Bartending

[aleister_author]

The sign goes up in a simple white chalk scrawl.

Mixed Special Tonight
10% off mixed drinks
50% off if you have a mixed species relationship

No, they can't both count at the same time.

"Happy Hour is on folks. Come and get it!"

Comments

[aleister_author]

"Promotional tour for my last book. I figure who ever did the bookings had a very, very tiny map."

[a1enzo]

"How do you mean?"

[aleister_author]

"Paris, Georgia and St. Paris, Ohio should come further apart than one night if you want the people in question to be able to speak in whole sentences."

[a1enzo]

"I thought that was in France."

[aleister_author]

"The famous one sure."

Lots of completely baring, unfamous places have book stores.

"I don't want to even think about how many places there are named London."

[a1enzo]

"Huh."

Well, there's Mexico and New Mexico, after all, he supposes.

"Where's Georgia, again?"

[aleister_author]

"Bottom right."

Wait no, that's page layout.

"South-eastern part of the US, more or less."

[a1enzo]

"Near... Florida?"

[aleister_author]

"Oh yeah. Next door neighbors."

[a1enzo]

Enzo nods, satisfied. "Too many states to remember."

[aleister_author]

"Usually this is where I say you can skip over the ones in the middle."

But, you know, half-ghost girlfriend from Illinois.

"Honestly, if I didn't travel around like I do for promotional tours I'd probably get lost as soon as I left New York."

[a1enzo]

"Hey, man, don't diss the middle."

[aleister_author]

"But what do you do with it. Seriously, what's it for?"

There's something backwards about this conversation.

[a1enzo]

Enzo looks blankly at him.

He's still learning about the Earth, you know. He doesn't really know what any specific bits are for.

[aleister_author]

Well to be fair all Tyler's experience grants him is a better grasp of what to ignore.

"Forget it. Things are different for you I guess?"

[a1enzo]

"Which things did you have in mind?"

Though, usually, the answer can be relied upon to be yes.

[aleister_author]

"I don't know. Landscapes, countries, borders?"

[a1enzo]

"None of the above. Self-contained systems and Internet pathways."

[aleister_author]

"So, city states and trade routes would be the equivalent mostly?"

[a1enzo]

"Yes to the city-states, though the really big systems are more like countries. I don't know about trade routes."

[aleister_author]

"Don't know what they're like or don't know what you have at home?"

[a1enzo]

"...yes."

[aleister_author]

"I left myself open for that."

Tyler gets himself a ginger ale and settles in the perform exposition.

"I don't know exactly what you've got, but a trade route is some way that it's easier or faster to move a set of cargo. Either because of distances, or landforms or winds or all sorts of things."

[a1enzo]

"Oh. Well, we have distances, but not the other stuff. Everything there is, is cities and the paths between them. No other land. And we mostly fly, we don't use wheels. So, yeah, it's pretty different."

[aleister_author]

"So trucking with flying semis to move cargo."

Tyler takes a quick swallow and turns the glass a little after bringing it back down.

"How are you set up for parks overall?"