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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[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?

[yourheroine]

[Aoi looks so impressed at Leb's technique.]

You're a professional! And you bake? ...wow...

[She might be a little enamored.

Forgetting about the cooking operation for a moment, Aoi turns her head over to Quark.]

Is there anybody here to even sell stuff too?

[The towel sits on the burner, ominously smoldering...]

[brokenhabit]

[ This is easily the most "at ease" Leb has been since this all started. ]

I do, though granny is the one usually handling that. When your legs don't carry you as well as they used to minding a shop counter is much easier than taking heavy trays of baked goods in and out of the oven.

[ With Kieferberg's size they only really need to make their morning batches before she heads to church so it worked out well enough.

...Also yeah her ass also ain't noticing the rag, she's too focused on using the knife ]

[latinumsbetter]

Of course there is. We're all here, aren't we? [Obviously!] What we need first is a form of currency, and then we can establish a market.

[he smirks a little, widening towards a grin]

If you wanna make some of that bread, Leb, I'm sure practically everyone'd line up to buy a slice.

[yourheroine]

Boop boop...you sound kind, Lebku...Leb. [She gives up.]

Will establishing a market fix the world?

[...wait does anybody else smell smoke--]

1/2

[brokenhabit]

Well, that was the plan when I came in here... but I can't say for certain how well it'll come out in an oven like this...

[ She finishes the zucchini, pushing aside the neat and uniform slices... and then pauses ]

2/2

[brokenhabit]

Speaking of, is that the oven I smell now?

[latinumsbetter]

One way to find out, isn't there? We could do a test run later or something!

[he's immeasurably cheerful at the thought of a possible new profit venture (once there's a currency to make a profit on). Though at that comment from Leb he pauses]

Smell what now? [he asks, just as he's turning to shove aside the eggplant--when his eye catches on the black smoke now rising from the rag atop the burner...just as that smoke turns into flame.

Quark's eyes widen and he's stumbling back away from it, shrieking in terror. Literally. There may not be a fire alarm here, but with Quark, they hardly need one.]

[yourheroine]

[She lets out a gasp of startling when the rag bursts into flames.]

-! Aoi did it again?

[brokenhabit]

[ OH GOODNESS THAT'S LOUD

Leb briefly shrieks as well, more so because Quark is already doing so, but thankfully she's seen fire before so she should know what to do--

...keyword on should. But there's so much here that's foreign to her that her brain has frozen, completely forgetting about the water in the pot. ]