Caritas; Wednesday [06/29].

[somethingwithturquoise]

If Summer needed any more convincing that she was way overdue for a nice little jaunt into space for a few days, yesterday's phone call with Liz definitely did it. But she was glad she stuck around through Wednesday, even if she'd gotten sucked into this week's shenanigans. She couldn't really complain, though, she'd been getting off pretty easy on that front this summer.

She could complain about her co-worker, though.

"No, Tino," she insisted, yet again, as she put the finishing touches on the specials' board, "I am still not interested in your timeshare in the Poconos, nor will I ever be. It's bad enough having to share bar space with you."

Besides, those weren't even the good mountains.

Wednesday Jello Shot Specials!

First One Free for all Wednesday Activity Participants!

Raspberry Limeade*
Frosted Strawberry Pop Tart
Pineapple Upside Down
Sauerkraut

Caritas is open!

Comments

The Stage - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

The stage is clearly lonely. You should come on up and fix that with some karaoke, dammit.

The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Say what you will about Summer, but at least she's not going to try to sell you on a timeshare in Pennsylvania.

On another planet, maybe, but definitely not the Poconos.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[notagoose]

Goose had been spending most of his time working on his communicator and trying to see if he could get another blip but he was now at the point where he was starting to think that it wasn’t going to happen.

He also hadn’t really been sleeping or eating properly since he’d been back from his assignment last week.

“I still haven’t had any luck getting through,” Goose announced by way of greeting as he sat down at his usual spot at the bar, “I just don’t know what else I can try at this point,”

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had a soft, sympathetic smile and a row of jello shots waiting for Goose, then, when he settled in. "Yeaaaaah," she agreed with a little bit of a sigh. "I'm still sending out the occasional text and trying the portal here and there," the efforts now renewed due to the arrival of certain tidbits of news she'd received yesterday, "but, yeah, I definitely think we're at a point where all we can do is wait..."

The sympathy went a little deeper now, because she knew how Goose felt about that word.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[notagoose]

Goose sighed as he reached over for the shot, looking a bit dejected at the idea of having to wait, "I just wish there was more that I could do for them," he said softly, not to mention he was missing Ignis a lot but he was trying to not focus on that part.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

And that was sort of the moment when it really clicked for Summer that, while Liz's handling of all this was sort of a spontaneous combustion, Goose's was much more of a slow burn, and she was starting to realize that maybe it was starting to weigh on him a lot more than he had previously let on.

There was a good chance, considering that it was Goose, that it was weighing on him a lot more than even he realized.

"I'm sure we'll hear something soon," she offered hopefully, although she sincerely leaned far more toward the possibility that they might never actually hear from them again, but cynicism was not what either Goose or Liz needed right now. "In the meantime, you just...do what you can to just keep on as normal, you know? I feel like that's the sort of thing Ignis would want..."

A pause, followed by a faint grin.

"Well, that, and you still managing to not burn the apartment building down with your cooking, anyway."

Which he hadn't! So good job!

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[notagoose]

Goose was definitely not used to feeling all of these different emotions, particularly when he was worried and missing someone but he wasn’t equipped to properly process them.

He did smile softly at that as he downed his first shot, “I’ve managed to avoid doing that,” he sounded rather proud at that accomplishment and paused, “I haven’t done much cooking in a while though, I should change that,”

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[mother_love]

Billy had been staying busy at the shop most of the day between taking care of shop-related things and trying to keep the Porg from the other day from wandering in like it owned the place. But with the shop finally locked up, Billy stopped by to see Summer, and maybe to get a few of those jello shots... since they were kind of a thing for Wednesdays and all.

"Interesting collection there," he said with a nod towards the special boars. "One of these things is not like the other..." he added with a slight smirk.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I knoooow, right?" said Summer, plucking up one of the pop-tart ones because that was clearly the one he meant, of course. "But the pastry bit makes it so cute."

She admired her handiwork for a moment before setting it in front of Billy, and then just following it up with the other three since, well, you come in here not specifying, and Summer will more than likely just show them all at you.

"How's it going, Billy?"

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[mother_love]

Yes. Of course that was the one he was referring to Summer.

Billy kind of eyed the jello shot then then Summer. And of course he was going to try all of them... the only question was to either get that last one down first and over with, or hope he got buzzed enough before to not notice it at much.... Both approaches had their benefits.

"Things are going alright. Other than the Porgs that have been showing up at the shop the last few days."

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer met that look with only the most innocent of beatific expressions, before she just laughed and said, "I'm telling you, my dude, surfing porgs is one hundred percent the way to go with marketing that place, and it sounds like even the porgs themselves agree with me.

