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[ open ] kaveh's permanent catch-all

WHO: kaveh (

fussiest) & y'all!
WHAT: this is a perpetual catch-all for kaveh because i'm too lazy to make a new one every month. this is for closed starters, tag-ins, visits to kaveh's workshop and the like! be wild! be bold! be free!
WHERE: all around the city, and especially at kaveh's workshop, the pairidaeza architectural design studio in district 1
WHEN: everywhere! everywhen! all at once!
WARNINGS: bickering, probably - everything else will be warned for on a thread-by-thread basis

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[ Unlike Robby, Daniel is a little less sure of who to expect to be joining us here. Robby did tell him some of the basics, and Daniel trusts the boy's judgement enough to trust whoever might be joining them really is there to help them out, but he doesn't really seem to notice Kaveh yet while the other might be approaching - not realising it's him they're waiting for.

Besides, the older, middle-aged-looking man is definitely paying much more attention to the things the boy is pointing out to him, slowly nodding along. It sounds like a good idea, and Daniel agrees they don't want a space that's too small, especially if they're going to have to install a kitchen, but-- ]

Getting the wall down might be a lot of effort though. [ He tells Robby - perhaps when Kaveh is already close enough to hear it.

Daniel clearly has no idea what speciality their extra helper has. ]

[ the extra helper: at exactly three minutes past the promised time, there's a blond hurricane brewing on the horizon. kaveh walks in a fashion that their half-blind neighbor back in sumeru city once called 'being late to tomorrow', though kaveh still isn't entirely sure what she'd meant by it. he has a burgeoning tote-bag slung over his shoulder painted with the broad strokes of a man capturing the rays of the sun along a seaside shore and two hands currently in the process of trying to affix one of the little askew red clips back into his hair. it goes much in the way of a lead balloon, but there's a smile on his face as he brightens first at the side of robby, and then with a polite nod at the company there.

flat shoes take kaveh right up to the curb, where he takes the red clip he'd been clenching between out of his mouth so that he can put it up into his hair. this apparently the cue for the words to come: ]

Ah, and there's the two of you. Hello! I apologise for being late; I had a bit of a tussle with a mint plant. [ the final clip in place, kaveh holds out his hand first for the older gentleman on the scene, and then for robby. ] I'm Kaveh - I think this is our first meeting, and a second one with you, Robby. It's good to see you, and thank you for inviting me here.

Now, what's this about knocking down walls? Which building is it, and how many of them do you want down?

[ because kaveh, apparently, is ready to knock down all the walls. ]

Edited (spelling, screams) 2023-09-27 05:31 (UTC)

[ The incoming rush that is Kaveh is, at least by Robby, not immediately noticed. Mister LaRusso is concerned about the difficulties of wall busting, as if the reason Robby knows the talents of the individual they're waiting for isn't all about his wall busting. Which, fair enough, he wouldn't have really led in or emphasised upon the short details he gave to the man of their potential lead constructor -- but it's what Robby remembers, in a far humorous way. Because the guy just decided to bust down an apartment wall to make the place bigger, you know?

As you do.

But he doesn't actually get to speak up before a third voice does, and Robby turns his head, and that will leave the reassurances in his throat for now. A small pinch of his brows at a mint tussle, but nevermind that; if Mister LaRusso wants to go first for the handshake, then he can, but Robby will go in at whatever place.

(Let's be real, Mister LaRusso is a businessman -- he has the quicker urge, surely.) ]

Hey, good to see you. [ Nevertheless, his voice is bright upon their additional company--and his smile is a pinch brighter at the leading question. ] I'll leave the wall knocking decisions to you and Mister LaRusso, but what do you think about taking this building for the diner?

[ He points to the corner store -- not an actual corner store as most know it, but a mens' boutique with the mannequins posed by the windows with faces dotted with eyes. Because this is creepy city central. ]

We don't know how much room that one shop has, so I was thinking we could always move into that store there.

