Book Haven, Wednesday, 11/19

[not_a_moonie]

Alana screwed up her face at the shop's latest shipment of cookbooks. She'd seen novelty-shaped cookbooks made to advertise branded products before -- one shaped like a jar of mayonnaise that held mayo-heavy recipes, or one shaped like a can of tuna where all the recipes relied on the fish. It struck her as a little gross, but whatever. But this box held a book shaped like a bloodbag ("101 Great Vampire Treats!"), one shaped like brains ("Official Zombie Cookbook") and one shaped like the outline of a human ("Soylent Green for Everyone").

She was going to shelf them quietly and hope it was a joke. The other cookbo0oks all seemed to be shifting to the far end of the shelves, as if to give the new display plenty of room.

[OOC: Open shop/post.]

Outside the Perk, Wednesday

[14andseven]

Roland prided himself on being an all-weather street musician, but even he had a bit of trouble on the first really cold days of the year. His favorite method of dealing with it involved a thermos full of hot coffee, which meant parking himself outside a good, reliable source of said beverage.

And if this occasionally led to people taking pity on him and buying him the hot coffee, well. So much the better.

And if his particularly wintery song selection helped encourage that, well. What good was bard magic if it didn't occasionally net you free coffee?

[ooc: Roland's music won't actually make you any colder, but it will cast an illusion of snow on the ground around the Perk, and maybe up another character's natural empathy a little, if'n you're down with such an effect. Open!]