Dare Meme

[zodiac_brave]

I TRIPLE DOG DARE you!

-Post with your character

-Tag other characters and give them dares.

-Play out the dares you get.

-???

-Profit!

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[forcegalactic]

[Musical numbers do not give Mordecai any joy ever since a radioactive piano AI forced everyone on Mars to perform a musical episode, but a dare's a dare. The Barkeep bursts in through the bar with a beer mug in each hand and bellows out a command.]

Get your singin' and dancin' ready, folks, 'cause it's time for some musical drinks. Free beer for everyone who participates! Ellana, you join in, too!

[He's smiling, but he's not comfortable when obnoxious country music starts playing and a group of patrons stand up and clap to the beat.]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
I don't want no trouble in my place!
Yeah I don't want no trouble in my place!
I'm a law-abidin' member of this here human race
And I don't want no trouble in my place!

[lostwisdom]

[Have a single eyebrow raised. Mordecai, what? She doesn't even know this song!]

[forcegalactic]

[Where is a sentient piano that can teach songs in a matter of seconds when you need it? Mordecai is stuck with embarrassing himself all over again, and he spins around before he reaches the first patron who made the difficult singing along.]

An old lady walked in looking for directions
Sometimes old folks get lost in outer space
I bounced her out despite her loud objections
'Cause I don't want no trouble in my place!

[A few patrons sing responses to each line, and they get beers as well. Please. Sing before he has to go through the entire song.]

[lostwisdom]

[Okay, okay, let her look up the lyrics gosh--

...Wait, seriously?]

A troop came in selling Girl Scout Cookies
[What's a Samoa?]
They asked him if he wanted one to taste
But they couldn't beat a gang of Girl Scout Crookies
And he don't want no trouble in his place

[forcegalactic]

[If he didn't have to give out beers and keep on smiling, the Barkeep would be crying with joy.]

Take it outside, I'm a peaceable man
Don't want to be no witness to no rubble
You've got a whole town square
to spit and cuss and swear
Or if you want a fracas or a tumble!

[Ellana gets a beer! He's going to wrap up the song right now, because why prolong his suffering?]

I don't want no trouble in my place
I don't want no trouble in my place
Look at this law-abiding, easy-riding, bona-fiding face
I don't want no trouble in my place!

[He throws his arms in the air and the patrons applaud. Thank GOD it's over.]

[lostwisdom]

[She'll raise a glass for him. Poor bastard must have been dared to get another hero to start singing, so she waits until it's over.]

Didn't know you were the singing type.

[A playful smirk.]

[forcegalactic]

That's 'cause I ain't.

[He plops onto the seat next to her and pulls out a bottle of beer form his pouch. It doesn't have the quality of what he was serving, but it's much needed alcohol.

He chugs down a quarter of the bottle and focuses on the spot in front of him.]

Never thought I'd be forced to sing again.

[lostwisdom]

[She'll relent for now, taking a swig of the beer. Well, it beats what she and the Iron Bull shared that one time...]

Sounds like quite a tale behind that.

[She's listening if he wanted to share it.]

[forcegalactic]

[A tale it is, and a chatterbox the Barkeep is.]

You got that right. All 'cause my new piano AI went head over wheels for my saloon AI, but she was crushin' on the Martian. Like any good love story, he wanted to make her happy and have everyone realize the love in her heart. ure enough, that plan involved radiatin' the air around Mars so all of us started singin' out of the blue!

[He downs a swig of beer.]

Sang two songs, myself. Two and a half if you could the time I just started burstin' out one line at a time. Sorta alternatin' between me and the bandits what took over my saloon, then pausin' for a long break. Wonder if we were singin' only part of a song.

[It was a climactic medley, only the other singers were at Jim's and Red's wedding where he couldn't hear. But he didn't know that.]

Fortunately, we found out the cause, but Sparks Nevada shot the piano dead just as he was confessin', which got my saloon all riled up, which gave her the willpower to grow legs and up and leave. I was a barkeep without no saloon for a good time...