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"Right," Mona said. "So we're mixing mezcal, bloodwine, ketchup, chocolate milk, and pickle juice. In mason jars."

She did not envy the people volunteering to drink this cocktail. She'd seen a lot of crazy stuff in her years as a bartender -- she'd done a lot of it herself, even -- but this was perhaps the weirdest.

"Good luck to all of you."

[Minor OCD below will be removed in post, I wanted to give you all room to have to talk each other into drinking this sucker as needed]

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From:

1000yearstoolate

This was undrinkable. No, that wasn't true, Seivarden had drunk really terrible things in her life, usually on leave, in a bar she couldn't remember afterwards.

No, actually, this was undrinkable. She had just drunk undrinkable things before, but she wasn't sure she was drunk enough to manage it now. Staring at the mason jar in her hand, she tried not to smell the contents.

"Remind me why I'm doing this," she said. "And can I have some whiskey first?"

From:

myownface

"Nah," Sparkle said, waving his empty jar around, "just knock it back! It tastes way better than it looks!"

This was a lie.

From:

1000yearstoolate

"You're lying." Seivarden saw through it. She offered Sparkle half a smile, though.

From:

myownface

"I am," Sparkle confirmed merrily. "But it'll get you pretty fucking smashed and you'll be able to drink without having your soul sucked out by walking hamburger monsters, so at least there's a trade-off."

From:

1000yearstoolate

"I actually prefer it when you're being honest," Seivarden said, wrinkling her nose as she stared down her jar.

From:

myownface

"I mean, I could get into detail about all the, like, the flavours and the chewy undertones, but I'm pretty sure you'd run outta here screaming."

Sparkle was helpful.

From:

1000yearstoolate

"I said honest, not going into detail."

She took a deep breath, then downed the contents of the jar. It left her coughing, wiping her mouth, and making a disgusted face.

"Please give me something else to drink. Now."

From:

myownface

"Portal first, then more drinking," Sparkle replied cheerfully, gesturing with his jar toward the swirling... thing. "Otherwise you just did that for nothing!"

Did it make him a bad person if he enjoyed watching Seivarden squirm like this?