mingle on the pathstone

[dawnwillcome]

Who: The Pathstone crew and anyone brave enough to come say hi
Broadcast: not this time
Action: I mean obvs
When: all month? all month!

[Contrary to popular believe, the Pathstone isn't THAT useless. Yes they can go months without an upgrade and sure they're kind of a mess at the best of times, but they still function!

Most of the time. Flying sideways in space is all about perspective anyway, and they haven't done a barrel roll in like... well probably awhile.

So welcome, new Pathstone dwellers! We're probably very sorry in advance.]

Comments

[onlyanapple]

"Oh yes, you can't be off your game in things like that. Got to be able to stay the distance."

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. That's what they say, isn't it?

[neverknight]

"Years ago, I used to work at a bar called the Asteroid Belt down in the Pits of Gorse City. Come in and get belted. The bad jokes really just wrote themselves with that place."

[onlyanapple]

...

"Wow. That's..." Crowley has to really pause to take stock of that. "...That's really fucking dreadful."

[neverknight]

He stifled a laugh. In truth, few people gave the bar's name a second glance. It was a place to try and forget how the galaxy was and what it used to be like. "The local scene was fun, though. I'll give it that much, at least."

[onlyanapple]

And if a bar did that, it made its existence worthwhile, in Crowley's humble opinion.

"Well, that's always important. Making it fun."

[neverknight]

"Tons of fun. We had a little childcare center up in the front and an amusement park in the back."

[onlyanapple]

"How about that, a little space for the sproglets while the adults drink," Crowley nods approvingly. "I like it, childcare without actual child care involved."

[neverknight]

There was a line where the bullshitting was reaching a point where it became impossible to tell who was bullshitting the other. The only natural conclusion was to keep doing it. "It's good for business to. Get them hooked young. It's ah... future proofing the business."

[onlyanapple]

Just the sort of conversation Crowley loves best, honestly. He doesn't get to do it all that much any more. It's refreshing.

"Of course. Can't have them getting ideas that it's not a pleasant place to be, or anything like that."

[neverknight]

Kanan had a chuckle. "So did you start this bar so you had a place to drink separate from your two captains?"

[onlyanapple]

"If you met them, you'd want to, as well."

He joking, Mostly.

"Nah. We didn't have any communal drinking place that wasn't a planet we've always clear out form when the month was done. Me and Varric put our bars up around the same time."

[neverknight]

"I didn't think the fleet was big enough to need two. So which one gets more action?"

If he was going to go barhopping, he needed to know where the cool crowd was at. So he could go to the other one for a quiet drink.

[onlyanapple]

"We're pretty equal at the moment. Still, we've only been open a month, I'm sure people's preferences will start to show through before long."

And that right there was a pretty good plan. Once Crowley would approve of.

"As for if the fleet is big enough, it's growing every week. Besides, it makes sense to give people a little variety."

[neverknight]

"True. Which isn't a comforting prospect."

This was still a prison fleet in the long run, no matter what they might have been able to set up for themselves. It was not easy being comfortable at seeing more and more people arrive.

[onlyanapple]

"Suppose not, but in my experience there's little we can do about that. Places like this will do as they please, best we can do is roll with the punches."

And hope Atroma continue to be Not As Big Jerks As They Could Be.

[neverknight]

He frowned. "Places like 'this'? There's others?"

[onlyanapple]

"Oh yeah, Crowley lets out a soft scoff. "A worryingly amount of them. Like me? I was in a magical castle. Some people were in a war. Others in a place that stole all their memories. The variety is endless."

[neverknight]

He pinched the bridge of his nose and let loose a sigh. "I can't believe places like this are common."

[onlyanapple]

"It is kind of a kick in the balls, isn't it?"

Not that Crowley can complain. At least he was prepared for Weird Shit Happening. Someone fresh from their home world might struggle a little more.

[neverknight]

"You know, I want to ask why people never talk about this, but nobody ever listens to the loonies who says they got abducted by aliens from other galaxies."

He lived in the Outer Rim and sure, he'd heard people talk now and then about extragalactic visitors popping into their corner of the universe for some nefarious purpose. He never really anticipated that he'd become one of those loonies.

[onlyanapple]

"Hmm, it does comes across as not only our of their tree, but out of the forest entirely."