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[gotham_knocking]

"Well, hello, Bar.  I haven't seen you in ages!"  Yes, Alex Knox is back.  He hangs up a snow covered coat and his favorite hat, and takes a seat at the Bar.  "Coffee, hot.  And Gotham Reserve, cold."

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[runningred]

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Jay chuckles as he looks up from the book he's reading (a textbook on PTSD) and chuckles. "Bottled smog."

[gotham_knocking]

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"Hey, this is classic beer, and impossible to get at home since the brewery closed." Though to be fair, there is a reason the brewery closed.

[runningred]

Jay snorts at that. "Do I want to know what happened to it?" It's Gotham, after all.

[gotham_knocking]

"The economic crunch in the 70s. The 'Ford to Gotham: Drop Dead' era. They had to cut back. And then cut corners. And for the last year or so, the beer wasn't any good and they lost their loyal customers." Which is to say, every reporter at the Gazette.

[runningred]

"Ah. I was half expecting you to say it was blown up by the Joker or flattened by Two-Face or something." Jay jokes.

[gotham_knocking]

"We've been just a bit lucky in that regard. People get hurt but the economy - what there is of it - hasn't taken many hits. And I don't think anyone misses the Ace Chemical Company much." Even if the ruins are an EPA disaster area.

"How's it going?"

[runningred]

"Probably a good thing. Gotham's a cockroach city. No matter how many times it gets squashed, it keeps going." He shrugs and sips his coffee. "Went home at Christmas. Didn't go well."

[gotham_knocking]

"Home...as in to Bat-land?" What kind of tree would Batman even have? Is there a bat-star at the top?

[runningred]

"As in Gotham, yes." He ducks his head a little, "And yes, as in dealing with the Bats."

[gotham_knocking]

"The thing about leaving Gotham is that you really can't come back. It's either home for life, or it stops being anything to you. I've heard that from a lot of old classmates who left." And even from his parents.

[runningred]

"Nar, it's still in my blood. Womb and tomb. Just not a safe place to be right now, not for me anyway."

[gotham_knocking]

"Got it." He won't pry. Too much. "Where to now?"

[runningred]

"London. Friend of mine has a drug ring issue she needs some extra hand on. Figured it'd be a good way to sharpen up my skills."

[is_the_motion]

"Any good?" Bonnie asks, nodding towards the beer.

[gotham_knocking]

"This was, in my opinion, the finest beer ever made in the history of Gotham City. Too bad the brewery went out of the business." Mismanagement, watered down product and general Gotham malaise are to blame for such things.

[is_the_motion]

"One for me then too please, Bar." Bonnie says, sitting on the next barstool. "Where's Gotham?"

[gotham_knocking]

"East coast of the US, sort of where New York might be on most worlds' map." By now, he takes pride in coming from someplace unique, even special. "Where you from?"

[is_the_motion]

"Los Angeles, California." Bonnie says. "Well now, anyhow, I travelled around the west side mostly as a girl."

[gotham_knocking]

"Can't remember the last time I got to LA. No, wait. Was there for a convention. Took me an hour to go ten miles from the hotel to the convention center." Never ever again.

[is_the_motion]

"Need to get yerself a motorbike." Bonnie says. "Bonnie Murdock." she adds, offering a well-calloused hand.

[gotham_knocking]

Yeah, hard not to notice. "I tried it once in high school. Almost broke my skull. I'll stick with cars. Or better yet, mass transit.

"Alex Knox."

[is_the_motion]

"Yeah, they are pretty dangerous if you don't ride 'em right, or other people don't drive well around you."

Bonnie nods. "Nice to meet you Alex."

[gotham_knocking]

"You, too. You a regular around here these days? I've been away." And funny how after a while, when you stop trying to come to the bar, it stops finding you.

[is_the_motion]

"Kinda, been comin' about a year." Bonnie says. "I help run the new Scout troop."

[gotham_knocking]

"Scout troop? No kidding." He sips his coffee while it's warm enough to knock the chill out of his system.