DiscoDude: ---BEGIN SESSION---
DiscoDude: Session logging commenced
Ryusui|GM: EXCHANGE 5/6
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia's next plan for her dish is to add some more complex flavor notes. There's already sweetness in there courtesy of the candied kaletronium, but she intends to add some sliced-up Venusian Bananas to the mix!
Ryusui|GM: (attempting to add [Blended with Venusian Bananas (Sweet): 4]!)
Ryusui|GM: !f 3 (Sweet)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+3 for 0 [4dF = [ ][-][-][-]]
Vera: (*fart SFX)
Ryusui|GM: (...okay, i'm going to spend the free invoke on the Carefully Whetted Knife, and spend a FATE Point on it as well)
Vera: (DRAINED [?] in-bound.)
Ryusui|GM: (DAMMIT XD)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Not rerolling?))
Ryusui|GM: (okay, i'll spend my last FATE Point on my Cybernetic Left Arm, then)
Ryusui|GM: (and maybe i'll make up the difference via the judging or confessionals)
Vera: (Ah crud, forgot about that.)
Vera: (Ah well; they can't all be total precise knee kick-ins. XD)
Ryusui|GM: With ninja-like movements, she peels and slices one of the strange, pulsating violet fruits into nice little rounds which sink into the green mixture, turning into a stripe of violet. Another taste: this is almost ready, her expression says.
Vera: Vera gets out the twine, and gets to work making an Chilled Cooly-Cumber Bouquet - COOL:3 out of hibiscus flowers and thinly sliced cooly-cumber rolled into tulip shapes.
"Once I get these taut, they're joining their custard bros in the chiller; cooly-cumber holds its shape like nothing else when it's what... 60 Fahrenheit or lower?"
Vera: !f 2 (COOL)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+2 for -1 [4dF = [ ][-][-][-]]
Vera: (For the love of... Let's see...)
Ryusui|GM: (you're at three FATE Points, I think?)
Vera: (One, actually. I'll spend the remaining free invoke on Spring Crème Brûlée Plot [!] to reroll.)
Vera: !f 2 (COOL)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+2 for 2 [4dF = [+][ ][-][ ]]
Vera: (... Better, but ultimately the same as if I spent both it and my fate point on it to boost. BTW, I'm spending my last fate point to boost to 4.)
Ryusui|GM: (righto, so, Vera and Dovelia are both at zero, Tako is at 1, and Margen is at 3, correct?)
Margen: (Yep)
Vera: "There we go." Vera lines half the inside circumferences of empty ramekins with the bouquets before placing them in the chiller with the others, fully intending to remove the twine when she transfers them to the actual custard in a moment.
Margen: (so I was really not all there at the end last time and if I'm remembering correctly I think I messed up and did my spicy secondary before my planned 6-point Savory main. Should I do that next or just roll a 4-point?)
Ryusui|GM: (i'm going to let you do the 6-point Savory, but it won't count as being higher value than your side until you either spend an action or a FATE Point to swap them)
Margen: (Thanks, I'll probably use a FATE point in a bit; I need the actions)
Margen grins as he drops the welding visor again and pulls out the blowtorch.
"Time to smelt some baconite. Haven't done this since Advanvced Culinary Pyrohazards at the Academy!"
Margen: He blasts the crucible with the "brulee" torch and the sugar begins to bubble.
Margen: As it melts, it forms a Fluidic Baconite Reduction (Savory 6)
Margen: !f 3 (Savory:6)
DiscoDude: <@Margen> rolled 4dF+3 for 2 [4dF = [+][-][ ][-]]
Margen: (Plus the two invokes from the Porkus Maximus bacon)
Ryusui|GM: (and that's a win!)
Vera: (Describe it~)
Vera: (Also, maybe describe how he swaps the dish aspects around, if you're gonna do that.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((that seems much less mandatory, since, at least in real life, which is made first isn't actually restricted in order outside of specific cases or kinds.))
