Check-In: Not-Mother Hen

[st_alksthroughwalls]

Kitty sat at the bar with a cup of coffee and her notebook, watching the 'welcoming committee' make themselves busy. Liz was here, as she'd promised Kitty she would be and Kitty gave her a quick smile of encouragement.

One of the worst things about Check-In Days was that you never knew whether it'd be a whole long day of no one arriving, one spectacular fall from the ceiling and dropping dead after another, or anything in between. It made it hard to know what to do with yourself. After awhile, you got used to it and just kept on with whatever you'd do otherwise, and know that if you didn't step up for a new arrival, someone else would. But for someone not used to treating it like a responsibility to be here, especially someone with Liz's anxious need to be perfect at it, Check-In Day could be emotionally exhausting.

So Kitty made sure to have milk warmed for hot cocoa and her plans for the obstacle course handy in case Liz needed something to do with herself. Otherwise, she was working on a modification of Cerebro to see if she could start detecting new arrivals.


[ooc: Regular check-in day gathering post. If you want Kitty, ping me.]

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Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

Thor looks visibly pleased that Alec recognizes his monetary worthy.

"No you wouldn't," Thor says cheerily as he busts open another bottle.

"The champion was this guy named Hulk," he says. "He's basically this big green guy who smashes things. He's very strong, but not as strong as me."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"Oh, yeah, I know him too." Well maybe not actually know him. "Let me guess, he sounds like 'Hulk Smash'." And with that he did Peter's version of Hulk.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

Thor lets out a delighted bark of laughter. "Exactly! Your impersonation is spot on!"

Thor takes another long swig of his beverage. "The great thing about him is that he's got like, two people living in one body. So you got the green guy who's like SMASH!! and then you got the book nerd who's like, SCIENCE!!"

Something that Thor didn't actually realize himself until recently.

"Banner's a nerd," he laughs to himself.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"I know all about nerds." Alec had no idea there was more than one nerd on the Avenger's team. At least Peter wouldn't be the odd man out in that respect (he'd still be a bit of the odd man out though). "Wait, so the Hulk is also some guy named Banner? How does that work?" And also, how does Pete not know that?

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"I don't know," Thor says with a laugh. "I have no idea how that happened. I mean, you think I would since we've been friends for like, five years now and that that's a really long time for humans, but it's just never come up."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

Alec downed the rest of the bottle and reached for another. Kitty was probably going to grumble at the amount of bottles they were consuming.

"Fair enough." He paused. "I got turned into a cat once, here at the inn. But that was magic not weird superhero magic"

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"Really?"

Thor seems delighted by this admission.

"I got turned into a frog once. My brother -- he turned me into one." Thor's starting to feel the effects of the alcohol. Or maybe he has been for awhile. He's just only starting to become aware of it now. "Do people normally turn each other into cats here?"

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"No. I pissed her off when I said there was no such thing as magic." He knew better now. "There isn't in my world, but there's a shit ton here at the inn."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"Magic is great," Thor says, taking another swig of his beverage. "It's basically the best. Unless someone's using it against you in an un-fun way, but turning into a cat sounds a lot more fun than turning into a frog. Especially when your mom has to change you back because your brother refuses to."

Thor leans slightly forward.

"Top three animals you'd like to be transformed into." He directs a finger at Alec. "Go."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

Had Alec not been drinking, he would have probably refused to answer. But he was buzzed, so an answer came.

He held up his fingers as he listed them, "Wolf, Panthor...Rhinoceros"

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"Labrador retriever, husky, and great dane," Thor answers cheerily. "I approve of your choices. Especially wolf. Very tough, those creatures."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"You know you just picked three different types of dog, right? Just in case god of Thunder thought they meant something else.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"Yes, dogs are great," Thor says, grinning hard. "They're very friendly. We didn't have dogs on Asgard. My sister had a wolf, but he was a bit of an asshole."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"I'm good friends with a dog man, actually. His name is Joshua." He would love this place, actually, as he wouldn't have to hide. "There's a dog here too. Names Dante. You'll see him around at some point. And there's a pet bear."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"I would very much like to meet this Joshua," Thor says and indeed he would. "And I heard about the bear, but not the dog. I was instructed not to hurt the bear, but why would anyone hurt a bear? Bears are fun. I'd wrestle the bear, but I would not kill it."

It all comes out in one long, stream-of-consciousness ramble. He downs a hefty chunk of his bottle, then sets it back down.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"The bear has armour. I'm not sure it's a regular bear." Alec gave the bear space, generally. "But I bet people who pay to watch you wrestle him." Back home there'd definitely be money involved.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"It's only fair that the bear have armor," Thor says. For a second it looks like he's going to say more about bears in armor, but then he stops, and idly taps the side of his bottle a few times.

"You know, we really should have a toast," he says.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

Alec's eyebrows lifted a little. "A toast? A toast to what?" He paused. "No, you know what, sure. Yeah. Let's have a toast!"

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"To Banner, the biggest nerd I know," he says. "And to Hulk, whose strength is second only to my own."

He holds his bottle so he and Alec can clink them together.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

He didn't know Hulk or Banner, but he held up his own bottle. "To Peter, definitely the biggest nerd I know." At least who was alive. Brain was probably more nerdier, but the guy had died to save people. He 'clinked' his to Thor's.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

Thor is happy to drink to that. Frankly, he's happy to drink to anything right now. He takes a long swig of his beverage then asks:

"How long have you been here?" he asks. Then a second, more important question: "If we drink everything worth drinking in the bar, how long will it take for them to replenish their stores?"

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"This month makes it six months. So half a year. Crazy, right?" As for his second question, he peered over at the bar. "Not sure. Probably the next morning. Things generally reset here. I should know, I've destroyed the vending machines here enough times and they're still back to their regular condition."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"You serious? So you can just... break whatever you want, and it doesn't matter?"

Thor frowns, thinking about that.

"You ever stay awake long enough to watch things reset?"

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"If you watch it, it won't happen." So yes, he had. Even he couldn't be awake 24/7 and there were at least a handful of distractions here. "And yeah, technically. Though there are some people who will probably protest. They see it as being disrespectful."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

Thor thinks briefly back on his fight with Hulk back on Sakaar. Not in the stadium, but in the room, when both of them started throwing stuff at one another.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to try anything," he says, though he does store away that particular snippet of information for later. Thor pauses. Thinks. Then thinks some more. Then he gets tired of thinking and just takes another drink instead.

"What are your opinions on snakes?" he asks. "Are there snake people where you come from?"