Caritas; Wednesday [08/26].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Now that the shenanigans and the summer were pretty much over, Summer had sort of lost her hook to promote people trying her jello shots, but she did have a new idea percolating in her head for it. But with it being break week and the Rocky Horror thing going on tomorrow, she figured it was best saved for at least next week.

Which just meant mostly spending her free time behind the bar giving Tino the same sort of judgey looks he was trying to avoid from her by not reprising yesterday's fishnets, because she was kind of a brat like that.

Wednesday Jello Shot Specials!

IT'S PSL TIME, BABY!
Lemon Jello with Hummus and Ouzo*

Caritas is open!


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*Shockingly, there are apparently no hummus jello recipes on the internet, and I hate that I was almost tempted to try and make this, just to see how it turned out. Thank god for laziness and veganism.

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[1000yearstoolate]

"Ok, no lemon and hummus shot, what's the other one?" Seivarden asked.

"And hello, Summer. How are you?"

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer leveled a completely unsuprised look at Seivarden for the continued utter lack of appreciation for her more experimental jello shots (using lemon jello to match with hummus was a brilliant move, don't even), and a slight quirk of her brow for what felt to her like weird formality.

"Hello, Seivarden," she echoed back with a smirk as she poured the whiskey for her. "I'm great; how are you? And also how have you been here as long as you have without being exposed to the great PSL? Pumpkin spice latte. I mean, okay, fair enough, it's technically a coffee drink, but, like, barely, so I could see why it might have flown under your radar, but it's pretty ubiquitous. I mean, it did kind of sneak up on me s little this year," which kind of had her reeling to realize, tbh, "but it's been a wild month or so."

[1000yearstoolate]

There was a pause.

"Pumpkin spice latte?" I'm going to stick to whisky tonight. Sorry if that upsets you."

[somethingwithturquoise]

Ohhh. Okay. Now she got it. Or at least was pretty sure she did.

"I mean," said Summer, "I'm disappointed, but not, like, surprised or anything, and I'm definitely going to try to change your mind once you've had more whiskey, but you're not going to be weird about the whole cat cafe thing even though I already said it was fine and not to worry about it, are you?"

[weirderthanthou]

Jesse sank into a seat at the bar with a wry smile. "Hi," she said.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hey, Jesse!" said Summer, returning the smile easily. "Glad to see the drunken teenage karaoke didn't scare you off."

And she meant it! Jesse was quickly becoming one of Summer's favourite other ponytailed redheads.

"One generic beer?" she guessed.

[weirderthanthou]

"One generic beer," Jesse agreed. Well, it's official. You're a regular. "And I've seen worse." A pause. "After last week, I think we've all seen worse for a while."

Just because Polaris made it easier to keep those creatures out of her head didn't mean they hadn't gone there, or that several days of sleeplessness hadn't taken their toll.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Yeaaah," agreed Summer, setting the most generic beer she could find down for Jesse. "It's on me tonight, by the way. In celebration of your very first Fandom-related crisis. Congratulations. You're still here!"

[badassprodigy]

And there was Barry who, for some reason, had a miniature drone zipping around him like it had mind of it’s own. “Hey! You made it!” Barry said looking at the shot menu. “And it actually sounds pretty fucking good.”

Well... at least for a hummus fan.

“Set me up, barkeep. One shot and a seltzer water with lemon on the side.”

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Well, yeah," said Summer, who wasn't even going to pretend to take on false modesty with this one, "of course I did. I'm a fucking jello genius."

Moment of gloating over, she dtopped off one fancy little hummus jello shot garnished artfully with a little lemon peel and an olive slice that was definitely highlighted on her Instagram right now, and then went for the seltzer.

"Coming right up. Also, what's with the drone?"

She kinda had to ask, really.

[badassprodigy]

As Summer began to make the drinks the drone flew around her from a safe non-threatening distance and flitted back and forth.

“It’s in training,” Barry said... not exactly lying. “It’s for some of the drones I’m building for Rey. It’s recording and learning human movement and learning to adapt to it. Don’t pay it any attention. It’s harmless.”

He looked at the final shot with an impressed look. “Shit. That looks fucking gourmet.”

He took a tentative sip. And paused thoughtfully before haphazardly downing the rest of the shot. “I definitely get the lemon but there’s a strong anise flavor. Is that the alcohol?”

It’s probably obvious that Barry is not a big drinker.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer hadn't actually considered that the drone would be anything but harmless until Barry said as much, and her eyes narrowed a little with the feeling that maybe she should have considered that...

But she shook that thought out of her head before it could settle in and start paying rent.

"It is the alcohol," she confirmed. "The isuzu. I was really on the fence about it, or if I should just stick with a more neutral booze base, since it's not exactly subtle. But I want to really push the Greek theme, and I figure with the water to jello ratios needed to get it to set right, it would dilute enough to just be the right kick and not completely take over."

[1000yearstoolate]

"I haven't seen you here before, I think. Or your pet."

Or if she had, she hadn't paid attention to him, but she did notice how Summer looked at him. Oh, and she didn't actually think the drone was a pet.

[badassprodigy]

“It’s something I’m working on for Rey, if you know her,” he said as the drone continued to fly around Summmer. “Something to help her training more than just woodchucks. And no, we haven’t met. I’m Barry Ween. Got here about a month or so ago.”

[1000yearstoolate]

"Nice to meet you, Barry. I understand you know Summer."

She raised her whisky glass. "I'm Seivarden Vendaai. I've met Rey and I keep having to report on her problems with the woodchucks on radio every Saturday."

[weirderthanthou]

"Hey Barry," Jesse said, tossing him an actual, bigger smile. "Did I tell you 'nice work' yet?"

[badassprodigy]

“I think you did,” Barry said raising his glass of seltzer water as a salute. “I’m still trying to understand how clapping your hands and thinking fucking good thoughts can chase away psychic parasites that look like horses.”

It’s that type of Fandom weirothat drives him nuts.

“But I can’t argue with results.”

Well he could but it would, again, drive him nuts.

“How’s bureaucratic life post your first bout of fucked up Fandom weirdness?”

[weirderthanthou]

"I'm not going to lie," Jesse said wryly, "It took me a few days to get all the paperwork back in the binders it was supposed to be in. Maybe we need a better system."

Computers?

Her time in the Oldest House had left her a little wary of post-80s computers.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey was apparently spending a lot of time in bars this week, which was what happened when nothing else was going on at night, probably. But after the fun of last week, of course she was going to stop and check in.

She might have to stop looking at the specials board first, though.

"Hey."

[badassprodigy]

And Rey might notice a small drone (with propellers. Not the floating ball kind.) was spinning around the bar.

"Hey Rey," Barry said with a wave. "How're the woodchucks treating you?"

[thatwaslucky]

"They've actually been pretty well-behaved," she said, eyeing the drone. "That yours?"

[badassprodigy]

"That is mine," Barry said with a nod. "And actually it's in training for what I'm building for you. Currently it's learning human movement and learning how to react to it."

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer could see you looking, Rey!

At least there was no shrimp this week?

"Hey, Rey," Summer greeted her with a grin. "See anything you want to try?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Just going to stick with a Dr. Pepper today," she said. "Training, and all."

And the texture of hummus with jello.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had a very good blender, but, yeah, that was still totally fair.

"You got it," she said, getting Rey the drink, with maybe a spare smile up at the drone floating around the bar. "I take it's s going well? Any exciting training breakthroughs?"

And then a pause, a little reluctant, but she really had to ask.

"You doing okay?"

She figured she didn't really need to elaborate on why she was asking.