I'll Drink to That (OPEN)

To say Jian was feeling a bit surly was a sore understatement. She had gotten into a fight with her landlord around lunchtime that had ended in her moving out. Luckily, she didn't really have any worldly possessions aside from her weapons, so it was easy to do. Still, it had certainly put a damper on her day. Not feeling like finding another landlord to contract with at the moment, Jian had spent the rest of the day wandering the city and causing some general mischief and mayhem. She had overturned a couple fruit stands with a little wire trick she'd been working on, set her pygmy panther, Phi, on a couple messenger hawks (and read the messages, too, of course!), and stealthily broke into a house to rearrange the furniture.

Now, all of that being done, and the sun on its way down for the evening, Jian decided to settle in to the one place that would let you stay all night with only a nominal fee: the local bar. So long as you bought a drink every couple hours or so, you were allowed to stay. Of course, if you caused a ruckus you'd be sent back out, but Jian felt that she was probably all tuckered out on the ruckus side of the spectrum and decided she would take her chances.

Jian glanced around the bar as she came through the doors. She exchanged a nod or two with some of the fellows she recognized - she had a reputation in town as a bad apple and she was on respectable terms with some of the others of her ilk. There were some fellows she had not seen before, some of whom noticed her when she came in - after all, she was merely a petite beauty to the untrained eye. Jian ignored these men as she strode confidently up to the bar and ordered herself a drink. The bartender complied after she flipped him a coin and returned in a moment to hand the drink to her. Jian accepted it and went over to a table off to the corner where she could observe the goings-on in the room.