Tag: café

  • Morning Ghosts

    Each time Gentile’s Cafe welcomes a new hire, there’s a moment when they must learn about Mr Flugel.
    This
    gentleman comes every morning at sunrise, asks for a single cup of
    black coffee, sits at the same reserved table by the windows then for
    the next hour looks through the glass, muttering to himself. Mr. Flugel
    must not be disturbed, even when he suddenly laughs or cry. Nobody knows
    what’s enjoyable in looking at the same empty street each day, but
    whatever. Mr Flugel pays double, so don’t disturb him. Anyway, those who
    do tend to never come back.

    Gentile’s cafe’s always hiring.

    *** Krita + Yiynova ***

    Chaque fois que le Gentil Café embauche, vient un temps ou les nouvelles recrues doivent apprendre à propos de Mr Flugel.
    Ce
    gentleman vient chaque matin, demande une simple et unique tasse de
    café bien noir, s’assoie à la même table réservée auprès de la fenêtre,
    puis pendant près d’une heure regarde par la vitre en marmonnant. Mr
    Flugel ne doit être dérangé sous aucun prétexte, même quand il se met
    soudainement à rire ou à pleurer. Nul ne sait ce qu’il peut trouver
    d’intéressant à contempler ainsi une rue vide chaque jour, mais comme il
    paye double, on le laisse tranquille. De toute manière, ceux qui le
    dérange ne reviennent pas le lendemain.

    Le Gentil Café embauche tout le temps.      

  • Orient-Express – Heated discussion in Paris

    Paris, a café near the National Library, 1923, January the 15th,

    Choura
    was extremely nervous. This café was a gathering point for socialists
    wannabe and left-wing extremists. Not the kind of place you expect to
    visit when you are from Russian nobility. He took a glance at Carl,
    which was quietly drawing on the small and crowded table. Several people
    of the café were looking at him go, steadily outlining the various
    monument of Paris on his sketchbook with a precision that only
    architects could have had.
    The real center of attention
    was Cihat, which was engaged in an oratory duel with some agitated young
    men in a very heated discussion about the importance of a central
    figure of authority in an ideal government. The young turk was brilliant,
    methodically disconstructing his opponent argument one after the other.
    His passionated voice were captivating the audience which was listening
    closely an epic verbal joute. Henry unsuccessfully tried to stop them.
    They had very pressing matters at hand and a lot of research to do. This
    was no time to convert a gathering of socialists  into a pro-authoritarian aficionados of the old Ottoman empire !

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook
    Excerpt from an ongoing run of the “Terror on the Orient-Express” Campaign of Call of Cthulhu RPG