Whiskey Is The Life Of Man [Open]

[Freya En'Livous]

Kira - The Broken Dagger Bar
Southern Republic Space

What a rotting pool of filth this world had become. The Republic didn't police most of it. Law was a word rarely spoken, and only used for threats to drag some Pub out here to deal with their own petty dealings. Back when Rayl Wilded ran this place; there was at least order; and work. Any decent fellow who knew a little of how a ship worked and to fire a gun could get on a pirate crew. Now it was just another broken back water world where you'll probably get stabbed for your boots.

Freya pushed open the doors to The Broken Dagger Bar. Her eyes scanned through the smoke for an open seat. Two men beat themselves up to the right, most watching and laughing. Betting too. The whores tried to pull potential customers away to steal away what little credits they may of had. One of the few things still in ample supply was booze. And thank the traders for that. Frya found an open seat, several in fact. Over on the left corer of this establishment. Her one and only plan right now was to get drunk off her rock and think on the good times. She dropped her rear in a seat, leaned back against the wall. And when the waitress got around to her she ordered. "Whiskey, straight".

 

[Charlotte Homura]

KIRA - Outside the Broken Dagger Bar

Charlotte and her two "sisters" Melissa Pendragon and Prea Victoriss were arguing over some stupid subject no one had the time and patience to remember or listen to, then they began fighting over said subject moments later...

"Women... can't live with them, can't live without them..." a random bystander said with a smirk

 

[FRAME]

Kira - Outside the Broken Dagger Bar

There were three exceptionally pretty women standing outside the bar. When one of them turned around, I saw that she had a flower attached to one of her eye sockets.

Fascinating.

I was in my Flame Suit body again, seeing as I had destroyed my Theta shuttle back on Monastery. I needed to find another one fast. I couldn't keep hacking ticketing systems to make it look like I'd paid... Of course, I had plenty of money. I just didn't think it logical to pay for what I didn't need to.

So I was stuck in what, during the Clone Wars, would've been a backwater. It was a total dive, now. There were whores and drug dealers everywhere. The three women in front of me looked in my direction quickly, then got even louder, probably to deter the wretches and lecherous denizens of Kira.

Ah, well.... It was a beautiful day.

[member="Charlotte Homura"] [member="Freya En'Livous"]

 

[Charlotte Homura]

[member="FRAME"]

Charlotte and her two sisters in experimentation stopped arguing then walked into the bar. A few patrons stared at Charlotte's right eye socket though...

 

[FRAME]

I walked in after the women, and sat down in a lone booth in the corner of the cantina. It was a real hellhole. I looked around a bit. There were the three women from outside, a woman at the bar, and a couple other people of no real note.

When one of the scantily dressed whores/waitresses walked up, I waved her off. There was no reason for me to invite her presence, especially considering my lack of a physical body inside my armor.

I put my hands on the table and simply waited for something interesting to happen, or for somebody interesting to come and talk to me.

 

[Charlotte Homura]

Charlotte walked up to [member="FRAME"] and her sisters walked to the bar... Charlotte smiled at FRAME's armored body

 

[FRAME]

And the flower girl was smiling at me. Why? Couldn't she sense my lack of.... presence?

"I've never had somebody so pretty walk up to me. It's a shame, though. I'm not really a person."

I removed my helmet to show the empty suit.

"Shocked yet? I don't even have a face in this form. Just a voice and a metal skin."

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

 

[Charlotte Homura]

"I figured from the lack of presence you had that you aren't a real person." Charlotte said still smiling

 

[FRAME]

"Yeah. I figured that out. That flower... It's a Force conduit, right? It allows you to channel better, or something? Those kinds of things were popular among the Jedi that kept me imprisoned. Though I never saw one as beautiful as yours. Normally they were some kind of ugly implant on their chests or hands or something."

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

 

[Charlotte Homura]

"Actually, it's a symbiote that eats the force energy of dead force users within 10 feet of me, somehow Circe, my creator, wound up with it and used it in the experiment to mesh my DNA with it." Charlotte said almost annoyed that she keeps having to explain the flower

[member="FRAME"]

 

[FRAME]

Oh, now I'd annoyed her. Damn.

