Scene #2592: Home Invasion

Owner	Pose
Taro	An evening at home is not something that Taro often has. Obligations to Goddess, to Master, and to Confederacy keep his days busy. His free time is spent on his own pursuits, but that normally means time in his lab as well. But tonight he had nothing in particular planned, and so he chooses to spend it in his small but nicely appointed apartment in Neo Arcadia. He's dressed casually for once, in a kimono-style robe and barefoot, as he wanders through the living room. Perhaps he should watch the newest Klingon Opera, or there is that book he's been meaning to read... ...or maybe his plans for tonight are about to be changed.
No. 9	That would be the soft whish of the door opening, and the quick TROK TROK TROK of boots on the floor, and the whsshTHNNK of five hundred and twenty pounds of GOLEM-Style ANMC leaping over the back and hitting the couch, hard. He immediately slips around till, upside down, he stares at Taro with a gravity to his expression. "SO." Out come a fan of DVDs. "Ghost Busters, Monster Squad, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, or Super Troopers." Kari might have other movies but that's what he grabbed. ot that their labels are that easy to see, being upside down and all. Great job Nine, great job.
Kari Wolf	Kari and Harriet ring the doorbell, because they're polite about things. Kari has a little wagon with weird movies they found at the local thrift store as well, slaved to her drone control channel. "I hope Mister Taro likes laughing at bad movies!" Kari says. "I'm sure it'll be fine, Kari." Harriet says as she lands from ringing the doorbell.
Taro	How did...ah right, Nine does have a key, doesn't he? Taro tilts his head up to look at his larger 'brother', but before he can get a word out, he's given a choice of DVDs. Then, the doorbell rings, saving him the trouble of immediately picking one out. "Enter!" he calls. More movies? Oh dear.
Kari Wolf	Kari and Harriet ride in on the little wagon, the motor whirring softly as its wheels switch from a tread for an outdoor paved area to one that is kinder to interior floors. "Hi Mister Taro, Mister Nine! Harriet and me brought movies to watch like Mister Nine suggested!" Harriet gets the sense that maybe Taro didn't exactly invited Nine and the shinki over himself, and that Nine just said Movie Night at Taro's place... "Um..." She says quietly, rather embarassed.
Taro	By all appearances, either he had forgotten that he was expecting company or someone forgot to inform him to expect company. Given how AI memory typically works, the former seems less likely... Still, for all that Taro was caught off guard, he doesn't voice an objection to the sudden company in his living room. After all, these are his valued associates. "Ah." A pause as he looks first to the movies Nine brought, then turns his head to see the collection in the shinkis' wagon. "Mm." Followed by a hint of a sigh as he drops onto the edge of the sofa. "Whichever you three would like to watch. Though I'd prefer not Monster Squad. It's been watched before."
Kari Wolf	Harriet sets about digging through the piles of DVDs. Kari however, enthusiastically explains that... "We found a lot of Mysterious Space Theater 30,000 at the thrift store and I bought the ones they had. They watch bad and weird movies and make fun of them, so I thought they'd be perfect for you, Mister Nine, Harriet, and me to watch together!" Harriet hmmms and holds up one entitled The Sea Monkey That Ate San Francisco. "I don't think this was a serious movie to start, Kari..."
No. 9	Nine is an unrepentant asshole. "Surprise movie night is best movie night." He says it with a grinning firmness, regarding the movies thoughtfully. "Hmmm... what would be, best, here." A glance over, and he lifts up the Ghostbusters movie. "Who's in the mood for marshmallows? I can make smores." A glance over at Taro. "Well I brought smores flavored vodka for you? Since you're on a liquid diet annaway." A pause then, "MST3K! Oh I LOVE that series, you found some? Oh that's /awesome/ that's /perfect/!" Suddenly he's in a good mood. Well a better mood.
Taro	Smores flavored vodka? That sounds intriguing. The bottle will be accepted whenever Nine offers it to him. As the others debate what to watch, Taro retreats to the kitchenette to find some proper drinking glasses. The box that Harriet is holding is eyed along the way. "Why is it that any monster set losse upon the unsuspecting world inevitably rampages through a city?" he asks. It's a rhetorical question and spoken as such.
Kari Wolf	Kari answers it anyway. "Because the monster exists to punish humanity for its hubris!" Harriet sighs. "You're just repeating what Master told you. Do you know what that even means?" "Nope!"
Taro	Taro quirks a faint, lopsided smirk at Kari's answer. Or more properly Zarenna's answer as repeated by Kari. Then, he looks over to Nine. In perfect deadpan, "Does my liberation of Neo Arcadia qualify as a proper rampage," he asks of the Golem, "or will I need to add this to my schedule?" Unless any of them brought food with them, there's not a bite to eat in his home. Still, he brings out cups for drinks, which he sets on his coffee table.
Kari Wolf	Fortunately neither Kari nor Harriet eat. They also don't seem to be as into jelly cans as the other shinki, despite Kari bringing a handful of them for Harriet and herself. Just in case. Strawberry, vanilla, mint, chocolate, and lemonade mark the little packages. Harriet assumes that The Sea Monkey That Ate San Francisco is acceptable to Taro and 9, and hops over to put the disc into the media player. Kari straightens up the DVDs on her little cart so they won't fall over as much, then hops onto an arm of the couch. "Yaaay! Movie night!"
No. 9	It's good vodka too, not garbage, and the warm hints of toasted marshmallow and rich chocolate and bright graham cracker go well with the mild richness of the vodka. One Nine drinks apparently, and familiar enough to offer it over, which he does. He kicks back, beside Taro and Kari and her friend, looking just, ridiculously happy.
Taro	Taro doesn't smile, really, so it's hard to say just how pleased or displeased he is by all of this. There's enough room on the couch for all of them, if only by virtue of the fact that Harriet and Kari can sit on the armrests. He nips one of the cups he set out for the vodka, which he moves over in front of himself. The media player stutters a bit as it loads the movie, likely due to a scratch on the disc, but then the titale image plays, before going straight to the movie. Good sound system, incidently, though where did he hide the speakers?
Kari Wolf	The movie is about a kid who gets a Real Live Pet Sea Monkey aquarium and begins breeding the sea monkeys for size. But this isn't enough so he starts feeding it MUTAGEN-X he swiped from his dad's lab. Soon the sea monkeys get really big and start eating each other until there's only one left that rampages around San Francisco. The military is called in, etc... There are also the snarky comments by the MST30k hosts as well; this somehow makes the movie more bearable... Kari watches with rapt attention, while Harriet looks extremely bored and is possibly dozing off.
Taro	The first time that Nine showed Taro a movie like this, he had no idea what to make of it, and he sat through it in blank-stared silence. Truth be told, Taro still doesn't know what to make of movies like this, aside from their filling the role of keeping members of the film industried employed for relatively paltry sums. He does not sit through this one in blank-stared silence. His humor is decidely of the deadpan variety, though delivered in a way that it can be hard to tell if he is in fact being serious when he asks things like whether the mutagen is safe for household pets.