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[jayphailey]

Stephanie Anderson enters the bar with her partner Allen.

They stop and let their eyes adjust

"Stephanie?" A younger woman with a group of adventures says, from a table to the left.

"Aunt Stepahnie?" A voice says from the table to the right. A Starship captain and her Bolian XO are there.

Stephanie hesitates a bit and says "I might not be the Stephanie you're thinking of. Let's reintroduce ourselves.

[Innkeeper]

Stephanie Anderson enters the bar with her partner Allen.

Stephanie hesitates a bit and says "I might not be the Stephanie you're thinking of. Let's reintroduce ourselves.

Allen: "I shall be interested how this breaks down."

[jayphailey]

Lydia approaches "Stephanie... I'm sorta, kinda your mom?"

Stephanie stops and looks at her carefully "Mom! Wait. My mom was on Earth....."

Lydia (Holds back tears) "There's a lot of different Earths... and I'm not really the me I used to be..."

Haley: "Do you know me? I'm Haley, DJ's kid."

Lydia blinks... "I .. I don't."

Haley: "We have a custom. People from alternate timelines are cousins. I guess that makes you my grand aunt."

Stephanie "I'm pleased to meet you, Aunt Lydia."

Lydia starts crying. "Me, too."

Stephanie hugs her. Lydia hugs back "How have you been? What have you been up to?"

Stephanie: "I didn't realize until just now, that I've been missing you. Is Dad here?"

Lydia: "He ... didn't come with me."

Setta "Lydia, is everything okay?"

Allen's seen this before. This person is ready to bust out cutlery get radical, but is acting very cool.

Lydia steps back and wipes her eyes "Stephanie, Haley, this is Setta, Brian, Jonathan, Kevin, and Hackuff. I met them on ... a trip I was on."

Stephanie "A shopping trip looks like."

Lydia smiles "Do you know how hard it is to turn random gold coins of various sizes and purities into real money?"

Haley: "Gold coins? Like D&D?"

Lydia: (Confused) "I don't know what you mean."

Haley tilts her head "Uhhh, lets come back around to that."

Stephanie: "You look great. Really wonderful for someone your age. What's your secret?"

Lydia laughs "Well,you have to get kidnapped by aliens, and then shoved out into the multiverse."

Stephanie: "Really?"

Lydia: "Yeah. There's a whole story to it."

Stephanie: "Well, let me buy you some Ale, here and you can tell me all about it."

"We just got here. The Decor is... interesting. A real cask and barrel vibe. But I am hoping show my friends here, what a ball game on TV and some American beer tastes like."

Setta smiles the fakest smile "Oh, no, that's fine. We'll just get something.... normal."

Lydia looks around "Now that I mention it, they don't have any TVs here. Odd."

[jayphailey]

From the expressions, Brian, Jonathan, and Kevin all seem to agree with Setta that "American" flavored things are..... Not great.

[Innkeeper]

From the expressions, Brian, Jonathan, and Kevin all seem to agree with Setta that "American" flavored things are..... Not great.

Have they flavored any?

[Innkeeper]

Three antelopes all but charge though the door. They stop, take a quick look around and flop at a table. One is resting their head on it.

Another...creature comes in. Antelope on the bottom and a humanoid on the top with an Antelope head. **You would think you three never saw a gorgon before.** She leans a seriously looking glaive against the wall.

A1: **We have not. Getting turned to stone was not on my list of things to do today.**

[jayphailey]

That gets a look from all three, Stephanie, Haley and Lydia.

"Greetings," Haley says

Lydia "Hello, did you say there was a Gorgon outside?"
Her party is looking at the door nervously.

Stephanie to the Anetaur: "Hello, there. I've never seen an Ane in your configuration before. Are you okay?"

Lydia: "Are we about to get attacked?"

Stephanie: "I think this place is weird like that. The outside is different for everyone. I don't remember enough about the Intel briefing on this place, but I think no one is allowed to attack in here."

Haley: "Oh. Okay, that's why."

Stephanie looks at Haley

Haley: Gestures towards their commbadges in recording mode.

Stephanie: "Starfleet is very interested in the people we meet here. Wemight not ever see them again."

Lydia looks around: "I thought this was just a BAR!"

Stephanie: "It seems to exist in several time lines, but as its own thing. I didn't remember much, just when we saw it, that it was a thing we had standing orders to poke into."

Lydia looks around "Oh. I've seen a couple of those. Usually they're bigger."

[jayphailey]

From the expressions, Brian, Jonathan, and Kevin all seem to agree with Setta that "American" flavored things are..... Not great.

Have they flavored any?

Lydia gave them burgers and other American foods. Not to their tastes, really.

Lydia is about to inflict Budweiser on them, which tastes no where near as good as she remembers. She sipped it with her husband in the 1970s and 1980s during the rare downtimes they got together, and she associates the feeling with the product.

[Innkeeper]

That gets a look from all three, Stephanie, Haley and Lydia.

"Greetings," Haley says

**Hello** Say the Ane.

Lydia "Hello, did you say there was a Gorgon outside?"
Her party is looking at the door nervously.

Angie: **Was, I stuck it.**


Stephanie to the Anetaur: "Hello, there. I've never seen an Ane in your configuration before. Are you okay?"

Angie: **I'm having a touch of an adrenaline jag right now from the gorgon fight. Some sex will help. I'm what you get when a female Ane in season doesn't realize the punch is spiked.**

Lydia: "Are we about to get attacked?"

Stephanie: "I think this place is weird like that. The outside is different for everyone. I don't remember enough about the Intel briefing on this place, but I think no one is allowed to attack in here."

Haley: "Oh. Okay, that's why."

Stephanie looks at Haley

Haley: Gestures towards their commbadges in recording mode.

Stephanie: "Starfleet is very interested in the people we meet here. Wemight not ever see them again."

Lydia looks around: "I thought this was just a BAR!"

Rellylan: **Oh no, never just a bar. But in this case very handy.**

Angie: **It's going to die,**

Goriban: **But it was not dead yet.**

Jeriban: **Getting stoned is not on my list of things to do.**

Angie: "**I stabbed it deep in the riblets. Both lungs. Unless it has a cleric in its lack of pockets, it's dead.**

[Innkeeper]

Lydia is about to inflict Budweiser on them, which tastes no where near as good as she remembers. She sipped it with her husband in the 1970s and 1980s during the rare downtimes they got together, and she associates the feeling with the product.

I'm familiar with the phenomenon