5266/PR Time at the Avengers Mansion

PR Time at the Avengers Mansion
Date of Scene:	29 August 2018
Location:	Avengers Mansion, New York City
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Iron Man, She-Hulk, Carrie Kelley

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Iron Man has posed:
    There's some strong security that resists Ms. Kelley's entrance, at least at first. The permission for the entry (and videotaping) was just really old, and therefore more suspect. So there's some checking that needs to be done. She's made to wait, but at least it's comfortable, a shaded area outside by the security station.

    And then? Salvation. Well, to some degree. Tony's hot rod pulls up out front, and the man hops out of his car, flinging keys off to the side at one of the security guards. The guard knows the deal, and catches them cleanly, immediately switching gears to obey his boss's clear wish related to the car. Tony is dressed to kill today, immaculate dark blue suit, crisp button up and tie in expensive and beautifully tailored cut. Sunglasses top the look, as well as an all-business expression that would read as, well, Serious Business. He slips a mobile-like device away into an upper jacket pocket as he walks directly towards the main entrance.

She-Hulk has posed:
She-Hulk walks towards the entrance. She's green like Hulk, and since she's part of the Avengers, maybe they won't freak out? Either way she's walking behind Tony, "Hello Ir-Tony! Tony Stark! Yes hello!" She's waving at him. She didn't take a car she.. kind of jumped here.

Carrie Kelley has posed:
It wasn't that she hadn't TRIED to visit before. She had in fact, once, but at the time only took footage of the exterior while trying to arrange some meetings with the other members of the Avengers themselves. Of course, with the whole Alien Mushroom business, it was rather difficult. Then she'd gotten busy herself with her own endeavors. Carrie knew it was her own fault for trying to catch up now of all times, but she did intend to keep her word on redoing that darn PR video that was oh-so-terrible. For now she sits, and waits, while texting on her phone. Maybe Shulkie... She had her number at least.

The arrival of Tony Stark however causes her head to jerk up and she takes a deep breath flashing a smile. She'd be cute if not for the fact that her eyes were red and puffy. And her nose was a bit red too. Either she'd been crying for a LONG time not too long ago or she was getting over a cold.

"Mr. Stark," she calls out as well only to glance over at the arrival of her friend. "Hey Shulkie."

Iron Man has posed:
Mr. Stark is extremely used to people shouting greetings at him. On the road, on the sidewalk, in the mall, in restaurants, in battle, and in front of the Avenger's mansion. Carrie and She-Hulk aren't the only ones doing it, either, though security is far more low key with their "Welcome back, Mr. Stark." So there's very little actual recognition at first from the billionaire, just his usual flash of immediate, charismatic smile and a two fingered wave.

She-Hulk, though, gets more than that, his glance back lingers, one brow lifting and his reaction adapts immediately. "Hey hey," Tony says, friendly, as if this were entirely a normal thing, slowing for She-Hulk to come right up. He greets her as if they talked often, in his open and casually welcoming way. "How've you been?" he asks, starting to continue to the mansion, as if entirely expecting her to pace him. Carrie is spotted now too. "Oh, she's with me," Tony says to security, entirely fixing any access issue. "Visitation tags," he says to security, with a distracted motion to indicate both She-Hulk and Carrie.

She-Hulk has posed:
She-Hulk tirelessly catches up, "I'm looking for my cousin. Ran into him at the park a couple of weeks ago, met this weird wizard there too.. can't even remember his name now, something from King Arthur I think. Anyhow if he's not here I think I'll come visit anyway. Maybe he'll come crashing through the ceiling, or through the wall, or both.." She notices Carrie is here as well, "Oh hey Carrie! Finish that Avengers video yet?"

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley holds up the mini-camcorder she has to show it off. It's a one-handed deal, but with a good lense and HD abilities. "Trying to work on that. I got caught up with a lot of other things this Summer," she explains giving an apologetic smile. When Tony motions for them to get guest tags, she lets out a little sigh of relief. "Thank you. I know it's been awhile and I apologize for the delay, but I do want to get this done. I've a week left of Summer vacation so that should give me a good head start." Absently she sniffs, and reaches into her pocket for a tissue to dab at her nose just in case. So far so good.

