The City of Axis

Dimitri nodded. He liked that get-to-it attitude of hers. "I'll start over here and work my way in the opposite direction. Any idea what we're going to make?"

That was the tough choice. It had to be something they could fix quickly enough, but something impressive, something that would really seal the deal... and their jobs. He began to make his way around the kitchen, looking over everything. He'd never worked in a place this big before, and it was a bit intimidating.

((If you can suggest a reasonable rule I'll consider it, at least, and talk it over with miko.))

Meena giggled. "Yeah, tips. It's when people give you extra money for doing such a good job!" she crooned. Turning on her heel, she began to lead them toward the door. "I can show ya where the apartments are if you want me to. Don't know what rooms you'll get, though, Mr. Makar has to decide that. Hey, Mr. Big Man, what's your name?"

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Alastair pulled out the largest size he had for the uniform and sighed. Just barely big enough. He had it made for a friend of the family way back when, just for kicks, but it seemed this would finally come in handy. He drew out the uniform and walked out the door, locking it behind him as he didn't want anyone going through the goodies in his storage room. Especially not Meena. She didn't need to know what he was up to at the moment.

"Ivan!" he called upon reaching the bottom floor. "I found you a uniform!"

"ah, I see" he dropped a fist into his open hand as if emphasize that he understood the concept of tips. "I would very much like to see them miss" his voice regained a little more volume as he wasn't as nervous as before "Oh, my name is I-" 'Ivan! I found you a uniform!' the call cut him off "....-van" he slouched a little defeated with a thin smile on his lips before the big guy wandered in the direction he was called from. this would be his first set of presentable work clothes wouldn't it? perhaps missing out on the other job was a blessing in disguise

((I'm off too. ^^ night all))

((Since there aren't too many players right now, maybe a page would be a fair limit for how many posts are made in between?))

"And I found the spices," Dimitri replied, looking over the selection. Not bad... not bad at all. At least they were well-stocked in this department. "There might be enough ingredients for stew. But you're right, we'll have to see what we're working with. Found the flatware."

((That's sort of a relief, 'cause I have to get off too.))

"That could work." Dimitri agreed, closing one cabinet and looking into another. "Pasta. We could make something really good with that." He gestured at the glass jars.

He glanced over at the doorway to the freezers. It looked like there was a lot of room back there; certainly enough to house ingredients for something that was so, ingredient-wise, relatively simple. "I'm pretty much done over here. Tell me when you're done, and we can go into those freezers and find out what we're working with."

Alastair presented the giant with dress pants and a nice shirt and tie. "Here you are. Salem, I expect you to find black dress pants, a vest, a white dress shirt, and a tie by the end of two days, all right?"

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Meena smiled. "Ivan...that's a fun name... so there's Salem, Ivan, Dimitri, and Julia. YAY! New friends!" She hummed to herself as she walked out the door, beginning to make her way down the street expecting them to follow her to the apartments. She enjoyed new people and it would be nice to finally get the restaurant running. Maybe by the time they got back Julia and Dimitri would have somethign ready for all of them to try!

"Ok, that shouldn't be a problem," he still had some money left and thought it would be enough since he already had the dress shirt and wouldn't have to worry about paying for an apartment. Salem smiled sharing Meena's excitement over making new friends, "Yes, yay new friends!" He followed after the cheerful girl quite happy and proud he had stumbled upon a job and a place to live in one go. "So do you live in the apartments as well?"

"friends?" the big man looked to the little ball of sunshine before looking back to the new change of clothes he was holding. once more his gloomy expression softened and Ivan smiled warmly. yes... friends. a new home, a new job, and new "friends" he said the last part out loud, still with that warm expression on his face. eventually he would have to drift back to earth, and that gloomy look would return, but afterwards Gojinki turned his head towards the owner "is this really alright sir? I don't yet have the money to pay you for this..." maybe it would come out of those 'tips'? that might be the case.

((Sorry for not posting before this. Was at Rikiya's house last night [[low signal]] and had to work all day today.))

"Yep!" Meena chirped as she tromped down the sidewalk. "Mine is near the ground floor, though. I don't know where yours will be. I guess you'll have a roommate, but I don't know. I don't have one..." She trailed off at this as her eye caught on a cotton candy stand. "OOO!! OOO! I want some!" she exclaimed, running over to the stand and jumping from foot to foot. "Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalem, Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivan, do you want cotton candy too?"

She looked back expectantly and her smile dropped a few degrees when she saw that the larger man was not with them. "Where did he go?" She huffed in slight annoyance but cheered up again when she saw Salem still approached. "Cotton Candy!"

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He shook his head. "Oh no, you don't pay for your work outfit. Now, as this isn't something we have laying around too much you'll have to buy more if needed, but I can't expect you to pay for this while you may not even have enough money to gather the necessary clothes items."