Santa Claus is coming to town

[afallenstar]

Who: Secret Santa participants, but also EVERYONE!
Where: Town Hall
When: Evening of day 24
What: Present giving! The Secret Santa reveal, and anyone who wants to have a christmas party is welcome to join too!
Notess: Party style thread guys, so go nuts. No order, everything is chaos, tag to your hearts content, feel free to break off into separate threads, and no spiking the punch! Also I think she's sort of mentioned it to a bunch of people but want to do me some lovely favours and handwave the actual name drawing? I will backtag if people want but it seems a little pointless to thread that out.


There's another message on the network that morning from Anna, just audio again. It's about as garbled as her first one regarding the Secret Santa idea, but for anyone who is listening closely enough they'll make out a few details. Namely this evening, town hall, and bring your presents before she shuts it off.

She's spent the rest of the day trying to do what she can to make the place look nicer. She's hardly got Christmas decorations on tap, but she's done what she can with what she has all the same. There's paper snow flakes up around the place, some of the food from her house placed in bowls to make it more party-appropriate, and it's no fir but she has relocated a small tree from the edge of the woods and placed it in the hall. Barely decorated, not even the right kind of tree, it's the best she can do with the resources she's been given.

Now all there is to do is wait for people to come.

Comments

[greenisnteasy]

"It's one of my favorites, actually, but I think they're better suited for when I'm feeling... bloated." He's instead wearing some pants that look to be slightly too big for him, but only a little, and also like they came from an elderly lawyer's wardrobe.

"I appreciate the thought, though. That was very kind of you."

[agentx13]

Her lips twitch into something alarmingly like a smile. Bloated. Heh.

"Don't mention it. I wouldn't have been able to do anything else with them. Except maybe make curtains. Or a tent."

She takes another sip of her drink, still looking over the group. Where was Phil?

"Make flag big enough to be seen from space."

[greenisnteasy]

Hey, look at that. She has a sense of humor. He grins, surprised and pleased, and he looks down into his drink and back up at the crowd.

"Maybe we should have gone with that one, used it as a flare. NASA could see us and come investigate."

[agentx13]

"The Hulk fell from above. So did the box Loki was in." Sharon states this calmly, as if it's a fact and nothing else, nothing to do with how they might escape or not. "So wherever we are, NASA can't see us."

She chuckles wryly. "Still. Nice party."

[greenisnteasy]

"That depends on how far into the airspace they got. They'd have to be pretty far if we're concerned with NASA, right? But local airports and the military are either in on it or not interested."

He takes a deep breath and lets it out, surveying the crowd. "Maybe we just need to build a rocket."

[agentx13]

She instantly goes still. She remembers all too well what happened to the Hulk back on her planet the last time he was around a rocket. Logan wouldn't have told this Banner anything, would he have?

No.

At least, she doubts he would.

She forces herself to relax. The entire internal monologue has happened in the space of seconds, causing only a slightly longer than usual pause in the conversation. "Those kids piss me off enough, I know who we can send up first."

[greenisnteasy]

He's almost about to ask her if she has a thing against rockets, but then she keeps going and he brushes it off. Maybe he'll make her one out of cardboard to go with her map.

"Wait, which kids? Kenzi and Kobra?" Bruce doesn't exactly frown or look upset, but his face is one of professorly disapproval. "They're okay, just a little hyper."

[agentx13]

"'A little hyper' is an understatement. They tried to take on Loki when Loki was tearing up the place. I know they want me to treat them like adults, but running around with their underwear on the outside while calling me Nemesis and nearly getting themselves killed isn't the way to do it."

She takes another sip of her drink and shakes her head. "They make me miss having a prison to throw people into."