[OPEN Mingle] If music be the food of love…

[robintohood]

Who: Mingle post! Jason Todd (DCAU version) robintohood is also available in a separate top-level comment
What: Valentine’s Day season at the Descendant Karaoke Bar and Lounge
When: 2/1 to 2/13, before the February game event
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: None for now. Will update if needed.

[It’s early February and even a place as gritty and tough as Central City isn’t immune to the Valentine’s Day mood.

If one visits the Descendant around this time of the year, one may notice that some of the Gritty the mascot figures are holding fake roses and Cupid bows and arrows. Don’t worry. They’re safe. Really.

In addition, there are two types of songs getting a ton of play. On one side you got romantic and sweet songs such as Truly, Madly, Deeply, My Heart Will Go On, and As Long As You Love Me. On the other side is quite the opposite. These songs about heartbreak. A lot of them also are blow-out torch songs. Classic hits such as You Give Love A Bad Name, I’m Still Standing, and Should I Stay or Should I Go are getting performed with at least as much enthusiasm as the love songs, if not more. Even mobsters sometimes have rough love lives and need to blow off steam.

So whatever your feelings are about Valentine’s Day this year, come drop by for a drink, some entertainment and maybe a bar game or two. Chances are, you’ll be in decent company. Besides, what else could possibly happen in Central City this month?]

((OOC: Mingle post before this month’s big event! Have fun. Jason’s own top-level is right here. My contact information is on this journal's profile and I'm in the game's Discord server. Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns as well. I also have a feedback post.))

Comments

[welcome_summer]

[She's going to try and ignore the opening chords of the Jaws theme that that smile triggered.]

It's not just for me, this time.... Maybe something with coffee, or coffee-flavored?

[robintohood]

How about a classic mudslide then?

[Jason goes behind the bar and looks over what ingredients are available]

[welcome_summer]

That sounds good. Make it nice and sludgy.

[Mayuko settles herself on a stool, easing her feet out of her heels for a spell. It's been a while since she's danced. Not at the inauguration ball, she'd been a cat at the time. The Halloween ball at Loki's Orpherium? That seems right. Time sure does fly.]

How have things been out here? Haven't had any of those meteorites close, have you?

[robintohood]

[Jason starts to gather all the ingredients needed for Mayuko’s order and starts making it]

Luckily, no. Things were relatively quiet here for once. You got caught up in any of that stuff?

[welcome_summer]

Not in Sunset Falls directly. But they're causing a stir in the region.

[She leans both elbows on the bartop to rest her head on her hands.]

Haven't heard of anyone bumping into one and using it for "good" yet.

[robintohood]

Same. You think it’s a sign of something bigger about to happen?

[welcome_summer]

Yeah. When I asked about them, the bosslady didn't have much to say. Except that this is what it feels like when new pantheons are born. And that she's intrigued by them.

[robintohood]

[Jason furrows his brow as he keeps mixing]

Seems ominous.

[Jason doesn’t have much of a reason to trust any pantheon]

[welcome_summer]

Where there's power introduced, there follows the score of ways it can be corrupted. Even by the most well-intentioned person.

Just one more thing to add to this world's mess, huh?

[robintohood]

Naturally. Absolute power corrupts absolutely is a multiverse truth.

[welcome_summer]

Is it? Well, that's a bother.

[There might be a universe where that is not the case! Probably one where porcines soar through the air, to boot.

For now, she admires Jason's uniform construction of the mudslides. Not even the doom-and-gloom talk can dampen this bout of goodwill for long.]

[robintohood]

[Jason finishes off by serving the drink in a martini glass for a more classy look and slides it over to Mayuko]

To self-loving and treating yourself for this holiday.