|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:53 am
 _________________________________________________________________ "Well the rules here are pretty much the same as any other place you would work... blah blah blah... Oh, but about uniforms..." he scurried over and got Justin his own apron, "You have to wear this when on the clock, but aside from that, just where something that makes you look presentable, ne?" He gave a wink and a smile. He wasn't sure where he'd want his new staff members to start. Teaching them what's on the menus and stuff first to work the register would be a good place, right? Yes, that is where they would start! He could teach them both at the same time! _________________________________________________________________
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:51 am
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
¤ Justin Palmero ¤
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
↘ xx Justin was somewhat liking this job already. No strict uptight rules and just an apron for dress code? Simple enough for him. Looking on over to the blonde girl again, he looked back at Avein. "So im guessing she works here as well?" He asked him, taking the apron from him and putting it on, tieing the back up and stretching out a little. "And is there some kind of training thingy im supposed to go through or something?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:37 pm
 Shinju looked at the blonde man curiously. Coworker? Him? She didn't think that she'd have someone else to work with so soon. Still, it was a new business, and Avien would probably need help. Not that she felt that two complete newbies would be able to help out that much. Oh, that was rude. One complete newbie, and some guy with ambiguous experience. She watched the two of them chat until she heard Justin mention her. 'She'? 'She'? Wasn't that a little rude? Couldn't he just ask her herself? She shot him an odd look. "Uhm, hello," she said briefly with a small wave. "I'm Shinju, I just started today, too," she added as she walked over, holding out her hand.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:37 pm
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
¤ Justin Palmero ¤
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
↘ xx Once he heard her voice, he turned back to her direction, hearing her introduce herself to him. 'Hmm... The people seem decent here, but you can never be too sure.' He said to himself, giving her a small smile. "Pleasure to meet you Shinju, the name is Justin, Justin Palmero." He said, shaking her hand as she held it out. It seems like he wasn't alone since she just started today as well, which brought up more questions. Did this place recently open? Or has Avien been holding his own until the both of them came along? He'd ask later, him letting go of Shinju's hand. "How long has this shop been here?" He asked out loud, not really directing it to anyone in general.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zemblanity Insomnia Captain
|
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:44 am
 Walking in the Cafe was a very unusual pair. What what so unusual with them? No, it wasn't the fact that they, themselves, alone where unusual, because, Nirvani knew that those were probably the two people you didn't want to meet on your road, separately, what was unusual was that they were together! Yes, most of the time you would see them in company of somebody else, harassing every and any villager with a torrent of questions. Yet, here they were, both walking in a coffee shop and chatting like if they were old friends! And in a way, they were. Solving a murder brings people together. That, and the fact that Neil's conspiracy theory and Romane's paranoia went very well together. They had recently discover that they were both very big fan of coffee. How else would Neil being able to talk that fast nonstop all day long, and how else would Romane be able to go a week without sleeping? All that thanks to Coffee!
