2085/Log 2085

Log 2085
Date of Scene:	21 August 2017
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Hawkeye (Bishop), Jade, Dragonfly (Arazello), Vector

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Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
    Summer is fading, fading. Soon school will start everywhere and the glorious break will be over. So, there are any number of children at the Queen's Zoo, a lot of them there to see the new pair of cougar cubs that are just today old enough to go on display in their parents' enclosure. Lots of little heads have their noses against the plexiglas divider.

    A taller head is looking over them - a dark haired young woman wearing faded jeans, running shoes, and a t-shirt that reads "I Am Not Daredevil" on the front. She has a backpack slung over her shoulder and her hands full of the remains of a snack - a mostly-eaten hot dog and a cup of soda. She peers past the children. "There they are... wait, no. That's a... ah! One is over there by that rock and the other by that little tree. Awww..." she coos, still chewing on a bit of mustard-covered sausage in bread. "They're so cute!"

Jade has posed:
"They are," agrees a woman standing off to one side. She's been there longer than anyone else who's come through. A cup of Dippin' Dots in her hand, she's in the shade, eating them three dots at a time, because that's the only way to eat Dippin' Dots sanely. The woman is petite. Wearing jeans and a tee-shirt that reads "Be Keen. Go Green." It has a recycling symbol beneath the words. Oh yeah, and she's green. So very green. All over green. Hair. Eyes. Skin. Green, green, green. The green giant, without the giant.

She continues to eat the dots, watching the cubs stalk and pounce one another. "I can't seem to take my eyes off of them, I've never seen anything so cute in my life."

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    "So, once we see the cougar cubs can we go on to look at the penguins?" Nancy says to Liz as they enter the big cats display. "I mean baby cougars are cute and all, but penguins are where the fun is at. I learned a lot about flying by watching penguins."
    Flying?
    "So where are the little fluffba..." She stops talking, her eyes widening. "Omigod, Liz! They're so adorable! Can we take one home!?" The tall brunette's face joins the children in pressing against the glass to look at the cubs.

Vector has posed:
    "You learned about flying from the... Maybe I don't want to know." Liz is much shorter than her fiance, being decidedly not on the "tall" side. She moves in beside Nancy, however, squeezing agianst her side in order to get close enough to see the penguins. "The juveniles are molting. Feathers everwyhere. ANd suure, we could take one home if you had a properp lace prepared for it and it wasn't totlaly illegal,. I love penguins. They taught me a lot about how to waddle with eggs between my legs." Liz shrugs at this, shifting her weight slguitly from left to right. She starts to look around then, dark eyes slowly casting over everything... Until she sees the petite green woman. Now Liz stares for a moment. She is petite as well but her skin is a much mroe typical brown. Latino probably. (Mixed, really."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
    "I learned to fly from penguins too..." Kate says, popping the last of her hot dog in her mouth, she hasn't even looked to see who made the comment. "... since they don't fly, neither do I." but she smiles. "They're the cutest little balls of death, aren't they?"

Jade has posed:
"That's cool, I learned about swimming from the cheetahs and lions, myself," Jade states matter-of-factly. She eats three more dots. Strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate. One tiny Neopolitan melting in her mouth. "I try to save the penguin exhibit for after I've finished ice cream, when I'm hot again. Because otherwise I freeze to death while I'm trying to watch them swim."

Jade furrows her brow, watching a child wander away from the glass and into the throngs of other people passing. There doesn't seem to be a parent around for this one, or at least not one who's noticed his movement. She follows quickly and takes him by the hand, looking around for anyone who might be missing a 2-ish-year-old.

"Ladies? Does this belong to any of you?"

