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Barbara Gordon The pushing toward more contacts in Manhattan was going fairly well, as far as finding super powered people capable of being called upon for legitimate super hero work!

They'd managed to lasso up one particular powerhouse by the name of Cassie Sandsmark! Aka 'Wonder Girl'!

When researching her, Babs had run across the birthday date, and saw that the young hero was about to have her 21st. Rather than being so presumptuous as to schedule something right around the acctual date, Babs put something together a week or so ahead of the date in-question!

Now, here in the training room, some of the Birds were gathering up to meet the newest member, and have a bit of sugary treat.

Here stands Babs, in her Bat-armor/costume, but no cape, and no cowl. Just the black armor, and golden utility belt, with gold 'bat' emblem, upon her chest. Her long red hair is down around her shoulders, and she's setting out some drinks and other edible delights! There's some casual pop music playing on the Gym's speakers, and it's a very casual setting.

Beneath a cover on the table is a Birds of Prey cake with Cassie's name upon it, and a Wonder-logo in the icing as well, how festive!
Helena Bertinelli Helena Bertinelli made her way over after classes wrapped up. Summer Break was here at last! Who says teachers don't long for release from schools too?

Entering with a duffel over her shoulder.

"Barbara." She drops her bag in the corner. Still dressed in a blouse, jeans and running shoes, she moves over, "What can I help with? I'll change after."
Kate Kane Kate Kane, known recovering party girl, has made an exception from her strict regimen of avoiding anything that even /looks/ like a celebration in favor of lurking on the rainiest, wind-sweptest rooftop to glower and go on long, internal monologues about JUSTICE and DUTY to make an appearance for the even of Cassie being welcomed to the Birds.

Also, she's kind of taking the week off from vigilante-ing, because it turns out there's actually a /lot/ of follow up when you 'borrow' a prototype spacesuit to fight SPACE SHARKS.

Which is why she casually saunters in in the wake of Helena, clasping a ginger ale in her left hand, eyebrows lifting as her gaze settles on Babs. "...Wait, were we supposed to show up in costume?!"

She didn't exactly read the details of the invite. Pretty much saw 'New bird' 'Cassie Sandsmark' and 'cake' and her attendance was sealed.
Carrie Kelley Meeting a new member of the team and cake? Even Carrie would leave her tinkering with drones behind and enjoy something like that! She wore something comfortable, like Kate she wasn't certain if she was supposed to 'suit up' or not. Her legs were wrapped a pair of black leggings and a white tank top with a computer bug logo on the front covered her chest. On her feet sported a pair of bright green converse sneakers. On her face was a pair of black rimmed glasses, to complete the semi-nerd style. The oddest thing on her person however, was a shiny metal spider sitting on her shoulder.

Pausing at the door just as Kate asked about wearing a costume, she chews at her bottom lip and steps inside. "Okay, did I miss a memo on costumes?" She asks. "Cause well, mine still a work in progress.... but," she waves eagerly. "... Hello everyone!"
Cassie Sandsmark Arriving just about whenever she's supposed to, maybe intentionally just a little after everyone else is supposed to arrive, Cassie makes her usual aerial entrance: she soars across the Gotham sky and then enters via the actual clock-y part of the Clocktower (she seems to really like that whole thing: such great lair aesthetics!), before making her way down.

When she arrives, well... casual it definitely is. As usual, its hard to tell if she's actually in costume or just dresses this way normally, in black bike shorts, sneakers, and a crop red athletic top with the usual big WW logo on the chest. Does Diana sell a whole line of athletic wear? Probably now she does. Either way, it's about as much design effort as the cake, and without her heroic accessories, which she did bring along, probably no one would even guess she wasn't some normal youth.

Well, also the flying. Anyway!

"Yo... this the right way?" she wonders, looking around as she navigates, before spotting the open area and the gathering. "Aha! Found it. Hey everyone." Then her head does a bit more of a swivel. "Ooh. Lookit this place. I think you've really got Ti- er, Robin three or whatever it is beat, as lairs go. I'm gonna tell him that, too."
Barbara Gordon Barbara has a smile spread across her lips as she hears some of the Birds arriving, and questioning the fact that she's in her armored costume. "Well..." Babs says as she raises up a drink of juice and takes a sip from it. Her other hand goes to her hip as she lowers the cup again.

