COOKING SHOW - 11AM PST - future is now

[idolpro]

[ Your unit-colored kitchen has all the basic necessities for cooking, but strangely, there's no refrigerator. There's just a table full of pebble-sized crystals. . . There are candies available in bins next to the crystals as well.

Though you can technically turn the stove on, you can't actually hurt yourself on it. It's like the flames are illusions. Huh.

Upon entering your unit-colored kitchen, you'll find that you can't see or hear anyone from any other kitchen. You're aware that this whole area is magically sight- and sound-proofed; no other unit will hear or see any conversation you have. ]

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INSTRUCTIONS & RECIPE

[idolpro]

Today, you are making Salmon Quinoa! You will need the following ingredients:

• Quinoa (1 salty, 2 savory)
  
• Tomatoes (1 sweet, 1 sour, 1 savory)
  
• Salmon (1 salty, 2 savory)
  
• OPTIONAL: Cilantro (1 sour, 2 bitter)
  
• OPTIONAL: Cucumber (2 sweet, 1 bitter)

(Optional ingredients are there in case people show up late—they will otherwise not affect your score.)

Total Required (not including optional):

• 1 Sweet (happiness/excitement)
  
• 1 Sour (embarrassment/shame)
  
• 2 Salty (sadness/regret)
  
• 0 Bitter (anger/bitterness)
  
• 5 Savory (adrenaline/fear)

On the tables are pebble-sized crystals. Hold a handful of the crystals and share your memory (through talking or memoryshare candies) and the crystals will turn into that food!

Characters are aware that the cooking process will be done with guidance, so all they need to worry about are the ingredients. Tasteless ingredients such as flour and cornstarch will be provided for them, so those ingredients are not listed.

There are no rounds, nor any discussion headers. Please make a toplevel with every new memory/memory discussion. At 4 hours, please turn in the survey.

TURN-IN

[idolpro]

For every shared memory, please give a 1-4 for how open they were about it, with 1 being cagey as fuck and 4 being as open as they could be:

# of candies consumed:

For every unitmate, please give a 1-3 for how much they learned about them/how much they were affected by this new knowledge, with 1 being a little/unsurprising and 3 being a lot/shocking:

<b>For every shared memory, please give a 1-4 for how open they were about it, with 1 being cagey as fuck and 4 being as open as they could be:</b> HERE <b># of candies consumed:</b> HERE <b>For every unitmate, please give a 1-3 for how much they learned about them/how much they were affected by this new knowledge, with 1 being a little/unsurprising and 3 being a lot/shocking:</b> HERE

Re: TURN-IN

[scarvedforlife]

For every shared memory, please give a 1-4 for how open they were about it, with 1 being cagey as fuck and 4 being as open as they could be:
savory (fighting chikage) - 4
savory (saki call) - 2
bitter (punch izumi) - 2

# of candies consumed:
0

For every unitmate, please give a 1-3 for how much they learned about them/how much they were affected by this new knowledge, with 1 being a little/unsurprising and 3 being a lot/shocking:
Lumi - 1
Frosty - 1
Felicity - 2
Bell - 2
Duality - 1

Re: TURN-IN

[metafaliure]

For every shared memory, please give a 1-4 for how open they were about it, with 1 being cagey as fuck and 4 being as open as they could be:
https://idolpro.dreamwidth.org/225154.html?thread=60585858#cmt60585858 - 4
https://idolpro.dreamwidth.org/225154.html?thread=60660610#cmt60660610 - 4

# of candies consumed:
0

For every unitmate, please give a 1-3 for how much they learned about them/how much they were affected by this new knowledge, with 1 being a little/unsurprising and 3 being a lot/shocking:
Lumi - 1
Felicity - 3 (YOU HAVE CRYSTAL DISEASE IN YOUR BRAIN????)
Sho - 2 (YOU HAVE NARITA DISEASE IN YOUR NARRATIVE????)
Frosty - 1
Duality - 2 (YOU HAVE BAD PARENT DISEASE IN YOUR DAD????)

Re: TURN-IN

[angleordevil]

For every shared memory, please give a 1-4 for how open they were about it, with 1 being cagey as fuck and 4 being as open as they could be:
Here 4

# of candies consumed:
1

For every unitmate, please give a 1-3 for how much they learned about them/how much they were affected by this new knowledge, with 1 being a little/unsurprising and 3 being a lot/shocking:
Lumi - 1
Sho - 2
Felicity - 3
Bell - 2
Duality - 2

Re: TURN-IN

[asonoficeandfire]

For every shared memory, please give a 1-4 for how open they were about it, with 1 being cagey as fuck and 4 being as open as they could be:
savory (villains attack) - 4
savory ("training session" with his dad) - 4

# of candies consumed:
2

For every unitmate, please give a 1-3 for how much they learned about them/how much they were affected by this new knowledge, with 1 being a little/unsurprising and 3 being a lot/shocking:
Shogun - 1
Felicity - 2
Bell - 2
Frosty - 1
Lumi - 1

Re: TURN-IN

[pyromagiac]

For every shared memory, please give a 1-4 for how open they were about it, with 1 being cagey as fuck and 4 being as open as they could be:
sour - 3
salty - 4

# of candies consumed:
0

For every unitmate, please give a 1-3 for how much they learned about them/how much they were affected by this new knowledge, with 1 being a little/unsurprising and 3 being a lot/shocking:
Lumi - 1
Frosty - 3
Sho - 3
Bell - 3
Duality - 3

[metafaliure]

I can provide an absolute smorgasbord of sad regretful memories.

