The tall redheaded woman stood with blue and gold colored darts in her right hand, glancing at the board in the heavily populated pub. “Going to play, or just look at it?” Prudence glanced to the woman with the quip; her thrall, Ryker. “It's all about tactic, ya dumbie.” Prudence rolled her eyes, glanced back at the board and started throwing the darts anyways.
Streaks of blue cold be seeing sailing in the direction of the board, landing in various places of the board with no real set rhyme or patterns. The two gold ones came next, because the pub only one mismatched set of darts that they got tired of replacing, until finally, the pub just decided they weren't going to replace them anymore and so people had to pull the darts from the board right after their turn was up. After Prudence did a quick count in her head about her point value, she looked to Ryker who confirmed she had gotten thirty-seven points with the darts, which added on to Prudence's total of nineteen before.
Prudence was, in no shape or form, an expert dart player. She had only played with darts less than a handful of times, each time with her thrall. Ryker had been winning by two points, the both of them trying to see who could get to one hundred first. Now, Pru was in the lead with fifty-six, but she knew Ryker would either catch up, or bypass her in the next round. And, once the woman was done throwing her darts, sure enough. It was now fifty-nine to fifty-six. Prudence groaned a little bit, and took the darts begrudgingly, not used to being the one who was trailing behind so much. Unless she was hanging with Mordechai. In that scenario, the grasshopper had far surpassed the teacher, but there was no ill-will or animosity towards a person she considered a good friend.
“Any ideas on what we're going to do about the re-occurring theme in the bar?” The shorter, dark haired woman asked while Prudence was up to throw again. They had tried to deal with the scum that walked in off the streets time and time again, but after a few weeks, they just came right back in. “Maybe grow a bigger set of balls?” Prudence said, cackling before she tossed a dart and shrugged her shoulders. “I'm all ears. I hate cops, and ain't getting them involved and we've already practically destroyed the bar a couple years ago dealing with the trash...so?” Prudence trailed off, looking at her thrall, simply exasperated.
“Ever think of changing the appeal to the client base?” The woman asked quietly just as Prudence released another dart towards the bar. “What's that mean?” Prudence asked, her blue eyes narrowing. “What it means. You know, get rid of the back room, redecorate...that sort of thing. Make it more inviting for other people; a different type of people.” Ryker said with a shrug of her shoulders. “Ya mean make it like every other ******* bar in this city.” Prudence accused her thrall, eyes still narrowed. “If people want to sit on their asses and kiss the other person's, there are fifty or so other places they could go to do that. No way.” Prudence had thought about it before, but this was the only way she knew how to run a bar and not be completely bored of it. If Prudence had to choose between closing her bar down, or transforming it to some 'fluffy' bar, she would choose the former. Prudence would rather have no bar, than something that wasn't true to her vision or nature.
“Well, there's another option.” Ryker chimed in after Prudence had thrown her last dart. The woman tallied up her points, and said it out loud. “Twenty-one.” Prudence moved to the dart board, her booted feet heavy against the wood flooring and scuffing it occasionally, as she move in its direction. “What's that?” Prudence asked after yanking them from the board and turning to face her full-time bartender. “There's this guy I've been hearing about. In other bars. Seen him once. I think. A friend pointed him out, but he was sort of surrounded by a lot of people. Anyways, they say he...you know.” She made a motion over her throat, indicating slicing one's throat. “Yuh? So? We already been there, done that.” Prudence could take care of her own ****, or at least try to.
“We have and...” Ryker trailed off, not wanting to finish the thought. “They say he's really good at it. Maybe he has some connections and could get a little higher up on things. If you catch my drift.” Rkyer nodded and then held out her hand to take the darts. Prudence knew exactly what Ryker didn't say, but decided to gloss over it. “Really good, huh?” Prudence snorted and rolled her eyes, but this conversation was peaking her interest. Who was this guy and how good was he? Was it someone she knew, or heard of, before?
“Really good.” Ryker gushed, almost to the point Prudence wanted to barf. “Get ahold of yourself. Jesus.” Prudence already figured out by Ryker's pink tinted cheeks that whoever this guy was, was good and probably 'cute' in her thrall's eyes. “know where he might be?” Prudence asked, interested for two or three reasons. “Maybe. I saw him a couple times at this one club on the other side of town. Prudence rolled her eyes. Clubs. Great. Already she felt her attention dwindling and her thrall must have known it, because she grabbed Prudence's hand, set the darts down and led her out of the pub. “What's the worst thing that could happen, other than listening to a song or two you don't like?” Ryker asked as the two of them headed down the block towards the train station.
