You Wake Up In A Bar

Let's add a bit of Caramel, Honey and a nice Cinnamon Stick!

man i really dont have anything to add on all your guys' suggestions it already sounds great.
might as well talk to Nad about SYLG. Why does she want to communicate with them so much anyway? was it just the antimatter ale or are there other reasons?

Tell Laren they're welcome to stay as long as they like, but you'd like their PDA contact info before they go so you can connect as soon as you've got your mitts on one.

2 parts mocha
1 part coffee
1 part cherry jelly
2 teaspoons of honey
1 teaspoon of cream
1 stick of wafer

Cocoa butter, zap it through the Unshaken to retrograde it back to Cocoa Milk, which technically doesn't exist.

Melt a variety of chocolates on the stove, from grimdark through to arctic white so you have a spectrum, add coffee to each so you get five or more different mochas in little pans. Layer them in a tall glass you've prepared by pouring some kind of fun syrup down the side to get a vertical stripe effect in addition to the horizontal bands of different chocolates.

Top with a dollop of whipped dream, lashings of coffee liqueur, and a whole strawberry.

I pretty much vote for this

Cocoa butter, zap it through the Unshaken to retrograde it back to Cocoa Milk, which technically doesn't exist.

Melt a variety of chocolates on the stove, from grimdark through to arctic white so you have a spectrum, add coffee to each so you get five or more different mochas in little pans. Layer them in a tall glass you've prepared by pouring some kind of fun syrup down the side to get a vertical stripe effect in addition to the horizontal bands of different chocolates.

Top with a dollop of whipped dream, lashings of coffee liqueur, and a whole strawberry.

This is a good one

that's not wild is the thing, we've only managed to suggest basically edible known quantities. let's capture a laser beam in a thick fog, flash freeze that, use that for ice cubes. let's serve it in a glass made of hope that evaporates if you don't believe in it. let's shake some dirt in there, it's plant dandruff and it's at least brown. let's put chili verde in there. let's crumble up a DVD as a garnish. let's give them a crazy straw with loop-de-loops that lights up when you suck through it

Throw in a flower from your own bodyfur as garnish while you're at it, whydoncha

Throw in a flower from your own bodyfur as garnish while you're at it, whydoncha

Nad didn't like the smell or taste of flowers last time we made her a mocha.

Nad didn't like the smell or taste of flowers last time we made her a mocha.

Whoops, nice catch Fellow, I'll redact my suggestion and instead suggest throwing in the opposite of a flower.... uhh.....

...let's crumble up a DVD as a garnish...

sounds good

DVD on the side, for watching while drinking (they don't taste good)

DVD on the side, for watching while drinking (they don't taste good)

Use it as a coaster

Use it as a coaster

Yesssssss!

Cocoa butter, zap it through the Unshaken to retrograde it back to Cocoa Milk, which technically doesn't exist.

Melt a variety of chocolates on the stove, from grimdark through to arctic white so you have a spectrum, add coffee to each so you get five or more different mochas in little pans. Layer them in a tall glass you've prepared by pouring some kind of fun syrup down the side to get a vertical stripe effect in addition to the horizontal bands of different chocolates.

Top with a dollop of whipped dream, lashings of coffee liqueur, and a whole strawberry.

have the whole strawberry be a whole strawberry but it looks like it had it's colors inverted using liquified antichroma, write the name of the drink inside the drink using cherry jelly. we need to go total absurd with our ingredients.

that's not wild is the thing, we've only managed to suggest basically edible known quantities. let's capture a laser beam in a thick fog, flash freeze that, use that for ice cubes. let's give them a crazy straw with loop-de-loops that lights up when you suck through it

also this

It's the dead of night, now. It feels like it's past the dead of night. You're far from idle, but the atmosphere of everything in the bar is overwhelmingly... tired. A song from somebody sharing your name (at least in part) begins to hum from the radio, and its calm tone seems to fit the air perfectly.

You begin work on Nadezhda's drink. This is going to take some doing, but you've already got a few ideas. Making antimatter tea is the most complicated part, so you start with that, utilizing an antipodal shard and small quantity of 'elder tea concentrate' in your Unshaken.














Laren sinks further into her stool, arms resting limp on the counter as defensively as they can muster.




You try to be reassuring. Whatever she'd like to do is fine by you-- you're mainly concerned with it being as anxiety-free as possible.







Oh, that's no problem. You can always look back through the forum thread for answers.








Nadezhda gives a small shrug.










The drink is brought to completion as she finishes speaking! You're still not sure how much you actually had a role in all of this. But, at the very least, you can fulfill your purpose as Drinkmaster, and finish one of your most snazzy-looking drinks to date.

(Looks like you got a hint towards the drink's quintessential ingredient! If you make it again with a different list of ingredients, that hint might be a great place to start.)

Immediately after you slide it over on its analog-media coaster, Nadezha points at the whipped dream on top, incredulous.






Sort of accurate!

nadezhda


Even with that concern, she starts sipping at the Night Drider, and seems to immediately enjoy it. Taking small sips at the whipped dream, as well as the cherry jelly and multi-chocolate mocha below, it seems like a multifaceted delight.









