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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:13 pm



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:14 pm




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▐▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ < Take a drink. > ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐

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That morning the bar was looking as good as it had ever looked, the surrounding buildings (at least on the outside) had had decades of mess and rubble cleared away to frame the newly renovated Red Bull. Over the door was a large hand painted graffiti style sign with a much tougher-than-reality version of Massacre posturing atop the bar’s title. Thanks to Melvin’s contribution of a zillion runic stones he’d managed to get the whole thing trimmed in runic-modded neons for night time.

Inside, everything was decorated for the occasion in a veritable deluge of crepe paper. It looked as if the person in charge of decorating had started off in traditional white only to realise who exactly they were decorating for and had promptly changed to far more neon colours. There were also a variety of crepe paper flowers spread across the bar ranging from small to huge and tie dyed. In the midst of all this artificial plant life there also nestled a good number of paper mache doves, half with moons on them, half with suns. All of the decorations were far better looking than what Rep and Harrison generally were capable of making and it seemed like America had been involved somehow.

The bar itself showed the investment people from all over the island had put into it, the counters were made of heavy dark mahogany which may or may not have been originally procured in tree form, trimmed and sanded, with comfortable leather trimmed stools. The underlying decor of the place itself beneath that which had been added for the wedding was nestled somewhere between rustic hunting lodge and British pub, the walls hung with reindeer pelts, skulls and other curious items he’d found in the towns during the work on the place.

Around the walls were booths for people to sit, as well as tables with chairs for those needing a little more space or simply wanting somewhere to eat in future that wasn’t the cafeteria. The pub’s kitchen was more sparsely populated with facilities for the time being. There was a fryer, sinks etcetera, but until cooks made clear what they needed in terms of pots, pans and other cooking paraphernalia, it remained spartan at best. There was nevertheless plenty of room in the main bar area for people who wished to bring their own food to the event.

On the bar counter in baskets were various favors which had been printed with the bar’s name and logo, free for people to take (though limited to one per person - Rep knew there had to be other kleptos on the island). They were for the most part useful, a basket respectively of logo-bearing matches, flashlights and bottle openers.


THE BAR HAS WARDS ACTIVE, NO WEAPON SUMMONING IS PERMITTED INSIDE.

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▐ ▐ ▐ < Drinks Menu > ▐ ▐ ▐
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On the bar itself and on every table that morning there were drinks menus laid out with specific themed cocktails rather than the usual fare, at much reduced prices. It was apparently happy hour all day long. The only minor factor of note is that the drinks in the printed images didn’t appear to have the various novelty umbrellas and straws the ones inevitably coming from the bar did, hinting perhaps at possible interference from helpful hunters.

Each drink is $3

Roll 1d6 to see what drink you get!

Status effects last 15 mins each and do not stack!

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Electric Fallout ▐ ▐ ▐ - A dark purple, heady, layered slush drink dotted with candy nerds. There’s hardly any alcoholic taste.
Effect: You become childish and petty, and act super immature, like you are 6.


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Antarctic Snow Angel-▐ ▐ ▐ Creamy vanilla liqueur. Tastes like a mixture of cinnamon, eggnog, and sugar cookies. Available hot or chilled.
Effect: A general feeling of good cheer and perkiness, makes you full of goodwill towards men.


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Sarlacc Pit -▐ ▐ ▐ Sour and fizzy, it’s neon courage in a glass. The drink of jedi heroes and galactic bounty hunters everywhere.
Effect: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…you become extremely open to suggestion, believing whatever you’re told.


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Skyfall -▐ ▐ ▐ A classic Vesper cocktail, right out of the Ian Fleming novels. There’s a lemon peel and everything.
Effect: You experience a boost of confidence! You believe that you are devastatingly attractive and irresistible to the opposite sex.


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Total Eclipse -▐ ▐ ▐ Strong and smooth, burns the throat and leaves you feeling warmer.
Effect: You feel the need to find someone and shadow them everywhere, helping them with everything. They are totally your partner/friend/bro/soulmate.


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Blue Kingdom -▐ ▐ ▐ A little bit of everything. Gin, rum, tequila, vodka, liqueur. The drink of Kings. It’s like all your dreams are coming true.
Effect: You have the impulse to commit petty crimes.



▐ ▐ ▐ < Darts > ▐ ▐ ▐

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User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Roll 1d10 three times, this is your three darts to throw at the board per round. It can be in the same thread or different ones.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Match your numbers to the pink numbers on the board then check the corresponding white numbers at the edge. This is your score.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.If you get two of the same numbers in a row you get a bullseye! This counts for 25 points in place of the second number.

If you get the max total score, you win, grats!


▐ ▐ ▐ < Jukebox > ▐ ▐ ▐

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Apparently someone managed to scrounge up an old jukebox and pay someone to runic mod its power supply. It is stocked with a large range of music ranging from contemporary to obscure dubstep and some more traditional oldies. It inexplicably had Lady GaGa's entire discography.

