The Perk- Sunday

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Kurt had been up early that morning because he had gotten a video call from the team back home. Well, more specifically, a call from The Professor and Storm to check in on him that was inevitably crashed by Logan and Scott, and a quick passing wave from Beast.

It had been good to see and talk to some of the team. It had been a long time. But... it also left him feeling a little homesick too, which was something he had not expected and wasn't quite sure how to deal with. After the call ended, Kurt headed out for a walk and ended up at the Perk.

So, Kurt was standing there at the counter, talking to the baristas for a bit as he tried to decide what he was in the mood for. Sweet and sugary of course but beyond that... Maybe there really was such a thing as too many choices!!

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Today probably would have been a much better day for flyers, really, but Graham had haphazardly posted most of them already, leaving just a few stragglers to find places for today, and then Triumph decided he wanted coffee and a cookie. And since they'd been working hard and moving around a lot, Graham agreed that this sounded like a good idea. Reminding Triumph to stay outside since the Perk definitely seemed one of the places that gave them looks when he came traipsing in with a giant capybara in tow, he went in to order their drinks and a number of cookies that seemed to significantly increase the longer he took. And once he had two coffees and enough cookies to feed a small army (technically, a knight and his steed was a very small army!), he turned to leave but not without getting distracted first.

"Kurt! Hey!" Graham discovered in that moment it was hard to wave when double-fisting coffees and a bag of cookies, but he didn't let that stop him from trying! "How's it going?"

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Kurt had seen Graham come in as he had finally made him choice and gotten his drink. Admittedly though he got distracted a bit himself watching Triumph through the window she he turned back with a grin when he heard Graham say his name.

"Hey, Graham! It's going" he said before giving a small nod. "And you?" he said noting the drinks and bag.

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That was fair. Triumph was very distracting, snuffing around at the street looking for something to nibble on during his long and terrible wait for cookies, occasionally lifting his head with an intrigued little squeak and a perk of his ears as he thought he'd heard something interesting. He went right back to it, though, when he realized it was just a squirrel.

"Not too shabby!" Graham was clearly pleased to report, then lifted up his current coffee shop gains. "Picking up a well-deserved treat for a successful flyer-ing weekend!"

His bar for success was very low.

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Productivity always deserve a reward!

"Ah yes, the flyers. Saw a few of them around yesterday" Kurt said. "The game night at the Magpie Emporium. Friday's wasn't it?"

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"That's right!" Graham confirmed, straightening his shoulders and looking absolutely elated to hear that someone had seen them! And, by the sounds of it, not even one of probably several copies he'd given Guillermo! "Friday nights! I figured that would work out well since I'll already be there for work!"

Then he gave Kurt a speculative sort of look, especially considering that Guillermo had mentioned he might be, before asking, "Think you might be interested? I'll already got Guillermo on board! He's going to be playing....a vahhhmpiiire."

Yes, he had to say it like that.

Yes, he had to lift up his hands and droop them under hunched shoulders and bare his teeth like an old movie monster to emphasize the point, too.

With the requisite "Bleh!" of course.

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Kurt couldn't help but grin and give a small chuckle at that. But then he nodded, definitely interested in that proposition, as the look on his face revealed.

"I'd love to be a part! I... would it be ok if I took my character from class and tweaked that a bit for our game? I don't know what creatures you had planned to include. I usually play wolfen or similar when I do get to play games like this." He looked at Graham and added. "But of course I can play with whatever characters you want to include!"

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"I plan on including....whatever anyone wants!" Graham revealed with a chuckle of his own. "I'm definitely fudging a few things for Guillermo's character already, I don't see why I wouldn't do the same for yours! Really, at this point, I'm mostly just using the books as....guidelines, rather than rules. I'm....pretty sure Miss Steph won't kick us out for something like that!"

She might! But if she did, Graham felt that kind of expulsion would be like a badge of honor. And then they could go underground with their ill-gotten homebrew, go rogue like the shameless and unbridled deviants they truly were!

"A vampire and a wolven character? Sounds like a perfect pair!"

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"We can always say we are following the inspiration from her class too!" Kurt added with a grin. He really was getting excited about the idea of this becoming a regular thing!

"What do you need me to do to get ready in the meantime? Anything we need to be brining or have with us? Other than ourselves, obviously" he said with a laugh.

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"Yourself and your imagination and a thirst. For. -Adventuuure~!!"

