Bucky isn't sure what kind of answer he was expecting, but it wasn't 'religiously motivated pit kidnapping.' Maybe it should have been, given the circumstances of his arrival in this world. Probably best to just start expecting the unexpected.

"That kind of thing happen a lot around here?" Bucky asks, abandoning his project and taking a swig from the pint glass he'd stashed under the table. "When I got here, they mentioned a war, but they didn't say anything about offering us up to Cthulhu."