First entrance..

[pleasantskull]

( OOM: Skulduggery Pleasant, Detective extraordinaire, gets a surprise visit from a troll while out walking, but gets a little more than he bargained for with a not-so-mysterious door. )

The front door is swung open forcefully and in barrels a rather frantic figure, who is immediately up on his feet again and poised for a fight.

What he spots,

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[docscurlock]

Okay. Doc's seen a lot of weird stuff, in this bar. Talking animals. Blue people, purple-pink-gooey people, a penguin, magic drinks and rooms, but this...

He's staring, a little. Promise, it's not him trying to be rude, the poor guy is just confused.

This looks like one of the skeletons from his anatomy class back in college come to life.

More staring.

[pleasantskull]

He's used to being stared at. Granted that usually the staring is for the bizarre afro wig and huge sunglasses he wears to hide his pasty skeletal features, but alas, he didn't bring them today. So, now he's just stared at for being him. Go figure.

"Uhm.. hello there," he finally says, somehow without the need of vocal chords or a tongue, and possibly staring over at Doc, but without eyes, who knows where he's looking?

[docscurlock]

Doc straightens up. A little.

"Sorry. I..."

He scratches the back of his neck with his hand.

"...I thought I'd seen it all but I guess I was wrong."

[pleasantskull]

Skulduggery's head twists about to survey the place, curious more than confused, but neither is easy to tell on the expressionless one.

"You and me both."

But what he does lack in expressions, he more than makes up for in the amused tone of his voice, laced with an Irish brogue, and said with such lightness that it might appear he's seen stranger things in his time.

[docscurlock]

"First time, then?" Doc asks, before he motions at Bar. "I showed up a week or two ago. Can't really remember. Bar at the end of the Universe."

A magic bar.

"First drink's free..."

A glance at the obvious lack of skin to hold said drink. Er.

"...if you're interested...?"

[pleasantskull]

"Probably best I don't. I've ruined far too many good suits by being tempted with drinks," he replies, apparently comfortable enough to be cracking dead jokes already.

"Bar at the end of the Universe, you say? Does it tend to appear entirely randomly for all folk?"

[docscurlock]

"Nobody seems to come looking for it, unless you've been here before. I certainly wasn't," Doc says, before he nods.

"Can you see the door you've come through?"

Seeing it is the first step. Getting it to open, the second.

[pleasantskull]

The question has him turning around rather quickly, because he knows the lack of an exit is generally a bad thing. Thankfully, it is still there in all it's door glory, but with a troll waiting on the other side, he's in no rush to return.

"Yes. Yes I can. I suspect that's a moderately good thing?"

[docscurlock]

"Yes, sir, it is. Seeing your Door means you can go back the way you came when you want to,"

Or when Bar decides she's done with you.

"And that is definitely a good thing."

Doc continues to explain. "There are three rules. No screwin' in the bar, no fightin' in the bar..."

A moment's thought. "...no business in the bar. That's the third."

[pleasantskull]

"Three very hard to remember rules," he decides with perhaps a hint of sarcasm aimed towards the other. If he could smile, he probably would be.

"Well, no matter, I can't see myself breaking any of those rules unless the situation requires it. And until I learn to predict the future, we just won't know."

[docscurlock]

"I'm sure somebody here can," Doc says, with a hint of a sarcastic laugh. "You've got talking cats and dogs and aliens, and other...dead folk," Doc motions around. "Quite the interesting place."

A point at the Window.

"And that's real. Scares the hell out of me sometimes when I catch myself lookin'. But we're alright in here, and time freezes outside of the Bar."

[pleasantskull]

Well, the mention of other strange patrons seems to set the skeleton at ease just a bit, for he was rather worried he'd revealed a his self to people he'd rather not. However, odd people equaled good enough to him.

"Woah, now I didn't see that before. So that's what you mean by the End of the Universe.." If it wasn't obvious enough, Mister Pleasant is suitably amazed by the Window.

[docscurlock]

"Yep. Kind of just cycles around a bit, and we've got a front row seat. And Bar, well, she's pretty good about getting you anything you need."

A beat.

"...Bar's got a mind of her own, sometimes."

Yes, the Bar is a thing. With thoughts and feelings and a good dose of wit from time to time.

[pleasantskull]

Skulduggery is noticeably distracted by the shiny outside the Window, but his continuing input into the conversation is hopefully enough to show he's not that distracted.

"Sounds like someones been having a bit too much fun with magic," he says with experience in the matter, though generally he just sees more sinister things like paper men filled with gas that go on killing rampages.

[docscurlock]

"Easiest way I've found to explain it," he says, before he realizes he hasn't introduced himself yet.

"The name's Doc," he adds. "Welcome to Milliways."

[pleasantskull]

The introduction gets his attention back. It seems all this excitement made him lose his manners for a moment.

"Pleasure to meet you, Doc. The name's Skulduggery Pleasant."

Hooray, he knows the name for the bar now too!