Devil's Nest | Monday Night

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie was a little baggy-eyed and stiff-necked when she came into work today, though she'd showered and gotten her hair under control. (The humidity of Ajan Kloss had found every curl and wave her hair normally resisted, ugh.) And while she'd considered trying to sleep for a couple hours before heading into the bar, it somehow made more sense to just ride out the caf-related momentum she already had going and just crash hard later.

"Tiny, look." Tiny did not look. "Look, his name is BB-8. Isn't he cute? He's a droid."

It was possible that drinking a bunch of caf, snatching a few naps here and there - some of which were on the floor of a spaceship - while also carrying several cumulative tons of equipment over the weekend had rendered Annie overtired to the point of being a little loopy. (And being exposed to the mind-breaking cuteness of BB-8 didn't, like, help.)

So, she was here, she could pour drinks and would, but there was a real good chance that excited, droid-and-bear-monster-related babbling was also on the table. Sorry, not sorry.

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Re: Bar | 2/1/21

[stykera]

"No ghosts is the better option almost always for almost everyone," Stark said. "Not always avoidable though. Where did you go? Somewhere nearby?"

Nearby meant something a bit different when you were used to space travel, clearly.

Re: Bar | 2/1/21

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Rey's galaxy?" Annie offered. "I think it's pretty far far away." She had no idea. She thought the Target that was an hour from her mom's house was far away. "I helped move her base from a trash planet to a jungle planet."

It had been an upgrade.

Re: Bar | 2/1/21

[stykera]

"I didn't know Rey's galaxy had trash planets." It sounded like something he'd expect to find in his own galaxy, honestly. "But then I don't know much about it. I don't think it's nearby. Farther than where I was, I think, but it's hard to say. How was it?"

Re: Bar | 2/1/21

[defenderofdesmoines]

"The trash planet was bad," Annie assured him, pulling out her phone and swiping through a few screens before triumphantly producing a video of BB-8 rolling around and beeping importantly. "But I got to meet this guy, so like, space is kind of my favorite."

Re: Bar | 2/1/21

[stykera]

"Oh, what does it do?" Stark asked, clearly entertained by the adorable little droid. "Were there more? Were they on the ship? We had DRDs, on Moya."

Re: Bar | 2/1/21

[defenderofdesmoines]

"It flies spaceships? Smaller spaceships than what you've described, though, I think." Annie was a little fuzzy on the details. "And no, he was on the planet witt us, just waiting and being all cute! What's a DRD?"

It sounded cute, if it was anything like BB-8.

Re: Bar | 2/1/21

[stykera]

"Little robots. About so big," Stark said, holding his hands a foot or so apart. "With eyestalks. Moya's were yellow. Talyn's were red. The ships built them. For maintenance and things. But they couldn't fly anything. But the ships could fly themselves so they wouldn't need to. Crichton taught one a song."