EXPANSION

With All the new initiates @11, the bar seemed full again minus a few dozen Bobs, Treeder and certainly Numlock.

The Establishment barked, “Numlock? Where the hell is Numlock? Has anyone seen Numlock?”

As usual no one responded.

In fact, the bar reeked of some weird nouveau aura. I don’t know perhaps, it’s the lingering smell of the fire mixed in with the bar’s normal aroma of urine, booze and blasting.

We were all milling about when Turin, standing up on a table, abruptly ask everyone at the bar “why the world was sad”.

The usual suspects @11 were all are used to this crap and had certainly become numb to Turin’s antics but unfortunately for the initiates this was their first experience with Turin and his strongly held epicurean views. Some of the more young and eager temporal beavers must have interpreted his question as non rhetorical. Whoops.

It was Thana.sys, new friend who, I was told, had notions of grandeur. He walked up to me and said “I’m out” and without fanfare left the bar.

Moments later in the corner of my eye I watched Ericka slink away as well.

Shetal and I sipped our drinks and discussed the Hindus and Hindon’ts of the world. She ask about the fire damage in the back room and I preceded to tell her the long story of Rebus the monkey clone and the mystic finger of Robert Skyfox, last of the Hopi shaman.

Odd is odd, and when Koshi enters the bar everything just seemed to go haywire. Just when I thought we had enough problems, all of the Coqnoir gear started sparking and flickering. Koshi did not bat an eye. He just grinned strangely and sipped his drink. The real problem was that I couldn’t remember if it was supposed to do that. Nailgun ran up and started plugging cables into holes and more cables into other holes and then the lights stopped. The whole room dimmed. What had been the most orderly part of the room, the stage, now looked as if a giant octopus robot had exploded all over the stage. Thana.sys walks up to Nailgun and gives a strange glance to Koshi and then he precedes to plug more cables in to even more holes. So little time and so many holes……