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GP/EP: Check-In Day: Turning Tricks into Treats

Instead of the remains of a raucous night of dedicated drinking, the chairs were up on the tables, the counter was cleaned, the floor had been vacuumed and mopped as appropriate. Kitty had had plenty of time to straighten up at close yesterday, since almost everyone seemed more interested in drinking in Bonesville. For her part, she'd had enough after her and Wyatt's little adventure in Funland. At least, she'd had enough for the few days it would take her to heal.

On the upside, that made opening up this morning easy and fast. On the downside, it meant she had an entire day with not much to distract her from wondering when Barrel of Fun would lock down access to the outside and why it couldn't open onto a world with higher tech. She had managed to scavenge some computer circuitry and cell phones, but she hadn't worked out how they'd solve her current tech problem yet.

If Dot were still here, she'd be baking for Halloween. Even if they'd had to explain Halloween to her, she'd be making cookies and candy and cakes, and probably sewing costumes, too. Those thoughts summoned a wistful sigh from Kitty while she took down the chairs. She was still sighing when she finished refreshing her stock of cut up fruit.

By mid-afternoon, she'd put away a pot and a half of coffee, she was practically vibrating, and a buzz-by from Caroline prompted an amazing idea. Why not spend the afternoon testing Halloween and Thanksgiving cocktails, to help turn the arrival trick of Check-In Day on the 1st into, well, a little bit of a treat? So it was that the new arrivals, two days earlier than expected, found the bar counter covered with spooky and kooky and dry-ice steamy drinks and Kitty literally spinning between her coffee cup and the next bright green, weirdly black, or pumpkin orange drink.

[ooc: find Kitty making any of these or drinking yet another cup of coffee, she's OTA]

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Vex was used to people noticing her ears. Here, it seemed like most people had never seen a half-elf before, or heard of them. But even before here, they weren't pointy enough for elves, who seemed to care more about that sort of thing than most of the humans she'd met, but they noticed too. So she was used to it, and let the woman look.

"Five months." Vex had always had a head for figures, and her arrival wasn't something she was likely to forget. "It gets easier. I think."

Her smile brightened as she tried to determine whether the woman was being deliberately sensual with the candy – the pops were excellent for that purpose, although these days she saved that sort of thing for Percy... or if it helped her haggling – and she offered the hand not holding the bag of candy. "Vex'ahlia. Most people call me Vex."

Her eyebrows went up at the name and she paused. This place had a sense of humour, it seemed. She reached out and shook Vex's hand with a firm handshake. "I'm Bo. And believe it or not, you're the second Vex I've ever met." Her eyes ran up the woman's clothing. "Though you definitely have better fashion sense than he does."

"All in black, with lots of feathers?" Vex guessed. "Looks like me? That would be my brother, Vax." People got them confused all the time, of course Vex would assume that was the case this time as well.

"I'd say it's a pleasure to meet you, Bo, but that sounds cruel when you've just been ripped from your world."

"Closed, actually, but no." She grinned." Vex is from my world. He likes black too, but more of a leather and chains kind of fashion although he probably wouldn't say no to feathers." Bo made a small face because she just got a visual of Vex in bed covered in feathers and now Bo wanted to vomit. Yuck.

"Yeah. Still getting over the whole 'not in Kansas anymore' thing. Though you'd think I'd be used to weird stuff by now."

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Vex wondered what counted as weird to Bo, but decided now wasn't the time to ask. Let her get settled first.

"As hard as it will be to believe today, give it a few months, you might realize you miss the weird shit. Not that there isn't any strangeness," there was the door to another world through Room 144, that could disappear again at any time.

"Not being under constant threat of death has been nice, and who wouldn't want a vacation? But I wasn't quite ready to retire from adventuring."

"I'm not sure I wouldn't mind retiring, but it's not exactly in the cards for me at the moment. My people were in the middle of a war right now and my friends need me." Bo's lips pressed together for a moment as she dealt with the worry that if she was gone too long everyone she loved could be dead.

"Most people here were in the middle of something important," Vex sympathized. She'd been fortunate; those who needed her most were here with her, and the news Pike brought suggested things had even been calm.

"If it helps, you may still be there for your friends. The magic is beyond me, but my brother, boyfriend, and friend all arrived here months before I did, and yet, their last memories of our world were a good week before the last time I saw them in our world. Another friend arrived later, and I believe her when she says a year had passed where we were all safe and happy."

