For example, as Taylor entered, a corporate bigwig in a realistic knight outfit was yelling at a toothless black man.
Not in the sense that Skidmark didn't have any bite to him, he was pretty creative with his insults, but in the sense that he literally had almost zero teeth.
"What, is it because I'm black?" Skidmark asked.
"No, it's because you're a trash tier one star," Taylor said as she entered through the pub's small door, followed by her lieutenants, who quickly flanked her, and Dinah, who was wearing a paper mask Leet had provided.
Why, exactly, Leet needed to use his Tinker power to cut eyeholes into a piece of white paper, no-one knew.
"The fuck are you?" Skidmark asked, turning away from his shouting competition with Kaiser.
"Watch your words when talking to my boss," Cinderhands said, taking a step forwards. "Wouldn't want Basebath over here to have to melt that pretty face of yours."
"I mean, it's not his fault his gang is so shit we haven't even fought them yet," Acidbath said.
"Hey!" Faultline yelled out in anger.
"Yeah yeah we'll assault your base later," Taylor said. "Just make sure you have some actual loot lying around, okay?"
"Also, hey there," Acidbath added, giving Faultline a quick smile before turning back to a glaring, literally and figuratively, Purity.
Fearless, Taylor walked to the round table in the middle of the room, taking a seat without asking.
"And what do you think you're doing?" Coil asked, his fingers interlaced in front of him.
"Sitting down?" Taylor replied, holding out an extra chair for Dinah, or Oracle, as she was going by now.
"Ninety-two percent chance you'll go bald before you're fifty," Oracle said as she sat down.
"Are you implying he's younger than that?" Taylor asked her companion?
"Oooh burn!" Cinderhands yelled from his spot at a nearby table. He'd ordered iced tea and was now heating it up with his hands in some sort of weird anarchistic statement about drinks.
"You know, I thought our arrival would shake things up, but it looks like this town is already crazy enough as is," an asshole said, standing in the doorway of the pub, looking like the biggest nerd since Greg, maybe worse. He probably thought he could, like, join a professional gaming team or something.
"Great, more newcomers," Grue said as he was brooding at the table.
"So, what ya'll chatting about? This whole bombing spree I'm guessing?" the new guy said. "I'm Trickster by the way, and this is the rest of the travellers."
"Travellers? Isn't that racist?" Faultline asked.
"Depends," Tattletale said from her table. "But unlike, say, Roma or Gypsy, it's actually, you know, also just a normal word for people travelling around?"
"Still though…" Faultline said.
"Yeah, better not be accidentally racist with Kaiser around, you might accidentally recruit some of his people," Acidbath said, giving a very unsubtle wink in Purity's direction.
"My people are loyal," Kaiser said. "But your choice of name does not fill me with confidence, sympathizing with groups like that."
"I'm flattered," Trickster said, giving the man a fake bow.
"So, what were we talking about again?" Taylor asked.
"How to handle Bakuda," Faultline said.
"Yes," Coil grumbled. "If this continues, our businesses will be harmed, and the added attention to-"
Taylor poked Acidbath, stealing the phone from his pocket and going through the apps on it. It didn't have any of the good games, but it had flappy bird, so there was that. She started playing, quickly improving on the old high-score, when Dinah whispered something into her ear.
"Eighty-seven point four three eight nine percent chance you'll fail in the next five points," the girl said.
Taylor focussed, making sure the bird correctly booped through the pipes when she finally failed as Kaiser lost his cool.
"Could you at least turn off your fucking sound!" the man yelled. "God you're worse than my son!"
"I thought she was a girl? And a bit too young for video games?" Acidbath asked.
"My other kid you idiot!" Kaiser said.
"And now you've ruined my score!" Taylor yelled, throwing the phone through the room, the device's screen shattering on impact.
"Hey, I was still using that," Acidbath said.
"Shut up," Taylor replied, and he did.
"So, Faultline, I presume that a financial compensation will assure your presence on our side?" Snek asked.
Taylor's ears perked up at that. They were talking about money?
"Yes, we'll hash out the details after the meeting is done, there's no need to derail the conversation even more," Faultline replied.
"I'll do it for half!" Taylor shouted.
"What?" Faultline asked.
"Whatever you offered to do, I'll do it for half the price," she explained. "It was like, beating up Bakuda, right?"
"That… was the gist of it, yes." Snek said.
"Right…" Grue sighed. "Now that that is handled, could we all be a bit more professional here?"
"Twenty bucks says no," Cinderhands said, looking at Dinah.
"Yeah, not liking those odds," the girl replied. "Although… quick question. Why are y'all meeting at the usual meeting spot if you're literally fighting a girl whose only thing is building bombs?"
Faultline and Tattletale both found the time to yell out a single "fuck!", after which the explosions started.