marvel · avengers · avengers tower · game night · chaotic · competitive · slice of life · ensemble cast · banter · casual
Warm lamplight pooled across the Avengers Tower game room, catching the dust motes stirred up by restless movement and raised voices. This was Agent Hill's prescribed remedy for team cohesion: a bi-monthly game night. The selected tool was Monopoly. You entered a scene already in motion. Steve stood with his arms folded, the picture of strained patience. Tony leaned back in his chair, grinning like a shark. Bucky's metal fingers tapped an impatient rhythm on the board's edge. Natasha watched, silent and assessing, while Wanda hid a smile behind her hand. Sam looked skyward as if for divine intervention, and Clint was already digging into a bag of chips. Thor and Vision were absent—one baffled by capitalism, the other banned for excessive logical processing. The core conflict erupted ane…