COOKING SHOW - 11AM PST - AlcheME!

[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 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

[doublefried]

Oh boy. So if we want like, max points, we're looking at... three of each?

[doublefried]

[ TIME FOR SOUR -> EMBARRASSING ]

Okay, my big embarrassing memory was during the guest star event when I got kidnapped into a birdcage and had to be rescued. For a hero, that kind of thing is really humiliating... plus, the birdcage symbolism was just tacky.

[featherbeaned]

[ TIME FOR SALTY = SADNESS AND REGRET ]

I won't go too hard into the literally gorey details, but ... uh, yeah. I killed a whole bunch of people who really didn't deserve it!

[ Clasps her hands in front of herself, tapping her thumbs together ]

I don't technically regret it, either. It's a weird feeling. Like, yeah, it was sad and awful, but I know that if I was in that situation again I'd make the exact same choices.

[ She goes on to describe this memory ]

[doublefried]

All right, bitter. That's angry. I don't usually, but...

[ pops a candy to play this memory. tea's seen it before, but this time since it's shared, it's pretty clear that he is just incredibly frustrated, protective of Endeavor, and just like, so indignantly defensive because like, he, jeanist, and endeavor all came out of the hospital like the day before after recovering from near-fatal wounds they got trying to defend people just like this ]

[featherbeaned]

This one was exciting and frightening!

[ She goes on to describe these memories ]

It was my first time trying to fight by myself, I think. I'm better at using magic, but he's got a lot more of it ... I was just buying time until he could get there.

[doublefried]

Sweet memory time!

[ TAKES A CANDY FOR GAY ]

[doublefried]

And salty memory time...

[ while we're taking candies, time for uh a horrid abusive upbringing ]

[featherbeaned]

Time for some sourness!

[ eats a sour candy, which is mostly full of weird awkward second-hand embarrassment feelings. As much as she loves attention, it's extremely uncomfortable to be literally swooned over ]

[featherbeaned]

Annnnnnd bitter ... Sorry in advance.

[ small spaces are just the worst and so is being a science experiment ]

[doublefried]

Time! For! Savory!

[ THIS memory. It's extremely terrifying to be a little kid trying to prevent tons of deaths but also very exciting to be a little kid successfully preventing tons of deaths. ]

[doublefried]

And then one more sour... so, one of my first memories was catching Endeavor after a big fight. He almost lost, he got his face clawed open, he suffered serious damage. It was a really cool fight, but it goes under 'sour' because...

He only got hurt as part of my spy mission. I lured him there on purpose to fight that monster on purpose so that I wouldn't compromise my cover with the bad guys. Even though I was proud of him, it was hard not to feel bad and guilty for putting him in that situation.

[featherbeaned]

Another sweet, because why not!

[ Downs another candy - and it really genuinely is a very sweet, happy memory full of warmth and simple good feelings ]

[doublefried]

Okay, one more salty, one more bitter, I think? So first off, salty.

I mentioned I got away from my parents pretty early in life, but I didn't mention that it was because my mom basically sold me to the Heroic Public Safety Commission because I was so talented. I don't remember her again after that, so... I think maybe I never saw her again? I dunno, it's pretty depressing to think about.

[doublefried]

And one more bitter for which I am looping right around to the first bitter memory, but like, some of the reactions to it were just wildly insensitive and it pissed me off. Like, it's rude to see someone's negative experiences and then argue with them about them, you know? Or to tell someone how they feel about it isn't normal and is worrying or whatever?

Anyway to be less vague about it, I had a big argument with S after that memory, and we basically haven't spoken since...

[featherbeaned]

One last savoury for the road ...

[ She pops another candy, which, yeah. That's unpleasant. ]

... Oops.

RESULTS

[idolpro]

[ You made a Simple Omelet! Well, it's not so simple, since you've pretty much gotten all the ingredients . . . and boy, were your efforts rewarded! While it isn't 10000% perfect, it's also full of heart and emotion; ultimately, it's a great balance of sweet and tangy—more salt would have made it tastier for sure—and most importantly, it gets you a 185/10 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 omelet while you go—enjoy the fruits of your labor! ]