isleofavalon | April Open Catch-All

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April Open Catch-All

🧙 WHO: Harry, Rose the Pygmy Puff, and YOU
⚔️️ WHAT: Cafe Work, The Libryrinth, and Last Minute Bonfire Party
🕒 WHEN: All of April
🗺️ WHERE: Various
⚠️ WARNINGS: None at the moment besides possible fire-related hazards and the use of blood magic, will update this if something else comes up

Working for a Living
(It’s been a mostly uneventful month for Harry as he prepares to get the café ready for another day of getting orders, bracing for customer complaints, and collecting gold onto the cash register. He’s been putting his head head for a while ever since Camelot’s weird magical chaos months ago and he is hoping that there wouldn’t be more trouble being onto him this time around.

Feel free to chat with him, request him for menu specials, or annoy him if you character is in a mischievous mood.)

Fire, Fire
(Ever since he picked up elemental magic, Harry hasn’t been lucky in getting the hang of fire magic as he attempts to conjure fire properly without causing an accident with very little success for weeks. But upon remembering the suggestion from Crowley on the network, Harry decides to have an impromptu bonfire party/camping trip where elemental magic users can team up to train their magic by making bonfires and having dinner cooked over the fire. And if anyone does accidentally mess up with the fire magic, the other elemental mages can help in putting it out before starting over again.

The only problem is: he doesn’t know that many people with elemental magic in Avalon very well, so he decides to send a network post to gauge any interest of the last-minute party.)

Hey everyone, I am going to be at the woods trying to make a bonfire and camp out in there overnight. Anyone interested in joining?

The Libryrinth Part 2
(Now that he’s got another magic to assist him on the quest into the library, Harry hopes that it will go smoothly this time around, though he still knows that his fire magic isn’t the greatest at the moment. The last time he was at the aforementioned library, he and Ken have encountered a scary monster while his time with Louis was more subdued while they searched for the symbols among the book shelves.

With a quiet gulp down his throat and Rose nervously squeaking inside his jacket pocket, he then turns to his companion after he checks around for any signs of danger or if either the monster or the librarian is nearby. He doesn’t want to get both himself and said companion into more danger than they need. Let’s just hope that their new secondary magics won’t fail on them today.)

Well, here we are. I hope that we’ll able to do this quest with our new magics by our side. Are you ready for this?

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[ fire, you say? for a mini pyromaniac like Klee, being able to potentially make a large burning mass with the intention of cooking and eating delicious food over it sounds like an unmissable opportunity!

the prospect of practicing her elemental magic comes as a second, fleeting thought, trumped by thoughts of grilled fish and toasted marshmallows. ]

a bonfire!!! 😺😺
that sounds like fun can i come?

Sure thing, I appreciate the enthusiasm. I am currently setting up a camp base at the moment, but feel free to drop by at any time as you like.

[Oda Nobunaga is the second worst type of customer a cafe can have (first worst being, of course: a Karen.)]

[He has no IDEA what anything is. How anything tastes. And he barely understands cash transactions on a personal level, never mind how the cafe line works with people who have caffeine addictions they need to!]

What's the sweetest thing on the menu? Whatever happened to the tea ceremony? Why is all the tea black? What's coffee? Mocha?

(Ah yes, a customer is here! Harry comes to attend Oda’s questions after he was nearly done with cleaning the tables.)

Oh hello there. Those are really good questions. There are plenty of good cakes and pastries to choose from, although there are also crepes, cookies, and waffles available for ordering.

As for the tea ceremony, I never have one before and, sadly, not even Avalon has one, but I will ask the manager if we can add one soon.

Coffee is a hot drink that is made from roasted grounded beans from a shrub that have red round berries. Mocha is a chocolate-flavoured variant of a cafe latte, usually served in a glass.

[YOU ARE HIS NEW BFF!]

Whhaaaaatt? That's so many! [Sparkles. SPARKLES. He's delighted. He has no idea where to start?] Err, what's your favorite?

No tea ceremony? None? Never?! [HEAD SHAKE. This is weirder than the shoes indoors thing!]

[And coffee sounds weird. SO WEIRD. Liquid bean paste????? Ehhhhh...] What's chocolate?

Well, I haven’t thought of it, but back home, I actually like treacle tarts. But in here, I tend to favour the waffles in here since they are light and airy and you can choose to add any toppings you like or eat them on their own.

(Thanks in part to a co-worker being an awesome cook when it comes to waffles no less, he’s gotten to have full respect for waffles overall.)

Let me guess: Tea ceremonies are quite common in your world compared to my world and Camelot? I wonder what they are like.

Well, chocolate is a sweetened treat in either paste or block form made from roasted and grounded cocoa beans. They are often eaten on their own in block form or used to enhance other drinks and foods to taste good. (And very handy to restore your mood after surviving a Dementor’s Kiss too, though Harry wisely chooses not to tell Oda that just to be safe.)

[BRB: taking notes on his smart phone/communicator! Waffles: toppings. Chocolate and coffee are beans. Chocolate is sweeter!]

[Oda nods!] I would have thought if sweets could become so widely available, the tea ceremony would too? Perhaps it's just not traditional now? [Thinks on this, and nods. Traditions ARE pretty annoying. But at the same time... that's kind of a significant one. Like taking shoes off at the door. It's a practical thing! Not like castes! Did it just become associated with bushido or nobles with more time on their hands than brains? But games are still common among everyone!] Ah, how is it commonly viewed by people? Tea ceremonies I mean. Too ritualistic? Not casual enough? [CASUAL.]

[Oda can do that!]

