happy hour!

[kemo_soggy]

Specials:
hot cider (hard or not)
hot chocolate

It seems to be cold in a lot of places, so Moist figures warm drinks are the way to go.
Between customers, he's poking at a ThinkGeek catalog. Because, well, what do you get the mad scientist who has everything?

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[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Haven't quite figured out the whole bartender thing. Why we have them, and when. Guess that's just another bit of Milliways weirdness.

[kemo_soggy]

"Yeah. Bar asked me to do it, so."
Of course, Moist is still more comfortable thinking of Bar as a mad science project, so...

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Bar never talks to me. I hear she's a girl?" He notices the ThinkGeek catalogue but doesn't touch.

[kemo_soggy]

"Far as anyone can tell, I think so, yeah."
Moist isn't entirely sure what to make of Bar, but he's willing to roll with it. You have to roll with a lot of things when you're a professional henchman.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"This place is weird. I like it hear, but it's weird.

"Oh, I'm Cyborg." He extends his hand.

[kemo_soggy]

"Hi. I'm Moist."
Not literally, anymore, or he might balk at returning the handshake. (Not to mention bartending by himself.)

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"That's your name, right. Because if it's not, that is way more than I wanna know." Nothing against that, of course. He just would prefer not to be told such things.

[kemo_soggy]

"Yeah, that's my name. Used to be way too literal."
He's used to that reaction, at least. Twenty years of it being merited will do that.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Do I want to know?" He sips at his cocoa, and carefully uses heating coils in his hand to keep it hot.

[kemo_soggy]

"Long story short, radioactive humidifiers? Never a good idea."
Seriously.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Seriously? Who would make a radioactive humidifier?" He believes the rest. Super-powers are strange things. "So you lost your powers?"

[kemo_soggy]

"The Soviets, apparently." He's still trying to figure out why.
"Yeah, but... it was basically sweating all the time. "I think I'm better off, on the whole."
Maybe if he could've worked out some control over when it happened and how much, it would've been doable.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"I know a dude who was turned into a super-soldier by the Soviets. Using radiation. Hasn't aged a day since the 60s, and had to live in seclusion for a long time. So it does sound like their thing." Good thing the Cold War is over.

[kemo_soggy]

"I had dry skin problems when I was a kid. I... still don't know how my dad got his hands on the thing."
He was trying to help, and kiiiiiind of overdid it.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Was your dad an inventor or scientist?" That could explain the catalogue.

[kemo_soggy]

"No, just a salesman."
With some really dubious connections, as it turned out.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Who sold radioactive humidifiers.

"Did he work for a place like STAR Labs? My dad did."

[kemo_soggy]

"Like what now?" That's probably a no.
"No, he just had some... questionable connections. FBI went after him when I was 12."

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Sorry to hear that. My dad has his issues, but that was never one of them." If anything, his dad helps the FBI on technical matters.

[kemo_soggy]

Moist shrugs. "The most annoying part was trying to get through foster care when I was molding up everybody's houses by accident."
That was really not very fun.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Couldn't they just get a dehumidifier?" And see who was more powerful?

[kemo_soggy]

"First family tried that. It didn't really work out." Maybe because it didn't run on plutonium?
"Anyway, I mostly creeped people out, so sometimes it was a moot point before anyone could try that."

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"That stinks, man. Guess it's a good thing you lost your powers." Not much he could do with them, anyway.

[kemo_soggy]

"Yeah. It's... it's better."
It was a harder decision to make that he'd thought it would be, but he got there in the end.

[says-the-booyah.livejournal.com]

"Did you find any way to use them?" Might as well ask, just in case there is something he could apply by adding a humidifier attachment.