[party post]

[eyething]

Who: Anyone & everyone who'd come to the bar
Where: Damon's Bar
When: All of December-January. Feel free to come back as often as you want.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Just another two months at Damon's bar full of the day-to-day drinking, advice giving, and more drinking for those in need. There are also special nights like Speed Get-to-Know-You and Trivia Night and Karaoke night. Use the top-levels for all your bar needs. Tag around. Profit!
The Story:

Damon's bar has been up and running for approximately six months. Have you come by yet? If not, you should. There's no age requirement for entry (or for having a drink really) given the special nights can interest people of all ages.

The bar has a full staff. There's a kitchen in the back where food's made fresh. There's something special about it being made for you by actual hands, right? In the corner, there's a jukebox playing quietly to not disturb the atmosphere, but you can feel free to dance if a good tune comes on. Sometimes the jukebox acts up. You try to choose one song, and the jukebox decides that it has a better idea of a song that reflects your mood/current situation more. There's no changing channels when it does this.

Inside the bar, there's pool and darts to enjoy. Drag someone new over for a game, challenge a friend, or make up your own rules. Just don't toss a dart into someone's hair.

There are special nights ranging from Karaoke Night to Trivia Night. You've probably heard about them. They're listed up on a board outside of the bar, but also advertised on the network. This month is the first time the bar will be trying a Speed Get-to-Know You event. It's like Speed Dating but for everyone (whether someone wants a date or a friend or a frenemy).

Because it's the holiday season, there are some minimalist festive decorations up and around including mistletoe (so watch out). Damon's not a huge fan of the holidays, but there will be some festive drinks offered for the next two months.

Comments

[actualwizard]

[ Oh god, he's totally stealthily take pictures and texting them to Elena. Sorry Damon, he can't pass this up. ]

No, that actually looks like its working. Good thinking. [ He's impressed ok. ]

I can get this place to really light up.

[ Its just a snap of his fingers and a bit of a wish and the lights that he's holding rise hovering in the air until they stick up to the ceiling,
covering the whole bar ceiling in blue and white hanging icicles. ]

[eyething]

( Damon leans against the bar and then blinks as he watches Billy just lift the light up top like that. He stares up there as the whole bar proceeds to light up like the festive cookie inside demands for it to be so he smiles, looking pleased.

This is all beautifully, over the top. )

Hey, you did it.

Look at my bar shine with festive cheer at last. It's so much better like this. I have no idea why I thought being a grinch was the right way to go about the holidays before.

( It's said as he pops another cookie into his mouth. It's probably something to do with his parents always making it terrible when he was a child but pfft. )

[actualwizard]

[ He watches Damon eat another cookie and that's definitely the cause for all this. Still the bar looks great. ]

The holidays aren't always the easiest for people.

[ He knows that first hand. Christmas for Teddy has always been hard since his mo died, even if Billy and his family had always tried to go the extra mile to make Christmas special for Teddy. Billy knows he misses his mom the most at Christmas. ]

But cheer can be infectious, and you know decorations like this will probably bring a smile to most peoples' faces. Make it just a little easier.

[ He pauses. ] You should put up a menorah.

[eyething]

( Damon tilts his head to the side with a little smile still on his face as he surveys the work. It's looking great indeed. He doesn't make a comment about the holidays not being easy on people.

For a lot of years, he was barely aware the holidays hit. Christmas wasn't always as big of a commercial thing so it wasn't always easy to tell beyond winter being cold. )

God, me putting a smile on people's faces. There's a change.

( he makes kind of a face but then shrugs. ) Sure. I'm not religious at all so might as well display any and all of them.

Where would you want to put it?

[actualwizard]

[ Billy tilts his head to the side. ] I think it might be the cookies.

How about behind the bar? [ He’s not strictly religious but his religion also means a lot to him, and it’s nice to see it represented. ]

[eyething]

( Damon stares at the cookie in his hand suspiciously before he throws it over his shoulder, leaning into the closet to pull out a menorah. He moves to put it behind the door, glancing over at him. )

So you celebrate Hanukkah or know someone who does?

( or maybe he's someone who really thinks about other people's religions, beliefs, celebrations- Those are few and far between in Damon's experience, but he's cynical as hell. )

[actualwizard]

I celebrate, or well, I did back home. It’s hard to celebrate it here when we don’t actually know the real date or year. Still, it makes it more festive. [ Bring him a little reminder of home at least. Now if he could just get some of his grandmother’s cooking...]

[eyething]

With time not actually passing here, you gotta wonder why Wonderland feels the need every year to create its own version of seasons and holidays that greatly mimic most of the seasons people experience in their own worlds.

( It always does something during this time of the year- The Mansion becomes 'festive', but it's between so many worlds. It pulls people in from anywhere, and yet it cycles through time as if it were real- as if it held meaning. )

Just more trying to keep us complacent? Not like we can do anything to shake this place up anyway. ( They don't have that much power. )

[actualwizard]

Or to make us comfortable so we don’t want to leave? [ It’s a question that’s always bugged him too. ] But it’s not like we get gradual seasons changing it’s like it’s summer until bam it’s fall and then bam it’s the middle of winter and bam it’s spring. There’s not warning it just changes overnight. Why not just keep it a warm spring day every day forever?