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So, summary of the bar fight. *looks daunted* Uh, I'm leaving to go pitch a tent in a field in a few hours, so I'm only gonna summarise the bits I was involved in, kay? If anyone else wants to summarise/link/add anything, do so. Plzplzplz.

It starts when

Bartleby gives a bit of a clue to his state of mind by spilling the beans on his oh-so-charming past.

John Constantine is delighted. In conversation with John, Bartleby utterly fails to hit any nerves, despite repeated tries. Bastard.

The

Fool is the next one to attract Bartleby's attention, by, you know, existing. He gets in a dig at Bartleby, which

Liz concurs with. Bartleby and Liz battle. Bartleby and the Fool battle. Bartleby is all-around a bastard, and the Fool breaks ~~Bartleby's~~ my heart. Liz disapproves. Vehemently.

Drusilla and Bartleby have a slightly weird conversation. There's a lot of talk of wings. Bartleby has definitely cracked.

A drunken

Raph and Bartleby talk about Liz and the extinction of mutant turtles. However, Raph gets the last word, possibly because he's too drunk to respond to Bartleby's digs, or possibly because Bartleby doesn't have a handle on him.

Other people who are unwise enough to come to the bar:

Akane,

Guybrush Threepwood,

Luna and

Euterpe.

And then

Anthy comes along. Bartleby doesn't like Anthy. Therefore (and bear with me here: this seemed logical to him at the time) he produces a gun. Death, understandably disturbed, offers a friendly warning to Bartleby.

The fun starts then. And by "fun" I mean "Aaaahhh, help me, I can't summarise this!" John orders another drink, and then sets Bartleby's face on fire and goes for the gun.

Crowley gets in on the action.

Tonks tries to use "Expelliarmus", forgetting the whole "Ha, I'm an angel and I laugh at your puny mortal magic!" thing. People are moved away and Bartleby's face is re-ignited.

Bartleby shoots himself, as the quickest way to get away from Crowley, leaving Crowley holding his mortal body. Funnily enough, this pisses Crowley off. Bartleby shoots Crowley.

John makes a charmed circle, trapping himself, Crowley and Bartleby inside. Crowley brings Bartleby down from the ceiling, using John as a launch pad, and making Bartleby drop the gun. The circle is brought down and John is rescued (will someone involved in that scene do a bit of summarising?)

Bartleby is enjoying this fight rather too much, and knees Crowley in the groin, after which he is ganged up on, and charmingly breaks Tonks' nose. He gets the gun, and decides to play the entertaining game of shoot the demon.

Unfortunately,

Ingress has somehow got involved, and tries to protect Bartleby from Crowley. Bartleby fucks up very, very severely, and shoots Ingress (accidentally, swear to God).

Door responds as you would expect, by attacking Bartleby. Bartleby collapses, and Door gets very fucking scary, Opening Bartleby. She is fortunately stopped by

Tom, and

Sirius, just arrived on the scene, takes an unconscious Bartleby away, after a vengeful Crowley has torn out his pinfeathers (Crowley, help. This confuses me muchly, because pinfeathers, as far as I know, are the newly grown feathers with still soft shafts, and it would take you a long time to pull out every one).

And that, I think is that, at least for the parts where I was conscious.

See you all on Monday. Waaaaah! Think of me in my muddy field, and summarise and link interesting stuff, plzplzplz, because there's no way I'll catch up otherwise. And in case anyone's missed this: over the weekend Bartleby will be locked in the staff quarters under heavy guard. :D And I have no idea whatsoever how to play him once I get back, because I've run out of bloody canon.

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Wah, was thinking of primary feathers (ie. flight feathers), 'cos, you know, Crowley thought it'd be funny to clip Bartleby's wings. Blame my delirious tiredness for that mistake. OTOH, the blood feathers, ie. pinfeathers, work as well, cos they've not hardened yet, and hurt like all buggery when they're pulled out. He wouldn't have to pull out all of them, but he got a fair few handfuls before Sirius came along.

So, we can ret-con that to primary flight feathers, or leave it as pinfeathers, whichever. Think of the angst for flightless Bartleby, though. I wonder can angels regrow their primary feathers?

They bloody well better be able to. *glares* I think flightless Bartleby would be fun to play for a whie, but I'm regrowing them. *looks determined* So, primary flight feathers, then. Where are they positioned?

*boggles at the thought of all those HTML tags*

Those of us operating on bloody obscure Australian time that obliges us to miss all the action are very appreciative of such summaries.

I'm thinking Crowley got the ones in the middle, where they border on the secondaries.

*grins* Semagic is so goddamn useful. Wouldn't have been able to do it otherwise.

*boggles* OMGRUNAWAY!!!! TEKNIKAL FINGS!!!!!

Other than that, cheers. :D

Ah yes. I use it primarily when posting fiction, to avoid the pain of inserting italics. But I haven't yet been around for any Threadzillae (something of a mixed blessing) and am awed by the idea of trying to summarise one.

I only summarised my bit though. The rest of the thread, I cannot face. :D

the primary flight feathers are also called "remiges" -- singular is "remex". I found that out because of... um... something I was going to do last night before things got out of hand.

Do I want to know? :D

Oh, nothing to do with you...

hey - what are you doing here? Aren't you going away or something? Just put the mouse down and back away from the keyboard and nobody will get hurt! LOL

Switching off computer right now. :D

I'm in awe of your summarizing skills! How do you do the tag that just gives the character name, instead of the user name?

I'm using Semagic, so it puts it in automatically: it's a hell of a lot of code. Here you go:

[a href="http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=LJ NAME"][img height="17" border="0" src="http://www.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" alt="LJ NAME" align="absmiddle" width="17"][/a][b][a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/LJ NAME/"]CHARACTER NAME[/a][/b]

Change square brackets for triangle ones, obviously.

Cool! Thanks - glad to see you back, if only for awhile ;) I miss Bartleby.

I dunno what to do with him, now, though. *sigh* :D

REPENT! ATONE! BROOD! It's fun! Take it from me!

Actually I'd advise him finding a nice girl/boy/ambiguously sexed entity and falling in love. It's working for Tom, anyway :P

Oh, I know what he should do. It's what he would do that's the problem. See, canonically, post-freakout, he should get his head blown up by God.