"_- That depends on if anyone wants to train with an Amazon." Barbara finishes her thought just before Cassie arrives.

Helena gets a smile and a soft headshake. "I think I got it all setup. Grab a drink, or whatever looks good, and---" Babs catches the sight of the blonde Sandsmark arriving, and motions toward her.

"Ta da!" Barbara announces. "Happy birthday, and welcome to the Birds... lair?" The last word has Babs looking around the training level of the clocktower building. "Huh. I guess it is a lair." She looks back to the others and smiles at them. "We have a lair. God we're the best..."

A smirk comes then as Barbara stands to the side of the main sparring match mats. "But seriously, Cassie, we're thrilled to have you with us, and wanted to just... welcome you with drinks, and cake... if you're interested." Babs says as she motions to the covered confection.
Helena Bertinelli Helena Bertinelli looks to Barbara, and shrugs, "Okay. You...do know that we are capable of helping with things, too. Right?" She shakes her head, then wheels around as others enter. A nod and smile, "Kate. Carrie. How've things been?" She looks at Kate, imagining things have been better. But that was normal wasn't it?

Then the new member is here and Helena smiles. "Cassie? Hi. Welcome." She won't presume to introduce anyone else but offers, "I'm Helena. Huntress. One of two." Long story, that. Even she doesn't get it or know all the details.

Glancing to Barbara, "Lair? We're using a bird theme. It should be the Aerie not a lair." She shrugs. Makes sense to her anyway.
Zatanna Zatara The more Birds, the merrier. Zatanna greets the gathering with a happy smile curving her lips, nodding to familiar and unfamiliar faces alike. She arrives in time to hear the clocktower called a lair which broadens the magicians smile.

A little bird told her that there was the possibility of sparring matches to welcome the newest to their nest or lair as your fancy takes it. The homo magi had long ago decided that fighting in high heels and fishnets was some chain-smoking comic artists fantasy of what appeals to adolescent boys - selling point as it were. Zatanna flatly retorts: "You try it."

Warmer temperatures sees her in fashionable and comfortable loose linen pants, flat shoes and tight sleeveless tee that hides nothing of her attributes. A wave of her hand and a suitable spell could armor her from head to toe.

As she slips into the group, Zee makes a beeline for Babs to give her a kiss on the cheek. She contributes to Helena's thoughts, "Aerie really fits. Lairs make me think of foxes and rabbits."
Kate Kane Kate half heartedly rolls her eyes and crosses her arms over her chest defensively, "I resent the fact that you think I need to get into costume to let an Amazon throw me around. She's not a space shark."

Kate's not going to tell whether or not those already pale cheeks going even more pallid is some sort of truly impressive act, or if she's actually still shook up about her space misadventure.

She flashes a grin to Cassie as she arrives, waving her free hand, "Oh! You haven't even seen the best part! ...I mean unless you're /already/ using the wifi. Such good signal."

Kate cranes her head to look over her shoulder and Carrie gets a grin... and just the slightest lift of eyebrows at the shiny metal spider, "...Huh, don't see one of those every day."

She flashes a grin to Helena and shrugs lightly, "I mean, I didn't knock any satellites out of orbit, or uhh... get eaten by a giant space shark." She frowns thoughtfully, "Iron Man did, but uhh... only for like... 30, 35 seconds tops."

She takes a long, slowwwww sip of her ginger ale then, giving a little wave Zatanna's way as the stylish magician breezes in.
Carrie Kelley At the mention of Amazon, Carrie is already shaking her head in the negative. Today was not a good day to die, or in this case get your butt kicked by an Amazon. She knew her specialties, and not one of them would be useful, unless she used every drone she had built to try and pin the Amazon down. Even still, she didn't think that would work. The other choice was arrows, but those tend to leave rather permanent holes in people, and she really didn't want to wound the new teammate.

"Sorry Babs, no training for me," she voices. "Well unless you would all like to watch Cassie turn me into a pretzel in under ten seconds." She looks around as if expecting nods or head shakes to that.

No matter the reactions, she makes her way over to Cassie, extends her hand to shake and offers an almost too cheerful, "Pleased to meet you Cassie, I'm Carrie... or Sparrow, though the moniker is likely to be changing soon. I made you a birthday present."

