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Daydreams Cafe
Daydreams Cafe
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You slowly wander down Thread Lane, looking for things to do. A small fistfight breaks out in an alleyway and you steer yourself in the other direction, not wanting trouble.
The smell of cookies and fragrant tea fill your senses and you follow the smells toward a new building, a small two-story cafe painted pale pink. Clean white curtains hang in the sparkling windows, pots of delicate flowers are positioned next to new wooden benches. The smell of cookies is stronger now, and you can also detect traces of cake and vanilla. A small wooden sign hangs over the open door, reading in neat block letters, Daydreams Cafe. You smile softly and decide to give this place a try. So, slowly, you step in through the door.
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Specials!
•Positivitea
•Motivation Cookies
•Sparkler Surprise Rolls
•Songbird Pastries
Announcements
•New Treats!
•On-The-Go Cinnamon Buns
•The Spirit of Joy is back!
Welcome
Hello and welcome to Daydreams Cafe! Im Miss Plum, the owner of this place. I hope you'll stay a while and have some food! We are now offering many new things, and more importantly, our chefs have found the recipie for Motivation Cookies! Take a sample from the counter if you'd like.
Prices
•Cookies/Muffins: 4 Zeets
•Cakes/Pies: 3 Zoots
•Drinks: 6 Zonks
•Other: Ask the counter staff
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submitted by Miss Plum, age Ageless, Daydreams Cafe
(October 16, 2020 - 1:33 pm)
(October 16, 2020 - 1:33 pm)
Nightfall joins me in our attempt to get them to stop, shouting that they are ruining this cafe, and if they can't respect that, get out! (She has an epic death glare.)
K.A.D.E. seems to hear us, shouting something like, "Can't let -Ow!- him have it! Gotta -Oof!- fight!"
I glance around. If they won't -or can't- stop fighting, could we make them stop?
"Nightfall!" I call over the noise. "I don't think shouting is going to work. Do you think we can separate them?"
(November 27, 2020 - 5:29 pm)
I wink at Snazzy.
"You betcha." I say. "Watch this."
I begin searching for every single fork and spoon I can find.
"I have a plan."
I begin whispering in Snazzy's ear. "So, let's rig up what I call the metal wall. We'll use the forks and spoons, no knives, though, to rig up a wall, sturdy, and I'll go ahead and cling from that beam-" I point to a thin wooden beam above the fighting Freak and K.A.D.E, "-and tie this rope to the wall, then I'll drop it between them. You can take care of whichever you want, Freak or K.A.D.E. I'll take care of the other. I can be very catlike when I want."
We work in silence, creating the sturdy wall. When we're done, I give her a slight smile, and take the rope, along with the metal wall, and, catlike, I snatch the rope and metal wall in one hand, and a grappling hook in the other. Using the hook, I climb high above the beam and drop the metal wall. It plonks, holding still. Freak and K.A.D.E look surprised.
(November 27, 2020 - 10:54 pm)
I hold a small sheet of crisp, white paper in my hands. There are a few words scrawled onto the page in my favorite green ink.
'Daydreams Cafe, Thread Lane, They serve Procrastination Prevention Muffins. ~Morning' It reads.
I smile, remembering the fact that Morning reminded me to come here. A breeze floats by, but leaves my own skin uneffected. I see the small little cafe with lots of people crammed inside of its warm confines and walk towards it. I pull open the door, welcomed with chatter, an argument, and the warm scent of fall products. I stare into the case of baked goods, searching for something that seems good.
Once I have decided on my order, I walk up to the counter and ask for two Procrastination Prevention muffins and a cup of ice water. The person brings them back to me in less than a second and I place the money down on the counter.
