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"Tone sphere's prominent too these days - magical synth form factor, looks like a translucent floating orb."

She leads the way through the teleport rings, flashing her paycard for the pair of them.

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Changeling makes a quick detour to buy a 50-OTC monthly ring pass. When she comes back she has ears and a tail again. "How do you play a tone sphere? Not with fingers, one assumes."

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"You 'kine it, usually. Some you can play manually but that only gives you the outer surface to mess with." 

Hannah hangs a left and steps into something pretty recognizable as a bar. She pays a cover charge at the door ("she's with me") and settles in at a table. 

"Want anything to eat while you wait?"

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"Can you get telekinesis? That'd be handy. Ooh, how about an interesting new drink? A slightly magic one, ideally. You sure I shouldn't be paying for some of this?"

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"You can, standard package is will and intent-based, takes training just like playing the piano with both hands. Raspberry Smash with a shot of Chorister? I don't drink anymore myself, lost a decade to a drug phase a while back. And really, don't sweat it, I'm a dimensional mage, I bought my own immortality. I could give you this bar as a gift if I wanted to. Not that I like to boast, but..." She shrugs. 

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"What would I even do with a whole entire bar. Except drink it?" Thoughtful tail-wag. "Oh uh, are there rules about recording the concert? Some places have that. Can't very well keep people from trading memories I'd think but BDs are a bit different maybe."

She orders a Raspberry Smash with a shot of Chorister while observing for clues about whether one gives tips here.

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"Nah, no rules about recordings. Tradeable memories just about put paid to that."

People are occasionally tipping a TK or two, often fresh-minted. Hannah sets aside an invisible octahedron with a glowing silver spark in the center. "That'll pay for good service all night," she says. 

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"Looks powerful whatever it is. Lemme guess... Chron?"

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"Yep," says Hannah. "And I see the openers setting up - they're usually decent at these things, I don't know them. Looks like a Tone Sphere player and some guitars."

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"You know I haven't actually been to a good and proper concert for a while? It's been mostly about the aesthetically wandering in wilderness for me the last couple years. Singing on fjords and moors. Meeting shepherds and goats. Not without internet access, 'course."

She takes a fairly big gulp of her drink, and pays attention.

"...Holyshit ♪maaa-gic drugs♫." Grin.

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Hannah grins. "Yeah, Chorister's cool. Recent, too. You can feel the range it gives you, yeah?" 

The band is finishing their setup, looks like.

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"Huh? Oh! Let's go LooooOOOOO-"

She can get her voice extremely basey, apparently. She giggles.

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"Nice! But it looks like the show's starting."

The opening band announce themselves as Winged Serpent and launch into their set. They've got a crunchy-guitar-with-glassy-synth kind of thing going; their singer can do high and ethereal or strident and commanding pretty well. Their lyrics seem to be mostly about fighting to take over hell(s).

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Those are some pretty good lyrics! She orders several 'surprise me's over the course of the set.

And grins at Hannah once or twice.

But mostly just listens.

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Hannah grins back. She goes through a lemon twist and a root beer: Changeling gets shockberry rum (tingles on the tongue!) and marala liqueur on ice (about the consistency of cough syrup, though it tastes much better) and a shot of sinflower liqueur, which hannah raises an eyebrow at but doesn't further comment on.

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Eventually Winged Serpent finishes playing and Devilmachine takes the stage. The front singer seems to be a tall, buxom deviless with a confident swagger.

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She's followed by a short, pink-haired girl in a black hoodie emblazoned with the name of the band in red, plus a seven-pointed star. 

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Hannah waves!

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The frontwoman makes eye contact and nods just slightly.

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Hannah grins and puts her arm down.

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This is fuuuuun. New drinks, alien music on an alien world. (Changeling notices the raised eyebrow and connects the dots a minute later, then blushes about it.)

"She's hot," she says of Scythe.

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"She is. Rose is a lucky devil. I've partner-swapped with them before in the Bowers, they're cool."

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"Hmmm~ Monogamy is weird."

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"It is. Still, no accounting for taste." 

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"Alright, everyone. We are Devilmachine, Scythe on lead, and that's Rose behind me. Ready to rock?"

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