You Wake Up In A Bar

With no hesitation, you immediately set to the task of fulfilling Clippy's order and getting this day started off on the right foot! This particular patron seems like it's another minefield you'll have to navigate around to avoid exciting or upsetting it, and you get the idea to use last night's recipe for just that purpose.








You start getting things going-- with largely a different ingredient set, but overall the same flavors and textures. Something with a lot of variety, but fruity and sweet tones. Having some 'flux chemicals' in the form of shaved matterhorn also seems like a pretty great idea!

The main ingredient that the mysterious voice told you about, krokoan hyperdrink, seems especially heavy and brightly-glowing, but you manage to find a small canister in the very back of your bar.







Stax suddenly lights up like a star! Well, more of a star than usual.




Clippy Butagun swivels interestedly in the chair, hammer ominously clicking back and forth.












(You silently reflect on the fact that you weren't particularly given a choice. Clippy just came into your life all-of-a-sudden!)









The drink finally comes out after you slap a sticky-note face on the front, to assure Clippy of the cup's contentedness. It need not any sort of prodding or assistance-- it's a perfectly happy substance!

Perfectionist activates-- you have gained an infinite supply of "Krokoan Hyperdrink" and found the Into That Foggy Night's quintessential ingredient!

Clippy Butagun instantly starts shoveling the Into That Foggy Night into its muzzle, slurping the lumpy Melon Tone Concentrate amidst huge swaths of dissolved cinnamon and thin honey. You intended the shaved matterhorn to last the whole drink, but Clippy's drinking it so fast that you suppose it doesn't really matter.




However, something seems to change once Clippy properly finishes the cup-- its whole cast-metal body suddenly stiffens up, and its loose-fitted mechanisms screech to a halt.




The paperclip who is a gun is now sitting very, very still.






Stax spends a few moments investigating Clippy, testing to make sure its eyes are still responsive to stimuli, which they are-- barely. Before he can get much better of a look, two large, clambering figures enter the bar, both with a tube trailing behind them! One of them appears to be the familiar face of Depricae, but the other is a more aggressive, bulky-looking variety of CES, and she loudly announces her presence.




You immediately adopt your welcoming demeanor, trying not to let Clippy's sudden catatonia get to you.

Mordicae's many, many eyes suddenly widen, and she grapples the meek-looking Depricae to bring them both up to the bar.






That's... almost all the coins you currently have.








Well, this is certainly an interesting opportunity! Hiring one or both of the CES would cost you a big chunk of your current funds (100 coins for the day, each), nearly everything you earned over the course of yesterday's work-- but they could easily lighten your workload in one way or another.

If you were hiring, you would also have to pick a job for each CES to do. A mismanaged pick could lead to disaster in the future!



Cup status: 6 free, 1 dirty (Into That Foggy Night), 1 occupied (Stax's Shaken Starred)
Meloncup status: 1 free
Plate status: 4 free
Mug status: 2 free

AbilitiesShow

Scavenger: Available (1/1 uses)
Gain a cup and plate every day, on command.

Intrusive: Enabled
Introduction cards show a bio for a given character.

Intuitive: Enabled
Introduction cards show somebody's ingredient preferences.

Phytochemist: Enabled (bright)
Create drinks/meals automatically (at half speed) during sunlit hours.

Collaborative: Enabled
Attach any length of Cabinet entry to an ingredient suggestion at will.

Perfectionist: Enabled
Gain a hint about quintessential ingredients for drinks/meals. Succeeding makes that quintessential ingredient limitless.

Time & OrdersShow

Time: 0704:000
Afternoon at: 724:00
Evening at: 748:00
Night at: 780:00

Mordicae might want a big pro meal.
Status: Nothing yet done.

Nadezhda wants to find SYLG.
Status: Drinkmaster Greene is fated to find SYLG.

The use of Perfectionist and some advice from a friend has allowed you to gain your first endless supply of an ingredient, listed in the Cabinet alongside all other newly-used substances.

You've also gained access to the Chronochart, which documents all events in the YWUNIVERSE that have been found thus far!

Author's NotesShow

Thanks for the patience, and thanks so much to Myeth for the art of this new patron, which has one of my favorite looks!

Don't forget to check out VEBBINQUEST for a side-story that I'm incredibly proud of, and has some relevance to modern YWUIAB.