Bar Crawlin'

[indy_wannabe]

It's Friday night and Ezreal decided to take the esteemed Luxanna Crownguard to a bar generally frequented by Delvers, Guardsmen, Rangers, and all sorts of other rough-and-tumble men and women who make up Union's thriving blue-collar community. The bar, of course, is quite a dive, with loud, boisterous people having just finished a day's work coming to take a load off and get frightfully hammered.

[This is an open mingle post for anybody who might, for whatever reason, find themselves in a dirty, grimy bar full of loud sweaty people on a Friday night. There will be mingling and, of course, the inevitable bar fight. Enlightened are encouraged to use their powers interestingly but remember - no lethal damage! It's all in good fun. Overenthusiastic enlightened may find themselves responsible for large chunks of the repair bill for the bar, be warned.

Also of note: legal drinking age is 18 years old but this bar is likely reasonably easy to get into if you're a bit underage.]

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[for_realsies]

Imogen drank for flavor, and did her best never to overdo it with her poison of choice. So at first she was very pleased to see how relaxed Lady Luxanna Crownguard was in a place that was far earthier than any of the places her family would approve of for her. ...But then she noticed how marinated the other girl was.

Still, this was a lesson the girl had to learn. "Having a quiet drink in a loud bar. Why are you here Lux whoneverpickedalastname," Imogen said the entire phrase as one word, and as if it was Lux's surname. This doesn't mean anything, just that Imogen is especially weird tonight.

[ladyofluminosity]

Lux wasn't marinated per se--she really only had one drink by this point--but her typing did make it a bit harder to tolerate the stuff. For the most part, she just seemed very comfortable, nothing more. For the time being, at least.

She chuckled at Imogen's name comment. "How can you have a quiet drink in a loud bar, isn't that an oxymoron?" She is legitimately curious about this one, sitting down to wait for an answer.

[for_realsies]

Part of why Imogen enjoyed her drinks slowly, typing was not to her advantage. But, she had more experience on this front, which helped her out. "My drink is very quiet. See, it isn't making any noise."

That play of words was pretty transparent and shame on Lux for not seeing it coming.

[ladyofluminosity]

A giggle. "You're right, it is being very cooperative." She really should have, and probably normally would have, but certainly enjoyed the joke. "But seriously, this doesn't seem like your kind of place. I would have figured you'd be somewhere... classier."

[for_realsies]

"Classy isn't fun. I do go to those places, sit, admire the dresses on everyone, but they don't do anything!" When she's in a mind to ogle pretty dresses, she hits the classier drinking places, when she wants to find interesting people, she ends up here.

"Here, here anything can happen! The people are far more... alive, even if their clothes aren't as... you know, classy." Imogen eyes Lux a moment, gauging how much the girl has had, and deciding to see just how far gone she is, "This includes a few... illicit affairs, the kind our parents would frown at."

[ladyofluminosity]

She has a ways to go before getting sick-drunk, but is wavering between slightly tipsy and tipping the scales.

"Now I want to see some of these people in pretty dresses." Wholly out of place, but it might serve to be amusing. Lux nods. "I agree! Illicit affairs?" It's hard to say if it's her natural, although slightly crumbling naivete that fuels that question, or somewhat limited cognitive reasoning.

[for_realsies]

"That would make whatever fight breaks out far more colorful, and easier to keep track of."

Imogen was trying to think of a classy and elegant way to frame something that, by its nature, defied the rules of class and was rarely elegant. Well, maybe once, but she was a painter and had an artistic eye. And far, far from what she needed to say, "Lux, many people come to bars looking for people to have sex with. I do it from time to time, when the mood suits me. Not every time, as I do like this place, and the barkeeper is really nice!"

Now to see how drunk Lux is, as Imogen just out and said it.

[ladyofluminosity]

"I think Camille would have a heart attack, but I want to see this now." She laughed.

What was it with common people and sex? Or, at least, how Imogen framed it. Looking around the room, Lux wrinkled her nose. "But they're strangers." Imogen, do you have sex with strangers? She shouldn't judge the girl, but... Imogen, you really shouldn't be doing that at all, but with a stranger...

[for_realsies]

"Everyone's a stranger, until you get to know them."

Imogen tried to ignore the nose wrinkling, she did focus a bit on the sex. But that was mostly because, on the list of things that separated nobles from commoners, it was kinda one of the big dividing lines. Because commoners didn't have all sorts of rules, and houses, and lineages binding the choices made. "I like making friends, that's all it is."

Oh man was that a half truth, she did like friends, but that was hardly 'all it is.'

[ladyofluminosity]

She blinked a few times, not entirely drawing the line together. "You can make friends without needing to do that." She had plenty of friends, but she didn't have that draw to have sex with them.

[for_realsies]

"Of course I can, but..." Imogen glanced around, she thought she saw Lux's cousin in here, and if Fai were here he would probably make faces at Imogen saying this to Lux. "It feels really, really good to have sex. Provided you're both doing it right."

Cause you can do it wrong and it gets really awkward and you can't really suggest anything else to do after you try and fail to have sex like that, but other than that situation...

[ladyofluminosity]

"I... wouldn't know?" She wasn't entirely sure how to respond to that statement, the conversation a bit uncomfortable for her. Instead, she opted to try to change the subject. "I have more fun thinking about what kind of person someone is by watching them."

[for_realsies]

Imogen shrugs and goes with it, guess Lux isn't too drunk yet. She had the sense to run in fear of that topic.

"There are fun little telltale signs about a person, but I'd rather find out how wrong I am, the surprises are the best part about new friends." Imogen grinned, she didn't like to be bored. Fortunately Lux had been proving pretty interesting over the months.

[ladyofluminosity]

"I'm not one to interrupt a stranger's good time." It wasn't her place to impose herself upon people she didn't know, after all. If they invited her over, that was a different story.

[for_realsies]

"You're only interrupting if you're planning to end the good time, otherwise you're joining them!" It was entirely her place to add to fun!