Devil's Nest, Monday, May 30, 2022

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WELCOME, SUMMER the sign--written by Tiny--said. WHERE EVERY NIGHT CAN BE SHIRTLESS NIGHT IF YOU'RE DEDICATED.

Tiny was certainly following his own advice there.

Eric was...ignoring him, mostly, but sipping his drink over in the lounge. His shirt was on tonight but so were his leather pants. The air conditioning was up to compensate.

The Devil's Nest was open!

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[hasaknightjob]

Marc had spent plenty of time in the desert so he knew how to dress to stay cool. His only acknowledgement of the weather was ordering his whisky on the rocks. Once Tiny brought it over, Marc offered a silent toast to Eric in greeting before helping himself to a sip.

[texted3times]

Eric gave him a smile in reply, holding up his own SoCo and True Blood (like a Bloody Mary, but gross!). "Enjoying a long weekend?"

[hasaknightjob]

"Haven't kept regular hours for a while so they're all long to me," Marc said. He indicated the sign Tiny had put up. "Enjoying being somewhere with no reminder about the holiday."

[texted3times]

"Is the mattress sales or the performative patriotism that gets to you?" Eric asked.

[hasaknightjob]

That got a laugh out of him. "I mean who doesn't love a good mattress? No, the second. The performative part. Could do without the reminder of what military funerals look like."

[texted3times]

Eric's lips quirked up. "There are quite a few veterans on the island," he said. "I tend to keep things low-key on days where they may be interested in drinking and not talking to other people."

[hasaknightjob]

"I got discharged, I don't count," Marc said, waving it off. This was, granted, not true according to the actual paperwork but Marc believed it of himself regardless. "I wasn't the kind of crazy the Marines were looking for. The low key is appreciated though."

[texted3times]

Eric smiled. "I'm not sure we have any other Marines around," he said, thinking about it. "Mostly Army."

[hasaknightjob]

"I'll try not to hold it against them," Marc said, joking. Just because he got kicked out of the Marines didn't mean the ribbing of other military branches had left him. "How about you? All those years, ever think of a dumb idea like signing up?"

[fates_jaye]

Jaye eyed him. "New guy?"

There were a few new guys, she couldn't even guess which one he might be.

[hasaknightjob]

"New girl," Marc replied, since hey neither he or Steven had met her yet. "Marc."

[fates_jaye]

"Jaye," she said. "I'm extremely not new, though."

[hasaknightjob]

"Oh extremely, I apologize," Marc said. He looked her over. "Don't seem that old to me. You a vamp like Eric over there?"

[fates_jaye]

"Ew, no. And be annoyed by people forever?" Plus blood was gross. But mostly the annoyance thing. "I spend a lot of time in a timeline where times moves really slow and therefore I can annoy the people I graduated with."

What up, Anakin.

[hasaknightjob]

Marc could not find fault with Jaye's reasoning about why someone would want to avoid immortality. "Have you tried not getting too attached? That one usually works for me."

For Marc this genuinely counted as friendly conversation.

[fates_jaye]

"To people? Oh, that's easy," Jaye said. "Due to the annoyingness and all."

[hasaknightjob]

"Well there you go," Marc said. "You annoy them first and they don't stick around to annoy you. So is that your deal? Annoying people?"

If it was she wasn't succeeding in annoying Marc. At least not yet. Night was young.

[fates_jaye]

"You're not obeying your own sign?" Jaye greeted him.

[texted3times]

"That's Tiny's sign," Eric said promptly. "I do what I like."

[fates_jaye]

"It's false advertising," she noted.

[texted3times]

"Maybe I'm just not that dedicated," Eric countered.

[fates_jaye]

"I've met you."

And the last time she'd seen him she'd been oiling him up on a horse.

That had been the best weekend.

[texted3times]

Eric smirked. "Maybe I didn't want to overshadow Tiny?"

[fates_jaye]

"Like anyone even remembers Tiny."

Sorry, Tiny.

[texted3times]

Just for that she'd get overcharged for her next drink.

"It was Tiny Day last week," Eric said. "He made a banner and everything."