Reaching up to her shoulder she removes the little spyder droid, placing it in the palm of her hand before extending it toward Cassie. The little eight legged drone starts dancing as the Disturbed song 'Let the Bodies Hit the Floor' starts playing. "I'll give you the app for your phone, but this little spyder, and that's with a Y, has all kinds of tricks up his slee... legs." She snerks slightly at the faux pas.

Taking another quick look around she says to everyone, "These are all over the aerie, lair, nest... clock tower, so please don't stomp them." Then she adds, to answer Helena's question. "Things have been pretty good. I'm an Oracle now, which is totally sweet."
Cassie Sandsmark Its totally a lair. Especially when you have it inside something that looks like something else." Firm logic, there! "'Though that doesn't exclude some other terminology. Like, you can totally call your lair 'the Aerie.' But this one has a name already. Hmm."

Regardless of such complex matters of nomenclature, Cassie has a far simpler stance when it comes to dessert. "Who ISN'T interested in cake?" She makes a very doubtful sort of face, and promptly approaches the place of food and snacks to claim her prize. As she's going about portioning a plate for herself, she starts cutting more slices, looking around the gathering as she does, maybe to make sure she has enough of them for everyone.

"Hey, hi, nice t'meetcha," she simplifies the round-robin (no pun intended) greeting, although maybe they're not all one hundred percent new faces. She's in the Justice League now, kinda sorta, so she's probably seen Zatanna and Dinah up at the faaaaaaar other end of the table with the big heroes, or whatever. "Ooh, nice robot." The spider does stand out in the crowd of battle-chicks in various degrees of costuming, even before Carrie presents it, which causes Cassie to peer in and even reach out a hand to see if it wants to crawl o nher, somewhat like a real spider. "Oh, they do security or something? Oh! You're the 'chick in the chair.'"

And speaking of the wifi... "Ooh." She reaches for a pocket to pull out her phone. "We should all get a picture. Unless that's like, revealing anything, since we've got various degrees of costuming and masks going on here... I guess I don't HAVE to post it..."
Barbara Gordon Barbara smiles brightly as she gets the cheek kiss from the Magician of the bunch. She then pats Zatanna on the back. "Glad you could make it." She tells her before she just shoots a grin to Helena. "I know, I know... I just... am a control freak, lets be honest here." She says with a huff of a laugh before she watches Cassie get the spider gift from Carrie, which garners a little grin.

"I both love, and am terrified, of those things." Babs notes in good humor, only /slightly/ meaning it!

With the cake being cut up and dished out, Barbara laughs again and shakes her head. "I don't mind a picture, I'll just hold a napkin over my neck or something..." She says, glancing down at herself. "And yes, the wifi here is better than any fiber service you'll find. I won't accept anything less."

"And, I only wore my suit just incase Cassie wants to make a show of whoppin my butt for all of you to behold. She's a Manhattan Bird now, but she's also one of our heaviest hitters now. If you ladies ever need a big punch, she'll be the one to call on, I think."

"Happy birthday, Cassie. That's gonna get confusing when we have our other Cassandra here too..."
Dinah Lance Did someone mention fishnets and high heels? Cue Dinah's entrance. Though admittedly, she's dressed sort of half and half tonight. She has on the usual high-necked, sleeveless bodysuit she prefers to wear when working. But over the fishnets are a pair of loose fitting jeans. Boots cover her feet. The blonde wig is in place but the domino mask is not, just tucked in a pocket if she ended up needing it at some point before or after the party. She has a gift bag in hand which is gold in color, the top of a bottle of some sort visible at the top.

"Hello, everyone," she calls out to the group. But she does make her way over to the birthday girl. "I'm Dinah. Also known as the Black Canary. Happy birthday! And welcome to the Birds!" She offered the gift bag, inside which would be a bottle of Ouzo with no label on it. It had seemed fitting with the whole Greek thing. Plus turning 21 deserved a treat since it was legal now.
Zatanna Zatara Cassie filling a plate with food is invitation enough for Zatanna to treat herself, too. Zatanna has seen her at a distance in the Hall of Justice but never had the chance for a face-to-face with her. She nods and waves at the younger woman then begins the serious business of selecting early-birthday food for herself. Cake figures as a centerpiece on the plate.

