DiscoDude: ---BEGIN SESSION---
DiscoDude: Session logging commenced
Ryusui|GM: EXCHANGE 2/6
Ryusui|GM: "And we're back, folks!"
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia attempts, once more, to tear free a chunk of Kaletronium from the sugary crystalline mass.
Ryusui|GM: !f 3 (Aggressive)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+3 for 4 [4dF = [+][+][-][ ]]
Ryusui|GM: (do you want to take that down a peg with an invoke?)
Vera: (Nah, I'll save the free ding on DRAINED. XD)
Vera: Vera continues to hack away at the sucrosium. However, after a whole exchange of doing this, it's becoming apparent that she's been taking it easy, dragging this out into the new exchange! It only looked fast because she was putting her wrist into leveraging the long spoon like a whip! What's more, she's keeping her almost effortless strikes concentrated on one face of the outcropping!
(That good enough for CLEVER?)
Ryusui|GM: (sure!)
Vera: !f 3 (CLEVER)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+3 for 0 [4dF = [-][-][-][ ]]
Ryusui|GM: (oop)
Vera: (I'm invoking... Lessee...)
Vera: (Oh, crap, I meant to swap out my free aspect but forgot. Next time, I suppose. For now... Every Appliance and Tool You'll Need? I know I'm not technically at a Station zone, but taking something from it prior should count, right?)
Vera: (Does that qualify for a reroll?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((No narration for Dovelia?))
Ryusui|GM: (...it's a stretch but i'll allow it)
Ryusui|GM: (sorry, i was gonna deal with Vera's first XD)
Vera: !f 3 (CLEVER)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+3 for 2 [4dF = [-][+][ ][-]]
Vera: (Ffffff, I'll take it.)
Ryusui|GM: With a feral roar as if ripping out the heart of a monstrous beast, Dovelia successfully rips the parcel of sugar-encrusted vegetation from the side of the sugarberg.
Ryusui|GM: (that was an SWS, btw)
Ryusui|GM: (er, Dovelia's roll was)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Tako-San and Mel take pause at the roar.
"Did....you they could make that sound?" Mel asks Tako-San.
"Ai did not."
Vera: And with one final *crack, small enough to be mistaken for a hairline appearing in a wine glass, Vera's chunk of Candied Kaletronium [!] (BITTER) buckles, then gently falls into her waiting hand.
"Glad I picked this spoon."
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Not a knife? ;p))
Vera: (Spoons are better for smashing, especially a long bartender's spoon which is designed with a long handle for leverage.)
Vera: (Tako and Margen still need to make their moves.)
Margen: Margen will carefully attempt to remove a chunk of Candied Nurgle Jolokia from the mountain of sugar, excising a couple decent single-pepper outcrops he can microplane into oblivion
Margen: !f 3 (careful)
DiscoDude: <@Margen> rolled 4dF+3 for 3 [4dF = [ ][ ][ ][ ]]
Vera: (That'd tie.)
Vera: (Wait, never mind.)
Vera: (You're getting a second ingredient.)
Vera: (Regular success.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((I thought that was Fair (+2) difficulty.))
Vera: 'I can see a dessert using bacon,' thought Vera. 'I can also see one incorporating peppers... But both? What's that funny li'l guy planning?'
Margen: Margen grins with glee as he considers which chocolate to use in his Uncle Nurgle's Backyard Barbecue Bacon-Pepper bark**
Ryusui|GM: (<@!;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾>, you still need to take your turn~)
Vera: (Starting to get ahead of ourselves again, but I'm starting to get the hang of how you like to present your plan IC.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Sorry; just looking through the logs to find the requirements again.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: With the sugar-encased/-encrusted peppers at their station, Mel and Tako-San start setting up equipment.
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Despite the unoriginality, spelling out the Tako-no-Taco logo again is still relatively fancy-looking.