She goes in to take another sip, then pulls back, swiveling her head and shuddering a little.










The bug slumps a little on the table, her eyes half-closed and rapidly darting left and right, now murmuring almost inaudibly.

This is concerning.








Well, that seems accurate enough to you.





Her eyes still unfocused, Nadezhda brings herself to sit up, takes another sip of the drink, and starts to grumble angrily at... something. Someone?










Another couple sips, and Nad manages to direct her eyes towards you.




She stares off into space again, sipping Night Drider out of the corner of her mouth.






Well, this is... definitely a conundrum. At least it's one central more to the bar, and less an abstract one involving deeply-rooted depression or mind-sharing issues, but-- it's still definitely a conundrum.

Cup status: 1 occupied (Nadezhda's Night Drider) 3 dirty (Bright and Air-ly, INTY, Iced Haze), 1 broken, 4 free
Meloncup status: 1 dirty (HH)
Plate status: 2 dirty (The Sate Catsberry, Mutually Shirred Deconstruction), 2 free
Mug status: 1 dirty (Mulled Again Mulligan), 1 free

AbilitiesShow

Scavenger: Unavailable (0/1 uses)
Gain a cup and plate every day, on command.

Intrusive: Enabled
Introduction cards show a bio for a given character.

Intuitive: Enabled
Introduction cards show somebody's ingredient preferences.

Phytochemist: Disabled (too dim)
Create drinks/meals automatically (at half speed) during sunlit hours.

Collaborative: Enabled
Attach any length of Cabinet entry to an ingredient suggestion at will.

Perfectionist: Enabled
Gain a hint about quintessential ingredients for drinks/meals. Succeeding makes that quintessential ingredient limitless.

OrdersShow

Nadezhda wants to find SYLG.
Status: Drinkmaster Greene is fated to find SYLG.

You've gained a huge heap of Cabinet entries thanks to your work today on the Night Drider!

Author's NotesShow

fuck,

...Perhaps this old tonic might help?
Though, ah. the poor old book I found it in seems to have quite a bit of damage.
Perhaps others more familiar with the beverage might know more?

Gremphs Tonics most CurativeShow

For the curing of unease, illucidation of dreams, ......of fog-bearers..., gout, unwanted nirvana and waking dreams.

-Heavenly Mint: "...Harvested from the Apiuchus tree, this herbs clarity-inducing properties in smaller doses are renowned. In larger doses, the herb..."
-???: This page is missing entirely. Going by the chapter, some variety of berry?
-Twinspice Spectice: "...While the origin of the name has a long, oft befuddling history; its duplicative properties have been utilized for generations to duplicate the benefits of other substances. while avoiding the risks of simply doubling the substance itself..."
-Accans Boil: "...red...inertia...avoid mixing with alcohol...treats unease of mind, but..."
-Poc: "...found on colony 39217, the dull, bland substance was used to great effect in stretching the food supplies during a period of missed shipments. While the colony remains functioning, its inhabitants have...alterations......long-term use."
-Carrak Weave: Unfortunately, this entry is utterly illegible. Someone seems to have spilled this rather unpleasant ink over the page, and coated it in a variety of feathers.
-???: This page is also missing entirely. Doesn't seem this chapter had much of a pattern to go by, either. Could be anything, really.

...Gather these ingredients in a mortar over the binding circle, and invoke the words of frost and time. Take your pestle and mash them into a fine paste, pour in a cup of freshly-boiled river water and stir 'till it glimmers in a manner most pleasing to the eye, with a spicy aroma and color deep red. Cease the invocation, and serve to the afflicted. Be wary, the paste is most volatile when unevenly mixed with boiling water, and is likely to combust in an impressive, albeit useless manner without proper preparation.

While I'm fairly certain we (or at least, I,) neither know the words nor have the proper tools, our shakers properties should suffice.
Probably. Just have to be quick pouring the water in.
...Given the age, might not hurt to adjust the recipe, either.

Honestly? What's not more waking up than a thing that punchs your tongue with raw acid? Y'all know what I'm talking about, let's make a better version of our first drink!

- Apple Cider
- Fermented Unicorn Tears
- Dementia's Bile
- Undine Tears
- Tear of the Innocent
- Justice Cherry
- Nickel
- Four leaves clover

Put a splash of chronoliquer in there and I think we've got something workable?

Yeah, totally. This maybe wake up Nadezda out of the drugs or get her drunk or death. Let's also add Vortex Perspective Tears and strap a Wristwatch to the drink.

we require the restorative powers of Baby's Breadth

Clearly we need to give her more drugs, in order to get her so high she becomes sober again.

I feel like this is all a bit much.
Like seriously we could've just used Collaborative to make some ingredient which the only notable property of is that it wakes you up, and then add a few more nice things on top i guess. We don't need to put in freaking perspective vortex tears.

This isn't meant to wake her up, it's meant to kill her up.

Ok, dont mean to step on anyone's toes here, might just be me, but, i feel like killing her, might just possibly be a bad idea.

Bad idea? More like best idea! What could possibly go wrong?
Although seriously, just get her to sit on a bench or something, we have those right?