private The Early Days

[Strider Hiryu 116]

"I'm fine with that." Lockhart said. "I've got money to spend anyway" he took his glass and drank all of it."I don't even know how many of these I've been in!"

[Artemisia 166]

Artemisia nodded, so many people all of the sudden she was very surprised but glad. She slid 4 bits and some stew to Storm Cloud. She took the bits from LockHart "Its too much I will just include it in your fee for breakfast." She looked at the two of them "A drinking contest? I bet I could out drink both of you...but I digress I shouldn't compete...just....promise that there will be no bar fights?"

 

(the situation is pretty bad, negotiations arent going well for the peace treaty and in the outer territorys of equestria there are raids and such.)

[rainbovv dash 110]

I don't know either he thought while sipping again a bit of the glass' content, she put her glass on the counter and while smiling said "Don't drink so fast, the night's still young!" after another careful sip she noted "You don't look like a gentlecolt to me, what was you name again?"

 

For a second she turned over to Marianne who had stated her worries about barfights. Cloud knew why she was being told off, she was nice to cots who could give out drinks but probably could have build a house with the broken ribs of colts who couldn't. While hiding the bits in her saddlebags she beamed guiltily towards her saying "Bar fights? How dare you think I'd start one of those? I'm a lady and not a farmer!" she tried her best to make a pout and not to giggle meanwhile.

 

Then she turned back towards the white unicorn.

[Artemisia 166]

MaryAnne snorted at this, "Just now that if there is a fight, somepony is getting their donkey kicked." she threatened jokingly. "Anypony wants some more drinks? Two ales for one bit!" She shouted.

[Strider Hiryu 116]

He drank some more mead. "Name's Lockhart, and no, I'm not all that gentle." He said grinning then took another sip."I...liberate people from life." He turned to the innkeeper. "Don't worry, I'm a sellsword, what could go wrong?" he smiled innocently.

[Filly Pinkie Pie 208]

"I bet I could fix it." Twinkie Pie said, smiling.

 

(I'm used to making short RP posts sooo... yeah, I'm the one-sentence person here.)

[Artemisia 166]

MaryAnne was taken aback "You better not bring in any trouble to my tavern. You aren't a fugitive are you?" she could not risk any trouble or damage to her tavern, it might cost her her business.

[Filly Pinkie Pie 208]

(Stop going so fast, I can't keep up with the RP for a piece of candy! Slow down with the roleplay already!)

[Strider Hiryu 116]

"Of coarse I'm not a fugitive" Lockhart said " if I was, why would I say it out loud?"he said, still smiling. He took another sip of his mead.

[Artemisia 166]

MaryAnne smiled back slightly, still suspicious, and said "Just don't bring in any trouble."

[rainbovv dash 110]

[OOC - Pinkie don't worry, you're IC with Flamedancer who is currently Offline, and we are organizing a drinking contest in the tavern - lot's of chit chat going on, nothing important]

 

Storm lifted her glass to finally empty it and put it back on the counter. "Hey! I need another glass of this stuff" - she pointed towards her glass - "but add some ice to it".

 

When she received her glass she looked at the stallion and lifted it. "Cheers! And watch your drinking, I'm catching up on you, this is my second and that's your second" - she pointed at his glass and took a sip. She noticed her mood was getting better and better.

 

"So, how come a big and powerful stallion" - jokeful sarcasm was clearly audible - "has decided to visit a town filled with little mares like me and Marianne?".

[Strider Hiryu 116]

"You're right" Lockhart said. He finished his beer. "Two more please!" He took the two and levetated them. "Beat this!" He poured both in his mouth untill they were both gone. "And for why I'm here, I killed a clan of bandits before coming." There was lots of blood" (sorry, I was eating)

[Artemisia 166]

MaryAnne not wanting him to win levitated a barrel of ale "On you right?" then said to Storm "Open up" as she levitated the barrel/keg above her head, ready to pour it into her mouth. "And who paid you for this carnage?"

[Mayuen 77]

Faint Ruby was walking around in the back of the tavern, picking up empty glasses from past customers and similar cleaning involved activities. She shot a quick glance towards the drinking contest at the front of the tavern, she wasn't worried about it really, MaryAnne always knew where to put her hoof down if things turned out nasty, but she couldn't help herself of feeling slightly creeped out by it. She still had a hard time understanding other ponies, even though after she had grown up.

