Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-30655593-20190720092525/@comment-29564364-20190730162456

(Alpha: TheHD's little cousins are currently monopolizing his attention, so he sent me to tell you he'll finish and post his response once they're finally gone. He'll edit this very reply when he's done, which is what "[Writing response...]" means.)

Upon receiving the drink, Alex takes it to his nose before immediately putting it back down on the counter. "Ugh! This thing reeks of alcohol!" he cringes.

"That should be no surprise since we are in a tavern." Tesla answers.

"Besides, wouldn't that count as underaged drinking? Given my looks, I could be seventeen for all she knows. Wait, what even is the age limit in this kingdom?"

"That I do not know. Perhaps you could ask that guard you have been listening in on? That would also be the perfect occasion to present your apology to the woman he is talking with."

"Nah, dude. The night's still young and she works here, so even if I don't do it tonight, there's still tomorrow, and after tomorrow, and the day after that, and the nex--"

"I get it." Tesla cuts him, "What are your intentions for tonight then?"

"First off, returning this red monstrosity." He says, picking up the tankard. He scans the room, expecting to meet a mamono's gaze, but it appears it had no sender. "Oh well. It's probably a gift from the house, then." he shrugs, then turns back to the counter and sets the drink down. "Let's just offer it to whoever wants a free drink. But for now, I need another place to sleep since someone already stole our mean of payment and that... woman? didn't mention any other way. Oh! And I also want to see if this city has a guild or something because I don't wanna use my sta--" his palm slaps against his forehead, then slowly drags down over his face.

"I was wondering when you would remember your stash. It turns out it was much later than I expected." the spirit mocks.

"And it never occurred to you to remind me?"

"Perhaps your curiosity has rubbed off onto me?"

"That's not just curiosity... Talking about curiosity and work thievery, who's that Kos that Sal mentioned? Have we met him before?"

"I do not remember a Kos."

Alex whips out a PlotPhone 4W from nowhere and quickly reads over the part where he is in the jailhouse, "Ah, okay... It's the walking icicle from the jailhouse, but we never caught his name, so we don't know it's him yet." He then puts the device away behind his back where it disappears to where it came from: nowhere. "Let's see who that Kos is." He leaves the signature drink behind and backtracks his way upstairs until he finds himself before the room he had crashed into.

He takes off Clockedge's scabbard, turns it upside down and gives it a good vertical shake, which causes not only the map he had put in it, but also a black pouch to fall from the mouth, which he catches with his other hand. Inside the pouch was a watch with a counter identical to the one on his gauntlet and an eyepatch-like monocle similar to his goggles. Once he slips the wristwear on, the six numbered wheels automatically turn to display 06:03:52, and a small diode on the frame lights up blue as he tightens the leather belt around his head. Tesla's ability to sense electromagnetism overrides the vision of Alex's bad eye, allowing him to see clearly again. "Ahh... You know that feeling when you put on your clean glasses that you hadn't cleaned in a week? This is a hundred times better."

"Do you believe in life after love? that a lightning spirit that was sealed within a crystal before spending the next centuries as a factory has ever wore glasses?"

"I dunno, you tell me; you're the expert lightning spirit here." Alex jokes.

The two of them then spend a moment, standing there in complete silence before Alex asks: "Soooo... how do we get to the roof?"

"Why the roof?"

"Well, I thought I could sleep there. It's usually dangerous to sleep out in the open in the wild, but there are no predators in big cities to kill you. Also, it's free."

[Done.]