[Already failed step one: no blood powder, huh-- Palamedes makes a face, like he both desperately wants to write this down so please save it for later, but he also wants to hear Viktor list off the Tipsy Attributes? For reference? Woe is Palamedes, stuck at a nerd impasse.]

You haven't? I want to get a better look at that massive bloodstone they've hung on the front of the other establishment we passed— the opulent one.

[Which means he wants to climb up there and chip off pieces, but since that's probably a crime that would get them banned from Cellar Door for an arbitrary amount of time, he'll settle for sitting outside and looking up at it.

But, ah- he takes the offered hand (warm and a little electric, thanks cocktails) and stands, immediately swaying in a way that makes his eyebrows go up and his other hand windmill a little, oop-]

Oh, [he manages, good god,] Well, I'm beginning to understand the overall effect. Let's go.