With a drink in one hand and a plate in the other, Zee seats herself in a chair that has a ring side view of the room, content to be still and eat quietly for the moment.
Helena Bertinelli Helena Bertinelli shrugs to Barbara. "You said it, not us. Freak." But Barbara is their freak. She moves over then and gets a slice of cake and something to drink. Moving over to the side, she looks at the spyder. "Yeah. Those are interesting, Carrie? Barbara? But if I ever find one in my apartment..." head shake included.

She smiles, "Dinah. It's good to see you." She offers a nod, because cake and drink in hand.
Kate Kane Kate snorts out softly and rolls her eyes, "Well, you can get thrown around for both of us, Babs. Solidarity in redheaded Bat-themed vigilantism, right?" She flutters her eyelashes and offers up a bright, winning smile.

She eyes Helena and murmurs dryly, "I mean, if you find one in your apartment, you at least have _some_ idea of what it might have seen, right? It's the ones you don't find you have to worry about."

And then Kate's giving a nonchalant little whistle, waving to Dinah as she makes her arrival before finding herself a good spot of wall to recline against near the food while she plans her attack.
Cassie Sandsmark Making sure cake is plentiful, Cassie finally lifts her own plateful. She definitely gave herself a generous piece with a good part of the logo! But she doesn't immediately dig in. "Ok great. Maybe we can just kinda... hmm, group up over here..." She shuffles toward one side, where Zee has gone, gesturing Barbara to follow.

And thus with the plate brandished in one hand she balances her phone in the other, aimed back selfie-style. "You don't all have to be in it if you don't want, but I'm definitely gonna get a lot of likes and I can tag you all, you know, do some PR if you want..." Clearly, this is not a young woman with bat-style thinking, where everything is secrets and shadows. Nope. The Amazons are all about the PR, spreading the message. She clicks off a bunch of pictures, getting different angles and letting people pose if they want. Or remain in dark secrecy!

"Ooh, wow, of course you are!" she says when Dinah makes her own introduction. "Wow. You guys have everyone. So cool." Even if she's not such a household name, the mega superfangirl definitely knows the big rosters! "

As for what sounds like an increasing case of Barbara being volunteered to get beaten up for everyone else, she grins. "Oh I didn't even know it was gonna be a training thing, too. It's cool if you just wanna eat cake. I figure there'll be time for that stuff. I was telling her," and she clearly means Barbara, glorious team leader, "that you could all swing by the Themysciran Arts center some time. Set up some Amazon drill sessions."
Carrie Kelley The spyder, perhaps the size of a silver dollar or Canadian Tooney, obediently walks over into Cassie's hand then keeps right on dancing, each of the legs taking a turn at being in the air for a moment.

"The ones that wander the clock tower are extra eyes, lights in the dark, early warning, that sort of thing," Carrie explains. "They aren't exactly combat ready or anything... yet." She grins at this. "I'm still developing their capabilities, but this one will play music, dance, it will self charge on any wireless phone charger, and really the most dangerous thing about it is he can and will climb walls to hang out. If you want other features, let me know, I can totally program it for what you might need."

Now that the spyder was in fact with his new owner, her eyes turn to look toward the refreshments. Some cake of course, that was needed on her plate, and a few nibbles with it, then to find something to drink. Deciding on water, picks up a bottle and sure enough another spyder darts across the table, launches itself off the edge, hits the floor and keeps right on going.

"Huh," she murmurs, watching the spyder shoot out the door. "They are getting around really well." Realizing there was a picture to be taken, she sets the plate down for the moment and assumes the proper position... in the back, hidden behind someone taller.
Barbara Gordon Barbara lights up when she sees Dinah strut in. "Hey!" She says to her with a bit of surprise ebbing at the edge of her voice. "It's great to see you." She adds with a smile chasing that. "I think this is the most of you I've managed to wrangle up of-late." Is also said as she looks around at everyone, and then watches Kate with a grin.

"You be careful over there, Second Bird." She warns the other redheaded one of the team.

Babs moves then to grab a napkin and tuck it in to the neck of her suit so it lays over the bat symbl upon her chest. She's not trying too hard, but her secrecy as Batgirl has never been as major of a thing to her as say... it has been to Bruce.

She poses for some of the pictures with Cassie, and then motions to the Wonder Girl. "She's twenty one, in what? A week? I hope you got big plans for that... I'm, leaving my twenties later this fall." Babs begrudgenly admits, taking in a deep breath. "Beginning the amazing adventure of one's thirties!"

