[Bartending live]

[noteablekiller]

Who: Codex and you (and maybe other baritones)
Where: Kitchen
When: 74, evening

[A kitchen counter has been cleaned off and carefully organized to be a makeshift bar tending station, including a couple of books of recipes open as he goes through them each. There are glasses of pre-made cocktails available.]

Help yourself, I'm practicing so I can't guarantee quality, but you can have whichever you want at 10 points each.

Or, if you want a specific drink, I'll do my best, same price.

[the available drinks are all classics, manhattan, martini, pina colada, mud slide, margarita, mule, etc]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Taking a seat at the counter]

Which one would you consider your worst?

[noteablekiller]

The bloody mary that I spilled on the counter earlier.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then can I order a fresh one of that? I want to see you work.

[noteablekiller]

I don't mind, but why is that?

[starts to make a fresh bloody mary.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

There's value in seeing a tradesman practice their craft. Maybe I'm curious to see much you can improve.

[noteablekiller]

I feel like it's a little early to be calling me a tradesman.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Apprentice then. But it doesn't seem like you have a master.

[noteablekiller]

Apparently no one here was interested in taking this up as a profession before our unit arrived. Surprising considering how eager everyone is to drink.

[slides him the finished bloody mary. it will taste adequately like a textbook bloody mary]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Sending him the 10 points without even having to fetch his phone out of his pocket as he takes it. Go go bullshit technomagic powers]

It's an expensive hobby. And by the time you're interested in buying in bulk, the taste is probably not what you're going after.

[noteablekiller]

Maybe the reason Baritones was created was to put a more interesting spin on that, then. I can't imagine misery binge drinking makes good television.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh? And what do you think makes good television?

[noteablekiller]

Well, it's not really what I think. It's what the producers think.

But I guess the question to ask is, what keeps the masses of hell entertained..?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And it's not really about what the producers think. It's what the audience thinks - if we are to believe what the people behind the curtain say anyway.

If the audience doesn't see you as entertaining, then good news. You get to become one of them.

[noteablekiller]

I've read the notes that say as much. I don't know if I'm that interesting, but I guess time will tell.

I think our position as the alcohol dispensing unit should help make that easier.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Time will tell, huh. Can't figure out how to make yourself interesting if you're not?

[Taking a sip of that drink. Not really his thing, but at least it's not sweet. So well done]

[noteablekiller]

All I need is a 'niche', right? I'm interested to see what the fan mail will say. I suppose if I don't get any, then I'll start to worry.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So you're looking for a niche outside of raising your mixing skills? Like what? Perhaps the friendly bartender who knows everyone's name and hears the gossip from the locals.

[noteablekiller]

Awfully curious, aren't you? Is that your niche?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Hardly. I just like to keep tabs on who comes and goes.

Is that a problem?

[noteablekiller]

Not at all. But in that case, maybe we should do proper introductions.

I'm Codex.

[holds out hand for shaking

If you shake it, list out images of things that could be said to influence him, people, objects, ideals, etc]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[As he shakes his hand:]

Intensity.

[I'm sorry for this.

Intensity is an adrenaline junkie challenge boy. You can could probably get him to do anything as long as you phrase it as a challenge.

He's also deeply invested in taking over Imeeji and putting himself on top of the food chain. And to this end, he has a lot of important key players including his secret agent squad, his head of PR, his VP, his copy minion, and his info gatherer.

And who let these fucking feelings of attraction in. Attachments -- real attachments, not business attachments -- are going to be his downfall.

And speaking of real attachments, there is also his most precious person and his Servant (whatever the fuck that means). The rest of Future is Now is also ranking pretty high up there, though they still present as an amorphous blob of unit feelings rather than as individuals at the moment]

[noteablekiller]

[wow you are a character, blinks a little]

--Ah, that's a very telling name.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And yours is still very suitable for that bartender slash information broker.

[noteablekiller]

It's starting to sound like you're just hoping to meet an information broker.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then any reason you kept that instead of picking an on brand name like some of your unitmates?