[Harry is sitting next to the karaoke machine in the biodome, several piles of bottles next to him, judging by the various colors, he's gone and collected some of every kind of liquor available in the facility
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You say that now, but it's incredible how vodka tends to loosen up your singing voice.
[the party's fairly quiet right now, just a few people, and still on step 1: imbibe large amounts of alcohol, so nothing truly ridiculous has happened yet]
[Harry's sitting over by the pile of various alcoholic substances, currently holding something clear and vokesque]
Hey, Tsunade. Pick your poison. I figure whatever we don't manage to drink I can call the "Harry Dresden official alcohol stash." They'll be useful as potion bases too, if I can get my hands on some decent ingredients.
Actually, I can make a drunkenness potion. [He takes a sip] A little redundant in that it requires beer as a base, but essentially it magically gives the beer a higher alcohol content than is theoretically possible for a drink to have. Really handy when you're in a hurry.
Red wine can be a good blood substitute because who wants to drink blood, and you can use Tequila to make a love potion. [Sip] Or, well. A sex potion. Not that I have any of the ingredients other than the base alcohol here, of course. Or the bunsen burners, though I guess the stove would work.
Well no. Bob's. Actually a lot of Bob's potion formulas revolve around that general theme, so you learn to be creative in the application. He can't tell me how to make truth serums, or sleeping potions, or intelligence reduction potions, or dizziness potions, but hell if Bob can whip up a drunkenness potion that'll work just as well.
[Harry shrugs] I dunno. I only wound up making the sex potion once, because I needed something else and Bob wouldn't give me the recipe until I agreed to make something "fun" too. And then my girlfriend at the time and a giant monster got involved and things got really bad really fast.
He'd probably carry Bob around like some sort of sketchy wolf-whistling talisman.
[Harry nods, and takes another gulp] Oh, and I was also taking a shower when the whole mess started, so I didn't exactly have any clothes on, either. I'm not exactly the best at holding up the whole "venerable and wise" act most wizards seem to have going on.
He would. He absolutely would. And he'd use Bob as his look out, with the deal that Bob would watch the results or something equally ridiculous. Kindred spirits.
[She's going to have to take a long drink on that one.] So you, your girlfriend, a monster, a sex potion, and you're naked. Whatever happened can not possibly be as bad as what I can imagine.
[Harry groans] Uuuuugh, that'd totally work, too. Bob can leave the skull as kind of a little whispy thing, nobody'd be safe.
Yup. Giant toad inna trench coat. It's just the sort of thing that tends to happen to me with an alarming frequency. She never did forgive me for that little incident. [Harry looks at his drink curiously]
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[Harry looks around]
I'm just following my own rule about drinking. Care to help?
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[She's getting up.]
Fine, but I'm not singing.
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[the party's fairly quiet right now, just a few people, and still on step 1: imbibe large amounts of alcohol, so nothing truly ridiculous has happened yet]
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[She's meandering along the halls, not showing a lot of haste. She finally walks into the rec area.]
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Hey, Tsunade. Pick your poison. I figure whatever we don't manage to drink I can call the "Harry Dresden official alcohol stash." They'll be useful as potion bases too, if I can get my hands on some decent ingredients.
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She'll skip straight to some of the hard stuff, since it looks like she has catching up to do.]
You can make potions from alcohol? I could get into the wizardy stuff.
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Red wine can be a good blood substitute because who wants to drink blood, and you can use Tequila to make a love potion. [Sip] Or, well. A sex potion. Not that I have any of the ingredients other than the base alcohol here, of course. Or the bunsen burners, though I guess the stove would work.
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A drunkenness potion and a sex potion? These are part of your skill set? [Pause.] But isn't the sex potion redundant after they've drank the tequila?
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[Harry shrugs] I dunno. I only wound up making the sex potion once, because I needed something else and Bob wouldn't give me the recipe until I agreed to make something "fun" too. And then my girlfriend at the time and a giant monster got involved and things got really bad really fast.
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[She takes a seat across from him, then tips her head.] Considering the ingredients of that story, I'm pretty afraid to ask.
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[Harry nods, and takes another gulp] Oh, and I was also taking a shower when the whole mess started, so I didn't exactly have any clothes on, either. I'm not exactly the best at holding up the whole "venerable and wise" act most wizards seem to have going on.
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[She's going to have to take a long drink on that one.] So you, your girlfriend, a monster, a sex potion, and you're naked. Whatever happened can not possibly be as bad as what I can imagine.
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Yup. Giant toad inna trench coat. It's just the sort of thing that tends to happen to me with an alarming frequency. She never did forgive me for that little incident. [Harry looks at his drink curiously]
Did they actually have hard liquor in not-Japan?
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