10:15 <Crion> Brunch is late at the clubhouse of the Lake Buena Vista Golf Course, making it, officially, lunch with Evern Vandal, the King of Sports, and his play-partner and companion???, the Striveling Things. 10:20 <Crion> Sitting down to eat and drink -- little toasty white bread sandwiches with the crusts cut off and various Americana deli trimmings inside, held together with toothpicks, are the finger food while hob waiters in white tux tops and gloves, but no pants to cover their trundling gribblies, take your plate order from an abbreviated list that's all vaguely "shit you'd expect boring rich white people 10:20 <Crion> to eat (yes, there's a chicken salad)" -- Vandal will want to know: "So, what brings you to the Most Magical Place on Earth?" 10:23 <CBN> Tony got eggs benedict and managed to turn it into a sandwich. It's as messy as expected and even more delicious. From around sandwich-like construction: "Ngwe're in Florida, fso 'course you gotta, right?" 10:29 <Crion> The giant man's eyes pierce Tony's sandwich from behind his colorful tiger-like lucha mask, but all he says in reply is, "Mmmmmm." 10:29 <trenchfoot> Nels has managed to acquire some toasts, hot sauces, and cheeses in an either horrifying or delicious amalgam depending on whether you're a coward or not. She munches away as Tony talks. 10:31 <CBN> Tony: "Fwhattabout you, jusft hitting the links?" He finishes. God what a dream sandwich that was. He's gonna tell Steve about it later. 10:33 <Crion> The big man's sigh is almost a seismic event. "I am on vacation." 10:35 <CBN> Tony nods. 10:37 <dammitwho> Maggie hromphing down her own sandwich: "Livin' the dream?" 10:38 <Crion> The Stiveling Things makes some sympathetic hiss-clicks. "Yes," says the King of Sports ruefully in response to it, "you are correct. I am living a dream." 10:40 <CBN> Tony: "You worried about the vacation ending, or you hit that, man-we've-been-here-awhile-better-get-back-to-it point? You gotta try these." He's eating some tiny sandwiches without crusts without looking at what's in them (bliss in ignorance). 10:41 <Crion> "I have! I demanded them myself," he booms. "No, I am impatient for the vacation to end. It is the result of a disagreement with my employer. So it goes." 10:42 <trenchfoot> She daintily wipes her mouth with a napkin. She even got a bottle to-go -- such a charmer! "Dragon's Breath" sauce, and golly it is HOT. "Disagreement?" 10:42 <banana> Melanie: "It can be tough to get hours these days, even though they say nobody wants to work." 10:43 <CBN> Tony nods. "Work-life balance is important. Heard that once." 10:44 <Crion> Contemptuously, but not contemptuously at Nels: "Sealed by Hob Resources." 10:44 <banana> When Melanie started seeing those signs she thought wow, that must be difficult for the business owners, but also: they're right. I don't want to work. 10:44 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart's not eating. He watches the others talk. Maybe the huge terrifying monsters just wanted a fresh audience at lunch after all. But Stewart's staying attentive. 10:47 <Crion> It becomes obvious to Nels, Maggie, and Tony as the entrees arrive and as they eat that whoever is running the kitchen is performing extremely difficult feats of culinary skill to combine 'real' food and goblin fruit into...the most bland, normie food you'd expect to find at a golf course run by Disney. Real Sysco shit. They're keeping some wild hot sauces in the back, though. 10:48 <CBN> Tony loves going Sysco mode at a time like this. Feels it in his soul. 10:48 <trenchfoot> Thank God for small favors. 10:48 <VoxPVoxD> And flavors. 10:49 <banana> There's not going to be a better time to ask this. "Vandal- are you also the King of Team Sports?" 10:49 <Crion> Vandal's 'humph' is almost a growl. "Other than doubles tennis and partner golf, no." 10:50 <Crion> "I ask you simply: whose ego can sustain the demands of passing the ball?" 10:50 <dammitwho> "Stewart has been doin' this thing called e-sports. Electronic sports, like on the computer? Now is that part of the same, whatchacallit there, purview?" 10:51 <banana> Melanie: "Winners." She takes a bite of the very large sandwich. If these staff hobs are going to be allies, there's no point avoiding their food. 10:51 <VoxPVoxD> Oh God. 10:51 <VoxPVoxD> 'Stewart, why don't you tell us about your video games'. This really is just every shitty family vacation except with a gun to our heads. 10:52 <dammitwho> He's the King of Sports! Surely he already knows about the video games! 10:52 <Crion> "I have been known to play Halo!" rumbles the King of Sports. "But it is a game, a mere diversion. I do not have the Energy Sword in hand when I gut my foe, who is twelve years old, and in school to study slurs! I cannot claim true victory." 10:53 <Crion> He pivots to consider Stewart. "Those who are skilled in such things claim many riches, I hear. Before taxes." 10:56 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart glances at Maggie for a beat before he says, "Sometimes. It's mostly luck, I think."