mayfield_rpg | 7th Broken Illusion

[ Action : Neutron Diner : Late afternoon ]
[ Guess who's now on staff in the kitchen at the diner downtown?

If your answer was: "That boy who could probably start a grease fire by looking at the cooker the wrong way", you're halfway there!

It's not that Touma can't cook, or doesn't like to. He's had to do it while he lived on his own back home, and he does a fair bit of it around the house (when his "mother" lets him). No, he's pretty content (and by content I mean listless) as he works at filling orders and setting them up for others to take to the tables.

But things just happen around him. It's kind of like that clause in insurance policies that mention "act of God" or "force of nature". Except these kinds of acts of misfortune are not the sort he can do anything about, even if he does have his abilities back. ]

[ Right now the kitchen has been temporarily evacuated as the Mayfield Fire Department handles a bit of a mess in there and he is standing outside away from the drone crew, work uniform and apron on and looking just a bit scorched.

Looking at the building with despair, he sighs quietly to himself and hunches his shoulders. ] This is just my luck...

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[ Phone : Drone Filter : Evening ]
Anyone ever switch jobs? I literally woke up with one, and I'm not cut out for it at all.

((OOC: Open to action at the diner or 840 Hastings if you want to talk to Touma. If your character is part of the fire department, feel free to involve them more directly in the first scene!))

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I suppose the town just stores information like that. Perhaps children are expected to get jobs at a certain age?

...yeah, that's about what he said, too.

What sort of work were you assigned?

[She knows that teenagers, in any country, are usually not expected to do office work. Therefore, she expects it to be some sort of odd job.]

I'm now one of the cooks at a diner downtown, part-time.

I...hope you did not cause too bad of a disaster.

[He did say that he was "not cut out" for the job.]

...is the news all over town already or something?

Did you burn something?

[In her first attempt at using an electrical stove, she had accidentally blown up the stove, which in turn destroyed the building she had been staying in. Something very similar happened when she attempted to use a microwave for the first time.]

[ Not that much news, apparently. He sighed. ] One of the fryers started smoking really badly after I switched it on.

That does not seem to be too bad. I am sure that you will be able to cook better after some practice.

[It had taken years, but she had eventually learned not to blow up the stove or microwave.]

I wouldn't really call it "cooking", but yeah, I guess I'll have to if they want me to not be a walking fire hazard.

Good luck on that then.

[Hopefully, he will learn faster than she did.]

Luck. Heh. [ That always gets him. ] We'll see about that.

Perhaps you should also ask your fellow workers or even the drone. They might be able to instruct you in the correct way of using the fryer.

Nn. Maybe next shift. I didn't get to do much while they cleaned up after the incident. I didn't see anyone besides the drones in the kitchen today.

Did you go home after that?

[She wonders how long one has to work for the town to consider it "work."]

Yeah, and made this call.

I see...How long was the cleanup?

Couple of hours.

I've only got this part-time since I have school. [ Whether or not he goes every day is another matter. ]

So you were still at work for the required amount of time? Did you only sit and watch the cleanup, or did you do some other type of work?

Once the fire crews cleared the kitchen I helped with the mess. It was only fair.

Then, if you are at your workplace and not sitting around, the town will count you as "working?"

Looks like it. Guess I'll find out if they call to warn me about missing days or not.

Hopefully, they will. However, given the nature of this town, it might just choose to drone you instead.

....I didn't think about that. Damn. [ Another sigh. ] Guess I'll go tomorrow just in case.

It seems that in this town, it is always to err on the side of caution.

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