"It's only once they start demanding paychecks," she added a moment later, "that you have to start worrying."

You hear that, cheese panda?

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[mother_love]

"Will have to see what I can come up with for that...Assuming the Porg can even swim?" He had seen them all along the beaches before but wasn't sure he had ever seen them in the water much at all.

As he thought about it he grabbed the first jello shot. He checked to make sure it was not the sauerkraut one and then downed it.

"That was pretty good" he said when he finished. "That butterscotch I taste?"

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"How come the raspberry limeade has a little star?" Annie wondered. She already had her choice picked out, but the star -- asterisk, really, she of all people did know the distinction -- had made her curious.

(And suspicious, because of the sauerkraut one.)

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

There was something particularly cute, to Summer at least, about Annie just naturally leaning toward calling an asterisk a star, though, she would so totally allow it.

And since asking a question about a shot was practically the same thing in Summer's book as requesting to try it, she went and got that one to set in front of Annie as she explained.

"The little stars," she said, "denote the vegan shots. Although, at this point, I don't know why I even bother, the person I'm specifying them for showed up once and I haven't seen him in here since."

But she prided herself in being a good bartender, so a vegan shot would be making it on the specials board each week anyway, just in case.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Well, it wasn't like she was going to refuse an offered, albeit surprisingly vegan (or maybe it was more surprising that the others weren't) shot.

"I mean, it's still very nice of you to offer a vegan option for the apparently one vegan we have on the island," Annie noted, plucking up the shot. "Not that I think I realized jello shots weren't vegan in the first place."

Like, obviously some of them had milk or whatever, she was not stupid. Just ignorant about the origins of gelatin.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I mean," Summer shrugged a little, "Barry's vegetarian, so, like, I get it, I sympathize, I'm used to making a few concessions there, and I actually kind of like working with agar agar and a few other vegan alternatives for them to mix it up a little. But, yeah, no, gelatin is, like, super not vegan..."

There was a reluctant pause, since, you know, she would like Annie to have more jello shots, buuuut...

"Like, seriously, if people really knew what jello's made out of, all the complaints about some of the shit I put into some of these shots seems a little....counter-intuitive."

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"You know what, I'm gonna just let it be 'super not vegan' and leave it there," Annie decided before throwing back -- or whatever the most forceful equivalent verb might be when the substance was gelatinous rather than liquid -- the raspberry limeade shot. "I can't go ruining non-vegan jello for myself. Jello's too much of an institution in my life now."

And, honestly, not that Annie knew this, but she was gonna need all the tiny little comforts and stress-relievers she could handle in the next few months.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[stykera]

Stark didn't even know where the Poconos were. He didn't actually know what a timeshare was either. He probably should not talk to Tino today.

"Pop tart jello?" He was going to be absolutely delighted when he saw they looked like tiny pies. "Hello, Summer."

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

People should probably not talk to Tino in general, really.

"Pop Tart Jello," Summer confirmed, looking delighted in preparation for his delight, because she'd been sitting on this one for a while and was very pleased to present him with one such creation now.

"Hello, Stark," she then greeted back. "How are you today?"

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[stykera]

That was true. Tino was best avoided except when necessary.

"It looks like a little pie!" There was the delight. Right on schedule!

"Anakin's nonsense was ridiculous, as always. But I'm alright today, I think. How are you?"

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

It was so satisfying when things actually went the way you were expecting them to, even when that thing was something as simple as someone's predictable appreciation for little tiny pies.

"Overall?" she said. "Not bad. It's definitely been a month, but I'm taking the weekend off to sort of ~recharge~, and it's long overdue. And I didn't think the shenanigans were that bad today. Like, I'm almost disappointed it wasn't something weirder when I finally get roped into it."

She did kind of land on a 'do something you do naturally' kind of challenge, though.

Re: The Bar - 06/29.

[stykera]

Summer's challenge had been almost tailor-made for her, yes.

"They weren't terrible. Just odd, as always." He hadn't need to hug Anakin to share the slime or anything today at least.

"Are you going somewhere this weekend then? Taking yourself to your spa?"

The Lounge - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Have a seat away from all the jockeying for jello shots and lounge it up.

The Back Room - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Where there's darts, a mechanical bull, and a stripper pole, not usually employed all at once, but, hey! That sounds like a good challenge to waste your time!

OOC - 06/29.

[somethingwithturquoise]

I'm definitely making this wee tiny Summer fan art inspired by this image 100% canon now.