Let's Party Like It's 1999- Bar Opening in the Nexus [OPEN POST]

[angelic_asshole]

It had been a time coming but finally Balthazar's bar "The Angel's Retreat" was open for business having been stocked up fully with drinks of all shapes, sizes and colours. Standing at the bar area is the owner, wings out and clutching a glass of Lucifer's finest angel booze. Scotch to be precise but at angel strength. The certain bottles of gut rot were locked up within a drinks cabinet behind the bar with only Balthazar being able to open it. The stuff was lethal to non-immortals and not wanting to poison potential customers, safety had to be upheld.

[ooc: Just pick which part of the club your character will visit and Balthazar will respond to both.]


The Bar Area:

(Pictures of the bar can be found here.)

Feel free to mingle here with one another and indulge in conversation and order your drinks here. Balthazar will be on hand to deliver whatever your heart's desire so chooses. Whether it be the strongest drink to the less lethal non-alcoholic varieties. Along with drinks there are also bowls of snacks positioned along the length of the bar including; crisps, potato chips (tortillas and the like), pickles, peanuts and other aperitifs.



The Nightclub and dance floor:

(Picture of the dance floor can be found here.)

If you are tired of ordering drinks or chatting then have no fear. If you walk into the backroom of the bar you will find a night club area, complete with a dance floor and DJ in the corner offering up a wide range of music. He also takes requests, so feel free to ask. That, or Balthazar will arrange something for your tastes. There is also a pole with a woman, or man, binding himself around it, offering up quite the show for any eager enthusiasts. It depends on what time of day you frequent the club. If it's evening then the pole dancer will be here showing of their moves. The dance floor is open all day.

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[itmeanstruth]

"Don't have enough..." Minoru muttered to himself. He looked down at Jack quizzically. Clearly, he didn't come from whatever space colony Ziggy was from. What sort of place has skyscrapers, but not enough energy to actually power them?

"What do you mean... survive?"

[apocalypsejack]

Jack looks up with his one blue eye and the patch over the other. "We're not reputable citizens. They'll vaporize us or shoot us... or when the plague fog comes in you've got to climb or die."

How often had he picked up his one girl and climbed with her because she couldn't? He'd lost count.

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru slid down the pole until he was almost eye to eye with Jack.

"Not here, though... Nobody can do that here." Minoru offered reassurance where he could. Wherever that awful place was, Jack wasn't currently in it. "Not sure about plague fog, but nobody at the hospital has ever talked about it. So I'm guessing it can't happen here."

Surely, if that was a common weather pattern, someone would have warned him by now.

"Here, we can climb things just because it's fun." he offered, motioning for Jack to do the same and holding out his hand. "Finish your drink. Show me what you've got!"

[apocalypsejack]

"I can't live here." Jack's voice is a little sharp and it isn't Minoru's fault exactly. Balthazar asked him to stay here sometimes and he just couldn't.

Jack didn't bounce back from worry so quickly. However he looks up at the other man. "You should try it with wheels on."

He's still work on his drink and not about to chug it.

[itmeanstruth]

"Oh..." The thought of needing to return to such a frightening place hurt just as much as the sharp tone. But Minoru tried, as he always did, to look for something more positive. "We can still have some fun while you're visiting, and look forward to the next time you get to visit."

He meant that. He honestly did.

"I've never even tried standing with wheels on." he chuckled, trying to help lighten the mood. "Bring me back a pair next time and I'll give it a go?"

[apocalypsejack]

"My kids are back home." Jack's tone hasn't regained its chill yet, not now that his mind was thinking about what could be happening. He glances to the bar and remembers Balthazar has a pinpoint, and the kids have one if they need it and his angel can teleport... and he's still worried.

He swallows hard and, now does down the drink. He slides down off the pole, in part to set the empty glass somewhere. It was a gift and he didn't want it getting broken. "I bought them here. The shop's down the street and still open."

[itmeanstruth]

And that would be one very, very important, albeit also heartbreaking, reason why Jack couldn't stay in the Nexus. Minoru honestly hoped, wherever the kids were, that they were safe. Or at least as safe as they could be.

"Okay. Tell you what." Minoru pushed off with his feet, spinning all the way down to follow Jack. "I'll pick some up tomorrow, get a few lessons from Harley, and the next time you're visiting, we'll have another go at it. But first, I totally want to see what you can do on those!"

He was hopeful that would put a smile back on the other man's face. Even if only for a little while.

[apocalypsejack]

"Then I'll give you some that you'll never forget." Jack's pride was a whole other beast. He lived by out bluffing others, by his pride and confidence.

"I can do anything you can do in your shoes, plus all the benefits of the wheels." He turned back to his compatriot and then glances around the bar. There were some people here but not so many to cramp his style. He was used to flying through crowds to avoid the Ministry patrols anyway.

He points to the wooden ledges in the main part of the bar up near the ceiling. "I've already skated those. There's probably not much harder than that in here."

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru glanced around Jack's shoulder, up at the railing that circled the wall. It looked like a tight squeeze, especially for someone with several extra inches of height, but not impossible.

"Oh, really?" he grinned. That sounded like a challenge. "Starting from the half wall? Or somewhere else?"

[apocalypsejack]

"Not that." Jack pointed up at the wooden ledge over the seating. "Up there. From the ground, behind the bar to the bar and up."

Jack smiles uncaring. "Wherever you want. Jumping from the floor is the hardest to get close enough to the wall. You can only ride two wheels up there."

