fandomhigh | Student Assembly, Wednesday, November 25, 2020

"Most of you are ready to be on your four day weekend already," Anakin said, climbing up onto the stage and blinking at the set-up below him: each student had been sat behind a school desk, which had a basket on it covered with a gingham cloth.

Someone had been watching too many baking shows.

"Most of you are ready to be on your four day weekend already," Anakin repeated, "but too bad. Because today you are getting a very instructive discussion led by Stark entitled--" he pulled out his notecard only to have a radio squirrel shriek and race across the stage, climb up Anakin's pant leg and stick a stickie note onto his forehead.

Anakin sighed heavily and pulled it off. There had been a time when his very presence had terrified entire systems. "Right. Well, instead of what I thought we were doing--The Multiverse and You--we are doing..." he squinted at the note. "I have no idea. Something about holiday food, I think. Stark? You're up, I believe."

He glared at the student body. "And the first one to make a crack about my hair over the weekend gets detention until you graduate."

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Don't peek under the cloths!

With...whatever this is.

If you must.

Edited 2020-11-25 03:28 (UTC)

Oh, these old icons :D

Stark had also just been accosted by a squirrel with a note. “I...thought I was coming here for something else,” he said, looking out at his audience. “About alternate universes? No?” He frowned. He’d had a whole speech prepared. The Multiverse And You: How to Survive Multiple Aeryns Without Getting Shot. He had a lot of useful knowledge to impart! “Food is good too, I suppose. Tomorrow is a holiday, holidays often have food.” The best kind of holidays did, anyway.

“So. Yes. Food! I have no idea what is in these baskets. If this is anything like the TV show some of it will be frightening. Presumably it is food to make more food out of. But we’re in an auditorium and not in a kitchen so I don’t think there will be much cooking? I’m confused. Are we all confused? I’m confused.”

He looked around and frowned more. “This...who set this up? Was it the raccoons? Dozens of students and we have 3 microwaves, no ovens, 1 ice cream maker, and a waffle iron? And mystery baskets.” He shook his head.

"Anyway, yes. Tomorrow is a holiday about being thankful." Being thankful none of the Aeryns he had known or still knew had shot him yet, for example, though one of these days he would regret even thinking that. "I hope your baskets are full of Thanksgiving foods. Or at least edible foods." If the raccoons and/or gremlins had set this up the contents of the baskets were suspect. "Which...you can try to turn into something else? Good luck, with this set up. Or you can just eat. If it’s edible. It should be edible. I don’t think anyone is trying to poison anyone else today. If they are I'll make sure you get to the clinic safely."

You can make an attempt at cooking with your moddable basket of Thanksgiving goodies and the extremely questionable "kitchen" setup.

Or you can eat some food.

Or you could do...something else entirely. It's an auditorium full of students with baskets full of conveniently sized portions of food and it's the day before a holiday. What could possibly go wrong?

Edited 2020-11-25 03:47 (UTC)

Nobody's throwing any of the very throwable food, are they? Nobody here would ever do that, right?

Don't throw the cans of cranberry sauce. Stark can give you stitches but he really doesn't want to.

Edited 2020-11-25 20:12 (UTC)

I swear this was going to be a semi-serious talk about dealing with alternate universes but then this was more amusing.

This was somehow weirder than normal, but whatever. 'Yana would slouch down in her chair and wait to see how, exactly, this was all about to blow up in Dean Skywalker's face.

Illyana was just going to eat whatever looked edible without needing any prep.

There were some apples in her basket, that was good enough for a snack.

Well, Tahani had had a lot--very well, a couple--of cooking courses and so she was quite sure she could handle this with aplomb, providing that Summer hadn't set up the baskets.

"I have a can of cranberries and no can opener," she complained immediately, holding it up and frowning.

Was Shuri immediately using her basket ingredients to make a dinner roll trebuchet?

Maaaaaaaaaaaybe.

It was for science!

Lana was now really curious about Anakin's hair over the weekend. She looked around to see if anybody looked like they wanted to comment, so she could ask.

"I have a lightsaber," Lana offered.

Lana had a few things, including...some sort of root something? (Sweet potatoes; they were whole sweet potatoes.) She held one up to Illyana. "Any idea what this is?"

"Do we blame the squirrels, the raccoons, the gremlins, or the moose?" Stark asked. "Or something else entirely?"

Potatoes! Excellent. Poultry, good. A box of... he turned it over, and then on its side. Bits of stale bread with seasoning? Well, he'd eaten stale bread before. A can of berries? Those looked good, if he could figure out how to get the can open.

Wei Wuxian looked through the eclectic collection of tools and found a large metal bowl. There was no oven or fire, so he'd have to make do. He filled it with water and slapped a talisman on the side. The water immediately boiled. He chopped the potatoes roughly and dropped them in. There. Potatoes. And next, the turkey. He frowned at the raw poultry.

"Can anyone create a fire for cooking?" Surely someone could. He could create fire, but resentful energy wasn't great for cooking. A taste of death always crept into the food. "I could lay down an array to keep it contained. Is that allowed?" He looks at the adults in the room. "Can we work together?"

Fire seemed like a poor choice in the auditorium but then this entire endeavor seemed like a poor choice so would fire really be the worst idea?

"A fire might be better than eating it raw," Stark said. "Of course you can work together. You don't have to work at all. There's no one to judge and this is the strangest kitchen I've ever seen."

"I can use lightning if you've got something to light on fire," Lana offered. She examined the shredded...something...that the baskets were packed with. "Do you think this is safe?"

"Good idea! That'll get the fire started. We'll still need something to keep it going long enough to cook anything." He eyes the basket itself, but no, there was no need to waste good craftsmanship when no one's life was at stake.

Stark sees you, Shuri. And he is not going to try and stop you even a little bit because honestly this looks interesting and he wants to see where it goes.

Because that's why he's here!

This can only go well!

"I have no idea what that is, but if it's like knife, let's try!" Tahani said, handing the can over.

"How about the curtains?" Shuri asked.

Surely setting dust-filled auditorium curtains of dubious age and material on fire will be a good idea!

Wei Wuxian cocked his head at the curtains. "Those might work. Why don't you take one down to see? I'll draw the array."

He turned to Lana. "Are you able to open this?" He held out the can of cranberry sauce.

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Student Assembly, Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Arrive and Mingle

Take it away, Stark!

Talk to Anakin!

OOC

The Multiverse And...Actually Never Mind, It's Just Food

Open those baskets!

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