IC Contact

[namiwasheretoo]

For those contacting Nami's NetVice:
[There is the sound of a Piano playing behind her on a radio, coming from the restaurant.]

This is Nami. I'm not around so leave me a comment and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

If you are calling because of Merlotte's, about shifts, call offs or other business please make that clear in your message.

If this is about hours of operation, questions, concerns or employment at Brooke's Restaurant please press 2 and you will be redirected to the business line.

[Beeeeeeeeeeep]

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Brooke's Business Line
[IF you came here from Nami's line by pressing two, you will have a 5 second wait and a transfer to another line. If you called Brooke's Restaurant Business line directly, after two rings the line will pick up. The same girls voice answers]

Greetings and Welcome to Brooke's, Casual Dining Restaurant. We are an open and friendly place located in Sector Three at the corner of Helbook and Sun Rider Streets. Originally Brooke's Musical Emporium the store has been rebuilt into a musical restaurant in his honor. Brooke's is a neutral and friendly dining experience, open 7 days a week, breakfast on weekends.

Press 1 for hours of operation.
Press two for catering needs.
Press three for employment reasons.
Press four if you are interested in selling your chemical free produce and goods to Brooke's.
Press five for all other concerns.
Press six for Brooke's Musical Emporium needs.
Press seven for Pop's Dairy Farm needs.
Press zero to repeat this list.

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Press 1: Our hours of operation are Monday through Thursday at 11am to 11pm. Friday, Saturday and Sunday 7am to midnight. Lunch is served from 11am till 3pm. Dinner from 3pm to closing. Weekend breakfast served from 7am to 11am.

Press 2: Our Catering business is booming! Come and look over a large menu to set up for your party, business meeting, weddings, and what ever else you might need catering at. Our prices are fair, or food is superb and our wait staff is well groomed and behaved. Let me know what your needs are and we will work with you to make your event perfect.

Press 3: Are you looking for a friendly neutral place to work? Brooke's Restaurant was started in 2010 by the Strawhat Pirates, a group of good hearted friendly pirates from the outer seas. We are looking for cheerful, hard working employees willing to take all shifts. Cooks, Wait staff, bakers, dish washers. Come down to Brooke's or leave a message for Nami here. Newcomer Friendly. Not Affiliated.

Press 4: Here at Brooke's we use only the freshest and finest produce made purely from 100% none chemical treated, non DNA enhanced products. We are always looking for a new farm, market, or producer to buy from. If you are interested in selling your goods to Brooke's Please leave a detailed message here and a manager will get back to you as soon as possible.

Press 5: If you have complaints, comments, concerns, other business or just questions, please leave a message here.

Press 6: Brooke's Musical Emporium is back in business! Brooke returned to port long enough to start a second business right next door to the restaurant. At Brooke's you can find music, instruments, and lessons all in one convenient location. Brows our displays of classical to modern instruments. Paw through records, tapes, CDs, mini discs and media libraries, all at reasonable prices. Sign up for lessons - if we don't have an instructor for the instrument you are looking for we will personally find you one!

Press 7: Pop's Dairy Farm is a small orange colored barn in the 7th sector holding over 30 young and very happy Dairy cows. Formerly owned by the Whitebeard Pirates, these cows have been rescued, raised and cared for by Whitebeard himself. These cows are chemical free and treated to only the best, producing the best milk in Port. It's just a small farm but all contracts for Dairy are handled by me until further notice.

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OOC:

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[Old Phone Messages found here:]

First

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[Apparently Nami did not pick up and you have been taken to an answering service. This is a prerecorded message to Nami's voice mail *click*]

I'm not answering right now for some reason or-- [there is a crash behind her somewhere] KNOCK IT OFF! GUYS! I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR THAT!

...

Hnnn... I'm not answering right now for some reason or another. Perhaps I am-- [And now two guys are yelling back and forth fighting over what sounds like a leg of meat] Really?! It's not the last piece of meat in the house! If you don't knock it off I'll knock you off! I'm trying to make a recording here!

...

Now... hnn, where was I? Ah, right. I'm not answering the-- [A small boom of something in the kitchen exploding, and a cook having a fit at someone else in the kitchen.] Ooooooo, this is the last time I let you reprobates into my place!

Arg! Look! I'm about to kill some pirates. Leave me a damn message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

[There is a long *Beeeeeeeep* at the end of that rushed statement. Please leave a voice message here. or an option for text will come up a moment later.]

[Action] Backdated to mid-February

[getslost.livejournal.com]

[It's entirely intentional when Zoro approaches Nami on this evening. He had patiently abided his time by curling weights at the far end of the room until there was no one but the two of them remaining in this part of Brooke's. As soon as the last person is out, the weights are set down and the swordsman is on his feet and closing the distance to the other pirate. His expression had been extremely flat while he waited and it still is. An extra cold edge in his features indicates that whatever is on his mind is a serious matter.

Zoro pauses when he's only a few feet away. In a swift motion, his hand is raised into the air with a black cloth hanging from either side of his fist. It's the extra bandana he found with the note from Sanji, if she can recognize it for that.]

Explain this to me.

[His steady voice isn't as demanding as the words ought to sound, but he is nonetheless looking to get straight to the point.]

