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[h2_muses]

Harry Dresden - I'm typically located in Chicago, but I get around a bit when it's necessary. (No spoilers for Changes - at least, not now and not in public. XD)

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Harry Please

[morethanprops]

Bars are bars, they're useful that way, Moist's found. This one isn't one he knows terribly well but give him time and you'll never see him looking worried unless its in character.

So he's found a table and he's playing with a worn deck of cards and watching all the people go by.

...a bar

[wizard_dresden]

So, I find myself walking into a bar. Dimly lit - the place, not me, though I suppose the light on me is dim too, making me dimly lit as well - dark in the corners. Bar-like. Really, who would expect a bar to be bright and sparkling? It's a bar. Darkness and dirt are part of the ambiance.

Anyway, I walk into this bar and, from all outward appearances, it looks pretty typical of your standard pub. There's a bar and barstools and tables surrounded by chairs. And a guy with a deck of cards in the corner. That's not altogether unusual for a bar either.

Re: ...a bar

[morethanprops]

Moist has perfected the ordinary look and at the moment, he's between jobs so he has no distinguishing marks just a nice suit and a flair with cards.

When Harry enters, he notices him since Harry's hard to miss and nods.

Moist is trying to figure out what he does, he's not wearing any of the useful identifiers from the Disc.

Re: ...a bar

[wizard_dresden]

The guy with the cards is nodding at me. General acknowledgment of existence, I guess, though I could know him from somewhere and not remember. Hey, it does happen. I'm a wizard and a detective, but those two don't sum up to 'automatic photographic memory'.

No sense being rude, so I nod back and approach the bar. I need a drink before engaging the public. Even if the public is just one guy. It's been a long day. A really long day.

For Harry. Or Bob. Either works.

[vinceniaknight]

There's a woman at a table wearing an FBI jacket and hat. Not too out of the ordinary. However, the fact that the candlestick in front of her keeps turning into about fifteen different things might be out of the ordinary.

Inbetween the morphing candlestick, she's reading a dusty old book on the history of... something.

[ext_231577]

On a nearby shelf is an old human skull. It's a little worn and has a few extra holes, but it's mostly just a skull. With sigils and runes drawn onto it. Those sigils aren't just decorative, they serve a purpose.

The skull mostly looks like just a skull, but inside is a floaty orange glowing cloud.

[vinceniaknight]

Anne looks over at the skull, eying the runes, then back to the candlestick, then back to the skull. Getting up, she walks over to it eying it dubiously, talking to herself. Mostly. "That one's.... no. Crap, why the hell did I keep falling asleep in Intro to Runes?" She bites her tongue, and reaches over to pick the skull up.

[ext_231577]

Suddenly there's some shakiness and chatter on the outside. "Would you mind terribly putting that back where you found it?" a British disembodied voice asks politely of the young lady.

Re: Hrothbert, probably in a bar?

[ext_231577]

Orange lights flicker and dance behind the eyeholes - just for fun. Things in a place like this should be intersting, no?

[ext_231577]

"Nooooo -" Bob replies, drawing out the 'oooooo'. "No one in here," he chortles.

[deadmanbusiness]

Do not ask what business brings Theo to Chicago, it would be best not to ask. But the necromancer has heard of McAnally's and finally has a bit of time to check it out. Stepping inside, he looks around curiously at the thirteen poles, thirteen tables and thirteen stools.

Deciding that the bar is the best place to go, he confidentially saunters over and sits down, nodding to the person next to him.

[wizard_dresden]

It's not often Mac's gets newcomers. And by 'newcomer' I mean someone who's not even been in Chicago as far as I can recall. Admittedly, I don't know everyone in Chicago, but I usually have a good feel for folks are from here and those just passing through. The guy who just slipped in has that 'new guy feel' about him. Not to mention a little bit of, if not dark, surely a little cloudy, power there too.

I give the guy a nod to be polite. I don't outright dislike people until they try to kill me. So, guy's still on pretty good footing.

[deadmanbusiness]

Theo won't try and kill Harry unless he tries to hurt him first. Though he would take offense to whole dark issue. It's not like he could choose who his father was.

"Any suggestions?" He asks. He's found the best way to get good food at strange places is to ask for suggestions from people who obviously have been here before.

[wizard_dresden]

So far, he's off to a good start. Hey - again, anyone who doesn't outright try to kill me is in the 'not evil' column.

"Food or drink?" I ask. The two have decidedly different responses, obviously.

Harry Dresden in a Bar, please? :D

[tavar_of_alera]

There's another tall and distinctly overpowered man with dark hair in the Bar today. His, however, is close-cropped, as is his beard, and where Harry's eyes are dark his are an intense, vibrant grass-green color--and he's a couple inches shorter than Harry.

He's got more physical muscle to make up for it, though.

So there is a guy who looks somewhere between Roman and medieval lounging in a chair, legs stretched out and crossed at the ankles, watching everyone who walks in. Those with the ability to sense it might or might not notice how utterly overpowered he really is.

Re: Harry Dresden in a Bar...

[wizard_dresden]

Power brushes past me when I enter the bar tonight - different from usual. Must be a new practitioner or someone with new power.

My eyes pass over the various patrons and settle on the man sprawled casually in an armchair and my brain comes to the conclusion: New Guy. (Not a tough call, I know everyone else.)

I flop myself just as casually in the matching armchair and give the guy a brief nod of acknowledgment.