I have an event tonight in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland.

With his paintball gun in wing, Steve made a gooseline for the west side of the docks. He hoped he had bought everyone else enough time to get their part of the mission done and that they would all be there waiting for him.

And he couldn't wait to tell them about the purple rain maneuver that saved his tail feathers. It would have been cool if anyone else had been there to see it.

Russian critters have infamously weak passwords

"Excuse me miss this is private property" the goose called out
His name tag read 'Andrei'

"Oh i-"

[Roll call]

1

Carmen heard the voice of a greater being ring through her mind

"Terrible! The GM gets to hose you with a truly dire situation resulting from your incompetence."

"Uh..." She shook her head and pushed away the fourth wall.

The guard, Andrei, seemed to glare at Carmen but she quickly turned on the charm and smiled at him.

"Oh my my I'm so sorry." She said putting on her best Russian accent.

"My name is Nadia. I'm a real fan of Fishing Companies, and especially the people who work there. The seafood industry is terribly underrated wouldn't you agree?"

The guard seemed to falter at this intensity as his hand twitched near his sidearm.

"I'm sorry miss but this place is not open for the public if you would move along." He lazily waved his hand in her direction for her to get out of here.

"Oh! But I walked half a mile to get down here. Like I said I'm a huge fan of a big... strong... businesses." At this her wing brushed against his and she gave him a blush. He seemed unmoved.

She leaned in close whispering in his ear.

"Maybe I was thinking you and I could go someplace private?" She gave him a sly wink.

He looked her twice over and furrowed his brow but put his wings down.

He glanced left and right and then leaned into her.

"Actually I'm about to go on my break in about 3 minutes if you want to meet me in the side alley." He looked her in the eyes and gave a wink of his own.

Carmen smiled and turned to walk away towards the alley looking back.

"Don't keep me waiting stud."

She sashayed away giving him a full look at her rather sizable tail feathers as she made her way to the alley. She sat on a small crate and crossed her legs making sure her plumage was presentable. This boy wouldn't know what hit him.

In about 5 minutes she saw the man approaching. He had kept her waiting which was bad form but honestly she was a little bit at his mercy here.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." He smiled.

"That really is bad manners you know." She flashed him a sly grin.

"Again I'm sorry about that Maria." He said grinning.

"No need to worry about that. I assume your break is short and we should probably get to it." She said mischievously.

At this his eyes grew dark.

"I thought you said your name was Nadia." He said with a glare.

"Oh, uh, yeah I" She stumbled, her russian accent faltering.

He spit on the ground.

"You filthy americans are all the same. Trying to pull one over on old Andrei, but not today." He yelled out grabbing her by the wing.

"Wait, now hold on. I was just confused my name really is Nadia I just thought we were rolep-"

"Shut it american scum. You are lower than worms to me. My mother said I need to find a nice russian goose but all I find in this country are american turkeys." He held her tightly and dragged her over to the dumpster.

"Wait what are you doing?" She squawked out trying to loosen his grip.

"Putting you where you belong." At that he impressively lifted her over his head and tossed her into the dumpster. Walking away and laughing to himself.

"Fuck!" she yelled from inside the garbage bin.

She struggled to find her footing in the can filled with various rotten food and fish bones before her wing brushed against a piece of cloth.

Looking down in the low light she saw it was a discarded uniform. She noted the tear in the sleeve but it wasn't anything she couldn't stitch up in a jiffy. She just needed to pull her way out of here.

In about 10 minutes she was out of the trash and had fashioned some metal wire into a basic thread and had the sleeve looking good as new.

"Louis won't be able to tell the dif- ugh" She gagged as she took a whiff. Yeah it smelled like fish guts. Maybe she could play it off like she had seduced someone in the fish warehouse and it got a little too frisky... no, that's no good.

As she walked back to the meet up point she racked her mind and finally reached into her blouse to find her emergency perfume bottle. This would have to do.

She doused the uniform in her perfume until the fish smell was no more. Giving it a whiff it was very strongly feminine now. But it was a smell any gander would be happy to have on him as far as she was concerned.

"Mission accomplished" she said to Louis with a strained smile.

She was going to need a shower.

HONK HONK

Hönk!

It felt like they had been paddling forever. Perhaps they had been.

Just Ryan and the Boy.

"You know..." The Boy broke the silence, staring ahead of them as he put his fighting muscles to churning the waters and rowing them and the diving equipment towards the western side of the Seagift Fishing Co. docks. It sounded like he was dangerously close to monologuing.

"Almost forgot!" Ryan pulled out a decal that Percy had made him to slap on the side of the boat he was going to be bringing in. Not one to want to let it to go to waste, Ryan used his dry wing to slap a large VOLGA decal on the starboard side of the rowboat. So they definitely would not look suspicious upon approach.

Ryan settled back down on his side of the rowboat and began to paddle with his reconstructed wing. He was tired, but the Squawd was depending on him. Ryan tried to forget that he'd already failed them and started to fall back into a rhythm, listening to the boat pushing through the water.

"...I had a name, once..." The Boy immediately resumed.

Ryan sighed.

Rose has been badgered and will presumably be posting when she can

Curtis @ 13/6/2022 18:09

Rose has been badgered and will presumably be posting when she can

And she says that day is today. Stand by!

If my PC dies I have a backup

That'll be the prequel series

Curtis @ 14/6/2022 16:38

That'll be the prequel series

and it turns out that blind bisexual Thomas was Ryan and Steve's father.

All of our fathers it's Silly Geese Babies

Continuity be damned

If Steve wasn't always so chill, he might be worried about Nene.