She summons up a smile then. "Oh, I just figured if anyone was up for it, we could throw some punches here and there tonight. I've kind of had a chip on my shoulder since the Prison break where I got... beat up. BUT!" She raises a gloved finger and looks to everyone.

"That was my neural link getting disabled, dangit. Not my amazing skills being outmatched..."
Zatanna Zatara Having grown up in the limelight, Zatanna angles her face to her best advantage without a thought and smiles faintly. She holds up her plate of cake for the next shot and mugs a smile at Cassie. Publicity violates none of her principles though she has never let the public know that there is more than sleight-of-hand behind her tricks or if caught in a fight, more than good combat skills.

Pictures over, she digs into her cake chasing it with her drink. "Check with Babs about what the appropriate hashtags would be. Not everyone likes their face out on the net." Seeing Babs pose for a photo she promptly amends her last words with a smile, "Nevermind."

To Babs, "Getting more awesome all the time is the way I see it."
Dinah Lance Dinah did join in for the picture. She didn't even bother putting on the mask. After all, with the wig in place, it was difficult for people to recognize her as Dinah Lance since her hair was usually black and cut very short. She tried to go by height which put her closer to the front though not at the very front at least. She gave a big bright smile for the picture then quickly peeled off for the goodies.

Cake slice claimed and then a bottle of water as well. She moves over to a seat, tucking a leg up under her as she did so. "It's the birthday cake," she said to Barbara, as to why everyone showed up. "Do that every time, we'll all show up." She glances to the other ladies present to see if they might back that one up.

She takes a bite of cake as she listens to discussion of sparring and the like. Though she does seem to perk up at mention of going to the Themysciran Arts Center to participate in training. Which is when the spyder goes by. Causing her to blink. Then glance to Carrie as she scoops up another bite of cake on her fork. Something Barbara said turned her attention back to Cassie. "You aren't 21 yet? Then don't open that bottle I gave until you are. Okay? Okay." And she went back to enjoying the cake.
Kate Kane Kate doesn't seem to worry about posing for the picture... after all, she's dressed down, and she's got that built in wig in her cowl so her hair looks longer.

Also, really, what, someone finds out Batwoman is Kate Kane and... picks a fight with someone they already know can hold her own in a fight and _is filthy rich?_

Anyone who's going to do that has some serious tactical planning flaws.

And then, having moved in for the picture, Kate strikes at the _food_ and grabs up a slice of cake, bobbing her head and gesturing towards Dinah with her fork.

"She's right. Next time? Birds of Prey sundae bar and watch us all show up again." She gasps softly, eyes widening, "With /brownies/! Brownie sundaes. I will find a way to show up /twice/."

She laughs softly, "...Well, that or fly twelve miles off shore. I mean, not that I'm saying you should fly to international waters to get away with /technically/ underaged drinking."

Kate sniffs softly and tilts her chin back proudly, "Because /I/ am a role model as second in command now."

Kate taps her chin and hums softly, "I mean, I'd be up for... some sort of fancy training. I don't know what Amazons know about fighting in zero gravity but uhhh... I am... /not the best/ at it."
Zatanna Zatara Drinking age limits makes Zee smile around her next forkful of cake. She raises an eyebrow at Cassie and shrugs. "Ask Charlie what the two of us did the other day. She is only 19. I'm no role model. My Italian father raised me like a European." With a smiling tilt of her head, she waves her fork, "Drinking is demystified early and it is common for sixteen year olds to have a bit of wine at dinner without any fanfare."
Cassie Sandsmark Of course, that little robo-spyder gets featured in plenty of the pictures, too. It's cute! There's a close up, even, with it balanced on Cassie's arm right in front of her face! And there's no doubting that Zatanna knows her poses, showoman that she is, so the selfie-happy youngster takes advantage for some very well-framed shots with the famed Magician. More views!

And no sooner than she's done taking them, she's thumbing through the gallery to pick the best ones. "Ooh, some of these are really good." Tap, tap, tappity-tap.

When that whole routine is over with, she finally gets around to eating the cake, instead of just taking pictures in front of it, with an enthusiastic big first bite. "Ooh, ith goof," she says around a mouthful. As for her plans? Gulp, swallow. Then a big grin at Barbara: "Don't break a hip!" Oooh. "I'm gonna do a bar crawl through the Village. Gonna be a lot of school friends and stuff, but you're all invited if you want. It'll be a whole roaming thing so, like, pop in, pop out, that's cool too."

