When Ned enters the bar this evening (dressed in grey and black; the usual), intent on simply getting a small cup of coffee and maybe a cookie, he doesn't expect the vidscreen that pops up in front of him ( Read more... )

There is a wide open space of green, green grass; the rare sun of Scottish springtime is shining down on the field of grass and the figure lying out upon it (as well as the bakery bag and the bowl of strawberries by her elbow).

Despite the warm embrace of the sunlight, the look on Sunshine's face is troubled.

Having had a successful Pi Day last year, the familiar smell of sweet, delicious, warm pie is once again wafting through the bar's space.

The Pie-maker has been busily preparing for this day to celebrate 1) nerdiness and 2) pie - and you're welcome to join him if you want ( Read more... )

Alice is buried under a pile of books having to do with renovations. It's easier to throw herself into this work than to dwell on...things that aren't important ( Read more... )

Despite how much she complains about having a cheerful apprentice in the coffeehouse, Paulie's habits must be rubbing off on her somewhat, because Sunshine is humming faintly under her breath as she carries a tray out of the kitchen and sets it on a centrally-located table. Arranged upon the tray are various baked goods, aromatic breads and ( Read more... )

( Somewhere Under Milliways: Sunshine's large, lovingly-collected library of gothic vampire lit will likely never be the same refuge of fantasy escapism ever again. She may burn them all when she gets home. If she survives to get home.From the kitchens come the sounds of startled, squeaking rats, of a large basket of paradoxes overturning as ( Read more... )

Olive's back again (the door was in her kitchen. she'll never understand that magic), so she's making the best of it. She's at the bar with a hot cider, wishing it could warm her heart, and not just her stomach.

Can she bend your ear with her troubles?

[ooc: open until her next post.]

Sunshine is at a table, this evening, with trays of savory loaves (rosemary/garlic, sun-dried tomato, parmesan-cracked pepper, among others) and sweet teabreads (maple-orange, blueberry-pecan and cranberry-cream), decorative paper and baskets ( Read more... )

[Morning after this.]Nita wakes up feeling like crap. It takes her a minute or two to realize where she is -- laid over her books in the Milliways library. She must have fallen asleep finishing her paper. --Which is still unfinished, she finds, when she looks over her notes. Groaning, she stands up ( Read more... )

There are many things Ned has yet to check off his proverbial Things To Do Before I Die list, and bartending at any sort of bar is one of them.

(But why not add a couple of extra points for uniqueness? Throw in a bar at the end of the universe, too ( Read more... )