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[raptorcanaria]

It's probably fair to say that Dinah did not want to bartend today, but when you get that napkin, you get that napkin. And fortunately, she gets enough warning to get changed before coming back out to tend. With the wig on, she can get on with being Black Canary, and her personal issues won't be too much of an issue.

Specials
Alien
Dash of Betrayal

Comments

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Um," says Ellen, blinking up at the specials board. "Wow. They actually give drinks names like that?"

... sheltered upbringing. In every conceiivable sense of the word.

[raptorcanaria]

"Yeah," Dinah says grinning wryly. "Kinda takes the edge of the double entendres drinks usually end up with, doesn't it?"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"I wouldn't know," Ellen admits. "The bartenders back home aren't very creative about anything except getting away with watering down the alcohol."

Then again, she was only in the Ninth Circle briefly when she got lost in Underworld. Ahzrukal might very well have given his drinks creative names for all she knows.

"What's in them?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Rum and crem-de-menthe," Dinah starts her list from the bottom up, "jalapeno-infused tequila and orange, and a whol lot of everything."

[ostro_goth]

Teja very much hopes that the last thing isn't meant literally.

He stares at the specials board, grimly.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah can wait for him to choose.

"...or I can get you a beer."

[ostro_goth]

"Beer, please," Teja says. "That's a very rude name there, on the board."

[raptorcanaria]

"I know," Dinah says, popping the cap- of an icy bottle. "It's a killer drink, though."

[tyler_marlocke]

It's entirely possible that he wasn't expecting this tonight, having another hero in full costume bartending.

"Coffee, black, fill up the thermos?" Dinah will find a few dollars, some change, and pair of leg thermos being set onto the Bar by a man in a face concealing helmet and a voice-synteiser around his throat. "Please."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah hasn't heard anyone use a synthesizer while in costume - her uncles were experts in disguising their voices and she couldn't use anything like that without disabling her metapower. The cleverness of the idea brings a smile to her face.

"Sure thing," she answers, scooping the money up while checkcing over her shoulder at the coffee machine. "Give me a minute? No one's ordered coffee yet and I need to get it brewing."

[tyler_marlocke]

"Certainly," He replies, while his throat may be covered, his mouth certainly isn't. ...There's a delay between his mouth moving and the synthesizer too. When you want to make dead certain no one has the slightest idea of who you could be outside of the mask/cowl/helmet...you go the full hog if you can.

"Check behind the Folder's container, someone keeps a special blend back there for Security." The masked man suggests, sitting on a bar stool to wait. Black Canary can probably make out the details of a barely seen crescent moon in black on the gray of his suit.

[raptorcanaria]

She certainly doesn't look like she's examining his suit - but she doesn't need to make it obvious to pick up details like that, even if her back is mostly turned as she seeks out the special coffee.

"Found it," she says, using that to set up a brew. "Not the most subtle of hiding places. They could have done a better job."

[alotofgood]

Huh.

"... that last one really describes a great number of blokes I know at my school," says James, peering thoughtfully at the specials board.

[raptorcanaria]

"You go to school with a lot of green people?" Dinah asks, deciding to take that as an order.

"Is it on Earth?"

[alotofgood]

"Yeah. It's on Earth."

James laughs.

"And it's more metaphorical, really," he explains. "Their official colours are green and silver."

[raptorcanaria]

"Oh, like team colours?" Dinah guesses.

[cutting_edgex23]

X blinks at the specials board.

Twice.

Has Dinah had another recent run-in with Skrull?

But she doesn't ask. Instead --

"What is in a Green Motherfucker?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Can I borrow your claws to find out?"

...that joke's probably not funny. It certainly wasn't appropriate in front of the literal minded, and Dinah regrets it.

"Creme de Menthe and rum."

[cutting_edgex23]

X gets caught on the first part. Obviously.

"No. You would hurt yourself holding them."

It is only common sense.

Then --

"I would like a root beer float. Please."

Hold the Creme de Menthe.

[raptorcanaria]

"No one wants a minty shooter," Dinah says, mildly complaining. But a root beer float she can handle.

"How're you?"