milliways_bar | Entries tagged with chase stein

Dinah had been meaning to ask for more help in the garden, but it had hardly occured to her that she needed it - being happy to do everything that needed done as her hobby rather than something to worry about. She has had a tendency to treat it as her personal pet project.

On having seen the tabs being recalled, though she figures she could take on spring recruits to help out with that.

So, on the noticeboard:

Garden staff hiring
Need to pay off your bar tab?
Looking for work outdoors?

Help in the Milliways garden!
All levels of experience welcome, talk to Dinah Lance.

Dinah herself makes her way to a table, armed with a basket of fresh flowers and a waiting collection of stem vases. The bar needs more flowers.

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The gardening work is slow for the time being (given the snow), but it gave Chase a few ideas how to tide things over. You see, he worked out that people will pay more money for plants when the dirty work has been done.

So he spent the morning outside, with a bag of bulbs, some plant pots, and some glitter spray paint. First of all he worked out that it was easier to spray the pot before putting the soil in, then he got into a rhythm - spray, soil, bulb, done.

He's now set up a stall in the main bar, selling said shiny pots.

Dafodils
$1 a pot
All profits go to feeding runaways.

He sits back and waits for his moneymaking scheme to take off. Piece of cake, right?

Sadly, having been mostly responsible for digging in the garden rather than actual horticulture, he has planted all fifty bulbs upside down in the pots. But there's still some chance they might grow. Probably.

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A girl and her Deinonychus are in the bar, at a table. Gert has sushi and saki, Old lace has a bucket of raw steak. Company is welcomed.

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Gert and Old Lace are eating dinner at a table - well, Gert is at the table, OL is eating raw liver from a bucket on the floor. Gert herself is eating miso ramen and sipping green tea.

They are not adverse to company.

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Chase looks like he just got out of bed, and has fluffy bed hair to match.

He gets a coffee and a greasy breakfast from Bar, then flops on the nearest sofa with his bacon buttie.

He drips ketchup down his front, and attempts to wipe it off, making the stain four times bigger than it was to start with.

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CJ slides over the counter to the other side with a determined expression, and starts to fill the specials board with drink recipes:

** SPECIALS **

* Alcoholic *

TEQUILA

- blanco (doubles as pipe cleaner);

- reposado (a kick);

- oro (mix of the two above);

- añejo (the best);

BEER

- Moretti (italian);

- Tsingtao (chinese);

* Non-Alcoholic *

- Soda and juice mixes;

- Fruit punch;

He nods to himself, turning to the Bar at large. "Happy Hour is up, folks. Let's make it deserve the name."

[ Open until forever, Millitime applies after midnight EST ]

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CJ slides over the counter to the other side with a determined expression, and starts to fill the specials board with drink recipes:

** Specials **

* Alcoholic *

- Eggnog Captain Morgan (eggnog, spiced rum, nutmeg);

- Amaretto Shake (brandy, amaretto, chocolate ice cream);

- Snowball (lemonade, advocaat, ice);

- Kir Royale (champagne, creme de cassis);

- Orange Crush (vodka, triple sec, orange juice);

* Non-Alcoholic *

- Avocado milkshake;

- Soda mixes;

- Fruit punch;

He nods to himself, turning to the Bar at large. "Happy Hour is up, folks. Let's make it deserve the name."

[ Open until forever, Millitime applies after midnight EST ]

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Carlotta has been very busy.

Over the course of the year, she has been making pots in art, and smuggling them out into the bar for Christmassy purposes.

There are therefore small parcels, each containing a different colour glazed pot. Weyland, Knox, Momiji, Yuki and The Question have ones about the size of pencil holders, in various shades of red, purple and sparkly. Demeter and Teja get vases in green (Demeter's is slightly wonky but fully functional). Accompanying each is a hand painted Christmas card.

It feels rather odd giving them out in summer, but she puts them under the tree nonetheless, pausing to peer with interest at the modern decorations.

***

Chase's time in the gardens has paid off, it seems.

