The ladies of Karl’s group quickly joined in on the fun, and bought up long strings of cheap glass beads to toss around the necks of the young men.
There was plentiful rum flowing from kegs at every corner, and Karl led them to a corner where the same smoke pit as during the battle was set up.
"Butcher, good to see you again. I’ll take whatever you’re serving, for the whole Guild group." Karl greeted the portly Demon.
"Oh, congratulations on making Overlord. It’s good to see you again, War Champion. Are you sure that you don’t want to join them? You’re still a young man." The Demon joked.
Karl laughed and tilted his head towards where a young man was being escorted into the back room of a shop by two young ladies in questionable outfits.
"I think that I would insult someone when I had to turn down the most festive of festivities."
The butcher laughed. "Well, youngsters will be youngsters. You can go to the boardwalk if you like, but really, the ladies will likely have more fun here on the docks."
That was definitely true. It was only a little after noon and already the Demons were playing a drinking game where you flipped a full shot glass from your horn to your mouth without spilling it.
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Whoever drank the most of the shot won. And took another shot.
There was also music playing, as whatever bards and musically talented demons the ships had on board had set up an impromptu jam session. That had the people dancing and generally going wild.
Before long, Lotus had dragged Mick up on one of the pier pillars to sing with her, a drinking tune that seemed to be primarily the word ’shots’ that every sailor knew.
The combination of rhythmic foot thumping and trumpets made a steady beat as the crowd sang along and thousands of sailors drink from bottles of Rum. Karl could see people closer to the boardwalk giving the crowd at the docks disgusted looks at the lewd lyrics, then confused stares as they realized that it was a Green Dragon Priestess and a Vampire in a Lolita dress with a parasol leading the chant.
Something wasn’t right with the sailors, they were certain. Many of the Noble young ladies were tempted to come over and check out the scene, but the rowdy party was causing their parents to glare at them every time that they turned in a vaguely southerly direction.
The song changed and the stomping changed to a new rhythm that was slower and somehow more sensual, but still accompanied by trumpets and a saxophone, which made for a very strange experience to Karl’s foreign musical tastes.
But soon enough, he found himself dancing with Dana in his arms, dragged into the crowd and drinking Rum from the bottle as they laughed and spun in the crowd.
They were pleasantly drunk and making new friends among the sailors when a rather horrified looking official in a castle uniform made his way to the dock and caught Karl’s attention.
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