Vera: (*shrug I'm not about to say "no" outright to the rules.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((I meant the narration part.))
Margen: Margen adds piece after piece of Maximus Baconite to the crucible, watching it melt into a brick-red-pink-gold syrup that obviously doesn't like existing in this state. As he stirs the highly unstable goo, he begin to drop in pieces of the Candied Capsaicin Concoction, creating glowing greenish ribbons through the culinary abomination, reminiscent of the stripes on the peppers. An indescribable aroma like the most elusive carnitas fills the stadium as Margen weaves together the boiling flavor
Vera: (I assume you spent that fate point to swap, rather than an exchange?)
Margen: (yep)
Ryusui|GM: (that puts you down to 2)
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia sniffs the air and looks over at Margen's station. She can't fathom just what it is he's preparing over there, but it smells...good. Positively mouthwatering.
Vera: Vera can smell it too, but it's raising an eyebrow for her.
"Is it dessert, though?"
Margen: faint maniacal giggling can be heard from beneath the welding mask, followed by the words "Most definitely"
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Tako-San pours some of the water from his tank into a dehydrator with a weird look from Mel.
"You sure you know what you're doing?" she asks.
"I need to get salt, somehow."
"Alright; I'll trust you."
Tako-San then begins to move the Sea-Salt Salve that's left over to the pepper-mint.
((Creating an Advantage with Savory against Great (+4) difficulty))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: !f 2
DiscoDude: <@;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> rolled 4dF+2 for 0 [4dF = [ ][ ][-][-]]
Ryusui|GM: (dammit, the dice are not our friends today)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Invoking high concept to reroll.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: !f 2
DiscoDude: <@;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> rolled 4dF+2 for 2 [4dF = [+][-][ ][ ]]
Ryusui|GM: (you're outta FATE Points)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((I am, now; yes.))
Vera: (I mean, he is now.)
Ryusui|GM: (i was just confirming that was your last FATE Point)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: "Shoo-to!" Tako-San curses. The salt is caked into the dehydrator. Not only is it impossible to remove in a timely manner, the devise is probably ruined.
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Compelling confessional.))
Ryusui|GM: "Oooh, nice idea, iffy on the execution," Holly says, vworping you into her confessional zone. "Would you say you're feeling a bit...salty that didn't work?"
Ryusui|GM: !f 2 (Clever)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+2 for -1 [4dF = [-][-][ ][-]]
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Tako-San is motionless, stuck in their initial position out of disorientation, until the pun, where he snaps to a relaxed "stance" (if you could call it one) and giving a hearty laugh. "Ai'm glad to see Rachelle and Ai aren't the only one's throwing around word-play. However, Ai merely fell behind on adding extras, the base dish will still be excellent." He dos a bit of a flurrish with his tentacles to enhance their emphasis of that last word.
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: !f 3 (Flashy)
DiscoDude: <@;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> rolled 4dF+3 for 0 [4dF = [-][-][ ][-]]
Ryusui|GM: (you win...just barely XD)
Vera: (I freaking knew this was going to happen the moment I got out of bed today. XP)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Success!))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((O.K., Arnold.))
Ryusui|GM: "Confident li'l gastropod, aren't you? Welp, back to work with you~"
Vera: (Is that the aspect name?)
Ryusui|GM: You return to reality with no further incident.
Vera: "Whoa, Margen, are you seeing this sht?" Vera points at Tako's station. "Did they cover proper bath-water* handling at 'the Academy'?"
Ryusui|GM: (aspect? tako won; it wasn't a tie)
Vera: (Yeah; he wins a popularity aspect.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: "Cephalo-" Tako-San stops himself when he realizes their at their station again.
