The park, Monday afternoon

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Okay, SO. Kenzi had had a plan. It was not going to be scrapped just because of some cold. And a freaking glacier-like landscape across the Causeway. She was Canadian. She could do this! She just wasn't going to be in the park forever, doing this. Brrr.

What she was doing involved laying out many Dixie cups of hot tea, red sake, rum, and vodka at one of the picnic tables; and many similar Dixie cups of peanuts, almonds, cashews and mixed nuts. And lots of little folded up paper hats. Maybe she'd gone a little overboard, but once she got started, she started having too much fun. Also, the sake helped.

Yes, she was throwing an impromptu tea-and-sake party for the squirrels. Always important to make friends, especially with your local Big Brother outpost, right?

Right! She figured they'd hear about it and show up if they felt like it.

[ooc: Open to all! Squirrels have been invited. *bows to their Fearless Drunken Leader* But you're all welcome to wander by and grab some refreshments. If you can get them away from the squirrels.]

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[capt-maxfactor.livejournal.com]

Many of the squirrels already had their own little news fedoras, but the news of free booze and nuts spread through the trees faster than word of a gremlin bite.

Hello, Kenzi. Meet the dozens of radio squirrels!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi turned around and suddenly-- "Whoa!" Gulp. Hmm. Gulp of sake while she was at it. "Hi guys!" She waved. Then squinted. "DUDES. I love your hats. Um, dig in!"

Because clearly, she wasn't going to be able to stop them.

[capt-maxfactor.livejournal.com]

Not when they'd worked for a pair of pirates who weren't exactly long on manners, no, no she wasn't.

A few squirrels (who weren't answering to Eenie and Meenie no matter how many times Butters called them that) were already fighting over the cashews.

One stopped to investigate the paper hats, swapping her fedora for one of those.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi flopped down and grabbed her tea-and-rum cup, and told them, "Since you guys were saying hi on the Radio and reporting on me and all, I figured, hey. We should get to know each other." She scooted a cup full of salted peanuts toward one little guy. They were freaking scary and adorable. She could relate. She kind of aspired to be like them that way. "Got the supplies at Turtle and Canary. Peter said you were good with presents." Or, you know, bribes.

[capt-maxfactor.livejournal.com]

The squirrel in the new paper hat glanced up interestedly. She was always interested in presents.

She pulled out her notepad, tilted her head at Kenzi for a moment (humans all looked the same at first glance to a squirrel), then scrawled "KENZI" on her pad in barely legible, well, squirrel-scratch.

[sake-shinigami.livejournal.com]

When the weather dropped, Shunsui had thought to hibernate for a while (though perhaps even in his office), even if the cold didn't particularly effect him very much, but then there was something more powerful drawing him out from indoors and drifting toward the park. It all made sense to him when he got there, having to chuckle at the scene and give a smile to Red-Socks-chan, who seemed to be the operator behind this business.

"Tell me, Red-Socks-chan ♥," he said. "Must one have a big fluffy tail to enjoy these clearly thoughtfully planned libations ♥?"

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Oooonly if the guys object! Guys? Any objections?" Kenzi leaned over to whisper loudly, "If you grab a cup before they can, I don't think they'll fight you for it too hard."

[sake-shinigami.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'll be just heartbroken if they were to say no ♥," Shunsui said, giving the squirrels a little bit of a smile, and it even looked like he might have thrown a wink to a particular blonde squirrel. "I did radio for a while, after all, so it would be like they're turning their back on an old, dear friend ♥."

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Awwwwwww," Kenzi said, sympathetic. And kind of wondering if he was flirting with squirrels. Whatever, she wouldn't judge. They were probably just old buds. "You did Radio? Really? Do they report everything? I've been listening, and mostly very confused." And amused.

[nookiepowered]

Bo's security detail didn't exactly include the park, but walking back to her office from the Perk did. Or at least it could -- though when she realized that her shortcut through the relatively open area meant that she was no longer shielded from the glacial winds by the close-packed buildings in town, Bo found herself regretting it.

She wrapped her jacket more tightly around her as she approached the .... whatever it was happening by the picnic tables, and why did the sight of the figure presiding over the event fill her with a certain amused foreboding?

