Helleste Café Fall Open Catch-All

[phoenixwiz]

🧙 WHO: Harry and You (fellow café baristas and customers alike)
⚔️️ WHAT: A day in work at Helleste Café (the Fall Edition) and Harry dealing with people admiring his new looks
🕒 WHEN: Whole of September
🗺️ WHERE: Helleste Café
⚠️ WARNINGS: None at the moment


(With the changing of seasons from summer to fall, it’s getting pretty busy at Helleste Café as it gears up for Fall: they started to serve up seasonal drinks (such as golden, red, and brown sugar lattes) and food (like salmon pasta with pumpkin salad sandwiches, sweet potato fries, roasted turkey panini sandwiches, prosciutto and arugula flatbread, maple pecan cupcakes, hazelnut tarts, and apple parfaits) along with their usual permanent food and drink fare. Baristas are at work as they prepare for the season: making drinks and food, manning the register, and handling customer inquiries. Several of them could be seen wearing fall leaf pins on their aprons while at work.

The leaves of some of the trees that dotted its interiors have even changed colors into vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows (some even would fall gently onto the ground), the cushions on the sofas and armchairs have been swapped out for fall patterns and colors, bright rugs that were used throughout the summer have switched out for ones in fall colors, while the lights themselves changed into a warm amber to compliment the season. Some flowers were nearing the end of their life cycles while others begin to bloom once more, giving off a nice lovely scent to compliment the smell of brewed coffee and baked goods.

Shortly after getting a magic vision correction surgery and a hair cut during the weekend after the Kymbyr quest, Harry has returned to work after a day of rest and plenty of the people have started to notice the new look he has been sporting. To be fair, he does feel a little awkward about people staring at him for no good reason, but honestly, the denizens of Camelot actually give him really sincere compliments; heck, some even congratulated him while giving him tips. While it will take him some time to adjust to it, the change in looks surely give him an extra boost in self confidence that he does need.)

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[yorhaberserker]

[A2 peeks her head into the cafe. She'd not been in it before and she was curious. If there was more things for her to try, she was all for it. She had yet to experience coffee. She sniffed the air of the place, and it has a warm scent that makes her smile.

She hesitantly steps in, looking around. She was still sometimes self conscious of herself. Though she feels she had gotten better a acting more human. Not like she'd ever be a perfect simulacra of one, but she could be close.]

Hello?

[She calls out hesitantly making her way to the counter.]

[phoenixwiz]

(As soon as Harry hears the sound of footsteps and someone coming in, he soon runs up to the counter and sees that a woman at the counter. Rose is currently snuggling on the counter and she begins to squee at her in greeting happily.)

Hi there. Is there something you want to order today?

[yorhaberserker]

[She smiles when he comes out, and then looks up on the board. Her lips pursed in consideration.]

I've never had any of these drinks before. What would you suggest? I was kind of looking at that brown sugar latte one...

[She blushes realizing she probably sounded ridiculous.]

[phoenixwiz]

Hm, okay. Do you want to order the brown sugar latte then? A lot of people have been wanting to try it out since we have changed the seasonal section of the menu for fall. But there are also golden and red lattes since they’re also big best sellers during this time of the year.

(He is already waiting patiently as he awaits for the lady’s final decision. No need to rush, miss.)

[yorhaberserker]

[The android debated for a moment or two, not wanting to take too long, but there was too much to choose from.]

Yes, I think I'll try the brown sugar one. Why not try something new when you're trying something new? Right?

[She had plain coffee before, at the hotel, but this was going to be a whole new experience.]

[phoenixwiz]

Okay then, I will be back with the brown sugar latte order right away.

(A few minutes later, Harry returns with the brown sugar latte and gives it to the lady at the counter. Rose happily bops her head in delight up and down as if she is dancing to the music playing at the background.)

Here you go: one brown sugar latte.

[yorhaberserker]

[She watches as he goes to make the drink and gives him a smile when he returns with it. She reaches out for it.]

Thank you, how much do I owe you?

[She knows that nothing is free here after all, and it is a business.]

[phoenixwiz]

That would be 50 G.

(Harry has been briefed about the price for the seasonal drinks, though there are times where he did need to check again so he wouldn't get lost when doing his duties: sometimes things go by so fast that he could feel everything could be going off in a blur.)

[yorhaberserker]

[She smiles, pulling out her phone and pulling up the payment app and tapped it to pay for her drink.]

Thank you. I'm A2.

[The android sometimes is strange and doesn't really know that she doesn't have to give her name to the clerk.]

[pricklybloom]

[ While Amy did enjoy an occasional latte, she didn't like coffee enough to enjoy making it for other people. But what she does like is cooking and baking, so getting to help make some of the dishes and desserts they served was especially fun. At some point she's also hoping to help come up with a menu item that the cafe would start serving, and spent whatever free time she could testing different items.