"Sorry for asking you to explain it. Just made me remember the near-millennium I was trapped. Jedi bastards."

Realizing that this wasn't helping, I continued.

"Anyway, I'm an AI. I was called the FRAME, but you may call me by whatever name you choose. I can take over basically any electronic I want."

I set my holocom down on the table, then jumped into it. I showed up simply as an expressionless cartoon-y face.

"See? I hate that form, though. So... inexpressive. Of course, from your mention of Circe, I can tell you're probably [member="Charlotte Homura"]. Am I wrong?"

 

[Charlotte Homura]

"You are right, but how do you know of my annoyance and existence, let alone my name?" Charlotte said now confused, the annoyance disappearing

[member="FRAME"]

 

[FRAME]

I made a gesture towards where my head would be if I had had one under the helmet.

"I know most of the records of Circe's little escapades. Including you, no offense. Also, if somebody kept asking me why I don't have a body.... I'd be annoyed as hell. It's happened before."

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Charlotte Homura"] @FRAME @Freya En'Livous

Kira- Broken Dagger bar

Solan appeared suddenly and without a word as his face erupted from a dark void that was his hood and he spoke from behind Charlotte with a suddenness that he would not be surprised if she jumped at. "Hmm a flower and a droid... very interesting... the latter of which i can dismantle if need be but i think that i will just say hi to a friend for now." He grinned as he looked at Charlotte and away from Frame, a wide grin. "Hey."

 

[Preliat Mantis]

The Mandalorian in the corner, looked up from his drink. [member="Freya En'Livous"] caught his attention, and he pushed his helmet, which rested on the bar, slowly away. He turned to a man who was eyeing his helmet, and his hand reached for something in his waistband. The Mandalorian Field Marshal leaned over, growling.

"Pull whatever pathetic excuse for a weapon out to try and take my Beskar'gam and I will remove your existence from the galaxy, and I will consider it a favor to the intergalactic community as a whole."

He went back to his drink, and he doubted anyone would dare come and try and take his helmet again. The Field Marshal raised his glass to his lips again, and begin to drown his sorrows. Perhaps he'd talk to the pretty girl in the corner.

Perhaps.

 

[Charlotte Homura]

[member="Solan Charr"] [member="FRAME"]

"You weren't asking too much about the flower, it's just that so many people asked before I got he-Solan?..." Charlotte said to FRAME until Solan walked up and spoke, then she looked to Solan and smiled "Hi. What brings you to this place, buddy-uddy-uddy?"

(Heh, just a note, the last thing was a quirk a friend in real life I know has when it comes to people he likes, he tends to give them nicknames.)

 

[FRAME]

[member="Solan Charr"] [member="Preliat Mantis"] [member="Charlotte Homura"]

"A droid, Mr. Charr? If I had feelings, I might be wounded. I would demonstrate by taking over your lightsaber, but it'd be awkward to talk out of a blade that continuously turns on and off."

And I watched the Mandalorian Field Marshal threaten somebody. Probably over the big shiny helmet he'd stupidly left on the bar. I decided I'd have a little bit of entertainment, if I could even call it that.

I jumped into the Mandalorian's helmet circuits.

"Hello there, Field Marshal Mantis. Having fun? Or is threatening people with a knife just a 'hello'?"

 

[Charlotte Homura]

[member="FRAME"]

Charlotte chuckled at FRAME's antics, while Prea was annoyed at a patron and Melissa was in awe of what FRAME was

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

Solan smiled as she asked that and shrugged. "I come and go and go and come. Just got lucky today and met you in a place very similar to our first meeting." He smiled and glanced at Prea and Melissa, giving of them a greeting with a bow of his head. "By the way..." Solan's eyes fell on the droid now. "I can assure you that is quite impossible, as my saber does not have a computer in it, how would you store yourself you fool."

 

[FRAME]

I jumped back to my Flame Suit.

"My dear Jedi Knight, I need only my mind, and a circuit to land it on. How do you think I move this suit? There's no memory bank. Might be easier if it did, though."

[member="Charlotte Homura"] [member="Preliat Mantis"] [member="Solan Charr"]