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Private If You Give a Mando a Beer


Dantooine
Tags: Saram Kote Saram Kote
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Lightsaber, Refuge, Respite, Jedi Outcasts, Grafted into Stone
Jasper was a man who made good on his word. When he said that he owed someone a drink, that was a debt he intended to pay back. Fortunately there was a small dive bar in the area that he had been to before. They had some Vaschean Rye in reserve last he had been there, and he was hoping that they still had some in their store. The joint itself wasn't anything special, low hanging lights and an open ceiling. It was purposefully kept dark to either enhance the mood or hide the lack of cleaning in regards to the floor. It was made up of a small bar and no more than five booths tucked away in the corner, a real hole-in-the-wall establishment if their ever was one. The Jedi Master would hold the door open for Saram before he made his way over to the bar and slipped onto a stool.

"You know, this place actually looks cleaner than the last time I was here," he noted with some amusement before he turned to the bartender. "Any Vaschean in the back?"

"Aye, got two at least."


"I'll take a glass of that," Jasper quickly decided.

The Jedi Master wasted very little time making himself comfortable, leaning against the bartop before he let out an exhale.

"I imagine I come off as quite strange, yeah?" he remarked, though not with any edge in his tone. In fact he seemed rather jovial. "Don't imagine a Jedi's ever bought you a drink before. Then again, I think I've been a bit separated from the traditionalists of the Core for a while now."


 

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Drinking with a Jetii. Haar'chak, next thing she knew she would be hanging around them with out beskar'gan. She'd clipped her buy'ce to her belt earlier. She'd considered letting her hair down, but if she needed her buy'ce in hurry, that was going to be a mess.

She looked around the bar. She'd definitely been to worse, though she'd definitely been to better. She was pretty sure the one on the Morut was cleaner, and that thing had a far larger clientele. That, and Mandalorians were pretty rowdy drunks, and she knew from experience that alcohol and enhanced strength made for a pretty bad combination.

"You know, this place actually looks cleaner than the last time I was here," he noted with some amusement before he turned to the bartender.

"You know, I'm still processing that you, a Jedi, were here at a bar," she remarked with a smirk plastered across her features. Of course, everyone knew the rumors of the Jetii on Coruscants frequenting nightclubs and all manner of other osik. She couldn't be caught dead at one of those, didn't understand the premise. What was the point of an outfit you couldn't move in while wearing, in any case?

"I'll take a glass of that," Jasper quickly decided.

"Well I came all this way to try that, so to rangir, I'll take one of those too," she told the bartender with almost no hesitation.

"I imagine I come off as quite strange, yeah?" he remarked, though not with any edge in his tone. In fact he seemed rather jovial. "Don't imagine a Jedi's ever bought you a drink before. Then again, I think I've been a bit separated from the traditionalists of the Core for a while now."

"None that wanted to keep their teeth," she half-murmured, raising her eyebrows in faux exasperation. "Then again, couple years ago, I wouldn't be drinking with one. Hanging around with you lot is making me change my mind. Just you guys though, then, wider Jedi community still shabuire?" She didn't seem to mind Odom Orzmod Odom Orzmod even if she was exactly the sort of stick in the mud she expected most Jedi to be.
 
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Just you guys though, then, wider Jedi community still shabuire?

"Wider Jedi community is a mystery to me these days," Jasper admitted with an exhale. "We used to go to war to fight the battles the everyday person couldn't fight themselves. Now I don't know what we do anymore..."

When the Rye arrived, Jasper moved his cup in such a way that the large ice cube in the center could activate the drink. Then he took a sip, clearly admiring the taste. It was rich with clove and had an earthiness that grounded it, bitter even compared to most other drinks. It was smooth, though, and left a warmth in the back of the throat.

"It's aged quite well," he noted. "Barrel they did it in must've seen a hundred years of use. I think they fired the barrel when whatever they coated it in was cured. The taste is a bit smokey..."

Jasper wasn't an alcoholic. No, he was a man who savored the palette of drink and admired the craftsmanship.

His high tolerance also helped to stave off any hangovers.

"Glad hanging around us has made you feel welcome, at least," he decided. "I think I'm sort of at the point where community building is taking precedent over my Jedi duties. Suppose you can take that as you will."


 

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"Wider Jedi community is a mystery to me these days," Jasper admitted with an exhale. "We used to go to war to fight the battles the everyday person couldn't fight themselves. Now I don't know what we do anymore..."
"It's aged quite well," he noted. "Barrel they did it in must've seen a hundred years of use. I think they fired the barrel when whatever they coated it in was cured. The taste is a bit smokey..."

"Well shab, if its a mystery to you, then I don't have any hope of getting them," she laughed, taking a sup of her drink. That was far better than she was immediately prepared to acknowledge. "That's some good gal," she exclaimed, eyebrows raised in appreciation. She listened to what he explained about why it had a smoky taste, absorbing the information. She'd be lying if she said that she really understood how any of that worked.

