dramatispersonae | CARNELIAN

CARNELIAN

You'll find yourself standing in the middle of a brightly-lit kitchen, wearing aprons in your team colors. If you look around, you'll find the following things.

A drawer filled with knives, forks, spoons, spatulas, and any other kind of kitchen utensil you can imagine.
A bookshelf.
A cabinet filled with all kinds of dishes and pots.
A cabinet filled with . . . clothing and costume accessories.
A drawer labeled "???".
A refrigerator
A sink. Dishsoap and rubber gloves are provided!
A storage closet containing a 10 foot ladder, hammer, nails, string, a first aid kid, a mop and a bucket.
Flat counters to work on.
A pile of ingredients with instructions.
Two cauldrons, one labeled "meal" and one labeled "dessert".

You'll hear the voice of the Baker after you're done taking a look around.

"Today I want you to come up with one meal and one dessert. For each creation, you can use up to five ingredients for each. When picking ingredients, please keep in mind the kind of meal that you would like to make. Do you want to make one that represents your team? One that represents your wishes? One that represents your favorite color? I'll let you decide that on your own, but it is something very important I think."

"For each ingredient that is prepared correctly, you will earn five points. If you only prepare it partially, then you get partial points. If you don't prepare it at all and just toss it in, then no points will be given. The instructions are a bit unclear, but ask your kitchen helper! They might have an answer or two. Once you are done, tap the side of the cauldron and your meal will be ready! As I always say, follow your cravings and do not limit yourselves."

(OOC INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Come up with themes for a meal and dessert (not an automatic loss if you don't but it can add to your chances to win. Assume characters know that ICly).
2. Choose five ingredients for each that fit with those themes. Prepare them using the instructions given here. You can get anywhere from 0-5 points depending on how you prepare them. You can use more than five ingredients if you choose to but only five will be scored. Anything found in the kitchen can be used to help prepare the ingredient! If you're not sure if something would be in there, ping Celi in IRC!
3. Knights and any heroes that participated in the knight round have had the chance to receive clearer instructions.
4. Whenever you are done, turn in the themes you've chosen and which ingredients you used and how you prepared them.
5. Once you turned in your recipe, wait for results before heading to endgame!

Extra note: If the instruction says to "prepare it yourself", it basically means there isn't a particular instruction you need to follow.)

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How about we just pick something using the easiest ingredients to prepare properly.

How lazy. Shouldn't you try a little harder?
I mean, your memories should be important to you, even if this world isn't.

[ looking her over for a bit before saying anything ]

It's more that I'm not much of a cook.

But if we're talking themes, "practicality" fits Carnelian all right.

[idly picking up a can of pop and shaking it, listening :Da]

Don't expect me to do all the work! It's not like I know what humans eat.
Hmm. . . you're "practical", huh? At least there's that.

That's fine— if we're talking about eating, I'm an expert. I'm not sure what sort of meal we can do with these things, but I can at least give some hindsight on whether it's edible or not.

If we're going for practicality as a first theme, then we could balance out our ingredients. Two fast and easy, one average, and two that we'd think could give us more points. How does that sound to you, Knight?

Edited 2012-09-04 23:36 (UTC)

If the theme's "practicality", well. . .
Something like your first idea makes the most sense.
Pick the ingredients we're sure we understand! At least, if they go together.
But, it looks like you'll be relying on me! After all, I have an answer or two, eeh hee!

It'd be stupid to pick anything we're not sure about. Really, if we're bothering with this, we have to make sure we can prepare each ingredient properly.

[ smiling now ]

And what can I say— I'm in your hands. Treat me kindly?

Edited 2012-09-04 23:52 (UTC)

Well, that depends on you.
Mind your manners, and little Midna will help you out!
After all, I'd like some memories back, too.

Well then, I'll make sure to watch my manners, little Midna. And I suppose introductions would be a nice start, so— I'm Ling Yao. Nice meeting you!

That out of the way— we can easily make the apple taller by putting it on that ladder. Candies and dark chocolate sound pretty easy too— though they'd be much more fit for a dessert.

It's not as simple as all that, so listen up!
I'll give you your first two answers. Isn't that kind of me?
You can't make ingredients taller by stacking.
You can't tell ingredients just any old thing.
It was asked if the dark chocolate needed to hear a secret, and the answer was "yes and no".
What a completely useless creature, this Persona is!

