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

[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?

[gravitydefier]

Three.

[bloodyrose]

And none of them provoked many emotions?

[gravitydefier]

I'm far from human. I can't make much of human emotions.

[bloodyrose]

. . .

[frowning]

So, even if you used any memories from here?

[gravitydefier]

[kind of makes a quiet considering sound.] I can try.

[bloodyrose]

We'll do what we can. I can go first, if that would help.

[gravitydefier]

...Fine. [doesn't much mind either way.]

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.]

[bloodyrose]

[Sorry ahead of time.]

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.]

[bloodyrose]

[Now it's just a matter of trying to not dwell on it all over again]

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?

[gravitydefier]

...Born? No.

[bloodyrose]

Ah- I guess you might not know that answer, yet, anyway, all things considered.