Open | Barbeque Bash!

[frenchkissed]

Who: Eddie and Venom + You!
What: Big Summer Blow-Out!
When: July Confluence
Where: Little Love
Content Warnings: Aliens, maybe alcohol?

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It's barbeque season in Little Love! It's also alien season, but enough about that.

This is an open event, so please feel free to make your own top-level based on whatever!

Eddie will be around cooking and chatting. You're more than welcome to explore the ranch and the surrounding areas on your own. Just be kind to the animals, or Venom will escort you out and it will be aggressive.

Activities of the night include cooking, eating, horseback riding, braiding the horses' manes, roasting marshmallows, sparklers, enjoying music, sharing scary stories, going for a swim in the adjacent lake, and, of course, being visited by aliens at some point in the night.

Comments

[frenchkissed]

( eddie takes a shot and, holy shit, this was a terrible idea. whose idea was this? no one should be taking this many shots in such a short amount of time. also, terrible question, because venom goes from looking gallantly globby to enraged in a matter of seconds. )

WITHOUT ME?!
BASTARD!

Before you, man. I had a life before you.
...
You literally knew that? You're in my head; how were you surprised by that—

REMEDY THIS!
WE SHOULD GO SKINNY DIPPING!
AT ONCE!
AND THE SCRAWNY MAN WILL JOIN US!

Come on, you know his name.

[exasperation]

[ watching eddie and venom react sure is something. ]

It's Ripley. By the way.

[frenchkissed]

( a headache is what it is. )

He knows. He's just doing that thing where he chooses not to—

MY MEMORY IS IMPECCABLE.
HOW MANY THINGS CAN YOU REMEMBER AT ONCE, LITTLE MAN?

[exasperation]

Oh, that's great?

Actually, that kind of sucks too. I feel like there are tons of things I'd want to forget.

[frenchkissed]

( a tiny blob approaches! watch your grill, ripley, because venom is getting all up in it. )

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, RIPLEY.
WHY WOULD YOU WEAKEN YOURSELF?

[exasperation]

[ ripley blinks. ]

Becauseeee I have . . . other powers? Also like, I'm not big on power anyway. Feels like a lot of work? And a pain. Mostly a pain.

[frenchkissed]

( a person? who isn't after power and success? it seems that venom still has much to learn about the human world. )

...
WHAT IS IT THAT YOU VALUE?

[exasperation]

Uhm, I guess it would be . . . happiness? People should be happy. Less . . . hurting each other for power and other stuff, but be happy.

[frenchkissed]

( eddie and venom look at each other then and just sort of… nod. it’s a good goal. even an alien from planet klyntar can acknowledge that it’s a noble goal. )

Yeah… Think that’s better than power.

[exasperation]

[ he brightens. ]

See? Not that I'm really — good at it or anything, but at least I want to be the person that hurts someone the least.

[frenchkissed]

( yeah, WAY better goal than power. )

Even if there’s nothing you’re particularly great at, is there anything that you enjoy doing?

[exasperation]

I mean, not really. I like being by myself. Junk TV, fiction.

[frenchkissed]

Right, we have that in common.

Hey, the new season of Big Brother is starting up soon. You wanna come over to watch?

[exasperation]

Oh, definitely. We should start picking faves early.

[frenchkissed]

Putting your money on people who probably won't make it to the third round is kind of the fun of, you know?

Come by on Wednesday. I think that's the premiere.

[exasperation]

I'll be there.

[frenchkissed]

I'll be there, too.

...

'Cause I live there. So... sort of redundant. But, in case you were worried that I wouldn't be there, now you know.

[exasperation]

Well, I wasn't before but now I kinda am?

But it's cool. We'll both be there? It'll work out?

[frenchkissed]

Why wouldn't I be there? Where else would I be?

[exasperation]

I don't know! You could be busy!

[frenchkissed]

Yeah, man. I'm gonna be busy that night. Busy watching Big Brother with you.

[exasperation]

I just meant like. Some other kind of busy. Important busy.

[frenchkissed]

Like save the world busy?

[exasperation]

That.

Or like . . . more interesting people busy.

[frenchkissed]

...Yeah, that's really unlikely.

You know how many people we've met who fit the weirdly specific niche of loving trashy reality shows and making us feel like we're not, like, a horrible monster?

Exactly one.