Open Starlight So a Couple of Jedi Walk Into a Bar

[Aranmir]

“Thank you.” Aranmir muttered to Ezra, after the piece of apple left his throat. The fact that Thorne called Drakon as Cancer turned the Padawan’s nearly choking into a full one. If it wasn’t for the Knight’s help it would have been really bad. He really needed to be more careful when eating.

Even with his nearly death by apple, Aranmir would mark this as the best breakfast that he ever had. The show was really wonderful, deserving a 10. He hoped that there could be encores everyday. It was excellent to kill the boredom of living in Starlight Beason.

After throwing the remains of his apple in a trash bin, the Tiefling collected all the napkins from a table, right on the time that the Zabrak girl that was involved in the fight tried to pick some. Ignoring her furious face, Aranmir walked away with a pile of papers, leaving the Padawan covered in liquid eggs.

With how furious she was, Aranmir was sure that these eggs were soon getting boiled.

He approached Natalie and the other girl with a friendly smile at his lips. “Hey! I thought that you two could use some cleaning.” he offered the napkins to her. “My name is Aranmir.” he said to the red-haired girl. “Good job in showing Shelah her place. She is a total bitch.” in the distance, they heard the Zabrak scream that she had heard what he said.

Unfortunately for her, at this moment she was affected by the effects of the liquid egg. The next scream that they heard was from Shelah running away to the bathroom.

“She is going to stay away for a long time.” he said, still holding the napkins for the two. Then he turned his attention to a sign in one of the walls, there were the names of the Jedi that were working in the kitchen for the day. Below the function of cook was Drakon’s name. Now he understood why Thorne called him cancer.

“It seems that I found the responsible for the bad food.” he said to Natalie, while tilting his head at the sign. “Are you still interested in hitting something with a foam noodle?” since they were going to a pool party, it was a good opportunity for the girl to have a little harmless revenge. Besides, Drakon deserved for having made half of the Padawans have stomachache.

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[Elenath]

After having spent a refreshing evening (or morning?) in the archives and meditation room at the Starlight Beacon's largest viewport, Elenath was hungry. Gathering his robes up, the Echani was just on his way to the food court, when an alert popped up onto his recently acquired EZPhone. "Ah, a pool party?" He winced at the thought of socializing, but perhaps the exposure would do him some good. Elenath had to meet people somehow, and it wouldn't be at the viewport staring at the stars. He quickly changed his trajectory to stop at his quarters to change into some swimwear underneath his robes before picking up some food.

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Elenath didn't know how he had survived the relatively short stop at the food court. It was an unmitigated disaster — with food absolutely everywhere and dozens of padawans and other jedi milling about post-food fight. All the knight had managed to nab was some sort of bran muffin, but even that was solid as an asteroid. He left it in the recycler with disappointment splayed across his face.

Entering the pool party, he was pleased to hear some nice beats livening up the scene. At the bar he picked up a poultry burger, which actually looked tasty, hot, and nicely deep fried on the outside. But upon sinking his teeth into it, the actual meat was thoroughly undercooked and...crunchy. Elenath nearly gagged, choking down his mouthful and putting the plate off to the side to hopefully be forgotten. Peering at the bar menu with as equal distaste as the famous knight, the Echani dryly ordered a glass of chocolate bantha milk.

The Jedi Seer actually recognized a few people here. Notably, Drakon (@Richie B.) behind the bar, and Ezra (@Sreeya) from the call to action a few weeks or month prior. "Real drinks?" Elenath exclaimed, a bit quieter so the padawans wouldn't hear, his head tossing around and peering towards the cooler. "I'll take a jet juice please."

Spinning in the barstool, he eyed the pool lit by a kaleidoscope of lights in the otherwise dim light. What tempted him more was the large hot tub next to it, steam bubbling out of the roiling surface. "You know, swimming and splashing around in a pool is fun and all, but growing up in the void, you learn some ways of spicing it up..." Elenath's eyes scanned the walls of the room, peering for a panel that controlled the gravity switch. He spied it in a nearby corner, merely taking note of it as he sipped his chocolate beverage. He gulped it down with a grimace — it was curdled.

 

[Theia Durand]

Theia's brow contorted in confusion and then suddenly her eyes light up, a small gasp, catching on to what she was trying to say with mush time. "Ha...ha...terrible, just like her." she smirked.

Another padawan approached them helping with the clean up and introducing himself as Aranmir, "Hello! I'm Theia!" she introduced herself, relieved to hear others did not like Shelah either. She too heard the girl yelling and automatically, the redhead went into fight mode, thinking the padawan was coming back for round two. However, that was not the case as she watched her running away to the refresher. A look of disgust crossed her face and she mentally noted to permanently stay out of the refresher.

Theia flipped over some chairs, quickly cleaning to see just exactly what this party was that Ezra seemed so adamant that everyone should attend. She silently swore to herself about what she will really think about this place if it were not a party and a secret pop quiz. "A foam noodle?" she questioned.

"What about a training saber? Do you guys have a lightsaber? I can't even get a training saber yet, Ezzieeeee- I mean Master Ezra says no and then gives me a vibroblade. Its dumb, I feel useless, especially when I see other padawans have a lightsaber." she let out a long sigh.

