The Great Voidtrecker Bakeoff!

[myblueskies]

Who: Romeo, Kumoko and YOU. Mingle around!
Where: Kitchen
When: Day 24 of month Domino
What: Ice cream party! Come help make and eat ice cream parfait!
Warnings:

Those dreams had been scary and Romeo could tell that peoples spirits had been low the last few days. So now was obviously the right time to check out the boxes for making ice cream parfait that they had bought.

All the ingredients were set out for berry gelate, ganache and marshmallow parfait and chocolate, banana and waffle parfait!

He figures they don't need to make them exactly right, they can mix them up. There is lots of ice cream! Well powder that you add cream to and freeze. Which is what he is doing now.

There's plenty to do to help! Cut banana, break up chocolate, make ganache! The ice cream will be ready once it has frozen!

Anyone entering the kitchen will get a huge grin off Romeo. It's a bit of a mess. They will clean up after he promises!

"Come join our ice cream making! Um... Do you know how to measure things, miss Spider?"

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[kumoko]

SHE SURE DOESN'T, but fuck it. She's got a measuring jug cradled in one pair of legs and she's ready to go. Might be getting a little... cream-coated. It's fine. Whatever. She can shower--

Hmm. Can't fit in the showers here, can she? Okay, maybe she needs to be a little more careful.

Whoops, that was cream all over whoever's standing next to her.

[myblueskies]

"Careful!" He's grinning though, this is lots of fun. Even if it is making a bit of a big mess!

We got to get to five hundred mililitres!"

He thinks he knows which mark that is!

[kumoko]

Without the Telescopic Vision skill, she has to rely on her own eight eyes, but that's enough to note the 500 ml on the side of the jug, alongside the 32000 gh and 2b 4r ?a, whatever those are meant to measure.

Another leg reaches up to tap the right part for him.

[myblueskies]

Okay! Between the two of them they have got this! He concentrated really hard on pouring, so they didn't spill anymore.

"Okay! That's it!" He beamed at her. "Now we got to add the powder. Do we do chocolate or strawberry first?"

[rieper]

It wasn't as if 47 had meant to run into the dilemma set out before him when he entered the kitchen. He just happened to walk in as Kumoko was finishing up the message on the ICP and so had only heard about their efforts as he walked rather than seeing the mess before he walked into it. He stopped at the entrance and just.

Stared.

There was a giant spider, a small boy, and a mess in the kitchen. What else was he supposed to do? His expression remained as blank as ever but if there was ever a time for the hitman to feel exasperated this might be the time.

Without a word, he walked over to one of the kitchen countertops and picked up a rag, wet it, and started wiping down some of the mess. He listened to the spider and boy talk about the parfait mixing ingredients.

"Strawberry." He side eyes them for a moment. "Are you having trouble?" Because it certainly looked that way to him. And if he was going to be in here he might as well input his opinion. Even if it was highly unprecedented.

OTA!

[unfavorableinstigation]

Okay, so Romeo did say she could come - and really, who could say no to ice cream?

But somehow she expected things to be a little... neater? Which, given that two of the participants were a kid and a spider, might have been asking a lot.

So, fighting the urge to shake her head throughout, she quietly washed her hands elsewhere before returning to the kitchen to pick up on those instructions.

After that, she'd settle for making ganache.

And keeping the cream from getting on the floor.

[myblueskies]

"Miss Nita! You came!" He grinned at her from where he was stood, covered in ice cream powder.

He's pretty sure if mister Jakob saw the state of the kitchen right now he would be very mad, but he hadn't thought about how tricky it would be to make ice cream with a spider.

It's fun though!

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Well," Nita said, smile coming to her own face at Romeo's cheerfulness.

"I was invited. By a pretty neat kid, even. Seemed wrong to turn down having fun making ice cream, y'know?"

She kept her hands in motion; the ganache wasn't properly mixed yet.

"Might even have enough for the whole train, if we don't eat the ingredients!"

Which admittedly she hasn't seen happen yet, but who knew where this could go?

[myblueskies]

He grinned at her, "We won't eat it until it's all ready! They are going to be the best parfaits ever!"

And they won't be huge if they eat all the ingredients first!

"Have you had parfait before, miss Nita?"

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita has to think about that one.

"I've had ice cream, but not all fancy like this."

Which is a shame!

"How about you, Romeo?"

