[A few minutes after the AI notification]

[have_hat_will_travel]

[Text]

Good evening, fellow Transports.

Near the residence domes, anyone who reads this post unless I forgot someone will see a shimmering section of wall. That's the entrance to a kind of... Well I guess you'd call it a speakeasy I've assembled using a magic item I have.

I'm not really open yet, but I'll let people in so that they can be in an area with actual lights during the outage. Just don't try to sneak into the back rooms or anything.

That said, the real purpose here is more of a Help Wanted situation. I need wait staff, barkeeps, and a cleaner or two. Inquire within, of course - the goal's to create a small place of at least a little happiness for ourselves, so... Well, yeah.

Those I've already talked to, if you could please drop by as well, that'd be nice. There's a few more plans to consider, I think.

[Action]

[And the shimmering gate is, indeed, open.

The room within is rather minimalistic, at least for now. The bar and tables look nice, at least, and there's a goodly amount of seating around. Across from the entrance and coat check (currently unstaffed), there's a bar, a Succubus wearing her usual outfit, and a sign saying "HELP WANTED!"

You could kibitz with Pidonus... Or ignore her and go talk with someone else who's chosen a bright room over a building stuck on just life support.]

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[pactfulfilled]

this might be a stupid question, but what's a 'speak easy'? some kind of restaurant?

[have_hat_will_travel]

It's an old term for an illegal bar.

I'm probably exaggerating by using the term, but it's not something planned by or approved by the Initiative at the least.

... I wish I could do food service. If I had enough extra magical resources to turn that part of things back on, then we wouldn't need to worry about food as much. Which would be nice.

[pactfulfilled]

you don't think they'd approve it? i'm sure the initiative members would rather eat something besides all these gross, dried out food bars, too.

um.

so what would it take for you to 'turn that part of things back on' exactly? is it ingredients you need or something else?

[have_hat_will_travel]

I figure they'd try to keep us on a much tighter leash...

As for that? The conjuration magics would require I be able to increase the magical power put into it by... Two levels. Given it's already epic magic, we're talking a lot of money put into spell components.

Never mind how I shouldn't be able to get those while we're on the moon.

[pactfulfilled]

[What does any of that even mean.]

well, we are kind of low on resources right now...

so what you need is funding. and to get to somewhere that sells these uh 'components'?

[have_hat_will_travel]

More specifically, funding, and a city large enough that I can find the components even though they logically shouldn't exist on this world.

It's weird, don't think about it too much.

[pactfulfilled]

[How's she going to find them if they shouldn't exist? ...Is what he's wondering, but maybe he should take her advice. Her advice not to think. That doesn't sound right either.]

right...

a way to make money quickly, then.

[have_hat_will_travel]

[Don't think too hard about certain details, more like. But she digresses.]

Yeah. I'm going to work on that at some point here.

For now, though, my focus is trying to bring a little bit of happiness to this place.

[pactfulfilled]

happiness, huh?

[Well, they could definitely use more of that around here.]

is there anything i can do to help? i mean, i've never waited on anyone before, but i suppose i could help you clean the place up...

[have_hat_will_travel]

Well... A wait staff will be good once the place is working, as will a couple people to bus tables and such.

Don't worry about it too much, though. Confident people are a little more important right now. If this goes bad early on...

[pactfulfilled]

uh, right...

if it goes bad early on, it'll be more difficult to turn things around and make the establishment successful. i get it.

don't worry. i won't bring it up in front of the initiative members.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Thanks. Not that I care if they find out. They can't do much to stop it.