Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Last week Kitty had been a lion and the week before that had been a disaster, and this week was an event, so a very nervous little crisis was happening today.

FIRST ROUND FREE TODAY (STILL SORRY)

THREE MINUTE DATES SATURDAY

Was any of that helpful? Let's see!


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[alwaysonguard]

"We have speed dating on the island?" Dwight asked as he walked up to the bar, glancing over his shoulder again to make sure he had read the sign right.

[throughaphase]

"A couple times a year, yeah," Kitty answered. "Want to try it?"

[alwaysonguard]

"Huh. Must have just missed the last one when I got here."

Dwight considered it for a moment.

"We'll see... How about we start with a drink first?" He said with a smirk. "Maybe a whiskey to start?"

[throughaphase]

"You've got some time to decide," she told him, grabbing a glass. "How've you been?"

[alwaysonguard]

"Doing pretty good. Finally got the shop set up and organized. Have a few NPC customers the last week or so but have finished those jobs up. So, if you know anyone in need of any handyman fix-it work done, feel free to send them my way."

[throughaphase]

"Will do," she said, sliding his drink over. "So it sounds like you've settled in okay."

[alwaysonguard]

"Yeah, and all it took was the island giving me a week or so without any major crisis to do it. Imagine that" he added with a chuckle.

"Thanks," he said with a nod as he took a drink from the glass.

[throughaphase]

"It's been a pretty weird-heavy summer," she agreed. "Typically we get a little more downtime."

[alwaysonguard]

"Well I guess I passed the newbie trial by fire then" he agreed with another quick drink. "If I haven't ran screaming away from the island yet I guess I'm pretty settled."

[throughaphase]

"And the good news is that fall is usually a little calmer, and Fandom better not make a liar out of me," she said.

[alwaysonguard]

"Well, that's good to know" Dwight said as he finished his drink and slid the glass over for a refill. "And don't worry, I won't hold it against you personally if the island decides to pull any fast ones."

[throughaphase]

"Thank you. Jinxing is absolutely a thing here." And yet it never seemed to work for good stuff?

[alwaysonguard]

"So I have seen" he agreed. "While it is of a different variety, the oddness and insanity of Fandom is still a lot less frequent and severe than what I was dealing with back home so... there's that."

[throughaphase]

"Same. Honestly the weirdness helps with the homesickness," Kitty admitted.

[alwaysonguard]

"I left home by choice. So more of a familiarity than anything to do with homesickness" Dwight confessed.

"So where did you come to Fandom from? You're one of the islands' super heroes if I am not mistaken?"

[throughaphase]

"Off and on," she answered. "I'm from Chicago, by way of a New York, in a world with mutants, time travel and the occasional traumatic visit to outer space."

[alwaysonguard]

"Ah the useful kind of stuff. I'm envious. All we had back in Haven was the Troubles, which yes, are very aptly named."

[throughaphase]

"I've heard about those," she nodded. "So what's your deal?"

[alwaysonguard]

"I was lucky enough to end up with a Bullet Trouble. Essentially my Trouble causes any bullet that is fired within 300 feet of me to change course and head right for me. I attract bullets. I know, great super power isn't it?" he said with a sarcastic laugh.

[throughaphase]

"Believe it or not, I've heard worse," Kitty told him, and unfortunately she was not exaggerating. "I'd hope that's easily avoidable here though."

[alwaysonguard]

"So far so good. Thankfully the Trouble doesn't seem to be tuned to phasers and energy weapons." For which he was exceedingly greatful for. "And Miguel hooked me up with a nice alternative to the awful kevlar vest I had been wearing... So all in all first few months in Fandom have been pretty manageable."

[throughaphase]

"Good. We have very little shooting here, aside from when things invade, usually," she assured him.

[died8yearsago]

"So," said Rosa, sliding onto her usual stool and quirking her chin up at the specials board, "will this free drink also turn me into a lizard woman with a wife?"

[throughaphase]

"No but that sounds like an interesting time," Kitty said.

[died8yearsago]

"It was pretty amazing," Rosa admitted, since, yeah, kind of disappointed now, although she really didn't get her hopes up. "I look good in green, and I never even saw my wife. Pretty much the perfect relationship there."

[throughaphase]

"This is... honestly freaking me out a little, I've been expecting everyone to yell at me," Kitty admitted.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa just looked at Kitty for a long, long moment, where her furrowed brow seemed to be doing most of the talking for her.

"Kitty," she finally said with actual words, "this is Fandom. There's a moose making me teach math and just about every other weekend, half the island goes crazy with something. At least with your thing we all got free booze out of it, too. That's a way better deal than we usually get."

[throughaphase]

"Thank you," Kitty said, honestly grateful. "The booze really was good, too."

She paused.

"Sucks about the three-day hangover effects, though."

[amitragic]

Ulysses was settling in. Sorta? Kinda.

Or maybe he was just distracting himself with potentially unhealthy things, whatever, anyway: "Three minute dates?" he asked no one in particular as he came in and squinted at the sign. "That's still a thing?"

He was still having trouble grasping that whole 'six years for him, a couple of months for Fandom' thing, yeah.

[throughaphase]

"It's been a thing for longer than I've been here," Kitty said with a frown.

[amitragic]

The squint slid over to her. And then slowly turned into something resigned, before Ulysses rubbed his hand over his entire expression.

"Right, yeah," he said. "This is, what? Like probably the first time it's happening since I graduated."

Sorry, he was having a Week.

[throughaphase]

Without context this was really confusing.

"Uh, when did you graduate?"

[amitragic]

It was really confusing even with context, if you asked Ulysses.

"Uh, six years ago." A beat. A helpful hand gesture. "Which apparently was just last spring, over here."

[throughaphase]

"Oh yeah, that happens sometimes," Kitty said, sympathetic. "Sorry about that."

[amitragic]

Big sigh.

"Yeah," Ulysses said. "Yeah, and I probably knew that." Though ending up here only accounted for about half of what he was going through, currently. He leaned his hands against the edge of the bar, tapped his fingers against it. "Can I get like a... I don't know, just a shot of something?"

[throughaphase]

"My rule is, if someone isn't specific, they get tequila," Kitty warned.

She also tried to give people a chance to change their minds.

[amitragic]

"That's fine," said a man who routinely made very poor life decisions.

Even nodded and halfway tried for a smile to sell how fine it was.

[throughaphase]

See, that smile meant tequila was the right choice.

"So what brought together back here?" she asked, pouring and sliding the shot over.

[amitragic]

"... The island."

Yeah.

"One moment, I fainted -- long, gross, fucking weird story -- back in LA,and then the next, I'm waking up here in an apartment I've never seen before but that has all my stuff."

[throughaphase]

"Well... that's a new one at least?"

She was trying here.

[amitragic]

It was a lot, and he was sorry.

Also he was just gonna down that shot right now. And then make kind of a face, and then just say, "Fucking Fandom."