"...testing began in the summer of 1943, and it was supposedly successful to a limited degree. One test, on July 22, 1943, resulted in the Eldridge being rendered almost completely invisible, with some witnesses reporting a "greenish fog" appearing in its place. However, crew members supposedly complained of severe nausea afterwards. Also, it is said that when the ship reappeared, some sailors were embedded in the metal structures of the ship, including one sailor who ended up on a deck level below that where he began, and had his hand embedded in the steel hull of the ship." Why would Neil take the time to stop talking when entering a public place? It would be foolish to assume that him and Romane (but mostly him) wheren't talking on the way there! They were main characters! They had the right to speak! Character could speak between each other even when the writters weren't there, afterall! "So, you see why I believe that the Philadelphia Eperiment to be a plot by the neo-nazi to find a way to use anti-gravity in order to.... Oh! We're here Mademoiselle Bisette!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:14 am
_________________________________________________________________ So nice that the rest of the staff was talking to one another.~ This was going to be great, Avien could just feel it! "Well, the shop just opened up recently, since my brother and I have only been on the island for a short time thus far," he smiled at the two warmly, "You're just lucky you weren't here when Clark was in... I'm sure you'll meet him at some point, but if he's watching TV or something, best advice is to not try and talk to him. Not a very social one... With that all being said though, there isn't any formal training that I'm going to put you through, but I'll just teach you things as we go along, okay?" the man was enthused about getting right to work in teaching these kids how to rock the coffee shop business. He lead the boy back around the counter as well now, pulling out copies of the basic menus for the two of them and showing them how to ring up each of the items on the register. It was an easy enough process since the menus kept behind the counter had all the details you needed to make life easier. Avien thought of everything since he'd been working in a coffee shop for ages. Experience made him all the wiser to systems that worked the best. After explaining this, his eyes peered to the two that just entered the coffee shop, the male chattering away about... conspiracies? Oh, not like it was any of the shop owners business... _________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
High-functioning Marshmallow
|
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:28 am
She was about to tell Neil her frustrations with all the deceit the world seemed to have towards the common public when he announced their arrival. Ah. She glanced around the building, her frown perpetuating as she examined everyone inside the building. Blond female – possible threat with weapon, currently unarmed, keep watch. Local ex-stripper – threat, appears unarmed, keep watch. Local British bartender – strange accent, complete threat, keep watch. New blond male – stranger, complete threat, keep watch. Second new male – complete threat, possibly a- Her heart stopped. Was he.. was he looking at them? The threat level moved up and she narrowed her eyes suspiciously at him, keeping her gaze onto him while she answered her companion. “..Correct, we are.” She stated, keeping her voice calm despite the number of dangerous suspects in the area. She did need her coffee, though, so she couldn't run off.. But, she could keep a hand on her gun and head to the counter with Neil. “Coffee. Black. Mr. Murrow?” At that, she shifted her eyes to hover over everyone else within the area, waiting for someone to simply crack or pull out a gun to shoot wildly around the cafe. But, she would be here to defend it! By shooting wildly back!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:56 am
Ah! It was good to be in great company! No one understood him as well as Romane. Or rather, no one understood the TRUTH like Romane. It was good to talk with someone who had nothing to hide. People on this island were full of secrets! Evil dirty filthy secrets! It was his job to dig them out, but it was hard when you were the only one even trying! Still, he would never stop. As he approched the counted with the police officer, he looked at who was in the coffee shop. His eyes fell on the pink haired woman first. Integral Windsgate: Drug Addicted Whore. There was nothing special about her. However, he knew that she must ave informations on someone. Someone who was mych more interesting to investigate! If only he had any idea who that was... Next to her? Walter Dolenes: Transgendered conman. Probably had stolen millions out of men and woman who had trusted him, but Neil knew better than that. Next was Shinju Tamaki: Porn addict with a deranged sister. Now, he didn't knew if any of that was true, but why would Freddy lie to him about that? Still, really boring and uninteresting. The man next to her was unknown. He would need to investigate later. Lastly, Avien Rottenburger: Coffee owner. He had done a preliminary investigation on him. He was known to be a whore. A bottom b***h. Knew too many people for his own good. Something was fishy there. His brother, on the other hand, was much more dangerous. Numerous public discordance and bad behaviour. Hated in general. Clearly a hitman for a skinhead bike gang.
"Uhmm.... lemme see... what do you have? Of course you have the cimple classic like regular coffe, café au lait, espresso, no expresso, mocha, cappuccino, mochaccino but I think I might be more of the kind to take some sort of specialty coffee like an Irish coffe, Viennese coffer, or a Turkish coffee, but then again, I have a sweet tooth and a cafe bombon would be able to appease that. Is that a frappuccino? I thought they only did that at Starbucks, but then again, I might be wrong, I don't know a lot about coffee. I only know the generic coffee like iced coffee, alonge, red eye or flat white, but then again, I always wanted to try something more along the lines of Galao or a Eiskaffe or a Kopi Susu, but I'm afraid I might not like it. Coffee is important you know, if wouldn't be a wast of money to have one that I don't like since not only would it be waster, but I would also have to buy another one, because I do need my daily ten dose of coffee... So... uhm... Chai Latte. Yes, I'll take a Chai Latte. Large. No, Extra Large. Do you have extra large? It's good to have a size larger than larger because sometime people needs a lot of caffein, especially in the morning, this is why you should have an extra large size of coffee, so I will take the extra large size Chai latte if you have extra large size Chai Latte, but if you do not have Extra Large size chai latte, I will be disapointed because I wanted an extra large chai latter, but I will have to do with a large size chai latte, even thought I wanted a large size chai latte." That was an easy order as can be!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zemblanity Insomnia Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:34 pm
Damn... Integra sighed at the lack of job openings. She was about to comment aloud on that and tell Walter they could get tea at home when the crazy b***h of a cop came in with a .. well what proved to be a talkative-ohmygodsomeonetapehismouthshut- reporter? All Integra could do in the end was watch the man who talked a mile a minute in awe.
