Camp Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 5, 2019

[sith_happened]

"Good morning!" Anakin blared through the microphone. "An essential skill of a camper is the ability to feed yourself over a campfire--BEAKER, GET AWAY FROM THE CAMPFIRES."

There was slightly charred sounding apologetic meeping as Beaker moved away from one of the two campfires that had been carefully set up in the park. There were rickety looking folding tables arranged nearby the fires with cutting boards, knives, bowls, and other moddable kitchen items nearby. There was, however, no power. Everything would have to be chopped and grated and opened from a can by hand.

"Today, you will be paired up and asked to feature one of two different sets of menu items," Anakin continued. "And then you will present them to our esteemed panel of judges: Summer, Hannibal, Peebee, and Vette." He pointed to the judges. "Your meal must be cooked over the campfire. We have an array of other ingredients--" he pointed to a pantry and set of mini fridges that Beaker was now standing near, so expect that to spontaneously fall over any minute now, "--for you to use to supplement your original ingredients, but you must use the three ingredients we give you." He took a deep breath. "Please don't give the judges food poisoning, and remember that presentation matters. Listen for your names!"

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Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[sith_happened]

"The following pairs will be featuring the following ingredients," Anakin announced, "--hot dogs, marshmallows, and tomatoes!"

Oh, you lucky judges.

"1. Okuyasu & Nina
2. Prompto & Kathy
3. Breq & Tip
4. Wayne & Shuri
5. Beaker & Amaya
6. Lana & Verity
7. Janet & Kanan!"

Meet up and start cooking!

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[uncertain_dume]

"... I feel like the tomatoes and the hot dogs together wouldn't be a disaster, but those marshmallows..."

Kanan had his doubts.

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[overparented]

"Hot dogs and s'mores are a time honored campfire combo," Janet said. "We just have to feature it, right?"

This was not elevating the ingredients.

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[uncertain_dume]

"I suppose we do," Kanan said, staring dubiously at the ingredients on front of them. And then pausing and looking at Janet speculatively. "I might defer to you for this one, I'm not exactly from around here."

Kanan, you literally worked in a diner.

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[overparented]

"Oh, it's easy," Janet said, picking up the hot dogs. "Take those out of the package and dump them in boiling water, and then we'll cut up tomatoes. We're not really reinventing the wheel."

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Yeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sibling power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The ingredients were weird together but, like, Vette was a judge. Nina was pretty sure that, if nothing else, she could figure out something that Vette liked!

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[handystand]

Okuyasu had a look of 'I have trained all my life for this' in his eyes. Or rather more accurately, as he said out loud: "I think Summer-sensei's class has prepared me for this."

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina paused.

"Summer's class would be useful this, wouldn't it???????????" she mused. "Have you, like, got ideas already????? Or should we go scope out the fridges?????????"

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[handystand]

"Well we kind of luck out that all our featured ingredients can be roasted over the fire," Okuyasu said, not wanting to think about campfire-roasted tuna. Luckily, not a thing he'd have to do. "We don't have to do anything fancy, either. Hot dogs with a roasted tomato relish and s'mores are basic but classic, you know?"

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[hashtag_chocobro]

"Well," said Prompto, as he looked over the ingredients thoughtfully and just barely sang out the next part, "one of these things is not like the others..."

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[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy stopped when she saw her partner, head cocked slightly and brow furrowed. "I don't...do I know you?" she asked, dubiously.

He didn't exactly look familiar, but there was something about his nose maybe....

At her side, Ronin also tilted his head, his tail a banner high in the air. "He doesn't smell familiar," he reported.

"Still not used to that," Kathy said, looking down at her dog.

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[hashtag_chocobro]

"Naahh, man," Prompto said, with a grin that he couldn't have helped even if he tried...and the same went with his blush, "I think I'd have remembered that."

What? She was cute! Prompto Argentum did not forget cute girls! Although...despite that...he had to admit, there was something weirdly familiar about her that he just...couldn't...put his finger on...

Either way, neither of those things really matter right now because there was a talking dogs and he laughed.

"So I take it he usually doesn't talk like Delirium's dog and this is the island thing, right? So cool. I cannot wait until my shift at the shelter tomorrow, me and those puppies are going to have the best time."

