To all those who need a drink

[overlevende]

If anyone needs a break from the Jaunt and a drink on top, there is a bar in Liminal where you can do both. I'd show you pictures if I could, but you'll just have to believe me that it exists and is rather fancy - if anyone with sensory livestreaming wants to come over and show the place off to the network, you're welcome.

For all those that can't do portals themselves, I can do a shuttle thing every six hours, so hit me up or ask someone else who can do portals. ...I'm also happy to teach the ability to create stationary portals to and from Liminal Space to those who wish to learn.

There's all sorts of alcohol here, though I'll need feedback on how good it is, and you can of course make your own if you have the skills.

Just look for the automatic sliding doors made of glass saying "Bar". You can't really miss it.

...Also, if someone could teach me how to turn this room permanent, that'd be useful for everyone, I think.

Comments

[overlevende]

[Yessss people are interested - look, she put a lot of work into this place being able to service more people than herself.]

Is there anything you're looking for specifically?

[Let her check what's stocked...]

[smokeandcarbs]

A quiet, smoke-permitted corner and beer will do. Do you have beer?

[Eliot seems to be the wine type and he's perfect fine with that, but he also misses the blue collar stuff.]

[overlevende]

Why would smoking not be permitted? It's a bar.

[Guess who's from the 20th century.]

And there are a couple of beers. Most of them are Danish, though there's some German ones too.

[smokeandcarbs]

Really?

[Is the 20th century heaven.]

I don't mind their brand. Beer is beer.

[Guess who doesn't know what Danish and German are. ]

[overlevende]

[She's confused now.] ...I mean, smoking is generally allowed in bars. [Right?]

[smokeandcarbs]

Not where I come from. It's really tragic, if you ask me.

[overlevende]

Well, it's weird. [It physically can't bother her specifically much any more, lack of breathing and all, so it's just background noise to her these days, but it's... just always been a thing for her.]

Do you think other people here might be from worlds where it's disallowed as well?

[smokeandcarbs]

Sadly...yes. [Because it's terrible for your health, even Jean knows that.] It pains me to say so, but it would be wise to have a no-smoking area.

[overlevende]

...I guess we could put a glass wall around the top level...

If you come to [she describes a location that is both far enough away from the festival to be private and close enough to get there fairly quickly, and likewise hidden enough that nobody will just come across it and open enough to be found easily enough] I'll bring you and everyone else who's waiting there over here, and we can look into how to best separate smoking and non smoking areas.

[smokeandcarbs]

All right, then. I'll bring flowers.

[Because he has just passed by a flower stall and he's a sap.]

now with jaunt-appropriate icon

[overlevende]

...Flowers?

[Look, he's probably talking about flowers as decoration, but with the people in this place you can never be sure. Especially not when half the travellers are furvestigating. He might be talking about snacks.

lol.

[smokeandcarbs]

For decoration.

[Normalcy is such a beautiful thing.]

And as a gift. For the brilliant idea.

[overlevende]

[She has no idea how to respond to that.

And finally just answers:] I'm glad it's well-received.

It felt ...incomplete, to not have a mingling space like that. [It's not the same as the original of the space, certainly, and the strict need for it isn't there, but it still felt like it should be there.]

[smokeandcarbs]

[Jean would disagree on the strict need part.]

Have you ever run a bar?

[overlevende]

No. I've done more work in the retail and information sectors. [Sometimes you need to be very broad with the description.]

This place was simply an important part for the [...] social group I was a part of back home.

[smokeandcarbs]

I see. My friend and I have always been the bar hopping kind. Too much traveling, so we couldn't pick favorites.

[He wonders what sort of social group hers would be. Maybe people just like her, or similar to her on an essential level. Either way...]

Thank you for doing this. I'm Jean Otus.

[overlevende]

How did you end up travelling so much?

[The guess isn't entirely wrong. Fairly close, even, going with the similar on an essential level option.]

Malin Lindberg. Malin is fine.

[smokeandcarbs]

I's my job. I must run ad hoc inspections of administration branches across the country. It's a little crazy.

[Sometimes, Jean thinks his superiors must hate him.]

Nice to meet you, Malin.

[overlevende]

...And that's all you do?

[That does sound tiring. In her (admittedly limited) experience, inspectors only show up when things are either going to explode in ten seconds or have already exploded.]

[smokeandcarbs]

[She is not entirely wrong! Though the explosions are rarely literal, thank heavens.]

I suspect people and get them fired or arrested. Not the most popular guy around.

[overlevende]

[Rarely being the keyword, but no, typically they're of a more political manner.]

I can see why. Though I'm sure some of those whom you don't fire or arrest will be all too happy to see the culprit gone. [Politics.]