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.)

Comments

[phoenixwiz]

Yeah, I definitely agree with that as well: those visions were indeed lifelike that it is too easy to believe that anybody would believe the person they’re seeing is real.

(That almost reminds him, the spirits’ attack on bridge does remind him of a similar thing with the Shadlin way back as well since they all create illusions of people from home based on their memories.)

I also remember going through a similar thing months before the spirits attacked everyone on the bridge when I went to explore the Dusklight Wood and saw a Shadlin myself with another friend. They are also capable of making even creepier illusions of loved ones by looking into people’s memories as well, making it easy for people to lose their guard too.

[yorhaberserker]

That's a little disturbing when you think about it. That this place has the power to make those memories seem to come to life and be so real.

[Another sip of her drink.]

I think that's one thing that my world has that's more preferable than this. No magic and nothing to make your memories come to life.

[phoenixwiz]

Yeah, it does have some stuff and creatures out there to make reliving those memories again a little terrifying at times. And that can get the best of anybody.

(He doesn’t want to get into the spirits possessing the Hall of Mirrors and King Arthur after the Top Talents Tourney at Celliwig right now, especially when he had witnessed a friend’s mirror reflection hurling insecurities at him.)

Hmm, that is intriguing to hear. I don’t recall that many things that can make anyone relive those memories in my world.

[yorhaberserker]

It does, and I don't like it. Makes me curse this magic stuff on a regular basis. But this world seems to run on magic.

[She remembered watching the tournament with her friend, but she hadn't participated in it herself. She really didn't like fighting unless she had to. Which would surprise some people's notion of her.]

My world has no magic at all. Most of the androids memories are stored in the servers, or their own internal databases.

[phoenixwiz]

Wow, so your world must be a high tech world like the technology found in Lestari?

(A2, your world’s tech have definitely caught this guy’s intrigue already since he does come from a time and world where the tech boom has just begun and wizarding magic can ruin human made tech within seconds.)

That is pretty brilliant. My world’s tech isn’t as filled with advance technology and androids just yet, but maybe there is a good chance that it could reach your world’s level of tech someday.

[yorhaberserker]

Well, I suppose. If there were still people on the surface of it. But there's not. Just a handful of androids and machines.

[She gave an awkward smile at that. She knew people got really curious when they heard that. She honestly didn't know what kind of technology that the humans had prior to her creation. Besides the Resistance androids.]

I'm sure it will.

[phoenixwiz]

Hopefully it does someday.

I will admit that I have never seen so much advance technology in my life until last month during the search for the necromancer within the city and I was in awe of what they had made over a long period of time.

(For someone whose world’s magical side often short circuits human technology, he’s pretty amazed by how Lestari made a lot of advances in technology/technomancy compared to the 1990’s tech in his world.)

[yorhaberserker]

I'm pretty certain it will. Technology has a way of moving forward with time.

How advanced is your world's technology?

[She smiles as she glances over her shoulder to make sure she isn't blocking anyone before she returns her attention to Harry.]