COOKING SHOW - 5PM PST - Taisho Roman Revolution

[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.

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

[gravitydefier]

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: 4, he wasn't hiding anything

# of candies consumed:
3?

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:
Zero, Savory (being turned into a vampire): 3, he didn't know any of this.

Re: TURN-IN

[bloodyrose]

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: 4 for each (Sweet, salty and sour). He didn't have any issues sharing.


# of candies consumed: Several (7 or 8?)


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:
Sakura (Sweet, once a home) 3. Brand new (curious) information.
Sakura (Salty, a funeral) 3. See above.
Sakura (Sour, reading material) 3. See above.

[gravitydefier]

[kind of looks around the place, assessingly.

he feels very out-of-tune with his emotions - like whatever he's feeling, he doesn't really understand it. ]

[bloodyrose]

. . . This will be different.

[Meanwhile, he doesn't seem to mind (in ways) or feel overly concerned.]

Any thoughts?

[gravitydefier]

I don't have many memories. I don't know how much help I can be.

[bloodyrose]

You've really never purchased any?

1 Savory (adrenaline/fear combo)

[bloodyrose]

[He pauses briefly, tentative, before taking one of the candies.

—And immediately tenses. The memory is from back when Zero was first turned into a vampire, including witnessing the slaughter of his family.

It's one of the very first memories that he ended up getting, some 200+ days ago, and it's simply a fact to him, now, but that makes no difference. For a moment he can't breathe, as if the old wound has been ripped open, so mercilessly so that he clutches his chest with the physical ache and twist of his heart.]

Re: 1 Savory (adrenaline/fear combo)

[gravitydefier]

...ah. [doesn't really know what to say or how to comfort him, but he is definitely concerned, and that quiet concern can be felt through the bond.]

[bloodyrose]

[There's gratitude in response, even if it doesn't at all visibly show.]

. . .It's fine, it's fine.

[Except it isn't at this moment, focusing on it causes a great deal of mental anguish.]

It was a long time ago.

[gravitydefier]

...I see.

[that kind of long timescale is something he's familiar with.]

1 Sweet????

[gravitydefier]

[and also takes one of the candies. there's probably a moment of 'bleh' because he doesn't like most things, but also, here's a memory. kind of sweet, maybe(?), though it's very tinged with loneliness/longing.]

[bloodyrose]

[It's a reprieve from his own memory. Both compassion and fondness fill the bond.]

Your home looked very beautiful.

[gravitydefier]

It was. [and feels more home than Liyue Harbor did.]

[bloodyrose]

The view from above must be even more so. Is it where you were born?

Salty

[gravitydefier]

[and Sakura is going to share another memory: here.]

it's of a funeral.]

[bloodyrose]

You're well known.

[gravitydefier]

Certainly no more than any other adeptus.

[bloodyrose]

Maybe not from your point of view.

Sour

[gravitydefier]

[and one last memory. it's of Sakura reading a book and being kind of dismissive of it.

the embarrassment is very subtle.]

idk if this will pass

[bloodyrose]

Nothing interesting?

Re: idk if this will pass

[gravitydefier]

It was almost pointless.

[bloodyrose]

Well. At least it wasn't a bad memory.

RESULTS

[idolpro]

[ You made a Simple Omelet! . . . Or at least, part of it—the cream cheese isn't fully made, and somewhat bland as a result. While it isn't 10000% perfect, it's also full of heart and emotion; ultimately, it's a little on the sweet and salty side—it could definitely stand to be a little more sour and savory—but more importantly, it gets you a 30/10 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! ]