Capitol Beer Fest 2025

[Sonnie Wu]

Every year, Sacramento plays host to the Capitol Beer Fest! Held in the Capitol Mall, it's a weekend of local and out-of-town brewers plying their wares! Come try some fascinating new brews! There's also plenty of food to be had! All proceeds go to charity!

Sonnie Wu is here, dressed in a cute grey sweater (hey, it's still winter, technically), blue jeans, and red boots. Her hair is worn loose and free. She had a local brew in a paper cup in one hand, and some sort of big sloppy bacon burger in the other. The young woman meandered among the stalls and the crowd, eating and drinking pleasantly.

At one point, she pauses and starts chatting up a good-looking guy. There is flirting at hand. "Oh, really?" she giggled in response to something the man said to her, "C'mon, my butt doesn't look that good in these jeans!"

[Sonnie Wu]

Bookkeeping for Harden Mask!

[Kray]

Did the ogre care about kids fitness, the thing the volunteers were doing this for, not at all. But the give and take of having expanding social influence is it means sometime having to do stuff to keep the other parties invested. And so he had been roped into set up and pack down. Not that he minded, the Ogre wasn't above doing grunt work and in-between those times he could peruse the vendors something his stomach was quite pleased about.

A pint of blackberry stout in one hand, the other having pushed a few folk out the way he is collecting his pizza lovers order licking his lips in anticipation because well good food never went wrong with the giant glutton. Dressed quite casually in Cargo trousers, an Orange and black flannel shirt and a beaten and battered mouth eaten fedora perched on his head he takes the pizza box with a not quite so wicked grin if only because the broken teeth of the hardened mask were not as bad as the terrible ones currently hidden.

[Sonnie Wu]

This guy she was sucking off - of Glamour - continued to flirt with Sonnie. His Desire was as delicious as the bacon burger, and the Spring Courtier was eating well, encouraging the fit dude with giggles and little touches.

Still, she was distracted by the sight of... is that Kray? It might have been hard to tell without his Mien visible, but his enormous size was a dead giveaway. "Excuse me, hun," Sonnie said to the horny guy, "I see an old friend. But hey, call me sometime, yeah?" She left him her number because Glamour is one thing, but you gotta get laid, too. Right? The man was clearly disappointed he wasn't getting any tonight, but hope Springs eternal.

Spinning over to the Ogre, the 'Scrambler laughed, "Feasting tonight, as well, I see. 'Sup, dude?"

[Kray]

A conundrum, drink in one hand box in the other left no hand to eat with. He would have to find somewhere to sit or lean. Easy enough.

Speaking of conundrums a pretty, energetic lady spins her way over to the giant, and after the last time that happened, both hands would need to be free pretty fast if this went the same way. The deep baritone of the ogres voice rumbles forth. "Uh. Help me out here. How do I know you?" If it was someone he knew it might risk coming across as rude or brash but that was the last thing on his mind. And if he didn't know her then it was time to explore other, more ogreish options.

[Sonnie Wu]

She blinked her eyes in confusion, then glanced around, wondering if he was speaking to someone else.

Wait, did I get the wrong person? Is this not Kray?

Sonnie peered suspiciously at the huge man, beer and burger forgotten about for a minute. Those broken teeth... it had to be him, right?

"It's, uh, me? Sonnie?" she asked hesitantly. If she got this wrong, she was going to feel dumber than usual. How many giants could there be in Sac?

Just for a moment, her shadow showed a long tail coming off of her backside, before quickly pulling back into the dark mass.

[Kray]

The giant probabaly did have a fetch roaming somewhere around in the world it would take a profile view of the Ogres shadows to show the horn nubbins and terrible teeth to really give him away. But the Ogre it is and when Sonnie makes it down something in his posture visibly relaxes. "Oh. Hey Sonnie." Lifting the cup he chugs half a pint either playing into or actually drinking heavily. "Ah. My bad. Didn't recognise you for a moment." Had they ever actually run into each other for not freehold related stuff, he couldn't recall.

The now empty cup is crushed making it easier to eat. "Uh. yeah I'm sampling a few of the local vendors. you doing the same?" He could imagine this was a decent place for springs actually. "Uh. Want a slice of pizza?" Flipping the lid. The Ogre's pie of choice being BBQ sauce, ricotta cheese, pepperoni slices, sausage he had paid the extra for, chicken another added extra, calabrese peppers and basil.

[Sonnie Wu]

Ha ha! She was right! It was Kray, and not a total stranger! Take that, thinking before you act!

The Beast smiled and nodded and stood back and relaxed her shoulders. "Howdy doo! Guess I'm not the only one having a hard time tonight, eh?" Her attempt at coded talk could easily be taken as innuendo, but she probably would have found that funny if she noticed.

She sips her own beer, something that smells faintly of honey, "Yup! This is always a good event for drinking up some of the good stuff." Plenty of Desire on hand, with the crowd here for the brews, the eats, the music and a general good time. Not at all surprising the Spring Courtier was present. Sonnie shook her head, and gestured with her own foodstuff, covered in a wrapper which had a logo that looked like it read Bacon Mania. "Naw, got a big burger here. Might get some churros later, though. Having a good time?"

[Kray]

Tonight? A part from the fact he was increasingly sure he had never seen Sonnie's mask before. "Uh. You might be surprised how often pretty looking ladies I don't think I know, and actually don't know come up to me acting overly friendly." Mask or Mein he squarely fell into the ugly and dangerous category beside the way he seemed to look at people like people looked at cattle should be more then off putting. So for it to happen even once was unlikely, as frequently as it did left the ogre confused as often as not.

Desire not his dish of choice, evidently, and the only fear present was that which he brought himself, speaking off a couple get shooed off a table to give him somewhere to put the pizza box. "Oh. I won't contest having all these options in one place, its a real all you can eat buffet." He hopefully meant the vendors, and nothing else.

Shrugging at the refusal the first slice is picked up his head tils back and more or less folds into into a mouthful of jaw jamming food tuffs. A refined creature he is not. But the food is good and he chews as contentedly as he gets until he can swallow it down. "Aah. That's pretty tasty. Speaking of weren't we going to have a little contest at some point?" Was it the setting that reminded him or had he never forgotten.

A flicker of annoyance at the empty cup, ah why had he drained it already. Still easy enough to fix. "Hm. Good enough thanks. Yourself?" He would have guessed so. The good thing about pizza being as it is, while each slice might get crammed down he had to do it slice by slice so in that way he could savour the meal more then usual. "Um. Mostly here doing a favour for some acquittances of mine, helping with some set up and pack down." He was big, he was strong and he was for the moment quite content to not let them see past that.

[Sonnie Wu]

"Awwww, you think I'm pretty? Thank you!" She giggled, then stopped and shook out of it, "Uh, sorry. I've been flirting with dudes here all day, came to be a reflex." Farming Glamour could be a task. The Beast laughed, "Don't sweat it. It's cool."

"Right? So many tasties in one place! Just got to budget accordingly." She had a Coronation to cater, after all, and not a lot of spending money to do it. She missed the days when Sera took care of all that. If Sonnie thought Kray might start snacking on the fest-goers, she didn't show it.

"Hm?" she looked curiously at the Ogre as she ate a strip of bacon off of her burger, "Oh, right! Wasn't that last summer or something?" It had been a while, and the idea of an eating contest had slipped her mind since then. The 'Scrambler shrugged, "I'm game, but I can't afford it right now. Maybe we can try soon?"

"I'm eating well," not just the food but the Desire she'd been stoking throughout the day. "What? You're helping here? You got friends among the brewers?" Her eyes darted around curiously.