#(ic) starters

[mxnsterhunter]

@savior-of-humanity liked for a starter!

"You have 5 minutes to tell me why I should help you. You're interrupting my bath.."

[mxnsterhunter]

@darksideaskblog Liked for a starter!!

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"I do not have time to listen to what you've heard about Witchers.. Be gone."

[overclocksaaa]

@biitchcakes liked

"Best two out of three wins, loser has to deal with Back Seat Driver Rogers when we fly out." He wants the record to reflect that it is very hard to relinquish control - even if it's just piloting the quinjet which is something every single Avenger has been trained to do - but Steve has been extra testy lately, and Tony can and will strap him into his seat if he doesn't learn to sit down and buckle up. He wiggles the closed fist above his other, open palm invitingly. "C'mon, standard rules. If you win I'll even throw in bonus chili cheese fries from that one place. Let's go."

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"So...Don't take this the wrong way, this is a gift, but...I managed to find a plant I don't think you'll be able to murder through...Through too much love. Or, you know, neglect, whichever."

@writteninscarlet gets saddled with tony

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"I already told you, no, you don't get a say-so. Yes, I have to go, too. Avengers Mansion. Halloween. Five pm. Original costumes. And hey...Hey. Full size candy bars."

@ascendgravity / jan gets an annoyance

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"Three words describe our situation right now. Do you know what they are?" Iron Man doesn't get pinned down, typically, in heavy incoming fire. It's a bonus of being versatile as both a heavy hitter and a long range flier. But for the moment he's grounded, repulsors in his jet boots slagged thanks to whatever absolutely insane terrible idea tech AIM has rolled out in a truly astoundingly awful practical demonstration. And frankly? It sucks. He holds up one finger. "Cluster." A second one joins it. "Fuck." And a third. "City. Actually, that's technically two words, but I figure we've got about a minute before this wall gets breached. Ideas?" / dialogue from memes starter for @biitchcakes

[overclocksaaa]

@n1hilnovi gets a fallout starter

"Hey, uh, so-" He realizes belatedly he probably looks like every other down on their luck drifter blowing through here for this, or that, making use of the Followers' good will and generosity; dusty head to toe from his trek into the wasteland (there and back again, from a book he absolutely loathes, for the record), everything he owns in a satchel hanging off his shoulder, instead of a guy who used to host five-digit-a-plate charity events.

Well, such is life. He can drop things off as well in patched and frayed flannel as he can a Saville Row suit.

"-So..." There's an awkward pause, as he struggles for and then finds the name he's looking for, as he lifts the flap on his satchel and begins digging around inside. "I talked to Julie Farkas and she said you were doing something with the local plant life. So, full disclosure, botany's actually not really my wheelhouse, but I- Ahah."

He unearths a small burlap sack tucked carefully under a couple of spare shirts that's mostly been sitting on his small caps stash, to keep them muffled, triumphantly and drops it on the table. "Might have a little experience in what you can call alternative medicine."

He's got a hunk of metal with a captured star between his ribs, he knows but from alternative medicine, but luckily he's layered up enough it doesn't shine too obviously through both his threadbare shirts. Anyway, more to the point at hand, he's been surprised - considering the state of some other things he's found, like the two headed or oversized wildlife, some things are actually still recognizable, which was why he'd taken what he had, had been glad to have that wilderness and survival training once upon a time they'd all had to sit through year after year.. And now that he knows where the patches of it are, he can share the spoils. "I don't know what you're yanking out of the clod around here, but there's some gumweed and prickly pear. A little Morman tea, too. She said you might want to give those a go for...Whatever."

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@gammaragee gets a 616 starter

"Sure, I thought maybe it was just boring ol' radioactive decay at first, so I ran some tests. Wrote a few algorithms. Ran those. Ran them all again." Tony pulled up a floating holoscreen display, cramped data displayed on every inch of it with real time updates running in the bottom right corner, updating the numbers on the fly. All of them display the same disturbing upward trend, small and incremental, sure, but steadily piling up into something that tickled that place in the back of his brain, gives him the willies seeing it start to stack like it is.

"And if it had played out like that, sure, I'd have left it alone. Probably. But this isn't just radioactive decay, this is-"

He hesitates to use the word apocalyptic, actually, but concerning is one that seems apt, if an understatement.

"I'm not the expert on this, you know that, I know that. So if you tell me it's not some cataclysmic build up to something, fine. Great. I'll put a little birdy on it just in case and leave you be. But last time I checked, a little strontium breaking down doesn't start looking like a nuclear bomb until it is one."