As for Dinah's bottle? It's lifted, with the hand gripping the neck making a thumbs-up. "Scout's honor." Though she admits to Kate: "There's no drinking age on Themyscira. I mean... there's basically no -any- kind of age on Themyscira, cuz they're all immortal and there's no kids. But you get the idea."
Carrie Kelley Collecting her plate, Carrie gets a fork and dives right into the cake. There are so few things that will get her out of the lab lately. The first, monitoring Gotham, the eye in the sky, the careful watcher. The second, cake. It's that simple, offer sweets and she's there, at least to get some before slinking back quietly to work in the lab.

"Technically, in most states, underage drinking is permitted with family present," she offers, not that anyone asked. "I don't think any of us are good role models, I mean I'm only a year older that Cassie, so I'm certainly not going to tell her not to enjoy her birthday present."

A forkful of cake then goes into her mouth so that no more words can be offered, and probably for the best. Not coming out of the lab also means not a lot of socializing, so there's a lot of built of words that need to be spoken. She didn't want to bombard the newest member.
Dinah Lance The words from Kate have Dinah doing an actual snappoint her direction. "Yes! Brownie sundaes. Just give me at least a week's notice so I can clear my schedule to attend." She gave a big grin as she added, "I'll also make sure not to eat that day. That's how you have plenty of room for those two servings."

As the drinking age is explained, she shakes her head. "While we might be like family, not sure that legally we would be family so just wait until you are 21. I don't need contributing to the delinquency of an Amazon on my record."
Barbara Gordon Babs finally gathers up a piece of cake for herself, then purches herself on the corner of a table she gathered around the general vicinity. She seats herself down and forks at the cake as she listens to the others chatting. It gets a smile on her lips while she enjoys the sugary food. "Brownies and ice cream together in a drink..." She mutters with desire before she looks up toward Zatanna. "I trust you to treat Charlie to all the best things, Zee." Babs speaks to the Magician before eyeing the spider robot on Cassie's shoulder.

She listens to her talk about Themyscira which gets a far away stare upon the rehdead's face for a moment. "I looked up the Arts Center online, a lot of good videos from visitors. I will have to come by there. I'd like to do some horse riding training. I've never really gotten to do that as much as I wish I could've, and... well... I saw something about ridable Kangaroos. Needless to say my interests are perked."

She smiles then at the bar hopping talk, but shakes her head. "I dunno if I would be a bit of a old lady around a buncha college girls on a drinking crawl. But we'll see!"
Kate Kane Kate's content to eat her slice of cake slowly, relaxing, just... generally enjoying herself. Yes, it's true, Kate /can/ enjoy herself. Truly, a bigger secret than her identity.

She eyes Barbara levelly, "You're kidding. Not about wanting to horseride. The kangaroos though. Like... do you ride in the /pouch/?? Why?! How?! Don't they stand pretty upright? Do you just... hug onto their back?"

Kate's lips twist in a thoughtful frown... sure, she's gotten the occasional lift from a flying super, and sometimes you have to take the lift with the awkward positioning and just hope no one snaps a photo...

She grins brightly at Dinah and bobs her head, "See? So we have a brownie party sometime /after/ next week, and you can contribute to the... legally not delinquency of an Amazon!" She sighs and bobs her head to Carrie, "But Carrie's right, I mean, I /definitely/ don't count as a good role model. I can't even pretend to be a good role model because I have to keep up the billionaire party girl appearance! Truly, it is a burden I take on for the betterment of society." She heaves out a melodramatic sigh. The burdens of being Batwoman.
Carrie Kelley If Carrie had large ears they would have just perked right up as she blurts out excitedly, "Ridable kangaroos?!" Of course now the cool, superhero casual calm kicks back, a complete and total act as she adds, "That'd be cool." in the calmest, smoothest voice she can manage.

Taking her plate to sit down, she folds her legs up in the chair to concentrate on the cake. Sugar high incoming, an acceptable risk when it comes to cake, especially birthday cake. OPening the bottle of water she takes a sip before setting it on the table with the lid. "I hadn't even thought about /in/ the pouch, that would be fun... though isn't whiplash a worry?"
Dinah Lance "I'll stick to my bike," Dinah says at the mention of riding kangaroos. Because she has seen kangaroos and they aren't of a size to be rideable. Which means if there are rideable ones, these things must be the size of a horse. Or bigger.