OPEN

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie had come because of Kumoko's video though she didn't exactly come here to help make things. She will but it'll end in a bit of a disaster because she'll snack through the entire event and end up with a very lack luster parfait and then the ice cream will be gone as well.

"This is good."

She spoke with her mouth half full. Hopefully it was okay to focus on eating than it was building.

[myblueskies]

"It's not ready yet miss!" He doesn't sound too annoyed honestly, ice cream was very very hard to resist. As was any of the ingredients here, everything was so tasty!

If you eat it all you won't have a huge parfait!

[thegreatninja]

"But it's so tasty?" It was really hard not to eat the pieces. "I can't help but snack while trying to make something."

All the while, she's still munching on the sweet toppings.

[myblueskies]

"It is very tasty!" He agrees, "But if we wait then the ice creams will be even tastier because they will have lots of toppings!"

And there would be enough for everyone to share!

[thegreatninja]

"Okay, okay! What should I try and eat next. I mean put on top." She tried to add a layer of chocolate but her stomach growled and she stared at the toppings.

This shouldn't be that hard.

"Maybe I shouldn't have come here hungry. Is there other snack food?"

[pleple]

Ple Two looks slightly dead inside when she arrives, but something about ice cream... sounded like it might cheer her up.

But she's going to have to start off watching other people make it.

[myblueskies]

She gets spotted very quickly and Romeo rushes over to her, covered in cream, with a big grin on his face.

"Hello Ple Two! Do you want to come make ice cream? It's really fun and we are going to have tasty parfait!"

[pleple]

He looks like a doof, but it's... fun.

"...I might want to try."

[myblueskies]

"Okay!" He grinned and beckoned her over. "It's not too tricky! Are you good at measuring things?"

Because that was the most tricky part, really!

[pleple]

"It's not difficult." Kitchen duty has gone pretty well for her, actually, in the past.

end of the bake-off

[mimidaeia]

Nearing the end of the Great Ice-cream-off, something pokes its head into the dining cart and chirps, eeriely similar to a stereotypical on-train announcement. Not literally- her voicebox model is not the same as whatever is used on the train- but you wouldn’t be blamed for suddenly thinking the Express changed announcers. This one announces kind of inane shit, though.

“Hello- the dishwasher is overloaded.”

(But she’s not wrong- because gratuitous amounts of ice-cream probably isn’t good for mechanical parts and the dishwater is blinking a sad red light. Fun fact: get SXT-2 to open the dishwasher for you if you want to see a disastrouscool party trick.)

Re: end of the bake-off

[myblueskies]

He has seen this little creature around before but hasn't yet made friends or said hello! But he smiles and waves when she speaks.

Oh? The dishwasher? He goes over and blinks back at the red light. "Oh... Um... Do you know how to fix it miss?"

She sounds like a miss, even if she is mostly wings and metal! Always best to be polite.

[mimidaeia]

Now, given that she is averagely adult-sized and Romeo is eleven, she isn't the “little” one here!

“The dishwashing cycle is unable to proceed as the drainage pipe is clogged,” SXT-2 explains, and overrides the dishwasher’s stalled systems. The dishwasher door springs open with a THUD and warm soapy water bubbles out onto the floor.

Weirdly, SXT-2 herself startles from the event- she lets out a short screech and attempts to hop to some perch away from this noise, except of course no such thing exists. She just hits the cabin walls instead.

Oops I had her shorter in my head

[myblueskies]

"Oh." Drainage pipe is clogged? It's a good job he has someone to help.

Or... Not help as the dishwasher sprang open and water went everywhere! Oops!

Also the creature had bashed into the wall! Romeo rushed over to her, sloshing soapy water everywhere.

"Are you okay? Did the water hurt you?"

He knows you aren't meant to put some machines in water and she is at least a bit like a machine, even if she has lots of feathers!

[mimidaeia]

It was really the loud noise that had been startling, but Romeo’s theory is correct too. If the next world they visit is a water one she’s going to be in trouble, because she's definitely not waterproof.

“K̼̙̥͍k̷r̢̠k͙̪̣̜r̙̫͓̀k̸͔̤̗͙̙̫̭rk̼̫̤͍̹̦̤r͞k̙̙k̟͡ḳ̛͕̱͉g̶̘̖͙̰ͅḫ̗̮̺̰͙̣͡,̤̮̟̱͕̻̗”

She's fine! She's just got to work out the spooks. It just looks really unsettling, with the feathers writhing around. She reaches up and back and combs through the mass a bit, as if preening.