Happy Hour

[clayforthedevil]

Bahorel grins when he finds the napkin waiting for him. "Why, Madame Bar, I thought you'd never ask."

He grins even more when he reads some of what it actually says. There seem to be so many excellent holidays here. He jumps over the bar and in neat calligraphy writes on the Specials board:

 

Happy Holiday Survival Hour
 

First Drink free with Confession of a Complaint

Any drink that gets set on fire 1/2 off

The bar's extremely open, folks.

((ooc: open until the next Happy Hour goes up!))

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[onceaviking]

Now that is the kind of attitude he can work with.

"It's human, voluntarily donated for this purpose even. They have a synthetic option as well, but that taste even more like lukewarm piss."

He leans on the counter. "Still, people like to judge."

[clayforthedevil]

That gets an outright laugh. "They do, indeed! And for what little quirks of behavior, hey? If a person wants to bleed, then what business is that of anyone else, so long as it's not their floor the blood's falling on?"

He slides the glass over. "Check the temperature; I can get it a little hotter without it curdling. --- so if it tastes like warm piss, drinking it must be a necessity?"

...Or the guy's just committed to making a point. Which would also be understandable.

[onceaviking]

"This will do," Eric says, as he picks up the glass.
"And it is, I am a vampire. It is the only thing I can digest."

[clayforthedevil]

It's a better reason for drinking blood than most!
"Pleased to meet you, Monsieur Vampire. For myself, I am dead, and being a revenant is proving to be quite unlike my own expectations; so I shall assume nothing of what your title means. Is it any different from the usual run of human affairs, apart from a rather restricted diet?"

[onceaviking]

"I think that is the way it is for most of Milliways' dead," Eric replies, as he takes a sip of his drink.

"As far as vampires go, we are immortal. Were stronger than humans, faster than humans. We have greater - stamina." His smile is practically roguish.

"I sleep during the day, and I prefer the company of pretty young things."
A shrug.
"Some things are different, others were much the same."

[clayforthedevil]

Bahorel grins right back at stamina. "You make it sound like catching a case of poetry. Are all your blood-giving volunteers pretty young things, then?"

[onceaviking]

"Hopefully not. The are plenty of romantics who find us fascinating. I tend to give them a wide berth."

He takes another sip, considering the question.
"Yes, they rather tend to be just that. Lively, attractive. Adventurous. Easier to find here then where you arrived from I should think."

He may not know fashion but he's lived through centuries. He can remember what people used to dress like.

[clayforthedevil]

Oh dear. Not Romantics!

The vampire almost certainly doesn't know fashion- at least not from Bahorel's day. Otherwise he'd know the scarlet of Bahorel's waistcoat is as much a statement of allegiance as the cockade some of his friends still carry. It's a minor detail of course, and easily lost across time, to say nothing of worlds-- but that doesn't stop Bahorel from grinning hugely at the private joke of it.

"It depends on where you look, perhaps. And when-- I gather from some reading that my Paris gave a bit of a bumper crop for a few years, but is there ever truly a shortage of young people eager to bleed?" He considers the vampire for a moment. "What do you offer them, to make them volunteers for your particular cause-or is it only that people in your world are fair enough to allow people their necessities without prohibition?"

...Which would be much stranger that vampires, overall.

[onceaviking]

"You are probably right," Eric conceedes. "We were all eager to see battle when I was young, I do remember that. I was a Viking when I was human."

Another sip.

"It depends. Here, it is sometimes - generosity. Mostly, it is their own desires prompting them, I'd say. At home, it is mainly the latter. And romantic notions of course, as I've already mentioned."

His world did have a French Revolution, but the finer nuances have likely been wasted on him.

[clayforthedevil]

"There's little better reason for it than their own desires, to be sure." And that sounds wholly Romantic to Bahorel, who considers that he is in a position to know. Which makes the vampire's clear aversion to the word even funnier. "You were a proper Viking? Raids and battles and longboats? Then you have stories trailing you in every direction. How long ago was that, for you?"

[onceaviking]

Eric would wager that Bahorel would not appreciate the modern variety. The neo-Victorians and the lace clad Goths. If he knew.

"A thousand years," he replies.