[ New York City, New Year's, 1935: While cleaning up after friends, Jack Driscoll renews a question. ]

It's good to be the Bear God. The 'bear' part because polar bears totally rock, what with being the largest living land-based carnivore on Earth (and well positioned for a run at that title on Gara, now that the dragon is dead) and being perfectly built for the cold and running and swimming and all. And the 'god' part because if you're enjoying a ( Read more... )

Jack is by the fireplace, writing furiously into a journal. There is a pointed, deliberate absence of a certain female cat.

When you're an up-and-coming young playwright with as much confidence in your skillz as Jack Driscoll, you know you're the bomb-diggity. That does not prevent you from seeing plays from other young, up-and-coming playwrights, and it is from one such performance that Mr. Driscoll enters the bar with a very lovely blonde on his arm ( Read more... )

At first, there is no one behind bar.

And then - just like that - there is.

He didn't teleport or anything... he just moved very quickly.

"Tonight's drinks; Key Lime Shooter, King Kong, Klingon Disrupter and Kris Kringle.."

And he's there to take your order.

"What'll it be?"

When Prometheus is on the ground, his feet touching solid earth, Gaia whispers prophecies to him, a constant murmur of white noise and the future. He can tune in and out at will, but if he chooses, there are usually no surprises when he's among the people there ( Read more... )

"La route chante ( Read more... )

Here is someone you might not have seen in quite a while. Two someones, in fact: an author and his cat. Through no small miracle, Pinot, the cat, has managed to stay next to her owner, who is currently reading a book by the fire.

[ ooc: Thanks to those who tagged; loved the threads! I have to go to sleep now. Slowtime is definitely an option. ]

There is a Jack, by the fire, reading a book.

Disturb accordingly.

Jack (the other one--um, one of the other ones) outside, beneath a tree, reading a book.

Distract him?