Raven's Housewarming Party

[howling_laugh]

Somewhere in the Glacier Bay Wilderness on the Southern coast of Alaska

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Food and Drink

[howling_laugh]

In the kitchen, there are plenty of snacks. Cheese and crackers, vegetables and dip, fruit and fresh bread. Also sausages on sticks, which are traditional. The many plates of cookies are less traditional, but equally as necessary. It might also be better not to investigate some of the jars too closely. They might look like pickles, but they could be eyeballs. The fridge is also there for rummaging, if anyone feels especially brave.

As for drinks, there are dusty bottles of wine, and fresh bottles of local microbrews. There is a ceramic fountain, bubbling with water from Raven's artesian well, cold and clear and probably as intoxicating as the alcohol, if not in the chemical sense. Somewhere there are the ingredients for mixed drinks, and if you ask nice Coyote might make you one.

And since it is Raven's party, there are neatly rolled cigarettes. Most of them probably even have only tobacco in them.

[forewarned_is]

Kali is by the drinks table, examining a bottle of red wine with a
considering air.

[howling_laugh]

"I can assure you they are all good," Coyote says. "I cannot assure you that they are all from this century, or from this universe."

With a time traveler and a fantasy universe expatriate as the other hosts, you never know quite what you're gonna get.

[forewarned_is]

"I think I may actually have had some of this pressing before." Lightly. "I was wondering how well it's aged since."

[howling_laugh]

"It may not have aged at all."

Coyote gestures at the young lady in the leather jacket.

"I find time to be best traveled through in a linear fashion, but not everyone agrees with me."

[forewarned_is]

Her eyebrows go up. "Oh?"

Gossip is one thing Coyote has always excelled at.

[howling_laugh]

"Raven, for one." Coyote rolls her eyes. "I do not recommend asking him about it, however. It will only make your brain hurt. That is Ace. She has a machine for traveling through space and time."

Coyote chooses not to explain that she is also Raven's sister, because really. There is only so much backstory you can get through in one night.

[forewarned_is]

"... How useful." Kali eyes the young woman appraisingly.

[howling_laugh]

"She is very attached to it, of course. But she has been known to take passengers from time to time, I understand."

Not that Coyote would recommend it. Raven Airlines isn't all that fun to fly, she can't imagine technology would improve time travel.

[forewarned_is]

"It might be worth asking."

Although trusting to a machine for something like that ... she isn't sure.

[howling_laugh]

"If you want to go back in time," Coyote says, making a face. "Or forward, I suppose."

And yeah, no. Machines are supposed to do what Coyote tells them to, and she has a feeling that wouldn't work so well, in this case.

[forewarned_is]

"Either could be interesting."

Or useful.

Sentimental reasons are not exactly what she has in mind.

[howling_laugh]

She shakes her head. "Far more trouble than it's worth."

Coyote selects a bottle and pulls the cork with her teeth. Pouring herself a glass, she raises an eyebrow at Kali in invitation. Want some?

[forewarned_is]

Kali's glance at the bottle is smooth, with only the faintest touch of disdain.

"I'll try this one, thank you."

[howling_laugh]

Coyote eyes Kali a little suspiciously, but offers her a glass. It's no skin off her nose, whatever Kali wants to drink.

[creator_raven]

Raven looks at what she is examining.

Then he wrinkles his nose.

"Milk, I think, is mostly better. Or possibly whiskey, yes?"

A bird has his preferences.

And there really are a lot of cookies around.