▐▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ < THE BAR IS CURRENTLY : C L O S E D > ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐▐

To begin with the bar area itself is cordoned off with a ribbon, inaccessible until after the wedding event itself

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:15 pm




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▐▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ < Worth the wait > ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐


The area of the bar reserved for the ceremony itself has been cleared of chairs and instead houses only a few tables for gifts if guests decide to bring anything, along with a honeymoon tip jar if they hadn't had a chance to get off island and wished to contribute regardless.

The cake itself was clearly from a box and iced with grocery store icing, but nevertheless it looked delicious, sporting many many layers and with plenty to go around even a large turnout.

Up on the central area it appears that a laptop has been wired up for some function or other.

On the lined up chairs provided for spectators, the front row on both sides appears to have been cordoned off and reserved.

▐▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ < THE WEDDING IS CURRENTLY : -- > ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐ ▐

PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:08 pm


Entering the bar in a tiny white dress and fancied up hair, America opened her mouth to call out a greeting, but something caught the girl's attention first. Setting down the large, prettily wrapped box she'd brought, the girl was soon running to and fro in the background, tweaking and fixing things.



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Gift:

Two squirrels, stuffed and mounted. One wearing a kilt and tammie, the other in tie dye shirt.

It is to be hoped Kostya's gift is more useful to newlyweds.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:50 pm


Radley, for once, had actually shown up to an actual event. In person. Surprising even herself. Usually she avoided events where one had to 'mingle', but after Eilissandra had gotten after her time and time again, she finally relented and attended.

She didn't have a gift because she didn't really know the people (and thus didn't want to offend them by bringing the wrong gift), but she wanted to show her support. To... people she had no idea who they were. But support was support, right?

Besides, weddings were kind of cool to watch.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:27 pm


There had been an invitation to stop by the bar ‘when it was open’ at the meeting for his division, so he’d taken that a bit to heart. It wasn’t hard to hear the whispers about a wedding either, but he had no gift, and as far as he knew no means of getting one on such short notice…except.

Well… a little last minute offering for future redemption would have to do, and perhaps it’d pave the way for working with the man.

Now he just had to find him. He dressed up as best he could with what he had, which didn’t make his clothing terribly magnificent, and only his shirt was white but he tried…alright?

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The Gift: One hand written hand doodled ‘certificate’ for a tattoo, tools depending on timing and availability for Rep and Partner/Friend/Guest. (covering all bases just in case the newlyweds are not BOTH into personal inks

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:08 pm


Roland arrived carrying his somewhat round gifts in each arm. There had been a third originally, but after reading twitter he opted to leave the third behind wondering why it would no longer be needed. None the less he placed the two slightly round packages onto the table with notes saying 'fragile: glass!' before wandering around the bar a bit admiring the work.

"I wonder how much pay they had to spend in order to pull this off... it looks amazing compared to....everything. Really amazing."


PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:42 pm


Cee was never one to miss the social event of the season (or not go somewhere with liquor and Lady Gaga). She was wearing something short and tight, a bandage dress, but she'd accented with a blue boa and had even painted a swan on her nails. The latter details were obvious nods to her Blue Kingdom past and she felt it only proper for a royal wedding.

"Waat uuuup." She hooted to the small group, waving her boa at them all.

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Gift:
A giant stuffed blue tiger.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:46 pm


Jason had no idea what to get Rep and Harrison as a wedding gift, so after some time of racking his brain he turned up to the new bar, wearing a suit, a wrapped present under one arm.

He placed it on the table with the others and stepped back to admire the decorations of the place.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 4:08 am


It seemed probable that at least some people would expect Jordan to be elsewhere today; he'd thought about it, because being here was a kind of masochism, but he'd decided, after all, that he would regret not attending more. He'd left his coat in his room, wore nondescript clothes, jeans and a light hoodie with the hood up. He left an envelope on the table with the gifts and withdrew quietly to a booth, sitting in the corner and pretending to pay attention to his phone. He couldn't expect not to be noticed at all, but hopefully people wouldn't be weird about it, wouldn't ask awkward questions.

He wouldn't stay long. He had leave marked for the night, and the backpack under the table had a change of clothes and his latest civilian ID, so that he could go straight to the lighthouse when he left.

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Gift:

An envelope containing a card with a simple maze drawn on the front and completed. It contains five $100 bills and a pair of carefully folded origami figures: a unicorn and a bull, imperfectly made but close enough to be recognizable. The card reads "Congratulations" and is not signed.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:50 am


B0nez's golem had changed over the years, parallel with the swords themselves. When Harrison and B0nez had first started working together, the blades had been sharp and plain, with a single skull sitting in the hilt of the largest blade. Eventually, the metal had overgrown with technological junk. Loose parts, cut wires, the swords became a garden of clunky cyberpunk machinery. Then, as the two got to know each other, everything smoothed out. With the final promotional push, the swords were handsome, sleek, and functional. Slightly smaller and lighter, he did his job with speed and accuracy.

