Patchwork Universe

Trubshawe · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:25 am Post subject: A New Arrival

From the mists stomps a short, angry-looking figure. He is dressed in a nondescript uniform of grey, but his peaked cap and epaulettes mark him out as a person of some rank. His face is twisted in a snarl of fury and he muttersto himself as he marches in the direction of Jones'.

"Those lazy wretches! I put up with a lot already but this is going too far. Mists to all four compass points, four keepers, how hard can it be. But no, the shiftless layabouts need me to take them by the hand and drag them through the mists one by one. Oh, there'll be such a team briefing when we get back from our reconnaissance. Pay cuts all round I think."

Apoplectically he nears the public house...

Jones · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:31 am Post subject:

In reponse to all the shouting a young man came out from the side door of the Public House, concealed at first by the shadows as he approached the front of the building.

Once there he didn't hesitate to greet the newcomer and strode forward, one hand extended in a friendly manner.
"Hello there," he said. "I'm Jack, and this building you see here is my Dad's pub... the J on the sign is for Jones, which is his name and the pub's name at that." He gestured expansively to the main doors. "Why don't you come in and have a pint? Perhaps some roast boar as well is that suits your fancy..."

[OOC NOTE: If entering the pub please continue the current Public Bar thread]

Trubshawe · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

"Aha!" bellowed Trubshawe, his moustache bristling triumphantly. "I knew there must be sentient life here, to have assembled such a collection..."

He sniffed the air connoisseurially. "You'll have to tell me if I'm right. A number of equines, at least two distinct varieties, possibly caballus and asinus? In addition, some form of edible suid, and a number of oryctolagi. Furthermore..."

Jack was spared having to respond to this strange fellow's incomprehensible chatter by the fact that Trubshawe was marching purposefully towards the main doors as he spoke.