My Village is Number One

[Halbarad]

Tim rolls his eyes and grins. "Yes, but you left out one vital piece of information: what is THEIR stance on IBC root beer? I could care less about that love and justice stuff."

[Dracos]

"Well, I hear tell they put claim on every last bottle as theirs.  You're either with them and the rootbeer, or against god.  Something like that anyhow."

Dracos

[Brian]

"Deep," Mark comments.

[Halbarad]

"Sounds like a group I could get behind, then. Life's not worth it without decent root beer."

"Now, about the rest of that stuff. What in the world have you been up to that involves wizards in catapults? I thought halflings were the catapult ammo."

[Dracos]

"You'd think that, but how many halflings do you know that fling lightning bolts from their finger tips.  Huh?  Not a one.  And those buggers BITE.  Not like a good ol' wizard.  What 'bout your friends by the by?  I suspect, knowing the theme, that they are in fact triple agents specializing in nuclear bomb prolifiration who are, in fact, kwish.  But they could just be random folks who's names I will recognize despite not having heard of them ever before in my life."

Dracos

[Halbarad]

"We have here..." Tim turns to look at the rest of Bigfire. "Okay. let's see. We have Sterling the Indestructible; Jim, who has a side job as an ogre doormat; David, who's always prepared for any situation requiring cutlery. Carlos over there is a handy man with radio waves or ATM machines, and Ryan likes skulking in the shadows. Or moving through them. Exhibit F is Walker, whom I'm told is handy with machines, and then the two over there are Wallace and Mark, who we picked up prior to a small invasion in Arizona. Collectively known as Bigfire."

[Dracos]

"Wallace and Sterling?  Those names be familiar to one such as me.  I recall a live journal of someone named wallace who went by...cuddle lion or some such on irc?  It'd be absurd to be the same folks, but then absurdity is the order of the past four score years ago."

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"Here's another absurd moment: We just missed about 6 months," comments Tom. "You know, what with being in the Dream and all that. Time flies when you're having fun. Why, I remember January like it was five minutes ago.

I still think it's your post, though."

[Halbarad]

Tim reaches over and whaps Tom in the back of the head without even looking. "I think we're all past the point of arguing over whose post it is."

His meal mostly finished, he settles back in his chair. "In all seriousness, though, how'd you guys end up in the middle of this? Last I saw of you was on IRC at the beginning of the year, but as our esteemed rodent just pointed out, we've been out of things - literally - for quite a while. So much so that I'm not even sure what today's date is."

[Brian]

"That was me," Wallace admits.  "Where did you read my LJ from, though?"

[Dracos]

"I am a bad clicker of links and brian had your stuff linked off of his 'stream of consciousness'."

Dracos

[Bjorn]

Bjorn has been keeping quiet so far, watching with a detached amusement.  He's never been as close to the others online, so this feels more than a bit strange to him.

But at Tim's question, he stirs.  "The date is July 2nd," he says.  "And we got into this by falling backwards into a job that needed doing."  He shrugs.

[Halbarad]

"A bit cryptic, but I can't say a lot more for our end, either. Things just happened, one after the other, and we ended up here. A week ago, at least as I'd look at things, I was cursing the cold weather and reading over casework; next thing I know, I'm in a small town in Alabama in July and able to make things just by thinking about them. In between I've shot two ogres, made an APC with my mind, and helped a woman trapped in a glass sphere. At this point, I don't think I'd blink if the sky turned green."

[Bjorn]

Bjorn grunts in amusement at that.  "All right, then.  You were looking for the Order of Symmetry.  What now?"

[Dracos]

Dracos nodded sympathetically to hal, relating in a teasing tone. "Didn't have to headbutt them did you?  Learned the hard way that you just don't win in a duel of hard heads with an ogre."  

Dracos