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[raptorcanaria]

It's probably fair to say that Dinah did not want to bartend today, but when you get that napkin, you get that napkin. And fortunately, she gets enough warning to get changed before coming back out to tend. With the wig on, she can get on with being Black Canary, and her personal issues won't be too much of an issue.

Specials
Alien
Dash of Betrayal
Green Motherfucker

...or perhaps not.

Comments

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Um," says Ellen, blinking up at the specials board. "Wow. They actually give drinks names like that?"

... sheltered upbringing. In every conceiivable sense of the word.

[raptorcanaria]

"Yeah," Dinah says grinning wryly. "Kinda takes the edge of the double entendres drinks usually end up with, doesn't it?"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"I wouldn't know," Ellen admits. "The bartenders back home aren't very creative about anything except getting away with watering down the alcohol."

Then again, she was only in the Ninth Circle briefly when she got lost in Underworld. Ahzrukal might very well have given his drinks creative names for all she knows.

"What's in them?"

[ostro_goth]

Teja very much hopes that the last thing isn't meant literally.

He stares at the specials board, grimly.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah can wait for him to choose.

"...or I can get you a beer."

[ostro_goth]

"Beer, please," Teja says. "That's a very rude name there, on the board."

[basic_powers]

It's entirely possible that he wasn't expecting this tonight, having another hero in full costume bartending.

"Coffee, black, fill up the thermos?" Dinah will find a few dollars, some change, and pair of leg thermos being set onto the Bar by a man in a face concealing helmet and a voice-synteiser around his throat. "Please."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah hasn't heard anyone use a synthesizer while in costume - her uncles were experts in disguising their voices and she couldn't use anything like that without disabling her metapower. The cleverness of the idea brings a smile to her face.

"Sure thing," she answers, scooping the money up while checkcing over her shoulder at the coffee machine. "Give me a minute? No one's ordered coffee yet and I need to get it brewing."

[basic_powers]

"Certainly," He replies, while his throat may be covered, his mouth certainly isn't. ...There's a delay between his mouth moving and the synthesizer too. When you want to make dead certain no one has the slightest idea of who you could be outside of the mask/cowl/helmet...you go the full hog if you can.

"Check behind the Folder's container, someone keeps a special blend back there for Security." The masked man suggests, sitting on a bar stool to wait. Black Canary can probably make out the details of a barely seen crescent moon in black on the gray of his suit.

[alotofgood]

Huh.




"... that last one really describes a great number of blokes I know at my school," says James, peering thoughtfully at the specials board.

[raptorcanaria]

"You go to school with a lot of green people?" Dinah asks, deciding to take that as an order.

"Is it on Earth?"

[alotofgood]

"Yeah. It's on Earth."

James laughs.

"And it's more metaphorical, really," he explains. "Their official colours are green and silver."

[cutting_edgex23]

X blinks at the specials board.

Twice.

Has Dinah had another recent run-in with Skrull?

But she doesn't ask. Instead --

"What is in a Green Motherfucker?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Can I borrow your claws to find out?"

...that joke's probably not funny. It certainly wasn't appropriate in front of the literal minded, and Dinah regrets it.

"Creme de Menthe and rum."

[cutting_edgex23]

X gets caught on the first part. Obviously.

"No. You would hurt yourself holding them."

It is only common sense.

Then --

"I would like a root beer float. Please."

Hold the Creme de Menthe.

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"Martian problems?" Well, it could be Green Lantern, too. But Charlie goes with the more obvious choice.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah's glance at Charlie starts ourt as friendly, but disintegrates a little with further thought.

He's from her future. He knows. He could have wanred her - and he didn't.

She shakes her head shortly. "I dont' want to talk about it. Drink?"

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

Actually, he has no idea. The Manhunter is, if anything, the heart of the League, the only constant throughout. Whatever J'Onn did, it gets fixed. He thinks.

"Herbal tea?"

[furiousmaximus.livejournal.com]

Max glances at the specials board, then at Dinah, then back.

Huh.

"What do you recommend?" he asks, settling his elbows on the bar. Leaning forward like that really emphasizes just how massively built he is.

[raptorcanaria]

Yeah, because big good looking guys who are full of themselves are just what Dinah needs.

"Someone has to try an Alien," she says. "I just don't know if I can recommend it in good faith without the infirmary staff coming down on me."

[furiousmaximus.livejournal.com]

He considers that for a moment, then shrugs nonchallantly. "Might as well be me, I suppose."

"Hit me," he grins, tapping the bar with two fingers.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine's had a long, long night on shift. Let's just say she's dragging her butt as she flops onto the closest stool.

"Biggest beer you've got, please. And a tube of nail glue."

Someone broke one of her acrylics. And she's pissed.

[raptorcanaria]

The biggest beer Dinah can find comes in a bottle at least a quart in size, which she offers alonside a glass.

As for the nail glue... it turns out that leather jacket of hers has pockets, and even in costume, emergencies happen.

"There you go. Long night?"

Late to the party - hope it's okay

[starrydome]

He is not going to ask about the last name on the board. Why anyone would name a beverage thus is beyond him.

Then again, different worlds, different ways, and can't most things be explained in that fashion? Here, at least.

He approaches the Bar and asks, "Does any of the specials come with particular endorsement?"

He is still wearing the blue tunic with the silver embroidery and a very thin silvery circlet, making him look very much like a creature stepped out of a fairy tale.

Totally OK - I just missed the tag!

[raptorcanaria]

"I can tell you that I strongly recommend you avoid the first one," the lady in the fishnets replies. "Go for the middle - it has a kick that's not just alcohol."