Chilly Boulder, Saturday Noon-ish

[notallbluemonks]

It had started out as just Beau deciding that Jester absolutely had to have the full Chilly Boulder ice cream experience while she was here, and that meant getting the Skywalker special. They'd gamely tried to polish it off between the two of them and were nowhere near looking like they'd be able to manage that.

"Let's get Yasha," Jester suggested about a quarter of the way into the gigantic ice cream monstrosity. "Maybe she can help with this."

Beau snickered. "What is she gonna do, like, rage-eat?"

Jester smothered a little snicker of her own with a mouthful of rainbow sherbet. "Maybe? That might be cool."

"Yeah, not gonna lie, I kinda want to see that," Beau agreed, jabbing her spoon into a scoop of something that looked like chocolate with way too many things mixed into it. "Plus, you know, it's like ... ice cream. Not really sure if that's something she's -- do they have ice cream in Xhorhas?"

"Mmm, no idea." Xhorhas was literally that much of an enigma to all of western Wynandir. Jester raised both hands in a broad, exaggerated shrug. "Do you want me to --"

"No, I'll do it," Beau interrupted, pulling out her phone and starting to punch in a text message. "Don't burn any spells if you don't have to." Because ... the island might get invaded all of a sudden, and then Jester might need that third level spell slot or something. Sure.

As they discovered shortly after Yasha arrived, rage-eating wasn't actually a thing barbarians could do, but even without that Yasha did a pretty good job of helping them make serious inroads into the ludicrously gigantic ice cream dish.

Which was ... a lot of sugar, in the end, even if they didn't quite finish it.

The upshot of which was that now, Beau was sitting at their sidewalk table with her phone out to record full video, whooping very loud and obnoxious encouragement as a five-foot-three blue tiefling in a cute little dress ran up and down the street in front of the shop giving a piggyback ride to an extremely pale woman with a giant sword who had at least eight inches of height and a pretty good amount of muscle mass on her.

It was, uh. Quite the sight, probably.

[OOC: Jester (the second strongest, second smallest member of the Mighty Nein) giving Yasha (the strongest) a piggyback ride is 100% canon and I love it. Up early because if I put it off until I wake up it's never gonna get posted. I know me. But hey, 3/7 of the M9 are in the house, so open! YES I EDITED WHEN I REALIZED I GOOFED ON HEIGHTS SHUT UP.]

The Beach, Saturday Morning

[hatesparadise]

With both Mary (and Joanie) and Grace visiting the island... well, it was a thing. That neither he, nor Steve had planned on.

But, once everything settled down a little, Grace had wanted to see the island that had apparently kidnapped her father and Steve needed to catch up with his sister, so the best option had seemed like the beach. Which also meant Danny was babysitting Joan while the other children played in the surf. That included the elder McGarretts, yeah.

"Just you and me being the sane ones here, kiddo," Danny told the baby as he adjusted where she rested on his hip. It was a little awkward to only be able to do this on one side at the moment, but he could adapt.

Joan babbled quietly and shoved a spit soaked hand into his hair. God help him, he kinda missed this age.

[open!]

Trooper Station | Saturday

[knife_bender]

Diego had not had the best night's sleep. Sure, he could have slept on the floor when Klaus took his bed but Diego was Diego and stubbornly shoved him over to sleep in it as well. Which of course meant he was kicked all night.

So yeah, he was tired and irritated and now had to spend his shift making sure his brother didn't try to make off with any station equipment to pawn off. It was going to be a torturous day.

[Open!]

Covent Garden Flowers, Saturday

[1000yearstoolate]

Should any visiting friends and family need flowers there was a shop full of it. Literally. Seivarden opened the door, sighed, then fought herself through the jungle of brightly coloured flowers towards the counter. She picked up the delivery note, sighed again, looked around and decided to just ignore the whole thing. With some difficulty she made tea, then placed a chair just outside the door and put a note in the window:

50% off everything

[Open! ETA: The shop closes around lunchtime, as Seivarden has to go and get someone drunk.]

Groovy Tunes, Saturday

[justice_undone]

There had been a delivery of new instruments, mostly guitars and digital pianos, and Breq spent the day unpacking them. Some she didn't recall ordering, but that was hardly a surprise, and it meant that she now had a rather impressive collection of flutes from all across the multiverse, several of them adapted for non-human species. Although being stuck on the island was becoming increasingly frustrating, at least this made the day better.

She put up a note in the window:

20% off instruments not from Earth.

[Open]

Pick Your Poison, Saturday

[crimson_sister]

Knowing people had friends and family visiting didn't put Lucille in the best mood. She kept as busy as she good, restocking the shelves, sweeping the floors, and, when that was done, sitting down to read. If anyone showed up she would be coolly polite, regardless of whether you were happy to see your family or friends or not.

[Open]

Turtle and Canary- Saturday

[overparented]

Janet had successfully avoided having her parents show up again, by telling them that the event was next week. Which meant that next weekend, she could happily show them around Baltimore while also making sure they weren't like, unintentionally rude to aliens or that they didn't yank her out of school in her senior year when they caught sight of a gremlin.

And today she could just have a quiet day at work.

25% Discount to Friends and Family!

Today's Squishy Flavors
Bacon
Blueberry
Red


[Open!]

Parents' Weekend Family Festival, The Park, Saturday

[bigdamnprincipal]

Thankfully, the weather was cooperating today in that it was both clear and sunny and it felt like fall. Small miracles did happen sometimes.

If you followed the smell of spices and pumpkins, there was an array of food and family-friendly activities for people to partake in, or use as a distraction from any awkwardness that might have sprung up. If you wanted non-family-friendly distractions, well, that's what the bars were for, right?

[OCD is up!]

Caritas- Saturday

[throughaphase]

It was with no small amount of trepidation that Kitty got to the bar tonight, and began pouring little amounts of hopefully-alcohol, just to test what happened.

Which was followed by a very loud "THANK GOD" because Parents Weekend was not the time.

SPECIALS
BOOZE!!!

Town Hall, Saturday

[weirderthanthou]

"I can't believe I'm actually here, and I don't have any lab equipment," Emily said. She was wearing some of Jesse's clothes, and honestly, it was a little weird to see her out of the uniform. Or in something that casual.

Like she's wearing clothes from another world.

"I'd love to run some tests on you once we manage to get you back out of here, about the influence of a multiversal-- Island of Power like this on you, especially after exposure to, well..." Emily continued, grinning at her. "I mean, if you're okay with it, of course."

"Let's just add it to the long list of things you want to test me for," Jesse said wryly, but she realized she'd inexplicably found herself smiling.

Emily's enthousiasm was a special kind. Rare. She'd missed it.

[[ open ]]

Luke's Diner, Saturday

[what_the_shock]

Miguel got odd looks when he showed up for work today.

"What?" he asked.

The dishwasher and busboy just shook their heads.

"You'd think I wasn't here every week," Miguel said rolling his eyes.

The cook looked like he wanted to say something, before he shrugged. "What's the special?"

Today's Special
Pork empanadas
Mushroom quesadillas
Coffee

Luke's was open!