Return of the hung-over Viking

[bigarmy_strangepants]

[[OOC: Context: Ragnar had some very uncomfortable ideas planted in his head by young!Moriarty, and then walked off into the mountains to get drunk think about them.]]


The back door to the lake and garden opens, and Ragnar Lothbrok walks in. He looks a bit dirty and scruffy, and if you get close, you'll notice that he smells of unwashed Viking.

He walks up to the bar and orders a pint of beer, which he drains to over half mark before putting it down again. He sighs, opens his magical belt pouch, gets out a bottle and puts it on the bar counter where it vanishes.

And another.

And another.

And another...

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[guppy_sandhu]

"The hell happened to you?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I was outside for a bit," Ragnar says, feeding yet another bottle to the bar. This one had been a boxy bourbon one. "Hello, Guppy!"

[guppy_sandhu]

"Were you marinading yourself?" Guppy asks, eying all the bottles.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Doing what to myself?"

The next one is a common or garden beer bottle.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Swimming in it." Guppy says. "Seriously, what's up?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I've been outside for a few days, and took some provisions," Ragnar says.

He is, indeed, rather smelly.

"I needed to think."

[just_cant_lose]

Oh, look! It's his new friend.

...and he really smells. Jim wrinkles his nose as he comes to the bar for another Coke.

'You know they have showers here, yes?'

Yeah yeah, he's been outside for a while, that much is obvious. But it doesn't do to let people know how easy it is to read them.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I know," Ragnar says. "I'm going to get into mine when I got rid of these bottles. I was outside for a few days."

[just_cant_lose]

'Oh.'

He orders a new drink, and takes a step or two away.

'Why?'

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I had a few things to think about," Ragnar says.

[just_cant_lose]

He is amused by the idea that Ragnar might know how to think, but okay. He perches on a stool, and looks sympathetic.

'Are you okay? Most people don't go and think about things for days. Outside, on their own.'

Jim actually identifies with this behaviour, so there's no judgement. Apart from the smell, because there's no need to let yourself go like that.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I do," Ragnar says. "Perhaps we Vikings tend to do more of that, anyway, as we have more time than modern people. A ship sails when it sails. You don't have to catch a train at such hour."

[soldier_blade]

ooc: wondering if this is a good thread to tag in gyda.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

[[OOC: Gyda would be fine -- but please, no Sonya for this one!]]

[runningred]

Jay notices Ragnar empting his pockets of bottles and steps up to the bar and orders a bottle of sports drink. "Here. Drink this, it'll help."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Hello Jay," Ragnar says, turning to him to nod his greetings.

He takes the bottle and drinks.

Huh? There is no alcohol in it!

"What is this?"

Pause.

"Erm. Thanks."

[runningred]

"It'll help you feel better after a bender." Jay nods, ordering himself a coffee. "It has a lot of the things your body loses when you're exercising or drinking heavily."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

Ragnar drinks a bit more of that stuff.

"So it's not supposed to taste nice?" he says. "Well, thank you very much."

He deposits a few more bottles.

"I didn't drink that all at once. I've been in the mountains for a few days."

More like a week.

[runningred]

"No, it's more medicinal than tasty."

Jay raises an eyebrow. "Is the booze the only thing you took with you?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"A seax and a bowl and a blanket," Ragnar says. "Everything else is out there anyway."

Millitimed!

[like_quicksilver]

Gyda was done with her first day by the time she's back in milliways, still keeping an eye for her father. At the end of the day, her shirt's untucked from her skirt and the necktie's loosened and draped around her neck.

When she finally sees him, he's been drinking awhile and she can smell it on him. That's the only think that keeps her from rushing up to him, though it feels like ages since she's seen him.

"You've been gone too long." She pulls herself up to a stool next to him.

ooc: slowtimed..and I just realized, at some point, Gyda's going to learn about the holocaust. :(

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I've been here all the time," Ragnar says. "Unless I was outside."

Which he has been for a few days, admittedly.

"You have fancy new clothes from the future."

As they are stating things at random.

[like_quicksilver]

Just another sign they were related.

"I know," She answered. "Father Pierce told me, and I tried to look for you, but there were so many areas you could be." She wasn't sure she could search all of them before he were to find his way back to Bar again.

"It was my first day of school. They have the students wear uniforms while attending." She was just in too much of a hurry to check on him that the most she did was relax her uniform a little.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"All the girls wear the same clothes?" Ragnar asks. "And who is Father Pierce?"

[like_quicksilver]

ooc: this is why it's a bad idea to do tags after a fourteen hour shift

She frowned. The name didn't even sound right when she first said it, yet that's how it came out. "Father Pearse, I mean. Don't know why it came out that way."

"And yes," In a sense, she was grateful for them: atleast in a uniform, she didn't stick out have as much as she felt on the inside. "Boys were similar, only they're giving dark blue trousers. Girls are only allowed to wear pants in the colder months."

And given it was late summer, that wasn't likely for awhile. "In gym class, we're giving school t-shirts and shorts."

It may've only been one day, but so far gym was her favorite: easier to follow.