[Nexus] Trog's Tavern CCXXXVI

[Rebonack]

*Upon entering the tavern you find it to be rustic, dim, cramped, and smelling of spilled beer. Moving through the crowd, half of which seem to be deadtiming, you spot a fireplace with a banjowood carving on the mantle, you also make out through the haze the curving bar and private booths hidden behind ferns. A side door leading to a patio outside reveals a hungry looking dumpster mimic sneaking towards an unsuspecting customer.

Trog's is a single location that exists simultaneously in the cities of Town and Inside. Somehow. It's best not to question it.


Staff:
Owner and Proprietor: Trog
Manager: El Jaspero
Bartenders: The Watchers (they're nice deranged cultists, really!), Phoebe, Ashna, Ambrosia

Trog's Tavern hires only the finest NPC servers:
((Since all are NPCs they are up for communal control. Feel free to say what they do or say to you or any other patron. To a point.))

Bouncer: Baby (NPC, a dwarf who was raised by orcs and has the intellect of Thog.)

Servers:
Nina - A fiesty and vivacious tiefling. Mean, self-centered and completely unavailable. You may have seen her recently on the WotC 4E cartoon.
Paige - A sweet, wholesome, flirty elf working her way through PC school.
Cosmo - A quick-witted and oppressed gnome scoundrel. Truly a monster. RAWR!

DRINK MENU:
Wines:
Catoblepas Sauvingnon
Chimera Cabernet - A hearty red with a hits of oak and black cherry.
Chuul Lounge - Bacardi Limon, Aberration , creme de bananes and juices into a Chuul shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into a highball glass half-filled with ice cubes, and serve.
Constitution Crushing Wine - Fort. DC 35 or pass out!
Cormyrian Fireamber - Imported and very good.
Eladrin Carbernet - Official Feywine of the Wild Hunt
Feline's Fancy - A purplish, swirly mixture that any feline will adore.
Funky Llama - A rich fruity wine, available in white or red.
Iames Agonia - This tart, dark red wine will stun you and leave you feeling good for hours.
Kobold Chianti - Tart. Tangy. Shifty.
Merfolk Merlot - Full-bodied with a hint of rose.
Powerlust Pinot - For those corruptable humans
Shadar-Kai Shadowine - Served in a jagged, broken glass
Spoonake Chablis - Straight from the Underdark!
Warlock Wine - Best served cold
Xorn Zinfandel - Sweet and fruity!

Mixed Drinks:
A Drink - Generic booze with ice that can be shaken, stirred, or you know, whatever. Try to be more imaginative next time.
Aboleth Absinthe - Far Realmilicious!
Black Shadow - A strong concoction guaranteed to send a chill down your spine at any temperature.
Coffee Martini - Buzzzzz.
Djinn and Tonic - Whirling ice cubes, fizzy soda, and one drunk genie.
Dragon Liver Buster - Strongest drink in the house
Dwarf Spirits
Fire Archon Asylum Rum - "FAAR!!!"
Haley's Liquer - Named for the redheaded rogue, a sweet creme liquer, excellent over ice.
Hemo Colada - 100% less coconut, 100% more ichor
Ice Liquer - From the Plane of Ice: guaranteed to cool you down.
Ichor Liquor - Made from a fermented mix of various kinds of blood
Jasphattan - El J's Secret Recipie, vermouth & bitters
LEVEL UP LIQUER - Need a few extra XP? We gots XP in a bottle!
Long Island Iced Tea - Tastes better than it will make you feel in the morning
Murderita - Wasted away again...
Piña CoLlama - If you're not into yoga and have half a brain.
Rampaging Rail Mixer - Mad strong!
Rust Monster - Scotch, drambuie shaken in a wooden mixer.
Sneak on the Beach - Peach vodka, cran-pineapple juice, a cat hair
Swampwater - Phosphorescent lemon-lime
White Russian Wukei - for bounty hunters who dig dairy
Wizard Blizzard - Crushed ice and Bourbon. The effect depends on the spell stored in it.

Beers & Such:
Ales: Archon, Guilders, Balthor's Best
Grim Brewery Ginger Beer - Death-o-licious!
Mind Flayer Mead - Mmm... brains.

