Bar Mingle: Week 3

[latinumsbetter]

Every evening at dusk (unless, for some reason, Quark is indisposed,) the Eatery transforms into Quark's Bar. The table, now with a crack patched up ith dried glue on one end, becomes a bartop with chairs lined up on one side. Some of the extra chairs are placed along the wall behind the bar as a makeshift bench for ingredients, glasses, ice, and anything else. Frequent visitors might note that there's always an untouched drink made and set out every evening. There are bowls of peanuts placed on top of the bar for snacking. On one end of the bar there's a selection of pastries, fresh-baked by Lebkuchen, who might also be there.

On one end of the table, opposite from the crack, is a interesting look board game. Next to it is a plate of lebkuchen, left out for a specific bunch of fuzzy creatures that seem to like them. In another corner is a roulette-esque kind of game.

In the rafters, there's a whole swarm of Zubats now, and one or two of them might come down to say hello. If they do, Quark is shooing them away again, but they only go back up to the ceiling.


Outside the door to the Eatery is a sign, handwritten, and further inside, the menu tacked up in a couple places behind the bar:

Quark's Bar

Hand-mixed drinks
Home-made fresh pasteries
Snacks
Good Company

Come on in and take a load off!
Open Every Evening at Dusk

Tokens accepted as payment
NO RED MURDEROUS ROBOTS ALLOWED

MENU

Non-alcoholic drinks: 2 tokens
Alcoholic drinks: 4 tokens
Lebkuchen: 1 token/piece, 4 for 3 tokens
Breadroll: 1 token/piece
Lollipops: 1 token/each
Wednesday Special: Homemade Apple Strudel! 3 tokens/slice


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[latinumsbetter]

Why's that?

[murchada]

You need magic circuits to be able to use magic at all. Generally speaking, they're inherited... well, not always directly, but that's a whole different can of worms. Mages take the whole thing extremely seriously.

It's about as classist as you'd expect, honestly.

[...]

Well. So my general knowledge and files say, anyway, it's not like I meet a lot of true mages in digital space.

[latinumsbetter]

Yeesh. They sound like a fun bunch.

[he considers, drawing that circle on the bartop again]

Though people like that are usually the ones you can make more profit off of, if you can figure out exactly what they want.

[murchada]

Yeah, probably. I mean, as far as I know, the important mage families are loaded.

[latinumsbetter]

That sounds about right. If they're the ones with the power, they're also the ones with the money.

[murchada]

Mm. Not like any of that matters now, of course. Right now it's just a handful of people left, until they can fix what happened to the planet.

[you know. the whole bleached earth thing.]

[latinumsbetter]

[that'll get a dry scoff out of him] Hard to spend money when you're dead.

[murchada]

It does put a damper on capitalism when most of the planet is dead, yeah.

[latinumsbetter]

Not much you can do without customers. [bummer, dude.]

...so what exactly are the people that are left doing in your world? Outside of that Paper Moon thing. Because there's probably not a lot of reason to stay there if it's bleached.

[murchada]

...Okay, well, first of all, where would they even go.

[latinumsbetter]

--right.

No space travel. [he forgor]

[murchada]

Yeah. That.

...Not that I think they'd leave, even if they could, though. They're... working hard. Trying to restore everything.

[latinumsbetter]

You're telling me that there's no space travel but they can restore an entirely bleached planet.

[murchada]

There's some space travel, for the record, just not further than like, the moon. But that's not important. It's a whole complicated... thing, that frankly I only have about, I don't know... twenty percent of the details of?

But, basically... yeah.

Not that it's going to be easy or anything.

[latinumsbetter]

I can't imagine why it wouldn't be.

[murchada]

Yeah, yeah. But... mhm... I think they can do it. Chaldea's...

[how does she put it?]

They're something special.

[latinumsbetter]

How so?

[murchada]

They fixed what was happening in the Paper Moon, for one. But they already saved the planet from one disaster that wiped out everything... I met one of the most important people in the organization, too. She's young... like, I don't know, a little younger than Alex, maybe? But she had this incredible determination...

[give her some of that Ritsuka energy.]

...I might be biased. I know the human Cerejeira works for Chaldea, as their Record Keeper.

Maybe that's why, when I think of them, I feel like I can trust them completely.

[latinumsbetter]

[okay that's like good and all but--]

This isn't the first time this has happened?

[murchada]

Oh, yeah, I got some data on a different incident that happened right before. The Incineration of Humanity.

It's just kind of been one bad thing after another for a while.

[latinumsbetter]

[ok, the Incineration of Humanity sounds like A Big Bad Thing. Yikes.]

So this isn't their first Vole Fight.

[murchada]

Yeah.

It's why the Paper Moon is so important, too... The functions it provides are giving them their best possible chance.

[latinumsbetter]

And now it's your job to keep the thing running.

[murchada]

Ugh... Yeah. I guess.

[wow don't sound so hyped about it]

[latinumsbetter]

And you can't pass it off to someone else.