[Day 205] It's the end of the world, get drunk

[bastionpc]

Who: Georges and anyone about
Open: Open
When: 205 sometime in the afternoon
Where: Around the Monument
What: The Cael way of celebrating everyone not dying involves booze, so drink up! (Fun fact: the Cael way of mourning may also involve booze.)
Format: Any
Warnings: Drunken shenanigans, likely. Also feel free to treat this like a mingle thread and not just talking to Georges! (Although he'll try to chat with everyone if he can)


So, just to double check: A cure has been found? Everyone's recovered? No one's dead? It's safe to leave the house now? Excellent.

With this fact well known, one can find Georges starting off his morning not hanging about the bar (as is his custom as the only bartender in the Bastion) but in fact setting up something in front of the Monument. Tables, chairs, some blankets to sit on when those inevitably run out... There's also something of a makeshift bar area, a variety of liquor in fascinating bottles set up along with some glasses.

Everything is all finished up around the afternoon, and Georges goes behind his little makeshift table-bar to cup his hands around his mouth so he can yell-

"DRINKS ON THE HOUSE!"

...What do you mean he technically never makes anyone pay for booze at the end of the world? Just come up and have a drink, Georges will be happy to recommend something. Or maybe bother someone else having a drink?

Comments

[spiria]

I don't know. I've never really tried anything with alcohol in it ...

[bastionpc]

Sure are a lot of folks like that here, I'm starting to notice. [Fortunately, by this point, Georges is starting to figure it out.] How about we start you off with something that doesn't have too much in it?

I mean, usually for teenagers for their first drink, we'd give them a glass of Cham-Pain- just as a right of passage, you know- but since you're all foreigners, I think we can just skip over there to something a bit nicer like Hearty Punch.

[spiria]

I'll take your word for it. I really don't know what I'm doing with any of this.

[ She smiles a little, sheepish. ]

The punch sounds good?

[bastionpc]

One glass of Hearty Punch, coming up!

[He goes back to the bar to grab the bottle, the stuff already bubbling a bit as it's hot. Georges is chattering again as he comes back to her to hand it over.]

It's a good thing to have if you ever go out on the Skyway! If you ever get a bit more beat than you can handle, swig a this stuff will bring you right back.

[spiria]

[ She takes it into her hands, a little surprised at how it's bubbling, but willing to give it a try regardless. Kohaku stares at the liquid for a moment before taking a drink of it.

Huh. Not bad. ]

This is pretty good! Thank you!

After my last experiences on the skyway though, I'd much rather not go out there on my own.

[ The last time she was on the skyway she was with a group, and that was just before all of the crap went down with the plague. ]

[bastionpc]

It's my pleasure!

I can understand that. We've had some nasty incidents out there- folks get lost all the time. So I can see what Nate was so eager to get something made that would help fix that. [That actually makes Georges pause.] Actually... You were one of the folks that went out on that expedition, right?

[spiria]

[ She nods in response to that. ]

I didn't really do much, though. Just whatever Nathan and Colin told me to do.

[ And then once it was confirmed that she wasn't sick, she went and helped out the ones who were, but even during that she didn't really think of herself as doing much to help. ]

[bastionpc]

Well... If you ever get a chance, could you maybe try and talk with Nate?

[Georges shifts a little bit, uncomfortable.]

He's basically the closest thing we have to a leader sometimes, but... Well, he's still just a kid, you know? All this responsibility... I guess I'm worried that he'll blame himself too much, or try to do too much.

Maybe having some people to talk to that seem a bit closer to his age would help. I don't know.

[spiria]

I guess I could try ... Nathan seems nice enough, from the little experience I have with him.

[ Awww, it's cute that you're worried. ]

[bastionpc]

[He has a kid now, he has to be all parental to everyone. Pretty sure it's in the dad rulebook somewhere.]

He is! He's a real smart kid- smarter than most of us since he was a Mancer in training. I'd say out of most of us, he's one of the few who actually knows how the Bastion works. If it wasn't for him, we'd be floundering.

[spiria]

Maybe I should talk to him anyway ... I'd definitely like to know more about how this place works. I learned a little bit already, but there's always more to learn, right?

I-I mean, that wouldn't be the only reason to talk to him, of course. It would be good to make more friends here, too ...

[ we apologize for her awkward. ]

[bastionpc]

[It's okay- Georges has seen grown men try to flirt and act smooth while completely shitfaced. He's seen worse awkward.]

Exactly! Everyone wins- he gets someone to check up on him, the two of you might make friends, and you can learn more about the Bastion!

[spiria]

It does sound like a good plan! I'll be sure to talk to him the next time I see him.

[ And now she's all smiles, despite being totally awkward before. ]