Iron Man has posed:
"There ARE a lot of wizards around. Arthur-something-something? We got a Merlin now? Not surprised. Doctor Strange is enough for me usually, for all my magical 'needs'. Of which, thankfully, there are very few." Tony waits for the two to get their access passes, and then strides to lead the way inside. If he's noticed Carrie's sniffles he hasn't remarked on it. Like most polite people, really. Besides, he doesn't have a spare tissue for her. Wrong suit.

"Hulk's not wrecking the ceiling or walls HERE lately. He's in research mode. Not at liberty to give out his details right now. He's in the zone. Of being calm. We can hope." Tony shrugs some aside to She-Hulk. To Carrie, Tony answers, "It's fine. Just letting our website suffer, I see how it is. Save the world, and what do we get? So sad." He's not sad, he's teasing.

She-Hulk has posed:
She-Hulk thinks, "Yes I do remember him leaving after that wizard starting making threatening gestures. He wasn't named Merlin though.. and honestly I didn't want to hurt the little guy. He seemed so excited about attacking me, full of zeal. When I finally convinced him that I wasn't a fae, he stood down. I mean sure, fighting crime is always fun, but holding a wizard up by his scruffs and hand clamped over his mouth isn't how I wanted to spend that evening." She looks at Carrie again, "That's alright! Better to take your time.. you know.. so my shots don't look like a travesty.."

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley pockets her tissue again, and takes the offered guest pass tags to put on. There was no need to make people nervous by not having it. Mostly the security it would seem. "Hey I've had an eventful Summer of being kidnapped by Spidermen and hiding from alien mushrooms in Gotham. And no," she's quick to add with a nod to Shulkie, "He hasn't swung in and snagged me again." After all Shulkie did say she'd talk to him about that.

"You guys have survived this long, Mr. Stark, but I'll make it worth everyone's time in the end. Including with awesome glamor shots for Shulkie."

Iron Man has posed:
Mr. Stark is a multitasker. Those that don't know that might be insulted at first, though it may become clear that he can, really, handle multiple things at once. He's pulled his mobile-like device back out (as calling it a phone is drastically incorrect, as it spouts layers of holograms that he flips through), after pulling off his sunglasses since they came indoors. There's a mild squint to his gaze regardless: he had some monster of a hangover, probably. The light, it hurts.

"The mansion's in good shape right now. The other week there was 'limited' elevator access." A pause. "Entirely /not/ killer robot. Don't let anyone tell you differently. After all, nobody died. The XPT-7 being demolished does not count as a death."

Right on cue, two little drones speed into the foyer. One has a dustpan and brush, and greedily starts to clean along the side of the rug. "I don't really do 'tours'," Tony adds, while still on his device, yet giving the women with him a great deal of his attention even so. "Do you want to, and get your 'glamour' shots?" Tony asks She-Hulk.

She-Hulk has posed:
She-Hulk raises a brow, "One does not simply get or take glamour shots.. or glamour scenes.. it's a delicate process and Carrie here is certain she can satisfy my standards." With a smile she approaches Carrie, "Yes that Not-Spiderman guy? Haven't seen him around. Maybe he left.. that would be nice.. villain or not he was a pain in my rear.."

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley laughs warmly at the very suggestion but it tapers off to a little bit of nervousness at the mention of killer robots. Oh my. That was not going in the video. "I'll make sure that tidbit doesn't come into the video. That... might make people nervous," she admits. "A tour would be good but if you're busy I totally understand." Still she wasn't going to give up the offer of one. When Shulkie approaches, she grins again and raises her camera to focus the shot. "Honestly the best way is to record and take stills, and sift through for the best. Most natural, best lighting. Sure you can stage something. That tends to look staged though... Since it is."

Lightly she nudges Shulkie's side in a friendly manner. "You'll look great though, don't worry. You look great ayway." The camera swings toward Tony to take a bit of video of him working on whatever he was working on... Though she angles it just a bit so she doesn't catch his own hung-over look. "Looks like you had a night as rough as mine."

Iron Man has posed:
"Hmmmm. We'll have to get you some Avengers special training on always looking ready for the camera," Tony teases. "Steve resists me on that, but he has the natural knack like I do, so he's gone without 'official' classes." He's teasing, but amends, more seriously, "We're a public facing group. No need to wear or /do/ something special. Be you," Tony says, with a flash of a smile to She-Hulk. While still entering commands on his device.