The cafe is quite busy, leaving limited seating. I glance around until my eyes land on a small corner booth which is unoccupied. I haul my bag and my cafe purchaces over and settle into the cozy spot. I grab my computer out of my satchel and place it on the table, connecting it to the free WiFi here. I set my food and drink next to the computer and plug in my earbuds. I pull up both the Pages document containing my half-way-done novel and a Microsoft Edge page with music from Coffitivity. Turning the music on, I switch back to Pages and unwrap a muffin. I take a bite of the beautiful muffin, recieving the flavors of fall. The procrastination prevention floats to my brain and suddenly my fingers feel alive, typing out the words I needed from one of my main characters, Myles. I fill a whole page with words that I don't even understand, and the effects wear off. My mind moves to the Chatterbox, NaNo, and my other sites I have bookmarked on my computer. I switch to Edge and start opening up sites.
No. Don't do that. Eat another muffin. My brain tells me.
So, I do, and yet again I begin typing about Myles.
(November 27, 2020 - 4:34 pm)
'EYYYYY CAN I JOIN? Pretty please, with a cherry and whipped cream on top, with an extra helipn' of sprinkles?
If I can, I guess I'll have... Hmm, these all sound so good! Maybe some Motivation Cookies. I do need some motivation. And maybe Positivitea. And, OOH, On-The-Go Cinnamon Buns!
Hey, @Nightfall and Lupine, is it ok if I join you?
(November 28, 2020 - 1:21 pm)
Of course you can! Currently I'm a little busy trying to separate Freak and K.A.D.E, but after that, I'm free!
*spoon thunks on head*
Ouch.
(November 28, 2020 - 6:16 pm)
Yes! We could use your terrifically spunky energy in the attempt to break up K.A.D.E. and Freak's fight, and, y'know, maybe not let Freak burn down the world via whatever's-in-that-briefcase if we can help it. You know, normal CB activity.
(November 28, 2020 - 8:52 pm)
I walk into a cafe, only to find Nightfall trying to break up K.A.D.E and Freak's fight over... IS THAT A SKINKIN' BRIEFCASE?! WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY BE FIGHTIN' OVER A SILLY BRIEFCASE?! Unless it was genuine fake cheetah fur, which I had with me at the moment.
"Ok, ok, ok, that's ENOUGH, YOU TWO, DON'T MAKE ME CALL THE KITTEN POLIECE, BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A FURRY TORNADO OF FUR AND CLAWS!!" I shouted, pulling K.A.D.E away from Freak.
"Why do you have a kitten poliece force again?" Nightfall asked me, holding Freak tightly.
"Eh, you won't BELIEVE how many kittens riot The Kitten Kingdom Treat Store when they run out of Tuna Suprise cat treats." I said, still holding K.A.D.E tightly.
"Excuse me, but you're crushing my lungs." K.A.D.E said, fightin' my grasp.
"If you think that's gonna get me to let you go because I feel bad, that's happened WAY too many times, 'k?" I said, still holdin' K.A.D.E tightly.
"LEMME GO SO I CAN GET MY HANDS ON THAT *Censored* BRIEFCASE!!!!" Freak shouted.
"Oh, dear, LUPINE, HELP US OUT HERE, WILL YA?!" Nightfall yelled.
"I'm comin'. Oh, hey, Em." Lupine said, walkin' towards us.
She held Nightfall and kept Freak from excapin'.
When the fight was over, I pulled a pair of handcuffs from my purse. I put them on both K.A.D.E and Freak.
"You both have the right to stay silent. Anythin' you say can, and WILL, be used against you in a court of Kitten Law, ectera ectera, got it?" I growled at both of 'em.
They both nodded violently, and I pulled out a rope and tied them up.
"Ok, so, Nightfall, Lupine, can you please explain what was goin' on when the fightin' started." I asked them.
"Well, there's somethin'--" K.A.D.E said.
"Shush! Nightfall, Lupine, please continue." I said, eating a delicious Motivation Cookie, and sipping my Positivitea.
