Yuki Akuma
2011-01-07, 07:01 AM
OOC Thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10075761)
Antonio's Bar & Grill is a dull affair to look at, but the pizza is good and the beer is cheap. It's tucked away down an unremarkable alley in the unglamorous rainy streets of the cheaper part of town. It's 2006, and it's Christmas Eve. Antonio's holding a party. Outside, the rain is turning the sleet.
The clientele at Antonio's is generally a mixture of construction workers, bored middle-aged businessmen,hoodlums, gangsters, soldiers of fortune and rough company. Contract labourers mingle with contract killers and share clouds of beer breath, cheering at the touchdowns and whistling at the girls in the rock videos. It's the kind of bar where people do that bet about stabbing between your fingers. Since everybody wants cheap beer, good pizza, and the occasional fried eggplant sub and a place to feel at home, everybody gets along, most of the time.
They get along especially well when Antonio decides to throw a Christmas party, and every 365.25 days or so, Maria pulls out a huge dusty box and decks Antonio's halls for all they're worth. Garland is hung over the stuffed jackalope heads that adorn the walls, fake snow is sprayed on the windowsills, the windows, on the tables, the floors, the bartop, and often Antonio's armpits. The ceiling is dotted with mistletoe, and the stage (Antonio gets live bands in on weekends) becomes overflowing with a gigantic scotch pine, itself overflowing with lights, ornaments, and tinsel.
Tacky, some say. But not to Maria's face. She's sweet provided she isn't angered.
This very night is the climax of it all: the Christmas Eve Bash. The hour is getting late, and Maria's dipping into Antonio's custom eggnog, which is even now overflowing in the punchbowls. She's weaving through the crowd in a manner which can only be described as 'bebopping', passing out red hats tot he customers, flirting with the cute ones, pushing the older and drunker ones away.
NPC Rundown!
Antonio
The owner and usual barkeep at Antonio's Bar and Grill. He's an affable guy, pretty young for a business owner. He loves to have a good time and enjoys pretty much anything that doesn't require math. He's a guitarist when nobody's around, which is to say that when he hauls out his guitar, people suddenly remember how late it is.
Fun-Loving Bartender (3), Businessman (1), Master Chef (1), Romeo (1), Wannabe Rock Star (1), Pervy Tree-Fancier (1)
Maria
Antonio's chief assistant barkeep, Maria's tough, smart, witty and capable. She flirts playfully, but she has no patience for artless lechers with wandering paws and no useful dialogue. The bar is an excuse for Antonio to pretend he's 22 years old forever, but thanks to Maria it's also a successful, stable business.
Fun-Loving Bartender (3), The One Around Here Who Can Actually Do Stuff (3), Every Drunkard's Bashful Crush (3)
Antonio's Bar & Grill is a dull affair to look at, but the pizza is good and the beer is cheap. It's tucked away down an unremarkable alley in the unglamorous rainy streets of the cheaper part of town. It's 2006, and it's Christmas Eve. Antonio's holding a party. Outside, the rain is turning the sleet.
The clientele at Antonio's is generally a mixture of construction workers, bored middle-aged businessmen,hoodlums, gangsters, soldiers of fortune and rough company. Contract labourers mingle with contract killers and share clouds of beer breath, cheering at the touchdowns and whistling at the girls in the rock videos. It's the kind of bar where people do that bet about stabbing between your fingers. Since everybody wants cheap beer, good pizza, and the occasional fried eggplant sub and a place to feel at home, everybody gets along, most of the time.
They get along especially well when Antonio decides to throw a Christmas party, and every 365.25 days or so, Maria pulls out a huge dusty box and decks Antonio's halls for all they're worth. Garland is hung over the stuffed jackalope heads that adorn the walls, fake snow is sprayed on the windowsills, the windows, on the tables, the floors, the bartop, and often Antonio's armpits. The ceiling is dotted with mistletoe, and the stage (Antonio gets live bands in on weekends) becomes overflowing with a gigantic scotch pine, itself overflowing with lights, ornaments, and tinsel.
Tacky, some say. But not to Maria's face. She's sweet provided she isn't angered.
This very night is the climax of it all: the Christmas Eve Bash. The hour is getting late, and Maria's dipping into Antonio's custom eggnog, which is even now overflowing in the punchbowls. She's weaving through the crowd in a manner which can only be described as 'bebopping', passing out red hats tot he customers, flirting with the cute ones, pushing the older and drunker ones away.
NPC Rundown!
Antonio
The owner and usual barkeep at Antonio's Bar and Grill. He's an affable guy, pretty young for a business owner. He loves to have a good time and enjoys pretty much anything that doesn't require math. He's a guitarist when nobody's around, which is to say that when he hauls out his guitar, people suddenly remember how late it is.
Fun-Loving Bartender (3), Businessman (1), Master Chef (1), Romeo (1), Wannabe Rock Star (1), Pervy Tree-Fancier (1)
Maria
Antonio's chief assistant barkeep, Maria's tough, smart, witty and capable. She flirts playfully, but she has no patience for artless lechers with wandering paws and no useful dialogue. The bar is an excuse for Antonio to pretend he's 22 years old forever, but thanks to Maria it's also a successful, stable business.
Fun-Loving Bartender (3), The One Around Here Who Can Actually Do Stuff (3), Every Drunkard's Bashful Crush (3)