<> <> <> <> (This IS back in time, pre mission 4) * Amadeus is already there, which probably fits with his attitude towards the lot of you between missions, namely: wanders off and does his own thing. He's seated at a small table and working at some datapad that's jacked into his neck. As a side note, he does have a drink of some sort. * Lexi pretty much ALWAYS thinks it is time for MUCH alcohol and so approaches the bartender. "Hey there." she grins. "I'll have a double vodka and club soda." and she takes a seat. <> * Zeke does not ignore the work social activities, because that would be silly. Only the bird follows him... that might be because most of his other drones got busted. He scans his head around and sees Amadeus and Lexi. It takes him a moment before he decides to head over to Amadeus' table. <> * Amadeus looks up at Zeke, and he smiles a bit as he pushes his glasses up. Text continues to appear on his datapad as he does so. When he talks, however, it stops. "Nice to see you. How are you holding up?" * Lexi floats the drink over to her and pays for it with a generous tip. "Thanks." * Tomas walks in and heads toward the others, cradling what looks to be a loaner arm. * Zeke pulls a chair over and slowly sits down on it. It's a bit funny looking, due to the size. "I am well. Repairs have been going as expected." * Lexi frowns at Tomas as she sips her drink. "Aww Tomas... I'm sorry about your arm. Why don't you have a drink?" * Amadeus nods. "Surprised to see you up and about so early." He checks something on his datapad, frowns a little, and the text changes itself. * Zeke nods slowly, his bird looking at the datapad as his holoface stays looking at Amadeus. "As said, suit function was the main problem, and most of that was patched on-planet." * Tomas smiles at Lexi, "I could get behind that idea," and heads to the bar asking for a house specialty. (You asshole.) (BOOYA) * Kyle grins as he busts into the bar and looks around. "Hey guys, what's goin' on?" * Kyle doesn't... really look any different than he usually looks. * Amadeus blinks at the party crasher (if there was a party). "Good afternoon, Kyle." <> * Tomas waves at Kyle, "It goes, K-Man." * Amadeus picks up his mostly untouched drink, sips it, and puts it back down. He glances at his datapad, and it scrolls to a different location in whatever document he's working on. * Lexi waves at Kyle and downs about half of her drink. "Hey, Kyle!" * Zeke half-nonsequitors, "It is good we protected some of the samples." No doubt they are now of high value. * Tomas grabs his drink and takes a seat with the others * Amadeus nods. "Well, they're not *particularly* different from samples one might get from Earth, which is interesting in and of itself - outside of the way life on that planet deals with solar flares." (Then goes and has some dinner chicken.) * Lexi rolls her eyes. "Oh man... do we HAVE to talk about work? If so I'm totally getting like four more drinks." I think Zeke's referring more to the newfound rarity of the specimens. In addition, I find them infinitely useful for getting Lexi to ignore me. * Kyle waves back to Lexi. "We could totally talk about something else." * Zeke's bird looks over at KLT as he stays looking at Amadeus. He then replies to Amadeus' statement with, "Similarity breeds similarity." * Lexi nods. "Yes, let's..." She finishes her drink and motions for the bartender to get her another one. "What do you do outside of work, Kyle, like... for fun?" <> * Lexi floats it over again and pays similarly as she waits for Kyle's response. * Kyle orders a gin'n'tonic as he walks past the bar. "Well, I can do some bartending myself, do some climbing. Love surfing TVnet too." * Kyle shrugs and grins. "Getting drunk's a good past time too." (Sorry, talking to Cham about a couple things.) * Amadeus nods to Zeke. "That it does." But it's still interesting. Evolution is usually a process of random attempts and seeing what sticks. There has to be multiple ways to achieve the same effect. * Lexi nods and sips her drink. "TVNet, huh? So I imagine -my- pastimes are no secret to you?" She grins and continues to drink. * Zeke mms, then replies, "Yes, but two finding the same good solution... perhaps not so odd." No, it's not odd. Just interesting. * Kyle takes a drink. "Well, who *doesn't* know about Lexi Calhoun. I'm pretty sure there are some things they don't catch with those cameras, though." * Amadeus looks back at his pad, and more text starts writing itself into the screen. And I can't say I know everything about you. That'd just be creepy and stalkerish. (But it doesn't mean it's not true!) (Yay!) * Lexi shrugs. "Yeah. There are some things." She chuckles. "The best stuff, actually... Anyway..." Another sip. "What exactly is your twenty-four power, Kyle? I mean it's pretty obvious what mine is... hell it's been covered by the media since I was like seven." (Which is why I'm totally not tagging the pictures I took of you and categorizing them for the web to see, honest.) (You could make some serious money selling them to TVNet trash shows.) * Kyle points at the features he has from Lexi and Amadeus. In particular hair highlights and changes in skin tone. "Mostly that. I sometimes look like people around me. I've also got some other things, like I'm a fast healer, and I can... uh... 