_______
Walter on the other hand had finally chosen his tea. He looked up from the menu and spotted the new workers, and the other costumers. Looking around for Avien, Walter would rather order from him than from the other two.
"When you get a chance ol boy i could go for a venti cup of white jasmine tea." Walter said gently as he held up his finger to try and get the mans attention.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:11 am
_________________________________________________________________ "Sure thing," he nodded to the cop and started at her coffee, and easy order it was, and then he heard Neil start. This is where years of experience in the city payed off. "We do have all special kinds of coffee, some more gourmet than other," he began his response, sliding Romane's black coffee over to and pointing to the small sign that said about how everything was free this week as a grand opening special, "However when you're referring to Irish coffee you really have to be careful as it might be considered and 'irished' coffee, which is just any regular coffee that's been spiked," he pulled out the specialty menu and set it on the counter, "These are all the specials we have, for future reference..." he now was working on the Chai latte and the jasmine tea at the same time. Frappuccinos were originally known to be associated with Starbucks. I worked there for about eight or nine years of my life... I suppose eight and a half would be the most accurate count, which is why I know how to make them, with a few little tweaks of my own. We do have extra large coffees in both here and to go sizes. Chai is an excellent choice..." at this point he had everything done and made and slid the jasmine over towards the man that requested it and the extra large Chai latte to Neil. "Is there anything else I can get you sir?"Yep, he'd lived in the city and had to hold five conversations at once while making orders, and making them good, so he was used to people rambling to him at high speed. As a matter of fact, these two made the place seem more like home since business had been a bit slow. Adding it to the others that had recently come in, it made things all that more warm inside. Of course, physically it was warmer in there too from all the talking and the body heat being thrown off by more people being inside, but that was beside the point. _________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
High-functioning Marshmallow
|
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:52 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:15 am
Oh? They had extra large Chai Latte? Yeaaaah~~~ Neil took his very large cup of coffee, letting the smell calm him down for a second. Hey, he had the right to enjoy free good coffee! Let him be silent for a moment. It rarely happens. "Can I have something else...?" He started, taking a second to taste his coffee. Ah, indeed. This was great coffee. He should come here more often... Here being the only place that sold coffee. Well, the general store did sell some poor excuse of coffee and so did the bakery, but that wasn't the main point of doing there. Here, on the other hand... yes, he could see himself becoming a regular. "There is something you can give me...." He took another sip. Was there something different from it? It tasted better than most Chai he had in the past... then again, it had been a while since he had one, so perhaps it was the same thing. He should investigate on that sometime.... Later. not like anyone cared about the slavery in the world brough by coffee. He raised his eyes to met Aiden's. Then, pointed him with an acusing figer. The one from the hand not holding the cup, that is. His left hand. "YOU CAN GIVE ME THE TRUTH! Yes! The one and only Truth! The Perfect Truth! Tell us the Truth, mistter...." He stopped for a second, reading the name on Avien's apron. "MISTER AVIEN! Tell us the truth about this coffee shop! Or is it really a coffee shop? Because I would like to beg to differ! This isn't a coffeeshop! This is only a front! A pathetic excuse to hide what is really happening here at night behind closed door! This is a bordello! And SHE is your topbitch! Your mainwhore! " He said, pointing at Integra. She was known to be an ex c**k addicted stripper afterall. That was only a step behind being a whore. "As for THAT woman, she is the madame! The one behind everything! Why else would she have tons and tons of pornographie in her home? It is pictures that she takes here! Those are all her daughters! Yes! He was, of course, talking about Shinju. Oh, Freddy had told him so many thigns on her. Her then pointed at Justin and Walter. And those are your clients! You cannot hide the truth! We know everything now! You would be better to confess! In fact, there is no need for we know everything! Arrest them all Mademoiselle Romane! This Supercherie can not go any further!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zemblanity Insomnia Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:47 am
