Robert
*The Blooming Lotus. Once a simple restaurant, stationed in New Salvania, small, cozy, and overall humble. However, in less than a year, Hu Lang's business had exploded, funds going through the roof. The three summons weren't able to handle it by herself, so much so that she need to hire some employees. Mainly, other oriates, who she taught how to magically infuse flavor in the food as well. The restaurant now boasted wide rooms packed with seating areas, an entire three floors, with the bottom two floors being for customers to eat and mingle about. Bright lights filled the rooms with light, giving off a warm atmosphere. Bamboo lined the area, giving the place a little scenery.*

*At least one thing was consistent. It was always less busy at night. People had to head home because it was dark, and also a request from the okamimi herself. She __was__ pretty dang busy nowadays.*
Julia
_He had never been to The Blooming Lotus. Almann had heard many rumours of it's recent success and fame and was glad that he finally got the change to explore it. He was clean now, the bathhouse nearest seemed to be empty as well. Almann would walk into the restaurant, waiting for someone to show him to a seat, or to bump into the others._

_Beyond just being hungry, he also wanted good drink and a place to smoke. He wondered if they allowed a pipe inside, some places don't after all. Regardless, it was important to take some time to rest before he attempted to rank up in the guild. As the lowest rank in New Sunlight, Almann had been handed some impressively difficult and high level quests. Hopefully this would allow him to rank up more than once, or perhaps speed up the process to the rank above page._

_In the meantime, he fiddles with a bronze, boxed shaped trinket with his hands._
Leopoldo
*During the past year, Sirdan has been busy adventuring. While he has been busy the past month, he never deviated from his original route to Hu Lang's restaurant. Sirdan stopped right in front of the restaurant.* 

"Oh... Didn't know they had a renovation." *Sirdan said in awe, looking at the restaurant's floors, and then followed after Almann - and possibly Katherine.* 

*He looked around for his companions. Sirdan was in casual clothing, with his armor off, only carrying his favorite falchion by his sides.* 

"Hey! Almann! You seen Katherine around?"
Julia
_Almann shakes his head and continues to fiddle with the trinket._

"Unfortunately no, she seems the type to skip out on such things. Though, I don't think she will now. Call it a hunch."

_He presses a series of small mechanical buttons, rotates a few discs, turns some of the edges (which were free flowing), and a small hiss and unlocking sound engaged from the trinket itself, opening up one of it's top holes. The trinket itself was inspired by the works of some of the deep lora Almann had visited on a business trip. Deep lora were exceptionally skilled craftsman, often isolated, and often left with a lot of time on their hands. Trinkets such as these would keep them busy in times where they had nothing to do on their extensive expeditions in the underground. This specific design was a puzzle that contained something useful in the centre. Sweets, valuables, etc. Could be stored in these small trinkets and kept safe in a hidden spot. Almann had been trying to calibrate and do some test runs with it for some time now._

_While the trinket opened, it still wasn't finished. The opening and empty space in the trinket might give an illusion of an empty container, but there was actually a tiny hidden cog under the lip of the entrance..._

_It clicked several times as Almann turned the cog with his pinky finger before the entire trinket began to, in an orderly fashion, unravel into a flatter shape, revealing the contents within the trinket in a small cup at the centre._

_The valuable contained was one of his rings, forged by the deep lora themselves. A fitting reward for the final test run of his new toy._