Other Fine Beverages:
Celestial Soda Pop - Soda specially brewed in Celestia. Tastes divine.
Darknight Coffee - cream has no effect
Dragon's Fire Breath (cherry Kool-Aid) - for the kids!
Fox Cola - the choice of the furry generation
Llamonade - That cool, refreshing drink for quadrupeds
Oni Tea - From the far east.
Red Minotaur Energy Drink - a-MAZE-ing energy!
Root Beer
Save vs. Slow Slurpees™ - C-c-c-cold
Hot Chocolate - Mmmmmmarshmallows

MUNCHIES MENU:
AbyssalNuts - damned and spicy
Baked Goods - Scones and Muffins and Brownies oh my! We have no cake - the cake is a lie!
Bamhacon - where the ham meets the bacon. Served with eggs.
Court of Stars Salad - Fresh fey greens
Hero Sandwiches - what else? Served with Villain vinegrette
Velvet Elfish - Trogtilla chips and hot meat and cheese dip
Yuan-ti Gyros - Lamb. Or halfling. We're not sure.
Trog's Floor Chili - Don't ask Trog where it came from and Trog won't tell you "the floor"


SMOKABLES:
Dwarven Cigars - From our axe-hewn humidor
Coffin Nail™ Cigarettes - Get Nailed!
Halfling Pipeweed - Bogart™ brand

((When this thread reaches page 50, anyone can make the next thread. However, if you want to make changes to the OP, please check in the OOC thread first to make sure everyone agrees.))

[Chaotic Bob]

Originally Posted by Reinholdt

"Ah. Well, I've only met you today, so it was to me."

"I totally have some desecrated Tiamat artifacts now that I think about it. Bahamut and Tiamat hate each other right?"

"Oh. I'm sorry....I don't really think about it too much. I usually look like this..."
She's found that people find it easier to accept help from a little girl than what is essentially a mutant iguana with wings.

"Tiamat is widely accepted to be a source of great evil, and the greatest enemy to Lord Bahamut, so yes...they kind of hate each other I guess?"
Kara doesn't feel qualified to speak for how gods feel.

[Gulaghar]

Originally Posted by Gulaghar

((Ah yes. It's common to use double brackets for that. Sometimes I just forget. >.>))

"Ooh, you play music?" The dryad eyes his lute. Instruments, one of many things she's yet to become familiar with. She's been in the Nexus for quite a while now, but there's just so much she hasn't seen.

Sakura picks up her chocolate milk and takes a gulp. She really likes the stuff. She pushes Reis' wine to him.

Repost for new thread.

[Rotting Baron]

Originally Posted by Dark Apprentice

Ashley smirks. "Fortnuately for both of us, it's all me."

((Night!))

Repost for FireFox.

[Reinholdt]

"I suppose they could have a FoeYay thing going, but I'm not sure I want to think about that when it comes to dragon gods." Reinholdt admits.

[Mindfreak]

"Clear!"
He brought down his hand onto the boy's chest.
Silly crazy kid.
A jolt
Would be felt in the kid's chest, this wouldn't harm him, but wake him up.

[bladescape]

"Yes, I do." He replies with his customary grin. "I do it for a living, actually." He accepts the Wine, sipping it rather than gulping it. He takes a more sedate route to drinking than most.

[Chaotic Bob]

Karaglen proceeds to look confused for a moment.
"...what's FoeYay?"
She's only a little girl, how should she know what that is?

[Reinholdt]

Reinholdt pauses. He thought, being a dragon, she'd have been plenty old enough to know this stuff.

"Umm... it's where they hate and love each other at the same time. It's a complicated thing."

[Gulaghar]

Sakura has went most her life eating little to no food. She doesn't need it. Not normally that is. She does enjoy her chocolate milk though. Not sure why she took such a liking to it. "Could you play something for me, maybe?" Sakura suggests after taking another gulp of her milk.

[Chaotic Bob]

Karaglen undoubtedly understands the basic mechanics of mating, but doesn't appear familiar with the little side deviations of things like FoeYay.
She spends her study times figuring out new ways to help people, not how they acquired bed-fun.

"Um...kind of like a rivalry? I don't think it's like that..."

[bladescape]

Taking another sip of his wine, Reis smiles at her. It was a smile, rather than the cheeky grin that usually adorned his face. "Sure. What kind of music do you like?" He asks, unslinging his lute with one hand as he holds his wine with the other.

[Reinholdt]

"I suppose it'd be like that. I dunno. I haven't exactly encountered the situation myself." Reinholdt shrugs.

"So what do you do as a cleric?"

[Gulaghar]

"Well, you can just play whatever you want. I just haven't heard much different music." She does have an mp3 player full of classic rock. She's taking in what can be loosely defined as the Nexus' culture rather well.

[Chaotic Bob]

"Okay..."
Karaglen's curious now. Maybe when her head feels less foggy she'll go look it up...

