[Open] Escapades With A Mad Genius

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Who: Senku Ishigami and anyone who wants to spend time with him.
Where: Various
When: Imagination 1-6
What: Senku apparently has all kinds of things to do pre-mission.
Warnings: One prompt is medical in nature, it's not really graphic.


Kitchen

In the absence of a laboratory, Senku appeared to be using cooking to cope. No, he wasn't on the purple team, meaning he wasn't officially cooking, but it was keeping him busy, and no one really wanted him to have idle hands for too long.

From the time they left the platform, until the night before the mission, he could likely be found in there at least once a day working on one project or another.

The first day, he was busy using the new ingredient of honey to make a caramel on the stove, and he had bunches of cilantro and some limes on the counter in front of him, as well as a water carbonatation machine.

After that, he could be found with a few other projects. In one instance he had lemons, honey and coconut oil in front of him. In another, he appeared to be making some kind of marinade with soy sauce and a variety of spice packets and some kind of meat. In a third, he was slicing ginger root and daikon as thinly as he could.

On Imagination day 5, he'd found his way to a few mangoes which since he didn't wear his SCA on the train very often, he didn't get the reminder that peeling mangoes was a bad idea. He'd barely started the first one when he developed a rash on his hands and at least the skin that could be seen swelled up, including his eyes and lips, thanks to urushiol being present between the peel and the fruit. One might stop at that point and deal with the allergic reaction, but Senku proceeded to continue peeling fruit as though he wasn't immensely uncomfortable.

Spa

Senku will likely check out the spa late in the evening when he couldn't sleep one night. For modesty's sake, at least other people's modesty, he will select the requisite orange swimsuit and sink into the water for a little soak. Notably, when wet, his hair collapses into some semblance of ordinary.

He wasn't interested in a massage, but a soak and a steam wouldn't be out of place.

[OOC: Also available, choose your own adventure. Senku haunts most cars, he doesn't sleep a whole lot and he doesn't usually mind company. You can just add whatever you like - don't be afraid of the pre-planned threads, or you can contact me on Discord: Ammeschan#5385 or Ammeschan]

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Making Waves (Close to Tidus and Roland)

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He was in a rather excited mood, after having collected his own purchases, of which he had several, he went to find Tidus, who happened to be with Roland, but that was no matter.

Senku trusted Roland, so if he was involved it wouldn't be a problem.

He made to nudge Tidus' arm. "So did it work? Did we get a radio?"

[blitzcheer]

Tidus is still in the luggage car, so easy to find - purchases gathered of bags, backpacks, a minifridge in its box just sitting there, but don't mind it. Don't mind any of that.

"Huh? Oh-" comes out of Tidus's mouth from Senku's excited approach (excited for him), and he nods his head to Roland - who happens to have hold of a circular disk.

"We think that's it?"

[adregem]

"Hm. Lower your voice."

He says first, offering only that as he studies the device closely. He'll approach them though, especially for Senku's sake as Roland's filled in on the latest addition to their team of contact-the-void-ministry but in secret. "What exactly did you ask for, again?" Roland throws to Tidus, a refresher question more than anything else. By all accounts, how was this a radio?

A one-way radio? Roland turns to Senku and offers it to him, his eye much keener than his when it comes to things like this.

Baking Bread ( Closed to Inigo and Roland)

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Prior to going on the mission, the whole point of having the bread was to ensure they had food in case foraging wouldn't work, so Senku calls upon Inigo and Roland to give him a hand.

He was already in the kitchen, pulling out the kinds of things they needed. He had a jar of pineapples preserved in alcohol, flour, honey, a lemon and some packets of crushed nuts from their last stop.

[flatteries]

Well, at least it won't be Inigo's first foray into bread making. He'd feel a lot more unsure about this whole idea if that was the case, even with two responsible people.. or, well, more like one responsible person and one wild super genius watching over the whole process.

But he has at least an idea of what they're going to do when he heads into the kitchen, which is why Inigo smiles when he spots Senku and his preparations.

"Senku! Here I am." Not arriving together with Roland, but he's pretty sure the other will be here in moment. Besides-- Inigo is instantly distracted by the jar of pineapples, picking it up with curious eyes. "Oh, what are these?" He didn't use this the last time he made bread!

[adregem]

Roland follows soon after, coming into the Kitchen and asking his higgledy to disappear for now, or to go do their own thing while he works. Has had enough experience with Senku to know when he's cashing in a favor, and to work side-by-side with Inigo was the icing on the cake too. They haven't ever made anything together, after all.