'sense' 24 powers." (Hm, money. Lexi might not even be mad if you gave her a split.) (She wouldn't really care about the money much. But she might not be mad anyway. She's used to it, and likes the attention) * Lexi nods. "Nice. So this place is really weird, huh? I mean I've been in some strange bars, but I don't think I've ever been in one like this." <> <> Got me. Has taste though. * Amadeus keeps fiddling with his datapad and not drinking much. Go Amadeus! How 'bout you? What do you do when you're *not* on the camera? * Lexi shrugs. "Mostly have sex and get yelled at by my dad. Sometimes at the same time." Lexi is so pleasantly blunt and honest. To be fair, I'm on camera a lot. Oh and I do a lot of trick flying... but uh that's often caught on camera. Actually... some of the other stuff is too. * Kyle snerks. And me, I'm usually the one holding the camera for my shows. * Kyle orders another drink. <> <> * Lexi gets up. "I'm getting sick of sitting here. You want to dance, Kyle?" She grins and floats into the air. (I have not!) * Kyle gets up and smirks. "Hell yeah." He stands up. "Well, I guess there's one other thing I can do." He concentrates for a moment, then starts floating as well, grinning. "Pretty sure you saw me do this on Metallica." * Lexi nods. "Yeah I was wondering about that." (Cham. Music. Is it slow or fast?) <> (Works) * Lexi holds out her hand to Kyle, waiting for him to do some leading. <> * Amadeus looks up to Kyle and Lexi, because floating and all, and blinks. Hm. Then he goes back to his datapaddery. * Kyle takes the hand and starts to engage in a... surprisingly good waltz, actually. (Wouldn't think it with him being some sort of punk.) * Lexi follows skillfully and actually smiles. "You're pretty good at this." * Kyle smiles back, although doing all this in the air seems to be a 'bit of a distraction to him. "I never said I was bad at it. Blame my liberal arts courses." <> (Whenever y'all are done we can close up.) * Zeke's bird is watching them fly while he sits. Eventually he comments to Amadeus, "What is it about this place that appeals to you?" (*returns*) (How you feeling?) (Less stressed, still sort of in pain until the lidocane kicks in, otherwise normal.) (Great. Now I'm looking at the wiki article on waltzes.) (haha) (I'm really sorry I derailed this week, y'all. :( ) * Amadeus chuckles at Zeke's question, then replies, "It has many of the good parts of being outside without the bad." (It's no problem. I'd have been too tired to do it real justice anyhow.) * Lexi giggles and continues to dance until the end of the song before giving Kyle a quick kiss and a wink and floating back down. "Thanks for the dance, Kyle, see you at work..." * Kyle blushes from the kiss, grinning a little as he stays there for a second. He snaps out of it in very quick order and gives Lexi a light salute as he floats down. "My pleasure, see ya." * Lexi stretches and heads out of the bar waving to the rest of the crew as she goes. "See ya." * Amadeus nods to Lexi as she goes. <> * Kyle walks back to the booth with a smile. "So what'cha workin' on, Prof?" Just some notes on the samples we got. Dude, anything awesome? * Amadeus smiles a little. "Yes, but at the same time no. Like I was telling Zeke earlier, the samples we got are very similar to Earth specemins, outside of their defenses against regular solar flares." (Man, that solar was anything but regular.) (+flare) (For that planet?) (Well, "regular" in the sense of centuries for that planet. Irregular in the sense that superflares are NOT regular occurrences.) (Right. I figured it was the first, so.) Natural Selection, right? * Amadeus nods. "Pretty much. Anything that couldn't last through a flare would have been extinct in only a few hundred years." Nothin' totally awesome beyond that though? Bummer. (I'm coo' with an end whenever, dude) Well, Metallica gave me enough material to last a lifetime. So I can't complain, really. (Yup!) Metallica was just... *weird*. Quite elegant, however. Totally, it looked awesome. (BTW, Cham, my mother supports your 'tenderize with marinade' suggestion.)_ (Hoorj) (Okay, let's end please!) (Just say we keep talking. XP) <>