006✖; (May 19th | picture+text/voice/action)

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[Attached to this post is an image of a hideous three-legged cyclops creature, sitting over a countertop with what appears to be a doofy-looking grin on its bony face. It's skinny, hairless, and sickly looking, but nevertheless content. Below this image is the text:]

been followed around by this thing for 3 days now.
think it's supposed to be a cat.
is this how you get a cat?

[A few minutes later, another post is made: This one audio only. Sounds of glass chinking in the background can be heard.]

"So, um. A few of you might have already noticed that there's a bar again now. It's not run by Love -- the asshole just used it for their dating shit without permission."

[SIGH.] "Anyway, it's still a thing, since Delight doesn't seem keen on bringing back her bar. We've got fresh liquor and wine. Casino's upstairs, for anyone looking to kill some time." [Pause.] "As in recreational, not actual killing. Swear to fuck, if anyone tries to take that in here, you're getting kicked with a perm-ban until further notice.

"Until then, just about anyone's welcome here."

[Except Sans, who Rey has specifically asked Danse to kick out if the skeleton tries to come back. Sorry, Sans-friends; they got issues right now.]

[ooc: Consider this the official opening post for the Speakeasy/Casino! Feel free to tag it with action if you'd like, because I'm too lazy to make a log and I think you get the idea. Also come play with Tripod the mutant cat... he loves you.]

Comments

[Text]

[telephoning]

I have heard of some people getting cats that way.
I don't know if I'd trust these, however.
Are they sick, or if they were born this way?

[text]

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what? they do? seriously?

don't know if they're sick. doubt we have any veterinarians handy to tell us.
guess we'll just have to see how long it takes before they croak from sick cat disease or whatever.

[text]

[telephoning]

More or less. Some people simply get attached to stray cats they see around their neighborhoods, or that Dollie them around. They end up taking them home.
I guess so. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem unless it's communicable to other animals.

[text]

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this seems to be less attachment to a stray cat and more the other way around.

[Get over it, Rey. You just can't deal with leaving it to its own devices with just how sad and pathetic it is.]

or communicable to people for that matter.
some animals can give people disease can't they?

audio

[iustitiae]

You're my new favorite cavedweller after Cashmere.

audio

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Hey, it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.

audio

[iustitiae]

I think you're literally saving lives with this job.

audio

[circumitus]

Uh, well, wouldn't go that fa...

[Pause.]

No, it's probably true for some cases.

[hasitsthorns]

idk
seems like a pretty cat thing to do to me
congratulations, you have a cat

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[Does Rey have a cat, or does the cat have a Rey?]

didn't ask for this.

[hasitsthorns]

pretty sure that's not how it works
you don't ask for a cat
you just get a cat
that's how charlie came into my life, anyway

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[In Soviet Hadriel, cat adopts you.]

charlie?
is that one from before or after these things started invading?

[audio]

[synthedick]

And you keep telling me you're not a pet sort of person.

[audio]

[circumitus]

I'm not! They just keep--

[She stops. There's a deep, rumbling chirrup and a "woh" heard in the background.]

Oh, shit, it's sitting on my leg. What the hell, it's... [Another "waoh" can be heard.]

[audio]

[synthedick]

[Rey might hear a quiet laugh on his end if she listens over the baritone sounds of the cat waohing away.]

It's probably just looking for some attention. You try feeding it?

[audio]

[circumitus]

[Hell, it'd be charming if it wasn't freaking Rey out a little. Don't laugh, Nick, SEND HELP.]

Feed it? Why would I do that? It's just...

[As she falls quiet, the sickly cat keeps on chattering at her.

[She speaks in a hushed tone:] It's just looking at me. Is this thing supposed to be a cat? Pretty sure cats aren't supposed to sound like that. Or look like that. [Shaky, nervous laugh.] Seriously, I think I saw it drool glowing green spit a minute ago. Think it's sick but it doesn't act sick...

Voice

[knifecollecting]

Where is the new bar?

voice

[circumitus]

The area where all the abandoned restaurant-ish places are. [Pause.] Should probably make a sign...

[Okay. Rey will get right on that.]

voice

[knifecollecting]

Yeah, a sign might be good. [Jo laughs quietly.]

I'll have to come check it out soon.

voice

[circumitus]

That'll be on the next order of business.

[Shouldn't be too hard, right?]

Okay, good. Drop on in whenever.

audio

[murderpotato]

First off, I'm pretty sure that's fuckin' exactly how you get a cat.

[He'd know, back in New York, Holly used to feed the strays all the time. They just sort of show up and hang around and, boom, you got a cat. She always said she had a soft spot for strays, and he's pretty sure she wasn't just referring to the cats.]

But how the fuck's a casino work when we don't got any fuckin' money?

[What do you bet? IOUs?]

audio

[circumitus]

Well, damn. That's news.

[Not that Rey ever owned pets before Hadriel. Her lifestyle was never conducive to pet ownership.]

As for the casino... We've got a system set up with chips. Doesn't mean shit outside of the place itself, but people can use them to gamble for things like, say, better liquor. That's one idea, anyway, since this stuff doesn't come out of the gods' asses. We're distilling it ourselves.

voice;

[closerift]

Ah. So, this is the replacement bar I've heard so much about.

[ From Sans. One time. ]

Finally.

voice;

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[o rly]

Thought it'd be best to clear up any misconceptions people might have when Love came and set up their fucking dating musical chairs here. Last thing we need are patrons wasting whatever they feel like because they think one of the gods will shit out an infinite supply.

[Which is somewhat true, but only for the materials needed to make the liquor. Rey and Firo have to do that on their own.]

voice;

[closerift]

Agreed. These are precious materials.

[ That she wants to... not waste, but... partake of? ]

Should I take all this to mean that you are in charge of this new location?