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[toldyouso]

[It's a new guy who some people might recognize from the Cancerverse field trip, except he's now clean-shaven and doesn't look like he's just come from spending years wandering around a hell dimension.]

Very serious question: what's the best bar around here?

[Pete doesn't need a drink. He just wants a drink.]

[private to Rich]

Pick up the phone, man.

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[headinjuries]

Just go down to Earth and flash your flight ring at the door basically anywhere. If you're not paying, does it even matter which one is "best"?

[unrecovered]

...aren't you a teenager?

[HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOUNG MAN]

[...look, someone has to mentor and Rich isn't in any fit state to do it, so Wash is stepping up.]

[headinjuries]

Dude, just because I don't do it doesn't mean I don't notice when anybody else does.

[ It's okay, Wash, Sam is the last kid you actually have to worry about drinking underage. Holding his dad's head while he puked was better than a million DARE classes to turn him off that shit for life. ]

[thedreamisdead]

It's legal here.

[Not that she sounds at all happy about it.]

[toldyouso]

Not that it's a great idea, but if a kid's old enough to die heroically fighting for the Legion, they might as well be allowed to have a beer.

[Shrug. He has so many other things to worry about.]

[toldyouso]

...Yes?

[He demands a certain class of bar fight in his down time.]

[headinjuries]

Wow, you're hard to please.

[toldyouso]

What do you even know about bars?

[He's forgotten a lot of things about Earth but he's certain the US has a drinking age that Sam is below.]

[headinjuries]

Not much!

I do know about drunks, and like everything resembling a higher thought process goes out the window, so.

[ordinarily]

Okay but.

If I'm getting a free video game, I still wouldn't wanna play a crappy one, so.

[headinjuries]

Okay but have you ever seen a drunk person.

[ DRUNKS GET STUPID they stop having the ability to distinguish these things. ]

[toldyouso]

Kid, there's a whole lotta territory between "drinking" and "drunk."

[headinjuries]

Mmhmm.

[ He is intensely skeptical of this. ]

[toldyouso]

[Pete has many, many character defects, but a problem with alcohol isn't one of them. He looks at Sam for a moment with his head cocked.]

Not my business who the drunk in your life is, but you can relax. The only thing I let wreck me is fights I shouldn't have picked.

[He's also very perceptive.]

[headinjuries]

What, so like...all of them?

[toldyouso]

Hey.

[Ouch, but also good one.]

I have been in plenty of fights that were either perfectly reasonable to pick or that I didn't start.

[headinjuries]

You walked right into that one, come on.

[toldyouso]

Not all Novas are like this, you know. Just the ones who spend too much time around Richie.

[headinjuries]

All I get from too much time around Rich is five lifetimes' worth of short jokes.

[toldyouso]

Yeah, he needs to work on his banter. I kept putting it on the satisfaction surveys, but nothing came of it.