Nar Shaddaa

With his ship as the backdrop Jo'ren had organised a few tables of snacks, with mugs for drinking from and plates for piling up space-nachos. Two banners were hanging up with 'Valkyries' and 'Paragons of Virtue' written on them in elegant calligraphy.

Big Red One stood chatting with 2V-R6, a big mug of something in his left hand. There was a barrel on one of the tables and he refilled his mug from it as he waited to see who would turn up.

The first to arrive was the little Twi'lek. Aphr approached, a smile on her face, looking for Jo'ren.

He turned from the Droid and walked towards her with a smile. "Aphr, you came! Let me get you some blood wine." He grabbed a mug and poured out a cup, handing it to her. "Your sister and I used to drink this on Yavin IV."

"Hey there" Aphr said as Jo'ren approached "you think the tiny mascot of the team wouldn't come to the party? I wouldn't miss it for the world."

She accepted the cup, curious about it.

"How much blood is in blood wine?" she asked with a laugh, before taking a small sip.

Second one to arrive was the other female on the team. For the occassion, she was wearing the outfit she had used for the games, though now with the jacket zipped mostly open.

"Hey," she waved with her gloved left hand to the other two. "I heard there would be bloodwine!"

He laughed and took a big gulp. "Do you really want to know? As much as you're comfortable imagining, let's leave it at that." With a wink he looked over towards Shaisha.

"Hey Shai, looking good! You bet, let me poor you a mug." He handed her a mug of the crimson liquid and leaned in to kiss her. "I know we're not playing but it's traditional."

The kiss was certainly welcomed by the female pureblood... for someone who had nearly bled out and nearly lost a hand not long ago, she was looking pretty good. Almost remarkably so. The color of her skin and eyes seeming more vibrant and alive than before.

"Didn't think you were a stickler for traditions, Jo'ren?" she smirked and took a healthy mouthful of the bloodwine. "Hey, Aphr. Glad to see you made it out last night's mess safely. Galen's good too?"

"I won't ask then" Aphr replied in a chuckle, before moving over to Shaisha and Jo'ren again. "Is that a Sith tradition by any chance?" She added with a grin as they kissed once again, before nodding "we did, although we had to deal with both crime bosses and the explosions. I think we found one of the few buildings that hadn't been blown up."

"Crime bosses, huttball, crashing barges, more crime bosses, bombs..." Galen shrugged as he entered and approached. "It was a busy day."

"Not a tradition I know of, apart from us both enjoying it," she said with a pleasant smile and wrapped an arm around Jo'ren's waist.

"Sounds like something drinking will do you good, Galen. Should be plenty enough to go around from what I can see."

"That sounds great." he grinned. Looking from Shaisha to Jo'ren, he added, "I'm glad to see you two are well."

"It's pretty...unique tasting as well" Aphr offered in opinion of the drink "and yeah, yesterday was a long day. Still, we ended it with another win in Huttball at least, right?"

It was hard not to laugh amongst this group of improbable friends. "You know I wasn't even thinking about trying it out until Rem told me he wanted to put a team together."

He winked at Shaisha. "And there are a handful of traditions I'm willing to follow."

He raised his mug to Galen. "It's my terrorist-killing buddy, I'll drink to that. Yeah I'm well. A bit of combat can't keep a good sith down, right Shai?"

"Unique tasting is right Aphr! I love this stuff, and yeah, with a 100% winning record in pretty happy with our work in the arena. Shame it got blown up though."

"A week when I'm not in mortal danger is a slow week," Shaisha added with a wry smile on her lips before taking another drink of bloodwine.

"I'm kind of hoping this Huttball thing will catch on on Imperial worlds. It's been a fun arena to test ones abilities in, or just to let off some steam. Though I imagine Darth Vengean would be worried that his apprentice will run off to become a star player."

Jo'ren laughed. "Pfft, my master doesn't seem to know what worrying is. Besides, I can be a star player and still do everything else I need to do. It's only 15 minutes out of my day."

He put down his mug and flexed his muscles for them, then retrieved the mug and drained it.

"Who needs a refill?"

His little display both made her laugh and think certain thoughts that would probably be a bit too much for poor little Aphr, and Galen as well.

Damn those gorgeous muscles and that body...

With the offer of a refill, she realised she hadn't been keeping up with Jo'ren at all, and her mug was promptly drained in a couple of hearty gulps.

"More for me, then," she purred, even knowing she could not keep up with him in terms of drinking.

Durasay arrived a bit late. He wasn't sure if he should go or not. After all, he only did get two games in. Some of the most fun he had had in awhile. Yellow-amber eyes darting around to those he saw.

"Sorry I'm late, folks."

"Get yourself a mug Durasay, glad you made it." He filled Shaisha's mug and then poured for Durasay.

"We just saying there needs to be a Sith league." He winked and grabbed a handful of snacks.

Space nachos!

Arsele went straight for them, nodding at the others there as she got a plate-full.

"Good to see you again," she raised her drink in greeting to the Pantoran.

"Heard you made any arrangement with aspirant Beniko. Well done. That Kintan job was looking up to be quite the challenge, but I approve of innovative solutions."

"Arsele! Hey, good to see you, grab some bloodwine too. How've you been?"

They hadn't seen her for a while but she'd been there right from the beginning.

Galen has been drinking on and off all day. That didn't stop him from enjoying the bloodline fully. He created Durasay and Arsele, though he'd only met them in passing previously.

"I wonder if they'll reinstate the old rules after they rebuild the arena." he pondered. "I know there are a lot of locals who want that."

Jo'ren Rath wrote:"Arsele! Hey, good to see you, grab some bloodwine too. How've you been?"

They hadn't seen her for a while but she'd been there right from the beginning.

Arsele looked up from the nachos to give a smile to Jo'ren, "Heya Jo'ren! Um... not bad I suppose, considering everything that's been going on around here. I'm just glad to see everyone that's here."

"Don't think we had the chance to meet," the female pureblood looked at Arsele with a polite smile, and a nod in greeting "Shaisha Vreysk."

"Arsele is a hell of a singer." Galen smiled. "And, nice to have on your side in a bar fight."