Caritas, Friday, Oct. 7

[living_endless]

Didi spent her shift cleaning out the storage locker, which meant a lot of taste-testing the dustiest and weirdest bottles to see if they were worth keeping.

Her conclusion was largely "no," with a side of "liquor companies are weird."

[OOC: Open bar/post.]

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Peter peered in, saw Didi, and smiled and waved as he came over to the bar. "Hi." He cocked his head at the odd assortment of bottles. "Trying to come up with the strangest drink ever?"


[SP okay? Driving home soon.]

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"No, but that might be next," Didi said, with a quick grin for Peter. "How would you feel about watermelon schnapps, cinnamon whisky and wedding cake vodka?"

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Peter squinted skeptically and laughed. "Pick two, I think. What are you doing, then?"

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"I would have started at one," Didi said, but poured a little of the cake and cinnamon liquors into a glass before topping it off with pineapple juice and passing it to Peter anyhow. "Nothing exciting. I'm just trying to clean out the storage room. Whoever did the ordering wanted to be ready for anything."

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"They ordered one of everything?" Peter guessed. He picked up the glass and eyed it, then took a small sip.

And made a face. "Not really my thing, I guess." He offered it back to her.

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"I don't think it's anybody's thing," Didi told him with a tiny grin, and went to dump the concoction into the bar sink. "Sorry for making you my guinea pig. Want one on the house to get the taste out of your mouth?"

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"No problem," Peter said, grinning. "I don't mind helping out. No more like that, though. What else is there?"

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"There's that whisky with the giant centipede preserved in it," Didi said, gesturing to the bottle. "And a whole line of vodka that tastes like different candy bars. That ... probably isn't terrible? Maybe?"

She could hope.

"Or," she added, fluffing her hair away from her neck, "you could just order whatever you normally order. Which is probably safer."

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"That'd be either tea or true-blood," Peter admitted. "I'm...not very adventurous."

Apart from the drinking blood thing.

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Oh, so that was what seemed strange yet familiar about him.

"I think we still have some True Blood," Didi told him, after just a second's pause. "Do you like it warmed up?"

[2_old_for_this]

Well, she hadn't run screaming, so Peter would count that as a win.

"It's fine however it is," he said with a shrug. "Or tea is good, too. Or tea-flavored whatever, I suppose," he joked. There seemed to be everything-else flavored stuff.

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"Sweet tea vodka is deadly," Didi told him, as she prepared a mug of hot water and a tea bag. (It seemed like the least complicated option.) "I don't even really get drunk, usually, and once I overdid it on that stuff and ended up falling asleep on the couch at 7."

A pause.

"I'm a boring drunk. Anyhow, here's your just-tea."

It was a type he liked, with lemon and sugar neatly on the side.

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Peter grinned at her. "I'll pass on that, then. I don't get drunk either, usually, but I'd rather not test that."

He checked the tea and smiled. "This is perfect; thanks." He curled his hands around the cup to enjoy the heat while it brewed. "So, what do you do when you're not tending bar or falling asleep too early?"

[uncertain_dume]

"So," Kanan was wearing a smile (slightly on the tense side; it had been a rough week) as he made his way into the bar. "If a guy happened to have it in his head that he wants to try a pina colada, where would he have to go to get one of those?"

... He'd gotten tired of drinking alone. Again, rough week.

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"I actually know how to make that one," Didi told him, smiling back. "So, here. Here is a good start."

She moved to get the bottles she'd need and added, over her shoulder, "I was trying to figure out whether we should keep some of the weird stuff from the storage room. It's nice to take a break and mix a normal drink."

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan made himself comfortable at the bar, raising a curious eyebrow at Didi at that one.

"See, now you know I'm going to have to ask what exactly qualifies as an abnormal drink."

Because he was still of the opinion that most Earth things were weird. And this from a guy who thought milk really ought to be blue.

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"It's a scary world," Didi told him. "We have Vermont milk vodka, pizza beer, cotton candy vodka, and ... yep, this bottle has a giant centipede in it. I can't imagine why we stuck that in the back."

And no, the milk vodka wasn't blue.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan leaned over the counter slightly, trying to get a better look.

"... Huh." He grinned faintly. "Mostly what I'm taking away from this is that your idea of giant bugs is very different from mine."

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Didi leaned over the counter to him, and it was her turn to arch an eyebrow.

"What, where you're from that one's nothing to worry about?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Where I'm from, we consider that cute," Kanan replied, smirking faintly. "You want a bug to worry about, I don't think they've invented a bottle big enough to fit something like a fully-grown lylek, for example."

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"Huh," DIdi said, tilting her head to consider the bottled centipede. "Well, if you wanna take that one with you to make your place feel more homey, I won't stop you."

As she spoke her hands were busy pouring pineapple juice, rum, and cream of coconut into a glass over ice. She stirred it and added a slice of coconut to the rim before pushing it toward Karan.

"How big's a lylek, anyhow?"

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan considered the bottled centipede, and then shook his head, grinned, and reached for the pina colada instead. That definitely seemed like the right choice, here. Even if the thing was kind of cute.

"In meters? Too damn big," he shared. "And they travel in swarms."

Yeah, Kanan used metric. Space metric, apparently.

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"I think I like this reality," Didi decided. "I mean, I'm sure the giant bugs are awesome if you're a giant bug, and that they're all kinds of beautiful in their own way. But I couldn't deal with that many legs."

[uncertain_dume]

"Or the tentacles," Kanan agreed, smirking faintly. Because of course lyleks also had tentacles. He shrugged, and then took a drink of the pina colada. Paused to consider it. Had himself another mouthful. "You know, this is pretty good?"

He wasn't sure what he'd been expecting, and this wasn't really it, but it was still good.

Tonight was going to be a pina colada night, then. Good to know.

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"I kind of want to ask where the tentacles are, but I might be better off not knowing," Didi informed him, and went to mix two more pina coladas -- one for him when he was ready, one for her.

"Now I want one too," she groused. "How are you doing, anyhow? Fight any giant frogs this week?"