Somewhere in the static between universes, where physics gives up and the local culture has outlawed clocks on principle, there's a tavern with a "No Violence" sign that lights up orange when you dare to touch it.

You're the bartender. The rest is out of your hands.

The Crossroad Tavern sits at the crossing point of a coherence sphere — a waystation for anyone passing between universes, and there's no telling who'll walk through those rustic steel doors next. A repo agent hunting souls sold as collateral in a predatory afterlife economy. A cosmic horror who insists on being called "Auntie" and knits sweaters from the screams of the damned. A WWI deserter who still isn't sure his shell crater didn't kill him. A sitcom robot performing to a laugh track only it can hear. Every genre, every medium, every mode — all of them thirsty, all of them looking for a seat.

The Ledger keeps track of it all: what's in the kitchen, who's in the meeting area, which of the six rooms upstairs still have their doors shut. Your job is just to keep pouring and let the multiverse sort itself out.

No violence permitted. No deadlines to meet. No idea who's next.

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