[Thread] Drinks

[green_eyed_dice]

Characters: AU!Otogi Ryuuji, OPEN
Where: Some empty room in the office building
When: Sometime after this.
Summary: After everything, sometimes you just want a really stiff drink.
Warnings: Probably drunk people, sooner or later.
Notes: You can start a new thread or jump in on an existing thread. It's entirely up to you. Being a good host,

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[lady_bounty]

Faye wasn't sure what she thought about having a party. She wasn't feeling particularly sociable at the moment. Or ever.

She was sure what she thought about alcohol.

After searching around a bit, she poked her nose into a room containing tables of food and drink, but no people... except for that one rather pretty person sitting over there. Sweet, she thought, I seem to have beat the crowds.

"Hey there," she said to whoever-that-was, coming fully into the room and giving him one of her cat-like grins, "This where the booze is?"

[green_eyed_dice]

"This is the place," Otogi said, sipping from the glass he'd made for himself. He gestured towards the table with the drinks. "Enjoy. The name's Otogi, by the way." Thinking about it, this could also be a good way to meet other people. He'd never had a problem with that, but it was still nice to get out a little.

[lady_bounty]

Faye eyed the booze. "Don't mind if I do~." She glanced back to Otogi as he introduced himself, giving him the once-over. "I'm Faye," she replied. "Faye Valentine." The niceties out of the way, she stalked unhurriedly towards the alcohol selection, trying to feel out what she had a taste for.

[green_eyed_dice]

Whatever she picked was going to be the very best tasting of its kind that Otogi was capable of making. After all, unless he chose to do otherwise, anything he made with his magic was the best of the best.

"I suspect more people will show up eventually," he said. "Getting at least a little sloshed is probably going to occur to some of them."

[lady_bounty]

Hmmmmm... vodka cranberry, she thought, pouring the necessary liquids into a glass. Drink in hand, she turned back to Otogi, slinking over to a chair near his and sitting, crossing her legs.

"No kidding," she replied to his comment, "Getting drunk sounds fabulous right about now. This was a good idea." She raised her drink in his general direction, then took a sip. Her eyebrows shot up, and she peered at her drink in surprise. "...That's good vodka! I don't even remember the last time I had vodka of that quality." I guess it's like Kon's coffee... at least my tastebuds won't suffer while I'm here.

Her musings prompted another thought, and looked at Otogi curiously. "How'd you get all this stuff with the Indigeo offline?" she asked. "...Or do you just keep a really big stash?"

[green_eyed_dice]

Otogi grinned at the question. This was why he liked being him. He finished off his drink, tilting it towards her so she could see it was empty, then tapped his finger on the edge of the glass, exerting a bit of magic...

And drank from the refilled glass.

"I have a knack for this kind of thing, you might say." And he grinned most mischievously.

[lady_bounty]

Faye stared, her mouth open and slack. After a few seconds she gathered herself, pointing dumbly at Otogi's glass. "...Magic. ...That was actual magic, wasn't it? I mean, not just some smoke-and-mirrors trick... real magic, like everyone here's been talking about?" Faye was flabbergasted.

[green_eyed_dice]

"Magic." Otogi agreed. "I made all of this." He gestured towards the food and drink. "It's nothing compared to what my relatives can do, but it does come in handy around here every now and then." Even with the cuffs gone, he still had his own limitations, but he could do what he needed to in order to provide for himself, Fubuki, and those who he cared about the most.

Or to throw a little "let's get drunk and forget we died, kind of" little party.

[lady_bounty]

Faye continued to gape. "...Holy shit," she said at last. She sat frozen for another second, then took a sip of her drink. She stared at the liquid in her glass. "So... is this real vodka? Like, it's actually vodka? Or does my brain just think it's vodka?" Hell, Faye didn't know how this magic stuff was supposed to work.

[green_eyed_dice]

"It's real vodka, and if you drink too much, you could get really drunk off of it," Otogi assured her. "One of the things I can do is to make things into other things. Like this." He spied a stray nail, picked it up, and looked at her intently for a moment. Then he looked back at the nail, and a moment later, a crystal statuette of her was in his hand.

[lady_bounty]

Faye gaped at the crystal statuette. "Holy crap!" It really was magic. ...Well, she'd said she'd believe it when she'd seen it... and now she'd seen it. There was no faking that. There was no way this guy had a miniature of her up his sleeve when they'd never met before. Otogi could really do magic.... The gears in her mind turned furiously.

Faye's look of shock faded, became sly and flirtatious, and she glanced up from the statuette to meet Otogi's eyes. "You've got a good eye~," she purred.

[green_eyed_dice]

He set it down near her and chuckled some. "When I use my power, yes. If I look at something, the magic replicates it as perfectly as possible." He had noticed the flirtation, of course. He waved a hand at the statuette. "You can have that."

[lady_bounty]

"Thank you~!" she picked up the statuette and turned it in her fingers, examining it in greater detail. It really was exquisite. She set it down at her elbow, making a note not to forget it when she left.

Faye turned to face Otogi, a small, flirtatious smile settled over her features. "So... a guy like you must be pretty popular~," she observed. She took a slow sip of her vodka cranberry, watching him over the rim of her glass.

[green_eyed_dice]

"You could say that." Otogi agreed. Flirting didn't bother him, because he knew quite well it wouldn't go beyond that. Besides, it was his nature, and it wasn't as if she were repulsive. "My games tend to get me more fans than friends, though."

[lady_bounty]

Faye raised an eyebrow. "Games? And what games do you play, Otogi~?"

[green_eyed_dice]

"Anything, honestly." Otogi grinned. He had an idea of how she was going to take that. "But my two favorites are Duel Monsters and Dungeon Dice Monsters. I made that one myself." Of course there were also the games he played with Fubuki...

"Back in my old world, I was a game designer by profession. I've created all kinds of games since before I was out of school."