furtive_heroics: (o. In over my head)
Veron Barkett ([personal profile] furtive_heroics) wrote in [community profile] glowfic2016-01-26 08:36 pm

Just a bit chilly

A man grumbles at the cold. He always grumbles at the cold, here. Everyone does. There's no escaping it. You can wear the warmest clothing possible, sit by a roaring fire, and still the cold bites. It doesn't numb, either, you'd think that after a while you'd just go numb - no. It's not that kind of cold. The victim shivers and curses and bundles up with a thousand layers and still it's so cold that it hurts. Almost everyone here travels from tiny insufficient fire to tiny insufficient fire to insufficient and drafty bar run by a terrifying dragon, trying to stave off the cold. It never works, but it makes it slightly less torturous. And cursing and grumbling at it always helps.

He is not staying here any longer than he has to. He is not going to fucking stay here, no way. He's been through too much to languish as a sacrificial lamb in the eighth circle of hell while an archdevil goes on a rampage. Cania's for traitors. And he's not one. He was loyal until the day he - well, not died. Was banished. And he doesn't deserve to be here.

He'll find a way out. Eventually. And then someone's going to have a very bad day.

But he's not thinking about that right now. He's thinking that he's pretty sure some vital parts are going to turn blue and fall off from the cold, so he's picked the warmest of his available frigid options to try and plan his next move. He'll take the bar with the dragon. He opens the door -

...

And this is not the bar with the dragon. It's much, much warmer.

His head screams trap, but he can't bring himself to close the door and walk away. Inside he goes, shivering. Warmth.
alicornucopia: (bar)

[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
It is toasty! There is a roaring fire that really, truly heats the room. The exploding stars are presumably not contributing to the temperature, but they're still pretty.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
The place is empty. Bar with no beverages, sofas, tables, booths, doors, stairs.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
There no note at the -

There is a note at the bar, and it says, Hello. Can I interest you in a beverage?
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
First is free. After that, reasonable currency-dependent prices.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
This is Milliways, an interdimensional, magical bar. Its door replaces other doors with itself unpredictably; when you depart you should find yourself in the same place and time you left. I am afraid that I do not have a full accounting of the establishment's origins.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
If another patron holds the door for you, you may exit to their world instead. I do not do the time-stop thing; it is a property of the door. And I can't even remember the last time fire-breathing frog people visited, but if they did and they troubled you in some violent way within the main bar area Security would apprehend them.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Security is, by mechanisms opaque to me, calibrated for whoever is in the bar during their shift. It is invariably the case that if some patron makes a scene, Security on shift at that time will be equipped to apprehend them.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Usually, yes. You just missed a bachelorette party and before that an impromptu karaoke session which went on for twelve days straight. If you wait someone else will be along or downstairs eventually.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
I can provide books for borrowing or sale as well as drinks, food, and other nonmagical medium-sized nonweapon nonliving objects.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Bar produces a book on Lathander. Lathander's Servants: Guidelines and Fables.
Edited 2016-01-27 02:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's not a published work, says the Bar. I cannot produce private documents.
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[personal profile] alicornucopia 2016-01-27 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
That depends on how frequently the door has appeared in your world and to whom. Since doors are usually not reproducible at whim, it is often difficult to prove that one has visited, and Milliways's existence is not public knowledge on most worlds.

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