Private Bar-Hopping

Altizica took a looooong sip of...whatever it was he was drinking. He wasn’t exactly sure but it had a nice kick to it. Altizica liked to frequent these types of bars as usually some sort of excitement would eventually spark during the night and tonight was no exception. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed that a drunken fellow was stumbling towards him, a fellow he recognized as one of his coworkers.

“Altizica! You tentacled freak!” The man shouted over to Alt, who gave the man a wide smile. Altizica turned to get a better look at his coworker. “Brady, sweetheart, how are you? Interesting to see you tonight!” Altizica took another sip of his drink.
Brady meanwhile had a fierce scowl on his face. “You shut your mouth you egotistical bastard. You spend all day talking hot shit, showing off what you can do to everyone, and I’m done with it. You can’t act like your better than everyone else cause your not!”

Altizica gave a soft chuckle “Actually cupcake I’m 100% better than you. That’s just a fact. All I see you do is wallow in your own self pity, trying to get everyone else to do the work you were given. Also it doesn’t help your case your shitfaced right now. Talk to me when your sober alright?” As Altizica turned to go back to his drink Brady placed a firm hand on his should and try to spin him back “Hey don’t y-“ Before he could even finish his sentence Altizica elbowed Brady in the face hard and then delivered a hard punch to his back that sent him smashing into the ground. “I’m sorry I couldn’t hear you with all the dirt in your mouth sweetie.” Altizica gave Brady a good kick while he was down before spinning back onto his chair and continuing his drink as if nothing had just happened. After a minute or two some of Brady’s friends from the back to pick him up and drag him out of the bar while he groveled about Alt.

Altizica spun around a little as someone began to speak to him. He was slightly surprised at the two that had come to talk to him but he was in no way disgusted. “Oh deary me two lovely ladies wish to speak to dear old Altizica? Well I’m not going to stop you.” Altizica chuckled a little at himself. “If you really wish to know he’s a coworker, a slacker who’s apparently tired of me which isn’t all that new. He just had a little too much to drink and thought he was bigger than he actually was. I just needed to remind him there are those much larger than him.” Altizica smirked and finished off his drink.

Altizica dug through his pockets and pulled out a bone, popping it into his mouth and crushing it instantly. “But anyway who might you two beauties be? I have certainly not seen you around before.” To Altizica the two of them were more similar to his own kind than most, which led to him thinking them as ‘prettier’ in a way.

Altizica waved his hand a little dismissively as they talked about not getting compliments often and that they were considered freaks. “Oh please if anyone is the ‘freak’ it would be me and my kind, the Eldritch. That which is nothing and everything, the end before the beginning.”

Alt took another bone from his pocket and quickly crushed it in his jaws and thought a little about what one of the twins had to say. “I suppose I could have done that, but that would have required me thinking more about doing it before I had actually done it.” Altizica smirked, knowing full well his eagerness to jump into the fray of battle would bite back at him someday.

“Ah Merlot and Chardonnay, welcome to Manta Carlos then! I am Altizica if you didn’t hear before, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Altizica shrugged a little and grabbed another handful of bones, shoving them once again into his mouth. “Sorry honey but this form is simply a little bit more manageable for every day activities on the island. If you were really interested though I might be willing to show you my real form in it’s full glory, or at least what your mind could comprehend it as.”

When asked if the bones he was eating were human he dug through the bag a little and pulled out some human finger bones to hand to Chardonnay. “It’s sort of just a plethora of random bones. It’s pretty cheap cause it’s really just the strays nobody wanted.”

Altizica gave a wide smile to Merlot as she asked what it was he did, and smiled wider as her sister teased her a little. “Well I originally was looking to be an arena fighter but the arena is simply too flashy. It’s too much of a show, caring about entertainment value instead of pitting two people against each other and seeing who comes out on top. So instead I just work at one of the warehouses on the island, it’s not that great but it pays bills. As for why I’m at the bar, I was waiting for something or someone interesting to pop up, but my waiting is over for the moment.”

Altizica chucked a little “Yes this was all gained legally. While I could definitely get the food I needed forcefully...it’s much smoother to do things the way the island intends for it to be done.” Altizica once again tossed a bone into his mouth.

“I mostly do it to put the immense amount of food I need to survive on the table. Plus I have a precious little baby boy I need to take care of so I do what I’ve got to do.” Altizica’s tone changed to something much more cheery as he got an excuse to talk about his absolutely perfect and adorable son Aluin.