What is Your *Character's* Favorite Beverage?

[El Mahdi]

Storyhour excerpt:

“What’s in a Marauder’s Mirth?” Clueless asked cautiously from behind the bar.

“THE Marauder’s Mirth.” She corrected him, punctuated with a tap of a claw on and into the table.

. . .

“It’s my favorite drink.” She explained. “The Fortune’s Wheel coined it after me and I expect that most of the upper tier inns and taverns in Sigil carry it.”“Don’t know my favorite drink…” She said with a bit of a sneer. “A pity really. I’d been led to believe that you were to be numbered among them… the best inns in Sigil that is.”

“We might be able to make one for you, but… and my apologies, I’m not familiar with the ingredients.” Clueless said, trying so hard to sound genuine.

. . .

“But, in any event,” She purred. “My favorite drink is a mixture of four fingers of Bytopian Brandy, honey, puréed dretch pineal gland, two fingers of Styx water, with a sprig of razorvine and some gold leaf floating on the top.”

Damn! I'm all out of XP to give. This definitely deserved some. Very nice.

 

[Shemeska]

Damn! I'm all out of XP to give. This definitely deserved some. Very nice.

*chuckle* The recipe for that character's favorite drink changed virtually every time she dropped in on my PCs for that campaign, always doing so to ensure they had to scramble to get some ingredient on short notice if they were going to humor her. At one point they debated serving her used dishwater because they were very much not in the mood to take the abuse.

 

[CleverNickName]

Damn! I'm all out of XP to give. This definitely deserved some. Very nice.

What a great idea! (plink!)

I'll give more XP for well-written "in-character" drink orders...

 

[That One Guy]

Darkael stumbles into the tavern and glances around nervously. As the tavernmaid asks him about a drink he stammers, "Ah-Ah-Ah think Ah'm lost... Bu-bu-but I'll have a tea."

(I suppose it would be proper for me to describe the elf. He steps as lightly and gracefully as all the others of his kind, but he can't stop his face from twitching. His hair is a dark green, matching most of his beaten armor. At his side would be a sheathed longsword - unless he misplaced it. He's probably lost his shield, and if anyone finds it he'd be grateful. As peculiar as his demeanor is, he carefully watches and listens to every person he can.)

 

[Fifth Element]

Aethelred Aethelios:"Cider, please. And a quiet place to drink it."

(He's an ex-soldier duskblade/wizard, and prefers to have his full faculties at all times.)

 

[Merkuri]

A little blue humanoid tree frog jumps up onto a stool. She wears little in the way of clothes, but has a large necklace made of colorful, hanging parrot feathers. A shaggy dog about the same size as the frog with strangely shaped feet waddles in after her and curls up by the foot of the stool. "Kaylankuli will have ale, please, yes?" the blue frog says. "And bowl of water for Allqu is good. Stew does not have dragonfly, Kay supposes. She misses dragonfly stew. No find in cities."

(When I made this character I wanted something really different. Kaylankuli is a grippli druid in the Savage Tide campaign we just started. I decided to make her a jungle native who doesn't speak Common well and gave her a climbdog companion. I wanted Central Native American-sounding names so I found an Inca-English dictionary online. "Kaylankuli" means "frog" and "Allqu" means "dog".)

 

[greyscale1]

Mathias Riddly almost stumbles into the bar, exhausted. Rounding one of the far tables, he just about collapses into his chair. Following him is the shifter Nile, eyes darting about the room, the warmage Tala, and the Warforged Balista, who gingerly moves a small wooden chair aside and hunkers in its place.

A waitress approaches the table and asks for their orders.
Nile asks for a roast chicken and some mead.
Balista: "Oh... I'm not very hungry, thankyou".
Tala: (after intensely scanning the menu for several minutes) "just a water, please" the waitress sighs.
Riddly, who has been drinking from a small flask since they arrived, catches a dirty look from the waitress and sneers "Don't make that scrunched nose face at me sugarbunch. I'll have a cider and some cornbread".
Nile: "Cider Riddly?"
Riddly: "Shut your furry mouth, catman"
Balista: "Can I try some of your cornbread Riddly"
Riddly: "No"

 

[CleverNickName]

I wanted Central Native American-sounding names so I found an Inca-English dictionary online. "Kaylankuli" means "frog" and "Allqu" means "dog".)

Good work...and the gripli was a nice touch!

Hmm. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to give more xp...

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

I have several characters with drink preferences, I'll post the preferences of both my oldtime favorite (the most talkative) and the current one (the most laconic)

Amphimir Míriel - Half-Elf bard
"GREETINGS INKEEPER!!" He yells as he opens the door, grinning a huge lunatic smile
"It is I, Amphimir Míriel, famous bard and minstrel without peer, who graces your locale. I will require a bottle of your finest wine and a clean glass while I tune my instrument! We can discuss my fees later!"

Eberk - Anthropomorphic Bear Fighter (homebrewed 4e race)
"Water, on a bowl, please" he grumbles "And a honeycomb if you could get one"

 

[Lord Xtheth]

Zinhald:

"I'll have 6 beer, with a side order of 6 beers, 6 beers for dessert, and a 6 beer appitizer... huh? Yeah, I DO know its 5 in the bloody morning, make with the beer!"