Our Powers / Instagram @malinovka

[grivences]

[ Robin is standing outside a stately ridiculous looking manor house, a box truck laden with moving boxes visible in the distance. ]

So, uh. I don't really know how to advertise parties in 2022... Back in 1986 you'd just hand out flyers at school, but now there's the internet, and, well...

We're having a housewarming party. Come check it out, maybe? We'll have snacks and drinks [ WINK ] and we're all from the 80's so you know the music is going to be good.

[ There's a pause, before she adds, ] If anyone knew Steve Harrington... He's gone back home. So, uh. Yeah.

[ OOC: log is over here! ]

Comments

[heatmetal]

[ eddie doesn't. handle pain particularly well. and losing steve? that's pain. so you can bet he's throwing his whole ass into this party. ]

Hey, uh, if anybody with super strength can help us move this shit in? There's something good in it for you.

voice; @steph.b

[eggplanting]

Can people without super strength apply? I don't mind lending a hand.

[She likes to be helpful.]

voice; @steph.b

[heatmetal]

Fuck yes you can, and as the whole hiring committee, I welcome you to the team.

[eggplanting]

They gave you the fun job, huh?

[This is a joke, hiring is not fun.]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess I should show up before the party starts?

[heatmetal]

More like they gave me manual labor foolishly believing I'd actually do it myself.

[eggplanting]

Why do it yourself when you can bribe some chumps with pizza to get them to do it for you?

[She realizes that she's the chump in this scenario.]

[louder_than_words]

[A distant voice chimes in from Steph's end of the call.]

Jokes on you, I like pizza and lifting stuff.

[rehandle]

[ The party isn't his scene, but he can offer a little neighbourly assistance to some fellow residents of Sunset Falls. ]

I can lessen the distance between what you're moving and where you want it, for your less super movers.

[heatmetal]

Like... with portals and shit?

[ hm, portals... bad.

but lifting things... also bad. ]

[rehandle]

Like with portals and shit, yeah.

[heatmetal]

You are so hired.

[rehandle]

Great. You can even hold the fee, consider it a housewarming gift to the people with the most obnoxious home in the neighborhood.

Let me know when you've finished recruiting, I'll come by.

[heatmetal]

Cool. Will do.

[ ... ]

Hey... are you, uh... Dr. Strange, by any chance? Sunset Fall's local wizard guy?

[rehandle]

Sorcerer guy, actually, but I am local. To the town, not so much the universe.

[heatmetal]

[ hm... ]

Cool, cool, cool. You okay with swinging by a little early? I got some questions.

[rehandle]

Sure. I'll be free in 30 minutes or so, I'll give you a heads up.

[heatmetal]

I'll be here, hopefully not being eaten by ghosts.

@dr.otto.octavius

[doctopoda]

[SIGH, well, he's done this for a good number of Confluence teens, and he knows Robin.]

I can help you out. Where are you at?

[The tentacles aren't really visible the way he's holding the phone right now! A cursory look at his account would reveal them pretty easily, though!]

[grivences]

Thank you, Otto. That would be a big help.

[ You wouldn't think that 5 4 teenagers would have amassed so much stuff in the matter of months, but between Billy's OnlyStans money and Steve's ability to summon things from thin air, somehow they have quite a lot of shit to move. ]

We're at [ insert Sunset Falls address here ]

[doctopoda]

Alright, I'll be there. Just leave the heavier things, I'll get them.

[You're all too young to be throwing your backs out!]

Text | Un: Talis

[defenderoftomorrow]

Congrats on the new house, Robin.

Steve...the same Steve you told me about? [ Jayce knew they were close, so he's worried about her now. ] It's never easy to lose a friend, are you all right?

un: malinovka

[grivences]

Thanks. It's really all Billy's doing. He's the real money earner around here.

[ What with his Only Fans income... But she won't go there.

Her face falls a bit when he mentions Steve, and she nods. ]

Yeah, that Steve. I'll be okay, I mean... He's back home, which is both good and bad. Good because it's home... Bad because things are kind of a mess. But Steve can handle himself in messes. It's regular daily life that he struggles with.

[defenderoftomorrow]

You mentioned Billy before, I remember that I just have to meet him still. He must be really good at what he does.

[ Jayce would have made his reply private to ask her about Steve if he had known how to do it. But some social app features still escape him. ]

I get what you mean, about feeling relieved and not. Still, it must be hard, so if you want to talk or anything, let me know.

Regular daily life... how so? Was he shy? 

[grivences]

Uh, yeah... He's pretty good at what he does.

[ And what he does is post thirst traps to the internet. But Robin doesn't even know how to begin to explain that when she hardly understands it herself. ]

I appreciate the offer, really. Thank you.

Steve? Shy? God, no. He's just a dingus.

[defenderoftomorrow]

And what is that?

[ Sorry Robin, he had to act. Scientist's curiosity, and all that. but she could always lie to Jayce. ]

Ey no problem. You know how to contact me if you ever need it.

[ Jayce can't help but laugh at that answer. Oh, so they're like Caitlyn and him, uh? Gently ribbing each other. ]

Oh, that? Shame, I've heard it's incurable.

@timdrake

[mostdangerousbird]

If this is really an open invite, can I bring a friend?

@malinovka

[grivences]

I mean, yeah. Anybody's welcome. Especially welcome if you're willing to move boxes.

[mostdangerousbird]

Oh, I see. The party’s bribery.

[grivences]

Partly. It's also partly to distract from the fact that 1/5 of the people who were going to be living here is suddenly not here anymore.

[mostdangerousbird]

I’m sorry. I’ll pick one of my more distracting friends to bring along, since I’m about as distracting as wallpaper.

[grivences]

That's okay. I think just having the party in general will be a big enough distraction.

[ Until everyone goes home and the Stevelessness of the house sinks back in again. ]

( audio ) @wiccan

[wordiness]

[ cheerfully: ] That house is deadass haunted. Or its last owner thought gumdrops were an appropriate decorative fixture.

@malinovka

[grivences]

Oh, it's for sure haunted. But we're kind of used to that stuff.

[wordiness]

In a fun ghost-hunter way or a my-town-fell-into-a-hellmouth way?

[grivences]

Uhh, more like the hellmouth fell into my town, instead of the other way around.

[wordiness]

Ouch. I hate it when that happens. [ a beat. ] I guess moving to Sunset Falls makes sense in that case.. the devil you know and all.

[grivences]

Yeah, kind of. We were living in this apartment in Central City but it ended up being a little too small for us.

[ And now with Steve gone, the new house is going to be too big for them. Oh well. ]

[wordiness]

Well, hopefully you have a friendly Victorian poet for a new housemate instead of a poltergeist or demon, anyway.

I may drop in to at least introduce myself, since my brother and I might be moving out that way. Is there anything you guys need for the house? Like do you have a wishlist or..?

[grivences]

That's the hope, anyway.

[ Ideally it wouldn't be haunted at all, but like. Look at it. It's definitely haunted. ]

Oh yeah, no, definitely stop by. The more the merrier, and it's always nice to know your neighbors. For real, though, you don't need to bring anything.