[OPEN] Clothes Shopping/Cafe Millennia Mingle

[odinpusrex]

WHO: Everyone!
WHEN: Early-Mid July
WHERE: Roxx & Cafe Millennia!
WHAT: Shopping and Cafe'ing!
NOTES\WARNINGS: No warnings for now, will update as needed!

With the new haul of arrivals comes the obvious need for new clothes! After all, whatever they showed up in might not facilitate daily living, or at the very least comfort. Fortunately for everyone, new or otherwise, there is Roxx! The range of fashion available is...interesting, considering how it seems to reflect the worlds each person is from, leaving no one wanting in terms of variety. Apparently updating when new people from different worlds arrive. Pretty convenient, that. As fortunate as it is, it might also be overwhelming, depending on who you ask. But perhaps that's where others might be of help! For the fashionably challenged, there might be an angel of fashion waiting to help you out.

With it being summer, there's also swimwear to be considered, especially with the chance of pool parties in the imminent future. Some styles may seem familiar, while others outlandish by your world's standards. Just like any of the clothes really, seeing as one can find clothing that is uncomfortably close to their personal style. In fact, they might very well find their exact outfit here from the looks of it. How odd!

After all their shopping shenanigans, people might find themselves migrating over to the new cafe that Sandalphon opened called Cafe Millennia. A perfect place to continue enjoying each other's company after a fruitful bit of clothes shopping! Or maybe that's where you've started at, coffee first, shopping after. There really is no wrong way to do it!

(ooc: Hey there, just wanted to toss up a little log for people who maybe wanted to do some clothes shopping or cafe threads with the possibility of running into random people! Just some low effort shenanigans and fun! Please feel free to use this log as you see fit, make your own top levels, tag around, whatever!)

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[odinpusrex]

[Fortunately Barnabas is nigh endlessly patient. While most might get irritable waiting for Sandalphon to hurry up and be done, Barnabas is not one of the sort. There may have been a time when such was otherwise, but that was decades ago, and now such simple things like letting time slip by is barely a burden.

Still, that Sandalphon finally finds time to approach Barnabas is preferable. Barnabas' gaze meets Sandalphon's own as the question is asked, and while Barnabas considers telling him no, he reconsiders. After all, this is Sandalphon's establishment, and while someone like him should be well above such menial labor, this was his choice to do it, or so he assumes.

It might be insulting to turn him down, especially if this is something of a passion of his, odd as it is. Fortunately after watching other people and listening in, Barnabas picked up on how this works, more or less.]

A black coffee.

[A beat.]

Discovering you here, working as you are, is most unexpected.

[prevail]

[ In a sea of lattes and over-sweetened abominations, someone at last asks for coffee in its purest and thus most superior form. The order is music to Sandalphon's ears, something made all too apparent by the way he perks up and very nearly hurries off to prepare that coffee. Instead, he gets as far as beginning to turn, only for his movement to be arrested by Barnabas' follow-up statement.

It's alright. He can wait, even if he's itching to have someone finally taste the actual coffee. ]

I suppose it might be... But we must all have personal goals and aspirations aside from our duties, or so my predecessor believed.

[ Lucifer had wanted for all of them to be able to exercise their agency, and this was the form that took for Sandalphon. Coffee, or rather sharing it with someone important, is a dear and tender memory for him. ]

He created coffee in my world, in fact.

[ The plant or the beverage? Yes. ]

[odinpusrex]

Did he now?

[An interesting claim, that. Though he is left wondering if Sandalphon means the beverage or something more fundamental, as in the plant itself. If his predecessor is like the two of them, then it stands to reason that he could wield such power of creation. After all, he had created Sleipnir, and a plant is something far less demanding.

Sensing the antsy energy, he nods shallowly to free him from this small bit of chitchat. Besides, Barnabas had little to add in terms of aspirations, when he has denied himself anything personal of the sort for so long.]

I shall taste it then, your predecessor's creation, dutifully served by your trusted hand.

[In truth, as Sandalphon speaks of his own mentor of sorts, it but makes him think of Cidolfus, and how things might have been, had he remained loyal and steadfast to his own teachings. But he was as untamable as the levin he wielded. And like a bolt in the night, he left Waloed, never to return again.]

[prevail]

[ Plant and beverage both, Sandalphon would say. When Barnabas gives him leave to prepare the coffee, however, the addition of this clarification flits from his mind. The way he phrases it makes Sandalphon stand just a little taller, a certain determination shining through in his eyes.

Lucifer had trusted him. With this invention, with so much else, even when Sandalphon himself hadn't been able to see it. If he's representing Lucifer in this way, he wants to do an exemplary job in doing so.

Not that he isn't always perfectionistic about coffee, but he's fired up now. ]

Very well, I will return shortly.

[ He hurries back to do just that. The coffee itself is a roast of his own making, mindful of temperature and duration. Sandalphon invests time in deliberating between several options, ultimately choosing the option he deems to have the most complexity of flavor, as befits serving coffee black.

The same mind for precise temperature and timing goes to the actual brewing, something Sandalphon scrutinizes closely. Once he deems the coffee ready, he returns with a proper cup and saucer, placing it before Barnabas. ]

When he first shared coffee with me, I remember it being like this. I hope you'll find it pleasing.

[ He thought it tasted surpassingly bitter at the time, truth be told, but he was determined to acquire a taste for it simply because Lucifer liked to drink coffee with him. ]