cheese and meat is good stuff." He beams at Ruth, than he exhales slowly thinking about the giant. "Yeah, we have done tons of big dudes and taken them down, we will just throw Logan at it. He is the best, you know he will take it down!" He walks over to the toaster oven placing them in it and turning it watching it as it heats up.

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty toasts a bagel before looking at the Ezekiel 4:9 bread. "Its okay. Its 12 Grain bread." She smiles a little and grabs a butter knife. As soon as the bagel pops from the toaster she begins spreading peanut butter and jelly on it.

"I have yet to meet Logan. I hear a lot about him but I've just not met him." She smiles, "If this Logan can take down something that eats planets then I am officially terrified of him!" She laughs nervously.

Turning to Ruth she finally speaks up. "It was this massive being who a hologram called Galactus." She shudders. "It destroyed a planet."

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"Is there mold on it?" Ruth asks Bishop. She looks -- in so far as she looks at anything -- towards Patty. She leans her hip against the kitchen island.

"You can do that?" Ruth asks Patty, with a sort of conversational blandness. "I thought you had to hit things with another planet. Or a laser, sorry. Just not a little laser, a big laser. Like in Star Wars."

To Bishop, she says, "You were there too? What was the gravity like?"

Bishop has posed:
Bishop looks over at the bread now, waiting for the ding. "No mold." He looks over at Patty with a little chuckle, watching her reaction to logan. "He is a good dude, just good to have in a pinch. Short little dude, with good claws." He walks over to take out the bagel, feeling it with a poke, making sure it's nice and melted. "Yeah, gravity was.....you know what I didn't notice too busy watching our backs with my guns, I mean damn it was space." His voice is teasing Ruth, as he sighs softly. "No, the point is we will handle it, we have done crazy stuff Patty. You are with pros, and you seem pretty rad."

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty blushes a little. "I am not that impressive. I'm still learning the ins and outs of my abilities. Though I admit it is a bit fun to mess with people at times. Like this misogynistic guy who was trying to say all women need to stay in the kitchen where they belong. I may have blown some soup all over him. It got blamed on an air conditioner!" She laughs a little bit and takes a bit of her bagel pb & j.

She turns her attention back to Ruth. "Yeah. This thing ate all life on the planet we visited. The whole planet was dead. Completely lifeless. No anything. What we found was a temple/museum type thing and there was a hologram in there that showed us an image of this guy."

Ruth Aldine has posed:
Ruth, along with Bishop and Pats, are in the general area of the refrigerator. There are sandwich fixings laid out, although no proteins other than peanut butter, and it seems bread is also limited. Nevertheless.

"I had to get used to it on the Collector's planet, thank you," Ruth tells Bishop. "I had to get used to it fast. It was maybe, hm, fifteen sixteenths of Earth's? So mostly the same, but I bet you'd have trouble if you tried to run."

She scratches the back of her ear with a thumb. "So you threw up on him?" she asks Patty, about the misogynist (probably?). Ruth then frowns a little at the rest of the news. "Is that, please, like a metaphor for capitalism or just an actual -- guy?"

Julio Richter has posed:
"I hope it was hot soup." says Julio upon entrance, his thick Spanish accent stabbing at the words in vicarious indignation. He was wearing his prized Los Crudos t-shirt, a Mexican punk band, with black jeans and looked otherwise unremarkable. "Speakin' of..." he said, heading for the fridge. He found a few things, put them in his mouth, swizzled in some aerosol cheese. Then he jawed a bit and looked to see who was present.

Bishop has posed:
Bishop looks over at Ruth and than back at Patty, than at Julio. "Party in the kitchen, cool. I'm Bishop." He picks up his bagel with the cheese and the last of the ham taking a big bite, as he nods at them. "Yeah it was odd, but that was a good thing to know about, better to see it before it came down out of nowhere to fight us you know." He leans on the counter, as he thinks on the soup attack. "You attacked him with soup, that is good like that movie with the pea soup. What the heck was it's name, but dudes like that totally deserve it. Do it anytime someone's being a dick."

Patty Sloan has posed:
"It was totally hot soup!" Patty turns to look at Julio with a grin. She looks back to Ruth and shakes her head, "No I didn't throw up on him. I can control and generate air. So when I say I blew soup all over him, I caused wind to blow the soup and it got thrown all over the guy." Looking to Bishop she laughs. "He definitely deserved it. I couldn't get over how rude the guy was being."

She takes another bite of her bagel. "You are right there, Bishop. Its better to know something like that... Galactus is out there. I hope it doesn't come our way ever but I think that is wishful thinking." She shakes her head. "I am going to raid the freezer once I am done my sandwich. I hope there is cookie dough ice cream. I love Cookie Dough Ice cream!"

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"I get it," Ruth tells Patty. She doesn't move for a moment. Listening.

"Does it taste better that way, Julio?" Ruth asks him then.

Back to Patty. "I perceive things," she tells her, "but sometimes it's all broken up and out of order. A lot of the, sorry, a lot of the time. So it's difficult, but it seems like you've got it, from what you're saying."

