dailybread: (smile for the camera)
Peeta Mellark ([personal profile] dailybread) wrote in [community profile] eswareinmal2012-08-22 07:01 pm

RD16, log + orb!

Characters: Peeta Mellark and you.
Open? Yes.
Where: Market quarter of Schwanheim, in a previously vacant storefront.
When: Early afternoon, RD 16
What: Peeta is opening a bakery and needs some taste-testers.
Warnings: None. Schmoopyness?

[Peeta's got flour in his hair, arms covered in dough, and a smile on his face. The crackling of a stove can be heard, if you listen closely; the locale itself is bright and sunny.]

Rue, you wanted cake, didn't you? And anyone else can come by, if you want. There's plenty to go around.



The castle dressmakers were...pushy. No worse than the stylists at the capital, but Faolan was right--they wouldn't give him pants. What he got wasn't so bad, though, if he rolled up the sleeves, although the shoes weren't very comfortable.

Buying a building with some of his gold (the amount of which was staggering; his jaw dropped when the treasurer had opened his vault in the castle) was easy. The shop was spacious, clean and well-lit with large windows to allow sun to spill in over the floor. The stove was nice, too; an old one, fed with wood. Peeta would have chopped the logs himself, but he hadn't been able to get his hands on an axe; the townspeople had insisted it was unbecoming of a princess to do manual labor.

So he'd bought some of those, too, along with three sacks of flour, raw cocoa, milk, butter, sugar, and a myriad of other ingredients he'd only read about. Currently in the oven was a batch of sweet buns--Katniss liked them; the smell called to mind her dark braid and bright, calculating eyes--and he was whisking together batter for a chocolate cake while he waited.


[[OOC: Just let me know in your subject line whether you're talking back to him on the orb or physically showing up. :3]]

consultmybooks: (Critically Distracted)

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2012-08-29 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
A couple of days continuous travel from here. Actually, um, less, by now.

In other words, um...well, we, we don't have very much time.
consultmybooks: (Blase)

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2012-09-02 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that is the question, isn't it? That's what we've all been brought together, to puzzle out.

A direct, if fairly brutal method - our own lives are on the line just as much as theirs', in the end.
consultmybooks: (Hold On)

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2012-09-02 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Given that things can, um, occasionally get downright mad around here, that might help more than you know.

If you can make any money off your bread, or your cakes, that would also be greatly appreciated. Myself and my friends are well off enough, but some of the new arrivals can't always find a job.
consultmybooks: (Hold On)

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2012-09-03 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't. Um, between the three of us, we make more than enough.

Others might. Um, especially if it keeps them from getting tangled up with the affairs of the townspeople.
consultmybooks: (The Moment of Truth)

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2012-09-04 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be sure and do that, then.

Thank you for your offer, um...sorry, I, I'm not actually sure I caught your name.

[Giles knows by now that he's bad at remembering such things. Introductions, in matters like this, seem to tend to fall on the "pleasure" side of "Business before pleasure."]
consultmybooks: (Interesting Ideas)

[personal profile] consultmybooks 2012-09-05 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[In a lot of ways, it doesn't. But it pays to have a name to yell to for help, if the situation arises.]

Rupert Giles. Just, um, just Giles is fine.

It's, it's nice to meet you, if I haven't mentioned already.