Re: Ashbourne Estates (game thread)
"Well met, newcomers," the lady replied, her voice sounding cold and empty, it wasn't so much arrogant as aloof and without emotion; perhaps what one might expect from nobility, but unsettling nonetheless. "As I'm sure Danielle has informed you all, I am quite strict about having things done properly. She is more than capable of passing the knowledge of how to ensure such things are done on to you, so it falls upon each of you not to disappoint me." She seemed to make an attempt at a smile, although it was about as warm and comforting as sleeping outside without so much as a blanket in the cold winter nights this area experienced. "How has the morning progressed, Danielle?" she asked, apprently pleasantries, such as they were, had ended.
The head maid took a step forward and bowed her head. "The morning went well and without incident," she reported, which receieved a raised brow from the Lady. "Jessara went to work in the gardens, which as I'm sure you're aware are in need of a proper tending to, although she was startled by the appearance of Mouse, her ladyship did not inform me we were receieving a message today," Danielle continued, taking a few steps forward to place a brown envelope on the desk. She receieved a frosty stare from the mistress for a moment, before Ashbourne nodded. "Very good," she says. "It was perhaps a mistake of mine to let the estate go without someone to tend to the gardens, I should have arranged a replacement before dismissing the last one. It is good that my gardens will be back to their proper state soon."
"Peaches spent the morning beginning to organise and store the upstairs room," Danielle went on to explain, which caused another smile from Ashbourne... a cold, frosty smile. "Ah, quite an undertaking for but one individual, wouldn't you agree, Peaches?" she said, clearly somewhat amused. "Danielle and myself do apologise for your predescesor leaving it in such a state, I trust no one else will have any brilliant ideas about storing things in an unused room because they can not be bothered with storing it properly. Still, it will be good to have it all stored and then catalogued."
"Katrina spent the morning dusting the manor," Danielle says moving on to the next girl, to which Lady Ashbourne nods. "Good, good. It is perhaps one of the most important tasks to be done, I cannot abide dust, both on principle and due to the effect it can have on me."
Moving in, Danielle referred to the next maid in the line. "Ellena has taken care of the laundry today," she explains next, to which Ashbourne merely nods in approval, having no comment.
"And finally, Elaina assisted me in the kitchen this morning, assisting in the food preparation as well as squeezing your juice," Danielle finishes. "Ah, good. You're moving quickly Danielle, very good as I have come to expect," she says, sorting the papers away into various drawers of the desk to clear it, gesturing Elaina closer with the meal. Taking the silverware in her hands, the slices off a portion of the meal and brings it to her lips, chewing it with an analytical expression upon her face before nodding. "You seem to have chosen well, Danielle," Ashbourne said taking a sip from her juice. "These new maids will do just fine, I think." Although even this praise directed at the head maid was as emptrty as always..
((Jessara gains 4 favour
Peaches gains 5 favour
Katrina gains 3 favour
Ellena has gained 1 favour (wow, crap roll)
Elaina gains 3 favour))