He wrapped them mostly in newspaper, and put them under the tree.

( Gert, Victor, Molly, Karolina, Xavin, Nico )

Then he settles by the fire, taking his socks off when he reckons Gert isn't looking.

[tinytag: Carlotta Brown.]

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Gert is curled up on a sofa by the fire, eating popcorn and drinking hot chocolate. Old Lace is at her feet and every so often Gert throws a piece of popcorn at the large dinosaur who catches it in her mouth. Seriously, having Old Lace is just like having a very ;large and scaly puppy.

Current Music: Puke - Eminem

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Carlotta is sitting near the trilobite tank, sewing her costume for the form's play.

________________

Vyvyan enters, wiping soil off his hands, and spots Wellington Womble crossing the bar in front of him. The punk grins, wanders light-footedly towards the small furry creature, then yells "Boo!".

The Womble flees behind the nearest couch, and Vyvyan sits at the bar for a pint of babysham.

________________

Chase Stein is eating a burger so big it barely fits in his mouth.

He might share the fries.

[tinytags: Carlotta Brown, Vyvyan]

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Chase is over by the bar, having a soda and flicking through a sports magazine.

He pauses, using the straw to suck up the pips from the orange slice in the glass, then waits for a suitable victim before shooting them with it.

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After failing to defeat the plant yesterday, Chase was, quite frankly, pissed off. He's fought supervillains for goodness sakes, he refuses to be beaten by a plant.

Except he seems to have been beaten by the plant.

So he's got a new plan! If he can't defeat the jungle plant, maybe he can rescue the other plants from underneath it...

So he's now scooping up anything not jungley or dead, dumping it in buckets and carrying it out to next to the bar.

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Chase hopes he's getting overtime for all this.

Equipped with a rucksack with some large bottles of vinegar and weedkiller, he sets off outside to find the main body of the giant plant. Best to poison it at its source he figures.

The plant is mysteriously well behaved until he gets close, then it picks him up with lightning speed, dangles him and shakes him around until both bottles are broken and he's covered in vinegar.

He dangles upside down and wonders what plan B is.

(He would swear the plant is laughing at him)

[tinytag: Jungle plot]

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When Chase signed up for garden work, he expected it to be sort of tiring, but pretty routine.

After a few days of chasing blobs and then finding the ones he's captured seem to have just disappeared, he came downstairs yesterday to find a giant... jungle plant thing.

He tried to uproot some of the ones blocking the light out over the garden plants. After all, they probably belong to someone, he figured he shouldn't kill them without asking.

This didn't work. And the plant seemed to be getting bigger. So he tried plant clippers to just trim it back a bit.

After breaking the plant clippers he went to find some bigger plant-cutting things. But he doesn't seem to be able to get anything to cut with them.

He's just coming back with an axe when he is smacked in the head by a large bough, which he would swear moved on its own. He mutters a word he wouldn't say in front of Molly and moves in with the axe again.

The plant punches him in the face, taking him totally by surprise and knocking him back.

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Hello Mike, Mel and everybody!

we have a problem outside. There are magic-resistant blobs all over the place that I can't find anything about in the magic library, and then there is a jungle of spiny plants trying to devour the garden.
I'm sure you know. Call on me to help with whatever you need if you've got an idea, because I'm fresh out of them. I'll probably bawl if the jungle plants eat the kitchen garden I planted for Gil, but otherwise there's not much I can do. Because the blobs block my magic, so I can't blast the jungle away, either.-

Unhappily,
Asar-Suti

That posted, Asar-Suti sits down by the fire, with a mug of positively volcanic coffee, and glowers. He is even more purple than usual with anger, frustration, and worry.

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Chase, despite having worked in the garden for a few months to earn a bit of extra cash, doesn't know a whole lot about plants. If it needs planting, dig a hole, if it's in the wrong place, move it, if it's too big, chop it off.

What he does know, is that these white things going around are not plants.

He jots down a note for Asar-Suti and leaves it at the bar.

