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So. This has been a long couple of days. [The look on his face screams 'I am just so done' so much that he doesn't even have to say it explicitly] Any recommendations for a good bar around Nonah? I got a lot of sorrows to drown and not enough booze to keep me going.

[See, now, he doesn't need deets on what's going down, he gets the gist from the other posts he's checked in on and what his little handy welcome pack told him, he pretty much has that down. As insane that it is. What he doesn't have is a good reliable watering hole and that just isn't right. No man should go days, hours or minutes without one.]

If I spend any more time sober, I might actually start reassessing my life and my choices and I don't have time for that kind of shit. So just help a guy out here. I don't mind if I got to pay a little extra for a good drink but I'm not exactly flushed with cash here so let's not go nuts and send me to like the ritziest place in town. Okay? Reasonable. Prices.

[Wait, he should really clarify here because when it comes to finding a bar, you can never be too specific in your wants.]

Just don't direct me to some dive where they water down the drinks or I will come down on you like the hand of God and smite your ass because seriously, don't waste my time or my money. That shit ain't cute and I will come at you. Sensible suggestions only.

[There's a long pause before he adds:]

While we're on the subject of things I need, I got one more request. I need someone who's good with this thing right here. [He means the device, he even gives it a little shake to just display what he means.] I got a few questions.

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I know of quite a few bars in Nonah -- but before you consider me a lush... you may wish to clarify the type of bar you want. Do you want a dive, or mid-range?

[ Just. Just look at him, Floyd. Whichever way you go, it's probably out of your price-range. ]

[Yeah, never trust a dude like that with cheap drinks, it'll end up costing his soul or something.] You know what, let's play it safe and say dive? Come at me, any suggestions are loved.

Though I gotta say, I don't think it makes you a lush. I think we all appreciate a good drink from time to time.

Ah, the words of either someone who never worries about excess, or someone who should worry about it.

[ A pause, and then he leaned forward. ]

There's a rather nice hold in the wall, near downtown Nonah. If you head past the Charles E. Cheddar establishment on Main, and across from the line of small bistros, there's a stairway.

Rather excellent wines, and... beers. [ He says beer like it's a slur. ]

Either way, man, I ain't gonna worry.

[Either the drink will kill him or his job will. At least he'd be happier with the drink.]

Not a big wine man myself but whatever, I can get behind it. A drink is a drink. Now when you say good beer, do you mean good like an American beer or good like an actual good beer?

[ An insulted scoff. ]

Do I sound like the sort that would stoop to American beer?

[ He held a hand to his chest, affronted. ] I only drink the best, and this is something -- like so many other things -- that America does not do well.

I don't know man but an unsettling amount of people do.

[Look, dude, he's been burned before.] I'm not arguing with you on that one. We do some shit right but in the ways of drinking? Nah. I'll leave that in the capable hands of Europe.

And we Europeans thank you for it.

[ Shut up Shade, you're British. Your taste is as bad as America's. ]

But I do hope that it lands you with something good. The proprietor is a dear friend of mine. If you tell them the Shade sent you, you'll likely see a discount.

Discount? See, look at that, you already made a friend out of me.

Guys who can get me a discount are the best kind of company to keep, especially if that discount is for something good. Like booze.

Well, my friend! Stick with me, and I can assure you, discounts are frequent.

I seem to make friends, wherever I go. Always appropriate to share the spoils, yes?

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