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[allyisun]

[Here's Allison, standing in front of her little café]

So, good news for once? The All You've Got Café is now officially open.

Hurray!

[She throws a small handful of confetti made of a shredded paper napkin into the air, looking less enthused than she sounds and kind of nervous.]

Come get your caffeine and whipcream fix.

[She'll be here, lounging in a chair behind the counter - standing is for people who aren't running their own café - underneath the display that reads "Don't be a dink if you want a drink".]

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[hyperkinesia]

[ The little confetti detail is kind of cute, and it has Bruce smiling amusedly as he hits reply. ]

What about teas and infusions?

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[whoami]

Looks like someone beat me to it. I was going to ask after your selection of tea

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[whatdidisay]

Looks like you've been busy.

( heeeey allsion. )

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[allyisun]

Definitely got those! Though some of them are a little... Weird.

[hyperkinesia]

How weird, exactly? I've only had a few more or less close to chamomile and green tea so far.

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[allyisun]

Yeah the tea selection is kind of... um...

Here:

[She pastes in a picture of the current tea selection board. Along the left side are a bunch of names, as copied off the translated packaging, that nobody's likely to recognize. Things like 'Jarbluhk Dayfood' and 'Kl-kla-tk Harvest Blend' and 'Red Florbi'.

On the right, each alien tea has a short description. Such as 'Sort of Earl Grey' and 'Green Tea-ish'. Some descriptors are a bit more interesting: 'Meat Broth???', 'Not Sure If Bath Bomb...', 'Tastes Turquoise??'.]

Yeah

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[allyisun]

Hey Ivan!

[Have a small wave]

I wasn't about to leave my job undone. Especially when there's no internet in this place.

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[whatdidisay]

Internet?

( yeah you. might want to fill him in on that. things ivan's universe has: ways to bring you back from the dead. things it does not have: youtube and cat memes. )

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[whoami]

...see now I have this morbid curiosity to try one of the really weird ones.

Though it does beg the question; what's the coffee?

[allyisun]

Yeah, I've... Well, I've got stuff that mostly tastes like normal tea. And then there's the... Other stuff.

Here, I'll send you the menu...

[She attaches a picture of the current tea selection board. Along the left side are a bunch of names, as copied off the translated packaging, that nobody's likely to recognize. Things like 'Jarbluhk Dayfood' and 'Kl-kla-tk Harvest Blend' and 'Red Florbi'.

On the right, each alien tea has a short description. Such as 'Sort of Earl Grey' and 'Green Tea-ish'. Some descriptors are a bit more interesting: 'Meat Broth???', 'Not Sure If Bath Bomb...', 'Tastes Turquoise??'.]

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[allyisun]

[She has a brief deer-in-headlights look, followed by one of mild horror]

Shit, you didn't have the internet where you come from?

[She feels so sorry for you.]

Um, the internet is, like... the World Wide Web? It's this network, that, uh, connects everyone in the world. Well, everyone with a computer and an internet connection anyway. Um...

[The irony here is that if she had internet right now she could just look up a definition for the internet on Wikipedia.]

[hyperkinesia]

Well, these are... interesting.

[ Said as he looks over the menu with knitted eyebrows, one arching the more names and descriptions he reads. He's not entirely sure if he'd even trust some of these enough to give them a try. ]

Did you try all of them yet?

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[daintylegs]

I have no idea what caffeine and whipcream is, but it sounds good!

[That's not entirely true. He has an idea what they are, but their function somewhat eludes him. He is, after all, a giant metal alien.]

Do you have any, um, chocolate?

[He says, attempting to sound like he's not completely clueless on the subject.]

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[takeitslow]

Do we have to get coffee with it or could we just order a cup of whipcream?

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[allyisun]

If you want to try Supernova, you'll be braver than me!

[That's the one described as 'Not Sure If Bath Bomb...']

The coffee is pretty much coffee. It's alien, but it basically tastes the same. A bit richer.

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[whatdidisay]

So it's like a closed network back home. ( that's simple enough, although his brain trips up over an important part here. ) And you just let anyone access anything they want on it?

( that would never happen on barrayar. ivan knows this. )

It sounds good, but probably wouldn't be practical for the rest of the Nexus. I mean, we still have to physically send tightbeam messages through wormholes to get them from planet to planet.

[allyisun]

Yeeeeah...

[She understands that look. It was basically her expression the entire time she was testing them.]

I steeped all of them, tried most of them. There were a few I skipped over.

[Like the one that smelled like rank mud.]

[allyisun]

[Oh hey, it's a robot! Or one of those Cybertrillians or Whatever.]

We have hot chocolate. That's like, uh, liquid chocolate. With milk or water.

Coffee's, like, an energizing drink and whipcream is when you, well, whip cream. Until it's light and fluffy.

Um. Can you actually eat human food?

[Seriously she's looking a bit baffled here.]

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[allyisun]

You're actually terrible, you know that?

But sure, you can have your fluffed sugar in a cup.

[daintylegs]

...Ye-esss.

[Tailgate says very, very slowly.]

I wouldn't mind trying some!

[allyisun]

I don't know most of what you just said, but... Yeah, you can find pretty much anything on the internet, whether or not it's true. Free information and all.

Mostly it's used for kitten videos and porn, though.

[hyperkinesia]

[ But she tested them. Brave. ]

Alright then, I'll... drop by, and you can give me a couple of suggestions? [ Ones that hopefully won't poison him. ]

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[takeitslow]

Dude, shut up. You know I'm awesome.

It's better than just drowning myself in powdered sugar.

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[shoppingtrip]

Thank goodness. I was starting to wonder if I'd ever see a decent cup of coffee again.

[allyisun]

[Allison squints suspiciously.]

That didn't sound very certain.