( Asar-Suti )

Then he goes out with a wheelbarrow and a net to try and catch a few, because he can always let them go again. This doesn't seem to be going well.

fiery_ring

Carlotta's throat hurts.

She doesn't really feel energetic enough to go leaping around tonight, so she's sitting in a corner struggling over some maths prep. Algebra - ugh.

She sucks a throat sweet and tries to work out the sums.

***

Chase Stein has been mowing the lawn, and is now kicking a soccer ball around out back.

***

John Steed appears to be being attacked by a man dressed as a giant crab before he comes into the bar. He polishes off his attacker with a careful few punches, then steps over the body and into the bar.

"A brandy please." he says, sitting at the bar.

[tinytag: Carlotta Brown]

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Gert is sitting at the bar eating a breakfast that consists of a packet of Oreos and a glass of milk, while Old Lace munches her way through roughly a dozen boxes of stale Krispy Creme donuts. Mmmm. Tasty.

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Chase is out back, doing some weeding.

He's doing quite well until he grabs the wrong plant and pulls hard, finding himself holding a rather pretty pink flower.

Uh oh, boss might be mad. And then there will be no pay. And then there will be no new underwear or present for Gert.

He hurriedly digs a hole and begins righting the plant. The stalk should be vertical, presumably, and the roots under the level of the soil...

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This Monday morning, very early, Asar-Suti is in the garden, working. Everything is lush and green now, but the branches of the conifers still have their light-green tips, and on some of the other trees there remain the sorry left-overs of bloom.

Tulips and Hyacinths have gone, to be replaced with peonies and rhododendrons as the main flowery attractions. And the herbs are sprouting in all directions, the beds of the kitchen garden overflowing with abundance.

At the moment, the purple god is gently plucking the last of the woodruff for this year, to deliver to the kitchen.-

[[OOC: Put up for Lucrecia, but open to all! If your charrie is on the gardening team, this is the chance to show them doing their job. Tag them in, and have them chat to each other, or with 'Suti, or meet Lucrecia when she's tagged in -- might be fun!]]

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Chase is out back, digging.

young_womble

Wellington did his first kitchen shift this morning, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

He still has his apron on now, though, and thought he'd make himself useful by tracking down lost spoons.

***

Chase Stein is out back, digging up a flowerbed.

***

John Steed is by the fire, with a brandy, people-watching.

***

Toby de Silva is cramming an orthapaedic text book, whilst drinking a pint of beer.

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There is a purple god in purple wellie boots out in the garden this morning, waiting for the people he hired.

He has large thermoses of tea and coffee, boxes full of seed packages, and lists.

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Gert was getting cabin fever. No doubt about it. Being stuck in her room, staring at the same four walls was driving her crazy. She had to get out of that room so she's come downstairs hoping for a quiet meal, maybe a conversation or two and a nice long walk by the lake to burn off some of OL's pent up energy.

She hadn't realised that the bar had been over run with small people and a full scale tag battle was taking place inside the bar. Gert, not really being all that at ease with small people, has retreated to a corner to eat, but O.L. is watching the game with wide amber eyes.

"Hey, I know what you're thinking and the answer is no. Those kids would kill you. Seriously."

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This morning, Asar-Suti comes down from the magical library with lots of fresh purpose in his step.

He approaches the notice board and hangs up a hand-written sign:

Seeking gardeners!!

Young, bound, and urgently in need of some tab?
Like plants, nature, fresh air, and to work with living things?
You could be a gardener in Milliways!
Five to seven young people of all genders sought, good for the entire gardening season (into November) if you want to, or part of that, if you become unbound or go adventuring.
Leave a message for Asar-Suti if you're interested, or speak to me in the garden or the magical library - I am purple!

Also, if you want a herb/flower bed of your own to cultivate, this is the chance to get it for the season!

Then, Asar-Suti gets a large mug of very strong coffee and walks out into the garden to look at the lay of the land as it emerges from under the snow. How about adding a little maze over there, near the path that leads to the Caribbean inlet? Or perhaps some flower boxes around the forge and the stables?