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[lilium_evansiae]

Lily Evans is behind the bar again this evening, with a neatly lettered sign and a large bowl of multicolored jelly beans.

Well, for a given definition of 'jelly beans.'

HAPPY HOUR
Eat five
Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans
and get half off
your first drink.

Lily performs the charm that makes the letter on the sign flash different colors, and settles in to wait for customers.



[OOC: What five flavors your pup winds up with are entirely up to you. :)]

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[igetthatalot]

"Okay, this I've got to see," says the dwarf with the crossbow as he heads up to the Bar. "What exactly are these beans of yours?"

[lilium_evansiae]

"Well, that's kind of the question," Lily says. "They say every flavor, and they mean it. So they could be anything -- peppermint, chocolate, asparagus, liver, onion, ink, dirt."

[a1enzo]

"Okay, I can't eat these anyway, but I gotta know... what's the catch?"

[lilium_evansiae]

"Might be peppermint, might be vomit, or anything in between."

[a1enzo]

"Is that popular?" he asks incredulously.

[lilium_evansiae]

"Very," she says.

"It's an adventure."

[a1enzo]

"Guess so."

Enzo likes adventure! He just never thought of candy in those terms.

He squints at her, then exclaims, "Oh, hey! You look different when I'm full-size."

[lilium_evansiae]

Lily blinks.

"Sorry?"

[visible_sariel]

There's a young woman - black, twenty-something, curly hair, what could be a uniform - looking from the sign to the bowl of *heh* inocuous jellybeans and back again from a short distance down the bar.

She rather looks as though she's weighing her options. That, or plucking up her courage. Possibly both, given the usual state of free food in Milliways. Then again, this *is* on someone's bartending shift...

[lilium_evansiae]

Lily gives her a bright smile.

"Can I get you anything?"

[visible_sariel]

Oop, bartender in her view. Sariel's attention's on Lily, now.

"Those aren't going to--" the slightest of pauses, "turn me into something, or alter my memory, or... anything, are they?" Because this is Milliways. That question totally needs asking.

[lilium_evansiae]

"Oh, no," Lily says.

"No, it's just that they really do mean every flavor. So it's not just usual sweets -- you could wind up with peppermint or just plain pepper.

"Or grass or dirt or earwax. Or chocolate or strawberry or licorice."

[visible_sariel]

She... really does mean that, doesn't she? Sariel looks rather bemused for a second or so. "Earwax, honestly?" The eww goes unsaid, but it's rather evident anyway.

Even so, Sariel takes the couple steps necessary to put her within reach of the could-be-earwax jellybeans. The bowl gets a long, still slightly dubious look, Lily gets one closer to questioning - this's okay? and then she's reaching for a first pick. And a second and a third, on up to the indicated five.

That first one's bright yellow. Might be lemon or banana, then again, might... not. Then pale pink, glossy dark green, orange, and honey gold.

[lilium_evansiae]

"Yeah, earwax," Lily says. "Well, I mean, supposedly. I've never tasted actual earwax for the sake of determining if it's accurate.

"For obvious reasons."

At least, she hopes they're obvious.

"I'm Lily Evans."

[hey35andholding]

Clementine thinks she's got this.

After all, she practically lived on jellybeans when she was a kid.

"Five at once or one at a time?"

[lilium_evansiae]

"I'd recommend going one at a time," Lily says.

Some of the flavors are weird enough without putting them in combinations.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine shrugs. Hey, when dealing with the magical world, you do as the magically-inclined person suggests!

"Okay...." she reaches inside and pulls out five beans. She pops the first one into her mouth and humms appreciatively. "Coffee - and it's not bad at all."

[lilium_evansiae]

"Those are among the favorites of one of my roommates, the coffee ones.

"One down," Lily says cheerfully.

[hey35andholding]

"They're not bad," she says, chomping it down. She picks up the third one and her eyes water.

Just a little.

That one was tripe-flavored - and Clem, having never tasted the stuff, can only mentally process it as 'eww'.

[lilium_evansiae]

"I take it that one wasn't coffee," Lily says, in reaction to her reaction.

"They really do mean every flavor."

[honourbyname]

"Well, that's easy," Albus says, approaching the bar after reading the specials board.

Mostly.

Sometimes the grape ones also end up being lavender bubble-bath.

He smiles.

"Hullo, Lily."

[lilium_evansiae]

"Well, easy for you," Lily says cheerfully. "You know how they work.

"A lot of people here don't.

"Hello, Albus.

"How are you?"

[honourbyname]

"I'm all right," Albus says, still smiling. "So - um. Does that mean I can't get half off of my drink, then?"

He's just teasing, really.

"And how are you? I didn't know you bartended."

[lilium_evansiae]

"Of course you can.

"If you eat five first."

Even knowing what you're going to get, you don't always know what you're going to get, after all.

"And I'm fine.

"Bar's asked me to a few times.

"It's a good way to meet people."

[honourbyname]

Albus nods.

"Yeah, that's true. I did meet a lot of people the last time I did it. It was - um. It was me and Scorpius tending."

He finds his face burning without even intending it to.

Merlin, he needs to stop that.

"Er - anyway. All right. I'll try five. I get to pick them myself, right?"