[pyromagiac]

[ 3 stage of emotions:
1. confusion (did i hear that right)
2. happy (i did. ears work)
3. worry (;; wait) ]

. . . Miss Bell, are you alright—?

[angleordevil]

[oh

concern/sadness on that bond]

Bell?

[asonoficeandfire]

... oh. Memory sharing?

[pyromagiac]

[ there is curiosity on the empathy bond ]

Is that something new?

[onemoreknight]

I barely remember anything at all!

[pyromagiac]

[ despite her contemplative look she also feels pleased on the empathy bond (ears work!!!) ]

I don't, either. Maybe I should have bought memories. . . ?

[scarvedforlife]

[ Looks at the recipe. ]

[ Looks at the people in this room who requested a high security door on the aquarium. ]

[scarvedforlife]

[ AHEM, definitely not vibrating a bit with concern. ]

I could help with savory and sweet.

[ Anxiety bump. ]

And bitter and sour if we decide to give our food a little extra.

[angleordevil]

...I should have taken more memories.

[pyromagiac]

[ tbh a little embarrassed ]

I should have, too. . .

[metafaliure]

[ SUDDENLY STANDS UP AND CLEARS HER THROAT AND YELLS BECAUSE SHE IS EMBARRASSED ]

I have a regretful memory! I was an orphan, adopted by a scientist named Grammul! He's the one who gave me the original version of this doll, Mimimi. My regret is that due to a scandal he was exiled from the land of Metafalss. He was creating a plan to make Metafalica in a way that would require the sacrifice of the Maiden... that is to say, me. I reported him for it.

... After he was exiled, I found out that he had created Mimimi as an imperfect replacement... so he never wanted me to get sacrificed to begin with. His replacement wouldn't have worked, and it was a stupid plan... but I never got to talk to him again after that.

So, that's my regret.

[pyromagiac]

[ o

listening, with more the sort of tabulating information kind of emotion than like, actually digesting any of the content kind of emotion. sheep will remember this

once she's finished talking felicity is going over the memory in her head, which is when the sadness hits ]

Oh. . .

. . . Do you miss him?

[pyromagiac]

. . .Uhm! This is my embarrassing memory . . .

It happened during the kissing game. . .

I was reading the instructions to the game, but since I couldn't hear anyone, I was in the way of everyone else . . . I didn't realize I was in front of the door, and there was a mistletoe above me.

. . . Someone ended up texting me to move because I couldn't hear them . . .

I didn't notice it until later either, but I had so many mistletoe in my hair, and that ended up making trouble for people, too. . .

[metafaliure]

[ RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION!!1 ]

You shouldn't be embarrassed over that! They should be embarrassed for being inconsiderate of you!

[scarvedforlife]

[ AHEM AHEM. ]

Gather around Sho-senpai and listen to his tale of adrenaline-rushing action!

I was once approached by a man who really wanted to fight me! And though I pleaded that we need not settle our matter with fists, he was insistent, and I was set into a situation in which I could not refuse.

And lo, we began our duel of fisticuffs! In matters of technique and speed, we were closely matched, but his raw power was one I could not overcome! I knew that just one hit would send me flying, so I ducked and weaved around his punches! I landed a flying kick on him, but he was able to turn it back on me and, grabbing my leg, he sent me flying in return! It was as if my kick had no effect!

He sent a kick right back at me and I just barely managed to dodge! But with that kick I witnessed his strength in bending the steel fencing where I had once stood in half as if it were nothing!

We exchanged blows, my countering and dodging his hits and him doing the same! I knew I couldn't take anymore of his hits, so I dodged and tackled him from behind, trying to get him in a sleeper hold. But that man was a madman! He immediately took hold of my arms and leapt off the roof! I got my arms free and leapt off his back just before I could be sent tumbling down the four stories with him, grasping onto a lightpole on the roof for safety, barely managing to hold on for my life.

His body fell to the ground with a thundering crash, kicking up dust and debris! When it cleared, a full on dent lay in the concrete from where he fell!

And before my very eyes, he got up as if the damage where nothing, dusting off himself and complaining that I hadn't fallen down with him!

