CH.79 Morning Sweets
<span style="font-weight:400">“So, where do you want to go next?” I asked Alice. “Oh, and if you want me to hold onto that staff for you, just ask.” I offered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I want something sweet.” Alice told me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sweet? Like food? I don’t know where we would get any. It’s still a little early for lunch, so how about we wait a little longer for that. I think the Boar’s lounge might have sweets, but if we are going there for lunch, going there just for sweets might get awkward.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t any of the stalls sell sweets?” She asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I don’t think so.” I told her. “But then again, I really didn’t check them that closely yesterday.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Did you buy something from a stall yesterday?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, I bought a couple of burritos from one stall to act as my lunch.” I told her. “But I only saw stalls selling food, not sweets.” I added. “But we can go check it out.”
<span style="font-weight:400">There were stalls selling different forms of skewers and then the burrito one, but none for sweets or something like that. And I’m not sure if there is a cafe in town. Actually, does coffee even exist here? I would assume nobles would have it if it did exist, but perhaps it''s just not popr in this area. Or it’s too expensive for a baron’s house. Could I just add coffee to my dungeons'' generatable items list with just my thoughts? Probably not, right. I mean everything else I had in some form when the dungeon learned to make it. The different fabrics that make my clothes. My cards are cardboard. And Prime Rib brought in some magic bags. Perhaps if I analyzed some seeds and then tried to convert them into coffee beans. Perhaps if I got the right card for it. Thankfully I’m not actually that big of a fan of coffee, so it can wait.
<span style="font-weight:400">With that, I lead us towards the main square.
<span style="font-weight:400">—
<span style="font-weight:400">“What about that?” Alice asked as she pointed at a store.
<span style="font-weight:400">We were not at the main square yet. We were just a few steps from it, when Alice noticed a building that had a store on the street level. It had a sign that read Rudevik’s cookies. A cookie store?
<span style="font-weight:400">“I guess we can go check it out.” I told Alice. “I guess cookies count as sweets.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Of course they do!” Alice insisted. “Come on.” She dragged me into the store.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wee.” Ady in her early thirties weed us to the store. She was wearing a full apron on top of some lighter clothing and had her hair tied up in a bun.
<span style="font-weight:400">The store itself was small, having only four tables. Two two seaters and two four seaters. And the service counter, where thedy was standing behind. Is ss really cheap enough that they can have a ss front to the counter? Sure it’s just a normal straight pane of ss, but I always thought that decently clear ss like this would be expensive. I guess some of the stores do have ss windows that have a ss pane wayrger than this one. It might actually be affordable but difficult to transport. I guess it’s possible that ss panes are a dungeon made item. Or perhaps they make it with magic. If they can make gemstones with magic, making ss wouldn’t be so far-fetched. I should ask Christina about it. She knows earth magic.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are you here to buy something or ce an order?” The woman asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We want to eat some now.” Alice answered with her eyes glued to the cookies.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And what would you like?” She asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We are here for the first time.” I told her. “Do you have something like a rmended set of different cookies?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, I can do that. Will you be eating here or taking them with you?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think we will eat here.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And would you like some tea with it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, please.” I answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And how many cookies would you like?”
<span style="font-weight:400">I looked at the cookies. They were decently sized so I don’t think we would need that many, but we could take the leftovers with us, I assume.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We''ll take eight for now.” I told her. I think four for each of us is already too many, but let’s just go with that. I can just get more if we want more.
<span style="font-weight:400">“As you wish. Eight cookies with two teasrge silver and one copper.” She told me.
<span style="font-weight:400">I went through my wallet pouch quickly and got out arge and small silver coin. I still don’t have any copper coins, but I guess we will get some as change now. I handed the coins over to thedy.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thank you.” She said as I paid. “Here is your change. Please take a seat. I’ll bring over the tea and cookies in just a moment.”
<span style="font-weight:400">My change was four copper coins. So I think that means that a small silver (or just silver) coin is five copper coins. And arge silver is 5 silver. Is gold also 5rge silver and so on?
<span style="font-weight:400">(No, it is not, Master. A gold coin is fourrge silver coins.) Laura told me.
<span style="font-weight:400">I see. And that would make a gold coin worth 100 copper.
<span style="font-weight:400">I took a seat with Alice at one of the two-seater tables and just a bitter, a tray with our cookies, a teapot and two cups were brought to us. She then poured some tea into our cups.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Please enjoy.” Thedy said before returning behind the counter.
<span style="font-weight:400">The tray had the eight cookies I ordered. As I thought beforehand, they were decently sized. A lotrger than your regr convenience store cookies and a lot more like the ones your mom makes at home. Well I guess that would depend on your mom.
<span style="font-weight:400">I looked at the cookies trying to identify them. I know those two are chocte cookies. At least I think so. That one has some berries and that one some fruit, or something.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alice, what do you want to start with?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think I’ll go with this one.” She picked up one of the cookies with berries in it. “What about you?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“How about we just split them in half? That way we can experience all the different cookies.” I offered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes.” Alice agreed. “Let’s do it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure. Can you hand it over. I’ll split it.” I said to Alice.
<span style="font-weight:400">She handed the cookie to me and I folded it in half to split it. It felt slightly warm in my hand so it was likely made this morning. Fresh cookies and tea. What could be better? I guess cake and hot chocte. But then again, it depends on who you ask.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Here.” I handed Alice her half.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thank you.” Alice said as she received it.
<span style="font-weight:400">We both bit into our halves at the same time.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mmm.” Alice let out a sound of enjoyment. “This is so good. It’s better than we have at the manor.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It might just be.” I agreed. “I might have to try them side by side to really know.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. This is better.” She insisted. “I know. I''ve had cookies made by Steven for my entire life, and these are better.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll just take your word for it.” I agreed with Alice. I don’t have enough experience with them to say it 100%.
<span style="font-weight:400">—
<span style="font-weight:400">We enjoyed some more cookies, but didn’t finish them all. Out of the eight cookies I bought, we ate five. A chocte, fruit, nut and just a in cookie. They were all good. The chocte one wasn’t chocte chip, but just one with cacao powder or something simr in it.
<span style="font-weight:400">I used the dungeon founder terminal to make a small cardboard box for thest three, before shoving them into my fanny pack. What do you mean you didn’t know I can use it to generate items outside of the dungeon. Of course I can. But they do cost double outside, so… Well, it doesn’t matter with how cheap a cardboard box is.
<span style="font-weight:400">Thedy running the store was interested in the cardboard box I made and asked about it, but I just told that they mighte to the market soon and that mine was a test product.
<span style="font-weight:400">With that, we left the store and turned towards the main square again.