Oh, right, because she'd met Kenzi before.

Except...

Had Kenzi always been so tall? Bo could have sworn the kid was a good four inches shorter than....


Than...

[[For me, and then the party-monster, as I prepare to flee town!]]

[nookiepowered]

Well, not than whatever it was that Bo was now. Even the squirrels were four times her size, though she was about the same color and not much less furry.

If any of those squirrels spoke WhateverthefuckBowas (at least the island was consistent, considering she couldn't tell you her species on any other day of the week either), they were welcome to quote her on the squeaky //Son of a BITCH!// that came out of her tiny mouth as she scrambled up the side of the picnic table towards Kenzi.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi grinned at the little cute thing, and leaned over to peer at it. Could be a boy. Could be a girl. Couldn't be a squirrel, but was very fuzzy. Or maybe that was the sake. "Hey, are you support staff for these guys?" She gestured around the table, taking another rummy sip of tea to warm up. "Want some teeny sake?" She held out a thimble. She'd picked up a couple for the guys so they could do shots. "Or a hat?"

[nookiepowered]

The answer out of Bo's mouth in response to support staff was broadcastable on Showcase but would probably get censored on SyFy. ...If it had been in English.

You couldn't even wait a whole WEEK before screwing with me again, Fandom? REALLY?

Bo shook her head at the thimble and used her wee claw-like paws to gesticulate... something. She kind of managed pointing at herself?

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Hercules was bundled up (oh, how he missed the ability to shirk the cold) and wandering through town when he saw the spread that Kenzi had laid out.

He paused.

"...is this for anyone?" he asked in general. The squirrels did not phase him at all. He'd encountered Squirrel Girl in the past, after all.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"As long as the guests of honor don't object," Kenzi said expansively, opening out her arms to indicate the squirrel banquet. "I think I brought enough for everybody. Here, have a shot of sake!" She toasted him with her own Dixie Cup and grinned up at him. "It'll warm you up."

[olympian-herc.livejournal.com]

Hercules took a cup and toasted it back. "Which is exactly what we need. Who asked for the frozen North, hmmm? This is no way to spend a summer!"

He objected to having to wear yet more clothes, really.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Dude, I hear ya," Kenzi sympathized, but not shivering at all. "I'm from Canada, it gets like this nine months of the year, sometimes. I thought the one thing I could definitely look forward to in the States was warmer weather." She shook her head, then stuck out her tongue. "Next it'll be the South Pole." But hey. Penguins!

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie would have been terribly disappointed to miss out on a party, so it was a good thing she happened to be taking a stroll through the park admiring the snow, that day.

"Oh! A party!" She was clearly thrilled out of her mind by this. "What a great idea! Is this a 'hey, what, winter's early?' party, or maybe a 'look at the pretty new mountains' party? Or, ooo, is it the island's birthday?!"

Excitable pony is excited.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

It was an EXTRA CREDIT party, even though Kenzi hadn't thought of that 'til this very second.

"Pinkie!" She waved to the pony, giggling. "It's a get-to-know-your-watchers party! Squirrels, Pinkie. Pinkie, the Radio squirrels!"

[locointhecoco]

"You're friends with squirrels?!" Pinkie was terribly impressed. "Oh just wait until I tell Fluttershy! She'll be so happy to hear that the little animals here have a good friend, just like she is to the animals in Ponyville!"

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Trying to be! At least with these guys." Kenzi said, toasting her. "And my roommate is a cheetah right now, so I think that should count too, right?" She rapped her Dixie cup on the table. "More for everyone! Have a Dixie Cup, ma'am."

[ostianbelle.livejournal.com]

"Hey, what's going on here?" Asuna asked, curious at the people milling around.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"We are celebrating the awesome of squirrels!" Kenzi said, raising a glass to the new chick. "Grab some sake, if they let you."

[ostianbelle.livejournal.com]

Asuna accepted the sake with a grin. She wasn't allowed to drink yet but what the headmaster didn't know...

"I didn't even know people drink sake here!"

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"A small but cool misunderstanding at Turtle and Canary, and presto! Red sake. As well as red socks." Kenzi held out one foot for inspection, visible beyond her short boots. "I'm Kenzi. So, am I doing the sake part right, or not?"