Happy Hour!

[sunbaked_baker]

The long day of baking had been cathartic, and Sunshine had needed it. Rae... wasn't thinking about what was going on back home, just yet. Wasn't ready to, so wasn't going to. Not right now. She had just set the tray of still-warm baked good on the bar when she'd received a napkin.

"...Well, all right. You get some sleep," Sunshine says, slipping behind the bar and grabbing one of the drink recipe books.

She's in lime-green jeans and an electric-blue top, though they're mostly covered by the sunflower-dotted apron still tied about her waist. Where her clothes are not effectively covered, they're dusted with flour (how unusual!).

Soon, the Specials Board is up. Some the writing might be a bit cramped, but she'd had to make sure everything fit.

Happy Hour Specials!
Tequila Sunrise
Sunburn
Sun of a Beach
Sunset

Non-Alcoholic
Sunshake

AND Sunshine's Fresh Baked Goods
Cinnamon Rolls As Big As Your Head: $2.50
(Extra Icing: $.50)
Bitter Chocolate Death: $2.50
Caramel Cataclysm: $2.25
Lemon Lechery: $2.00
Chocoholia: $2.00
Muffins: $1/ea, $10.00/dozen
(Blueberry-Candied Pecan, Strawberry-Chocolate, Oatmeal-Cranberry, Jalapeno-Sweetcorn)


"Happy Hour starts now, denizens of Milliways," Sunshine says, smiling as she snags a gooey, fragrant cinnamon roll for herself. "What will you have?"

(ooc: Mun is tired and heading to bed. Post is open for tags forever, though. <3)

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[a1enzo]

It takes a few minutes before he returns with plates still in hand, and now he's sniffing the air above them happily. They match their bearer a bit more now, looking more than a little like plastic restaurant window displays.

"All set!"

[sunbaked_baker]

She has never seen anything like that. "What happened to them?"

[a1enzo]

"I digitized 'em. I can't eat matter."

[sunbaked_baker]

"Wow," she says, blinking. "Wait, that'd mean, you're digital, too?"

[a1enzo]

"Yup. Enzo Matrix, data sprite. Internet protection, antivirus, Game defence and system repair." He salutes smartly, and grins.

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine stares for... just a bit. She can't help it. Even having been coming to Milliways for a while, she wasn't exactly prepared to meet...

Yeah.

No one really expects their globenet protection, antivirus and system repair computer information to walk in and ask for baked goods.

"Sorry," she says, when she's gotten her mind to shuffle this information into the Milliways is Weird section of her brain. "I... well, I've never met a data sprite before, but thank you for all the work you do."

[a1enzo]

"You're welcome. Though you might not have sprites in your world," he notes. "We haven't found any that do, yet. From the outside, I mean."

[sunbaked_baker]

"Well, even so," she smiles, after a moment. "You do something that's absolutely necessary for any world that has computers, I'd think, even if a particular world doesn't have sprites to do it, if that makes sense."

"I mean, it doesn't have to be my world for me to appreciate what you do."

[a1enzo]

Enzo beams. "Thanks. I mean, you're welcome. I mean... you know."

Darn you, language!

"I'm only a cadet, of course. But I did help save two worlds already, so that's a good start."

[sunbaked_baker]

"Spartan," she grins. It's approving. "Better than I'm doing."

She's still got a looooong way to go. It's a big world, after all, and she and Con are only one human and one vampire.

"So you're a cadet? There's a training program or something?"

[a1enzo]

Enzo, who has just sampled each of his desserts, rolls his eyes in pleasure. "Lady," he says with his mouth full, jabbing a finger at the plates, "this is just as important."

He swallows a few times to clear his mouth. "Yeah. Guardian Academy."

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine laughs, bright. "Glad you think so. Good food helps make people happy - and making people happy is what I like to do."

"What sorts of things do you study there?"

[a1enzo]

"Combat, malware definitions, system architecture, system errors, Games, bugfixes..."

[sunbaked_baker]

"That sounds... so much more interesting that math or chemistry," she says, impressed. "Games?"

[a1enzo]

"Had a little chemistry as part of gen-ed, actually. We don't need to learn basic math, though. That'd be like you taking classes on how to make your heart beat. But yeah, it's definitely more fun than regular school."

He grimaces. "Um, yeah. This is the downer part of the conversation, sorry. Computer games are kind of deadly to us. If the User wins."

[sunbaked_baker]

"That's... horrible," she says, thinking of her younger brothers.

"I don't play games on my combox - just use it for checking up on the news from the globenet. My brothers, though..."

She doesn't know if it would be helpful or horrible to mention how she had gone through and systematically destroyed her brothers' game station games as a teasing deterrent when she was 16. (Her brother Kenny had caught Rae and her then-boyfriend making out, and went around the house for a week afterwards, singing "Big Sissy Kissy-Kissy!" She had just been glad that kissing was all Kenny had walked in on, but felt that she needed to put a stop to that behavior quickly. Her brothers hadn't talked to her for two months, but the tactic had worked.)

[a1enzo]

He would probably appreciate the thought, particular if it was just the games themselves, but he finds the destruction of anything computery highly disturbing, even if it's from a sprite-free world. So, probably just as well not to bring it up.

"The Games're actually loads of fun, but it's one of my functions to make sure we win against the User, 'cause otherwise..." Yeah. "Would you mind... if you can lend us a computer or a disc or something, we can scan it and see if you have sprites or not."

[sunbaked_baker]

It was just the game cartridges themselves. But still, she doesn't feel comfortable bringing it up, not knowing enough about how a sprite-world works.

"My door came in from my bakery - I didn't have anything electronic with me. Sorry."

As canon doesn't mention cell phones, the mun likes to imagine that they don't have them. ^_^

[a1enzo]

"Well, if you're ever able to bring something."

[sunbaked_baker]

"I'll see what I can do," she smiles.

[a1enzo]

"Thanks. There probably won't be anything, but... we'd like to know."

[sunbaked_baker]

"Of course you would," Rae says, emphatically. "I'd want to know, if I were you."

Even just talking to him, she's wanting to know.

[a1enzo]

He nods.

"To be honest, though, I'm not sure what we'd do if we did find a world with sprites."

Launch a campaign to abolish video games? That would go down well.

[sunbaked_baker]

And with how things are in Rae's world, video games and other types of escapist fun are at an all-time high, despite the prices.

"How would you go in and say hello to the... locals?"

[a1enzo]

"That'd be tough. But if I could find a way into the digitizer's holding computer, I could download from there. Sending a message would be easier."