Ryusui|GM: (oh, oh, got it~)
Ryusui|GM: (anyways name your popularity aspect, and then it's time for THE FINAL ROUND)
Vera: (Also, Vera's addressing you, <@!Margen>.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((On-Camera Optimist))
Vera: (I guess he doesn't have to respond - it totally works as an open comment. XD)
Margen: (Whups sorry sibling found my phone)
Margen: Margen is rather distracted, but there's a muffled sentence from behind the shield of which little can be made out but the words "cross-contamination"
Ryusui|GM: (might be best Tako failed this one, eh? XD)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: "Humans eat worse on a daily basis!"
((How so? The Popularity aspect?))
Vera: (He jests, referring about the dish aspect's concept.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: (("Sea salt with octopus infusion" doesn't seem that far-fetched.))
Vera: (I guess I just had Vera phrase it in the worst way possible. XD Shall we move on?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((As you should have. Yes; let's.))
Ryusui|GM: FINAL EXCHANGE
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia has one last finishing touch to apply to her dish. She decants the mixture into a tall sundae glass and applies a swirl of whipped nebula cream on top.
Ryusui|GM: (Attempting to make [Topped with Whipped Nebula Cream (Cool): 1])
Ryusui|GM: !f 1 (Cool)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+1 for 0 [4dF = [-][-][ ][+]]
Ryusui|GM: (WELP)
Vera: "Whipped cream on a kale smoothie... I guess there're worse ideas out there."
Ryusui|GM: (to be clear, i can still go with a sloppy plating aspect at -1, right?)
Vera: (Yeah.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Tako-San, in light of their previous fumble, decides to be more conservative with the application of their Sucrosium Glaze.
((Create an Advantage with Sweet against Fair (+2) difficulty.))
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: !f 0
DiscoDude: <@;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> rolled 4dF+0 for 1 [4dF = [ ][ ][+][ ]]
Ryusui|GM: The ready-made whipped nebula cream falters on her at a critical juncture. The spigot coughs up an untidy cloud of topping, resulting in unpleasant white globs topping the glass. She frowns. She doesn't have time to fix this.
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Invoking the sucrosium for the success.))
Ryusui|GM: (result: [Topped with Messy Globs of Whipped Nebula Cream (Cool): -1])
Vera: (Describe it.)
Ryusui|GM: (going to compel a confessional this time)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((D'oh! Forgot the bonus fate point. Eh; better to save it for the main cook-off.))
Ryusui|GM: -VWORP-
Ryusui|GM: "Missed the money shot by an astronomical unit there, huh?" Holly croons at Dovelia.
Ryusui|GM: !f 2 (Clever)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+2 for 2 [4dF = [ ][ ][ ][ ]]
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: The more careful application manages to work perfectly. Tako-San leans back with a giddy look about them.
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia rubs her forehead. "This," she says, mustering every ounce of self-control she has, "is why I don't rely on prepackaged products if I can help it."
Ryusui|GM: !f 2 (Careful)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+2 for 2 [4dF = [-][ ][ ][+]]
Vera: (For the record, I don't think Holly has a use for Popularity aspects, eclipse or otherwise.)
Ryusui|GM: (obvs XD)
Ryusui|GM: (anyways, it's a tie, so Holly gets a boost)
Vera: (Dovelia about to drop dirt on another chef? :3)
Ryusui|GM: (well, remember, the boost applies to anybody)
Vera: (I know.)
Ryusui|GM: (so it won't make sense to have her name a specific chef)
Vera: (Is it meant to be an "I'll name no names, but..." sorta deal, then?)
Ryusui|GM: "Whoever ends up in here next, you can tell them to watch their backs." Holly mimes an "ooh, scary" gesture, then returns Dovelia to reality.
Ryusui|GM: (-Dovelia's Threat-)
Vera: Vera gets all the ramekins out of the freezer, unties the now-stiff bouquets, and garnishes each custard with them. She then starts sprinkling crushed Sucrosium (with little bits of Kaletronium sticking out of some of the granules) over all of it; even adding an intact (if candied) leaf of Kaletronium - That happens to be with flower! - to the garnish.
