Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day

[bigdamnprincipal]

Whoever worked the weather magic around here had done an excellent job to make sure things were nice outside for all the new (and old) residents of Fandom. It was warm and sunny, but not so humid that people would melt. There was plenty of moddable food and drinks, places to sit in the shade, and more than enough nametags to go around. It was time to celebrate the start of the summer!

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Re: General Mingling

[thatwaslucky]

Rey watched for a bit, at first having thought he might be with the people putting the regular food out (she'd never seen them, she didn't know).

"That looks interesting."

Re: General Mingling

[sailor_meshi]

Nope! Just your regular monster gourmand discovering there was a lot of magic going on and cooking to get some semblance of normalcy and control again!

By this point, Senshi had finished cooking the more savory foods, washed his utensils and cookware, and had settled in to finish up with something sweet. He had a small cookpot over the fire now, heating up the fruits from the fruit salad with a bit of white sugar, and was currently mashing up a bunch of oatmeal cookies with his mortar and pestle.

"Thank you," he said, trying to guess this Tall-Man's age and failing. She was taller than some of what he was pretty sure were actual Tall-Man children, but that could be anything from older adolescent to middle age. The short-lived races were just hard to pin down that way. "I've got some Rolled Basilisk Omelettes and a few more Minced Beef and Skinny Sausage Larb in Lettuce Cups if you're hungry," he offered. "And I'm makin' a dessert, if you've got a sweet tooth."

Re: General Mingling

[thatwaslucky]

"That sounds amazing," she said, impressed. "Did you do all that right now?"

She saw Chopped sometimes, it took a lot of work to make things that sounded like that.

Re: General Mingling

[sailor_meshi]

"Well, I took a lot of the ingredients from the spread over there," he said, gesturing to the picnic table. "I wanted to see what I could do with them." He looked pleased though, eyes happy little crescents above his cheeks. "They came out all right, I think."

Re: General Mingling

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm impressed," Rey told him. "I'm guessing you do this sort of thing a lot?"

Re: General Mingling

[sailor_meshi]

"Everyday, multiple times a day," Senshi confirmed. "And I'm not usually so lucky as to have food already cooked or chopped for me to use."

He finished smashing the oatmeal cookies together, and scooped the mash out of his mortar, and into the skillet with some more butter, covering the bottom of the pan and the sides as well. Then he switched the frying pan with the saucepot over the fire, giving the fruit in the pot a few last quick stirs, before pouring that into the oatmeal cookie crust to set and brown. "There," he grunted, adding a bit of the honey to it. "Something nice and sweet for dessert."

Preparation done, he turned back to Rey. "Senshi," he said, wiping his hand on a cloth before holding it out to her for a shake. "Nice to meet you."

Re: General Mingling

[thatwaslucky]

For someone who could make the basics but grew up with fake bread, it was interesting to watch.

"Rey," she said, taking his hand to shake. "Enjoying the first day, then?"

Re: General Mingling

[sailor_meshi]

You know, Senshi would probably be curious about fake bread. He ate monsters, after all. An adventurous palate was pretty much a given.

"It's been...surprisin'," is what he landed on. "Didn't expect to show up here, never mind show up here and find out I'm teachin' a class." He poked the fruit with a tasting spoon. Not yet sticky enough, okay.

Re: General Mingling

[thatwaslucky]

"Something like that happened to me, except I was a student," she told him. "What are you teaching?"

Re: General Mingling

[sailor_meshi]

"A class about cookin' your way through a dungeon," Senshi said, a little bit pleased even though he hadn't actually done anything to make the class happen. "Sustainability, nutrition, how to cook monsters, all that."

Re: General Mingling

[thatwaslucky]

Rey raised her eyebrows, having fought enough monsters to know that she would never eat one, but maybe it was cultural?

"What kinds of monsters?"

Re: General Mingling

[sailor_meshi]

It absolutely was not!

"Oh you know," Senshi said, unaware Rey absolutely did not. "Walking mushrooms, giant scorpions, basilisks, Man-Eating Flowers, Treasure Bugs...all the normal monsters you find in a dungeon."