Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday mid-morning

[sith_happened]

It was going to be impossible to compete with the ocean yeeting from last week, so Anakin went in a completely different direction today, with twelve individual tables set up around the park. On the tables were an electric hot plate (plugged in via extension cords that were definitely tripping hazards), a small bowl, a pot that didn't sit level, a coffee mug, a dull chef's knife, a metal soup spoon, a spatula, a chopping board, and a plate.

In the center of the clearing was one rice cooker, one microwave, one ice cream maker, and a variety of fruits and vegetables. There were protein choices inside the fridge under the table holding the small appliances.

Anakin, wearing an Kiss the Cook (but tacky) apron, waved at the incoming victims inhabitants as they arrived. "Today we're mastering the art of cooking in a dormitory. Well, a dormitory not as good as the ones here. Cooking in a bad bachelor apartment! Using only the equipment I have provided, make a savory dish that would impress a first date. You'll have an hour. Halfway through I will pair you up and you will work together to make a dessert. Listen for your name and come grab your apron!"

Rey
Luma
Steve M.
Gray
Raiden
Jaina
Don
Eleanor
Summer
Belle
Flint
Stark

Comments

Arrive & Mingle

[sith_happened]

At least there's no yeeting?

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[stykera]

Stark had walked over here on purpose today. Tempting fate but mostly wanting to know what Anakin had in store as a follow-up to last week.

He had a bad feeling about this.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[somethingwithturquoise]

There was a bunch of new stuff being installed at the storefront that day, and since Summer didn't want to be too much in the way or too, like, overlordy about it, and since she noticed it was Wednesday in Fandom, she figured it was a good time to hop a portal back for a bit while the work got done.

Yes, she knew that coming to scope out the shenanigans put her at risk of participating in them, too, but she might even have been counting on it.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[stykera]

"Hi!"

Well, that improved Stark's day considerably already. Even if he was pretty sure he was doomed as far as being voluntold.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[thatwaslucky]

"You're here!" Rey greeted her.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[solo_sword]

Jaina preferred the yeeting. Do you know how often she cooked now? Too much, and she didn't like it.

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[sith_happened]

Every person for themselves, but you get these...okay, very objectifying...aprons!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[stykera]

Well, now Stark had a worse feeling than before! And he had a questionable apron. Yay?

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was making a face, because this apron could have been salvaged and workable as a sort of cute irony if it weren't for just the deeply unappealing art on it, ugh. But at least she wouldn't feel the least bit bad about it if it were to get dirty.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[what_big_teeth]

Well, on the bright side, at least Eleanor had always been pretty used to scrapping together food in a dormitory setting, pretty much since she was big enough to use a stove. It usually wasn't anything great, not by a longshot, but she had a feeling that 'great' wasn't the expectation for something like this, anyway.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[even_bigger_teeth]

After last week, Luma had considered staunchly refusing to come again, but Eleanor convinced her on account of it being the last one. So while it was a vast improvement thanks to not involving her having to get wet, she still wasn't thrilled about it. She'd never bothered learning to cook much of anything, because when she was home, she had her aunt Margaret and a taste for raw meat, and here, there was the glorious options of take-out and apparently never-ending food options in the dorm rooms. So this could get...interesting.

She was mostly wondering if she could just convince Eleanor to somehow do her work for her, too.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[thatwaslucky]

Rey might actually be good at this!

Buuuut she also had to wear that apron so it felt a little like breaking even.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[ifwebeworthy]

Don was from New York. He was a surgeon. He'd lived in Tony Stark's houses for a large chunk of his life. He didn't cook.

This was going to be...interesting.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[carbsliftthespirit]

Aw, heck yeah, a new apron for his collection!

Raiden didn't get the entendre and was wondering why this guy was so defensive of his bread products.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle sighed. She'd expected this. Well, not this because nobody who wasn't Anakin Skywalker would come up with the same specifics he did. Would they?

SHe was tying on her apron though. Just in case.

Cook!

[sith_happened]

Interact while picking out ingredients (there's lots of weird stuff, but only two chicken breasts, for instance!). Fight over the microwave! Steal someone else's pot because you need it! Anakin doesn't care.

Re: Cook!

[fears_no_one]

Flint wouldn't know with normal ingredients anyway. They didn't have a pig for him to roast over a spit, so he was going with "make gruel", that classic first date food.

Team up for Dessert!

[sith_happened]

Spoiler: the ice cream machine doesn't work. The ice cream machine never works.

Raiden & Flint
Steve M. & Eleanor
Belle & Jaina
Don & Summer
Rey & Luma
Gray & Stark

Re: Team up for Dessert!

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I feel like if I don't do something with jello for this," Summer informed....warned?...Don very seriously, "there could be riots."

Re: Team up for Dessert!

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm less good at desserts," Rey established.

Re: Team up for Dessert!

[carbsliftthespirit]

"I'm thinking we should avoid the ice cream machine," Raiden told Flint. "There's probably gonna be a fight over it."

Re: Team up for Dessert!

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"I'm afraid I generally just open a package when I want sweets," Belle said.

Re: Team up for Dessert!

[stykera]

"Maybe some sort of...pudding?" Stark suggested, looking at Gray. "Not ice cream. Maybe something that doesn't need heating either?"

Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Who doesn't cook. Can you tell?

OOC

[sith_happened]

Whew.