Of course that required a big, dramatic sweep of his arms, though not as big and dramatic as it would have been if he didn't have to be mindful of the coffees and cookies in his hand. But he gave a bright, proud grin at what he felt was just a mere preview of the sort of dramatics that were in store ahead for the game.

"But anything else we need need should be at the store already," he added. "Oh! Except snacks. I heard somewhere that snacks are very important. Especially almonds."

Wow, Graham, careful not to hurt yourself on that deep ass cut there...

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"I can definitely bring the snacks! Would give me a good reason to try out some recipes I've been eyeing and also let's me do some of my favorites too!" Kurt said excitedly. "Game night was something we used to do back home. Nothing as fancy as all this of course, but we always had tasty homemade snacks to enjoy while playing cards or whatever game it was that night!"

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"Guillermo's probably going to make snacks, too!" Graham noted, with the eager hunger in his eyes and a small pat of his stomach of someone who might be getting pretty used to the idea having tasty treats close at hand. "He's been on a real baking kick, it seems! Between the two of you, maybe we'll be so into the snacks that we forget entirely to play!"

Graham could definitely get that distracted by snacks, it was true.

"What sort of things do you like to make, Kurt?"

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"Oh Guillermo is an amazing cook! I don't think I have tried one thing he has made that I haven't loved!" Kurt said enthusiastically. And then his eyes got wider and his grin bigger, if that was even possible, when Graham asked him about cooking.

"I make a lot of German dishes since that is where I am from and what I learned to cook. "I like to make a lot of different dishes. There's klopse, which are a type of meatball, maultaschen raviolis, bratwurst and currywurst sausages, all different kinds of kebabs, schnitzel which is breaded and fried meat steaks, spätzle noodles, reibekuchen which is fried potatoes, and of course breads and sweet rolls among other desserts!"

Were you sorry you asked Graham? This was just off the top of his head!

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Sorry? The only thing an answer like that was going to make Graham was hungry.

"Zoooooooouuunnnds," he said, a bit wide-eyed himself because that was an impressive list, even for him! And he'd been nodding along eagerly, increasingly more thrilled with each passing dish. "You're making me wish I got way more to eat than just cookies! And here all I can make, really, is choco-chip pancakes!"

He made one heckuva choco-chip pancakes, though!

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Choco Chip Anything was divine in Kurt's book so Graham was well on his way!

"We can have request sheets at the game nights. Im sure between you, me, Guillermo, and whoever else might join in we can cover all the food basis easily!"

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"We could all take turns!" Graham proposed. "On a rotating schedule! Ooh! Or based on something that happens in game. Or the flip of a coin! The roll of a dice! Do we get Mexican next week? Or...German?" Said with a question, because he wasn't sure he was remembering that right. "Or pancakes and jellybeans!"

Because those were pretty much the specialties Graham would be bringing to the table.

"Or some other thing, if someone else joins. But, hey, speaking of which, you think you know anyone else who might be interested? Guillermo mentioned maybe you--and he was right!--and possibly Libby? I should definitely ask Gray, my roommate. He can probably provide waffles!"

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"All the best food groups if you ask me!" Kurt said with a wink. "And I can definitely talk to Libby next time I see her and ask if she would like to join us!"

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"And I'll definitely see her before Friday," Graham noted. "We have a few classes together! So between you, me, and Guillermo all asking, there's no way she'll say no!"

No, Graham...no. That's....not how that worked.

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"Eh, it will at least give her lots of chances to get excited about it" Kurt offered, trying to be a little more... delicate... about it. "Hope she does want to play along with us though. As nice as just the boys would be, Libby would be a lot of fun to have around too!"

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What do you mean, not everyone would appreciate being just hounded with enthusiasm and good-natured excitement at rapid-fire speed??

"You know," Graham admitted, "I never thought about it like that! But I grew up with all sisters, so it would be like that, but reverse! She'd be the odd wo-man out! Unless any other girls are interested...

"Do you think any other girls would be interested?"

It did seem like a more-the-merrier type of situation, but he was new to all this, he wouldn't want it to get too overwhelming!

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"Maybe keep the group small at first. See how things go. We can always add more people if anyone else wants to join in because we are just having so much fun!" Kurt pointed out with a nod. "Might be the best way to make sure it all goes well and no one gets too overwhelmed, for one reason or another."

Course, Kurt had only ever done this sort of thing with small groups of like four or five anyways. So it was kinda how he was used to doing things mostly.