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[oldcountryuncle]

The most recent disturbing event to haunt the Bar has managed to spook even the normally unflappable Borgel. Which is why he seems especially taken aback when a napkin appears on the now semi-transparent bar

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[a1enzo]

Enzo is in no mood to be funny, and isn't sure what Everclear is, anyway.

"Cocoa. Digital. Extra-hot. Digital ingredients are down there. And fire away."

Distract him from the situation at hand, please.

[oldcountryuncle]

Borgel reaches down for the ingredients as he begins to tell his story

[a1enzo]

Blink. Blink.

Distraction achieved. Also, confusion.

[oldcountryuncle]

"Do you like it? It was one of my favorite stories growing up in the Old Country."

[a1enzo]

"I'd probably think it was funnier if I wasn't so worried about all this." He waves a hand around.

[oldcountryuncle]

"Oh, right. The apocalypse thingy," he says. "I'm a little worried about that, too. But like I've always said, things will always work out in the end. Unless they don't."

[a1enzo]

"Well, it's my function to worry about it. And do whatever I can to stop it."

[oldcountryuncle]

"And what things might those be?" Borgel asks. "Because I know precisely what I can do to stop it, which is to say I can do slightly less than nothing about it."

[a1enzo]

"I don't know," Enzo says softly. "For now I'm just containing whatever I can of all the... stuff that's popping up, and staying on duty. If I can do anything, I need to be here first."

[oldcountryuncle]

"You seem quite an intelligent young man," Borgel says. "Have you found any leads at all?"

[a1enzo]

He shakes his head morosely. "On some of the individual things, but not why it's all happening all of a sudden."

He sips his cocoa cautiously. Judicious heat helps sprites relax (injudicious heat helps them crash and pass out), but there is a very fine line between relaxing and scalding.

[oldcountryuncle]

"I'm no scientist," Borgel says, "but anything that causes this kind of damage to time, space, and the other is bound to be hard to figure out."

[a1enzo]

"My dad is a scientist, and he doesn't get it either. Yet, anyway."

Beat.

"What other?"

[oldcountryuncle]

"Easy, sonnyboy! That which exists in neither time nor space."

[a1enzo]

"Eeeeexample?"

[oldcountryuncle]

"Like Hell, for instance," Borgel says. "I've been there. Nice little tourist trap."