She does not explain this in order to move on. "What did he ask you to get at that place, anyway? The, sorry, the one on the dead planet."

Julio Richter has posed:
Julio Richter nodded at Ruth, his cheeks chipmunked as he chomped away in close lipped silence. Then something dawned on him and he opened his overfull mouth to reply, "Yeff. You wan fum, Wuff?" he moved into position to shoot her up with Canned Queso is she gave any indication of want.

Bishop has posed:
Bishop eats his bagel with a nod at Patty. "We tend to not get such quality warnings you know, it tends to be right into action. So this is going to be very good for us." His hand is moves to wipe crumbs from his shoulder from the bagel, watching them hit the ground with a frown. "Now to plan, yeah that is good your getting the hang of your powers Patty."

He looks over at Ruth, with a little chuckle. "That sounds exhausting, how do you perceive them?" He watches her now, taking out the other earphone, killing the music his foot is no longer tapping, as he looks back to hear the first part of the tale.

He looks at JUlio with a little chuckle. "Oh the passion of the innocent and youth, how I miss it." Was Bishop ever innocent, or youthful only he knows and such things are never spoken on.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Oh I see. That is really cool honestly." Patty smiles as she considers Ruth's abilities. "I think I'm good Julio." She laughs a little. She takes another bite of her sandwich before swallowing hard. Idly she goes to the fridge and opens it, finding some oj. She gets a small bottle of oj and takes a drink. "Ahh thats better. Had a bit too much peanut butter in that bite."

She frowns. "He wanted something of value. We think it is what the hologram gave us. We believe that it was meant for humans to have it. Its why he couldn't get it himself. Now if he gets it or not is still up in the air. Its essentially a warning for the planet. This planet I mean."

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"Yeah," Ruth answers Julio. "Give me a second, though."

She considers Bishop's question. "Imagine a stream," she tells Bishop. "We're all fishes swimming downstream to the ocean, which is where we die. I just jump a bunch, all the time, so I'm out there and I can see the stream back behind us and I can see the stream up ahead and sometimes I get eaten by an osprey."

"Oh, alright, that's good," Ruth tells Patty. "Y'all can probably talk him into it. I don't think he's actually very smart. Just say nice things about him. I did my best but I think Tabitha and Ms. Rogue were already kind of upset."

After this she opens her mouth in Julio's direction.

Julio Richter has posed:
WOooooooshccccctctctctctctctc goes the aerosol, piling rivulets of orange hydrogenated vegetable oil product into Ruth's open mouth. Having finally swallowed his own, he paused, shook the can a few times, and then continued filling poor, trusting Ruth. "Beuno provecho, Amiga."

He shook the can again, "Patricia? Your up." but there was a least a twinkle of mirth in his eyes.

Bishop has posed:
Bishop watches it and than his phone is going off, with a loud buzzing and beeping very annoying. "DAMMIT CLASS!" He rushes for the door, as he stops to turn and wave at the group. "Be good be safe, STAY IN SCHOOL!" With that he is rushing off to teach, time is never on his side!

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty smiles a little smile as she finishes off her bagel. "I hope we can. I don't know the Collector. I never met him. I only heard about him. I dunno if he's the type of guy to who would like not getting what he wants. I mean he is really after this duck guy and we are trying to protect said duck guy."

She walks over to the freezer and then gets a better idea. "A school of this size? Definitely gonna have a walk-in freezer." She looks around for it and finds it. In she goes and out she comes with Cookie Dough Ice cream! "WOO HOO! The treasure has been found!" Then Julio gets her attention. "Oh Alright!" She opens her mouth and tilts her head back.

Ruth Aldine has posed:
Ruth is quiet for a while due to the mouthful of Cheez-Like Product. Her opinion of the substance is hard to read as her mouth is occupied in chewing and she doesn't have eyes, so there's kind of a lack of clear tells beyond 'doesn't hate it.'

gulp

"Huh," she says. She reaches over and tears off a paper towel to wipe off her mouth. "That's something. Where's that can usually live?"

Julio Richter has posed:
Julio Richter busies himself spraying foamy cheese into Patty's mouth, and then offers to Ruth "I don't remember, but I'll put it in the drawer so nobody but us can find it." conspiring with her to corner the market. "There you go Sylph." after completing his masterpiece within the confines of her lips with the white plastic tip of the can. "Did I tell you guys, I got in a fight with some real chicos malos in Manhattan the other day, backing up Havok. Like some real Hero shit. Stonewall, Avalanche, and Super Sabre. We sent them packing!"

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty closes her mouth and lets out a satisfied "Mmm!" She chews and consumes the cheese product in her mouth. She giggles as she continues trying to get it all down. Its good, She isn't complaining. The blonde is simply trying to get the stuff down. It takes her about a minute to do so before she's able to speak again. "Mmm That is some good stuff. Its been a while since I had Cheese in a can. Its really good with crackers and Pretzels."

