Preparations begin for the office potluck. Mercedes avoids Dorothea. Production schemes.
To: Emblem Corp. Staff
From: Edelgard von Hresvelg
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:00 AM
RE: Potluck Preparations
It is that time of year again.
For those of you new with the merger, allow me to elaborate. Emblem Corp. hosts an annual potluck around this time of year. Everyone is required to bring something substantially edible, which discounts Sylvain bringing three forks last year.
I have been put in charge of the potluck this year and I will not tolerate ineptitude. Everyone will bring something and we all will have a good time.
Let Hubert know what you plan to bring so we can ensure we have a variety of options. Should you have flexibility in what you could make, let Hubert know as well so he can tell you what we need most. If you have any questions, please contact Hubert.
Edelgard
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Claude von Reigan
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:02 AM
RE: Congrats
Congratulations on becoming the real potluck coordinator.
Claude
To: Claude von Reigan
From: Hubert von Vestra
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:03 AM
RE: RE: Congrats
Ms. von Hresvelg is the coordinator of the event, not I. Please do not make this mistake again.
Hubert
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Claude von Reigan
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:05 AM
RE: RE: RE: Congrats
Sorry, it was just a slip of the tongue.
Claude
To: Marianne von Edmund
From: Hilda Valentine Goneril
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:17 AM
RE: Team?
Do you want to team up and make something? I've never done this before and you have, so I could use the advice. Plus I want to see you again.
Hilda
To: Hilda Valentine Goneril
From: Marianne von Edmund
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:23 AM
RE: RE: Team?
Hilda, you see me every day. We work together and eat lunch together and you stop my desk and talk for probably too long.
But yes, I'm happy to help you.
Mari
To: Caspar von Bergliez; Raphael Kirsten
From: Leonie Pinelli
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:37 AM
RE: Unfortunate circumstances
Okay, so here's the laydown.
Hubert just emailed me and is saying we have to be responsible for serving at the event as well as 'utensil acquisition'.
Not only does this mean that we will be the last to get food, but it means that we have to be on call should we not have enough supplies.
Normally I wouldn't be bothered by this, but this is a job that has always been the coordinator's. This should be Edelgard and Hubert's responsibility.
Thoughts?
Leonie
To: Leonie Pinelli; Caspar von Bergliez
From: Raphael Kirsten
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:40 AM
RE: RE: Unfortunate circumstances
WHAT.
No way am I getting to be last to get all that tasty food! Ignatz said he was gonna make a Dagdan dish that uses an entire deer! He had a name for it but I couldn't pronounce it and it was making me so hungry.
The potluck is the best company event and I don't want to have last dibs!
Raph
To: Raphael Kirsten; Leonie Pinelli
From: Caspar von Bergliez
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:42 AM
RE: RE: RE: Unfortunate circumstances
There is a tradition that has existed since time immemorial for situations like these when upper management tries to tell us workers what to do. We may work in the basement, but that does not mean that we are the lowest of the low!
Raphael. Leonie.
It's time to start a union.
Caspar
To: Linhardt von Hevring
From: Caspar von Bergliez
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:43 AM
RE: Come
I'm starting a union come down to Production.
Caspar
To: Caspar von Bergliez
From: Linhardt von Herving
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:45 AM
RE: RE: Come
You're going to get fired. I'm laying down for a nap, come find me when you do.
Linhardt
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 9:58 AM
RE: A complaint
Byleth,
I don't normally like to ask for help, but I'm at my wit's end over in PR. Hilda and I have had to be messenger pigeons between Dorothea and Mercedes for days because they won't talk to each other. Dorothea spends all her time looking everywhere except Mercedes and Mercedes refuses to talk to Dorothea.
I am getting a colossal headache over these two. I know you're friends with both of them, so could you please do something? Some of us try and do our jobs around here and I can't work under these conditions.
Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:00 AM
RE: What I'll bring
I will be bringing the finest coffee from Faerghus. I'll bring a coffee machine too, don't worry.
Dimitri
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Hubert von Vestra
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:02 AM
RE: RE: What I'll bring
Drinks are specifically being covered by Seteth with the company budget. You need to bring real food.
Hubert
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:05 AM
RE: RE: RE: What I'll bring
I will bring coffee.
Dimitri
To: Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:13 AM
RE: RE: A complaint
I'll do my best.
Byleth
To: Dorothea Arnault
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:14 AM
RE: So?
Lorenz just complained to me. Can't you two just figure this out?
By
To: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
From: Sylvain Jose Gautier
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:22 AM
RE: Really?
Can you believe she called me out like that on a staff wide email?
Sylvain
To: Sylvain Jose Gautier
From: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:27 AM
RE: RE: Really?
You deserved it.
Felix
To: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
From: Sylvain Jose Gautier
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:30 AM
RE: RE: RE: Really?
I never said I didn't.
