Bartending!

[antishinra]

Happy Hour
Tell the bartender what your most heroic moment was and drink at half price!

Maybe it's not everyday people try to save a whole world, but Tifa still thinks most people have had their shining moments. Taking her place behind the bar, she ties an apron around her waist.

"Does anybody need a drink?"

[Happy Hour is now closed, as

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[findthegeck]

Sativa, the girl with the steel-tipped wooden spear and the blue jumpsuit that's seen better decades, studies the sign.

She's a slow reader.

"Why is it happy?"

[antishinra]

Absolutely bewildered for a moment, Tifa opens her mouth without anything coming out.

But then she looks from the girl to the board and back, and a slow smile spreads across her face. "Happy hour? Well, on my planet it's called that because people are happy to get discounted drinks and get even happier while they drink them. Most people say the sailors in the old Costa del Sol navy started it."

And it doesn't surprise her at all.

[findthegeck]

She thinks about that, and nods. That would be something to be happy about. So we have to... and you'd be... okay, in that case..."

She goes over in her head the deeds she's performed so far, most of which lack what she considers that suitably heroic feel to them. In the end she proclaims, "I, Sativa of Arroyo, slew the Rat God in his lair beneath Trapper Town."

It wasn't really a god, but it sounds a lot better than saying she ran into an overgrown mutated rodent in a mining tunnel and stabbed it a whole bunch until it keeled over before it could maul her to death.

[antishinra]

Her eyes widen.

"A Rat God?"

It... sounds disgusting, actually. There's no other way for a Rat God to sound, she thinks. But she's fought some disgusting things herself, and Sativa of Arroyo -- wherever that happens to be -- certainly has her respect for it.

"What would you like to drink then? Half price."

[findthegeck]

"So the rumors spoke of it, something that drove the other rats to become so fierce as to shred a man down to the bone. It was a powerful beast, but I prevailed."

Ah, another challenge. She digs out a handful of gold dollar coins as she ponders. "I'm not sure. What's good?"

[antishinra]

"Well, that depends on what you like."

She glances down at the coins, unfamiliar with them, but is quick with a smile.

"Alcoholic or nonalcoholic? The best drink in the house is probably the Atlantean, but it's one of the strongest drinks I've ever had. I have a friend here who likes the red wines, though, and I've never had an unpopular smoothie happy hour."

[findthegeck]

She looks down at the bartop thoughtfully. "I not sure if I could manage anything too strong. Otherwise it doesn't really matter, as long as it's wet..." She looks up. "Smoothie? I've never had one those. Is it alcoholic?" Mmm, beer smoothie. Now there's a winner.