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Lup ([personal profile] necromanswers) wrote in [community profile] hugtopia_logs2020-07-07 11:06 pm

Affurgato Mingle: July edition

Who: Open to all
Where: Affurgato
When: This week
What: An open mingle at the restaurant which is... mysteriously celebratory!
Rating: who knows, probably PG/13ish?


Regulars of Affurgato might notice things have spiced up a little bit in the last several days; the decor is a little brighter, the staff more upbeat, and the food, while tasty as ever, is a little different. The restaurant is advertising a summer menu of slow-cooked BBQ sliders, sweet potato fries with honey butter dip, grilled pineapple and watermelon slices, and warm peach cobbler with ice cream. The prices are slightly more premium than usual, but ooh, doesn't it all smell worth it? Newcomers might even get a discount, if the right elf twin gets their bill. But how do you know which one's the right twin? ...Yeah, good luck with that.

For this week, the menu will include two curious additions as well: a Thanksgiving-esque meal including fresh slabs of turkey and stuffing, flavoured with bacon grease, and a slice of rainbow layer cake. The cats are very attentive, especially to recognizably good tippers, and there's a display sign outside the door with a doodle of a binicorn in flashy sunglasses shouting the words "ONE YEAR MORE, NERDS", which might be weird to those who know that Affurgato opened about six months ago. Ah, well.

Also noteworthy is the fact that an actual, tangible magical bicicorn will be running around for the first 45 minutes of every daily shift that the restaurant is open, trying to scoop people up onto his back and deposit them in front of the shop. You're here now, so you might as well get a meal, right? Don't question it.

Come one, come all! Enjoy some good food and the company of your neighbours, maybe visit the elves and see what's up.
iustaegis: (pic#13566178)

[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-10 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Um... [ She glances down at the menu, and after just a look, she'll give Honerva her order.

Looking up, she smiles. ]
I'm sorry to have kept you! [ Look at her, chatting for too long. ]
Edited (pyra speak) 2020-08-10 21:36 (UTC)
shroudedsecrets: (these lines the last endeavor ;)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-10 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You need not apologize for that.

[ Silly Pyra. The order's simple enough for her to send it along telepathically to whichever twin is at the window, so it's hardly an interruption but a courtesy. Pyra had delayed her visit for long enough, why should her meal be delayed too? ]

Besides, it has been nice... to talk, like this.
iustaegis: (pic#13926767)

[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-11 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pyra does not know that they're telepathically connected...

So she sits politely, blinking and puzzled. ]
Um... Mm! It has.

[ It's not like she's going to tell Honerva to go away to bring her order to the twins. Pyra doesn't actually need to eat anyway. ] There's nothing like having a good conversation with a friend. [ And, technically, a colleague should they ever return to working together. ]
shroudedsecrets: (and reveal to me my true name)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-11 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nothing so dramatic, simply a left-hanging return on a message spell for convenience. Otherwise nothing's immediately pressing, most of the other customers present have their meals, no one else has stepped in just yet, and the cats are scattered accordingly. ]

You seem quite concerned about how my time is being spent here. I assure you that Lup would rather I talk more to the people around me than less.

[ Doing her "job" was important, but... so was the time taken to speak to others. She'd thought Pyra had known that, or she wouldn't have chanced a chat to begin with... aside from her hesitance in the first place. Hm. ]
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-11 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She! Is so confused! How is her order getting placed! ] Um, of course I agree with Lup! A place like this, even working here... you must see so many people. It must be easy to make friends.
shroudedsecrets: (bind me here)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-11 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
... It is only practice, surely, that makes it easier to greet others. I'm not so certain how well that would hold up outside of it all.

[ Without having prepared things to say or to offer, but accommodation is something of a learned skill as well. ]

'Making friends' is not something I would ever have considered easy to do, though it must be easy for you, if you've made one of me, after all.
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-11 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ --if you've made one of me, after all.

Funnily enough, Pyra doesn't think of it this way at all. Rather, compared to some other people, Honerva had been relatively easier to befriend. She has reasons to think this, too. ]


Oh-- oh, that's not true. I think you're not giving yourself enough credit.
shroudedsecrets: (and reveal to me my true name)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-11 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She shakes her head. ]

You are aware that there was a long time before I even understood the meaning of such a word. Such a concept... does not come easy. I am now able to recognize that once it is there, it should not be hidden. However, you do not hesitate with such considerations.
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-12 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pyra has only known her for who she is now. Nevertheless, she is aware of who she once had been-- intimately enough, through what had happened not so long ago, no less, in visions. She supposes this makes her privileged compared to those who only knew Honerva back then. ]

That's very nice of you to say, but it's only so easy to say because you are kind.
shroudedsecrets: (don't mind if I fall apart)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-12 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ The unsettling visions they'd experienced together had been new to Honerva as well, but she had once shared with her the darker details of her past, which Pyra had accepted without any hints of rejecting her.