Sylvain
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Dorothea Arnault
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:33 AM
RE: RE: So?
I don't know what to say to her and she leaves the room if I try to approach her.
Dorothea
To: Mercedes von Martritz
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:36 AM
RE: No choice
You're getting lunch with me. We need to talk.
By
To: Claude von Reigan
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:38 AM
RE: Hey sexy
I'm getting an early lunch with Mercie, don't wait on me.
By
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Claude von Reigan
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:43 AM
RE: RE: Hey sexy
No problem. I think Dimitri just slipped a letter under my door challenging me to a duel.
Let me know how it goes, I hope you can fix things between them!
Claude
To: Claude von Reigan
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:46 AM
RE: RE: RE: Hey sexy
We need to make our dishes together for the potluck tonight. I want to make something Almyran and you're gonna teach me one of those fancy things that take several days to make.
And then we're gonna try out that new toy I got for us.
By
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Claude von Reigan
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:50 AM
RE: RE: RE: RE: Hey sexy
Good thing it'll be the weekend because you're gonna make me so sore with that.
Claude
To: Dedue Molinaro
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:51 AM
RE: Did it work?
Did you slip it under his door?
Dimitri
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Dedue Molinaro
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:52 AM
RE: RE: Did it work?
Yes.
Dedue
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Claude von Reigan
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:53 AM
RE: No.
I will not fight you in the parking lot.
Claude
To: Claude von Reigan
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:55 AM
RE: RE: No.
I'll pay you five hundred to come out and fight me.
Dimitri
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Claude von Reigan
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:56 AM
RE: RE: RE: No.
No, you won't.
Claude
To: Dedue Molinaro
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 10:58 AM
RE: RE: RE: Did it work?
He saw through my bluff. Make sure we bring lots of coffee to the potluck.
Dimitri
To: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
From: Dedue Molinaro
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:00 AM
RE: RE: RE: RE: Did it work?
I will make a note after I exit the ceiling above his office.
Dedue
To: Caspar von Bergliez
From: Ferdinand von Aegir
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:15 AM
RE: I'm in
Caspar, your proposal intrigues me.
Count me in for your union.
Ferdinand von Aegir
To: Leonie Pinelli; Raphael Kirsten
From: Caspar von Bergliez
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:17 AM
RE: Woo hoo!
We're up to four members.
Time to confront Seteth.
Caspar
To: Catherine Rubens Charon; Shamir Nevrand
From: Seteth Cichol
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:23 AM
RE: Important
Our meeting will be delayed, I've just gotten word that Caspar is coming up here as representative of a union to talk to me.
Seteth
To: Seteth Cichol; Catherine Rubens Charon
From: Shamir Nevrand
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:27 AM
RE: RE: Important
We have a union in the office?
Shamir
To: Dorothea Arnault
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:33 AM
RE: Figure this out
I just finished talking to Mercedes. She's so in love with you and you fucked it up. I told her I would talk sense into you.
So what are you gonna do about it?
By
To: Jeralt Reus Eisner
From: Alois Rangeld
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:35 AM
RE: Hey
What say you and I 'cook' up a dish together?
Alois
To: Alois Rangeld
From: Jeralt Reus Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:38 AM
RE: RE: Hey
Alois, that was bad, even for you.
Jeralt
To: Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Bernadetta von Varley
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:40 AM
RE: Uh oh!
I don't think I'll be able to be at the potluck this year.
Bernie
To: Bernadetta von Varley
From: Edelgard von Hresvelg
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:42 AM
RE: RE: Uh oh!
Bernadetta, I was made aware by last year's coordinator how you tried to schedule your sick days in advance. You cannot do that.
You will be at the potluck.
Edelgard
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Bernadetta von Varley
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:43 AM
RE: Uh on!
I don't think I'll be able to be at the potluck this year.
Bernie
To: Bernadetta von Varley
From: Hubert von Vestra
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:45 AM
RE: RE: Uh oh!
If you miss this potluck, I will ensure that you have to give Emblem Corp.'s next PR conference.
Hubert
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Bernadetta von Varley
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:47 AM
RE: RE: RE: Uh oh!
I'll make a famous Varley recipe.
Bernie
To: Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Seteth Cichol
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:55 AM
RE: See me
Come to my office.
Seteth
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Dorothea Arnault
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 11:59 AM
RE: RE: Figure this out
I really fucked things up, didn't I?
Dorothea
To: Dorothea Arnault
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:04 PM
RE: RE: RE: Figure this out
I always thought you were the most emotionally intelligent of the group, so thanks for proving me wrong. Go over to her office and talk things out. I'll cover for you.
By
To: Ferdinand von Aegir
From: Petra Macneary
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:07 PM
RE: Help
Ferdinand. I am having troubles. I am having translate a Brigid recipe and I do not know where ingredients are. Can you be helping me?