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    "If you think penguins don't fly, you haven't paid much attention to how they move underwater. They're flying. Just through water, not through the air," Nancy says, perhaps a wee tad petulantly as she looks over at the commentators. "And because the fluid is so much thicker, their acrobatics are much easier to watch and analyze and, later, to replicate as you ..." She pauses, reddening a bit.
    "Sorry. Slipped into lecture mode there. I've been teaching pro bono at a community college and it's infected my speech patterns. Pause. "I'm an aeronautical engineer," she adds obliquely. "So I kind of have a professional interest in this stuff."
    Jade's capture and retrieval of the toddler snaps her back to her surroundings. Her own eyes join Jade's in looking for possible parents. "I don't see any candidates," she says.
    Putting the nicest face that she's capable of, Nancy asks the child, "Do you know where your mother is?"

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
    Kate looks over to Jade. "Not me, no." She notes the child. "Oh, poor kid." but she recognizes the green lady. "Hey! I know you. You're Jenny Lynn-Hayden, or something like that." and she smiles. "You sold me at least three pairs of jeans back when you were doing that one ad campaign." and she whistles low. "That was _hot_". and she fans herself.

Jade has posed:
Jade laughs. "Those jeans sold themselves....I still have at least a dozen pairs." She continues to look for the child's parents, then finds a zookeeper to hand him off to. The keeper immediately calls a Code Adam over the radio.

Jade returns to her ice cream, but the dots have begun to melt together. "Oh no. I'm ruined!" she cries forlornly over the savaged dots.

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    "I remember those ads," Nancy says. "Hard for me to forget. I'm wearing the jeans right now." She models them ... badly. Catwalk queen she'll never be. "Also," she adds, very obviously not staring, "it's kind of hard to forget the model in them. You have a pretty distinctive look. I ... uh ... hope I'm not being offensive in mentioning that?"
    She braves the introvert collapse and attendant babbling, extending her hand. "I'm Nancy." Pause. "I'm an engineer," she adds unnecessarily. "I'm working on advanced propulsion at the moment."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
    "I'm Kate. Kate Bishop." she offers. "Nice to meet you." Another smile at Jade. "Could..." and she digs in her backpack, there's her zoo ticket in there. And a pen. "... could I get your autograph?"

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    Nancy grins and relaxes, and roots around in her oversided purse, finally pulling out a leatherbound notebook. "Here, have a page from this," she says, opening the notebook with the hastily-scrawled "Dumb Thoughts" on a cheap label stuck to the cover. "It'll be better than a ticket."
    A quick tearing sound and a piece of graph paper is held out to Kate.

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
    Kate accepts the graph paper. "Hey, thanks." and she offers it and the pen to Jade. "Sorry. Could I?"

Jade has posed:
Jade smiles, blushing a little, and turning a deeper shade of green. She shakes Nancy's hand gratefully. "Nice to meet you, Nancy." She then takes the pen and paper from Kate and signs it, "In the spirit of the journey, Jennifer-Lynn Hayden." She draws a hasty four-leaf clover and hands the paper and pen back to Kate.

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
Kate smiles and looks the autograph over, proudly. "Thanks so much." and she tucks it away. "Sorry to bother you. I won't fangirl anymore. I promise." and she purposefully turns to see if she can catch glimpse of the kittens again.

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    Nancy has no trouble at all fangirling. Well, at least staring. It takes her several seconds worth before she realizes what she's doing.
    "I'm doing it again, aren't I?" she asks, hastily looking anywhere else. Hmm... That trash bin seems to be utterly fascinating now, like Jade was before. She's just not very good at this.
    "I'm sorry, I just don't really interact much with celebrities," she says, rooting around in her purse again. "Gummy bear?" she asks as she nervously thrusts forward a bag of, indeed, gummy bears. Her face drops. "You're probably on some kind of massively controlled diet though, aren't you?"

Jade has posed:
"I...well, if you talk to my nutritionist, yes. But..." She looks down at her sad pile of melted Dippin' Dots. "I eat what I want. I get plenty of exercise that they don't know about." She realizes how that sounded, now. Different than in her head. And no way to explain it. So she just smiles. "But I probably shouldn't indulge any more today, thank you. Besides, you ladies are far from the worst fangirls I've come across."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
"Well, thanks anyway. It means a lot." Kate says. She finishes off her soda finally and tosses the cup in the proper bin. "Did someone say something about penguins?"