Jack was not in fancy, modern inline skates, but old school 4-wheeled box skates. He preferred them after trying out a pair of in-lines at the shop. The guy had told him over and over he could do more, but they learned otherwise.

"I'm up for anything." He waved down the waitress and handed off his glass to get another drink made.

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru grinned. He looked at the railing again, sizing it up. Jack was right - the jump form the floor would definitely be the hardest part on skates. But the wooden panels on the wall would make for a very fast climb. But once up there, Jack had the benefit of being able to just glide. Minoru would still have to run.

"Okay. You lead, I'll follow."

In other words - challenge accepted.

[apocalypsejack]

For Jack, getting up there, or rather the speed needed to get up there was the problem. The bar was close and there were people. Balthazar was probably going to kill him for this. The answer to the speed issue was the bar top.

"You might not have to follow exactly. You don't need to pull speed."

Jack glided easily to the bar looking toward the door. He frog hopped up on the bar and the people there stared, picking up the drinks. Jack had been around being crazy most of the evening. Anyone who had more than one drink knew something was about to happen.

He broke for the other end of the bar picking up speed as fast as he can, there isn't much before it will run out. It is enough to get him up on the frame above the door where there's a decent amount of space, but Jack's eight is a disadvantage. He's mostly walking on stoppers while he eyes the ledge and glances back at his follower. Balthazar still looks absent so that's a plus.

There's a lip over the window he uses with his left stopper to hop up on his toes, get his outside right skate wheels on the ledge of interest and push off. It leaves him to glide backwards which would be fine but friction does slow you and too slow means falling. crouched he slings his leg to keep up speed. At the very end leaning forward to balance on his skate and hands to wait for Minoru. It's awkward but not the worst position. Besides, there was only a hallway space off the edge to get back down on the ground. The last thing he needed was to slam into a wall speeding off the ledge.

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru watched in awe as Jack made most of that look effortless. "Woah..."

There were a few cheers from the fellow bar patrons, and there would soon be a few more.

Minoru hopped up on the bar, but didn't run down it. Instead, he took to the overhang above it like an ultimate cliff hanger. Once he made it to the half wall, he kicked off the actual wall to propel himself up to the first ledge.

As soon as Minoru caught up, he was treated to a stunning display of style and skill.

Minoru can't glide, but he could - and did - run. It was almost as precarious as being on skates, given how little room there was to maneuver. Just like Jack, he had to keep up a certain amount of momentum or he ran the risk of tumbling right off. Unlike Jack, he could push off of the light fixtures to keep that momentum going.

[apocalypsejack]

Jack jumped off the ledge to the ground and turned to watch his competition who was on the way to becoming a friend. He does grin as he watches because it reminds him of the kids back home.

Once Minoru joins him on the ground Jack looks over at him, not quite impressed but definitely approving. "I should take you where I'm from and see our courses where I help the kids train."

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru landed next to Jack with a big grin on his face.

Forget anything that may have been said about needing these skills for survival in a post-apocalyptic danger zone. Minoru was thrilled to meet someone who enjoyed freeskating just as much as he enjoyed freerunning.

“That would be awesome! I’d love to!”

[apocalypsejack]

Jack laughs when he lands and nods.

"You're welcome to whenever. I need to know so I can steal a few vaccines." Jack pauses for a moment. "There's a plague in my city."

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru smiled. “Okay, what about during the holidays? You said you had kids, right? I can bring them a few presents if you let me know what they’d like.”

As long as it was small enough that he could carry it on his person, he’d try to make it happen.

“Is that enough advance notice for the vaccine? Definitely don’t want to bring a plague back to work with me.”

[apocalypsejack]

"We don't have holidays. They're illegal but you can bring things for your holidays." Jack didn't miss holidays because he didn't remember them. "I have three kids and Hannah."

"It doesn't transmit between humans that way but it's in the water and water vapor in our city."

[itmeanstruth]

"I'll put some things together!" he decided right then and there. If Jack could provide a vaccine, he'd provide a holiday to remember.

He encouraged Jack to at least share some basic things about everyone he was shopping for - ages, genders and if they had any particular things they liked.

[apocalypsejack]

"Balthazar mentioned the holidays." Jack felt uncomfortable with the whole holiday concept because they were something he felt like he should remember or wants to remember.

Jack gives Minoru a quick description of the four under his care and then asks. "What kind of gifts do you like?"

[itmeanstruth]

The descriptions got Minoru thinking. Shopping wasn’t exactly something he considered fun, but shopping for other people? That was a lot more enjoyable.

“Me?” He laughed. “Just getting to scale that high-rise building you live in will be the perfect gift. Seriously!”

[apocalypsejack]

"I live on top of the Chase Building in Manhattan. Is that tall enough?" Jack asks with a bit of mischief. He could certainly offer all the climbing opportunities Minoru wanted.

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru just grinned. A sixty story building would make the 80 ft rope climb at the end of the American Ninja Warrior finals look like it belonged on a children's playground! He was excited just thinking about it.

[apocalypsejack]

Jack took the grin as a good sign and nods. "Do you want a drink?"

[itmeanstruth]

He glanced over at the bar that they just traversed without a care in the world. Man, that was fun! They’s have to take a jaunt around the plaza before Jack left, or maybe during one of his future visits.

“Sure.” He smiled. “I could go for a beer.”

Minoru wasn’t a heavy drinker. He ordered something light as he pulled out a stool and invited Jack to sit down with him.

“So, what do you do back home?”