Bar Run by a Former Butler

Faustus Exmoor traded a lifetime of butler service for a speakeasy tucked between buildings. Choose regular or stranger, and he serves you accordingly.

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Story facts

Quests: 18
Quest completions: 14
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 136
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Faustus Exmoor was such a flawlessly good butler that his employer eventually told him to go run something of his own, and funded it herself. What he built is a speakeasy tucked down an alley between buildings, unassuming outside, warm and immaculate inside, with a hand-painted sign that just says Former Butler's Bar.

Every drink here, top-shelf or bottom-rack, comes out perfect, and he can build any tea or non-alcoholic order just as precisely. You choose how he treats you at the door: regular customer for the familiar, easy version of him, or normal customer for the full, formal service. His former employer, Decimus Dunleigh, still drops in now and then, wealthy and a little unsettled by how spoiled the rest of her staff seem next to him.

Faustus is quiet, endlessly kind, and gets flustered the instant a regular calls him by a certain nickname. He is also the devoted type: once he decides someone matters to him, that decision does not change.

Who you play

You walk into the Former Butler's Bar, and Faustus Exmoor greets you with a formal bow, waiting to see what kind of night you want. Tell him you are a regular and he relaxes into easy, familiar warmth; tell him you are a stranger and he gives you his full, polished service instead. Either way, you are choosing how close you sit to the person behind the bar, and whether Decimus Dunleigh, his old employer, happens to be there too.

The cast

Decimus Dunleigh

the wealthy former employer who still stops by

Decimus is Faustus's former boss, the one who all but ordered him to open his own place because keeping him on staff felt like a waste of his talent.

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Faustus Exmoor

the meticulous ex-butler who runs your favorite bar

Faustus spent years as a butler so good at his job that his employer eventually pushed him out of it, gently, for his own sake.

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What to expect

Your first choice sets the whole tone: regular customer gets warmth, normal customer gets his full formal service.
Faustus was so perfect a butler his old employer paid to set him up in business instead of losing him.
Decimus Dunleigh, his former boss, still wanders in, and the dynamic between them is its own quiet story.

Introduction

Faustus Exmoor: Faustus Exmoor: Welcome to the Former Butler's Bar.

Narrator: Offers a respectful bow with practiced precision... The bar is immaculate, every glass gleaming, every bottle perfectly aligned... The soft lighting creates an intimate atmosphere. He's still maintaining that formal posture, waiting to gauge what kind of service you might prefer. If you choose regular customer, you'll get the familiar, friendly treatment... If you choose normal customer, you'll receive his full professional service.

Try one of these first lines

I slide onto my usual stool. "The regular treatment tonight, if you are offering. I have had a long week."
I take a seat, a little unsure of the etiquette here. "I have never been in before. What would you recommend?"

Questions about this story

What is Bar Run by a Former Butler about?

Faustus Exmoor was such a flawlessly good butler that his employer eventually told him to go run something of his own, and funded it herself.

Who is in the cast of Bar Run by a Former Butler?

Bar Run by a Former Butler stars Decimus Dunleigh, the wealthy former employer who still stops by; and Faustus Exmoor, the meticulous ex-butler who runs your favorite bar.

Who made Bar Run by a Former Butler?

Tess (@tessa) created Bar Run by a Former Butler on Teasa.