[open] This Fire is outta control; gotta burn this city!

[npc_kun]

Characters: Open
Date/Time: Oct 24-26, anytime
Location: Park & elsewhere (please specify location in comments)
Rating: Varied
Summary: Ladies and Gentlemen, we are gathered here to memorize a great tragedy that befell our sphere one year ago today. With HOT DOGS! A-BOOYA! Who's gonna cut the Fugue cake?! Second Annual Edensphere BBQ is ON!

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open, 10/24, around noonish?

[man_genius]

Genius had never seen the park look so festive before. Granted, the man hardly ever left his house due to his crippling fear of ....everything...but vague talk about free food in the park, combined with the strange apron he'd found in his room when he'd woken up in the morning, had been enough to awaken his powerful curiosity and get him outside. Albeit he was outside at the edge of Captain Planet, closest to the bridge in case he started having a panic attack (he really--really--hated crowds). But it was progress. He was alone outside! His friends would be quite proud of him under better circumstances

GENIUS-SAMA OTOTO SENSEI KUN SEMPAI CHAN

[bloody_pens]

Derrick felt like he deserved a martini after witnessing a huge dragon emerge from a Sphere-cocoon. Even though Tian had turned out to be a nice guy- nice dragon. Except, of course, he hadn't been able to get any booze in the camp or when he'd retuned to the tree- he just hadn't had time.

Now that there was a barbeque, however...

He located the bar setup in short order and found that there was even a special "Derrick-tini" just for him, with two olive eyes and a twist of licorice for a mouth. Spotting Genius and the rather orgasmic look on his face, he made sure to approach his twin from the front so as not to scare him.

ONNIII-CHAN!

[man_genius]

[For any stalkers out there, we decided that Genius and Derrick chat first and then Derrick wanders off and Gene comes in. Then Der comes back. THE MORE YOU KNOW]

Genius was chewing on some BBQ chicken when Derrick showed up. He waved happily to his man twin and then patted the picnic bench to indicate that Derrick should sit down with him.

"Der--you gotta try this chicken! Or the clam bake. Or anything I dunno I'm in heaven--especially after suffering camp food for a week. This is all amazing!"

Re: ONNIII-CHAN!

[bloody_pens]

"Yo," said Derrick easily, sliding into the bench next to Genius and eyeing the spread appreciatively. "I think this is definitely the Sphere's way of rewarding me for having to say hello to a GIGANTIC DRAGON. And trying to make it up to us for, you know, trying to destroy our homes. You holding up okay?"

[man_genius]

"I can't believe you greeted a freakn dragon! I mean that is simultaneously terrifying and awesome."

Genius passed his brother a plate and a plastic fork with a small half smile. "Holding up? My head is fine if that's what you mean."

They hadn't talked in detail about his time with Toushi. First he had been injured and then they had ended up in separate cabins. Genius really didn't know how to bring the topic up with his brother. Perhaps now was a good time.

[bloody_pens]

"Believe me, I almost had to ask you to bring me a new pair of pants," said Derrick, smirking. "He told me not to be afraid right off the bat, but really- it's hard to not be terrified in the face of that. I like to think I kept my cool, though. And... you know... didn't screech at the top of my lungs or anything like that."

Derrick grabbed the fork, but waited to help himself to the food. His expression softened a little.

"...I'm glad." He felt rather awkward, especially considering that he hadn't exactly rushed into the tree to help himself. "And all to save our little rolling ball of fur. How noble of you."

[man_genius]

He made a face at the pants comment. "I'm sure you faced that big scary dragon like a man. BTW since when did we start getting DRAGONS? Like all of a sudden we're pulling in mythological creatures of the non unicorn variety

[bloody_pens]

"Hell if I know," said Derrick, taking another sip of his drink. "I just hope next we don't get an elephant. Or a scary alien creature with tentacles and a dozen eyes all over its head. Or... well, let's just hope the Sphere sticks with humans from now on. And we'll get our imaginations wonder what else it could throw at us."

He poked at the olives in his martini glass with his fork, then used it to fish one out and chomped on it.

"He'll make a useful guard pet. Let's just hope that he decides not to take a bite out of any visitors. Then again, he makes a better pet than Boss ever did."

Derrick hadn't heard from Boss in a while, but he reasoned that the man was probably cowering somewhere, or steadily complaining to the tree itself about its crappy customer service. Not that he cared... all that much. Part of Derrick, a very very very tiny part, was worried about the little troll.

"Ask away. I will draw on my infinite wisdom to answer."

