OPEN || BROTHEL MINGLE

[exorion]

Who: Shades Darker staff and adjacent!
What: Staff mingle!
When: ALL MONTH WHY NOT
Where: Shades Darker probably
Warning(s): Probably some chatting about sex & sex work


(GENERAL OPEN POST! Party style, do what you like, tag around, have a good time.)

Comments

[rhygret]

Who's arguing? I am merely stating a simple fact, if you want to disagree with that then I think it's you who's doing the arguing.

[ It's okay, so is he. This is just the sort of smarmy banter he was used to back home, and Rhys rather enjoys it truth be told. ]

[motivation]

You're the one disagreeing with me.

[ so by his own definition, he's arguing, isn't he? ]

[rhygret]

[ No he's the one who brought up the point Dutch you're not allowed to do that?? ]

I'm correcting.

[ And splitting every hair possible. But Rhys is obviously enjoying this, niggling away at her words. It's the sort of thing he'd do back when he worked for Hyperion and his life's biggest problem was kissing up to Henderson for that promotion he never got.

What a waste of 3 years man. ]

[motivation]

Which means you think I'm wrong. So you're disagreeing.

[ she doesn't mind the banter one bit, either. it isn't quite the same as the back and forth of team awesome force, but then, she's known johnny and even d'avin a lot longer than rhys. it's a different kind of thing, too.

but this is good fun. ]

[rhygret]

You know it's really more of a potato-potato thing? Don't worry about the particulars.

[ Because that would mean he's wrong and Rhys is Never Wrong, definitely never and all of his ideas and plans definitely succeed. But he will shrug and manage to look smugly amused. ]

What's you poison tonight?

[ he'll buy that drink, goshhhh ]

[motivation]

Sure.

[ dutch is pretty sure she just won, because one way or another, he's buying her a drink. which was what she wanted all along, so: victory. ]

Whiskey. Something old.

[ she'll leave up to him how old "old" is. ]

[rhygret]

[ That's the name of the game here :'| Dutch is the boss and Rhys puts up a token resistance even though deep down he's kind of really okay buying someone as hot and cool and she is a drink. This sort of thing would have never happened on Helios. ]

Coming right up.

[ He goes to order from the bar, and while it's not the best whisky they have, it's enough for someone on his level of income. Rhys of course gets something lighter and more fruity, a cocktail of some sort, and returns to her with a small glass of her desired drink. ]

Milady.

[ Why yes he is being a nerd and hamming it up on purpose. ]

[motivation]

Now you're talking.

[ though after dutch has taken her drink from him and taken a sip, she slants him a glance. ] Though "lady"'s the wrong title.

[rhygret]

What, really? You have something else you wanna be called?

[ Badass, overlord, master....? ]

[motivation]

Nah.

[ but - ] If we're being technical, though, I'm royalty by marriage, so "lady"'s really not cutting it.

[rhygret]

[ WELL NOW THERE'S SOMETHING TO MAKE HIM SPUTTER PARTWAY TO TAKING A DRINK. ]

M, Marriage??

[motivation]

[ dutch, meanwhile, looks exactly not worried at all. because she isn't. she does pat his back in an only slightly condescending manner, though. ]

Don't worry. He's dead.

[ making a joke out of one of the worst, best and most meaningful nights of her life, why not. ]

[rhygret]

[ I mean.........as awful as that is it does make him feel better? That he didn't unwittingly cuckhold some poor dude. Or possibly ruin things for Dutch's...now non-existent relationship. Yep. That probably makes him a little sub-par. ]

O-oh, um. ....Sorry?

[motivation]

[ dutch is pretty sure she's the one who seduced him, so really, this could feel kind of insulting. she's not feeling insulted, though, even if rhys might think her the kind of woman to cheat on her husband.

some days, dutch wonders how different her life would have been if khlyen hadn't murdered him, if she hadn't run. ]

I hardly knew him. [ her tone is all casual indifference. ]

[rhygret]

[ He didn't mean to imply that shhhh!! But it would be a very Rhys thing to accidentally do I suppose so there's that. It doesn't make hearing about him any less awkward though, considering his death and the fact that apparently she...didn't know him that well. That's pretty unusual, normally you'd know the person you were marrying right? ]

Was it...an arranged sort of thing or something?

[ Do people still do those? ]

[motivation]

[ not when you've been placed in a royal harem at a young age to restore your family's name by securing an advantageous marriage. then you don't need to know the person you're marrying.

she mourns the death of her husband less than the death of her means of escaping khlyen peacefully, of the belief that he'd ever let her go. he hadn't, even when she'd run. ]

I guess you could call it that. [ dutch smiles. the expression is even largely amused. ] I grew up in a royal harem.

[rhygret]

A rhh...royal harem. Wow.

[ This is clearly not the response Rhys expected?? Like can you say fish out of water here or what. ]

I...did not know they still had those. Or. I know it's a different universe and all, it's just the first time I've ever met someone who came from one...?

[motivation]

First time for everything.

[ dutch pats his back again and then downs her drink. ] Drink up. Or at least close your mouth, you're gaping.

[rhygret]

--Right. Yeah, sorry. [ Rhys will just quickly take a sip then, and now that he's had his brief moment of worry he's maybe unintentionally had an affair with Dutch Rhys can't exactly avoid remembering their little...foray in the hot springs. ]

Soooo you look like you've been...well.

[motivation]

Really?

[ not a question that requires answering, just amusement. ] That's smooth.

[rhygret]

Yyyyeah that wasn't the best attempt I've ever made. Can I try that again?

[motivation]

Depends. Are you going to buy me another drink first?

[rhygret]

You know payday's not until next week, right?

[motivation]

So complain-y.

[ dutch's tone is teasing even as she rolls her eyes— and then she reaches across the bar, glancing at the bartender for approval before she simply takes a bottle of whatever is closest. it happens to be a red wine. ] Guess I have to take care of it, then.

[ free drinks are a definite perk of the job. ]

[rhygret]

Hey. You would not believe the number of people I buy drinks for nowadays. It's like interning for Hyperion all over again.

[ As if Dutch knows exactly what Hyperion was and what it was like working there for Rhys. Because if she did she'd know Rhys basically sucked up to a bunch of different people trying to land an actual job which included a healthy amount of gophering. ]