 

She sighed ever so quiet, and went to leave the empty glasses, passing her own little bookshelf she had. It had a few books that she had up for sale, trying to boost her dream of owning her own book shop someday.

Edited July 6, 2012 by Mayuen

[Strider Hiryu 116]

"Lot's of people" Lockhart said "I kill, then get showered in money. This recent one was important, though. It was a group of griffins. And they are much harder to kill."

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

"Great, how much will that be ?" Said Decan smiling back.

[rainbovv dash 110]

Storm was taking a sip from her drink, she was pretty sure this guy was crazy and totally alcohol resistant or quite drunk already. Time is my friend on this, if he drinks enough I will win by K.O.

 

After he had gulped down another two mugs of beer and told them dismissively he murdered ponies for bits she was pretty sure her farm wasn't the worst business ever and asked "And what did this guys do to deserve being killed? Aren't you afraid of being killed any day?" - suddenly a thought hit her already tipsy mind - "Could she" - Storm pointed to the back of the tavern where a pony was cleaning up - "ask you to kill me? How much is my life worth?"

[Artemisia 166]

MaryAnne nodded, "Do you work alone?" she then turned "Ruby! Can you move these vegetables to the storeroom and bring out some more mugs?"

[Mayuen 77]

After realizing she had been mentioned, made a slight jump out of surprise, "...hopefully no one noticed that" she quickly thought after that. She decided the best would be to pretend she didn't hear them mentioning her, maybe she wouldn't be dragged into conversation.

 

Some moments later she realized that MaryAnne had called for her. "O-Of course, I'll be right at it!" she said, slightly embarrassed and hurried to do what she had been told.

[Strider Hiryu 116]

"Well, I like a good reason," Lockhart said. "But if it pays well, and lots of people want them dead, it's not my problem. I do ask them what they have done though." "And no, I'm not afraid to die, or else I wouldn't give them a fair fight. She could ask to kill you, and, if she had a good reason, I might. And I do work alone." (This felt werid to write.)

[Mayuen 77]

The other ones in the tavern could hear a slight crash from the storeroom, then a quiet "I'm okay!". "Oh gosh, why do I have to be so clumsy... oh well, nothing got broken at least." Ruby thought, laying on the bottom of the stairs, still balancing the vegetables on her back.

 

"Here are the mugs you asked for, MaryAnne" Faint Ruby said, coming back from the storeroom. She could not help to eavesdrop a little at the talking by the drinking contest, and the first thought that went through her mind was "Good to know if I find someone I want dead...wait... I really need to cut down on Edgar Allan Pony novels" (sorry for my lame try at a pun).

[rainbovv dash 110]

Sip after sip her second glass had lost it's yellow color, leaving color neutral ice cubes in it. "Marianne, I'm afraid you've got to" - her tongue was already getting lazy and she knew that it meant she was already beyond warmup phase - "gimme another drink or I'll die of dehydration" - emphasizing the last word while looking teasingly at the colt sitting next to her.

 

She turned to the colt telling her about his work and then turned over to Ruby who was attending the bags she had brought in earlier, "You heard that Ruby!If you wanna someone of us dead just ask this guy" - she then felt the need to add some teasing to make the competition exciting - "but don't ask him to drink anybody to death, I guess my grandma would beat him!".

 

For some reason she'd expected herself to be less confident when sitting besides a colt who had murdered a group of gryphons a few hours earlier.

[Artemisia 166]

MaryAnne slid the keg towards the two ponys "Fill yourselves up." She took the mugs "Are you all right from that fall, little filly?" she looked her over to see if she was all right "And I hope you are not going to hire him to kill anyone."

[Mayuen 77]

Ruby made a slight surprised jump again, not used to all the sudden attention. "I-I'm fine, I'm used to that by now... A-And of course I won't do that!!" She could feel a blush appearing on her face. "I would barely be able to hurt a fly!"

[Filly Pinkie Pie 208]

"10, maybe 20 bits." Twinkie Pie replied to Decan.