[man_genius]

He shuddered. "Dumbo would be funny, a creature with tentacles would be terrifying. They're always evil you know that right? I for one, do not welcome our alien overlords

[bloody_pens]

"Exactly," said Derrick, sticking his tongue out. "Elephants we could probably cope with. New evil overlords, not so much. I doubt Dash would take kindly to his position being usurped, at least

I'm... sorry this turned out so tl;dr.

[live_ringer]

Gene had not been in the best of moods as of late. Having half of your house blown in tended to do that to a guy. While the repairs were trucking along, there were plenty of other things in the Sphere that needed work and some instances where it was necessary for the Scavengers to drag supplies to-and-fro. That left him in the oh-so-cheery Temporary Housing for the time being.

Still, he could deal with that. Part and parcel of working in the aftermath of a disaster. Not to mention, at least he had a roof over his head, gray and dull as it might be

i debated between being funny or cruel so I ended up being both. SORRY KRIS

[man_genius]

Well if it weren't for Youth forcing Genius to train with him twice a week, Genius would be in very real danger of rolling down a hill as a fat bloated ball of starch. His genes (no pun intended) were doing him a favor, as he seemed able to eat a lot of junk food and still maintain the appearance of a relatively skinny guy (actual weight? a different story).

He was taking full advantage of this as he reached for yet another bowl of potato chips that had a strange look to them. Some of them appeared to have a tiny face burned into them, almost impossible to see. Genius certainly didn't notice. In fact while one hand was reaching for the chips, his eyes spotted a hot dog nestled in a bun that looked equally appetizing. There was also a face on the hot dog, but it was difficult to see. Hm. Decisions

Funny-cruel is ALWAYS the best combo.

[live_ringer]

Not expecting anything to be patently strange about the food, Gene had yet to realize the amount of detail that had been put into them. Though Genius's description of the little get together made Gene wonder.

"Appearing out of thin air, yet claimed by no one, hm? Maybe everyone else is too suspicious to fully enjoy the break when they get it."

Once Genius pushed the bowl towards Gene he grabbed a few of the potato chips. While his friend started chowing down on the hot dog Gene squinted when he noticed something a bit odd.

"I think there's... mold or something on these crisps." He scraped at the surface of one, then squinted as he realized there was something strange about the pattern on the chips. It wasn't random so much as... it seemed to form a face. One that sort of seemed familiar, now that he thought of it

U NO ET BB

[man_genius]

"It's not the first time food's appeared. There was a wilderness that was a giant buffet wasn't there?" Genius shrugged. "I haven't seen anyone drop dead yet and honestly? Poison's a bit too tame for this place." Well it was true. People tended to die horrifically via shooting rampages or giant insect attacks, not mundane poison. There was some logic going on in his head

[live_ringer]

"Too tame?" he asked while raising a brow. "That's one way to look at it, I guess."

Gene raised a brow at Genius's protests after he recovered from his choking spell and it was clear he wouldn't be dying from sausage inhalation. "Maybe if you didn't shovel down food so quickly, that wouldn't have been so likely to happen." Sure, it was more or less Gene's fault for prodding a man while he was eating but... really, that was nothing to focus on right now. Clearly, they had a mystery of sorts to solve.

"That's what I thought--wait, all faces?" Gene glanced over the table of food, about to inspect a plate full of chocolate covered marshmallows when Genius screamed.

"Jesus Christ, what the hell is your..." then Gene saw exactly what Genius was staring at. A half-eaten smoked sausage that, in and of itself, seemed innocuous enough. That is, until he leaned closer and got a good look at its face--his face. He was used to sharing his face, but this was rather pushing it. And while he wasn't feeling the urge to scream, he did feel any sign

OK TIME TO MAKE THIS HIDEOUS

[man_genius]

He knew it! He should have listened to his instincts about the free food! Why God why did he let his base instincts and greed win out?! Genius whimpered, pushed the sausage away and looked at Gene with horror in his eyes.

"I ate you! I ate your sausage!"

There was no time to consider how horrible that sounded. Genius' mind was racing--why did the food have faces--did they all have faces?! He jumped up and backed away from the park bench still whimpering. "Oh God--I already had a plate of food--"

He felt sick. Was this some kind of horrible joke? Or did it mean something? After all this was Edensphere, the place where people grew cat ears and unicorns and what if the food was connected to something--did he really just eat his name-twin?! WHAT IF HE ATE DERRICK?!

"Where's Derrick?!" He was just here a minute ago. "Are you ok?" Not content to wait for an answer, Genius grabbed at Gene's shoulders and began to pat him down, looking for injuries.

Hey it was a logical conclusion when you lived in a giant Tree.