That, my dear fellow FiN, was a taste of my average high school life.

[angleordevil]

[why are you so weird.]

I... see.

[asonoficeandfire]

[duality is bad with words so he's eating a candy to share this memory with the class]

Ah, so... we were under attack by villains during a school class. This is an early memory, I believe. I don't think I was very nice to be around either. But it was a very tense situation, and we all got separated.

[metafaliure]

You sure mellowed out a lot since then.

[metafaliure]

Here's another savory one.

The night before I was going to sing Metafalica with Nenesha, we went out to meet some of the girls we'd be singing with. I was fairly confident in our success since our experiment had gone off without a hitch, but then one of the girls said...

'More than that, I'm excited to see inside Lady Infel's heart tomorrow.'

Then I realized that... because of the design of Metafalica, and my role as the Maiden of Mio, some of them were going to use Metafalica as an excuse to peek on all my deepest feelings and secrets... and they weren't going to leave any privacy at all. Since I wasn't a kind or sweet person like Nenesha, the other Maiden, I knew they wouldn't like it if they went digging, so...

[ wince ]

So, because I was afraid of what they'd see, or what they'd do because of it, I ran away the night before.

[pyromagiac]

. . . Miss Bell is a kind person, though!

[ indignant sheep ]

[asonoficeandfire]

I think this one counts as savory.

[he's eating another candy for this memory, and then his expression shifts slightly at actually showing it because... hhrhgh]

[pyromagiac]

[ stumbling back to sit on her sheep because ow that was an intense and painful memory ]

[scarvedforlife]

[ Hey cool Sho's anxiety and nervousness and MANY EMOTIONS kick up 50% with this. ]

Another savory retelling for your tastes.

I once received a call on my phone, only to hear the sound of a rival gang leader's unwanted voice in my ear. He'd kidnapped my girlfriend at the time, and over the phone, started torturing her, telling me to come rescue her alone. I had no idea what to do, the person I'd usually call for advice or help at the time wasn't answering his phone, and I knew that the chances of us both getting killed were high, because that asshole was absolutely unhinged.

I'd call that a moment that was one of the most fearful in my life, and the resolution is better left unspoken for now.

But I promise neither her nor I died!

[metafaliure]

[ BRUH ]

[angleordevil]

...Here's a sweet, then.

[Like Duality, Frosty is eating a candy]

[long thread is long so basically FIN SLEEPOVER!!!! lots of cute fin. also it's a lot of rolling around cuddling sho flirting badly and GETTING PERMISSION TO KISS HIM FROM ANGEL. AND KISSING HIM! AND ALSO. KISSING ANGEL.

a lot of the feelings in it are predictably dere and overwhelmed.]

[pyromagiac]

[ o


oh my gosh


that's so much dere ]

[pyromagiac]

[ 💦

fidgeting a little with robosheep fluff, uncomfortable and sad but determined. ]

. . . Uhm, this is . . . a sad memory.

Eight days ago, on my first day—everyone remembers when Doctor Eirene visited, right?

Uhm, she took an examination of my body. I have a disease—I'm not sure how it works, exactly, but one of the symptoms is the crystallization of flesh.

But when she examined it, she didn't find any crystals.

. . . I think that means they're all internal. In my brain—and that's probably why I have a hard time hearing, and seeing.

That night, after I found out, I was . . . really scared, and really sad. Because I just came here, but I might not live for very long, if it's all internal. . . And I was really scared, because I don't want to die, but I was really sad, because. . . If I die from Oripathy, then everyone on future is now—uhm—

—I thought, everyone here is so kind, and I don't want to make anyone sad if the worst comes to pass.

. . . I'm sorry for not saying anything to anyone before now. . .

[metafaliure]

Well, we'll just fix it for you.

[scarvedforlife]

And now, unfortunately, your Sho-senpai must leave a bitter taste in your mouths.

The rival gang leader I mentioned earlier, I ran into him face-to-face some time later. When I saw him, all I could see was red, and all I could hear was the blood rushing in my ears. In my fit of anger, I threw a punch at his head. Unfortunately for me, both the punch and his head were so hard, I broke my hand in the process.

I was left sorely unsatisfied and in pain.

[metafaliure]

[ PATS YOUR SHOULDER SO HARD IT MAKES A NOISE

bell is this comfort!?!? bell????? ]

RESULTS

[idolpro]

[ You made a Salmon Quinoa! While you were at it, you tried adding a bit of cilantro, although it didn't quite pan out as much as you wanted to—it wasn't bitter enough. Still, while it isn't 10000% perfect, it's also full of heart and emotion; ultimately, it's a great balance of sweet and salty—it could stand to be a little more sour—and most importantly, it gets you a 57/10 score!

. . . That's not how scores work but whatever!

You can head to endgame, though maybe some of you might be coming back for an encore. While you're going, you can take some of your food with you! ]