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    "If you can handle me getting my geek on and explaining how the shape of the penguin is optimized for ..." Nancy pauses and grins, this time not from embarrassment but rather with a bit of a wicked glint in her eye. "I can go on a bit when it's a topic I'm interested in," she says. "Like flight. Insect vision. Or proper Italian cooking."

Jade has posed:
"I'll bet with all the colours that insects can see that we can't see, and their ability to fly to the store for ingredients, a Dragonfly can cook up some mean Lasagna Bolognese." She let's out the nerdiest giggle ever, and a silly little snort.

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
"Dragonflies? Dragonflies don't eat lasagna." Kate explains. "Garfield eats lasagna." she corrects and laughs.

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    The joke doesn't go over quite as well with Nancy. Something about it doesn't seem to sit well as she widens her eyes in shock, staring at Jade a moment. Kate's quip snaps her out of it. She laughs and smiles herself, albeit the smile looking a little sickly.
    "That's right. Uh ... dragonflies would eat casa marsu."
    Pause.
    "You know. That cheese with the living maggots in it?"
    Beat.
    "OK, that was funnier in my head. Let's go look at penguins."

Jade has posed:
"Well, my ice cream's gone anyway, might as well go penguining." Jade unceremoniously dumps her ice cream in the utterly fascinating garbage can and moves along in a penguinish direction.

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
    Kate makes like she's going to gag, "I saw that stuff on a show once. You know, people have to shield their faces when they eat that cheese so that the maggots don't jump in their face?" and she shudders. "Who wants to eat maggot poop anyway? I mean, that's what it ism basically, once the bugs are done with it." Still, she follows along to penguin too.

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    "Don't consume vinegar," Nancy says with an almost cruel glee as the trio make their way to the penguin display. "That's basically bacterial urine." Pause. "Or maybe it's fungal. I can't remember which. Probably fungal."
    Another punchline falls face-first into the dust.
    At the penguin display, though, her eyes light up.
    "See?" she says, pointing at a Humboldt sailing past the massive window. "Look at how it's moving. That's flight, ladies. It's just weirdly choosing to fly under the water instead of in the air."

Jade has posed:
Jade nods, impressed. "Not sure it's their choice, though. I watched this movie called "A Wish for Wings That Work" once...." She chews her lip for a moment. "It's a Christmas movie...." She neglects to share that it's an Opus and Bill cartoon where Opus has to swim to save Santa Claus. "That's what it said....A penguin can fly, it just needs water to do so."

Hawkeye (Bishop) has posed:
    "Don't eat bread either." Kate agrees. It's difficult to realize if she's serious or not. "The holes are made by yeast farting in the dough." she smiles, though. "Well, I can't agree... but I will admit that they're cute."

Dragonfly (Arazello) has posed:
    "Whether you call it flight or not, though, there's stuff they do that pilots and aeronautical engineers both can learn from. Look how that body flexes in anticipation of a sudden change of direction. Look at the angle of attack of its wings. Those are the kinds of things that leave me gasping when I compare it to modern rigid-body aircraft. Just like insect eyes can teach us a thing or ten about how to do broad-band, wide-area sensing with fine resolution."
    Yep. She's definitely geeking out here. Her eyes haven't left the penguins while she's lectured.
    "Uh ..." she finally adds, actually looking at her companions for a change. "And they're really cute?"

Jade has posed:
Jade smiles knowingly to Nancy. "I actually do know what you mean. Nature has ways of adapting and accomplishing things that we as humans couldn't hope to accomplish in a thousand years of experimentation." A pinging noise comes from within Jade's messenger bag, and she lifts the flap to peer inside for a moment. A faint green light, probably just a cell phone, comes from within. "I'm afraid I'll have to be going. Seems like it's always one thing or another." She gives an apologetic smile. "It's not easy being green." With a little bow of her head to Nancy and one to Kate, she excuses herself. "Thank for for a lovely afternoon, Ladies." And with that, she departs swiftly toward the zoo entrance.