"Well now, hope I'm not a late riser?" He smiles at his own joke - get it? Bread rises! He waves at Senku and lingers by Inigo's side, giving me a pat on the bat, gentle but affectionate. "Hey, pup. What's that?" He'll eye the same jar too, but there's a gleam of recognition. "...Since when did we get pineapples?"

A Beary Yummy Lunch (Closed to Tidus)

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It might have been a strange question to a lot of people, what to do with bear meat, but Senku had a few ideas.

"It does well roasting, you could do something that's similar to like a pulled pork that way, or even you could make a stew if you were worrying about stretching it out a little bit."

Unsurprisingly, Senku knew what to do with hunted ingredients.

[blitzcheer]

There's just so much.

Which, when you have a entire de-skinned bear, is a lot. And this was just one before them, cleaned of blood at least. They still have some organs there though, which... Tidus wasn't going to think about right now. He knows how to cook! Doesn't mean he's used to this.

"Well-" Right, where to start. "Both of those are fine. This isn't the only bear, and I don't wanna stuff all of the lunchboxes with the same thing." Variety is the key to blitz, as they say. "We can shove the legs and neck in a big cooking pot for a stew? I don't know what the 'good bits' of bear are."

And that's usually a thing, isn't it. And Tidus is staring at the entire thing, wincing in a frown. He's used to this, thanks to cooking with fish and just some of the pilgrimage with Yuna and that... but ugh.

Cooking Lesson? (Closed to Romeo)

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It probably wasn't surprising that people might ask him about cooking things since he'd spent far more time in the kitchen than he expected to when he arrived, but it was a good, time passing activity.

He also had a soft spot for kids, and he was always interested in passing on knowledge he had.

So, he washed his hands and looked at his kitchen helper. "What do you want to make today?"

[myblueskies]

Romeo grinned at him, he had been happy to hear that mister Senku was really good at cooking. He always liked learning new ways to do things and though he was pretty good at cooking, he had mostly learned by making things up and asking other shinki and the occasional god to help him.

"How about one of the recipes with honey, sir? I never cooked with honey before!"

Or at least, not main food. He had made puddings with honey before!

Kitchen, Imagination 5

[unfavorableinstigation]

It's not exactly Nita's turn to cook either, but she's not entirely out of the habit of arranging spare breakfast foods for people.

Unfortunately, she's not going to be focusing on that today.

"Senku. You do not look alright."

If the man in question looks up, he'll note that Nita's not going anywhere just now.

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Senku did look up, turning his attention to Nita for the moment. He might've blinked but it was a little hard to tell.

"I'm fine." He answered, it sounded a little bit off. It would be fine when it faded sometime later, and he'd probably feel awful for awhile, but that was par for the course whenever he got out the lacquer anyway, this was just another urushiol delivery system.

Kitchen - Day 5

[fun_thementalist]

Gen found it fun, running into Senku in the kitchens - getting roped into this kind of work involved pretty easy jobs and tasks, nothing too tedious or tiring. Plus, often, they got to eat their experiments!

Plus. Senku got him cola. Cola! Beautiful, wonderful cola. If he wasn't so incredibly fond of him it would've been a fantastic bribe, but. Nobody tell Senku - the mad scientist already had charmed him completely well. Surely it wasn't so obvious.

But he's alarmed, five days into their new ingredients, that he'd come into the kitchen to see -

"Holy shit." Gen came over, and would try to get knife and fruit out of his hands, carefully. "You. Why do you have to be allergic to the weirdest things? Since when did mangos have lacquer in them?!"

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"They don't." Senku responded. "There's urushiol between the peel and the fruit, which is the same chemical in lacquer that I'm allergic to."

He paused after a moment. "I didn't actually consider that until now."

Not that it would've stopped him, as they well knew, but he let Gen take the knife.

A Relaxing Cup of Tea (Closed to Nike)

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The best time to have tea was probably in the evening, so after a suggestion he have tea with her, Senku didn't think of any reason to decline, so he prepared some green tea, awaiting Nike to join him.

He wasn't planning on preparing anything to eat, but he certainly could find something if she was hungry.

What to do when it's the end (Quiet Car) - Closed to Senku and Gen

[adregem]

It was his idea to talk to them both, but at the same time, it was Roland who felt the apprehension seep into his skin like ice. He sits quietly by the Quiet Car, hidden in a booth with his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes closed. The message sent to both of them from the neighboring ICP terminal before he retreats into the space, and waits patiently.

