free drinks!

[green_tease]

New thing here, peeps.

Want a drink? Open up to me about why you "need" one, and ye shall receive.

Lie, or be too young for this shit, and get non-alcoholic. Don't be that person. That person sucks.

Comments

[pasht]

(Pasht's sclera are very much red. She's in a bad way.)

I took too much. Dilute. More to balance more. Please?

[green_tease]

(Missy doesn't like the look of this.)

...Okay, bright eyes. You know better than I do if this will make you better or worse.

(She sets a margarita before Pasht, then touches the vampire's wrist.)

Take care of yourself.

[pasht]

—Sí, niña.

[mai_yamato]

I need booze or I'll die!!!

[green_tease]

Your choices are cola in a glass bottle or nothing in a big fat nothing! Kids today...

[mai_yamato]

(Grabs a cola bottle and stalks off in a sulk.)

[yzin]

I would like something.... pastoral, I think is the word? Or rustic? Something to remind me a little of the home I left behind, without being so familiar as to hurt.

I can talk of it more, if you like, but I would prefer not.

[green_tease]

(A challenge! Missy nods, then ducks below the bar and rummages. She takes a few minutes to emerge carrying a jug.)

I took a guess. This is homemade strawberry wine. If it's not what you're after, I can try something else.

[yzin]

(Open. Sip.)

It isn't what I had in mind, but it may be better. Thank you.

[green_tease]

(Yay! There's a big green grin on Missy's little green face!)

You're welcome!

[jainajade]

Can I get a Djew? Failing that, a Djew and vodka?

[green_tease]

Free drinks have a price, kiddo. Spill!

[jainajade]

(It takes a few moments for Jaina to answer. She struggles internally before allowing some thoughts to tumble out of her mouth.)

...Look, I just don't want to go to sleep yet. I'm in love with this wonderful gentleman, but our lives have been keeping us apart more and more. I'm not ready to go back to an empty bed again tonight.

Is that enough?

(She hopes, very strongly, that it is. Jaina isn't accustomed to opening herself up on the spot and doing so has already cost her something, some small measure of peace that she'd been clinging to.)

[green_tease]

(Missy is ready to interrupt at the words "in love", but more words splash out of Jaina's stormy head, and Missy can't bear to shut down someone who obviously needed some sort of outlet.)

It'll do, Red. I have some Djew with your name on it on standby. Give me a sec.

(The pixie jumps into the air and swoops down behind the bar. Within seconds, she's taken wing again with all her limbs wrapped stubbornly around a familiar ceramic bottle. A label on the top reads, in tiny, scraggly cursive, "Jaina's fave".)

Enjoy. I'm not going anywhere tonight, so stay and chat, or I'll be bored.

[gelth]

(Poltergeist enters in her stage clothes.)

Hi. I'm traveling and missing my home coffee shop. What're the odds that I can I get a double shot espresso here?

[green_tease]

You're homesick. Is that it? Because I feel like there's more to your story. Fill me in and I'll comp the shot.

[gelth]

(Poltergeist bites her lip and stares at the floor. What point was there in keeping it a secret? Surely it wouldn't leave this odd world, except where 'Geist carried it with her as she always did.)

It keeps me awake sometimes. A lot of times, actually.

Where I'm from, I'm a masked crimefighter. Somebody in powered armor attacked me. I used my powers to shut down their armor, but it turns out that the armor was not just a weapon, but a life support system for my attacked. I couldn't undo the damage. She died, and I couldn't stop it.

I think about it a lot. About what I could or should have done differently. Ways I could have kept everyone alive, if I'd just thought to try.

She wasn't even a good person, but maybe she could have lived to be one. Guess I'll never know. All I can do is try to do good and minimize harm, so that it never happens again. Not on my watch.

[green_tease]

(Missy finds herself dumbfounded and moved to tears.)

Damn, girl. For that hell of a tale, I'll get you all the Starbucks I can carry!

(She doesn't mention her true, tiny size. She does flit out the door and return with a cardboard travel-tray of insulated cups. The name written on them says, "Slinka".)

[mai_yamato]

I need a coffee to stunt my growth or else I might get huge!

[green_tease]

Okay, where do I even.

First: you did this already. You walked away with a cola. This ain't an infinite loop.

Second: the fuck's your deal, weirdo kid?

[mai_yamato]

(Mai glares.)

Am I supposed to know exactly what you think you're asking me?

[green_tease]

I'm asking why you're like this! Why do you do this, the same shtick, over and again? What do you get out of it? What do you gain by getting everyone around you confused and miserable?!

[mai_yamato]

Are you sure "miserable" is the word you want? Is it accurate?

And do you really think you have the moral high ground here? Are people better off drunk and angry, or sad or whatever, than they are if they realize that none of them understand what the fuck I am?!

[green_tease]

(Missy is briefly dumbstruck.)

I can't help what I am, poppet. Maybe you can't either. Sorry. Didn't mean to bring the hammer down.

"Miserable" was the wrong word to use. I'm having trouble understanding you, ever. You're not drinking age yet. That's a factor; I don't think it's the only reason.

Coffee for you if you help me with that. Your call.

[mai_yamato]

You're right. I can't help what you are.

I think it's pretty obvious that I have a deep-seated need to be the center of attention wherever I go, which leads me to create vast, sweeping lies as attempts to constantly one-up myself. Textbook.

Are you guessing my age based on my appearance? How old would that make you? Twenties? Thirties? That's assuming what I see has anything to do with your actual body, of course. How far off is that?

[green_tease]

Touché! You're alright, kitten. Thanks for clearing that up some.

(Missy produces a cup of hot coffee for Mai. It's labeled "non-decaf". A close look would reveal that the last five letters are from a different marker than the rest; the line width is distinctly different.)

[mai_yamato]

(Mai might discover the lack of caffeine later. For now, she's ignorant of it, and giddy over her reward.)

You're welcome for hearing me.

(Clearly that made perfect, heartfelt sense to her and to her alone.)