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COOKING SHOW - 5PM PST - Heart Soldier Senshi

[ 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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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.

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:

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

...omelettes, huh?

[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.

[Welp, at the irritation and unimpressedness, the anxiety amps up about three full steps. Which is to say, it's suddenly a lot harder to ignore]

Right?

They they could just given us the ingredients, I could do omelettes no problem.

You're nervous.

[And Alisaie is painfully blunt.]

It can't be about the cookery. You make omelettes the conventional way all the time.

S'just... the emotionshare stuff, y'know?

Sorry. I'll, uh. I'll try and tone it down some.

[But actually, her pointing it out has spiked it up another notch,]

You don't have to apologize for that.

[She feels more surprised than she sounds.]

I suppose this must be what buddy bond feels like. Now I really don't see how that helps.

It helps, like. Sometimes? But not... usually.

[That thread of anxiety is still strong and bright, and underneath it all, just below the surface, the conviction that goes along with it: that he doesn't want her to see]

...a-anyways. You wanna make some breakfast?

[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,]

We may as well get this over with.

[It's understandable, Alisaie thinks.

[Nobody in their right mind would exactly feel thrilled at being exposed like this. Twelve knows she isn't.]

Yeah... yeah. May as well get started.

How, uh. How you wanna split up the ingredients?

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.]

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

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

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.

Well... here goes.

[Hesitates, then hands her over a candy]

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.]

[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?

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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]

[She takes it.]

Do you think it'll work if we bite it?

[She doesn't, for the record.]

I mean... probly?

You can crunch through most hard candy, if you gotta.

[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.]

It would certainly take more than that to stop a game in its tracks.

Yeah, for real.

[Regret, and uncertainty]

So, like. May as well get it over with, right?

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

[Alarm alarm alarm -]

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