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: !f 3 (Flashily Create and Advantage)
DiscoDude: <@;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> rolled 4dF+3 for 2 [4dF = [ ][+][-][-]]
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((The first prep aspect is against Average (+1), right?))
Vera: (Yeah, name it.)
"Get a new act, Octodad!"
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: "If it éin't broke, don't fix it!"
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: The display comes out decently enough, given the time-crunch.
Ryusui|GM: (that's everyone, right?)
Vera: (Name the aspect, Tako.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((I believe so.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Oops!))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Promotionally Arranged Cooking Utensils))
Ryusui|GM: EXCHANGE 3/6
Vera: (What station is Tako at?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((This is the quick-fire, right?))
Ryusui|GM: (yes)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((1.))
Vera: Vera heads to Station 2.
"Hmm... A dish that celebrates 'sugar itself' more than any other dessert can. Wouldn't that be something? Something that also subverts it in a way which the Kaletronium won't get in the way of would be nice, too." She attempts to make another one of her signature recipe cards!
(Rolling CLEVER.)
Vera: !f 3 (CLEVER)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+3 for 0 [4dF = [-][-][-][ ]]
Vera: (YOU'VE GOTTA BE - Okay, I can invoke my high concept for a reroll, I'm sure.)
Vera: "C'mon, Vera... You aren't an idiot, just figure this out!"
Vera: !f 3 (CLEVER)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+3 for 5 [4dF = [+][+][+][-]]
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+3 for 5 [4dF = [+][+][+][-]]
Vera: (YES! YES!)
Ryusui|GM: (flavor it XD)
Vera: "Wait, that's it..." Vera scrawls down a recipe that celebrates and subverts 'sugar itself' in one stroke, while also playing to the Kaletronium: She's drawn up a Spring Creme Brulee Plot [!!!]!"
(Extra invoke from my Order Up! stunt.)
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia goes to Station 5, figuring that this will minimize her odds of being interrupted by the other chefs. She grabs a knife - not her cybernetic arm knife, just a regular one - and sharpens it. She has a plan for this.
Ryusui|GM: !f 2 (Careful)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+2 for 2 [4dF = [ ][+][ ][-]]
Ryusui|GM: With her [Carefully Whetted Knife][!] in hand, she's ready for the next step of her preparation.
Margen: Margen breaks away from chipping pieces off the sugar to move for the Lardertron
Margen: He carefully punches in the info for some Out-Of-This-World Milk Chocolate [sweet]
Margen: !f 3 (careful)
DiscoDude: <@Margen> rolled 4dF+3 for 4 [4dF = [ ][ ][+][ ]]
Vera: (SWS!)
Margen: (nice!)
Margen: Margen plugs in the code, and like a the vending machine it is, the Lardertron disgorges an irregularly large number of pure-chocolate candybars.
Ryusui|GM: (i picture them nearly burying Margen, like a cartoon gag XD)
Margen: (y e s)
Margen: He takes an armload and prepares to head back next turn.
Vera: "I mean, if it were up to me to pair SAVORY bacon with chocolate, I'd have gone dark. Don't let me stop you, though."
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Tako-San takes a chisel-like tool from the arrangement and starts picking at the peppers to get enough sugar for use elsewhere in the dish they have planned, meanwhile instructing Mel to gather mint from the Lard-o-Tron.
((I'd like to invoke Employs a Cadre of "Tank Girls" to let Mel act in the same exchange as Tako-San.))
Ryusui|GM: (go ahead)
Vera: (I thought we nixxed that?)
Vera: (And now it's a free invoke on the aspect?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((We nixxed the stunt that gives the free use.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Now that you put it like that, I retract my request.))
Vera: (Just keeping the chiseling part, then? I believe the opposition's +3. Go wild. XD)
Margen: As he gathers the bars that continue to pile around him, he responds: "I'll need the dairy to cut the Jolokia, and the creamy chocolate and smoky bacon should meld fairly well."