"A'ight, mom says it's my turn with the welding mask." She dons her own Station's, and pulls out a blowtorch. "Going for an Extra Dark Kaletronium Brûlée Shell - BITTER:3 to finish things off here."
Margen: Margen can be heard humming the Anvil Chorus as he pours the molten sugar, lays on chocolate, folds the entire sheet several times, hammers it out with a buttered mallet, and begins the process all over again.
Vera: !f 3 (BITTER)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+3 for -1 [4dF = [-][-][-][-]]
Vera: (WH-)
Vera: (... Honestly, I'm tempted to just take the L for an eclipse popularity + confessional rather than go for broke with my last free invoke.)
Ryusui|GM: While Margen hums out the Anvil Chorus, Holly plays "Ave Maria" over a replay of Vera's attempt to make her Kaletronium Brulee Shell.
Margen: !f 1 (sweet: 4 with 2 invokes of chocolate)
DiscoDude: <@Margen> rolled 4dF+1 for 3 [4dF = [ ][+][+][ ]]
Ryusui|GM: (congratumalations)
Vera: ... Which starts - and ends - with a sudden fireball engulfing the station.
BOOM!
Margen: (only needed 1)
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia snaps to attention as Vera's station is incinerated.
Vera: "... *cough Um... I'm okay..." Vera lifts her soot-covered mask. "At least the creme brulee's still intact... Who wants a Burnt Kaletronium Brûlée Shell [?] - BITTER:-1, eh? Ahaha..."
(Confessional? Confessional.)
Margen: Margen wipes his brow and removes his blast shield after chiseling off cubic crystalline precipitate outgrowths to plate only to get blasted by hot air
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: The conflagration is enough for Mel and Tako-San to take pause at it.
Ryusui|GM: -VWORP-
Margen: he shrugs ¯\¯\_(ツ)/¯_/¯
Ryusui|GM: "Wow, that explosion was really impressive! Next time the Granola Wars break out, they're gonna want you on the front lines!" Holly giggles at your expense.
Ryusui|GM: !f 2 (Clever)
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF+2 for 1 [4dF = [+][-][ ][-]]
Margen: (dang escape characters)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((Backslash is the "The next code character is not to be used as a code character" code character.))
Vera: "Look, I get it; I'm 110% f*cked. I'm just glad this isn't the final, so... rationally, I shouldn't be too pissed about this." Vera tries to sigh and mutter rationalizations to herself.
Vera: !f 3 (CLEVER)
DiscoDude: <@Vera> rolled 4dF+3 for 1 [4dF = [ ][-][-][ ]]
Ryusui|GM: (and spending the boost >8D)
Vera: (Do describe how Holly actually uses the threat.)
Vera: (And I did get a fate point from entering this.)
Vera: (At least that's some good news.)
Ryusui|GM: "You know, somebody sure wasn't happy they wound up here," Holly says with a predatory smile. "They said to convey the message 'watch your back.' You know I could keep you here for as long as I like and nobody would notice, don't you?" She gives a vicious little giggle.
Vera: (Hey, I had a fun failure response ready!)
Vera: (Ah well, I guess I can say it in reality, but it doesn't have the same impact. XD)
Ryusui|GM: (that's the nice thing about text; i can retract missteps in my narration XD)
Ryusui|GM: (btw, this puts everyone but margen at 1, right? and margen's at 2?)
Vera: "Wait, what? That was Dovelia with the cream, right...? Wait... No... Did she know I'd end up... Does she know what I did...? Did she cause it to... just now..."
She -VWORPS- back out into the kitchen.
"... Oh, that b*tch..."
Vera: She's feeling a bit SCRAMBLED [?] between the vague and confusing threats and the literal explosion she was at the epicenter of.
