SUPER BARBECUE SUPER BARBECUE SUPER BARBECUE [open as heck]

[hugling]

Who: SUPER HEROES!!!!!
Where: Ernest E. Debs Regional Park!
When: Sunday!
What: SUPER BARBECUE
Warnings: Superheroes...



It's a pleasant evening at Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, just a couple miles from downtown LA, which can be seen through the haze. Late March means spring is just arriving in LA and the trees are just starting to bud. Unfortunately, the grass is still kind of dead and dry.

The barbecue and picnic area isn't too busy, though the park does have the usual assortment of joggers, dog walkers, and cyclists. There are some balloons tied to picnic tables, and strung between two trees is a very homemade "SUPER BBQ" banner, courtesy of Hulkling and Starbreaker. There's still glitter glue on Milly's apartment floor. There's another posterboard with the rules written on it in big bold sharpie letters nearby, just in case anyone forgets:

• Don't be a jerk!!!
• Keep your weapons holstered please.
• Do not trash the park!
• ABSOLUTELY NO FIGHTING
• Anyone caught fighting will be asked to leave!
• Really don't be a jerk!

[OKAY GUYS!!! mingle! have fun! maybe some THINGS WILL HAPPEN, whoooo knows!]

Comments

[scribes]

Disciple hasn't been doing too much so far. Simply enjoying the nice weather and relaxed atmosphere. It's nice here, and it's a good opportunity to actually get herself out and living a life outside of the Sufferist movement.

When Teddy stands up she makes her way over to him, giving a friendly if uncertain smile. It was still a little strange for her to realize that she could do that without having to worry about being regarded as insolent or weak.

"I can help." From one green alien to another.

[hugling]

Teddy smiles back, and hurriedly holds out the lighter and the LA Times he was using as kindling.

"Oh my gosh, thank you. I obviously should have bought those little fire starter cubes or something, I thought this would be way easier."

[scribes]

"Not a problem."

Di was more accustomed to using old fashioned flint, but this would do. She took the newspaper, pull some pages around to roll and tie it up together.

"You're the host, right?" She set to carefully lighting up the newspaper and using it to coax a flame out of the coals.

[hugling]

"Uh, sort of. I mean, yeah, but I'm not really in charge or anything. I just thought it would be nice to do something fun, instead of fighting evil cyborg aliens. Like, for a change."

Teddy watches, fascinated, as the coals start to catch.

"Holy crap, you have like a gift or something."

[scribes]

She laughs "I've had a lot of practice I guess. Used to spend days on end traveling and camping." Her expression became wistful as she remembered those days. They had been the best of her life.

Once it looked like the fire was good and going she tossed the remains of the newspaper in and held the lighter out to him.

"It's a great idea--though does stuff like what happened recently go on that much?"

[hugling]

"That sounds... interesting." He doesn't want to say it sounds awesome - spending days traveling and camping could mean 'I backpacked in Europe' or 'I used to be homeless and on the run and had to sleep outside.' You never could tell, with this crowd.

Teddy shrugs. "I mean, not that often, but with so much superhero activity in LA it's kind of a huge target for supervillain stuff like that. There's always something going down somewhere. Not usually something so huge, though."

As an afterthought he adds, "Thanks a lot for your help with the fire, everyone would so have been eating cold hot dogs."

[scribes]

That might explain why Vanessa wanted to form her own little group of heroes. If what Teddy said was true then certain criminals could slip under the radar of others. CONDOR and the Trailblazers couldn't do everything.

"Not a problem, I'm glad to help." It'd be shame to go to a gathering with food only to have there be...no food.

"There anything else I can do?"