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Julie Lawry ([personal profile] princessvegas) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs2022-07-04 12:02 pm

[ open ] HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA (not you abraxas)

Who: Julie + Dean + open
When: July 4
Where: Julie's club in the Horizon
What: June sucked, it's time to party patriotically 🇺🇸 Dean's invite here 🇺🇸 no, the Americans don't care that it's not America, they're doing it anyway (just like real life)



[ Approaching Julie's club on this particular day, you can tell from the outside that something is going on. The pink neon has been swapped for red, white and blue, the pink carpet and velvet ropes changed to the good ol' stars and stripes. The front doors are wreathed in an enormous and very patriotic balloon arch, and they're wide open. American flags hang across the walls of the entranceway, and the music is what most Americans would recognize as July 4th standards.

Inside, Julie has obviously been incredibly hard at work, and the club has undergone its most massive changes to date. The entire first floor has been modified -- where there was once a dance floor and seating, there is now an Olympic-sized in-ground pool, dotted with a variety of American themed floats and balls. The glittering quartz flooring is all gone, now replaced with lush lawn grass, and sensible concrete wrapped around the pool itself. At one end, a truly enormous inflatable water slide can send you flying down from fifty feet in the air, just to land with a splash in the water.

How has she managed that height? Well, where there's ordinarily a roof, there is now only open sky, blue and picturesque with puffy white clouds lazily floating by. The sun is bright but never too hot, and incapable of burning anyone's skin. The only thing between the sky and the building are dozens of red, white and blue decorations, strung from the balconies to overhang the pool.

Don't worry if you weren't exactly prepared for a pool party! Julie, queen of not only parties but also wardrobes, has helpfully converted the warehouse part of the building for this very problem. Racks and racks of bathing suits and beach towels are available for use, with every conceivable style up for grabs. Trunks, one-pieces, string bikinis, banana hammocks, she's got it all! While many match the red, white and blue theme, all types of colors and patterns are present. Grab a towel from a stack, hop in one of the striped changing cabanas, then get to swimming. Don't forget your red, white or blue flip-flops and sunglasses!

Hungry? Well, Dean has you covered. On the lawn, Julie has provided him with a wet dream-inducing grill and every imaginable kind of meat to cook on it. Also in this section are tables and tables full of snacks, desserts and drinks, along with the full bar that is always present. The bartender, Steven, is always ready to make anything you could want. (He is dressed in what is best described as "Sexy Uncle Sam" -- in that it's a star-spangled wrestling singlet, a glittery red white and blue bow tie, an Uncle Sam hat and a small, fake white beard.) Plenty of picnic tables are present to eat at.

As the afternoon passes, the sky will gradually darken until it's black and clear, with a wide expanse of stars, the way Julie remembers seeing night from the empty prairies of Kansas. Between Dean and Julie, there is no shortage of fireworks; as proud Americans raised in places where there's little else to do, they are experts at blowing shit up in creative ways. The tables disappear and are replaced with blankets on the grass, meant to be laid on and shared. An incredible fireworks show rounds the night out, and only once the sky is calm again are people expected to leave.

Or pass out. Getting completely wasted is also an Independence Day tradition. ]
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[personal profile] carmesi 2022-08-12 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Pleased that Viktor is going for the pastry, a flick of her wrist forces the layered television to disappear, ultimately, once attention has been diverted to another topic entirely. That is—the internet.

Leaning back, Wanda crosses her arms to her middle, her own pastry disappearing (all a ploy to get Viktor to indulge), trying to think through what the two men are going on about. Mostly theoretical, general wordage that gives the clear impression that they are thinking more about it in their heads.

"I suppose being able to talk to everyone at the same time through our minds is very similar," not her adding fuel to the fire. "I think companies were hoping to... create glasses, with interfaces to have everything work to some digital degree, without needing a screen?"

And, actually, Tony Stark already came up with that. Child's play.
hextechhead: (smug)

We maybe can start winding this down since we have the event ahead!

[personal profile] hextechhead 2022-08-12 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Possibly, we have no idea how much Hextech can grow to, but it won't be in our generation." Jayce assumes Hextech will live past him, although he doesn't know how that would happen, maybe they would have to pick an apprentice at a point, or some genius science students to take over once the original inventor have passed on. He would never want Hextech to end with them.

The internet, television, these are not things that would have come to them on their own. He doesn't know what projects would come after their newest ones, but this was not of great importance to them. Jayce knows that comparably Wanda's world must be centuries ahead of them. Jayce and Viktor are ahead of their time, but not that ahead.

"Interesting, for this place to come up with a similar idea, only magically." Magic and science are interconnected, they all know that. "I think I have my mind around the television, but it might take a little longer for the internet."
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[personal profile] techmaturgy 2022-08-14 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Viktor frowns a little at the thought--of course he's considered Hextech outliving him, mostly because it seemed a certainty. Still, he can't help but be distrustful of what might happen to the technology without him both because of an actual experience therein, and his general pessimism when it comes to the hope that his real dream for Hextech will be carried out in his absence.

Much easier to think about the wonders of technology from other worlds. How he might apply this knowledge to his own work in the present. For now, he chews on his mind-pastry thoughtfully.

"If there's anything else you think we'd find interesting, please don't hesitate to educate us."

Tell him...about other things like the internet.
Edited 2022-08-14 21:31 (UTC)