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[starspangledman]

WHAT in person
WHERE Heavenly Grounds
WHEN 75!!

[So how do you feel about getting into the holiday spirit? Because with all that wine around from the Bingo victories someone's put a sign up outside Heavenly Grounds today advertising a ~holiday party~ There's festive decorations with mulled wine, hot toddies, spiked egg nog. You name it, it's there to get you plastered.

And I guess there's cookies and fruit cake and stuff too, but who needs food when there's drinking?]

Comments

[mistruths]

...

Let me see that.

[ rough gesture at the bottle you're holding ]

[starspangledman]

Here, take a look.

[he hands over the bottle. The label says "Rogers Vineyard Brooklyn, NY" in fancy script and tiny tiny fine print warnings about consumption of alcohol may lead to impaired judgement even for artificially enhanced individuals.]

[mistruths]

[ turns it over in his hands, a little surprised by how easily steve actually...gave him the bottle...???? ]

There's magic in this.

[starspangledman]

[it's like he trusts you or something]

So you think it'll work?

[mistruths]

[ weirdo ]

For a certain measure of...work.

[starspangledman]

What do you mean by that?

[mistruths]

It won't be true drunkenness, but it'll certainly give you the impression of it. Why you'd like that, I couldn't understand.

[starspangledman]

You can tell that just from holding the bottle?

[mistruths]

Obviously.

[starspangledman]

I have to say I'm impressed. And I appreciate you checking into it for me.

[mistruths]

It isn't for you.

[starspangledman]

For Tony then?

[mistruths]

I didn't say that.

[starspangledman]

[Steve holds up his hands, extending one out to ask for the bottle back]

You don't have to tell me who.

[mistruths]

[ hands it back over ]

All of you take such solace in drink.

[starspangledman]

Some people enjoy it. I know it's a poison for others, but it's not a bad thing in moderation.

[mistruths]

What do you get out of it?

[starspangledman]

Companionship. And if we're being honest a little bit of distraction.

[mistruths]

How does drinking bring you companionship?

[starspangledman]

It loosens people up, makes it a little easier to be yourself.

[mistruths]

In my not inconsiderable experience with it, drink tends to bring out the most obnoxious version of oneself imaginable.

[starspangledman]

People do tend to get a bit louder, it's true.

[mistruths]

[ airquotes ]

“A bit.”

[starspangledman]

Okay, that's an understatement.

[mistruths]

Indeed. [ huff ] Thor hasn’t taught you any Asgardian drinking songs, has he?