[X] Plan Steady as she goes.
-[X] - the balanced option. (3 dots of income for two months. Same as above, but reduces training time required by fifty percent. Expensive, but saves you time and thus AP.)
-[X] - Putting on the Ritz. You’ve committed to helping modernize the Ritz’s menu and service. Currently, you think that management would prefer that you work on Lunch or Afternoon Tea. With hiring more staff, there is not currently a budget for remodeling or altering plating.
--[X] - Innovating Tea: Cost: 1 AP. Results: Continued development of Fusion Cuisine. (Suggested stunts include what menu item to work on. Please consider combining traditional British and Japanese cooking.)
-Tea is serious business, both in Japan and Britain, so when looking into a way to fusion the two, you should work on two major axis, the tea itself, and the tradition surrounding it, you highly doubt that the extremely stiff way of tea of Japan would be popular in Britain, but perhaps some aspect of it could be «Britified» so to speak.
The most important thing to introduce to make fusion tea is the introduction of green tea, unfortunately, it is also the most difficult part.
British people are very particular about their tea, such that someone drinking green tea would raise eyebrow, event amongst middle-classe tea drinkers.
To tackle this problem, you should try and move away from the Japanese tradition of pure herbal tea in order to try and bridge the gape between Japanese and British palate. Introducing milk would be a good way to do so, the milk should be carefully considered, from texture to taste and temperature so that not only could green tea be appreciated as familiar yet novel, but that the health benefit of the it stay as unaltered as possible.
You should not hesitate to draw on your personal experience and taste testing to see which variety of green tea would work best in your situation.
A special room should be prepared for the prepared for the tea time, similar to the Japanese traditional tea room, but instead made in the traditional british way, with victorian style british furniture and cultural object like painting and sculpture put troughout the room, perhaps the customers would appreciate a unified dress codes?
Some fusion cuisine side-dish to accompany the differing taste of green and black tea should also be researched and prepared to maximize client satisfaction, perhaps by playing with rice cake recipes, Japanese style sweets like Mochi, Manjū, Dango and Daifuku to mention some, and then see if they can be tailored to British tastes in a fusion and how to marry them with cream and jam, or perhaps even see if those can be replace by adzuki bean paste in some places.
-[X] - Working for the Weekend. Arturia was feeling underutilized in the finance department of a motorcycle dealership. Now she’s mostly feeling under-appreciated as she works to get the new Ministry of Parahuman Affairs on its feet while dealing with the setup for the Baker Street Irregulars. Any help you can levy would be appreciated.
--[X] - Setting Down Roots. In addition to a staff, you’re going to need a building to house them. Having Saber on hand at Number 10 is one thing. Trying to pack a whole new ministry into the already crowded building would be quite another. Cost: 1 AP. Results: room to expand. Legitimacy.
-There is plenty of places that have become run down and abandoned due the economic situation in Britain, you should tour such facilities to find one of appropriate size for the requirement of a ministry as defined by your wife, since she is the minister after all and the one that would know most about such things.
Even if the buildings visited are in a sorry state, it is not a problem as long as they are still structurally sound according to your own experience and structural analysis. In fact, the more it look like ruins, the better the price you’ll be able to get, giving you more budget for the next phase of the work; renovation work, you’ll do this the same way you choose the building; using structural analysis and your own judgement based on experience to find out what need doing, and how to bring things up to the specification of such a peculiar ministry, if necessary you’ll hire some architects to help you work out the particular.
When it come to the work itself, you’ll hire some down on their lucks worker around London, there’s a lot of those going around because of the current state of the economy, and it’s always nice to help people in need get some honest paying work when things are rough.
Of course, with you being who you are, you’ll do something no other vice-minister(?) would do; you’ll work hand on, Alongside the construction site workers, using your tremendous strength and skills to the fullest to help out, bonus point if you mingle with them, eating homemade lunch and sharing simple story over a meal.
--[X] - How to Train Your Superhero. You’ve got two recruits, and neither of them are ready to do much of anything. Take some time to show them the ropes and get them started on the path towards usefulness. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Competent employees.
-It’s Important to keep in mind when training those people that fighting shouldn’t necessarily be your first go to option, perhaps they desire a less violent role or aren’t suited for it.
Regardless, before starting any training, you should first find out what make their power tick, what are their limits? Is there any commonality between then? How did they get said powers? How hard is it to control them? Any side effect? Etc....
You lack the capacity and facilities to find look into it in-depth, but any information you can gather will help you design a training plan for them and help you guide them toward a productive use of their capabilities.
This should all ideally take place somewhere out of prying eyes, in a military base for example.
-[X] - A Patent, Pending. Your patent lawyer recommended that you contact Sony to license your patents to them. In order to do that, you’re going to need to demonstrate that they work. That means building examples, which means time and money. Cost: 2 AP. A 2-dot expense. Results: Working examples of your inventions. Probably annoyed neighbors, given your current living arrangements. You may want to finish fixing up your house and get a workshop set up first.
-You shall politely ask Mr. Port if he would mind sharing his workshop with you for some time, obviously you will tell him that this is purely hobbyists work and has nothing to do with the ministry work, you are not one to abuse power after all.
If he accept, you shall simply buy the material and get to building.
If he refuse, well, you are now a vice-minister(?) in the British government, you’ve got to be able to find a workshop somewhere right?
-[X] - Socialize with Arturia. Weekends are for dates, right? Cost: 1 AP. Results: Fluff, WAFF, happy Arturia.
-You’ll take Arturia do something she always liked to do before; Horseback riding, the two of you will spend a weekend to ride through the countryside enjoying the sight and nature, you’ll make sure to look up the itinerary and prepare camping equipment and food to eat outdoor.
Of course, first of all, you’ll have to find someone willing to lend two horses to young, urbanite people for a week end...
-[X] - Home Improvement. (Locked in due to purchase of the Run-Down Townhouse) You own a home now, or the bank owns it and you’re paying them interest for the pleasure of living in it, anyway. The problem is that it’s going to need to be a construction site for a while as you reopen the closed half of the house and reconfigure everything for your needs. Cost: minimum 1 AP. May be taken multiple times. Results: Access to and renovations and furnishing for the full floorplan of your new house. Home Equity.
I am open to people writing in stunt.
Also not sure if the stunt is ok, It has been a while afterall.