Afterparty

[latinumsbetter]

[After Zvei walks down into the earth and it closes over his head, and Typhon gives his goodbye...the Phantasmal Bar finally flickers out of existence. Quark breathes out a slow breath.]

Alright. The bar downstairs is going to be open. Stop in. [That is not a request.]

Riful, let's see what we can do about that thing you need.

[He'll give Leb a squeeze--before she detaches from him. He makes eye contact at least once with all of his employees, and then he turns and walks out of the Arena. So...post trial, the bar downstairs is once again open. The employees are around at different times, and Quark is once again behind the bar. There’s been several of the extra togas gathered and folded to be used as blankets. There's food and drinks and places to sit and think or talk or whatever one would like to do.

There are two more drinks that are made and sit just behind the counter to accompany with the other two that are usually remade and replaced every day.

The door is open.]

Comments

[raisethemoon]

He certainly can be. Cultural differences, no doubt, at least in part. It is always like that when dealing with other species - I think I have done more of that than a number of the humans here.

[ Luna's not sure how Vanity feels about it. She may not be a human, but she was created by them. It has always seemed as though she has a native understanding of them - but Luna has little at all, so she probably wouldn't catch any nuances there. ]

[sweetsynergy]

Most of them are from versions of Earth that haven't even made contact with other species.

[it's weird, luna]

[raisethemoon]

[ it's REAL weird! ]

We have not traveled very far off-planet - well, excepting myself - but it seems so strange to have such little diversity on one's own Earth! Easier in some ways, perhaps, but...

[ Seems like it might make you Weird about it ]

[sweetsynergy]

To my understanding it had pretty diverse life in general, but no other sapient species besides humans until early AIs started springing up. Weird quirk of evolution, I guess.

[raisethemoon]

[ Luna nods; she seems to at least think she knows what evolution is? ]

Maybe something happened to all the others. Or, what might have become them...?

[sweetsynergy]

Maybe. It would have been-

[She tries a mental count.]

-a really long time before I existed, either way.

[raisethemoon]

Things have changed, in my lifetime, but I do not think even I am old enough to have witnessed anything so vast. I imagine that is for the best.

[ What would that even be like, to exist on a scale where you can see species evolve? ]

[sweetsynergy]

... cheese, I'm going to outlive most humans in my world and I really can't even imagine that.

[raisethemoon]

Do..."A Is" live a very long time?

[ Given Vanity's age and maturity level, she had sort of assumed the opposite... ]

[sweetsynergy]

... you're thinking of Reija and Aoi. But, potentially? Dunno now that they're all fleshy like the rest of us.

[raisethemoon]

Oh! I apologize - I thought that you were also.....from a computer...?

[sweetsynergy]

Nope, one-hundred percent lab-grown flesh and blood. Which is probably where the confusion came in.

[raisethemoon]

Lab...grown...?

[ Yeah, that was it! She can definitely understand the one type of artificiality a little bit better than the other one, somehow! In that she knows that computers Exist and can do a lot of Things (Vague and Mysterious)! ]