You Wake Up In A Bar

Time to start finishing this mega-dish up. You start to search through your repository for last touches, including some particulate which seems to vibrate and a few slings of thornvine, which... is going to take some doing to properly attach to the clamshell of plates.

It is also time to drop a bit of bad news.













Stax gives you a rather genuine-looking grin. But you're still just a little lost.




Suddenly, the air in the room shifts a little-- the starman's grin fades, and he replaces it with a bit of a dumbfounded glare.






Well, seems that wasn't the right question to be asking. You decide to brush it off, just as you're brushing on some last-minute Hollandaise.








This strikes you as vaguely familiar.








More mentions of that... unapproachable topic. It doesn't sit too well with you, or you.






The aroma of the finished dish is certainly wafting throughout the bar-- much to the silent disdain of Depricae, though it seems to have really amped up Mordicae. She jitters a bit, and although she wasn't really sitting before, she certainly isn't now.








Stax hops in from the side, holding his hips with pride.






The wait has been long enough, indeed.

Mordicae coils around, darting from right and left, getting a very good look at the dish before she begins to dig in at all. She even gives your drink a good stir with the screwdriver, and you can tell the entire meal is extremely salivating.

Depricae is... not salivating.






However, it seems she's not quite ready to comment, taking the occasional chomp and nibble in what seems like a random order.









Stax leans up a bit against the counter, letting out a hydrogen sigh.




He's probably fair in not liking her, much, even if he's not completely aware why.




Just as the starman is about to formulate a retort, the bar doors swing open, allowing the two intergalactic couriers from the day before to finally return!

Nadezhda immediately steps to the counter, taking a seat and letting out a deep sigh, her chitin settling. Voronezh follows after, and it's clear that the both of them are on dangerously low amounts of proper sleep.






You, on the other hand, are feeling ecstatic about this! These are the only patrons who have just returned again and again, and more than anything you're excited to help them out.




Nadezhda begins fumbling with her bag and retrieves something... squirming.




She hands it to you, wiping off the slightly dirty front screen. It looks like this really is a living PDA.

You fumble with it for a second, finally finding that a boop on the bug's snoot causes the screen to flick on, allowing you to... input, seemingly.

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Hello user 'GREENE'.

Please create a user account for this Personal Data Assistant. This is permanent and must be Retrieved if user swaps devices.

DESIRED PHENOMONIKER & DIGITS
[]
DESIRED PASSPHRASE (minimum 85 phonemes)
[]
CURRENT LOCALE
[]
DESIRED PERCEPTIBLE FORM (precisely 100x100 cells)
[]

User 'GREENE', you will also be required to configure your Adaptive PDA AI with a series of optional parameters. If the given parameters are not satisfactory, an unlimited number may be added for tweaking.

PDA TITLE
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PDA PERSONALITY-BIT
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DESIRED THEME (GENERAL) (selections auto-generated by Adaptive Tech)
[A sequence of images for themes.]
DESIRED THEME (STARNET) (selections auto-generated by Adaptive Tech)
[A sequence of images for themes.]
PDA FAVORITE COLOR (tvartospectrums now supported)
[]
[Add parameter...]

Hm. Looks like you've got a plethora of options here, in addition to having a few orders to fulfill.



Cup status: 5 free, 2 dirty (Into That Foggy Night, Shaken Starred), 1 occupied (Mordicae's Kingfisher Wakemaker)
Meloncup status: 1 free
Plate status: 2 free, 2 occupied (Mordicae's Kingfisher Wakemaker)
Mug status: 2 free

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Abilities



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.

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Time & Orders
Time: 0708:000
Afternoon at: 724:00
Evening at: 748:00
Night at: 780:00

Depricae wants an ease-v salvo.
Status: Nothing yet done.

Nadezhda wants a choco-bug tall glass of coffee with some more of your antiblood.
Status: Nothing yet done.

Voronezh wants something like the tea from last time.
Status: Nothing yet done.

Mordicae wants to do what she's good at.
Status: No leads yet.

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

Your exceptional work on the Kingfisher Wakemaker has earned you ten new entries for ten new ingredients in the Cabinet!

In addition, if you're a newer reader of YWUIAB, it couldn't hurt to check the Lineup for full portraits of both Nadezhda and Voronezh.

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Author's Notes
Alright, this is the last update I can work on for about a week, so feel free to take your time on suggestions and check out a sibling adventure, The Years Did Not Treat Our Universe Kindly. Find more information about Muffy, MUFFINQUEST, and life on an internet forum in 2009, right there.

Image suggestions are now permitted as part of making Greene's Starnet profile picture. Either several will be combined, or you can vote to use one submission in particular. Consensus is important!

Lastly, I could probably use some suggestions for music! I'm (as you can probably tell) not always sure what to put up there, so some jazz or similar to befit the Starwood Bough would be great.