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((I think Mel still being able to move independent of Tako-San is still kosher, though. <@!Ryusui|GM>?))
Vera: (In flavor, just not in the same exchange? Yeah, I guess that flies.)
Ryusui|GM: (as long as it's flavor, yeah)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((No; I meant in the "They can occupy two separate zones simultaneously." way.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Mel still needs Tako-San's action to act, herself.))
Vera: (Not sure why the distinction's important (other than starting at the Station two exchanges from now instead of starting the exchange by moving there), but okay?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Tako-San makes a display of figuratively throwing the chisel at the sugar to get it off the peppers.
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: !f 3
DiscoDude: <@;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> rolled 4dF+3 for 2 [4dF = [ ][-][-][+]]
Vera: (Gotta boost to succeed.)
Vera: (Use the ingredient? Something else?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: But they put more pazzaz into the flash than the the strength needed to crack it open. Or so they thought, until Mel gives a gentle tap and the entire shell crumbles into fine dust.
"I loosened it." Tako-San tries to save face.
"I know." Mel gives, casually, before leaving for the Lard-o-Tron.
Ryusui|GM: (XD)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Using the free invoke from the Tank Girl stunt.))
Ryusui|GM: (that's everyone, right?)
Vera: (He got Crystalized Sucrosium [!] (SWEET) from that, I believe. Or is it a boost?)
Ryusui|GM: (on a success it's a full aspect)
Ryusui|GM: (so yeah, [Crystallized Sucrosium (Sweet)][!])
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Effectively transferring the free invoke instead of getting more, but it being on a different aspect can be just as important.))
Ryusui|GM: (so, everyone done now?)
Vera: (I believe so?)
Vera: (... Yeah, that's everyone.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Vera and Dovelia only have two situation aspect from the cook-off. Did they both fail a Create an Advantage action?))
Ryusui|GM: (yes)
Ryusui|GM: EXCHANGE 4/6
Vera: "O.K. Let's kill this. Injecting the flavors of 'spring' into a crème brûlée - an umbral dish that's normally inclined towards autumn and winter flavors..." Vera thrusts up a small bowl of green powder. "It begins with this; I'm starting with a Scheele's Macha Custard Tureen - SWEET:6!"
"Whoa!" Holly chimes in. "Is Vera really intending to turn such a mature ingredient into a SWEET component of the dish? And with such a delicate breed of tea, too! Disturbing the chemical balance in Scheele's Macha could result in our judge having... arsenic for dessert!"
Vera: !f 1 (SWEET)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+1 for 2 [4dF = [+][ ][+][-]]
Vera: (*fist-pump Invoking twice on the creme brulee plot!)
Ryusui|GM: (flavor it)
Margen: Margen dons a welder's mask, produces a forgemaster's chef's torch, and begins the dread work of smelting down the Sucrosium-suffused peppers into a spicy syrup.
Margen: (Spicy 4)
Margen: !f 2 (Spicy)
DiscoDude: <@Margen> rolled 4dF+2 for 3 [4dF = [ ][+][+][-]]
Vera: Vera carefully sets the setting on the mixer, incorporating egg, sugar, cream, macha, and a mote of hibiscus extract. Finally, she sets the ramekins filled with mottled (yet brilliant) green custard-to-be into the oven in pools of water to steam.
"I will kill da ho on your eggy asses if you even think of breaking on me."
Margen: (ruh-roh)
Ryusui|GM: (XD)
Vera: They don't break, however, and they come out of the oven fine.
"Right, into the fridge you go, now."
Margen: (oh wait i have an invoke on the ingredient)
Margen: (just not 2)
Ryusui|GM: (a tie will suffice)
Vera: (Also, name the dish aspect. (Wait, sauce as the main one?))
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia hears Vera's creme brulee preparations and almost halts what she's doing entirely to watch.