Frankly, that was terrifying.

She waved off the whole good role model thing. It wasn't something she'd rather not think about with her own demons. Not right at the moment at least. It was a party after all!
Cassie Sandsmark "Plus, it's like... the principle of the thing at this point, you know? Of being allowed to do it right out in public and it's totally OK and no one can tell you otherwise!" Cassie says this with a sense of great weight and importance, as if her dignity and rights have been too long restricted, her freedoms denied... before quickly adding: "Well, scratch that, you can't actually drink in public in New York but... you kinda get the point!"

And thus, clearly, Dinah has no fear of becoming the Justice League's newest scandal, getting its younger cohort sloppy drunk in the Watchtower. She's gonna save the bottle for such an occasion, such a symbolic assertion of her newfound adult freedoms. It is oh-so carefully set aside.

As for all the rest, there's one thing she focuses on: "Oh the kangaroos are totally a thing. Mine's named Hoppa." She grins. "And nah, you ride on top. I've got pictures, actually, if you wanna see." The phone comes out again. And soon, after a few swipes, there are indeed pictures of Cassie, for once not in street clothes but Amazon armor, seated atop a massive kangaroo-like beast!
Carrie Kelley Yep, there's Cassie on a kangroo the size of a minivan... and Carrie just stares, blinks, and stares more.

"Right, okay, that's... uh..." she blinks a few more times. "Definitely something I'm going to need to see in person, if possible." Not quite a month ago she was fighting a face eating alien bug thing, the first time in her life seeing something like that, and now here is a picture of an Amazon on a kangroo-minivan.

"I would also like to add at this time... holy sheets is my life boring compared to that!" She grins broadly, then picks herself up. "Time for me to get back and check the running program. If my math is right, the invisible drones /should/ remain that way now in all spectrums, including UV. Yes, apparently some people can see in UV."
Barbara Gordon Barbara stands up then and puts a forkful of cake in her mouth as she steps over to spy Cassie's phone. With a tilt of her head she sees the Kanga named 'Hoppa' which has her crinning past her fork as she draws it back out of her mouth. "Adorable." Babs says then before seeing some of the other pics as they're scrolled by. "Now I gotta see these things in person too..." She says before looking up to Carrie. "Don't work /too/ hard now." She offers to the newest tech bird.

Then her eyes go to Kate. "Okay, Kane. You and me, throw down of the century." Babs says on her way to the mat and setting her cake plate aside. She reaches her hands up then to tie her hair back as she goes, but ends up turning around and motioning toward Kate. "Throw down time, lets show Cassie what we got to offer, huh?" Is she joking? Possibly... she has a very dry sense of humor, after all.

But, no, she isn't joking. Fite time!
Kate Kane Kate's head tilts to the side and she hums out softly, "Jeeze, a lot of us /do/ ride bikes, huh?" She clicks her tongue softly, "Must be because we're all so goddamn cool." She nods as solemnly as she can manage while finishing her cake. For one thing, finishing the cake slowly buys her time so she's not having to fight back grinning at Carrie's enthusiasm for ridable Kangaroos.

Kate nods to Cassie, "Yeah, honestly, being able to drink legit is a lot better than the... uhh... I'll say /college/ drinking of 'borrowing' someone's parents' liquor. Being able to go to a bar and relax is like..." She trails off and clears her throat, "well, some of us enjoy it a little /too/ much."

And then she's moving from leaning against the wall to sprawling on a seat and leaning back... only for Babs to be all /challenging her to a FITE!/

Kate groans and sighs out, a weary, resigned 'Babs isn't going to let this go' groan, as she works to unzip her jacket and shrug it off and rise up onto her feet, arms stretching above her head, fingers lacing together, back arching as she rises onto her tip-toes, "Barbara, I had to fight /sharks/ this week! And I read the briefing wrong and they were ten times bigger than I thought they were going to be. You're /picking/ on me."

Still, she's not exactly stopping from walking into the middle of the room.

Maybe Babs is bluffing, but if she's not... sure, Kate'll be her huckleberry.

There should probably be some inspiring Rocky-style music playing.