Sibling Rivalries: Chili Edition

[brave_heart_verity]

Flyers have been going up around the Forum and Commercial District for the last week or so. This morning,the lights in the VSW Meadhall came on. By noon, anyone getting close enough to an open door would know: chili's on!

Inside, everything's set up and waiting for the hungry and the curious: Clint's cooking in one corner, and Verity's in the other. Between them, tables are laid out with the necessities: bowls, plates, spoons, and plenty of napkins. There's beer and iced tea, some lovely tres leches cakes provided by the Nexus' favorite Japanese detective, and various toppings for the chili: bottles of sriracha and sweet Thai chili sauce, red pepper flakes, green onions and red, lime wedges, diced bell peppers and jalapeños, crumbled bacon, shredded cheddar cheese and sour cream. Cornbread and tortilla chips round things out.

Long tables with a mix of benches and chairs fill the hall on either side of the fire pits. One has board and card games stacked neatly at one end (they were neat when they were put out, at least). Another has two boxes, one wrapped in purple paper and one in pink, for depositing voting slips.

Poll #17301 1st Annual Chili Cook-Off

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

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Who gets your vote?

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Clint--Avengers Assemble!
3 (42.9%)

Truthfully? Verity.
4 (57.1%)

The fire pits are lit, the food is waiting, and there are games in want of players. What are you waiting for?
((There will doubtless be further Cupid-based shenanigans, but this weekend, it's all about the platonic relationships. Bromances, BFFs, and family ties rule the day! Let's celebrate! Threadhopping, tangents, games, and mischief are all encouraged. Just don't start a food fight or Verity will have to yell.))

Comments

[bestdadinamestris]

"Chili that saved the world? How could a man resist?" Hughes approaches Clint with a bit of a chuckle and a smile.

"It's nice to see you again, Clint. How have you been?" He gestures to the chili in a silent request for a bowl. He'll definitely need to add some cheese and sour cream to his, but not too much. If it's spicy, he wants to enjoy it that way.

[aw_hawkguy]

"Oh, yeah. Skrull pretending to be Thor had a bowl. Heh, heh, he was tho thor, he couldn't thpeak! True story." He ladles up a bowl for Hughes. "I've been alright. Crime goes down a little in the early part of the year. How 'bout you?"

[bestdadinamestris]

"Guess some sour cream to lessen the blow is in order, then." Hughes chuckles and throws on a dollop before taking a bite. Spicy, but such amazing flavors. The sour cream actually adds a lot to the taste. "Damn, Clint, this is amazing!"

Another bite is in order before he answers. "Glad to hear it. I'm doing better after getting back into my own body. That crazy doctor's spell or whatever was hell."

[aw_hawkguy]

Clint preens a little, chuckling with obviously-false modesty. "Yep, yep, what can I say? When ya got it, ya got it." The pot gets another stir, because nothing ruins chili like some of it sticking to the bottom, burning, and spreading that burned taste through the whole pot.

"Back in your own body? I think I missed something," Clint admits with a laugh. "Something big, it sounds like."

[bestdadinamestris]

No letting that happen - it would be a travesty!

Hughes nods as he finishes another bite. "Some doctor guy called it an 'exercise in empathy.' He partnered people off and had them switching bodies. It was pretty awful, being trapped in someone else's body for a while." Not that Blaze isn't a great pal, but holy hell getting back to where he belonged was nice.

[aw_hawkguy]

"Ugh. Man, doctors are trouble," Clint groans in sympathy. "Seems like half the villains I fight are doctors. Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, Doctor Malus... it's like a coin toss whether a PhD comes with psychotic tendencies."

[bestdadinamestris]

"This guy definitely falls into that category," Hughes says with a sigh. "Empathy, my ass. I think he just enjoyed messing with all of us."

He's going to finish this bowl of chili off now because damn it's good. Excuse him while he scarfs it down.

[aw_hawkguy]

"Y'know, I heard once that most psychiatrists get into it because they're trying to figure out what's wrong with them without admitting there's something wrong with them? Then they just get off on the power over other people." He gives the chili a stir, thinking, and adds, "maybe that's why there's so many supervillain doctors."

[bestdadinamestris]

"It certainly would explain why this guy was such an ass. He certainly didn't seem right in the head when he swapped all of us without warning." Okay, there was warning, but it was cryptic and fuck him for doing it like that.

[aw_hawkguy]

"Yeah, that sounds like an ethical violation."

[bestdadinamestris]

"I'm not sure this guy cares about ethics... but I guess that should be expected with someone like him."

[aw_hawkguy]

"This is what I'm sayin'. So, you want an extra beer to wash that down?" Does he mean the chili, or the situation?

[bestdadinamestris]

"That'd be great." Which is code for yes, to both. Because the beer will go great with the chili and talking about that asshole doctor makes him want a drink something fierce.

[aw_hawkguy]

And the Clint said: let there be beer. And it was good.