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Scene: The Welcoming Party
Storyteller’s Post
Date (In-Game): March 01, 2020

Location: Stark Mansion, once known as the Avenger’s Mansion 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. MAIN FLOOR, PUBLIC CONFERENCE ROOM.

"GROUNDS AND MAIN FLOOR
Avengers Mansion is surrounded on three sides by a twelve-foot high concrete and reinforced steel wall, with a steel fence along Fifth Avenue. The yard, doors, and windows all have numerous surveillance systems to ascertain the identities of all visitors and detainment devices to intercept unauthorized personnel. Visitors seeking entrance to the mansion are screened at the front gate. The garden and patio in the backyard have sufficient foliage to afford Avengers a fair degree of outdoor privacy. The main floor of the mansion contains no materials vital to the Avengers' security or functions and thus is occasionally opened to the public for press conferences and social functions. The Avengers' only dining facilities are on the main floor, as is the private library. The Avengers' butler Edwin Jarvis is the only person quartered on this floor.” As taken from Avenger's Mansion

Scene Description

You have received a formal invitation from P. Stark to come to Stark Mansion for a meeting which was not specific beyond being about “our responsibility to the future” and that you were screened and selected to receive this invitation because of your, “linage, talents, or accomplishments”. You don’t know what it means, though if you know anything about the original Avenger’s or the Stark family, you know that “P.Stark” is the only child of Anthony Stark--- Iron Man --- and she has obviously sent you the invitation and brought you to what was once the Avengers Mansion which, since the Hero Registration Act, ceased to be used by the Avengers and went back to being owned by the Stark family and known as Stark Mansion.

As you come to Stark Mansion, you find it to be a rather impressive place (how could it not be?) and are graciously allowed to enter the ground level of the mansion. Greeted by a blue projection of an androgynous artificial intelligence with a humanoid but detail-less figure, (if you ask, this A.I. introduces itself as Jarvis, the house’s caretaker) you are instructed to walk directly ahead into the public conference room.

The room is large and very square, windowless, but illuminated by various chandeliers that have an old fashioned feeling to them. Their classy yellow light keeps the room formal but cheerful; perhaps they have been here since the 1930s when Howard Stark constructed the house. To one side three long tables are set up, draped with a long white table cloth. Various food items are set up, sure to suit even the pickiest of eaters taste, as well as non-alcoholic and imported specialty drinks. Chairs are set up in a very orderly fashion in three rows with five in each row and three or so yards in front of the front row is a sleek black podium but no one is at it, not yet anyway.

Jarvis is also at the front of the tables, being projected but you cannot tell from where, the projector is so well hidden to give the computer intelligence the feeling that it could be everywhere at once and also to add to the awe of the mansion’s set-up. If you near Jarvis, you’re told to help yourself to whatever food and refreshments you’d like and that the meeting will begin once the other guests have arrived.

Soft music plays through the conference room, an old song by Louis Armstrong:

“You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by
Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny
it's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by”