As she comes into work on this particular day, she's carrying a small cellophane bag filled with what's no doubt a delicious treat. ]

[phoenixwiz]

Oh hey, Amy. What’s inside the bag right now?

(He is very intrigued to see what Amy has made inside the cellophane bag she is carrying. Rose squeaks in delight as she sees the bag, cranes her head in intrigue, and hops up and down.

I am curious to see what you have made today.

[pricklybloom]

[ Glancing up, she grins a little. ] Hey, Harry! [ Coming around the counter, she unties the bag and opens it up, revealing what kind of looked like orange brownies on top of regular brownies, decorated with a chocolate drizzle on top. ] I made pumpkin cheesecake brownie bars! Wanna try one?

[phoenixwiz]

Oh wow, they look really nice. I would love to try one out.

(Rose is also wanting to try out the brownies as well, begging through her squeaking and her wide blue eyes. Harry then picks up one brownie and takes a bite of it. After a while, he is really enjoying it: he has gotten used to have a taste of pumpkin from home in the wizarding community, so he is very familiar with anything pumpkin related.)

Whoa, these taste really brilliant! I really love these already.

[pricklybloom]

[ Amy beams at the compliment. ] Thanks! I'm hoping we can try selling them here! I think they'd go really well with the fall-themed drinks.

[ Because fall without something pumpkiny is just wrong. ]

[phoenixwiz]

Yeah, I agree: I’m pretty sure that they’ll appreciate it as an addition of another menu item as well.

(Rose squeaks up in agreement as she twirls around on the counter and her eyes widen up in joy. It looks like she wants to have some of the cheesecake brownies so badly right now.)

Oh Rose, you want to taste some of Amy’s brownies?

[pricklybloom]

[ She giggles, breaking off a piece of one of the bars. ] A whole bar might be too much for you. But here, you can have a little bit.

[phoenixwiz]

(Rose still happily squeaks in glee as she sniffs at the piece of brownie Amy is offering to her that she ends up taking it and happily munching it. Harry is pretty happy to see that his familiar is enjoying a bit of the brownie very much.)

Well, she is still enjoying herself. Even her eyes are twinkling in joy today.

[markedfordeath]

[Elza has been systematically going through every cafe or store that sold coffee. Today brought her to this charming little abode.

Walking up, Sturm forever strapped across her back, the gunner waltzed right on in and up to the counter. The fact that there were fall decorations went noticed by the assassin, not much got by her after all, but it was by far not anything close to the highest priority on her list.

Her voice was clip and to the point when she spoke.]

I want a coffee of your best bean here.

[phoenixwiz]

Oh hello. I will get it ready real quickly. Just wait right here.

(He immediately sprints off to get the coffee ready. Luckily, the cafe manager has been lucky to get a fresh shipment of the finest coffee beans Avalon has to offer to make coffee drinks for customers to enjoy.

A few minutes later, Harry returns with a cup of freshly brewed coffee on hand and places on the counter for Elza to pick up.)

Here we go, we got lucky to have a good shipment of coffee beans from the farm area today.

[markedfordeath]

[When the batista turned to grab her order, the gunner raised a slender brow. It's that kid.

When he returned with her freshly brewed cup, she reached out to take it while eyeing the kid.

She had never known glasses to be a fashion accessory.]

Don't need your glasses anymore, boy?

[phoenixwiz]

I just got some vision correction on my eyes some time ago, that’s why I haven’t been wearing them a lot lately.

(He is already expecting people to say something like that since he got his eyes’ vision fixed by now. So yes, he really did ditched the glasses at last. Rose squeaks to the gunner as she hops up and down on the counter in greetings.)

[markedfordeath]

[The explanation was simple and made sense. The fact that this world had such magic was interesting. Vane , perhaps in some ways, but she could see the advantage of correcting vision when it came to losing a weakness in battle.]

Well that seems rather handy. [Bringing the coffee up to her nose to smell the aroma, she watched while Rose bobbed up and down.] She's an excited little thing.

[phoenixwiz]

Rose is pretty happy today, I think that she must be in a good mood at the moment.

(The little Pygmy Puff twirls around as she squeaks again. Maybe she has eaten one too many sugary stuff, which may explain her being so hyperactive? Honestly, he couldn’t tell at the moment.)

At least I don’t have to worry about dropping eyeglasses in the middle of a fight or during a quest too often these days.

[markedfordeath]

I can see that. [The fact that the little puff ball was jumping in excitement made that assessment rather obvious. It's probably a reflection of the kid in general.

Taking a sip of her coffee, she was silent for a moment while she assessed the flavours.]

I suppose it has its advantages. Good for you, kid.

[phoenixwiz]

Oh gee, thank you.

(It’s amazing to see that Rose has become a regular fixture in Helleste Cafe since he came to work for them months back and the customers have gotten used to seeing her often. Who couldn’t say no to a charming Pygmy Puff like her?)

Many of the customers here have become accustomed to seeing her a lot in the cafe these days: she’s kinda like this establishment’s unofficial mascot.