That makes things much more complicated than I expected. All the more so if the persona was vague when you questioned it.

Edited 2012-09-05 00:20 (UTC)

Eeh hee, isn't it a bit early to be giving up?
Some of those humans were very good at playing guessing games!
Dropping these rocks into the 'so-da', that'll cause some excitement!
And you can give the toy a hug to cheer it up.

Hey now, I never said I was going to give up.

But those are some pretty good suggestions— I can give a hug or two just fine. Got any other brilliant idea, little Midna?

Hurry up and check this place out!
There are all sorts of drawers and cabinets and shelves.
Don't you think you might find something useful if you take a look around?

I was thinking of deciding what to do first, and look for what we need later. It's obvious everything provided in here is stuff we should use for this after all, so I'd say looking around with a goal in mind already would save us time.

You want my help, right?
So you should do as you're told!
We already know the Persona was vague. Don't you think seeing the tools we have to work with might give us some ideas?
So take a look, already! Hurry up!

[Someone will be opening the ??? drawer]

There are nine potion bottles with plain white powder in each.

One is labeled "To make you taller".
One is labeled "To make you sneaky".
One is labeled "To help you read".
One is labeled "To help you dance".
One is labeled "For lack of hair growth".
One is labeled "For an abundance of hair growth".
One is labeled "To make you bigger".
One is labeled "To make you tougher".
One is labeled "To help protect".

[Ling will be hugging the teddy bear that needs cheering up!]

[IT MAKES A SQUISHY SQUEAK WHEN HE DOES]

[Does it go in the pot?]

[And Midna will be adding the pop rocks to the pop for some excitement :|a]

[It is suddenly popping COLORFUL AND BRIGHT COLORS!]

[Midna will pick the hardest riddle from the riddle book she can find to tell Ling :|b]

[What word starts with `e` ends with `e` and only has one letter in it . . . ?]

[but riddle was told!]

[Dumping the entire bottle of "To make you taller" powder on the apples...]

[They now have bunny ears...]

[The gingerbread zebra gets tossed around! Rather carelessly!]

[a foot or two might be missing? :( BUT THEY WERE TOSSED AROUND!!!]

[Midna will be floating right up to the ceiling and dropping the pie]

[a poof of sparkly smoke appears!]

[Enthusiastically clubbing the pearls into oblivion with the hammer and then dumping "To make you tougher" powder on the mess that remains \o/]

[suddenly there is a bunch of sparkly powder! If you look close, you'll see that they became miniature diamonds]

[Mixing the peeps with dish soap and water in a bowl

or washing them I guess sort of :|a]

[they kind of look like they are oozy and marshmallowy and soapy :|a]

[well it was an interesting green mix at least!!!!]

[Dumping "for an abundance of hair growth" on the cat-shaped cookies :|a]

[they....they are growing a lot of hair]

[i mean it's like rapunzel long ok]

[Ttly disassembling the cheeseburger and inspecting the parts by flopping around the cheese, poking holes in the bun, and tossing aside the meat 'cause that stuff is just weird okay.]

[you totally disassembled that burger...]

[Carnelian is a practical team (according to Ling...) so they've opted to take the practical approach by choosing ingredients they're relatively sure of how to prepare based on the Q&A with the knights!

Anything colourful and/or sparkly was tossed it in the dessert cauldron: the greenish peeps, pop rocks and soda, the sparkly smoking pie, the pearls that are now diamonds, and just the cheese from the cheeseburger! The meat was left sad and neglected in a corner and the mangled bun was probably left on Ling's head :|a

Anything animal-themed was tossed in the meal cauldron: the teddy bear, bunny ear'd apples, gingerbread zebra, the rapunzel cat cookie, and then Midna doodled a wolf on the cover of the riddle book with a pencil from the utensil drawer before tossing that in.]

[There is suddenly colorful smoke coming out of both cauldrons.

The first goes through bright pink, light pink and red and then leftover, there is a pie that seems to be exploding fireworks from the inside. Colors and sparkles and BRIGHT LIGHTS seem to pour out and doesn't seem like it will end anytime soon. If you dare taste it however, it tastes like marshmallows and cheese.]

[The second goes through light green, dark orange, yellow, and dark green before it pops out a basket of large gummy animal toys. There's a bear, a bunny, a zebra, a cat and a wolf. They keep squeaking.]

[and then you and your creations end up here]

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