Meanwhile, the slightly more sane question!
"I mostly help out the less fortunate throughout the city. I give free meals and a little health-care...I sometimes work at temples, too, with whatever they need done."
She seems slightly less shy about this subject.
Probably because it's her life's calling and she feels overall, fairly happy with it.
Even enough to feel less confused right now.

[bladescape]

"Anything I want?" He asks, still smiling as he puts down his wineglass. "Well, most of my music is self-written." He replies as he begins to strum the lute, tuning it slightly.

((And I do do the lyrics as well, I'll just take the time you use to reply to find my archive of songs. )

[Gulaghar]

Sakura settles in to listen, sipping at the milk now. Don't want it running out too quick.

[Reinholdt]

Reinholdt smiles.
"That's good. I gotta envy that."
Helping people is nice!

[bladescape]

Reis hums to himself as he flickers his hands across the strings, seemingly getting in rhythm as he warms up. Pausing for a second, he flicks through the sheets of music before clipping the chosen piece of paper to the nearest surface, most likely the side of the bar.

The humming, having gone through the whole time to a steady beat before he begins singing. Both the music and the singing are intentionally low, as to not disturb the other patrons of the bar.

"Shadowed wind, hail from, the land from which you come..
Darkened sun, open wide, let the horses of light ride..
The new day dawns, the old away.
The brilliant sun no storm can stay.
Light up the future, let go the past,
Walk through destiny, but don't walk too fast."

He sings through the first verse, his grin never far from his face, as he approaches the second.

[Chaotic Bob]

Karaglen gives a slightly more real smile, better than the nervous one she had produced earlier.
"No need for envy...I'm sure you have a very good purpose too..."
Because everyone has a purpose and they're all respectable, in some form.

As long as they're not evil purposes.

[Reinholdt]

Reinholdt gives a sad 'heh'.

"I've never seen a temple to Bahamut in Inside. Do they have one here?" He asks, deftly deflecting the topic a little.

[Gulaghar]

Sakura listens intently as he sings. She seems to really like it, and another verse too. Ooh. Her smile grows a bit.

[bladescape]

"The clouds let trickles of light shine through.
Yes, the sun to warm both me and you.
Brilliant warmth, brilliant light
Keeps our life and gives us sight
Light up the future, let go the past,
Walk through destiny, but don't walk too fast."

Reis, bound in his music, dances his hands lithely across the strings.

[Chaotic Bob]

Topic duly deflected.
If Kara notices, she doesn't seem to care.
Although...she probably just didn't notice.

She glances down at her holy symbol, fiddling with it a little.
"We don't really have temples of our own, really...we just do His will in the world on our own. I help out with other goodly faiths, from time to time, though."

[Gulaghar]

A shame music doesn't leave a lot of room to respond. These posts are short. D=

Sakura leans forward slightly, watching the movement of Reis' fingers over the strings. More milk sipping occurs.

[bladescape]

((Yeah, that I think is the one problem with music. >.>))

"A day, however, must come to an end,
The sun to dip below the world's bend.
The fading light, the dusks touch.
The darkness' creep, from bit to much.
Light up the future, let go the past,
Walk through destiny, but don't walk too fast."

Reis comes to a pause, then strums a few more notes before taking his hands off the strings and taking a gulp of the wine now. "I still need to write the fourth verse for 'Light of Day'." He comments idly.

[Gulaghar]

((It's most definitely interesting though. Not many people do that sort of thing.))

Sakura claps a couple times when he finishes, a grin lighting up her face. "That was really good. Kinda makes me wish I could do that." She has no experience with instruments what so ever. "How long have you been playing?"

[Mindfreak]

Originally Posted by TechnoScrabble

The boy jumps and falls off the table!
"What the crap, man?!"

John cracks his fingers.
"You seemed to have passed out. You okay, son?"
A rootbeer materiallizes in his hand in a flurry of golden light.
"Do you need anything? A drink or a burger, perhaps?"
One of John's fingers become a claw in a small whirlwind of golden light. He removes the cap from the root beer and the claw disappeared. He then sipped his root beer.

[TechnoScrabble]

The the boy stares at the claw hand.
"How the heck do you expect me to believe you aren't with them if you keep pulling crap like that, huh?"

[Reinholdt]

You should invite Reis into the band Ghar.
We could use an actual lyricist.

Originally Posted by Chaotic Bob

Topic duly deflected.
If Kara notices, she doesn't seem to care.
Although...she probably just didn't notice.

She glances down at her holy symbol, fiddling with it a little.
"We don't really have temples of our own, really...we just do His will in the world on our own. I help out with other goodly faiths, from time to time, though."

"Oh. I see." Reinholdt ponders a bit.

"So is the sword for self defense or do you actually hunt down evil with it?"