Ryusui|GM: Whatever your suspicions are, Dovelia's expression shifts the moment you're returned to reality. She had been legitimately concerned you'd somehow disintegrated yourself, but all you can tell for sure is that it's stoic now, and it had* been something else for an eyeblink.
Ryusui|GM: (is that everyone?)
Vera: (Margen forgot to actually name his dish aspect again.)
Margen: (ah dangit)
- to plate his Spicy Bacon Chocolate Barkoclase (his Uncle Nurgle's specialty), only to get blasted
Margen: (his uncle Nurgle's specialty)
Vera: (That literally has a different flavor in the name. Maybe Encased in Chocolate Barkoclase as the plating aspect?)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((This aspect; not the whole dish.))
Margen: (oh that was the whole dish, whups)
Margen: Intrusive Igneous Milk Chocolate
Vera: (... That sounds more like an ingredient than the thing you made with the ingredient, but close enough.)
Margen: (it's speckled through like a granite)
Ryusui|GM: (right, gimme like five mins here)
Ryusui|GM: The klaxon sounds!
Ryusui|GM: "Chefs, put 'em down and back away!" the Chairwoman declares. "The Quick-Fire Cookoff is officially over!"
Ryusui|GM: QUICK-FIRE COOKOFF END
Ryusui|GM: "Your judge this time will be..."
Ryusui|GM: !r 1d6
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 1d6 for 4 [1d6 = 4]
Ryusui|GM: A slender figure appears at the center of Kitchen Arena in a shower of holographically enhanced confetti and sparkles.
Ryusui|GM: "...the Diva of Kitchen Arena herself, Araza Mangosteen!"
Ryusui|GM: Araza struts towards the judging booth like she's walking down the red carpet at the Space Oscars. "All right, chefs!" she chirps. "Let's see what you've all made for me today!"
Ryusui|GM: "Dovelia, you're up first!" She points at Dovelia, an enthusiastic smile on her face.
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia approaches the judging table and sets down her slightly disheveled glass. "This is a 'shake' concocted from blended candied kaletronium thickened and sweetened with Venusian banana. The topping is, ah, a deconstructed whipped nebula cream. Do enjoy."
Ryusui|GM: !f
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF for -1 [4dF = [+][-][-][ ]]
Vera: (-3.)
Ryusui|GM: Araza giggles, but gives the topping a side-eye, like she knows "deconstructed" is just code for "done badly." She takes a looooooong sip through a straw, then pronounces her judgment.
Vera: (Not that the distinction matters; we're all getting dinged for her dislike here. XD)
Ryusui|GM: (yes, but you get a FATE Point for it 😉 )
Ryusui|GM: "...okay, so, like. A kaletronium smoothie? Kinda done to death. I had so, so many of these slimming down for the last holovid I did, y'know? Mixed with the banana, though, it's better than I would've thought, but...I feel like you were trying too hard here, trying to sell a smoothie as a shake?" She giggles. "You might've pulled it off a bit better if it looked like you were trying to serve a milkshake here and not..." She squints again at the botched topping. "Whatever you ended up doing here," she says with a smile and a shrug.
Ryusui|GM: (Judge's Dislike: Too Fancy! (hates main aspects with Value:6 to Value:8))
Ryusui|GM: FINAL SCORE: 6
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia bows stiffly. "Thank you, Ms. Mangosteen." "You're welcome!" Araza chirps. "Next, let's make it, ah...<@!Vera>!"
Ryusui|GM: (take your time btw, i need another five minutes or so here)
Ryusui|GM: (got called on for some IRL cooking ^_^; )
Vera: (BTW, belated eclipse popularity aspect: Ava Marie Shot.)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((????))
Vera: (The reason I made my failure in the last exchange so spectacular was because I got a [-][-][-][-] eclipse.)
