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.

[ahogarse]

A skeleton in a suit offered a hand by a ghost in a sheet.

Come with me, sir.

[pleasantskull]

A ghost in a sheet just seems to add to the weirdness quota for the day, for even Mister Pleasant wasn't quite expecting to be approached by a sheet in a randomly appearing Bar.

He doesn't argue, however, and just simply slips a gloved hand into the offered one, "Lead the way."

[ahogarse]

Santi walks him quietly out of the main bar, towards the door out back. Where there's a soft breeze blowing through the trees, stirring the water on the lake, and a sunset.

There, it's safe to climb out from under his sheet, explaining as he does.

"Hola. Es Milliways."

It is a bar a bit at the end of the universe. People just come here sometimes. Mostly people who don't look--

Like them.

[pleasantskull]

Coming from a community of magic users really does help one's opinions on 'weird', hence the fact that a skeleton such as he could wander freely without much reaction, but when in other communities, he knew it best to cover up. Seemed the kid had the same idea.

"End of the universe, eh?" He voices it out loud, looking down at Santi with such an air of indifference that you'd never think the kid looked quite the way he did.

[zenofbeinggreen]

A small, green felt personage has, in fact, noticed this entrance.

Kermit is sitting at a table, sipping a grasshopper, still taking in the novelty that is Milliways. His initial reaction is fright -- a skeleton in a trenchcoat is a bit scary-looking, after all -- then he pauses, thoughtfully ... the gentleman looks familiar, somehow.

[pleasantskull]

Randomness of the Bar aside for the moment, the sight of a green frog is a little bizarre, although he looks equally familiar, possibly for entirely different reasons.

"Evening," the skeleton nods politely, a tip of his hat as he looks in the general direction of Kermit. For a skeleton who's just entered the bar, he doesn't seem completely befuddled.

[zenofbeinggreen]

"Good evening. I'm sorry I was staring, it's just that you look familiar, and I think I've just realized why."

He gestures to another seat at his table, and says by way of introduction, "Kermit the Frog."

[pleasantskull]

This is a little surreal, but he is not one to turn down the offer of a seat to Kermit the Frog.

"Skulduggery Pleasant," is his introduction returned. And then; "Probably a lot more handsome and charming than whoever I remind you of, thank you very much," he responds with amusement as he takes a seat, peering at the muppet with a permanently fixed grin.

[didntseeit]

Ah, but the important question is really: is this skeleton inclined to send Ajedrez insane for having killed a couple of people?

If not, well.

Skeleton-demons on fire wanting to send her insane for not being a nice person tend to take the cake. Normal skeletons, she can handle.

She's seen enough, after all. Doll ones, to be sure, but skeletons none the less.

Still, her voice is just a tad cautious as she says,

"Hi."

[pleasantskull]

The reaction she gets is a simple, slow turn in her direction, a little distracted by the sights of the Bar with it's shiny spaciness.

But the response she gets is not at all distracted and entirely pleasant, "Ah, hello there."

Thankfully this skeleton, though a fire user at times, is not constantly aflame. He would presume being alight all the time would start to give one a headache.

[didntseeit]

He gets a wave.

"New, senor?"

[pleasantskull]

"Well, I'm not exactly old but, I wouldn't-- Oh! You mean here? Ah yes, yes I am," he responds with a clear amount of humour, tipping the brim of his hat slightly towards her by way of greeting.

"And you're not, I take it?"