Starbits

Starbits is a sentient café that used to reside within the headquarters of the BVA. During the Battle for the Booru, it was spirited away into space, and after an ordeal, it now resides in an unknown location in the cosmos, well away from Earth.

About the café
While the name is an obvious riff on Starbucks as well as a reference to Super Mario Galaxy (Rosalina's game of origin), Starbits also draws inspiration from European coffee culture. (Blame Nasue for that. -Ed.) Consequently, the atmosphere of the café is a very homey and cosy one, with the sort of furniture you'd find in an antique store, coming in a mix of different styles and eras. It's a big pile of anachronisms, to the point that the old fireplace has a modern heater inside of it, the jukebox is not-so-secretly an MP3 player, and the coffee machines are very modern.

(Addendum: the cosy atmosphere goes right out the window whenever it's what Nasue has dubbed "Coffee Rush Hour", AKA that time in the morning when everyone needs their coffee. Good thing there are retractable barricades.)

The café also has an indoor garden, previously home to a pond full of domestic Bagelfish and a flock of Bagelchickens. The latter loved to annoy unwary customers by stealing their food, so the staff tried to keep them corralled off, but now and then, one of the clever little feathery buggers managed to get loose. And Rosajon forbid what would happen if the chickens were to be quickened...

Uniquely among rooms in the BVA headquarters, the café was in a consistent location at nearly all times. The reason for this was unclear until the events of the Battle for the Booru.

Battle for the Booru
Early in the events of Jolianna's war against the BVA, the staff in the café saw the incoming attack and put the café into lockdown. While Nasue was taking stock of the situation, a mysterious cracking noise was heard - and then the café was suddenly transported into space.

Aside from the staff and the animals, there were customers trapped in the café with them, so keeping morale as high as possible became a high priority. However, that was soon complicated when a voice started speaking to the trapped people in their sleep, telling them that they would never be rescued and that they could not trust each other. The voice even spoke to the BVA, revealing that it wanted to keep the café - and Nasue - all to itself, for eternity.

Several customers were driven to breaking point, one of them forcing Nasue to drink Stripe Drink to turn into a giant monster and gain the physical strength needed to be able to physically restrain them.

After this ordeal, it was revealed that Starbits had been sent into space due to, of all things, corporate espionage. One of the customers was actually an agent from a rival coffee chain, and "had a deal" with the entity that had been speaking to everyone. In an act of rage, Nasue used their new inhuman strength to snap the agent's neck - an act that heavily disturbed the others.

Not long after, Nasue took the risk of opening a portal to another world and evacuating everyone but themselves - staying behind to confront the entity. During this confrontation, the entity's true identity was revealed: it was Starbits itself. Somehow, Starbits had developed a sentient soul, and had grown to resent being trapped inside the BVA Tower, constantly having to fight off the Tower's "desire to bring chaos". In being teleported into space, Starbits was finally free to be itself... except, as Nasue noted, it had grown to become a control freak, the sort of entity you wouldn't want to do business with.

In the end, Nasue was able to escape as well, due to preparing multiple cans of Stripe Drink before the confrontation. As it turned out, Stripe Drink could also be used as an explosive, and there were enough to destroy the entire Café. All it took was a threat, and Starbits quickly showed that even a mysterious, godlike entity could fear death.

In the end, the only casualty of the incident was the corporate agent, whose body was left in the café. Starbits itself now drifts through the cosmos, looking for new customers and staff... but it's someone else's problem now. As for the staff and customers, they returned to St. Jonsabooru, and in time the staff were able to set up a new, less dangerous café.

Menu
The mix of influences extended to the food and drink that Starbits served as well. There were Starbucks-esque drinks that added other flavours to coffee, but if you wanted a drink that was just coffee, you could just as easily have that. A variety of tea blends were also available, with or without milk.

The flock of Bagelchickens allowed the café to serve a variety of egg-based dishes, but there were a decent share of egg-less dishes as well. Naturally, bagels (the food, not the cat or any of his alts) were among them.

Custom-made orders were available, and some of the custom orders were quite out there, requiring specific ingredients from other dimensions. Lunar took on the work of fetching those ingredients due to her ability to travel to other dimensions.

Former Staff

 * Nasue the Bluecoat - Manager, also a barista.
 * Lunar - Acquired unusual ingredients from other dimensions.
 * Pretz and Paprika (OCs created by learn2chillax)
 * Coff-E-Bot - A heavily modified e-bot that was combined with a coffee machine.
 * Deliver-E-Bots - A small group of e-bots that do deliveries.