originally posted in:The New Dojo
[b]Into the café walked, or rather, slithered, a strange creature.
From the waist up, he was a normal man, looking around 25 years old. He wore a thick tan jacket over a blue t-shirt, and he had a neat little leather knapsack. His hair was brown, so were his eyes. Pretty normal guy.
Except for a few things. First, from the waist down he was some sort of shiny, slightly slimy snake tail thing, which was easily triple his waist to head height. It was deep purple in color, with lighter spots scattered across it.
Secondly, his fingertips were the same purple, the color bleeding down into his hands, like he had dipped them in dye
And finally, he had a jagged sword holstered at his side, the blade gently glowing purple in the same way his fingers did.
He slithered right up to the bar and coiled up around a stool and sat down.[/b]
[i]"Hey, do you serve distilled hopes here?"[/i]
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[b]The owner looked at the man/creature oddly, then replied.[/b] "Yea, you want that with or without cream?"
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[i]"With, please. It's too hard to find a place that carries distilled hope these days."[/i] [b]The man-thing looked over at Cornelia[/b] [i]"You can relate, right? Nothing like a big mug of Hope after a long day."[/i]
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"I suppose there isn't..." [b]She replied. Meanwhile, the man went back into the kitchen. Only a few moments later, he returned with an ordinary cup of coffee with some cream in it.[/b] "There, that's the closest thing we got to a cup of hope..."
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[i]"Close enough."[/i] [b]He downed the coffee in a way that probably shouldn't be physically possible.[/b] [i]"Anyhows,"[/i] [b]He turned to Cornelia.[/b] [i]"Where's the closest food? I'm starving."[/i]
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"There's probably something he could make..." [b]She pointed at the owner again.[/b] "Yea, I can make eggs, pancakes, sandwiches, other random stuff..."
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[i]"One of everything. Say, do you accept dangerous, and powerful, artifacts as payment?"[/i] [b]The man-serpent thing appeared to be serious about that[/b]
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[b]The man gave him another odd look.[/b] "Uh, no, it'll just have to be on the house I guess." [b]He went back into the kitchen again to make the food. Cornelia chimed in.[/b] "Strange method of payment you have there."