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[thekidfrombrooklyn]

When the door opens, Steve is already talking.

"--since about a month before Dr. Erskine recruited me. And it's not like any of the locals at home, so brace yourself. But I really love it and I think you'll love it too."

He stops a few steps inside the Bar, laughs and says, "And, uh, here we are. Bucky, this is Milliways."



[ooc: Two muns, two pups! Let us know if you want one or both! No new threads please, and slowtime on existing ones. Thanks, y'all!]

[tiny tag: James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes"]

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[nerves_of_ice]

"... when you said 'brace yourself,' you weren't kidding," he manages, after a few seconds of silent staring.

"What the hell, Steve?"

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Bar at the end of the universe," Steve says innocently, which he is very good at. "That's the observation window, if you ever feel like watching the universe end. And this is the Bar herself," he says, leading Bucky there with a hand on his back. "Your first drink's free."

[nerves_of_ice]

He lets himself be directed without resistance, given that he's staring at the window Steve's pointed out and trying not to trip over his own feet in the process.

Bucky braces himself against the bar and turns to eye Steve instead.

"... you're enjoying this, aren't you."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve nods. "Oh, yeah.

"Ask for anything. Anything you want."

Both is cool by me!

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko is a familiar face to at least one of them, still in her usual happily-colored clothes, still with the swingy crop of hair dyed bright blue and braided all kinds of ways, with little beads at the ends.

She smiles at Steve, and waves from her seat on a barstool with one of her gauntlets off--it's pretty dinged up on the outside, and she's trying to fix it. "Hey, Steve."

Re: Both is cool by me!

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Hey, Nori," says Steve, beaming. "How are you doing?"

Re: Both is cool by me!

[nerves_of_ice]

The girl's got blue hair.

... right. Okay.

He leans out a little so he can get a better look, and smiles.

"Hey."

[electro_kinetic]

"Well, I lost the shiner," she says, gesturing to her now-not-bruised eye with a wave of her still steel-gauntleted hand. (The blue hair may not be the weirdest thing about Nori, Sergeant Barnes. Sorry.)

"So better, at least a little." She doesn't really want to tell him and his friend about the demonstration that ended in a massacre. Bucky gets a second glance as he leans out from around Steve, and an equal little grin. "Hi."

[cutting_edgex23]

X, who is on-shift tonight, catches sight (and scent) of one person who is new, and one person who isn't.

And since she is about to go off-shift, she slips out of her seat and moves quietly across the floor.

"Hello."

Her face does not hold very much expression.

Part of that is simply the way she was made. (But only part.)

[nerves_of_ice]

"Hi."

He's adapting to the place a bit by now, enough to at least feel like he's getting his feet under him. It's reflected in his smile.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve looks over too, with his usual friendly smile. "Hi, there. I'm Steve."

[cutting_edgex23]

X's expression does not shift. At all.

Her nostrils do flare, though, scenting the air. Neither of them are entirely familiar, but there is something . . .

"I am X."

Beat.

"I am allowed to ask when you are from?"

[a_bolin_stone]

[ooc: happy to take both! :D will be a bit scarce until 10 PM eastern, though.]

Over near the fireplace, there's a guy kneeling on the floor with a stone disc in hand. It's the size of a dinner plate, with a square hole in its center; he's trying to coax a bright red, ferrety-looking critter into jumping through said hole.

"Come on, Pabu. You can do it -- "

It might take a second glance to realize "in hand" is more like "levitating the disc about a foot off the ground."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve sees him and nudges Bucky in his direction. "My friend Bolin. He can move rocks with his mind."

[nerves_of_ice]

"... you have some really interesting friends."

He goes along with the nudge, though.

"Hello, rock-floating guy - Bolin, you said?" he asks Steve. "Hello, fuzzy little fox guy."

The sheer ridiculousness of the place is beginning to get to him, and he grins.

"I'm Bucky."

[a_bolin_stone]

Rock-floating guy narrows it down way more here than it would back home: Bolin's already looking up before Bucky even says his name. He breaks into a grin.

"Hey!" he says with a wave. The disc bobs a little higher, to which Pabu -- crouched on his haunches and wiggling in anticipation of the leap -- chitters in dismay. "Nice to meetcha, Bucky. Hey Steve, how's it going?"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

According to Scribe Sprunk, they've got enough parts to start the main production line machines on their first test run tomorrow, and Scribe Thornburgh says there are enough wind turbines up thanks to the Protectrons' literally tireless efforts to justify starting work on a radio mast. Ellen is thrilled. "Hey, Bar?" she calls out. "Can I get- oh, hi, Steve!"

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Hi, Ellen!" Beamy Steve is beaming a lot today. "Ellen, come meet a friend of mine--this is Sergeant James Barnes, but everybody calls him Bucky."

[nerves_of_ice]

Steve's doing a lot better at chatting up pretty girls, it's looking like. Bucky can't say he minds, but it's going to take some getting used to.

"Hello, Ellen," he says, with a smile. "Nice to meet you."

Both

[thefirststark]

Howard finds himself staring. He didn't expect to see either Rogers or Barnes here. But if Peggy could find her way her, why can't everyone else.

He hopes the colonel doesn't.

"Gentleman, this is, er, a surprise."

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[nerves_of_ice]

"I'll say it is," Bucky agrees. "Hello -- "

What's the protocol here? The guy's a civilian, at least technically, and they're off duty, but at the same time...


"-- Mr. Stark."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Mr. Stark," Steve says, with a polite nod and a big smile. "I didn't know you knew about the bar."

Both! :D

[golden_lyre]

Orpheus has never seen Steve come in with somebody else before, so he kind of figures this must be someone from the show. Even if Steve isn't in costume.

He doesn't want to interrupt anything, and he doesn't want to ignore Steve either, so he just offers him a smile and a nod from the bar.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve waves back, gesturing him to the booth. "Orpheus, come join us!"

[nerves_of_ice]

... so this is the immortal demigod guy.

Okay then.

Bucky puts on a smile of his own, and nods a hello.