"Everyone's here, except Apricot?", Orange frowns. "He should be in office today. Anyone seen him?"

"Not today, he missed lunch. But it's still five minutes until the scheduled meeting. He's never actually late."

And about fifteen seconds later, Apricot stumbles out of a storage room of cleaning supplies. There are more and less subtle signs that he has just woken up.

"Good morning everyone!" he proclaims. "Orange, how did the call with the" - yaaaaawn - blinking - "eeehm, bank API provider go?"

"Afternoon. Quite well, I'd say. We'll still need to negotiate an actual contract, but we're getting access to the sandbox environment today, so you can start integrating it immediately."

He flips open his laptop, navigating to the kanban board tracking high-level tasks. The section marked "backlog" has been expanding in a worrying pace. He nervously reorders some of the items on the bottom, before turning eyes to the "in progress" section. "Ok, lets go through the updates. Vanilla, you first?"