_________________________________________________________________ The shop owner rested a closed hand over his mouth as Neil started with his wild accusations, trying not to laugh at this. Clearly this man had to be a writer of sorts to be this overly dramatic... Either that or some sort of artist. They were all off the wall like this from what he understood, but once he finished, the man couldn't hold it in any longer and he just burst out laughing. Laughing so hard that it doubled him over in pain moments later, unable to stop that laughing! It was so impossible it wasn't even funny! But it was funny! He couldn't say anything, just laugh, and try to stand up, "You..." he looked to Neil still laughing, "You, sir are hilarious!" Still stuck in a laughing fit, that was all he could get out. Oh, he needed this laughter so much. _________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:02 am
She kept the cup in her hand, the other reaching around the back of her belt to where she kept a pouch full of her drink-testing equipment, when she stopped, looking at Neil and listening to his accusations. ..It.. It all made sense! Right down to Integra's presence! Shinju was like that?! She knew no one could be trusted – no one who was so.. normal could possibly be normal! It made no sense! She nodded affirmative – this was a trick! One, large, frightening trick for a whorehouse in her own town! She started to set her coffee down carefully, since it was very hot, and draw her gun, when Avien laughed. ..Was.. was that a laugh of insanity?! Her fears were instantly triggered, warping the situation into something far more dangerous than a simple trip to the cafe.
Her coffee wasn't set down, it was tossed in a flurry of panic towards Walter, when she pulled her gun out to hold it with both hands. The semi-automatic pistol was veered around at all the customers, employees, and landed on Avien. She narrowed her eyes, “Raise your hands where I can see them.” She ordered loud enough for the whole cafe to hear. One beat passed and she barked out, “Everyone!” She tossed an apologetic look at Neil – she couldn't do him any favors, so he had to be arrested to. ..But, he would probably enjoy being in the cell with the rest like he had last time. Inside scoop and all that.
|
|
|
|
|
|
High-functioning Marshmallow
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:16 am
After a quick smile and a polite "Nice to meet you, too," in response to Justin, Shinju had fallen silent, and stayed that way for a while. Justin was talking to Avien, who was dealing with the customers, and all Shinju had to do was to stand there, familiarize herself with her surroundings, and just generally be tall and awkward. You know, the usual routine. She was like a sponge, absorbing information about the coffee shop for further reference, and remembering the faces of the people who had just come in, so that she wouldn't get overwhelmed. It didn't take much for her to recognize Neil and Romane, though. Even though she hadn't really spoken to either of them, she knew who they were. Who on this island didn't? That is, who hadn't just moved there. Avien didn't seem to know who they were at all. She had been watching them quietly, staying out of the way yet still making sure she knew what was going on. All of a sudden, she was brought into the conversation... but not in a good way! She froze and turned thirty shades of red. Oh my god, who told him? Who told him? Shinju's mind would have jumped straight to Freddie if she had been conscious of him recently. Oh, and if her brain had been functioning. She had pretty much just crashed out of humiliation. Under any other circumstances, she probably would have started laughing, too, with Avien, but she was a little too busy melting to do anything aside from blush and gawk. The blushing didn't last for long, because the moment Romane brought out the gun, all of the blood left Shinju's face, and she was left pale and startled beyond belief. Her brain's motor began to rev up, but no thoughts were forming. She let out a quick squeak and her hands shot up. She really had no idea how to act in a situation like this, so she was going by pure instinct.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