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[Natalie Hope]

Natalie watched Theia with a fascination she had never felt before. Aranmir was happy and cheerful, but this girl just got out of a fight, and was the happiest girl she'd ever seen. There were many ways to mock happiness, life itself being one, but Natalie was completely dumbfounded. So dumbfounded in fact, she missed the chance to score some napkins for herself; Theia took them all. That's what she gets, Natalie supposed, for not being as quick witted as she prided herself to be. Her family would be so disappointed.

She turned to Theia again. "Wait, he gives you a deadly weapon instead of a thing that amounts no more than a glowing shock baton?" It was absolutely bat shit, and she loved every second of it. For good measure, she flared her hip out so that Theia could see that she indeed have a lightsaber. Despite the egg and smoothie still in her hair, Natalie grabbed Theia's arm and hugged it, walking her toward this mandatory fun party. "Mr. Jawline sounds like a real dick. Tell me everything."

The preparation needed to handle what was about to spill forth was monumental and would break many labor laws. Natalie was ready for it, the never ending tea that was a padawan bitching and gushing about their master. So prepared for it, was Natalie, that the moment they found themselves in the party, she held up a finger to Theia. "One moment," she said, then made her way to the bar.

There were no greeting of Mr. Jawline from Natalie, just a hop over the bar and a double shot glass filled with four different alcohols that quickly disappeared down Natalie's throat. "Okay, much better." Pausing a moment, her eyes turned to Ezra. "You really give your padawan a deadly weapon instead of a glow bat? You're fucking insane Mr. Jawline." Without another word she made her way back to Theia, picking up a green foam noodle along the way. The first person she smacked was Aranmir; a promise was a promise. Beyond that, any other padawan that go to close got a good taste of Natalie's hungered revenge with a wet thwap.

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[Rain]

A wide grin on her face that extended to her bloodshot eyes, Rain had left the food counter with a steak on a fork in one hand, a drink in the other, and head bobbing slowly to the beats of the song playing on the speakers. Trying to take another bite without spilling any of her drink, she bumped into a small gathering of Jedi seemingly close to her age.

Hearing the last bits of the conversation, she joined in enthusiastically. "Oo ai havaa aiaaver too!" She gulped down her mouthful as she realized she hadn't even made sense in her own head and repeated herself.

"Sorry," she added, not looking particularly abashed,
"this is really good steak you know! I was just saying that I have a lightsaber as well. Two actually!" She exclaimed excitedly, in her elevated state not realizing that it was nothing special in a gathering full of Jedi, but thrusting her hips out one after the other to show off two lightsaber hilts that were very conspicuously absent. Having completely forgotten that she had left them in her room, and not even noticing that she had just flaunted nothing, she gave the foam noodle a curious look.

"Where did you get the...." she paused as the words describing the implement in the other padawan's hands escaped her. "The...pool floaty stick?"

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[Ezra Thorne]

Ezra was skeptical at first. He lifted the cooler and, sure enough, he found a nice stash of booze. It was low quality and cheap, but it was better than the kiddie fruit punch style drinks offered otherwise. He grabbed a cuzzi to hide what he was drinking, popping open a can to take a sip.

“I don’t check in with the temples often enough,” Ezra responded before he took a sip from his crappy drink, grimacing a bit, “I’m a full time uni student,” He left out that he was the EZTech CEO and likely the inventor of the comlink Drakon (@Richie B. ) carried on him. Ezra smirked, “How did you get cooking duty?”

It was right then when the padawan girl (@TheDudeMike )from earlier showed up out of nowhere. She made a show of downing a few drinks before making a quip at him. Ezra calmly took a sip, “Rest assured, Theia will have a lightsaber long before she becomes an overgrown padawan,” He responded coolly before she sprinted away to the other padawans.

Ezra and Drakon were soon joined by another Knight (@Vosrik ), which was a nice relief from the padawans. And it helped this knight was rather easy on the eyes. Ezra briefly recalled him from when he made a scene in front of the council chambers. He watched the Knight split out some curdled chocolate milk and almost gagged himself. It was a wonder Jedi managed to survive with the quality of their food and drinks.

“You sound like my father,” Ezra scoffed. Emryc Thorne was not a talkative man, but he did share stories about life in a space station. Ezra followed Elenath’s gaze to the gravity control, a lazy grin appearing on his face. He was onboard with the idea. How else were they supposed to entertain themselves if not at the expense of padawans?

 

[Aranmir]

"Nice meet you, Theia!" Aranmir said to her, while passing the napkins to the girl. Unfortunately, she had used all of them, leaving Natalie without none to clean herself. However, the older girl didn’t seem to mind, being too surprised with the fact that Ezra Thorne gave a vibroblade for his Padawan to train with. The Tiefling was also astonished with this revelation.

"Wait, your Master allows you to train with a lethal weapon?" Aranmir said, widening his eyes. He wondered if the Knight knew that training lightsabers existed and could be toned down until giving harmless tickles. It was hilarious to think in the possibility that the most celebrated Jedi of this Era preferred to give a sword to his apprentice rather than a training lightsaber, because he considered it safer.

