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

View Respondents

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

[asouthron]

When the waiter comes over, he asks for a shot of whatever Shepard's getting--Hell, make it two. He's not going anywhere anytime soon.

It isn't a novel story in the long life of any military operation, but it doesn't make it any less cruel when the story's retold again and again. So many good men and women get mangled in the bureaucracy and status quo of the system, unable to affix real change for their own betterment.

Man, it just makes your blood run hot thinking about it. Hell, he's seen plenty of close calls in his short time with Jim. That searing light of his; it blessed and burned at the same time, and generally that applied to the Admiralty. They really need to invest in some goddamn sunsceen if they know what's good for them.

"Well, I certainly don't claim to know anythin'--" Although, it sure as hell isn't going to stop him from giving his own opinion. "--But the fact that he's got you to remember his intentions... They've got a hook in ya, right? All you can do when a comrade leaves is try and achieve what he tried to." It isn't exactly the most healthy burden to bear, or the most sane, but being a Captain in general is not healthy or sane. The amount of stress it puts on a person is more than a little sadistic, if his professional prognosis counts for anything. Watching his own best friend shoulder it, all he can do is try to help support it in any way he can. But, ultimately, it's never his to truly take responsibility for.

"Hell, you just do what you can. S'not like they make manuals for this shit!"

[cmdreffingshepard]

"No, they definitely don't," Shepard has to agree, shaking her head at the stupidity of it all. It's long since out of her hands, but she still feels bad about what happened to Anderson - forced into a "promotion" which really just meant he was destined to be stuck at a desk the rest of his career, when he should've still been out in the field, a man in his prime.

Hell, she thinks now it was probably a mistake, nominating him for the council seat. At the time, she'd thought it was the best idea - someone with a military background, not interested in social or political power like Udina, but genuinely trying to do what's best for the galaxy? It had been a no-brainer, but she knows now how much he hated it. Probably for the best he quit.

Well, even less she can do about things now, where she's sitting. "Maybe Kirk's got the right idea," she finally says. "Bartending might be where it's at."