Nothing like tea on a summer's day

[needsteaplz]

Who: Saori, all the people working at the tea house and you (aka everyone get in here!)
What:  Grand opening for the tea house!
When: All day, Friday June 1st
Where: Saori's tea house Elysium
Rating: Safe for work, maybe PG rating

Notes: Let's do this one like the beach party. One character per thread, everyone is free to do their own thing here. Employees can chat it up with guests, hijack a someone's table, ask if they can take a look at the mini-base upstairs, etc. Also retconning the hidden staircase to the base to inside the storeroom so no nosy NPCs can find it. Saori will eventually give everyone on the network a copy of the key to that storeroom.

[Today was the day the tea house finally opened. It took some time, but Saori's dream of owning such a place came true. Since today was an important, a little guest spoiling wouldn't hurt anyone. She had skipped over last night's Dark Hour so she could get up early and get some macarons, biscuits, scones and the ingredients for sandwiches in the afternoon.

It's a small building but it sits a number tables for 2-4 people. There are some booths and some tables available. If a guest wanted to, they could have a seat outside in the mini garden filled with various flower bushes.

The plants were watered, hot water and some coffee ready, and all the treats for the morning were set. Time to open shop!]

Comments

[technologic]

Oh, I see! That's pretty amazing... So the flowers could be different next season then. [She looks pretty excited about this.]

[namedforcat]

Indeed. I wonder how Saori is going to arrange it. You can do some pretty interesting things with all the types of flowers that are available here.

[technologic]

You can? Like what?

[namedforcat]

Different colours, patterns, I think you can even plant them to spell out words.

[technologic]

Ah, really? Wow, that sounds amazing! Maybe I could try doing something like that one day...

[namedforcat]

I don't see why you couldn't.

[technologic]

I've, uh... Never gardened before... Or handled plants in general. I'm not really sure what to do.

[namedforcat]

I'm sure Saori would be happy to give you some pointers. It seems like she knows what she's doing with hers.

[technologic]

Mmhm, I could always ask Saori about what to do... And I'll need to get a garden of my own too... Maybe one on the roof of the hotel...?

[namedforcat]

Maybe. You'd have to clear it with the staff there first, but they would probably let you.

[technologic]

Yeah, since they're already pretty much letting us stay here for free... Hopefully I'll be able to get a pretty big one. [Now she's got all sorts of ideas for this garden.]

[namedforcat]

Ah...if you're just starting out, you may want to keep it small.

[technologic]

... Yeah, you're right. And once I get more used to it and get better at gardening, I could make it bigger.

[namedforcat]

Indeed, enlarging it if you have the space would not be too hard.

[technologic]

And the roof is pretty big, though I don't want to take up too much of the roof... And I'm guessing there are some flowers that are easier to take care of than others?

[namedforcat]

There are. It depends on what your care style and your time constraints are.

[technologic]

I'm pretty much free most days after work, since I don't really do much besides going patrolling every night. So I'll have a lot of time to work on the garden... And I can read up on ways to take care of flowers.

[namedforcat]

Then you should be fine! Also, I think there are places around here that will sell you the things you need for fairly cheep.

[technologic]

Thank you! And that's good, I'll go have a look around the stores later this week then, I think.

[namedforcat]

I look forward to seeing what you come up with. [Gaignun, he is best at encouragement.]