(November 29, 2020 - 2:34 pm)
(November 29, 2020 - 3:26 pm)
Having assembled our Epic Wall of Cutlery™, Nightfall and I promptly drop it down between K.A.D.E. and Freak, effectively separating them. Freak tries to scramble around it to get to K.A.D.E., but I grab onto his leg, yanking him to the ground. He flails around, trying to get out of my grasp, but I duck out of the way and manage to latch onto his arms and hold them behind him. He's still flailing around, but I have him in a tight enough hold. Having a big brother can really come in handy.
"So," I say, blowing a strand of hair out of my face. "You want to tell me what's in that briefcase?"
(November 29, 2020 - 3:39 pm)
Summary of the fight.
K.A.D.E and Freak get into a fight about a briefcase.
Snazzy and me first assemble the wall, but Freak and K.A.D.E manage to evade it or something like that.
Em uses her power of The Kitten Police to force them to quiet down and all.
Em and Snazzy ask them what's in the briefcase.
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"Yeah, what's in the briefcase?" I ask fiercly, a steely glint in my eyes.
K.A.D.E apparently is refusing, and Freak is refusing as well.
"I give you to the count of three to tell us what is in that briefcase."
"3....2...."
(November 29, 2020 - 7:26 pm)
I watch the scene unfold around me, barely comprehending any of it. First a portal, then two CBers (Freak and K.A.D.E, I think?) start grappling with one another for a briefcase containing who knows what. At this point I turn to Morning to see her observing with a mildly entertained expression, like this sort of thing happened daily, which it probably did. The next few mintues are a blur, with lots of kittens related threats and metal walls. Eventually Nightfall, Snazzycakes and Kitten break up the fight and handcuff the disrupters of the peace. I can see Miss Plum by the counter looking relieved that no one would be breaking anymore of her china. I stand up, step over some broken glass, and make my way to where Nightfall is demanding to know what's in the briefcase.
I get to the scene just in time to hear Nightfall giving the troublemakers three seconds to say what's in the oh-so-important briefcase.
"3... 2... 1..." Nightfall counts down, then waits another few seconds, but Freak and K.A.D.E are stubbornly silent. Kitten mutters another threat including some very intimidating sounding kitten police. There's silence for a few second. Finally, I decide to intervene.
"All right, then, if you won't tell us what's in the case-" I announce, placing my hands on either side of the briefcase "-then I guess we'll just have to find out." I undo the latches keeping the top fastened shut. K.A.D.E is regarding me with an experssion that tells me that he doesn't think that I'm gonna actually open it. Freak, on the other hand, catches on and shouts "NO! DON'T OPEN IT-"
Too late. I dump the contents of the briefcase on the table.
(November 29, 2020 - 10:53 pm)
Silver Crystal has officially opened the briefcase. I smirk at them and shift into a black cat, pouncing on them with an expert leap, then snarl, "I gave you a chance. Now, out, you raspberry-carrot-stuffed-hollow-cabbage-heads."
"Nightfall, please don't say that!" Snazzy exclaims.
I laugh. "It's for the fun of it. Now, to take care of these two..."
I leap onto the high beam, then leap off, this time with some rope. I tie them together and nudge them over to the wall, just in time to hear Em ask, "What was going on here?"
"Long story short, K.A.D.E and Freak are arguing about some kind of briefcase, I mean seriously, a briefcase, me and Snazzy broke up the fight, and then the rest is history." I reply, shifting back into a human and brushing off my hands.
"NO!" screams Freak and K.A.D.E as the former tries to escape my (very tight, I may add) rope knots.
"No use, no use, seriously, I have expert rope abilites."
(November 30, 2020 - 1:27 am)
"Hmm. Ok, well, I se that this... thingymabob is useful. Maybe Freak should just give up." I said, lookin' at a thingymabob. I have no clue what it was, or what it did.
"So, what's inside your briefcase?" Lupine asked me, gesturin' to my brriefcase.