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"Tell me about the chicos malos," Ruth says, as she re-opens the fridge to dig for -- what now? Doesn't she have enough stuff out there?? "Patty, can you put four, sorry, four knives, not sharp knives but like table knives, out?"

Julio Richter has posed:
Julio Richter explained as he busied himself with even more snacking, he's animated now, like he wants to talk about the experience. "Stonewall and Avalanche are earth controllers like me I think, Super Sabre is a speedster. Runs up walls, cant hardly see him, like a blue blur. They baited us into an alleyway and Avalanche was using the narrowness of it to whip waves of concrete at us. I think the alleyway was channeling it somehow, keeping it tight. Stonewall, now he's a bruiser, I could feel the way he binds with the earth for stability, makes him hard to knock down."

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty listens to Julio as She smiles to Ruth. "Of course." She gets out four butter knives, ones that aren't sharp but good for the table. "WHere would you like them?" SHe asks curiously. As she listens to Julio she smiles a little bit. "Physics would be a good thing to study with your power. Especially when it comes to waves and such through the ground. You can do all sorts of things with it." She smiles happily as she wipes some cheese off her lips and licks her fingers clean.

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"Who's they?" Ruth asks Julio. As she does this, she pulls out a package of - she turns it over and holds it up towards the other. "I think this is turkey," she says. "Is it ham?"

It's ham.

Julio Richter has posed:
"The three chicos malos, Amiga. Avalanche, Super Sabre, and Stonewall, like I been saying." Julio said, feigning exasperation as he shoveled some wheat-things into his mouth and crunched. "Are you guys dating anyone?" he wondered, mouth full of food.

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty listens to Ruth and quickly looks at the meat. "Err. Thats ham. Do you want me to see if there is any turkey in there?" She asks curiously. Then Julio asks the million dollar question. Is she dating anyone? "I umm... I've never had a significant other. I'm not straight though so that makes things a little difficult." She blushes a little. Idly she fumbles around the drawers looking for a spoon. She is definitely going to need some ice cream after this one.

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"I meant the people you were fighting," Ruth explains, even as she tells Patty, "I'm good." She puts the packet back, gets another one (this time turkey) as she walks around to set it down. After this she reaches around, feels where Patty put the knives, and walks around the table again. Facing nowhere in particular, she just sort of stops moving for the moment.

"No, please," she answers Julio, belatedly.

Julio Richter has posed:
"Just want to make sure I'm not going to have a visitor tonight for talking to his girl. You know in my country, its a big fucking deal." Julio explained defensively, "I got enough problems." He ate more wheat thins before offering the box, "Nothing like getting your ass kicked on your home turf." explained the smaller young man. He shrugged at some internal dialogue, "I guess this is home now."

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Yep! Its definitely home for me. And no, you won't have an amazon woman coming to whoop your butt for talking to me!" Patty jests as she watches Ruth move about. She is just being curious about how she perceives the world, nothing else. "You are really good at moving about without being able to see. I don't think I would be able to do so if I couldn't see." She comments as she finally finds a spoon. She then goes for a bowl.

Ruth Aldine has posed:
"I've been living here for a long time and I like the rent," Ruth says. "Going to have a job interview soon, though, so maybe I'll have to commute."

She's smiling as she says it. "I ain't gonna date anyone who'd do a thing like, sorry, like that, anyway. But no guarantees about a dirty look or something."

Julio Richter has posed:
"A job?!" Julio says, sounding horrified. He drops the box of wheat-thins back into the cupboard. "A job?" he clarifies as he passes Ruth, his features incredulous. "A job." he said, as if to confirm something insane. He was already on his way out, shaking his head in disdain.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Hey thats really cool. Good Going, Ruth." Patty smiles. "I am trying to get in as good a shape as I can and learn as much as I can about controlling my abilities. I want to join SHIELD. I wanna help people. That just seems like one of the best routes to go. So I need to learn to defend myself and I am going to have to learn marksmanship." She grins happily. "Oh you going to bed Julio? Good night!" She begins scooping ice cream giving herself a small mountain of ice cream.

Ruth Aldine has posed:
Ruth considers this for a few long moments even as Julio leaves.

"Don't try until after -- what is it? April? It's still April, right? Don't try until at least October."

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty smiles, "I'm in no rush. Besides, right now I am a student and I am happy to be. I wanna learn all I can!" She smiles. "Yeah its still April." She grins as she stretches. "Its going to be a wild ride no matter what." She quickly takes the container of cookie dough ice cream back to the freezer and puts it back right where it was. "Well I should probably take this to my dorm room. Don't wanna get caught eating up the ice cream in here you know." She laughs.

Ruth Aldine has posed:
Ruth smiles, as she -

It's hard to say exactly what but after all this straightening out she just walks down the countertop while doing a few swift sweeps of one hand and at the end she has a sandwich with turkey, lettuce, onion and mustard in her hand.

"I won't tell. Be careful up there."

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty smiles and nods, "No problem. See you around Ruth. It was nice meeting you." She pauses and laughs, "Enjoy your sandwich." She comments before taking the bowl of ice cream and sneaking her way out the door.