[Action]

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[She was tired. She was worn out. She was grateful as all hell to have Vivi helping so much with the restaurant. As the last person left, she was closing out a till and looking over the cash, only to pause as Zoro approached.]

[No preamble, just a demand of explanation. He looked serious, though she couldn't give him any answer other then:]

It's a cloth. Black. [She looked back to the money, thumbing through it to count but still talking.] Looks like one of your bandanas.

[Had one of the workers used it as a rag? Gross. She hoped not.]

[Action]

[getslost.livejournal.com]

[Zoro displays patience by waiting for her to finish and allowing her attention to wander to the money. He's quick to try for her attention again, however, firmly speaking as he pulls a second cloth from his pocket. The two are nearly identical, save for being worn in a couple different spots.]

This is my bandana. [The second cloth is lifted, then the first one is given a shake as he returns to referring to it.] It's my bandana, too. [As far as he sees, there's no mistaking this fact. The swordsman has worn that particular accessory with such familiarity for so long that he just knows the second cloth is also his bandana, which is precisely what he was so confused about. There were two. He's purposefully vague, checking her for information before he says much about it at all.]

[firefreckles.livejournal.com]

After Nami didn't arrive for work and he was repeatedly failing to get through to her NV, Ace had a sinking feeling that his friend had followed the other members of her crew who left the port. He took the long way home the night she disappeared to comb the city for her but was left frustratingly empty-handed. You are missed, Nami.

[message - pressed 2, then 3]

[isyourdestiny.livejournal.com]

Ah, Miss Nami? Ace told me to contact you about a possible job cooking at Brooke's.

If you have a vacancy, I would like to see about going in to see you.

[a call back]

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[Ace told him? Huh... so who was this? Yeah... Here, have a call back about 20 minutes later. Ring ring ring.]

[a call back]

[isyourdestiny.livejournal.com]

[Oh hey, the phone's ringing.

Takes a break from making dinner to pick up.]

Hello?

/leaves this here for yesterday

[getslost.livejournal.com]

[ She has a lot going on right now, but whenever Nami gets back to the flat and, more specifically to her corner of the living area, she will find a battered and very familiar orange hat has been left on her desk. ]

/a month later reply

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[She had found it, surprised by seeing it there. Flopping into a chair at her desk she just held it for a bit. Only one person could have got this and put it here. She would have to thank him, silently of course, some how.]

[For now she held the hat close, hiding her face so no one noticed her cry, not that anyone was around. After a b it she moved, finding a hook to screw into the wall, and hanging the hat on it. In her space, safe by the mikan tree, viewable to others if they looked. Just... safe.]

[Zoro, one week later, would find two bottles of his favorite wine tucked away in his room. So far, if it's one thing he might have learned around this shitty city, if Nami thanks him for anything, it tends to be with a single bottle of wine. No words. No note. This time it was two bottles and a small scrap of note that just says 'thank you' and nothing else.]

You're Invited

[silverlunettes.livejournal.com]

[ ooc: Log will be created 5:30 PM CST. Your character doesn't have to come if they don't want to. The address is enclosed in the message. No, it is not Reim's home. ]

[ex_chocoboing98]

[Hey Nami, NAMI! Your NV is ringing but apparently you're busy... Cloud doesn't leave a message but tries one more time, with no luck. You lucky girl, he never calls anyone and you're not around to pick up? ... Shiva.]

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[WAIT a moment. WAIT ONE DAMN MOMENT!]

[What IS this number? This ID!?]

[Nami missed the first call, and apparently a 2ed all as well? Son of a bitch! is this some kind of joke?]

[Yes, well, she's calling back, just because she can, because if he called twice with no luck, she had best have all the luck and he will pick up. It's really only a matter of moments after he called the 2ed time that she called back, only just missing picking up her NV.]

[This is what she gets for taking it off, isn't it?]

[Ring ring, calling you back... a little confused. Pick up!]

[ex_chocoboing98]

[Apparently you must go to the loo with it on you too! He had just thrown his NV to the bed when it started ringing. Stares at the number and picks up without thinking it twice.]

Nami? [That was your name, right? JUST MAKING SURE!]

[payback.livejournal.com]

[Voice call coming into your nv Nami. whoop whoop.]

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[And here she is, picking this up, fast cus it's Rin]

Hey, this is Nami. [a pause] Rin?

[payback.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's me.

Hi, Nami. How're you?

[ex_chocoboing98]

[Ring, ring...]

[namiwasheretoo.livejournal.com]

[Oh, hello, what's this? She flicks her wrist NV and turns it on]

This is Nami~

[ex_chocoboing98]

Sorry if it's late but... Did you speak with Tifa today?

[TFLN NV Virus]

[sonatasedge]

you did a full monologue with your sober self last night. different voices and everything.

[test]

[namiwasheretoo]

Sounds like I had a good night last night. :|

late virus text!!! c-couldn't resist

[ex_chocoboing98]

I love you like a cupcake loves an overweight child, very similar to the mannerisms of a whole cake but personal, and minus the commitment issues, plus just the right amount of icing; not to mention the convenience of mobility, and only a smidgen of the guilt.

[text] you didn't try to resist xD

[namiwasheretoo]

You feeling well there, Blondie?