Happy Hour

[mechanicalswans]

Weyland is still in his uniform (WWI, Imperial German airman)(and is going to stay Captain Adler until he is good and ready to move on to a new identity, not that just changing one's name is a very effective disguise or anything) and is absently working on some airplane schematics as he loiters behind the bar tonight.

Specials:
Tainted Heart
Cold Fire
Red Devil

Impress the bartender and your drinks are free

[open forever, but slows are likely past 10 EST]

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[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

Maybe She-Hulk is impressive enough on her own, but she has tricks up her sleeves if necessary. She approaches the bar and goodie goodie, there's a bartender!

"Impressive enough?" she asks. "If not, I'll sing, dance, and try the Red Devil."

[mechanicalswans]

This is part of why just changing one's name is not an effective disguise. Where Captain Adler had had a totally ordinary upbringing outside Berlin, Weyland was raised by giants.

"I do like a good song," he says. "Haven't heard any in quite a while."

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"I come with my own theme song," she smiles. "You are looking at the queen of karaoke."

She is, really! Thus, she starts to sing:

"We'll be singing, when we're winning,
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never ever gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down

Pissing the night away, pissing the night away
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Oh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down

Pissing the night away, pissing the night away
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Don't cry for me, next door

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down

You're never, ever gonna keep me down!

I get knocked down, (we'll be singing)
But I get up again (pissing the night away)
You nay ever gonna keep me down (when we're winning)

I get knocked down, (we'll be singing)
But I get up again (pissing the night away)
You nay ever gonna keep me down (ooh)

I get knocked down, (we'll be singing)
But I get up again (pissing the night away)
You're never gonna keep me down (when we're winning)

I get knocked down, (we'll be singing)
But I get up again (pissing the night away)
You're never gonna keep me down (ooh)

I get knocked down, (we'll be singing)
But I get up again (pissing the night away)
You're never gonna keep me down (when we're winning)!"

She knows the lyrics to "Danny Boy," too.

[mechanicalswans]

That right there rates an E for enthusiasm.

Hey, his people were always known for their love of music, and he is no different. So he smiles, and starts mixing up her drink.

"How did you happen to get your own theme song?"

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"I made it my own," she replies, with a broad smile. "The refrain could describe the last ten years of my life. I'm Jennifer, by the way. Sometimes known as She-Hulk, at other times Jennifer as it suits."

[mechanicalswans]

"Captain Gustav Felix Theodor Adler," he says, giving her a polite half-bow (and heel-click) as he slides her drink over, "but my friends call me Theo. A pleasure to meet you, Miss Jennifer. I've always been partial to the stubborn and the tough."

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"Well, aren't you polite. A pleasure to meet you, Theo. I've answered to stubborn and tough before."

She tastes the drink. It's very, very good.

"So what brings you to tend bar at Milliways?"

[mechanicalswans]

"There was a note," he says. "I've paid my tab, but it never hurts to do a favor for someone else. It can come in useful later---unless you mean in the larger, more philosophical sense?"

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"Both, if you're inclined to answer."

Shulkie is endlessly curious about her fellow patrons of Milliways. The only bad experience she's had here involved sucker-punching an annelid, but that was on Zed's Earth, not exactly in Milliways proper.

[mechanicalswans]

"I'm returning from leave," he says. "I was home for a few days, and I was just on my way back--I'm helping to test a new aircraft design--when I ended up here instead, and I haven't had a door since. I can't wait to go back; I've been drawing some improvements here in the meantime."

[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"You're Bound?"

Cue sympathy - no, more like anger - over Weyland's plight.

She sips her drink, meditating.

"Do you think that there's any rhyme or reason that people get Bound?"

so very very late. but I couldn't resist?

[i_candozat]

Still very, very relieved that he was changed back this morning--and has all anatomically necessary parts again--there is a young Pavel Chekov who takes a seat at the bar, setting down the dormant PADD he had been working with.

That was before seeing there was a bartender. "Impress you how?" he asks, Russian accent thick on his tongue.

Re: so very very late. but I couldn't resist?

[mechanicalswans]

"Any way you like," he says. "I'm not easily impressed, but it has been a dull week and I could use something to liven things up a bit."

This is what happens when he spends all of Carnival out in the forge, building a horse. All work and no play, and all.

[i_candozat]

Pavel muses for a moment and sets the PADD down, chin in his hand. "I do not know zat I hawe anyzing to impress you. But I can show you a holo of ze stars I want to explore. Zey can be beautiful."

[mechanicalswans]

"I've always been fond of stars," he says. "A love of astronomy runs in my family--and astrology, but that's not the same. My mother used to plot star charts as a hobby, no matter how much my father told her it was nonsense."

[evilontheloose]

Impress, impress... maybe her antigravity orb? Jordan climbs to a stool, pulls the metal and glass ball from a pocket of her cargo pants and puts it up in the air, where it floats.

[mechanicalswans]

He watches it, with faint curiosity.

There doesn't seem to be any trace of magic to it, not that he can feel, but there it is.

Sure, he could do it with magic, but without it?

"Where did you get that?" he asks.

[evilontheloose]

Magic schmagic. Jordan does SCIENCE. "I made it. It's my prototype, wanted to see how long it would run without a recharge."

[mechanicalswans]

"And how long does it run?" he asks.

He is curious as to how it runs, too, what the energy source is. How one would recharge it.

[evilontheloose]

"It has been four months so far." And it's still running. "Of course, it only neutralizes gravity, it does not push away from it."

[mechanicalswans]

"'Only neutralizes gravity'?" he asks. "Anything can push away from gravity. I should know; I fly airplanes."

[evilontheloose]

"Oh, sure, but with a full gravity bubble engine, I can move a vehicle in any direction. Just facing the resistance of the air." Passively neutralizing gravity is one thing. "Navigate gravity fields like a fish swims on water."

[mechanicalswans]

"It would take more power, though," he says. "At a certain point of size, it seems to me, it might get more difficult than economical to power a vehicle like that."

[evilontheloose]

"No, because the gravity engine uses -less- power as it runs." Jordan grins. "It needs to be big enough to project the bubble over the whole of the vehicle, but after that, you only need more power if you're in a hurry."

"And for that, you can have emergency power cells."

[mechanicalswans]

"Do you?" he muses.

It's a very different approach to the problem than one he would use, but an effective one all the same.