party ♔ ding-dong the dick's dead

[recruited]

WHO || Everyone. Everyone come if you're not on a mission.
WHAT || A party to celebrate Dimitris Sarandis sleeping with the fishes.
WHERE || Knights HQ. The fancy ballroom.
WHEN || Mid-March 2016.
HOW || Prose or actionspam welcome.

Cordelia and Steve have gotten together to plan a rather fun party to celebrate Sarandis being taken down. Abbie even managed to grab them a rather awesome band to entertain the guests and everything else was hand picked and decided on by Cordy and Steve. It's not as fancy as a squiring after party, but it's just as fun. The ballroom has been "dressed down" a little to match the relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy yourselves!

Comments

[recruited]

That's part of being a team I think. You don't always agree. We've got strong personalities. Quiet ones. It all gets mixed up. I think the ones that butt heads the most are me and Tony. [ He pauses. ] Sometimes Thor and Tony. Natasha and Tony too. [ He frowns. ] On occasion Bruce and Tony. [ Are you seeing a pattern, Buffy? ]

[slay]

It's a wonder Tony's got any head left.

[recruited]

His personality is just--it's a little stronger than ours. He's an acquired taste. It took me a few years.

[ Considering they tried to kill each other at one point. ]

He's a squire I think so--try not to punch him in the face if you can help it. [ Because it's inevitable that Tony will piss someone off here. ]

[slay]

Don't worry. Learned that lesson. Since Arthur, I don't punch the good guys in the face unless they're very durable. Like a weeble-wobble.

[recruited]

What's a weeble-wobble?

[ So old. ]

[slay]

It's a ... type of punching toy. [ Buffy deflates, shaking her head. ] They, uh. They don't fall down. That's their thing.

[recruited]

I've never heard of them. I get it now. [ Sometimes Steve needs reference material. ] Who's Arthur?

[slay]

Um. King Arthur? Pendragon. He's a Knight.

[recruited]

[ This was not something that was discussed with Steve. ]

From the stories and legends?

[slay]

And real life history, as it turns out. I'd introduce you, but he works out of a different office.

[recruited]

Wow. I never would have thought we'd have King Arthur working with us.

[ Kinda blowing his mind. ]

What office?

[slay]

I'm not positive, actually. After he fought with us on Andres, we never got a chance to catch up again.

[recruited]

He's probably out doing something for the knights. Or maybe he just took some time off?

[slay]

Oh, probably the first. There are offices all over the world. I'm sure he's working out of one of them.

[recruited]

I mean. He's King Arthur. It's kind of weird to imagine him just taking a vacation right?

[slay]

Isn't that what he did with the whole once and future thing?

[recruited]

I'm pretty sure he didn't have cars, planes and cellphones though. That's kind of the strange part.

[slay]

Yeah, he's not so much adapted to those yet on account of the "once and" part. Still kinda dark-age-y.

[recruited]

I get it. Cellphones threw me for a loop when I came out of the ice. Everyone having a television to. The only screen I had seen was the movie one.

[slay]

Out of ice? [ wat. ]

[recruited]

I'm guessing the story didn't reach you.

[ At this point he just expects people to know. They mostly do. ]

I am from the forties. Technically I'm a walking, talking military experiment that sort of succeeded. Makes me faster. Stronger. Durable. Better in every way. Ideal soldier I guess. I took a plane down into some ice for a mission. By down I do mean crash. I wound up encased in ice until they thawed me out in the future.

[slay]

[ Buffy's silent for a time, and it only takes a few seconds for it to become apparent in the drag of her eyes in some middle distance that she's doing math and carrying numbers from one column to the next, made more apparent when she flatly declares the most important realization in all of this— ] Does this mean you're, like, seventy?

[recruited]

Closer to ninety-eight actually.

[ Good try though. No one ever actually does the math. So he won't fault her really. ]

[slay]

[ yeah this is breaking her brain. ]

... Huh.

[recruited]

What needs clarification?

[ He smiles. ]