Week one

[letsplayamod]

You've all met Athena, and she's made her point quite clear. She's fully committed to making this world better, and you're the ones who agreed to lend a hand. Something she's obviously quite thankful for.

It's really not so bad around here. Despite the sky, and the state of the land, things are fairly calm. You've got plenty of time to get used to it, and each other. Maybe this'll be easier than it seems.

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it begins

[latinumsbetter]

[Quark's head turns shortly before Lebkuchen enters, and he huffs, hands going on his hips]

Using's a strong word for it. [he sounds annoyed, turning his head back to look at the glowing burner] Apparently you're supposed to make food with this thing.

uh oh

[yourheroine]

Boop boop! Leb-KU-hen!

[She clearly cannot pronounce that name.]

Aoi's teaching Quark about the oven.

[brokenhabit]

[ Oh god that pronunciation of her name. Rip in shit. ]

Oh, just Leb is fine if it's easier...

[ Ignore how painful it is to be called that again by someone who's not Elise, it's okay-- ]

...There's an oven here? Where?

[ She don't see it or a chimney!! ]

[latinumsbetter]

Apparently this thing--[Quark kicks the oven again with the side of his foot]--is a so-called oven. Whatever that is.

[yourheroine]

Yep! It's in here!

[Aoi opens the oven door with a gesture to the inside, looking a little proud to be the person who knows stuff for once.]

You have to press buttons to make it hot enough to bake things. The right numbers are in the recipe.

[brokenhabit]

What?!

[ RUSHING OVER TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK ]

B-But where's the chimney for the smoke?! Where does the firewood even go?!

[latinumsbetter]

Recipe, what recipe?

[he glances at Leb] What's a chimney? And--firewood? What is this, a camping trip?

[yourheroine]

Doesn't need it! The metal heats up on its own! The smoke...Aoi doesn't know where the smoke goes, but it disappears.

[Aoi stands back up, leaving the oven door open. Incredibly responsibly.]

Are there any cookbooks here? That's how people know how to make stuff.

...aren't camping trips outside? [Camping Event...Aoi will have to ask Athena if there's one later.]

[brokenhabit]

It... disappears?

[ She is just. So hung up on that. What the fuck????? ]

[latinumsbetter]

Camping trips are usually outside, yeah, but that's the only time I've seen anyone use firewood. Though using it to cook in a thing like this?

[he arches a eyebrow at Lebkuchen] Do you cook with firewood usually or what?

[yourheroine]

Only fantasy ovens use firewood now.

[She looks at the ingredients on the counter now.]

Veggies and noodles...Aoi can try to make stir fry again. Second time's the charm?

[brokenhabit]

Couldn't a fantasy oven just use witchcraft?

[ And then to Quark ]

Yes, we always cook with firewood. We have to use it to warm our homes in the winter as well.

[ And then casting her eyes at the burner. ]

Like you two are doing right now, I assume?

[latinumsbetter]

Wait--you warm your home with it?

What, have you guys got a death wish or something? That sounds way too dangerous.

[yourheroine]

If the fire's inside the oven, it's safe.

[Is it, Aoi? She looks at the burner and shakes her head.]

That's the stove part. You fry veggies and boil water with it.

[Aoi starts hunting for a frying pan and some oil to show what she's talking about.]

Where are the pots and the knives? Aoi has to slice the zucchini!

[The goal of the game is to help people, so she should help Quark and Lebkuchen by showing them how to cook on a stove and an oven! She's gonna get so much charge from this.]

[brokenhabit]

Well, we didn't have any coal mines near Kieferberg so...

[ She will just. Let Aoi look for knives. That should be okay right. Aoi's a little odd but she should be fine with a knife, yeah? She seems to know what she's doing anyway. ]

[latinumsbetter]

A what mine? [what are fossil fuels? As for that other thing--]

There's a couple knives here-- [he gestures at some on the counter] --but I dunno what a pot is. [he says, like there aren't some strewn about from his own explorations]

[yourheroine]

This one!

[Aoi picks up a pot from the floor and holds it over her head. She then sets it in the sink and turns on the water to fill it up. While it does that, she focuses on securing a knife.]

Be careful with knives! Aoi's friend said to watch your fingers.

[She holds the zuccini firm against the table in one hand, then sets up the knife and veeeeery shakily cuts some of the zuccini into a lopsided piece.]

[brokenhabit]

[ Oh no that's

Hm. ]

...Have you actually used a knife before?

[latinumsbetter]

That's what I'm wondering. You don't want to slice your fingers off here. It's not like we've got a doctor around.

[yourheroine]

Aoi used a knife once! For a stir fry. ...it didn't taste good. But Aoi didn't cut off any fingers!

[That said, her zuccini chopping is going veeery slowly and very uneven. She's not winning any awards for it.

...also she's completely forgotten about the pot she left in the sink to fill with water so that's still going.]

[brokenhabit]

[ ...

Going to just. Take care of that water real quick. ]

Shall I show you a better way to cut them?

[latinumsbetter]

Why don't you do that, and I'll just, ah, clear some space. [he absolutely does not want to be near those knives, tyvm]

[yourheroine]

-! Has Lebkuchen [pronounced closer than before but still wrong] cooked before?

What do you do? [Aoi offers the knife to Leb, a bit of excitement bleeding into her tiny voice.]

[brokenhabit]

[ Oh thank goodness, yeah she's taking that knife and the zucchini. ]

I'm-- I grew up in my granny's bakery. She started teaching me as soon as I could walk.

[ She's going to start slicing the zucchini with an expert amount of precision and care - the kind you get from many years of slicing apples, nuts, and other such things daily. ]

I even helped run the place when her age started to make that difficult.

[latinumsbetter]

A bakery, huh? [he sounds curious, shoving some of the extra pots and the eggplant out of the way...and maybe the motion accidentally pushes one of hand towels on the still-red burner]

So you've got sales experiece?