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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:25 am
Near the shipyard where the latest airships is being built, there is a pub, hidden behind many larger buildings. Whilst not exactly popular with visitors to the guild-city Anachronism, who favour the larger and more grand hotels and bars, many of the residents of the Anachronism would attest it is the best.
The outside it not much to look like - a clean but plain brick building, bearing much remeblance to any other pub in normal towns. Inside, it is wonderfully decoration, with wooden panelling and brass fittings.
In addition to the bar, which has many of the rarer beverages in addition to common drinks, there are many tables (as, indeed, it serves food). It also has a gaming section, with tables for poker, as well as pool and snooker tables. Faint piano music can be heard as well.
OOC: Until the airship is 'complete' - I would suggest you do anything OOC here. Go about puby-business if you wish, or discuss the new airship IC.
Also feel free to create any threads representing other buildings on the Anachronism's other cogs.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:34 pm
As you enter, if that is what you do (and if not as you look through the murky windows-which for you sake I suggest you do do), your gaze is caught by the man standing behind the bar, or rather his face, or (again) rather, half of it-the half covered by what appears to be a mask of brushed steel, with a lens through which an eye, strangely maginfied, peers out. Drawing your eyes away from such a peculiar (but strangely, not at all frightening) visage, you look even further, behind this man and to the vast array of bottles that cover the wall behind him. At a glance, the look as you would expect from any bar, but on looking harder you see that no two are at all the same, either in shape of the bottle, tint of the glass or indeed the colour of the liquid within. Odder still is that none have labels, save one-labelled "Poison"
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:18 pm
*waves hand about*
May I please have a mixed drink?
Half tequila and half champagne if you could, please.
*relaxes into her chair with a rather large sigh*
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:51 am
"Yes."
Imber grabbed too bottles from behind him, and with practised ease poured equal measures into a glass.
"That'll be 10d please"
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:20 am
*raises an eyebrow*
Which currency again?
Dolares, dinars, it goes from there....
And thank you very much Sir.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:20 pm
Skrae *raises an eyebrow* Which currency again? Dolares, dinars, it goes from there.... And thank you very much Sir. They're called pennies.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:12 pm
*hands 10 pennies*
Well, 10 d could really be anything.^^
Besides...
*shows handfuls of change*
I get a bit confused sometimes...
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:21 pm
OOC: It may be worth noting that for those of you in the US and/or not versed in British History, that in those times the official notation for pennies was simply d. So 10d means 10 pence.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:45 pm
OOC:
Thanks Vangy.
I'm apparently quite American...
>.>
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:36 am
(OOC: ok I am unfortinately rather american, what's the break down of english money? like how many pence to a pound, what's a quid, a florine?(sp?) and the american equivlents, not like current exchange rates or anything, I know the pound is roughly the same as an american dollar, I think, for example. This way everyone has at least a vague sense of terminology lol )
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:58 pm
((Actually the exchange rate is closer to 2 dollars per pound last time I remembre))
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:44 am
Well, in Victorian times, the currency was Lsd, or £sd, or pounds, shillings and pence. A pound could be broken down into 20 shillings (also called casually bobs, but we here are too sophisticated for that), each of which could be broken down to 20 pence. So, for example, £1.16s.9p is one pound, 16 shillings and 9 pence, or 36 shillings and 9 pence, or 441 pence. Pence are also further reduced to ha'pennies (pronounced haypennies, or haypence), shown by 1/2d and farthings (1/4d). Florines are way off. Also, dollars are the equivalent of 5/-, or a crown. (5/- being five shillings).
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:45 am
Imber Well, in Victorian times, the currency was Lsd, or £sd, or pounds, shillings and pence. A pound could be broken down into 20 shillings (also called casually bobs, but we here are too sophisticated for that), each of which could be broken down to 20 pence. So, for example, £1.16s.9p is one pound, 16 shillings and 9 pence, or 36 shillings and 9 pence, or 441 pence. Pence are also further reduced to ha'pennies (pronounced haypennies, or haypence), shown by 1/2d and farthings (1/4d). Florines are way off. Also, dollars are the equivalent of 5/-, or a crown. (5/- being five shillings). (so a crown is a US$ a pound is 4US$ and the rate going down is 20 to 1 for this setting and time period thanks!)
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:56 am
Linfac walks in with the typical burnout inventor look that is so common for locals on the outer rings. He flops down into a stool at the bar near a murk and grim covered window that tries to pass as stained glass.
"I just can't get it work..." He mutters to himself.
"a pint and a glass of whiskey, not the fuel kind... I couldn't see straight for a week after you said that was for drinking and not fuel additive..."
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