"I'm Vanilla." The shopkeeper said, watching as the woman's small team began to get to work on the creation of her order. Sure, it was a little bit of an arsehole move to just go about and forgo giving a precise order, but she wasn't exactly the most picky right now. The woman's eyes went all across the counter before ending up back on Dee Dee's word bubble as she explained why she spoke this way. Well, spoke used liberally, anyway. "Interesting little thing, isn't it? So are you unable to talk or is it selective mutism?" she asked, maybe a bit pointed and invading of her privacy.

Either way, she listened to her explanation on why she offered this little side hustle. It did make sense, considering most people around here likely were a bit frazzled at coming back into reality and finding themselves in a mixture between some developer's mixture of a roleplaying game and some kind of murder mystery. So having a bite to eat while out and about was good for the mind, no doubt. But the prices were low in order to draw people in for her own reasons, that being a guidebook. "Beginner's Guide?" Vanilla repeated, looking to Kramer as the dragon handed her a copy of what she was talking about. It was informative, with enough information that she suspected Dee Dee of being the mastermind behind it all. She flipped through the pages at the information presented. It was a bit of smack in the face with a wall of text in some area, but Vanilla could see how some would find it useful.

"You have got a penchant for guidemaking, I can tell." she smirked to Dee Dee. "It's a noble endeavor to help the beginning players who have just loaded in. I'm sure there are numerous people that could be helped with this guide of yours." She said, handing the guide back to Kramer once he was done cooking. The plate presented to her had been come together with a large burger. Vanilla watched it be prepared. How very...American. "Are you sure? I wouldn't mind paying for it. I'm not exactly a fresh new person around, even if I'm not equipped as everyone else." Vanilla offered. She didn't want to just walk away with a free meal, even if it was made on a little hand crafted wooden plate. Her eyes glided across the designs of those creatures that she had working for her. Cute, but somewhat creepy in its own way.

Vanilla took a bite of the burger, the sound of roasted tomato crunching in her mouth. The burger was pretty good, enough to fill the contents of her hungry stomach. She took two more large bites before wiping her mouth and looking back to Dee Dee and her pals. "This is delicious! No wonder why new people find their way to you, if your food is this good."

deedee

"Hm." Vanilla looked at the word bubble that popped up, reading almost like some sort of strange little comic book character. It was a little adjustment period of having to read this pop out beside the cart owner, but nothing to unmanageable. "That's an interesting way of communication you have."

Her previous question regarding a meal was greeted with a joyful nod as the woman's companions and such would slowly unfold the entire cart before her very eyes. It was a pretty interesting sight to behold, as Vanilla watched the entire ordeal until the cart had more or less become a miniature kitchen in the middle of the street. "Oh my." Vanilla said, leaning forward to watch as the smaller girl would begin plugging in her sign was an eager look on her face. "You've certainly got more of a business plan going on than I have right now. But I suppose that cooks are in higher demand than my little branch of industry." She laughed to herself and smiled brightly once the staff were nice and ready to settle in and get to work.

She introduced Vanilla to her three companions, each as varied and animated as the last. Kramer and Jimmy were pretty easy to identify exactly what they were, but when it came to the third member of the trio, Vanilla was a little bit more clueless. BombDee was...something. It looked like an oversized ball of dough with a dash of color and decorations to make it appear human. Still, in this new world of Earth-chan, she wasn't exactly surprised that their existence here was treated as normal.

"It's wonderful to meet you, DeeDee." Vanilla said, nodding to the woman. "I'll take whatever you think is good, really. Maybe a salad, or some kind of dish you think you can make with the materials you have on you." It really didn't matter to Vanilla. She was hungry enough where being picky wasn't much of an issue, although that was just because she sometimes forgot to eat. "How are you finding Paris since it reopened? Enjoying the sights?"

deedee

"Ah, Paris." Vanilla said as she walked through the bumbling city. It had been a while since she had really been wandering about here. It was where she kind of ended up when first wandering about, deciding to step into the realm of business ownership. Things had been fairly busy here, which meant that people were slowly starting to load back into the world and do what they usually did best. "Hopefully things stay this peaceful." The small woman trudged through the streets while looking all about. It was a pretty nice day on walking around with not really any sort of objective to do. So the woman would walk about, look at the Eiffel Tower, maybe go for a walk in the park.

It was there that Vanilla found herself sitting at a table outside of a restaurant, remaining busy sipping from her glass of wine while the woman would be scrolling through her phone and looking at her status screen. There were a lot of empty spaces compared to everyone else, and she'd have to see about changing that eventually. Her home screen would still show the message box as she began to go through old messages of Vanessa's, quietly hoping that she'd be out there in the world.

deedee

Another day of living in Unison Central. Vanilla had been getting used to the life of a shopkeeper, spending a majority of the day just helping get others what they wanted and more. It was simple, and what was better than life being simple? Still, the woman did have to admit that the exciting times before settling down had been a bit more exciting, looking back on them. The fear of the unknown was a great driving force, and it became fairly obvious that she had much preferred something other than the monotony of life after Earth chan had taken everyone. So be it that she closed the shop for lunch and decided to take a walk down the road with her head in the clouds. She huffed, lost in her own thoughts while turning the corner as her feet continued on. She worried about Vanessa, having wondered if she had loaded in whenever. Would they ever meet again, or were they fated t be torn apart like the star crossed lovers like they were. Although Vanilla wasn't entirely set on accepting that she would be missing forever, there was still some hope that-

WHAM!

She ran face first into somebody, being pushed off as the woman fell down onto the ground, stunned from the impact. a stranger's voice rang out and helped the small woman back up to her two feet, where she would shake her head while trying to brush off her little slip up. "Sorry!" she said in an accent that was asking the man for a spot of tea with their fish and chips from being so British. "I wasn't paying attention. Just...My mind in the gutters...Heh." She laughed anxiously, looking up at the man towering above her as the woman cleared her throat and gazed around at the streets around them.

"It's a bit of a strange world to be hawking ice cream in. I remember that happening back before this game started, but now? It makes me feel a bit more at home." Vanilla smiled, fumbling with the oversized red glasses that had slid down her nose. She pushed them back up before extending her hand to the man. "But if you did want to make it up, maybe we'll call it even with some ice cream?"

Mikael

Vanilla smiled up at Tali as he thanked her for the additional help, offering the man an affirmative nod while Rory's work would reverse the debuff that had been applied to her, causing a nice little boost in her ability. Still, she wasn't too much help on the count of this weapon. But she could have some kind of effect on people. "At your side, Tali." She said, drawing her Frilly Princess Glaive and being ready to go. The party would get ready as she'd stay behind others and follow up on their attacks. Dantalion would summon forth another weapon from his arsenal and unleashed hell. He'd whip out at the crab person as Vanilla would cast a nice little poke to its side as it fell back into the water. She was helping!

But then she'd spy over at Noelle that was currently being overpowered by one of the sea creatures, struggling to keep it at bay. "Hang on, I'm coming!" she said, racing towards the young adult while dodging under the stray attacks and such her way while bounding for the crab person. Once closer enough, Vanilla rammed into the enemy shoulder first, toppling it straight over and into the waters below. Releasing its grip on Noelle, the tiny woman offered a helpful hand up, trying to coax her a tad from her slip. "Are you alright? I think after that and..." Another enemy dispatched by Dantalion sounded off behind them. "That should be every one of them."

Noelle
Rory Perkins
dantalion

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