Ryusui|GM: (i love it XD)
Ryusui|GM: (anyways, back, obvs)
Vera: "*cough Hey." Vera stumbles up to the podium, still mostly blackened. "Okay, so, the plan was to serve a macha creme brulee with a bouquet of cooly-cumber, hibiscus, and kaletronium encased under the shell. The idea was to make the shell 'extra dark' so that it was complemented by the kaletronium instead of having to smother it up, and use that to tie the refreshing plants to the dessert parts for a nice Spring bloom preserved under the aftermath of a forest fire, but..." She points to various parts of herself as the very, very dark creme brulee is rolled forward. "Mmmyeah. Guess you'll be the judge to how well that went."
Vera: VERA STEINBECK - FIREWATCH SPRING BRULEE
> Scheele's Macha Custard Tureen [!] - SWEET:6
| Chilled Cooly-Cumber Bouquet [!] - COOL:3
^ Burnt Kaletronium Brûlée Shell [?] - BITTER:-1
Ryusui|GM: !f
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF for 1 [4dF = [-][ ][+][+]]
Ryusui|GM: (well, you beat Dovelia XD)
Vera: (Only -1; still beat- yeah. XD)
Ryusui|GM: "This'd be pretty, if it hadn't caught fire," Araza giggles. "Oh well." She digs into it anyway. "The concept's kinda sweet, thought I do think the execution is a little overwrought. The shell's still got a nice mix of sweet and bitter notes, even if it really does look like it got caught in an inferno, and the tea and vegetable flavors you've chosen complement each other nicely. Do you need any burn cream, by the way? I can have some sent to the waiting room..."
Ryusui|GM: (Judge's Dislike: Too Fancy!)
Ryusui|GM: FINAL SCORE: 7
Vera: "That'd be swell, yeah. Seriously, though, you should've seen that explosion... I assume it looked spectacular from the outside..."
Vera: Vera lifts a stealthy middle finger to Dovelia, as though to say: "I wore the kaletronium better."
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia sees nothing but a slightly bitter - though not undeserved - declaration of victory.
Ryusui|GM: "Next, next, uh...the tentacle guy!" She looks between Margen and Tako, then points at Tako. "You there, the one in the tank! Come on down!"
Ryusui|GM: ( <@!;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾> )
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: Mel pushes Tako-San up to the table as the serene cephalopod places the plate of hard candies (that Tako-San managed to convincingly food-color just before the klaxon sounded) before the judge.
Vera: (If ever there was someone to trigger her dislike, both mechanically and conceptually... XD)
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: "This is my attempt to recreate a common house-hold candy using the extra-terrestrial ingredients at hand. Peppermint!" Tako-San is shorter on words out of nerviousness, but only those close to him would recognize that.
Ryusui|GM: !f
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF for 2 [4dF = [+][+][+][-]]
Vera: (So an even 0.)
Ryusui|GM: Araza picks up one of the "candies" Tako's created, gives it a suspicious once-over, then pops it into her mouth. After the glaze disintegrates, she seems taken aback; the flavor is not at all what she'd consider "peppermint." She doesn't seem to mind it, per se, and after finishing it off, she takes a second and then a third with less reluctance. "If I have one problem with this treat you've cooked up here" - she still has the third candy in her mouth - "it's that you put in a lot of work for what's, like, a pun? I mean, the flavors are good, but if you'd focused more on making a good dish than setting up a whiz-bang surprise, I might be overwhelmed instead of...well, just a teeny bit disappointed. Good candy overall, though." She takes a fourth piece and waves Tako off.
Ryusui|GM: (Judge's Dislike: Too Fancy!)
Ryusui|GM: FINAL SCORE: 10
Ryusui|GM: "<@!Margen>!" Araza calls out, finishing off the last of Tako's candies. "You're up next!"