Margen: (Oh jeez dangit i did it out of order), it's a topping for the brittle)
Vera: (Spend a fate to rearrange later. XP)
Ryusui|GM: (^^^)
Margen: (I mean, it's 3 liquids that cool into a solid mass, and I was thinking SWEET as the main (all that milk chocolate) and yeah I could spin it with a fatepoint)
Vera: (Assuming that 'spinning' will even be necessary.)
Margen: (true)
Ryusui|GM: After Vera's work is done, Dovelia returns her attention to her work. The Kaletronium is going into a blender. With all the additional sugar, and some other ingredients she plans to add, the [Kaletronium Smoothie (Bitter): 6] she has planned should make a positively stunning - and nutritious! - dessert.
Ryusui|GM: !f 2 (Bitter)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+2 for 3 [4dF = [+][+][ ][-]]
Ryusui|GM: (spending both invokes on the Kaletronium FTW)
Vera: (A'ight.)
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia takes a sip of the verdant green concoction. The sugar doesn't quite cover up the bitterness entirely, but the flavor profile is approaching her intended goal.
Vera: 'Looks more like a sh*tty health shake than a dessert right now, but I know better than to underestimate that lady...'
Ryusui|GM: (still waiting on <@!;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾>!)
Ryusui|GM: (<@!;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾>)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Just realized I doop'd myself out of the peppermint I was trying for when you convinced me to extract the sugar, so unless a Fate point can allow for the extra action, I'll have to rework my idea.))
Vera: (Or just use plain-ss mint/peppermint? :3)
Vera: (Lardertron's just for getting stuff so* special that you can invoke it.)
Ryusui|GM: (yeah, this isn't the Fast Food Roulette challenge)
Ryusui|GM: (the pantries are stocked with whatever you can imagine; the Lardertron just lets you obtain ingredients you can use as aspects)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((That's my reworking solution; I'm just sad I don't get to make the "Pepper + mint = peppermint" bit more entwined with the game's mechanics.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((My point is I'd like to retroactively retract Mel wandering off.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Tako-San finds some fresh mint in the cupboards at the station and calls Mel back over. Whiping the pepper and the mint together he prepares to cranks out **Make-Shift Peppermint.
((Create an Advantage with Spicy against Legendary (+8) difficulty))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: !f 2
DiscoDude: <@;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> rolled 4dF+2 for 1 [4dF = [-][-][ ][+]]
Ryusui|GM: (oh my)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: It takes all of the Candied Nurgle Jolokia Peppers and accidently braking a mixer from the Promotionally Arranged Utensils, but, while muttering under his breath "Ai'll Expand My Chéin to thee Starsu!" to keep himself motivated, manages to pull-off the punny amalgamation.
((Also spending a fate point for a second invocation of the prep aspect.))
Vera: (If you're willing to extend that far for this, I got no objections.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Better than wasting time and getting nothing for it.))
Ryusui|GM: (to be clear, you're spending two FATE Points? Or three?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Two (2).))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Boost, free invoke + fate point, fate point.))
Ryusui|GM: "I don't know if combining peppers with mint will really make anything you could call 'peppermint,'" Holly quips with a wink at the camera, "but Tako sure seems confident in it, at least!"
Ryusui|GM: (i think this is where we wrap up for the night)
Ryusui|GM: (<@&627978553669058562>, any last lines?)
Vera: "I want what he's smoking."
Vera: (WAIT.)
Margen: (muffled through welding mask): "This is REALLY spicy!"
Vera: (Margen, you need to actually name your dish aspect.)
Margen: (oh jeez i do)
Vera: (But yeah, that was Vera's last line.)
Margen: A Candy-Capsaicin Concoction
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((I already gave Tako-San's.))
Ryusui|GM: (i love it, <@!Margen> XD)
Ryusui|GM: "We're reaching the end of our Quick-Fire Cook-Off, but there's still two exchanges to go! As the good book says, don't panic - we'll be right back after a word from our sponsors!"
Ryusui|GM: !end
