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This is Part 2 of a 2 Part idea. Part 1 was CP#75<\/a> and this one continues off of the idea that a bartender is secretly a serial killer and or an information broker who spends his time working at two different bars. One fancy and one normal.<\/p>\n

The ladies in these pics are at the normal one.<\/p>\n

I feel like there\u2019s two ways to go with these pics. The first one is the women are throwaway characters\/jobbers that are used to set up how dangerous the bartender is.<\/p>\n

In that case the focus would be part on him and his methods before setting up a bigger scene\/showdown later on in the story.<\/p>\n

The other direction is these five women are the main event and become feature characters against the bartender.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m leaning towards the second direction.<\/p>\n

So, the next question would be, is one lady more important than the others? Does one have main character energy, and the others are just her friends?<\/p>\n

My working idea is that all five women work together at the same company and that the company is fairly big\/important. They\u2019re all celebrating a new big client\/job that will push them up to the next level.<\/p>\n

The bartender overhears all this, even lets a couple of them flirt with him. At which point he decides whatever they\u2019re celebrating is worthy of his interest.<\/p>\n

Through a combination of alcohol and drugs mixed into their drinks, he gets them wasted enough (2nd<\/sup> pic) to clone all their cell phones while they\u2019ve all passed out momentarily.<\/p>\n

Maybe he used a special cocktail. His signature one. As none of them even realize they blacked out, just that they got wasted more than they expected.<\/p>\n

He then uses the information on their phones to locate them all and eliminate them one by one. All while making their deaths seem like accidents.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still not sure if he\u2019s doing this because he\u2019s a serial killer or if he\u2019s doing this as a job of sorts. Like a hitman maybe. That would affect the tone\/vibe of the story too. I would probably stick with the serial killer version if I wanted it to feel different from my normal style of writing.<\/p>\n

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