Margen: "This is a selection of Nurgloid Bacon Chocolate Barkoclase formation fragments for your inspection. As the main sugar-mass cools, certain flavor-dominant crystals are produced at varying rates. There are sweet, spicy, and savory monocrystalline structures (clear blocks of deep red, glowing green, and coffee brown); spicy-savory edible obsidian (deep red-green volcanic glass); savory-sweet microcrystals in a dioritic arrangement (a grainy red mass with large black specks); spicy-sweet smoky sucrose (large coffee-brown hexagonal crystals shot with acid green veins); and triple-point candy orthoclase (a rectangular block of uniform, undifferentiated brown, hard sugar on a stick).
Margen: "
Margen: Margen elaborates, pointing to each treat in turn
Ryusui|GM: !f
DiscoDude: <@Ryusui|GM> rolled 4dF for 1 [4dF = [ ][+][+][-]]
Margen: (definitely too fancy XD)
Vera: (Just wiping my brow, glad that you didn't get another diabolus ex nihilo roll almost snatching what should have been a likely win, like with the last cook-off.)
Vera: (Because strategically, I'm still rooting for you this episode.)
Ryusui|GM: Araza's eyes go wide as you explain. "Oh my god," she croons. "It's like a geological smorgasbord!" She whips out her phone, excitedly queues up an app, and suddenly the entire dish you've set out gets analyzed and catalogued with a brilliant green laser light show. "Oh my god. I honestly don't want to have to eat this; you've put in so much work...you have made my work so much harder here, y'know?" You've clearly made her quite excited with your dish, which she consumes with exacting care, like a geologist extracting rare samples. "You've taken this whole concept of crystalline flavors and brought it to the next level. Whether it's dessert is a question for the philosophers, and that's not my major...but you've certainly presented me with a dish to remember." She mouths "Oh my god" to herself over and over as she continues to take images, trying to do as little damage as possible to your work as she samples all its flavors.
Ryusui|GM: (Judge's Dislike: Too Fancy!)
Ryusui|GM: FINAL SCORE: 13
Ryusui|GM: "Now that all the dishes have been presented," the Chairwoman intones, "I believe it's time for our judge to render a verdict?"
Vera: Vera raises an eyebrow and mutters quietly to herself: "Huh... Not quite the ditz she usually seems on TV?"
Ryusui|GM: "Margen! Definitely Margen!" Araza says pointing. The Chairwoman pauses, then sighs. "The winner of the Quick-Fire Cookoff is..."
Ryusui|GM: A spotlight shines on Margen.
Ryusui|GM: "Margen," the Chairwoman says, as if Araza hadn't made her choice clear already.
Margen: He does a Glurrid bow and nods
Ryusui|GM: "And as always, you will receive a special bonus in the main-cook off, which shall begin shortly. First, however, you shall all retire to the waiting room while we make final preparations for the challenge. Good work, all of you - I'm sure the audience is excited to see what you'll prepare next!"
Ryusui|GM: (last lines?)
Ryusui|GM: Dovelia gives Vera a rather unsettled sidelong look. Just how poor an impression does she have of her at this point?
Margen: "I can't believe I got to use a Melterator Mark IV on TV!"
Vera: Vera seems to snap out of her musing about Araza to slap Margen on the shoulder.
"Congrats, man. Here's hoping the trend continues; you're probably going to need it."
Margen: "Thanks! That was an impressive shockwave earlier, I'm glad you're ok :v"
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: ((And now Margen can't move.))
Ryusui|GM: (XD)
Ryusui|GM: (you got anything to say, Tako?)
Vera: "*cough You're gonna go far, kid." A plume of smoke wafts from her mouth, two inches from Margen's face.
Margen: Margen's fine, he rarely breathes
;}"÷™+╎®♂★█¬ˇ¾: "You wanna take that break now?" Mel casually asks of Tako-San.
"Yesu; pleasu." Tako-San responds with an uncharacteristic lack of emotion.
Vera: (Getting close to bedtime now. Shall we?)
Ryusui|GM: "Don't touch that app, folks! We'll be right back, after a word from our sponsors!"
Ryusui|GM: !end