"'Rough'? Nah. I had fun at the time. Trust me to know fun," Tony teases flippantly. "Was yours fun? .... Say. I bet I can get you the entirely cured-of-killer-programming robot to do your tour. I'll just flip the location patrol commands into a modified sequence, add voice....." Tony trails off, tapping away.

A low, gold and orange-striped robot comes up the elevator, and Tony promptly moves over to it and flips open some panels in the back. "Tee, give me your upper servo cluster," Tony gestures at the little sweeping robot. It dutifully comes over and allows Tony to pilfer some pieces from it and shut it. The sweeper bot seems disoriented and continues to sweep. Mostly in the vicinity of She-Hulk's feet. And on them.

Tony's busy, bent and doing something inside the not-creepy striped killer robot, now, focused on that.

Carrie Kelley has posed:
"No, mine was just rough," Carrie responds with a chuckle. "I would have prefered fun, but it is what it is." While he calls out the robot, she looks down getting some footage of the cleaning bots. At least until the supposed killer-robot is brought out causing her camera to swing up again recording as Tony fiddles with it.

A glance aside toward Shulkie is given with eyebrows raising quietly as if to silently ask 'is this a good idea?' Some part of her said it most definitely wasn't. Maybe she was just paranoid. Looking back again she clears her throat thoughtfully. "Not that I'm doubting you, but are you sure this is going to work?"

Iron Man has posed:
"Why wouldn't it work?" Tony asks, tone surprised and amused, from inside the robot. He closes it back up, and then returns to his mobile device, clearly still doing something related to the robot, though there's various confusing 'screens' of code sections coming up, and he's rearranging them with considerable speed. "Oh, don't tape this. Let's not spray potentially dangerous code references on the site," Tony chuckles. And finishes. "All right. Engage tour protocol," Tony says to the robot, while nudging the sweeper-bot towards some of the spare parts he removed from it. The bot cleans them up immediately.

The new 'Tour' bot orients, and speaks. "Beginning tour! Starting with most immediate location, the foyer. The Avengers mansion was first opened on April 11th, 2021, in addition to the Compound in Coast city," the robot says. Tony grins across it to Carrie, with an indifferent little shrug that very clearly broadcasts his attitude about it: of course it worked. He's Tony Stark.

"If it leads you into the elevator, don't follow it," Tony says. "I've a meeting. You're good?" he asks, starting already to move off. Tony's something of a humming bird most of the time; there is always something.

She-Hulk has posed:
She-Hulk blinks at Tony, "Avenger's special training on always looking good for the camera? Have you SEEN the original video? If anything you need lessons from me!" She looks at Carrie, "Yes yes let's begin!"

Carrie Kelley has posed:
"It's not quite showing up on the screen anyway. I think the angle of the image is just causing light refraction... but yeah that's a good point," she has to admit. Carrie lowers the camera and just watches the sweeper bot deal with the other one. "I just thought it would take longer to reprogram is all. That's rather handy though."

"Right, no elevators." Carrie looks back to Shulkie with a nod of agreement. "Okay. Thanks, Mr. Stark. This'll be a big help." Here's hoping it works without any glitches. "Yeah, let's go. You first Shulkie," she offers with a grin. "And totally not because you're big and strong and possibly a good line of defense."

Iron Man has posed:
The robot has ignored them, and has continued to prattle on about the foyer and various recent visitors and events that have happened in the foyer. "It'll accept commands like to repeat sections or skip rooms and so on," Tony mentions. He then looks to She-Hulk 'innocently'. And admits without shame, "Nope, haven't seen it," with a soft laugh. "I just know there's way too much footage of Captain America's statue in it. So long as that's not the main feature this time, we'll be okay. The statues are in the yard," Tony says with a vague gesture that probably includes the yard. Tony can't really be bothered.

    "I've set an assistant to come check on you in about ninety minutes. If you need anything, she'll help you," Tony adds, head and attention now pulled with his next task, as he makes his way off down the hallway.

She-Hulk has posed:
She-Hulk shrugs and goes ahead, "Well let's get this over with.."

Carrie Kelley has posed:
Carrie Kelley follows the newly christianed tour-bot. The recordings pick up some of the audio of it's tale of deeds done, and the like, but she's more interested in taking some panning shots of the mansion. She covers as much as she can for future video editing, as well as shots of Shulkie to mix in with it after her approval to use it of course.