"I have a lightsaber." he said to Theia, while following her and Natalie to the mandatory party. "It has a purple blade." he gestured to the weapon that was on his belt. Once they arrived at the party, the older girl left the two alone and walked toward the bar, which was starting to get very, very, very crowded. Or the drinks were excellent, or Ezra decided to start giving his autographs

Aranmir decided to stay behind, talking with the red-haired Padawan. "Why one day don't you try to participate in one of the communal fighting classes? The instructors use training lightsabers." would Ezra Thorne be mad with him? Probably, but it would be less bad than how his fans were looking at him right now. It sent shivers down his spine.

It was at this moment that a new Padawan arrived. "Hi! I'm Aranmir!." he smiled at her, and left space for Theia to present herself at the newcomer. It was exactly at this moment that Natalie returned, carrying a foam noodle and using it to hit the Tiefling. He laughed, even if it took a bit of his breath. She was really being serious!

After the girl walked away, Aranmir turned to the other two. "If you excuse me." he said, before rushing to retrieve some foam noodles. Once he secured four, the Tiefling returned to them. "Do you want to participate in the old art of foam noodle combat?" he said, while offering one to Theia and two to the newly arrived Padawan. He stayed with a purple colored one.

Then the screams started.

"Hey! This is the devil guy that Ezra patted in the back!"

"No fair! Why did he do it with that guy?"

"It should be me! I'm a founder of the Ezra fanclub!"

"I want that shirt! Ezra touched it!"

"No! It'll be mine!"

A crowd of insane Ezra fans gathered around the three, obsessed with the shirt that Aranmir was wearing. Once they started jumping on the Tiefling, he would smack them with his foam noodle. "Away from me, you crazypants!" he wondered if the girls would help him. It was that or be stomped by the maniacs.

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[Elenath]

Elenath watched in amusement as one of the more attractive padawans took a shot of questionable mixed alcohol and made a snide remark to Ezra. "Full time uni student? And training a Padawan? You must have a tight schedule," he pondered over his own cheap quality jet juice, just as he liked it. He downed it along with a shot of something harder before grabbing another can of jet juice. The seer found that the only way to adequately dull his overactive Force senses was with inebriation.

Despite the remark from Ezra, Elenath spied the intrigued grin that the fellow Knight made when the gravity controls were indicated. A quick scan around the room showed exactly how much chaos would break out — loose food and drinks everywhere, foam noodles and Padawans. There was even a gaggle of fans drooling over Ezra's already-established jawline that could cut durasteel.

"Time for a dip I think, maybe take a break from food duties Drakon!" Standing up from his barstool, Elenath shook off his pale grey robes to reveal a black pair of board shorts covered in little graphical prints of stars and galaxies. While not particularly muscular, the Echani was still quite toned and showed off a nice set of abs and v-line above his shorts. He took his drink and dipped into the hot tub, sighing in relaxation before calling upon the Force on the panel set into the wall. "Showtime," Elenath chuckled with a smirk, flicking the gravity switch to "off".

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[Theia Durand]

Everyone was showing off their lightsabers and they weren't even knights yet, even one white-haired girl (@Wit) had two and Theia felt she had just witnessed a unicorn. Aranmir mentioned something about one of the saber training classes and Theia perked up, "I will try, I'm so busy catching up on everything else." she said glancing at Ezra who was saying something to Nat; it was in these moments, she wished she had Ezzie's ears so she could hear what he was saying. However, Natalie was quick to return and with a foam noddle as she took her first swing at Aranmir.

It was a bit unexpected and the girl giggled, however, Aranmir seemed to develop his own fan club as a bunch of girls swarmed on top of him just because Ezra noticed him. Suddenly Theia was relieved that they didn't notice her, but it was short-lived,

"Hey! You're Master Thorne's padawan!" one announced and suddenly more took notice.

"What's he like? Does he ever smile?"

"Is he strict, do you get his newest updated EZphones before they're released?"

Quickly Theia grabbed a noodle, noting Aranmir had the right idea, but then suddenly there was a quiet winding and everything, including the jedi inside became weightless. The red head giggled as she swam up through the air, swinging the foam noodle to propel herself away from the girls.

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[Natalie Hope]

Natalie was not prepared for the swarm of padawans buzzing around them all of a sudden. What had she done to deserve such hell? Maybe she died in her sleep and this was just the hell loop that she was supposed to endure for eternity. First the bad food, then a man she couldn't find any faults in, and now being swarmed by groupies. She was about ready to start beating them all with the foam noodle in her hand.

Thankfully some kind soul saved her from what had quickly become one of her worst fears by flipping the gravity switch. She wondered if the person that flipped the switch had the complications of the padawans swimming in the pool prior to flipping it, who were now trapped in a gravity-less bubble that began floating. The thought quickly passed as a not-her-problem kind of problem, because she had a date with Mr. Jawline details and was determined to get them.

Swimming through the air, and away from the swarm of padawans, Natalie caught up with Theia. "Just leaving me for the vultures? Pretty cold!"

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