fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Today's shenanigans had been redirected into the community center--there were signs in the park to herd everyone into the correct place, and the food vendors had set up their rickshaws out front in anticipation.

"Today," Anakin began once everyone had taken seats, "we will take a break from physical acuman and see how good you are at following directions. Since I've taught most of you, I'm betting on...less well." He gestured at the tables, baking ingredients, and ovens that had been set up. "Today you will be working in pairs to complete two cooking goals. We have guest judges to grade your attempts: Dr. Lecter, who teaches culinary courses, and Mr. Eliot Spencer, who runs the diner. Listen for you names, please:

Ahsoka and Cristina; Aphra and Kanan; Amaya and Aloy; Zack and Hernando; Tip and Reno; Theron and Uma; Karla and Beaker; Jaina and Sidon; Astrid and Jono; and Mitsutada and Kitty."

"Those who come in second place will receive the glory of the singing fish," Anakin said, calling the terrifying beastie back to his hand with an indolent wave. "The rest of you get...sleep without nightmares, I guess."

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Once the amazing cookies are taken away, a giant stacked and carved cake emerges: it's the Fandom castle, at least five tiers high, surrounded by realistically painted and molded chocolate alots, teal deer, and gremlins. Hovering atop the castle is a fish that doesn't sing, but does emit dry ice smoke.

It's huge, it's complicated, but relax, right? Anakin has given you the directions for making cake batter, has provided the fondant, the Rice Krispie treats and the modeling chocolate, and has given you all of...well, two hours to make this thing.

Super reasonable of him!

Or burning and tipping over, because that's funny, too?

"Um," said Tip, looking at the demo cake. "Um."

And it had to all be edible?

Reno squinted at the cake. And then looked at Tip. And then back to the cake.

"... Never thought I'd say this, but I think we might be limited by shit like gravity, here."

How did that cake even work?

"Maybe it's just 'cause I'm working with you, but I kind of want to rig our version to explode."

"... Sold. Let's do this."

It was easy to talk Reno into the fun and very stupid shit.

Tip clapped her hands and rubbed them together, looking over the ingredients. "So right now you're my favorite teacher of the summer."

That would probably not last super long, no. Tip was constantly pleasantly surprised by the adults on this island.

"So, this time around you work on mixin' the cake, and I rig up a food-safe explosive that ain't gonna kill anyone?"

Because Reno was cool with being the cool teacher, too, but probably didn't actually want to kill Hannibal or Eliot in the process.

". . . Yeah, that's probably a good plan."

Tip was a little less good at the whole "follow every instruction to the letter" thing, but she was reasonably sure she could handle some cake pans, rice crispy treats and melting chocolate.

Their base was probably going to come out a little burnt. And raw in the middle. But hey! Still wouldn't kill anyone!

And really, raw in the middle meant it'd be easier to blow up!

Presumably!

"Alright, we have this," Reno drawled, looking perfectly pleased with this setup as he started to zip around, looking for baking components that he could rig up to be just volatile enough to make this monstrosity blow.

"We've totally got this." Tip stared at the various sized cake pans and looked back at the instructions. ". . . Mostly."

"Whoever made that is in serious need of a life."

"It wasn't Anakin, that's for sure." Her boundless faith in Anakin did not extend to his cooking skills.

“Good. Being able to make things float should count as, like, cheating.”

Yeah, about that, Christina.

"Using the Force for that kind of detail work actually takes a lot more concentration than doing it by hand would."

“So there are rules to it,” Cristina mused. “‘Cause honestly it mostly looks like a bunch of handwaving to me.”

"So... our biggest enemy in making this one is going to be the clock, right?"

Leave it to Zack to have an optimistic outlook on this one.

Then again, he'd built several different flower carts for Aerith, once, all of them different and varying degrees of impressive craftsmanship. How hard could a stack of cake and a smoking fish really be?

HOW DID YOU DO? Be sure to paint us a word picture of your artistic endeavor. And the judges have to taste your cake too, so if you switched up salt for sugar, mention that, too...

[OOC: And the RNG says that for this round, the winners look like this:
Aphra and Kanan;
Zack and Hernando;
Amaya and Aloy;
Karla and Beaker;
Jaina and Sidon;
Tip and Reno;
Ahsoka and Cristina;
Theron and Uma;
Mitsutada and Kitty;
Astrid and Jono.]

Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 18, 2018

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