http://bonhomme7h.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bonhomme7h.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2011-08-08 08:05 pm

It's like paradise, spread out with a butter knife :: [OPEN]

Who: EVERYONE
What: Réjean has decided that more people ought to celebrate and help raise a bit of dosh for one of his favourite bars. See: flyer.
Where: The Apache.
When: Misdi night and into the wee hours of the morning.
Warnings: Discussion of Pickman's manky feet.

The Apache is much the same as it always is: dimly lit, with the jukebox playing in the background, and the bartender serving whatever's on tap. Tonight, the bar is packed with people from all across the city, different cantons and cohorts, all out to celebrate surviving the fungal plague. Patrons are encouraged to buy tickets for a door prize with the proceeds going to repair the damage tunnelling ants made to the cellar.
gotbottle: (expectant grin)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-10 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Hi! You made it, feet and all!"

There's a smell, yeah, but this is a bar, that's to be expected. Besides, another drink and she won't even notice.

"I don't think I introduced myself properly when we were talking earlier. I'm Rachel."

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-11 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Richard Pickman. Call me whichever. Pleasure t'make yer acquaintance, Rach." He has a Boston accent thicker than clam chowder, and the whole last sentence kind of turns into a drone, under its influence. But the general idea comes across.

He takes the stool, hooking one hoof between two of the legs, and offers her a hand, nails pointed and yellow, with dirt and paint in all the cracks and crevices. "Got here just when the fuckin' ants showed up. Hell of an introduction."
gotbottle: (eyes)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-11 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Nice to meet you, Richard." Given the choice she always goes for the less formal, the more friendly.

But she frowns at his last statement. "That sucks. I mean, it's not like there's any really good time for getting kidnapped into some crazy-ass city, but getting dumped into the place in the middle of that is especially messed up. I'm sorry."

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-11 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
He chuckles, like a purring squirrel. "Excitin', at least. I was lookin' to do a permanent relocation, anyways." He looks around the room, and shrugs elaborately. "A little more city than the place I was thinkin' of goin', but it ain't bad, still."
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[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-12 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh?" She sips from her glass, eyebrows raised. "Where were you planning on going?"

It's more than just polite interest and conversation that makes her ask. She's still trying to work out if there's any pattern to how people wind up here, and desperately hoping the answer is anything but "no".

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
"All th'way to the Dreamlands." He finally remembers, with her own actions, that he can order a drink. "ey, can I get a jack'n'coke? So I guess, ah -- wrong fuckin' turn somewhere between here and there, but I ain't an expert in that shit."
gotbottle: (but...)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-12 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
"The Dreamlands," she repeats. She's never heard of it but she's intrigued now. "Where is that? How do you get there?"

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Lands of dream. Guess how you get there, yeah?" He giggles, obviously thinking himself very clever. "It's what you got when you get deep down the stairway, past the little day-to-day anxiety bullshit. When you get to the good stuff, adventures and foreign cities and all that fantasy bullshit." He nods to the nice gent putting his drink on the bar, and takes a sniff and a big gulp. "If'n you know the right roads, you can get there wen you're awake."
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[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-16 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
She leans in a bit, clearly interested. "So that's what you set out to do? Head down the right roads. Get to the lands of dream when you weren't dreaming. But you wound up here, instead."

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-17 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Yah. Not exactly welcome in polite society anymore, yeah?" He wiggles his hooves. "Was gonna go be with my kin, down in the vales. But, ah..." He shrugs.
gotbottle: (legs)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-17 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"You know what? Sometimes polite society's kinda overrated." She shrugs as she takes a drink. "Also pretty full of itself. So do you know what happened? Like, how you wound up here instead of there?"

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Hah! Won't argue there." He has more experience than most people would think, with that set. "I was down in a tunnel, an' the bottom fell out. When I landed, it was in one of those fuckin' tiny little rooms. S'all I got."
gotbottle: (expounding)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-18 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, fuck those rooms." She frowns, though. There's no pattern to the appearances; different people, different times and places, doing different things before they were dumped into one of those rooms.

Is it random? Meaningless? That'd be worse, in a way--if there's no pattern and no meaning there may be no making sense of this, ever.

"Are you still at the inn or did you find somewhere else already?"

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Yah, moved out pretty soon after I got in. Found a room with a guy. He's the one who hooked me up with these." He wiggles his hoof.

Either he still hasn't been clued in to Njkoi's gender, or he's being deliberately weird and obtuse.

"You?"
gotbottle: (earnest)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-18 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," she confirms. "Got out of there as fast as I could, as soon as I had a steady job and a place to go. I found a room over near the harbor. Nice area. I like being near the water."

And out of the inn, away from prying eyes and the odd Militia raid...

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nice. I ended up in... ah, Mafaton? Nice digs if you got the look for 'em." He almost got the pronunciation right. Close enough. "I used't'know a water-girl. Her an' the other bunch from Ol' Misk. About the only thing I'll miss 'bout the surface."
gotbottle: (legs)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-19 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
"I think I've passed by on the train." She grins. "And I'm a water-girl but probably not the type you mean. I just like it a lot. So where's 'Ol' Misk'?"

[identity profile] paintfromlife.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nah. You ain't got the look." Oh, Innsmouth girls. They're a good time, if you don't mind the smell and don't let them take you home. "Ol' Misk -- Miskatonic University. Arkham, Massachussets? Went there for fine arts. Randy was english lit," He starts ticking them off on his fingers, "Becca was anthro-socio. Herbie was medical. Doctor Herbie."
gotbottle: (expounding)

[personal profile] gotbottle 2011-08-20 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
Rachel thinks a moment, shaking her head. "Haven't heard of it, sorry. But I'm not all that familiar with the east coast. I was born and raised in southern California and I went to school in San Francisco. What's Arkham like?"