Crack a bottle in celebration

[cristovau]

Ondrej pries open his case of Dark Castle beer and stares at the void. "Do prdele!" he mutters, "Water it is." He grabs one and looks over the colorful and scattered crowd. Straightening his tie, he smiles, thinking, "Well, I have saved them 1 credit each at least, but what cost do I take myself? And do the chances we take bring gain we need?" He looks up at the big grin on Sally's face.

"Yes! Na stravi!" he toasts. The price is worth the cost.

[Brett]

Coming in through the front door Brett limps in, muscles so sore and stiff that if he sat down now he would never get up... worth the risk he thinks. The noxious fumes in the air giving a very pleasant aftertaste to each breath as he plops down at one of the tables getting a cold glass of water, cuts and bruises carefully cleaned up with only the faint green staining from the now closed wounds.

"Owww, my everything hurts... but it hurts so good! Kicking ass and taking names is the way to be around here folks, we'll sleep like kings tonight!"

[lackey]

"Good job, everyone."

-Ed

[cathy]

Dr. Zinc sits at her table caked in dry blood, both from red, green, and black ichor sources. Her once pristine white jacket symbolic of her dedication to her corporation ... had seen many many better days.

In front of her lay scattered sheets of white paper with tables, formula, and diagrams. To the side was the deconstructed notebook of the Fission reactor specs. To the right a complex calculator, a single vial of red blood standing on a rack, and a medicinal text book.

Her eyes fly over all of the texts and lay back on the red vial in front of her. Zoey looks up to Sally for a moment as a frown forms on her face. Her eyes scan everyone in the room as her brow scrunches together. Her hand touches her forehead as she stops in shock, eyes wider. Bringing her hand in front of her she sees sweat...She shakes her head and takes a few deep breaths.

Looking down to her project in hand she calls out, "Sally you are limited to 6 drinks!" Placing a familiar bottle of bright orange pills on the table, "When you have a moment, come over and take two, don't ask questions."

[Gus]

Gus, being quiet and leaning against the wall, drinks water, looking on.

As he watches everyone celebrating, he smiles tiredly, but proud.

.. Then his eyes catch Zoe's concern.

Frowning he approaches and mutters, "everything okay, doc?"

[Clockwork]

After a good nights sleep, Hank goes back into the tavern with his guitar. He lightly strums the string trying to bring a little piece and music back to the diner.

He is poorly attempting to recite Jim Croce's Operator. Seems like he is distracted and can't finish the piece. Constantly looking over his shoulder at every strange sound. Eventually he moves his chair so that he can see more of the room. Doesn't seem to help.

He quietly speaks aloud to anyone that will listen. "So is it always like this around here?"

[Erica]

Antalya looks up from a pile of paperwork she is completing and gives Hank a tired nod.

"Sadly, this does seem to be l'habitude - the usual - at least since last August." She reaches for her coffee cup, then remembers that it continues to contain regular coffee. "You think Amizon will ship me an espresso machine up here?"

[Madrigus]

Madrigus responds to Hank's question automatically and in a manner that makes him seem as if he isn't paying attention to even himself.

"If you mean quiet then I can assure you that remote towns such as this one are deadly silent so often that it's citizens are often petrified of large disturbances or noises." He blinks a few times and, coming back to himself, directs his attention to the musician. "If you mean the rather frequent number of disturbances we had this weekend then I can only guess that things were rather unusual. Otherwise certain town ordinances wouldn't be in place, such as the 'no weapons' policy. If the townsfolk were constantly being attacked by giant moths then I assume said folk would be well prepared for such occasions."

[Owle Isohos]

Kelsey glances over to Dr. Zinc and Sally with some concern, but she figures the doc has it covered. Her crowding over there wouldn't be of any help, so she sits back down and looks over at Hank and Antalya.

"Sherriff says this is a quiet town, but he's right when he says no one's going to believe him after what happened. There's a lot of local legends, and from what I hear, this sort of weirdness isn't out of the ordinary. It's about par for the course after what happened to us all the island.

"Don't think I saw you there, by the way," she says to Hank. "My name's Kelsey."

She smiles at Antalya. "Couldn't hurt to ask. Long as no one decides to crash the Amizon truck as part of an evil plot."

[Clockwork]

Hank keeps strumming along. Then says "Hi Kelsey. Guess our paths didn't cross. I was hoping that these last few days were just an anomaly. But I think some of the weird came to town to battle the other weird. The things I've seen... I am sure glad the Professor was around. Kept me from going to batty."

"Maybe we can just pretend all is well. If everyone can just put their own personal weird away most of the time. I'd sleep a lot better"