[ And leading on with a finger again, he points to the...actual more 'corner store' store. ]

[ See, the thing about having been in this city for a few months now is that it's starting to smoothen some of the rough edges about all these strange encounters. Sure, with how normal Daniel is, there's definitely still a whole lot that's going to stand out to him as strange, but Kaveh coming in like a wrecking ball hardly even registers with Daniel anymore in comparison.

Especially when he knows the other is here to help. Then it doesn't even mind that he's a stranger - to him, anyway, and Daniel trusts Robby's ability to vet people on top of it. The moment Kaveh offers that hand, Daniel is indeed already instinctively reaching back to give it a firm handshake, a friendly yet polite smile on his face.

He's done this often enough. ]

Daniel LaRusso. [ Daniel offers, as a way of introduction, before adding-- ] It's nice to meet you.

[ Is this a business meeting? It's suddenly sounding a whole lot like one, right.. Especially since Daniel is definitely a dress shirt over here. ]

And it's exactly as Robby was saying. I was wondering about the difficulties of knocking down a wall here, but.. [ His voice momentarily trails off, and Daniel lets out an not unfriendly huff, shaking his head a little. ] You're making it sound real easy all of a sudden.

[ Does Kaveh look like a guy who'd knock down walls?

Not really, but Daniel is willing to believe anything at this point. ]

[ clothing says a lot about a man. for every shirt with a plunging neckline that kaveh gravitates towards, there is a man out there who walks about in the city in a buttoned-up dress shirt carefully tailored for their personality. daniel larusso seems a man put together with care; kaveh looks between robby and daniel, and wonders if they're from the same world. there's something to be said about intergenerational friendships, but sometimes bonds are formed in other ways.

still - kaveh smiles. he offers in turn the firm handshake of a man whose callused and scarred hands are used to wresting dreams kicking and screaming into a reality where dreams go to die. ]

The pleasure's mine, Mister LaRusso. [ and then, because this is kaveh, he rolls his wrist by means of a cue. ] And the knocking down of walls isn't much of an issue. The walls here are mostly plaster and wood lath. All it takes is a crowbar and time, though the annoying part is levering out all the nails. The only thing we'd have to pay attention to is which walls are load-bearing and which ones aren't, lest the entire building gives in over our heads.

[ with a red glint in his eyes, kaveh continues: ] Now, on the topic of which store to take over. [ robby's fingers draw a map across a stucco-bricked building. kaveh hums as he considers it. ] Both are corners, which allows for maximum window or wall seating. The clothing store has the advantage of already having wall-to-wall windows to work with, whereas if you take over the other store, if you wanted large windows, we would have to open up the wall and source the glass from some of the office buildings. [ hm. ] You'd also want to consider the things that can't be moved - for example, where is the bathroom in each of those stores, and is it in the place where you want it to be? They say with a big enough lever you can move heaven and earth, but moving the plumbing here sounds like a nightmare even the biggest of levers ought not touch.

[ the roll of kaveh's shoulder. he is already removing a heavy-duty drafting pad from his tote bag, still shimmering with the colours of an untenable sea. his fingers flip to a blank page. a pen materialises from the crow's nest of his hair, spinning across his knuckles at a clip. kaveh looks up, first to daniel, and then to robby, and grins. ]

Shall we go inside and take a look? I find these sorts of things are much easier to suss out once you're inside and you've a feel for the space.

[ Robby, to the shock of everyone here, is not in a dress shirt. We know, we know. He's only sporting that button up to keep it button downed, and over a short-sleeve tee and with jeans to match.

But look at this guy go: that is, listen to him talk. The subject of plumbing is what Robby pays a closer attention to, his hands in the pockets of his jeans without anywhere else for them to be. If Kaveh's literally materialising items from heads and bags ~~I don't know Genshin, I don't if that's a bigger on the inside bag~~, then Robby isn't aware, not exactly taking notes of pens or to watch closely at items being retrieved. He just gives Mister LaRusso a look, to take note of any he might think to give back to him (but doubting it will be anything meaningful either, right in front of Kaveh's salad), then looks back to Kaveh. ]

Sure. [ Sure. A boy of few words, but he's stepping forward to walk for the front door, so they can take that better look inside. Saying along the way, ] The toilets are gonna be around the back -- stores like these only have toilets for the staff.