It was...kind of surprising he hadn't just moved into the shelter for however long this lasted, especially since, knowing his luck, it would be all over tomorrow, or something.

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[spin_kick_snap]

Okay, so the blush was also weirdly familiar. And the mention of the shelter...

"Oh so it is everything?" Kathy asked. "I wasn't sure. That makes more sense. Not just you, Ronin."

"I hadn't thought so," Ronin said, giving his tail a little wag at Prompto. "No pets, please. I am on duty. Even though I don't have a vest. I must be vigilant."

Kathy hid a smile and knelt, wrapping her arms around his neck and chest. "You are the goodest boy," she murmured, unconsciously dropping into a kind of little girl singsong.

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[howareyanow]

After setting out their featured ingredients in front of him, Wayne folded his arms, looked down at them, and released a slight, deep growling sounds that probably was a good indication of just what he thought about them.

But at least he was paired with Shuri. He liked her so far, and, between the two of them, they should be able to figgur it ouwt...

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[scoffs_at_tradition]

"We can grill the tomatoes--" she pronounced it "to-mah-toes", "--and then smush them together for some sort of chutney for the sausages," she said. "We make a very spicy one at home with onions, tomatoes and chiles. If we," she frowned at the marshmallows, "burn them to ash we can still use them without it being horrifyingly sweet, perhaps?"

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[howareyanow]

Wayne's head snapped Shuri's way, but it was a distinctly impressed snap.

"Chutney," he declared, "is a great idea, and you can't ever go wrong with grillin'. Mebbe...now...mebbe..."

He was thinking. You could practically see gears turning slowly in his head.

"Now mebbe we can see if there's some maple syrup over in the other ingredients. The real stuff, I'll not be inviting any Mrs. Buttersworth to my table. But we use that...and the marshmallows....sort of melt 'em down, smoke 'em up a bit, mebbe add some bacon, get a decent sort of sweet glaze for the..." He seemed to struggle to call them that, all things considered, but if that's how Shuri saw them... "...sausages. That way, there's a nice compliment, isn't it? You got the sweet and smoky with the meat, and then the chutney'll bring in spice. Might not be a bad comination..."

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[unusual_sith]

"Please tell me you can cook." Lana had only the vaguest idea of how to microwave everything.

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[arboreal_priestess]

"Well..." Verity said. "I can cook. Mostly. But I'm not sure a master chef could do anything with these ingredients."

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[unusual_sith]

"Put it all on a hot dog bun and see how it tastes?" Lana suggested.

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[intotheout]

Tip felt that having spent half a year living on her own at age 11 would give her an advantage in this particular event. Sure, she'd mostly lived on vending machine food during that time, and she'd had Boov ingenuity to rely on, even if J.Lo hadn't known a blessed thing about human dietary needs. Still.

". . . Do you think the tomato and marshmallows need to be in the same part of the meal? Or can we make an entree and a dessert?"

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[justice_undone]

"At least keep them separate," Breq agreed. "Tomato and hot dog should work. Just fry them together?"

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[intotheout]

"Throw in some garlic and onion and that'll be awesome," Tip said. "Though that sounds like it'd be taking the easy way out. Same with doing s'mores for dessert."

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[special_rabbit]

Awww. Amaya couldn't help grin a little when she heard who her partner was. She didn't know what it said about her that she felt this way, but she sort of missed working with him.

"So, what do you think, Beaker?" she asked, in a way that should probably make people worried that the two of them got paired together, especially now that he wasn't her student. "Got any good ideas?"

'Good' being a relative term, of course.

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[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meee!"

Under no circumstances let him flambe the marshmallows.

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[special_rabbit]

"Hmmmmmmm," said Amaya, thoughtfully.

Yup, just as she suspected: she...still could not speak Beaker. She'd done a fine job with the squirrels, really, but that wasn't so surprising. Chatty squirrels ran rampant where she was from, but Beaker was truly One of a Kind.

"Well," she offered, having no idea what her partner had just said but hoping this would roll with it well enough, "whatever we do, I am firmly of the opinion that it needs to be on sticks."