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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Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

The bleachers were looking much more stable today, and the food vendors (who weren't your friends and neighbors) were serving all kinds of delicious munchies. Anakin didn't know about anyone else, but he was always hungry watching people cook.

Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[sith_happened]

"The following pairs will be featuring the following three ingredients," Anakin announced, "peanuts, gelatin, and tuna!"

Delicious!

"1. Billy & Ben
2. Aeryn & Mae
3. Seivarden & Miguel
4. Iris (Ino) & Hardison
5. Jono & Sidon
6. Peter & Mitsutada
7. Sabine & Keyleth!"

Meet up and start cooking!

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!

Judges Judging Judgily!

[sith_happened]

Or just watching as the contestants set themselves on fire.

Beaker.

Present Your Dishes!

[sith_happened]

God help those judges.

(Give a description of your creation and judges, do your thing!)

[OOC: The RNG declares Billy & Ben the winners of Group A and Okuyasu & Nina the winners of Group B!]

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

If you must. He's not trying your dishes.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Up early, for once!

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[uncertain_dume]

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

Kanan had his doubts.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[furnaceface]

Jono just sort of tilted his head at the ingredients in question.

//... Honestly, we could've done far worse than this selection,// he noted. //The other team wound up with marshmallows.//

And the amount of British cooking that involved gelatin anyway? Pff. The judges should just count themselves lucky that they were cooking with tuna and not eels.

Re: Judges Judging Judgily!

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette... was kind of excited about this, honestly. Mostly for the free food. But at least in part because she could be judgey all she wanted, too.

"You're going to share that tuna, right?"

And the kitten perched on her shoulder under one lek was looking forward to it almost as much.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[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!

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[sir_zapsalot]

Billy was kind of staring at the folding table, wondering if it was going to collapse under its own insignificant weight any second.

"On the bright side, I don't think this is much weirder than what we get at home sometimes when Victor and Rosa leave us in charge of dinner."

Eugene got some wild ideas sometimes when he managed to peel himself away from his video games for ten seconds.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[bookbeltof_love]

With the way her classes were, Nina was sort of grateful to the park-thing for getting her out and about mid-week since, other than her shop, she was left thoroughly to her own devices and these days those devices were either reading all the books or seeing what else she could get into through her phone.

Wayne's advice about finding a professional would probably, like, be useful but the idea of being supplanted in terms of usefulness made her twitchy and it wasn't like she was on a tight deadline.

Even if she had no intentions of, like, taking twenty years to get good at anything she set her mind to.

Nina got a drink from one of the vendors and settled on the bleachers, playing with her phone while keeping an eye on who, and what was going on around her.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[intraspective]

"Like, I ain't sure this is gonna be edible no matter what we do, with those three ingredients," Iris said doubtfully. "My cookin' ain't much for that sort of thing."

It was pretty sad, really, that she'd have rathered have the other set of ingredients.

Re: Judges Judging Judgily!

[sharp_man]

Hannibal was wondering how he had gotten himself into this.

And wondering if he could possibly just pretend to eat.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[can_be_more]

"He's a madman," Aeryn said, picking up the tuna and frowning at it.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I should probably mention that I don't cook much," Sabine said, but she was trying to figure out how to make these things work. Or at least, how to make it look appetizing even if it wasn't.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[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."

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[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?????????"

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[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.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[goldfishontherocks]

Keyleth . . . was eyeing the gelatin with extreme dubiousness.

"I think I've heard about creatures like this," she said, because someone had spent a little too much time studying about the various flora and fauna of Exandria.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[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.

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group B!

[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?"

Re: Come on Down, Contestants of Group A!

[battlewithstyle]

Mitsutada was still reacting to the featured ingredients.

"...No."

Re: Judges Judging Judgily!

[onefootoutthedoor]

Peebee totally had her omni-tool ready to record any self-immolation! Or anything else that might be entertaining, possibly at the contestants' expense.