005 - Will you do the fandango

[onlyanapple]

Who: Crowley and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit
When: Today!

[The Fleet will be greeted with the blasting noise of that song he got for Christmas, you know the one. If you don't, now you do. You're welcome. The screen flickers on to show the interior of the Iskaulit. Specifically, a brand new bar.

Everything is black and metalic, sleek and modern. Neon lights of blues and greens offer some light. This place screams fancy. It's even got a pretentious name, the word 'Málum' in red above the bar proper. It's an inside joke.

Crowley turns the device to grin at the audience.]

So, Varric may have started up his quaint little shithole but I'm here to offer you an alternative. After all "I might get a disease from one of these chairs" isn't what some people are looking for in a watering hole.

Open til late, free shot with every pitcher, yadda yadda, come and drink your troubles away. Enjoy our jukebox with songs from...whatever the fuck is on the network. Sorry if it's shite. That's just standard jukebox fare, if we're being honest.

Let's drink our bullshit troubles away.

[[OOC: And from this point on, Málum is a location you can use! If your character wants a handwaved job, they're welcome to it. The more people, the less Crowley has to work for himself and he does love less work.

Comments

[onlyanapple]

No, no. I like to think I have good instincts with these kinds of things.

[beardstrokes]

And your instincts have never been wrong?

[onlyanapple]

Once in a while, I admit. But very rarely.

[beardstrokes]

[ Trust your instincts, Qui-Gon had told him. It was one of the last things he ever did say.

So to that, Obi-Wan only makes an encouraging noise. ]

It's important to trust yourself.

[onlyanapple]

[Crowley gives a shrug.]

It's a lesson hard learned for some people.

[beardstrokes]

Yes. I was fortunate enough to learn it in time.

[onlyanapple]

Lucky you. Some people never get it.

[beardstrokes]

I had a good teacher. Unfortunately, we can't all have those.

[onlyanapple]

No. A lot of the time, we have to muddle through on our own.

[beardstrokes]

Even you?

[ Someone so old and has seen so much? ]

[onlyanapple]

Especially me. They don't exactly give you lessons in what to do with things such as free will when you figure out you actually have it. I'm not supposed to. Me and my friend, we're something of...blips in the system.

[beardstrokes]

[ He can imagine how that feels. Bereft of the right teachings or person to guide you along. He never would have gotten so far without Qui-Gon and Yoda and all the other Masters who showed him the way while letting him choose for himself. ]

Then you were fortunate blips. To make it this far.

[onlyanapple]

[He gives a dismissive shrug. ]

We had each other. Suppose that was all we needed, in the end.

[Most of the time, he gets by find in these places without Aziraphale. They've spent centuries apart back home, after all. But sometimes, sometimes he's just struck with a terrible feeling of missing the angel. He doesn't show it, though. ]

That and copious amounts of alcohol.

[beardstrokes]

[ He hmms lightly, like a venerable sensei. ]

Who could ask for more?

[onlyanapple]

[He's tempted to brush it off, throw a snarky comment into the mix. But that would somehow lessen the importance Aziraphale has in his life, and that...wouldn't be right. ]

He kept my existence from being miserable, I suppose.

[beardstrokes]

I'm sure you had a hand in doing the same for him as well.

[onlyanapple]

Oh, I went out of my way to make his life miserable. Stopped him from being boring and stuffy. Got him to let go a bit, instead of being all...stalwart and what have you.

[beardstrokes]

How magnanimous of you. I'm sure your sacrifice was not in vain.

[onlyanapple]

I ruffled his edges a bit after a few millennia, but he stayed pretty much the same. Seems stalwart leopards can't change their spots. Just learned to live with it, in the end.

[beardstrokes]

Have you changed though?

[onlyanapple]

I suppose I have. The free will thing was interesting.

[beardstrokes]

"Was"? Hopefully, the appeal remains.

[onlyanapple]

Oh yes, that's stuck with me. I'm rather fond of it.

[beardstrokes]

I should hope so.

[onlyanapple]

Well, yes. It's an important thing, free will.