"Oh, this? Well, it carries my story I'm writin'. I typed it out on an old typewriter I found in my castle attic. Turns out that people aern't usin' typewriters that much anymore. I see why. I have to change the ink thingys on that thing, JUST so I can use it for another, oh, I don't know, 25 peices of paper." I said, openin' my briefcase, and pullin' out a stack of papers, stapled together, and on a leather binder.
"Cool! What's it about?" Nightfall asked me.
"Well, it's about a girl and a boy, who REALLY like each other, but thier parents won't allow it! It's kinda like Romeo and Juliet, but with a happier endin'." I asnwered, lookin' at K.A.D.E and Freak.
Sure enough, K.A.D.E looked at me.
"What?!" I said, glarin' at K.A.D.E.
"Umm, YOU tied me up, AND handcuffed me! You're not really friendly to people like us, are you?" K.A.D.E answered.
"Ok, ok, you're thinkin' that I'm always a nice person, right? Well, sorry to break it to ya, but, since my so called 'friend' in real life hit me in the face with a ball, I told him, and any other boy that I didn't like, to stay offa my turf." I said.
(November 30, 2020 - 12:51 pm)
As soon as my briefcase was opened, the world paused.
I looked around, making sure this is what I thought it was.
Everyone except for Freak and I were paused in time.
Well, this is interesting.
What?
Hey K.A.D.E., didja already forget how overpowered our CB-Selfs are?
Heyyy Sammy!
Hiya Freak!
Are you two going to get out of my head or do something?
I literally just stopped time for you guys.
That's valid.
•••••••••••••••••••
After listening to Sammy and Freak go on about nonsense for 10 minutes-
HEY!
We're still here.
I decided to remind my very ridiculous friend Freak about his ability to turn into a dark mist, the power that will help both of us escape from the ropes.
Oh. Forgot about that...
Well you guys seem like you can handle it from here. Tell me when you want to resume time.
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After freeing ourselves from the ropes and coming to a mutual agreement with Freak about nOT FIGHTING UNTIL WE'RE OUT OF THE CAFE-
Yeah, yeah. I get it, I get it. No fighting, yadda yadda yadda.
I asked Sammy to resume time.
…
To resume time.
...
...Sammy?
Sorry, I was making popcorn.
Yet again, valid.
You guys should probably grab the briefcase and the item from Silver Crystal before time starts again.
I made sure the item was safely placed in the briefcase, and time resumed.
•••••••••••••••••••
"-turf." Emekittycon Kitten finished.
"Em? Who're you talking to?" Freak asked casually, sitting on the table behind the group.
"WHAT-!" Nightfall exclaimed, whipping around.
"Hi." Freak greeted, smirking.
"How'd you two…?" Silver Crystal started, confused.
"Three, actually. Sammy Everlast decided to drop in and say 'hi'." I said, shrugging. "Anyway, I guess I can show you what's in the briefcase now. Sam doesn't seem like she wants my head on a silver platter anymore."
"Why aren't you and Freak fighting-"
I opened the briefcase, and pulled out the object.
"What... Is that thing?" Snazzy asked.
"It's the power of The Admins."
"WHAT-"
"What would happen if a chaotic AE got ahold of that!?"
"Welp, guess we know why ya wanted to keep it away from Freak... Hey, where'd he go anyway?"
"What do you mean?" I inquired, confused. "He's right..."
I looked around Daydreams Cafe, but my friend seemingly disappeared.
"...There..."
(November 30, 2020 - 2:16 pm)
Alright, everybody, calm down. Please stop fighting, arguing, and stealing breifcases.
K.A.D.E and Freak, you may take the breifcase outside. Have a free Happy-Go-Lucky Crossaint!
Em, pleased to have you. Would you like some Positivitea?
Nightfall, Im sorry to hear your leaving the CB, but Im glad you are visiting the cafe. Can I assist with the metal wall?
(November 30, 2020 - 2:32 pm)