[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

[poppycock]

The hesitation does not go unnoticed. Klaus is in not in any position nor of more than minute curiosity to inquire; the man's personal business is in fact his own, and this particular business of the heart is quite personal, he'd wager. He is attentive, however, at the rest of the musings. He too is quite the fan of historical novels, perhaps because they remind him of what it was like to live during those moments; how quaint and different and utterly the same everything is. Plus, humanity does have a penchant of astuteness, every now and then.

"I've never been enamored with genre, but I can appreciate its merits," he replies, sifting through a few titles. He can appreciate its merits despite its unrefined reality. "Adventures into the unknown, right vs. wrong, the definition of oneself without convention."

[directed]

"Indeed so." The romanticized version of the life that Rip himself had led for a time; adventures and heroics, when the blurred area between good and evil seemed far less foggy than it normally stood. But Rip's time in that era had not ended happily; an impossible choice had to be made, and dozens had died in the wake of his decision.

Sometimes, he marvels at the fact that Jonah had stopped merely with a single punch.

"Of course history has taught us that it wasn't nearly so simple a time as one might assume on the surface." There were still complexities and politics in play, and far too many problems solved simply by the rule of those with the greater fighting force on their side. "But it still feels like an age of heroes--when one might be able to make a positive difference, if only by saving one family or town from villainous ringleader seeking to take advantage of those struggling to carve out a life for themselves in a new land."