COOKING SHOW - 5PM PST - Heart Soldier Senshi

[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 Simple Omelet! You will need the following ingredients:

• Eggs (1 sour, 1 salty, 1 savory)
  
• Cream Cheese (1 sweet, 1 sour, 1 savory)
  
• OPTIONAL: Onions (1 sweet, 2 bitter)
  
• OPTIONAL: Tomatoes (1 sweet, 1 sour, 1 savory)
  
• OPTIONAL: Garlic salt (2 salty, 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)
  
• 2 Sour (embarrassment/shame)
  
• 1 Salty (sadness/regret)
  
• 0 Bitter (anger/bitterness)
  
• 2 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 into the comment below.

Re: INSTRUCTIONS & RECIPE

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Rrrreading through. The combination of the instructions + the emotionshare has him braodcasting a steady little pulse of anxiety]

...omelettes, huh?

Re: INSTRUCTIONS & RECIPE

[scattershot]

[Mood: Irritated. Unimpressed.

[She isn't sure what to do about the anxiety apart from try to ignore it.]

I would say this isn't my forte, but I have absolutely no idea if it's my forte or not. And I would say there was only so much we could do to mess it up, were the instructions a little less weird.

Sour

[crossmyheartandhope]

[After they've talked this over some and figured out what they're doing, he hesitates - then goes for the candies]

I guess, like. All I gotta do is hold the crystals and pick a memory and give you a candy...?

[The anxiety has not entirely gone away,]

Re: Sour

[scattershot]

Apparently. I was hoping there would be some way to at least make sure we got the ones we needed, but it would appear we simply have to hope our hosts are feeling generous.

I'm ready, if you are.

Salty

[scattershot]

My turn, then.

[She holds out a candy.

[You've seen this one before.

[Does the candy make the recollection any sweeter? Well, no. No, actually. This is still her grandfather; he is still inexplicably and inextricably bound to a furious demi-god, or quasi-god, or whatever it is a primal is; she still wished desperately that she could save him, and still has to live with the fact that she can't.

[Alisaie isn't sure if she has worse memories. Mayhap this is truly it.]

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He takes the candy - sucks on it, until the memory has played itself out, and all the everything that goes with it]

[He's radiating out sympathy, and the wish that he could do something to help, and the trapped feeling that comes with not being able to]

...straight for the rough stuff, huh?

Savory

[crossmyheartandhope]

Guess savory's up next, huh...?

[Helping himself to some more crystals, and another candy, which he offers to her]

Re: Savory

[scattershot]

Thank you.

[She takes it, unwraps it.]

... it's dreadful, isn't it? Waiting to see what they'll dredge up.

Savory

[scattershot]

Savory it is, then.

[What fun.

[This one--

[--oh yes. She never really mentioned any of this, did she? That - that awkward meeting with that painfully determined YOU-kai boy. There was enough going on, with the guests departing, and enough on everyone else's minds: she'd always planned on saying something later, but later never came.]

Re: Savory

[crossmyheartandhope]

- jesus christ. Was that when we had those temp units?

[Alarm alarm alarm -]

Re: Savory

[skyshard]

Temporary units? I was on one of them right?

Sweet

[crossmyheartandhope]

You did salty... guess that leaves me with sweet?

[A little flurry of guilt, and shame, and gratitude]

Thanks for the carry, dude.

[And, offering her this candy, as well]

Re: Sweet

[scattershot]

Please, don't mention it. Most of the really rough stuff's been aired in public once already.

[She smiles, but it's strained.]

Sour

[scattershot]

[One more candy, then.

[That brings up this. A heart-to-heart with a silent, twitching, mole-like creature. She wishes she could do more for him, could be there for him, could help: she's bitterly aware of how little power she has to change anything, even for one Kobold child, a child she's failed once before. She's alone, and she's frightened, and she doesn't know what she's doing, and all she can think of to do is keep moving forward.]

Re: Sour

[skyshard]

... That's really hard for you to deal with by yourself, Ali.

Re: Sour

[crossmyheartandhope]

...man. You were carrying a lot, weren't you.

Sour (optional ingredient)

[skyshard]

Hm...

[ Takes some crystals, and offers the other's a chance to take the candies. This shouldn't be a sour memory.

His first day at the dorms, hell it might not be anything new to them as they maybe even witnessed him and Lumine meeting up again since they were there!

Unlike before, though, it becomes clear that despite Aether's rather casual attitude, there is immense guilt and shame over having forgotten his sister, especially with how wound up she had been and his failure to calm her down. It was like him being there again was bad, butwith his memory situation made it all the worse and he's not convinced she's happy to see him. The guilt is almost nerve wracking, especially with how it ends on not a very happy note, Lumine needing to excuse herself rather than be accepting of his proposal and running off to be alone for a bit.

He definitely handled that situation with her terribly. Aether's expression is visibly dim by the end of it before resting his head face down on the table on his crossed arms.]

Blegh. [ it was embarrassing people were there to see it, now it's even worse that they're to know what was going on behind his front.

He's definitely the worst sibling ever, god. ]

Savory (Optional Ingredient)

[skyshard]

[ alright, let's try this again. Crystals and candies ready, if you please!

This memory is probably a relief as far as savory experiences. It's a fight, and the adrenaline is high, but it's a fight he and the opponent are clearly enjoying the experience with each other and they go at it for some time.

The only thing missing is the memory ends before there's a clear winner. ]

Sweet (Optional Ingredient)

[skyshard]

[ Candies again.

One more time! Here we have someone that he doesn't supposedly know from home or his mysterious time here prior that gets him to admit something that's bothering him but she goes right on through to be supportive and Aether is very grateful by the end of it, along with the good feelings of having made another friend in this place. Very cute. ]

Oh... ah ha, she was so nice. I'm so lucky to have met you guys and her and a few others. It makes the bad feelings kinda so much less difficult to deal with.

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

[crossmyheartandhope]

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: 4
Savory: 4
Sweet: 2

# of candies consumed: 9 (He shared three and then memshared three for each of the others, I'm sorry if this total is incorrect I have smoothbrain,)

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:

Alisaie: Pretty shocking: 3
Aether: Learned some new things, but nothing super shocking: 2

Alisaie

[scattershot]

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:
Savoury: 4
Salty: 4
Sour: 3

# of candies consumed:
NINE OR SOMETHING god Alisaie stop eating the suspicious candy

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:
Hurricane: 3
Aether: 2

Re: TURN-IN

[skyshard]

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: 4
Sweet: 4
Sour: 4

(He doesn't really know too much about the memories themselves,) to elaborate but did his absolute best ).
# of candies consumed:
7

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:
Alisaie: 3
Hurricane: 3

RESULTS

[idolpro]

[ You made a Simple Omelet! You even managed to get some tomatoes on there! While it isn't 10000% perfect, it's also full of heart and emotion; ultimately, it's balanced in its sweetness and savoriness (possibly probably because of the tomato)—and honestly, it could technically have more saltiness but it's really already fine?—but more importantly, it gets you a 54/10 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. You can take some of your food with you as you go! ]