Practical Diplomacy, Friday, January 11, 2019

[sith_happened]

"Another peril of diplomatic life is having to attend local cultural events and pretending to be impressed," Anakin shouted over the sound of drums and some sort of weird horn thing that was being played with great enthusiasm and very little skill by the troupe dressed up in some form of local attire in the Danger Shop behind him. "Today I have five different scenarios that you will have to work through while maintaining a proper diplomatic expression--not laughing, not saying 'ew', and not saying no to any of the weird requests they will make of you."

The drummers behind him got even louder. You lucky, lucky students.

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Activity #2

[sith_happened]

The scene changes to a cooking show, hooray! You are on a local cooking show! The host is making some kind of fish dish (the fish is bright blue and has three heads) and is speaking to you rapidly in the local language (that you don't understand), then handing you an enormous machete!

Please don't kill the host or yourself with it.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

ON the one hand, it was a cooking show, and Sidon did not do cooking. On the other hand, though, the cooking involved fish! And a machete! So Sidon figured he could put a few things together there, beaming at the host as the machete was being handed over, bowing in appreciation. "What a fine blade!" he offered, chuckling in a self-effacing way for his poor understanding of the language, but wanting to offer something in his own, before turning his winning grin at the host and gesturing, with a questioning tilt of his head, toward the fish.

He made a few small cutting motions with the machete in the air, gesturing at the fish with his free hand, adding in a few encouraging nods to prompt the host to confirm his assumption on what was to be expected of him, lest just going for the head and preparing the fish as he assumed would be needed would be a terrible breech in decorum, prepared to play the big, bumbling, clueless foreign dignitary to help smooth things over if it got a little rough around the edges.

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[justice_undone]

Breq could cook acceptably well, and she had faced stranger dishes than three-headed fish. She made sure to smile at the host, then neatly chopped the fish into thick slices.

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[chirpchirpchirp]

"... Can I just take off with this? No?"

Well, darn. But Vette could chop up the fish easily enough, at least. Three heads, huh? Were... were they keeping those? Setting them to the side? Maybe they needed that head, there...

Eh, she'd just cube the whole thing.

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[unusual_sith]

Lana accepted the blade with a nod, then indicated on the fish where she thought she ought to cut and looked up in question at the host. "Here?"

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[mylandmyrules]

Well, Nell had never seen a fish with three heads, but she was more than capable of preparing the fish for cooking. With a nod of her head and a smile she did just that.