[ Robby's contribution to this consideration. But once inside, there's more space that stretches down into the boutique than across from where they enter, though there's enough walking space to make a split aisle, items showcased in the centre and then the walls being used to hang up clothing, as well as legless mannequins.

Robby walks to a spot that allows the other two in, and more, to let Kaveh see the interior as he might like--freedom of movement, and all that. ]

We have room going that way-- [ gesturing down the aisle ] --but having more that way would be cool.

[ Coming from the guy who isn't thinking anything at all about where things are going to go. He's working on vibes here. ]

[ Daniel is definitely giving Robby a look - even in front of Kaveh's salad. Mostly because he doesn't intend for it to be an insult. Oh, no. The look he gives Robby, one the boy might actually generally pick up on since he does know Daniel, is definitely the surprised look of you got us an actual contractor?

Because that's sure what this is rapidly feeling like. Does it kind of seem like Kaveh is pulling stuff out of nowhere? Sure. Does he seem a little dramatic? That too.

But this sounds like a guy who knows what he's doing. Daniel almost feels like he's back home again, honestly. Like he's discussing an expansion of the dealership, rather than a non-profit business in another world entirely.

He follows the two into the store though, his look returning to something more neutral again as he looks around. It's kind of hard to envision a store like this turning into a diner, but that's why he tries to look at the big picture. The walls, the windows..

The windows are kind of nice, he thinks.

But Daniel turns away from where he was looking at the windows, glancing over at the other two, and piping back up with: ]

I imagine kitchen placement is going to be the most important part.

[ Since he definitely shares Kaveh's sentiment of messing with plumping and power is going to be a pain.. And you need both of those for the kitchen. ]

If we can find a good spot for that, we can kind of just plan everything else around it.

[ two looks are exchanged right over the airspace of kaveh's salad. kaveh, who's very much enjoying his salad, catches the looks in the way of shrapnel on a well-worn battlefield. his eyebrows quirk. but aside from general guesswork based on the two men standing before him, kaveh thinks, there's nothing he can infer from the glances aside from the fact that the two of them are quite close and know each other well enough to have quiet conversations. that's another measure of friendship; it has kaveh's brow quirking a little up into his hairline, but there's salad to get to, and that ought to be his focus.

the salad: the storefront stretches past. kaveh observes robby's foray across the floor, and daniel's quiet footfalls as he follows. he begins to make observations. robby seems to enjoy the expansiveness of the space. daniel, kaveh thinks, has his gaze lingering on the windows. you could tell a lot about clients from where their eyes linger. kaveh, who is a perpetual people pleaser, considers these two facts. ]

That's where the fact that this city is empty and the stores are equally so comes to our advantage. If this were a job in a thriving city, we'd have to work with what the space we have. It's a little different when you can cannibalise the space from the building next door, even if it still makes me feel a little guilty doing it. [ it feels a little like cheating, when rather than working within the box, you are literally making your box roomier. but sometimes your vision needs to be born into this world, and sometimes you had to do anything you could to give it life. sometimes that includes knocking down walls. ] That's where knocking down walls come in. See here?

[ kaveh's hands wave over the wall shared between the clothing store and the corner store - ] This wall isn't loadbearing. I'd have to check where the bathrooms are on the other side of it, but theoretically we can knock down this one, adopt the bathroom from the other store into the floor plan, and erect a wall to block it off on the otherside. The bathroom would have the plumbing needed for the kitchen sinks.

However, if we want to expand the diner across two different stores, my suggestion is taking into account the length of your serving counter and how far you want your staff to walk as they deliver food around the space. Not all space has to be restaurant seating, and I've never run a restaurant before, but I'd imagine you don't want the kitchen to be too far away from the furthest set of seats. [ ... kaveh brightens. ] Unless, I've been toying with the idea of setting conveyor belts into a countertop so that food can be moved from one end of a counter to the other. I don't suppose you'd want a gimmick like that in your diner?