Petra
To: Petra Macneary
From: Ferdinand von Aegir
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:12 PM
RE: RE: Help
Worry not! After the union meeting, I shall be up there to help!
Ferdinand von Aegir
To: Ferdinand von Aegir
From: Manuela Casagranda
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:14 PM
RE: I'm not helping
Petra just asked me what a union was. I am not covering for your ass if management comes down on me.
Manuela
To: Dedue Molinaro
From: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:24 PM
RE: Boar?
Dedue, Felix says he's going to bring me a boar that he's cooked. Does boar go well with coffee?
Dimitri
To: Ignatz Victor
From: Raphael Kirsten
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:45 PM
RE: WOO
UNIONS ROCK!
I'll be having first dibs on your dish, Ig! Don't worry!
Raph
To: Raphael Kirsten
From: Ignatz Victor
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:48 PM
RE: RE: WOO
Raphael, what did you do?
Ignatz
To: Caspar von Bergliez
From: Linhardt von Hevring
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 12:53 PM
RE: Ugh
I got woken up from my nap by your cheering.
What did you do?
Linhardt
To: Linhardt von Hevring
From: Caspar von Bergliez
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:01 PM
RE: RE: Ugh
That's a secret.
Caspar
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:02 PM
RE: This isn't better
Dorothea has a slap print on her face.
What did you tell her?
Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
To: Dorothea Arnault
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:04 PM
RE: What did you do
You got slapped?
By
To: Emblem Corp. Staff
From: Seteth Cichol
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:12 PM
RE: Potluck Info
Attention, staff. I understand there has been some dissatisfaction about the potluck. Rest assured, traditional potluck duties will fall to the coordinator, Hubert.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Seteth
To: Dorothea Arnault
From: Mercedes von Martritz
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:15 PM
RE: Forgive and forget?
Let's forget that kiss happened. I said my piece and you said yours. Let's go get drinks tonight and forget about it all.
Mercie
To: Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Claude von Reigan
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:17 PM
RE: Daaaamn
Wow, look at Seteth just disrespect you in front of the entire staff like that. No more coordinator for you.
Claude
To: Seteth Cichol
From: Edelgard von Hresvelg
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:19 PM
RE: A correction
Would you care to address your typo in your email where you put Hubert's name instead of mine? I would like to keep the staff up to date with correct information for the potluck and not have them go to the wrong person.
Edelgard
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Dorothea Arnault
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:23 PM
RE: RE: What did you do
I have no idea what's happening. She got mad and then hugged me. I guess we're going to out for drinks tonight?
Dorothea
To: Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Seteth Cichol
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:29 PM
RE: RE: A correction
No, I think my email is just as I intended it.
Seteth
To: Mercedes von Martritz
From: Dorothea Arnault
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:30 PM
RE: RE: Forgive and forget?
I'd love to. They're on me.
Dorothea
To: Shamir Nevrand
From: Catherine Rubens Charon
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:35 PM
RE: The union
So apparently Caspar got down on his hands and knees, started to bawl, and begged for Production to not be placed on serving duty.
And Seteth agreed.
Cath
To: Catherine Rubens Charon
From: Shamir Nevrand
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:37 PM
RE: RE: The union
I never knew Seteth had a soft spot.
Shamir
To: Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Hubert von Vestra
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:45 PM
RE: A gift
Ms. Edelgard, I have a gift from the rest of the staff for you. They got it to cheer you up.
Hubert
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Edelgard von Hresvelg
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:49 PM
RE: RE: A gift
Hubert, no one can hear what goes on in my office except you.
Edelgard
To: Edelgard von Hresvelg
From: Hubert von Vestra
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:51 PM
RE: RE: RE: A gift
Of course, ma'am. I apologize for lying. I have something to cheer you up. It's a slice of pie from down the street. I heard you crying and immediately ran there.
Hubert
To: Hubert von Vestra
From: Edelgard von Hresvelg
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 1:53 PM
RE: RE: RE: RE: A gift
Come in.
Edelgard
To: Dorothea Arnault
From: Byleth Sothis Eisner
Sent: Friday, Red Wolf Moon 8, 2:01 PM
RE: RE: RE: What did you do
I'm glad all is good between you two. Let me know how drinks go!
By
To: Byleth Sothis Eisner
From: Dorothea Arnault
Sent: Saturday, Red Wolf Moon 9, 1:04 AM
RE: ALL IS NOT GOOD
We got so drunk and slept together and told each other we loved each other and now she's using my boob as a pillow and I have no idea what to do.
Dorothea
Author Notes: Dorothea and Mercedes subplot ain't done yet!
The potluck idea was the original idea for this fic when I decided I wanted to do it about two or so years ago. I'm so glad it turned out this well, I got to use nearly every character.
Also, I have a few new fics! I wrote a Marianne/Hilda one a while ago and I recently wrote a Byleth/Claude one! Check them out if you're interested!