Grand Opening!

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Characters: Bryn Zethir and EVERYONE!
Date: Friday Evening, September 13th
Location: Bryn's Unnamed Bar
Situation: It's time for a grand opening!
Warnings/Rating: None expected but label your own threads if necessary.

After weeks of scrimping and saving, planning, organizing, working every day to get everything just so, Bryn's tavern is finally ready to open. There were times she wasn't sure it was ever going to happen, because what did she know about running a business, having only been a customer all of her adult life? There was still a chance that this would spectacularly flop and she would be broke and back to square one again. But tonight isn't the night to worry about that. One thing Bryn does know how to do is throw a party.

So, the two story has been scrubbed and polished within an inch of its life. The lanterns inside and out are burning with fresh candles. The bar is fully stocked, the kitchen has been bustling all day with food preparations, and for tonight, the stage is occupied by some of Keeliai's finest and liveliest kedan musicians. At one corner corner of the first floor, a table with ten jars can be found. Before each jar is a suggested name for the new tavern, and baskets of smoothly polished pebbles to be used to cast votes. Each attendee is welcome to vote for the name of their choosing, and Bryn will call her tavern by whichever one is the most popular.

All that's missing are her guests, whom she hopes to keep as customers over the coming weeks, months, or however long Bryn's stay in the city is.

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Poll #14201

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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Bryn's tavern needs a name, and the following options have been suggested! Every character attending gets a single vote and the one with the most votes will be the one picked!

View Answers

Bar In-Between
2 (7.4%)

The Brazen Pack-Beast
1 (3.7%)

The Brazen Turtle
10 (37.0%)

The Carapace
1 (3.7%)

Chelonauts
0 (0.0%)

The Frisky Swizard
8 (29.6%)

Iron Turtle
2 (7.4%)

Nowhere
2 (7.4%)

The Red Lion
1 (3.7%)

That Place
0 (0.0%)

Comments

wow I never hit send for this!

[bludhavenknight]

When there's a lull, Dick takes the chance to get to know the other person he's going to be working with. After all, at the end of the night, they have to split their tips, so it's better to know who the money is going to, right?

But there was the fact that, well. She looked like a few people he knew, though he wasn't sure if he could flat out ask her if she was an Atlantean, or if she just liked to wear bathing suits around, followed by 'pair it with some stockings'. She could join the ranks of leotards and fishnets!

So when the lull happened, Dick came a little closer and mimicked her, leaning on the bar with his head in his hands. "So what do you think, so far? Think we'll get some regular customers to keep us busy?"

i think we've all been there

[littlecousin]

"What else is there to do around here besides drink, dude?" She turned around, facing the mirrored rear wall of the bar, and leaned back, stretching her legs out until they blocked the aisle and she was supporting her weight on elbows and heels. It should have seemed awkward, but Nita had the preternatural dexterity of a superhuman, so her lack of regard for the normal ways of using surface furniture came off as far more graceful than it had any right to.

It also meant she could tip her head back to look up him. Dick was pretty easy on the eyes. Unless he suddenly manifested an awful personality, as far as Nita was concerned, he could stick around.

<3

[bludhavenknight]

"Some could go on up to the top. Maybe dance a little bit, check out the scenery," Dick grinned. "But I love drinking, so maybe what you said will come true." He waited for a moment, standing up and going to where the mirrored part of the bar was. Taking care not to tip any of the bottles, he leaned against it with his hands slightly behind his back.

Then he pushed up, holding himself up with his hands. He could do this for a pretty long time. And it felt good, he hadn't realized how cramped up his hands were, from handling so many drinks.

"Still. I think I'm going to love working here. But they better tip well. Very well." He laughed.

[littlecousin]

What a coincidence! Nita loved drinking, too! Distracted by Dick's athleticism--nice arms, dude--she was a little slow to respond.

"Tipping...oh yeah." She usually needed to be reminded that tipping was a thing surfacers did. Atlantis didn't have a tipping culture, and on the surface, she was filthy rich foreign royalty and who tended to leave her change and sign credit slips without looking at them. From a personal finance perspective, it was a good thing Nita could draw on the practically bottomless Atlantean treasury.

[bludhavenknight]

"Don't worry, we split the tips fifty-fifty." Dick went to reassure her, not knowing that it was the complete opposite. Here he thought she felt a little bad or something, asking for tips when you needed them. But Dick had lived off of them for awhile.

And then had the trust fund and well, okay, he's never really wanted anything when it came to cash. But it helped blend in better if you didn't have money.

He smiled. "So, know any bar flair? I think this place could use some."