B0nez was nervous, because he wasn't great with crowds, and hovered protectively next to the laptop, giving it occasional checkovers. He had made the attempt at combing his messy dark hair into a semblance of order. Long wires hung from his back, which had been neatly bundled (by someone else) into a thick braid via clips and twist ties. He still wore ratty sneakers, but had on a relatively new set of jeans and a t-shirt that had a tuxedo print on it.

Ghost golems had never been ideal. B0nez still had an ethereal quality, and most parts of him waved weightlessly as if he was underwater, but at the end of the day he was a heavy construct made of mud and blood.

He only got more flustered as the guest count increased, mumbling mostly to himself. "Watch that, I told him the wires needed to be taped down- d-dammit..."

The middle of the floor had been cleared for folding chairs and some semblance of an aisle. The front row had been roped off as Reserved with paper mache bunting, but the rest of the seats were free.
PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:22 am




Tracey was also hanging around the bar that day, dressed in his full ceremonial armour, which was as formal as the fallen angel got. In demeanor he was one hundred percent more relaxed than B0nez, doing nothing particularly useful, keeping well out of the way of technology - which he absolutely hated - and observing people dropping off gifts at the table from his perch on a bar stool. He gave everyone a nod of thanks, impressed with the variety of shapes and sizes.

When Jordan dropped off his envelope, he got a very long, unreadable stare and a bristle of wing feathers. Tracey was angry at Rep but he was also pretty damn angry at Jordan as well. He'd been counting on fight, on keeping Ferros and Jordan both, but it hadn't worked out. At the very least he was glad both of them were here, though being Tracey, he would never actually admit it. Cee got a wave of long claws, he looked a lot different than blue kingdom, in this world sporting ten fingers on each taloned hand, but he remembered the huntress from that world.

Occasionally he would check on B0nez to make sure nothing was broken, on fire or both or simply to harass the ghost boil and make fun of how uncomfortable he was but for the most part he was just delighted to be out and about and couldn't be his usual levels of crotchety.

Rep was in and out of the bar that morning, apparently trying to avoid Harrison for some superstitious reason only he was aware of. When he showed up however he was dressed in a full kilt, sporran and general national dress. Someone had also apparently helped him dye tiger stripes in his hair and comb it and around his neck on a strap that was half choker half collar hung a positively enormous table cut sapphire - at least an artifact which looked like one. All in all he looked tidier than he had ever looked and was hovering somewhere between bouncing off the walls excited and having a complete anxious meltdown.

"Hey guys." he said with a grin, waving to the people who'd shown up - and impressed they had - he'd been expecting no one to come because of all the s**t he'd said on twitter over the years. The fact people even had delighted him immensely. "Thanks for the gifts so far and you are all looking ******** fabulous." And it was a sign of how nervous he was that he hadn't checked himself from using a word as flamboyant as fabulous.

"We'll get started in a bit, just need to sort some s**t out." He gestured at America. "And you can thank this lovely lady here for a hell of a lot of the decorations, it wouldn't be half as gorgeous in here without her."


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:38 am


Dakota shuffled the bag a bit. Assigned to a mission on in the Sahara, it figured transferring right away but that was his decision after all. He made sure to stop by Rep and Harrison's bar though, with a small wedding gift for the two since he hadn't been able to get much else.

He set the envelope on the table, like many others had with their gifts and sighed again. He should've wished them congratulations in person but there was nothing to be down. Being shipped out. Military life. Balls.

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Gift: 1000$ cash and a small note.

Congrats you two, Sorry I couldn't come and watch! Hope you guys are forever happy and stuff. All that sappy stuff. Now join me in married mens lives ohohoho.

Dakota
PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:26 pm


Roland had simply nodded back at Tracey during the gift drop off, and grinned only a bit when Rep complimented everyone wandering around. He'd broken out a sweater from Nevada, not a heavy one, but a light grey one that was far more formal then the t-shirts, jeans, and hunter coats they all usually sported.

The thing that caught his eye was Jordan though, the tweet inviting everyone had made things... a bit odd. Moving to the booth he took a spot leaning on the outside edge across from Jordan.

"Hey... I um, I have something for you in my room, I bought a bundle of three a while back when I first heard about this. It's still yours. Big skull full of really nice vodka." He even held his hands up to give a sort of vague gesture of how big it was.

There was a slight pause, awkwardness filling it, "Been busy lately?"


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:32 pm


Jordan smiled, a small, wry smile. "I've been developing an appreciation for good booze. That's kind of you. Been -- " he hesitated, considering his wording, " -- keeping busy." He bent his head, looking down at his phone again, though if Ro looked, he'd be able to see that all that was on the screen was a puzzle game. After a moment, he said, "You can sit down if you want to," and then, "I'm not drinking tonight."

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