[ say no, please, because the glint in kaveh's eyes is a bad ideas dinosaur glint. save yourself. ]

[ yw mr larusso

But anything Robby would have to add to this theorising of placements and where things might be, could go, is put aside to the latter suggestion that gets his eyebrows raised up before anything else. Raised, and eyes darting onto Mister LaRusso, who indeed is being left to answer this possible addition to his diner affair.

(Robby can think of an answer, but also? It's not as funny to have to watch Mister LaRusso answer it. You're also welcome for that, sensei.) ]

[ Robby is lucky in the sense that Daniel is assuming responsibility for this entire operation. Robby is just a kid, after all, and while he's a kid Daniel trusts to no end, he wouldn't want to put too much responsibility on his shoulders because of it.

It means that he's perfectly fine with the boy staying quiet, even if it's just to let Daniel have to handle the more.. ridiculous aspects of this...

And this ridiculous aspect sure seems to catch the man by surprise. His eyes visibly widen as he hears Kaveh's suggestion. ]

.. like conveyer belt sushi?

[ At least it's not unheard of ~~to this local weeb~~. Does that make it a good idea though?

Probably not, judging by Daniel's instinctive reaction, though he quickly forces it to soften a little. He wants to make sure to let Kaveh down gently, especially when the guy is doing so much thinking and work for them already. ]

I.. was thinking we might want to keep things a little more simple than that. [ Smooth. ] Considering we mainly want to welcome new people here, I'd like for the space to not be too overwhelming, you know? The kind of place you can walk into and have a good overview of everything in it right away.

[ conveyor belt sushi, daniel says. kaveh's expression is thoughtful at it - because he's heard of one or the other, but the two together seem like a fascinating premise. the sushi would be on plates, it would traverse in a loop.

in a place with an economy, how would one know which ones they had to charge for and which ones the customers took? things to think about, but kaveh isn't an architect used to handling odd requests - and being a little odd himself - without precedence: kaveh observes the careful wending of daniel's words, and smiles for it. daniel is a kind man, through and through. and robby has a bit of mischief to him after all. ]

It's alright. I've pitched that idea to two other establishments already, and neither of them wanted to take me up on it. I wonder why. [ but the curl of kaveh's lips, impish int he making, says exactly what he really thinks about it, ] But alright, I'll stop jesting. No conveyor belts, I promise. Though I do ask that the two of you think about the amount of walkway you would like your servers and customers to traverse. Too much of it, and the restaurant model will lack the coziness that perhaps you are going for.

Once we have an idea of the space we're working with, it'll be easier to arrange where to put everything, won't it? [ Is Robby's contribution here. They'll need to dictate the space between the actual kitchen and then the eating area, though the thought does have him give a rather useless look around as- ]

We can work around more space than less. Around here-- [ he gestures to the large windows, closer to where the door entering is. ] It'd be cool to have a place where people can sit on sofas. You know-- if people are just coming in and wanna take a moment, or have a drink. We can have tables too, but coffee tables?

[ He looks between the pair, Mister LaRusso and Kaveh. ]

[ Kaveh already suggested the idea to two other places? Sure, it says something about just how helpful the other is, that he's already helped two other places set up like this, but also that he sure is a man with a dream..

At least he won't have to wonder who the owner is in case some sort of conveyor belt sushi place opens up in the city.

His thoughts easily drift back to more productive matters though, glancing about as both Kaveh and Robby point out some things. There's definitely an approving nod at Robby's contribution. ]

Yeah, we definitely won't need the entire place to just be places where you sit down for food. The welcoming aspect of it is more important than the diner part, really. [ Daniel just can't resist cooking for people, that's more where the latter comes in. ] Like Robby is saying, we can definitely dedicate a part of it just to a space for people to sit down even without food, that narrows the scope of the actual dining space we'd need.

[ He gestures towards the door. ]

Not to mention we'd probably want to keep the entrance clear of tables or other things so people can easily wander in.

[ Daniel especially looks at Kaveh when he finishes. Are you picking up what they're putting down, pal? ]

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