[... Well, no. He can do informal. And rude. And wildly eccentric. Does that count?]

That sounds like a good possibility. I don’t see why tea ceremonies should be left out.

Hmm... Not really prevalent in here at the moment, at least from what I can remember, maybe unheard of by the locals here, though considering that everyone is hailing from various worlds these days, I have a feeling that the locals are trying to find ways to accommodate everyone’s cultures and interests over time, it’s just pretty slow at the moment.

(He has pretty certain that he has met people coming from plenty of countries and worlds in Avalon these days. Though the idea of a tea ceremony sounds like a great addition to the cafe in the long run, he might need to convince the cafe manager a little more though.)

[Waves a hand.] From your time then. Or locale.

Ah, I'm Oda Nobunaga. [Bows!] From Japan, 1582 by the Western calendar.

[ Ceres has been thinking about coffee ever since she first tried some at CameCon, and some quiet snooping around has led her to a cafe, where they supposedly sell this stuff. Good.

She saunters up to the counter and leans on it. ] Hey. [ She nods at Harry. ] You got coffee?

Oh yes, we have coffee in here today. Is there any kind that might interest you today?

(Well, she is in luck since this cafe he works at does sell coffee all the time. It is always busy at certain times, and it is thankfully not so crowded at this time.)

(Harry nods in agreement. Such a shame that Avalon is pretty slow in providing stuff for Otheworlders to have besides that Valentines Day arrow disaster. When Oda introduced himself to him, he does the same in return.)

Harry Potter, originally from England, early May 1998 in the western calendar. Nice to meet you too, Oda.

[ There's a pause as she stares at him, her eyebrow raised slightly.

Giver her a moment, she's new at this. ]

...There are kinds?

Yes, there are plenty of them to choose from. Here, let me get you a menu to have a closer look.

(He then goes off to find a menu and returns with the aforementioned item as he hands it over to her and explains about each and every one single coffee-based drink the cafe offers.)

I know that this is a lot to go through, but I’m pretty sure that there is one that you would like to try out. Got one in mind?

May... [MENTAL CALCULATIONS AND TRYING DESPERATELY TO REMEMBER --] Spring, yes? Do you know what [Brief pause:] month [Nailed it!] it is here?

Hm, yes, yes I do. It is April right now. So it is still spring at the moment.

[ She very patiently listens as he goes through the drinks, nodding along, trying to absorb all the information. It's a bit confounding, to be honest, considering she came in looking for "coffee" and instead came face to face with foreign concepts as "espresso" and "cappuccino" and "French". ]

So... [ She squints at the menu again. ] It sounds like the only coffee you actually have on the menu is this...Ee-rish coffee. Which I'll have. [ She knows what whisky is. She likes whisky. ]

I take that you’re ordering Irish coffee today. A lot of people order it all the time here. One Irish coffee, coming right up.

(In spite of him not being old enough to drink alcohol just yet, he has gotten to know the recipe by heart after months of working in the cafe. He immediately gets to work in making the Irish coffee and returns with the drink on hand for Ceres.)

Here you go, one Irish coffee for you.

[Lucy's own hainu familiar, Setsuko, has her ears down and her tail is still in nervous anticipation. Lucy tries not to let her apprehension show on her face, but she can feel the sweat on her palms. Nyuu was the one who entered this place last time, and after Lucy had read about it in her notes, of course she wanted to see it for herself. Plus she felt much more confident about her fighting skills than Nyuu.

She's able to turn into bigger, stronger animals now, and while she still has a ways to go with her new blood magic, she can at least make small projectiles and make one prehensile tendril as if it were one of her original vectors (except everyone can see it now).]

Yeah, let's do it. I even brought a container for the slimes.

[It's in her backpack and no bigger than a large-sized tupperware. Hopefully it's good enough, because she couldn't think of anything better.]

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That’s good to hear, I’ll beg that the slime could be handy in this quest too. I hope that we can find more things and that monster and figure why it is in here. Alright, let’s go. Just walk carefully and try to not make any noises: the monster and the librarian could be anywhere right now.

(Harry makes sure that he doesn’t make too much noises as he and Lucy navigate around the bookshelves, Rose is also doing her best not to let fear get the best of her. She wants to be just as brave as her master too.

Meanwhile, Harry is slowly getting better at kinetic magic over time that he has moved onto more slightly advance spells, though he knows that he has a long way to go as well. So far besides soft quiet footsteps from him and Lucy, there are no other sounds so far.)

im excited! 😁
that sounds rly good
will u have snacks? i can bring some!!!

[Nods! That stands to reason.] Have you been here a whole year or is it merely coincidence?

Just... A salad....

[ After giving all her money to the younger girl named Izzy, and spending whatever she managed to collect after that. On books regarding Earth Constellations, Historical prevalence's of Greek Mythology of the Stars, Mediterranean numerical studies of the stars of Earth, and all wonderful horrible pricey books that she spent hours reading. Mona was indefinitely poor - like always frankly.

On one hand she has a book talking about 'Constellations and their Placed Presence upon all.' Whilst her other hand is over her stomach, and she looks up at the waiter with hopeful eyes. ]

A water too please... If its free... A lemon....

I got some food, including, for the trip, but you can bring some more as you like.

It is very complicated time wise: I was repairing something back home and it was spring in there when I found myself swimming for my life at the bay last year.

So I’ve been here since last November and it was late fall when I arrived at Avalon, so it’s been six months for me, although I have a feeling that this place likes to bring in people from different worlds and timelines.

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April Open Catch-All

fire, fire!

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Cafe

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Libryrinth Part 2 (Lucy) | CW: blanket warning for use of blood magic

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