Streaks of blue cold be seeing sailing in the direction of the board, landing in various places of the board with no real set rhyme or patterns. The two gold ones came next, because the pub only one mismatched set of darts that they got tired of replacing, until finally, the pub just decided they weren't going to replace them anymore and so people had to pull the darts from the board right after their turn was up. After Prudence did a quick count in her head about her point value, she looked to Ryker who confirmed she had gotten thirty-seven points with the darts, which added on to Prudence's total of nineteen before.
Prudence was, in no shape or form, an expert dart player. She had only played with darts less than a handful of times, each time with her thrall. Ryker had been winning by two points, the both of them trying to see who could get to one hundred first. Now, Pru was in the lead with fifty-six, but she knew Ryker would either catch up, or bypass her in the next round. And, once the woman was done throwing her darts, sure enough. It was now fifty-nine to fifty-six. Prudence groaned a little bit, and took the darts begrudgingly, not used to being the one who was trailing behind so much. Unless she was hanging with Mordechai. In that scenario, the grasshopper had far surpassed the teacher, but there was no ill-will or animosity towards a person she considered a good friend.
“Any ideas on what we're going to do about the re-occurring theme in the bar?” The shorter, dark haired woman asked while Prudence was up to throw again. They had tried to deal with the scum that walked in off the streets time and time again, but after a few weeks, they just came right back in. “Maybe grow a bigger set of balls?” Prudence said, cackling before she tossed a dart and shrugged her shoulders. “I'm all ears. I hate cops, and ain't getting them involved and we've already practically destroyed the bar a couple years ago dealing with the trash...so?” Prudence trailed off, looking at her thrall, simply exasperated.
“Ever think of changing the appeal to the client base?” The woman asked quietly just as Prudence released another dart towards the bar. “What's that mean?” Prudence asked, her blue eyes narrowing. “What it means. You know, get rid of the back room, redecorate...that sort of thing. Make it more inviting for other people; a different type of people.” Ryker said with a shrug of her shoulders. “Ya mean make it like every other ******* bar in this city.” Prudence accused her thrall, eyes still narrowed. “If people want to sit on their asses and kiss the other person's, there are fifty or so other places they could go to do that. No way.” Prudence had thought about it before, but this was the only way she knew how to run a bar and not be completely bored of it. If Prudence had to choose between closing her bar down, or transforming it to some 'fluffy' bar, she would choose the former. Prudence would rather have no bar, than something that wasn't true to her vision or nature.
“Well, there's another option.” Ryker chimed in after Prudence had thrown her last dart. The woman tallied up her points, and said it out loud. “Twenty-one.” Prudence moved to the dart board, her booted feet heavy against the wood flooring and scuffing it occasionally, as she move in its direction. “What's that?” Prudence asked after yanking them from the board and turning to face her full-time bartender. “There's this guy I've been hearing about. In other bars. Seen him once. I think. A friend pointed him out, but he was sort of surrounded by a lot of people. Anyways, they say he...you know.” She made a motion over her throat, indicating slicing one's throat. “Yuh? So? We already been there, done that.” Prudence could take care of her own ****, or at least try to.
“We have and...” Ryker trailed off, not wanting to finish the thought. “They say he's really good at it. Maybe he has some connections and could get a little higher up on things. If you catch my drift.” Rkyer nodded and then held out her hand to take the darts. Prudence knew exactly what Ryker didn't say, but decided to gloss over it. “Really good, huh?” Prudence snorted and rolled her eyes, but this conversation was peaking her interest. Who was this guy and how good was he? Was it someone she knew, or heard of, before?
“Really good.” Ryker gushed, almost to the point Prudence wanted to barf. “Get ahold of yourself. Jesus.” Prudence already figured out by Ryker's pink tinted cheeks that whoever this guy was, was good and probably 'cute' in her thrall's eyes. “know where he might be?” Prudence asked, interested for two or three reasons. “Maybe. I saw him a couple times at this one club on the other side of town. Prudence rolled her eyes. Clubs. Great. Already she felt her attention dwindling and her thrall must have known it, because she grabbed Prudence's hand, set the darts down and led her out of the pub. “What's the worst thing that could happen, other than listening to a song or two you don't like?” Ryker asked as the two of them headed down the block towards the train station.