"Glad hanging around us has made you feel welcome, at least," he decided. "I think I'm sort of at the point where community building is taking precedent over my Jedi duties. Suppose you can take that as you will."

"I get what you mean, though," she admitted. "I don't really understand many of the other Mandalorians out there. I thought I understood the Enclave while they were around. Didn't agree with them, understood, but didn't agree. The Crusaders were too caught up in trying to recreate the glories of our past I think they just missed the point. Don't even get me started on the Empire, don't know what the shab all that's about. Didn't even know we had a word for that."

"I don't really know what to say,"
she admitted, glancing off into the distance for a moment. "It's like you've said, I've never felt so welcomed by Jedi before. Usually they see the armor and that's all they need to know." It wasn't just Jedi, but they were generally no exception to his rule. "So thank you, I guess, for letting me in here. Both you and the ad'ika. All my opinions on Jedi before that were based on history or gossip." Her mother would be driven into an early grave if she knew what she was up to. Which was precisely why she didn't.

 

"It's like you've said, I've never felt so welcomed by Jedi before. Usually they see the armor and that's all they need to know." It wasn't just Jedi, but they were generally no exception to his rule. "So thank you, I guess, for letting me in here. Both you and the ad'ika. All my opinions on Jedi before that were based on history or gossip."

"Well, then I can take solace in having done something right," Jasper noted with a chuckle. "Seems like something very few people care about doing these days."

Jasper couldn't help but wear his intentions on his non-existent sleeves. He wanted, above all else, to do right by people. Improve the places he left rather than leaving them in turmoil. What he wanted to do was the right thing. Perhaps that was why his patience had grown so thin with the High Republic. Last he had spoken with their Order it was to prepare to fight the Sith.

What good did that do? Nothing happened.

"I wonder if my standards are just too high," he admitted. "Y'know, spending your entire life in a war kind of twists your perception of reality. I never really knew a Jedi Order in peace time until the Maw fell. Did the conflict just bring out our best and brightest because anyone who couldn't compete wound up dead? Did we become complacent when the war ended? Before long I was spending less time with folks like me and more with those who remembered the war. Makes me wonder if I would've done well as a soldier, but it's a bit too late down the road to unlearn my training."


 

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"Well, then I can take solace in having done something right," Jasper noted with a chuckle. "Seems like something very few people care about doing these days."

Something right. It stunned her for a moment to process Jasper's words. Even Jetiiweren't so sure about their decisions it seemed. She thought their faith in the Jetii'dral or whatever made them more sure about things than other people. Here she thought she would have been among a few who doubted that they were on the right path. "You know," she started, "I used to worry about the same thing." She punctuated the admission with an amused snort.

"I wonder if my standards are just too high," he admitted. "Y'know, spending your entire life in a war kind of twists your perception of reality. I never really knew a Jedi Order in peace time until the Maw fell. Did the conflict just bring out our best and brightest because anyone who couldn't compete wound up dead? Did we become complacent when the war ended? Before long I was spending less time with folks like me and more with those who remembered the war. Makes me wonder if I would've done well as a soldier, but it's a bit too late down the road to unlearn my training."

She considered Jasper's words as he spoke. "We Mandalorians believe that conflict helps you keep your edge, both as a society as well as an individual. Keeps your technology cutting edge and your skills sharp, and that keeps you from letting yourself slip into complacency. Complacency slips into stagnation and stagnation will be the death of us all. So, there's some truth to what you say. For what it's worth, it's never too late. There's a soldier in us all, just have to find a war worth fighting."

"Me? Shab no, just need something that gets the adrenaline pumping,"
she laughedm mostly at the half-truth she had just told. "Good cause help though," she added, pensively, remembering the good causes the company had done discounted work for in the past. Good causes didn't always pay the bills though. Nowadays those decisions were on her to an extent, she could ill-afford to hope that someone else made the right call on the balance between making enough to stay fighting another day and knowing there was a meaning to that fight.

 

Complacency slips into stagnation and stagnation will be the death of us all. So, there's some truth to what you say. For what it's worth, it's never too late. There's a soldier in us all, just have to find a war worth fighting.

"That's a poetic way of thinking about it," Jasper mused as he took a sip of his drink.

He wondered how true that was for those Mandalorians in power that let the Sith sit idly as though the past never happened. Jasper knew very well what they had done to his kind. And yet, those who genocide their people and still walked amongst the living? What consequences did they have to show for their actions?

Just another tally added to his list of frustrations.

"Maybe that's my issue," he decided. "Y'know, it's hard to sit around and wait when you've found a war worth fighting and everyone else decides that they wanna be squeamish all of a sudden. It's like they've forgotten that they're staring down a beast that will tear out their throats if given the chance."

Jasper shrugged a little.


"But here I go beating a dead horse again," the man chuckled. "It's not like whingeing will change what was decided, yeah? It can just be hard to move on from something when it's more satisfying to be frustrated."

Even if it wasn't productive.


 

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