You Wake Up In A Bar

You rise in enthusiasm, and it's as if not a moment passed from the last instance of dialogue-- even if, in the back of your mind, you felt as if there had been quite the pause. It's time to properly greet the new arrivals, Bloomy and Sublimate.









Your Egg Coordinator, Stax, has also risen in enthusiasm. You're still not sure to what extent this is genuine, but... it's a bit better than what felt like incessant complaints.




Laren manages a smile. As conversation picks up momentum, you start preparing Sublimate's rather convoluted drink-- a large array of ingredients with varying portions. You begin pressing blueberries into a paste, hoping to extract the blue coloring, though it doesn't go exactly to plan.









Bloomy sinks into Laren's weight, a bit concerned. It seems that your interpretation of the 'cat food casserole' may have hit a snag-- but you're not quite willing to give up yet. A bartender must necessarily improve and improvise. Hey, they're practically the same word anyhow!






Something about what she's said seems to assure the cat, who relents-- though you can't really decipher what's being said.




Sublimate squints her mechanical eyes towards you.




Before you can properly respond and assure her, O'Hare raises his head, previously quite lost in thought. He speaks, concerned, in the sort of tone reminiscent of when you dosed yourself with a potent sedative. Oh, those were the days. The today days.












The corrugiblator fires up-- and you begin corrugiblating the cocktail as fast as you can figure out its controls and read the cryptic manual. It's not the easiest task, though you do your best to keep conversation as you finish Sublimate's drink.






Finally-- you shift around to hand the mechanical swan her order.






Sublimate takes it between her wings with an audible 'creak', and though her grip is a tad shaky, she doesn't seem anything but confident-- excited.

















After finishing her fifth long sip on the ashen corrugible, Sublimate finally shares her thoughts, with a metal beak still wet with the incongruent substance.








O'Hare finally finishes gathering his things- including the first aid kit he'd brought for you on his first arrival- and hoists them up to carry. He also places down a handful of coins.










O'Hare has left very satisfied with both his drink and meal, and will likely come back again. You have gained fifty red glass tokens.

With a heap of pride, Stax motions to a hot skillet on the stove behind you-- currently cooking up what appear to be some... odd-looking eggs. You don't think they came from a chicken.




As this is the final meal you're aiming to make until the midday lunch reaches its conclusion, you're nearly to your third bartending level. It has also been about 1/3rd completed with Stax's help, though you're not entirely certain what he's been doing with it this whole time.

Cup status: 1 occupied (Sublimate's Ashen Corrugible), 2 dirty (Rooted Bean, Dynamic Dynamite), 3 free
Plate status: 1 occupied (Bloomy's unfinished meal), 2 dirty (TQoaBT, Y,SY,S), 1 free
Scavenger ability: Activated (0 uses)
Intrusive ability: Enabled

Due to your advanced 'tending on the Ashen Corrugible, you've gained several new entries for your codex of ingredients-- the Cabinet.

Author's NotesShow

From a rather turbulent couple of weeks comes another YWUIAB update. Thanks again to all for being patient, but... especially thank you for being so kind when I feel anxious about getting updates out. I am in love with this adventure and want to see it go on, but sometimes things just blow out of proportion and become intangibly painful to do. I had the worst panic attack I've ever had last Wednesday, and I've sort of been working to reset from that.

Special thanks to Myeth for the new and improved Drinkmaster Greene illustration! It's really awesome to see 'em improved like this and I've fallen in love with the design by now.

I'm really, really happy to have this update out. Enjoy the jazz and enjoy the drinks. Thanks.

Oh, and the first time a character is mentioned in an update, their name will be highlighted with a link to their most recent intro card-- so you can keep up to date on what they look like without having to scroll several pages back!