"So... time works differently here." She let out a sigh. It wasn't relief, per say, but more a residing to her fate. At least at this point in time. Ask her again after she had some sleep.

"So your brother is here, and other people you know. That must be nice." She paused, thinking. "Does that happen often?"

Vex wobbled her head back and forth. "It does happen. I was lucky, the first person I met here – Dot, she was the sweetest thing and an excellent baker, but she's gone now, along with the others she knew," hopefully back to their world, although what would that be like, after months here? "Suggested I ask at the desk about my companions. But there are still more here who didn't know anyone on arrival. I don't want to imagine being here on my own, but I'm not sure I'd wish this on my friends either."

As far as Bo knew at the moment, she was the only one here. "I'm not sure if it's a blessing or a curse. I mean, there's a few who are really mad at me right now so being in a place you can't leave would probably not be so fun." Then again, she already missed everyone.

"On the other side, I have a few friends would who really like this place." She rolled her eyes. "One would definitely find it fascinating."

"It looks like a, as a friend would say, house of lady favors." Vex missed Grog, but having him here would be disastrous. On the other hand, Scanlan would love this place, not that Vex let herself miss Scanlan – the shit.

"Everything being free is nice. And there are something's absolutely fascinating to me, but that are apparently commonplace to those whose worlds are closer to this one. Air conditioning, hot and cold running water on demand, phones, condoms - so many wonderful, useful things."

Her lips quirked a little at condoms which she definitely noted for later. But then she backtracked what Vex had said and paused. "Worlds. As in, multiple. Like, you're not from Earth?"

That was a new one for Bo although maybe it shouldn't be at this point.

"Hardly. I'm from Exandria, but so far, the only people here who've heard of it are my companions." She didn't expect Bo to know of it either.

"But there are many here from Earth, and others from somewhere different. From different times as well. But this place seems to have been a part of Earth, or made to look like it, and those more familiar with it seem to think this is the nineties, but I don't know the calendar that well yet."

"Exandria." Bo practiced the unfamiliar name on her lips. It sounded pretty and a lot nicer on the tongue than 'Toronto'.

"I guess if something can really keep us here like magic than it'd be powerful enough to do all that." She paused, thinking, then scrunched her nose. "Does that mean someone from my past or future could show up?"

"It's possible, yes. I believe for a time, there was a young man here, who was the grandfather of brothers who were here. Although both he and one of the brothers are gone now." Most siblings weren't as close as she and Vax, and she didn't know the Winchesters to say, but she still felt a pang of hurt for the brother left behind.

"More often it seems to be a difference of days or weeks. Maybe months."

"Definitely prefer that." Bo already felt like there were a lot of secrets people like Trick and Dyson were holding back from her so she didn't like the idea of someone in the future coming in knowing how stuff went down. Assuming there was a future with the Garuda around, of course.

"Not really big on secrets about my life."

"Who is, darling?" Secrets rarely brought them any good. "Unless I'm the one keeping them, of course," she added with a wink.

"Is there anyone in particular you'd be looking for? We're sort of like a small village here; everyone knows everyone at least by sight, if not well. And we try to keep an eye on on the usual arrival days... I'm not sure why it was early this time."

"Kenzi?" Bo didn't even think about it before she said her best friend's name. "Or... Trick. Hale... Dyson." Though Dyson was God Knows where so maybe whatever sucked her in hadn't reached him. "..Lauren?"

Dyson sounded familiar, but in the moment Vex couldn't remember for certain if that was the name or the man she was actually thinking of, and people could have the same name. She didn't want to raise false hope that someone Bo knew was already here. "I'd ask Darryl at the desk. He's not good for much else unless you really want some towels, but he'll know who's here. If any of them show up, I should point them toward you?"

She nodded. "Yes, please. And if you meet someone with your name - " She paused. Did she really want to deal with Vex? The answer was that someone would have to be responsible for him, so yes. "Probably best to make a quick exit and let me know as soon as possible. Unlike you, he is definitely not very charming."

"I'll keep that in mind." Vex couldn't help being a little curious, though.

"Good luck, Bo. I know it's an adjustment being here, and I hope you find who you're looking for."

"Thanks... I've been told I'm pretty resilient so I guess we'll see, huh?" She offered a smile.

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