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Verity Willis ([personal profile] brave_heart_verity) wrote in [community profile] nexus_sages2016-02-07 12:35 pm

Sibling Rivalries: Chili Edition



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 jalapeƱos, 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


Who gets your vote?

View Answers

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.))
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-11 06:20 am (UTC)(link)

"Aliens from, like, outside the multiverse basically wanted to see what happened if they blew it all up. As a science experiment. Dicks."

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[personal profile] hellburger 2016-02-12 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
"A-alright. Well, that's the shittiest thing I've heard all day."

Miller resumes progress on his chili. He snags a napkin to deal with the sinus-clearing effects of those spices. "Are these aliens still out there? Plotting to run another trial of their 'experiment'?"
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-12 05:42 am (UTC)(link)

"Probably. We figured out how to stabilize our universe, keep any others from crashing into it--that's how they'd do it, they'd smash two universes into each other and they'd cancel out. So now that we're not directly under the knife, we're trying to find 'em and apply some size-ten attitude adjustments to space-godly backsides."

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[personal profile] hellburger 2016-02-12 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Miller shakes his head in disbelief.

"Who's 'we'? An ex-circus archer can only do so much in this situation, right?"
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-12 05:56 am (UTC)(link)

"Uh, heroes. The Avengers, the Fantastic Four..." He pauses. "You don't have people with superpowers and bright costumes where you're from, huh?"

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[personal profile] hellburger 2016-02-12 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure. In comic books," he says with a snort.

"You know, with Captain Kirk wandering around, I'm not surprised to hear there's an alternate reality with superheroes."
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-12 06:06 am (UTC)(link)

"You know Jim?"

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[personal profile] hellburger 2016-02-12 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. I've bumped into him a couple of times. Nice guy. Hope I didn't freak him out too much with Star Trek talk. Not sure if that's some kind of faux pas."
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-12 06:13 am (UTC)(link)

"Maybe a little, yeah. I mean, I read the pamphlet, too, but it's still hard to think, 'hey, I might be fiction to somebody here.'"

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[personal profile] hellburger 2016-02-12 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, it might be kind of flattering?" He shrugs. "I mean, Jim apparently got to bang a bunch of hot alien girls, if his fiction is remotely close to the truth."
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-12 06:54 am (UTC)(link)

"Maybe." Clint opts to remain silent on his adoptive brother's romantic habits. "Not sure I'd want to know what a show would say about me."

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[personal profile] hellburger 2016-02-12 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Should be action-packed, at least."

Miller snatches some corn bread to cut the heat on the remaining chili. "So what's your superhero alter ego? Or is that a secret?"
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-13 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Hawkeye," he answers. "World's greatest marksman. On a good day, I'm an Avenger. On a bad day, I'm just a hardcore neighborhood watch." On a really bad day, he's in the hospital. Really bad days tend to come after either good or bad days.
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[personal profile] hellburger 2016-02-13 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
He raises his eyebrows. "Is your expertise strictly in bows, or does it extend to firearms?"
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[personal profile] aw_hawkguy 2016-02-13 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"I can do guns," he answers, "but I like bows better. More control, less noise. My hearing's bad enough already." If Kaz is paying attention, he might notice Clint wears hearing aids in both ears, and it's not like he looks all that old.