She didn't understand it then, but it was just the sort of person Pyra was, sometimes seeming far too naive and then yet surprising her at every turn with her compassion. And yet she would call her kind and insist upon it. Her ears give a slight flicker. ]


Well... it remains an honor to hear that from you.

[ As strange as it is. But now she'll rise, because if Pyra happens to glance toward the order window, she'll see a fresh tray being set out with her request. ]

... If you'll pardon me a moment to retrieve it, your order is ready.
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-12 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, her order is ready...

—How? How was her order put it??

When she returns: ]
U-Um, Honerva.... I’ve a question.

How did you send the order to begin with?
Edited 2020-08-12 21:37 (UTC)
shroudedsecrets: (all i wish is to dream again ;)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-12 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Honerva sets the tray down, having been 'carrying' it in the similar way she transports most things, floating just above her palms until she takes the edges to set it down gently. ]

... Hm? I sent it telepathically. We had a channel open, so it was making use of a convenience.
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-13 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Obviously, she did not know that she had a telepathic channel between herself and whoever's in the kitchen. ] Wh--what?

Is it... is that always on?

[ But no, it couldn't be. When Honerva had needed Lup to come over quickly, they had needed to call her. But then how does it work? How does it turn off? On? She has many questions. ]
shroudedsecrets: (bind me here)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-13 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
No, not always. Since it's been a little busier, we've made use of the convenience, given our general proximity.

[ Psychic, magic... there's enough that just seems ordinary after a while that one forgets it might seem strange to other people. ]
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-19 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ With parted lips, Pyra appears nothing but impressed. ] This whole time, I had no idea.... 

Magic is-- it's amazing, what it can do. [ There's so much she doesn't understand! ]
shroudedsecrets: (don't mind if I fall apart)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-19 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
... I find that the more practical applications are more appealing, with their utility. Although any questions about more specific spells are better saved for the twins, of course.

[ She can follow their lead in her own unique way, but there was much that she would not have considered, if not for them. ]
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-25 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her head tilts to the side. ] Oh-- so.... What do you call your power? Magic, as well? 
shroudedsecrets: (and reveal to me my true name)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-25 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
That is what it has been called.

[ Magic was such a broad, if useless term at times, to explain what could not be explained. She could diversify with her energy, because that was the nature of it, but it was still complicated. ]

How we came by it, how we apply it... that is different. They have a proper basis for such things, and there is much I would rather... learn anew.
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-27 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ To Pyra, magic is yet another phenomenon that obeys its own laws and physics, only that they haven't been properly quantified or studied. However, it is also a very convenient, laymen term to apply to unknown power or forces, so she uses the term regularly. ]

Learn anew... Such as, applying it differently, or discovering how to manipulate another form of, erm, magic?
shroudedsecrets: (time casts a spell)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-27 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's quiet for a long moment, weighing the question. ]

Perhaps... it is a little of both, in a manner of speaking.

[ She was learning to apply it differently, but the source still had its own problems. ]

The power that I have... the means I have learned to apply it, are not entirely practical for... ordinary living. New branches have opened up to me simply by being able to understand the world around me in a different way.
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-27 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ "Not practical for ordinary living"... ]

Are they safe to explore?
shroudedsecrets: (doubt all intent)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-27 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Any magical endeavor comes with risks. [ Safe is an odd word for it, she thinks. ]

What is the nature of your concern?
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-08-31 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ She seems surprised that Honerva asks after her concern. She had thought it obvious. But then-- Honerva is someone who does not think of herself often. ]

Your safety, Honerva!
shroudedsecrets: (this is me for forever ;)

[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2020-08-31 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
... Mine?

[ She had thought, for a moment, that Pyra might yet be scared of her than... for her. ]

There are always risks. Whether it is from the magic I already know or wish to learn, or may have learned were paths open to me at other times. I have glimpsed paths that are not free for me to walk, and so I must follow others.
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[personal profile] iustaegis 2020-09-05 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Pyra deflates. Yes, she knows there are paths she may not take... Such longing does nothing but cultivate emptiness within the heart.  ]

You don't have to take the most dangerous ones... And you don't have to walk alone.

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