Wow a crafted guitar. @solymi has to get into crafting in rising star.
I would love the pub to be a virtual pub in some metaverse. Where people can meet up on fridays and then revisit the space during the weekend. Donated NFT art could be displayed there and. Dlux maybe?
Or to set up the pub as an RPG The author being the bartender. Asking what peeps would like to drink. The "players" entering would have a setting they arrive into.
For example the Mos Eisley bar

Splinternews storms in and heads straight for the bar. On his way he collides with a droid serving drinks and grabs all of the Mos Eisley Cryptobrews drinking them as he continues to the bar.
-hey @forykw I am thirsty it has been a long week and I was gathering hiveium in the mines. Boba Fett is paying premium for LARYNXIUM. The more hiveum you hold the more LARYNXIUM you can gather. Give me a keg of your best HASHKING whine! And ask @solymi if he can drop some BEERS!

He smashes a hiveum coin on the bar and turns to the band.

-PLay up today is a day to celebrate!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas break. I did and was able to onboard my son to Hive. Checkout his first post if you get a chance.
https://ecency.com/hive-163772/@crackyup/noosa-north-shore-weekend-away
He is working on an intro but I think I need to help him set up on this mobile phone with keychain so he can post regularly.
Just voted for my first witness.
I am not really experienced enough with all things hive to have much an option on pub set up and possible changes. I just enjoy and find the weekly updates interesting and educational as well as what everybody else adds in the comments.

As solymi sits at the bar listening to the song for the 420th time he sips at his !BEER

Just as splinternews arrives at the bar the door bursts open again.

A gang of Splinterlands Summoners slowly makes their way through. They look like they are out for some serious games as they are all heading towards the card tables. They wear the colors of the disciples and acolytes of helio. A double guild with fierce warriors amongst them.
Solymi jumps on top of the bar and with a loud and clear voice that makes the hole pub turn their attention to him he starts:
Who is up for a challenge?
Send it to @solymi and face him in battle! Set the rules as maximum Gold!
Show me your skills!
The Summoners all start shouting taht they are accepting challenges!

Let's see how many battles we will count here.
If you battled reply to this post!

Crafted guitar is a nice giveaway for the pub, Rising Star is still a huge part of the Hive gaming community here. Currently grinding out the Manager recruitment mission in hopes of moving forward to the last area.

If there's interest in running another Splinterlands contest, I'll put up 250,000 SBT tokens to the pub as prizes - largely a token that is specifically designed to be awarded for good battles/sharing battles.

Thanks again @forykw for pointing me towards the Primersion repo for snapshots, greatly sped up the process of getting the Hive Engine Witness (@blockgolem) online. Might not be able to validate many blocks, but it's a good learning experiment getting it running (writing documentation around that is on my to-do list).

Having other people write parts of the posts for the pub is a cool idea, especially if people want to own different areas of content. Always good to get a variety of reading in when having some !PIZZA and !BEER. Cheers!

Hi, new.things invited me to comment here. I have only just started learning all this after some mates at work where talking about crypto. I was able a get bit of Hive and some other coins while it was low last year and am only now just stating off with this.

Conscious Cat sits quietly in the corner sipping her red wine. She watches and listens and ponders what the heck everyone is talking about. She thinks @solymi is quite cool, so she copies him, sipping her wine as he sips his beer. But that whole Splinterlands game he and @new.things and @forykw are into (plus, apparently, a few hundred thousand other people...) she just can't get jazzed about spending her time learning about it.

So she sips her wine, and listens without really hearing, and ponders life, and... wonders who put this song on the juke box, again. @new.things is trying hard to include her in the conversation, bless him. She understands a word here and a word there. It's like being in another country where everyone else speaks a language she learnt for a term or two at school, 20 or 30 years ago.

She sips her wine. She enjoys watching @forykw's excitement about the process of becoming a witness. She makes a mental note to ask @new.things to teach her how to vote so she can ceremoniously add her somewhat dusty vote. She knows it's not worth much, but a vote of confidence for José's ability to do this important role is possibly almost as important.

She sips her wine and remembers her week, two weeks, since she last sat in the pub surrounded by these lovely people who talk about things she doesn't really understand.

She was stoked to win a contest in the Ladies of Hive for a post she was genuinely proud of. She was grateful to get a shout out ecoTrain for their weekly curation post for a different post that she was also proud of. She bravely created a piece of street art (even though she definitely does not consider herself an artist) and bravely dropped it off in a contest in a community by the same name, and while that contest hasn't ended, she realises she's not attached to the outcome because, again, she's proud of her efforts.

All up, Conscious Cat reflects, as she sips her wine, she feeling pretty proud and pretty grateful this week. It's been a good week, even if she still has no idea what the heck her !LUV ly pub mates are talking about 😁 !LOL

And the winner of this gathering #NFT 🎈 giveaway is @failingforwards!

The Prize is underway!

Wow a crafted guitar.