He almost backed out. But if he really was going to be prepared for whatever came his way - sent back and forth the two worlds he is now undoubtedly part of, no matter what - Roland couldn't come home without an inkling of what to do if the worst came to pass. Back to a desolation he couldn't overcome, not alone. (But alone, still. The only survivor, maybe.)

He steels himself for a discussion that he hopes will not reveal what isn't important; just the facts. Just an idea, a guide on how these two souls were able to survive their own stony-age apocalypse and bring back what once was lost. For Roland could build nations and kingdoms, has done it twice in his life, but has realized he'll need more than what he's learned from Evermore if he was to truly succeed.

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Senku wasn't terribly worried about talking more about their world with Roland. He wasn't sure why he wanted the information, exactly, but he'd never really been one to withhold knowledge from people.

It wasn't his style, at all.

He knocked once and opened the door, and held it open for Gen before moving to sit against the wall.

"Hey." He offered, which was improvement as far as things went, he'd been getting more in the habit of things like social conventions over time. "Gen said you had some questions."

Something a little sweet? (Closed to Siebren)

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Senku had been puttering around the kitchen for a bit by then and he already had a jar of what looked like a strange green liquid, but what he was doing now was getting out a pan.

In front of him, was a container of honey. He was up to something, naturally, as he always was.

[namethattune]

Siebren needs coffee. There are nights when he sleeps well, and nights when the only sleep he gets is the inexplicable blackout the train inflicts on them all. Last night had been the latter; therefore, he needs coffee to get his day started, more so than usual.

He is somehow unsurprised to see Senku already in the kitchen and hard at work; if it weren't for the mandated train blackout, he'd hardly believe Senku slept at all. He reaches the coffeemaker, realizes that nobody has made coffee yet, and begins the process himself. It's only when the coffee beings brewing that he looks over at Senku's current project. Green liquid, a pan, and honey. He is...lost.

"What are you making?"

[singerofspells]

[S'reee noticed Senku, adn suddenly a thought jarred to the front of her mind]

You were the one organizing the medical supplies a month or so ago, right? Or am I misremembering things?

[She really was hoping this wasn't a case of 'all other-species look alike'. THose were embarrassing.]

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[ He looked like she was startling him out of his thoughts, but that was normal, he was always thinking. ]

Yeah, I was working on that, what's up?

Imagination 4?

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Do you think we could make fizzy berry juice with that?" Eva asks as she drops a good ten or so cheri berries onto the counter with a wide grin - and a bit of untamped down excitement at the thought.

"Assuming we have bottles free for it of course. If not I can settle for a smoothie.

Sounds great, yes!

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Senku looked surprised, but then he grinned. "Sure, of course we can."

He considered the berries for a moment. "The easiest way to do this is to convert this into a syrup, which I can definitely give you a jar for. Then make the drinks at your leisure. I should've ordered more bottles. That's what did with my cola ingredients. I've got one jar with the mixture and jar with the honey caramel."

He reflected on that for a moment. "I'm not sure the honey caramel is the best for this, it might be too strong against the berries."

more bear, more all the time

[blitzcheer]

Do you know how much bear they have? So much. But there's not enough to make Tidus lose steam on subjects to talk about as more of the meat is put to roast, and as he's had to come down, clear out the empty lunchboxes and start washing them too. Maybe he should have thought about doing that before...

Good thing they've got hours to even wait for most of this meat to cook in the first place.

"So, Gyueran, that was the mission with all the crabs. I went with Blue since I heard Blue and Red struggle with numbers, 'cause everyone sticks with their own colour. But they had an entire island to defend, while Purple had to go in underground caverns to protect priests while they sorted out a magic block." Both important sounding, but Blue sounding like they needed more ground to cover.

"That was the problem the island was having: All their spiritual magic was getting blocked, or something like that. And so fiends were coming and attacking the island, and people had to figure what was up. And then Orange had some underwater people to save from a deep sleep..."

Tidus can tell Senku all he knows about the missions he's been on, or can be timeskipped to a later part of the conversation. Wow, fourth wall breaking.

beary good

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There was a ton of bear to cut up into more manageable pieces, but that was fine. Senku wasn't afraid of hard work that took a lot of time or effort, and he enjoyed keeping busy. Bears were bigger than most things he'd had to do this with, but the principles were the same.

This kind of work didn't involve much thought, more like he needed to keep this hands steady and he didn't have to calculate much, so conversation wasn't at all a problem. He'd finish with segments of meat and then offer them to Tidus to put away where he liked. Every so often a chunk would disappear into his own arms band with the bones and insides as he cleared them out. It was nice and methodical, and if they weren't talking, it would be rather meditative.

He listened, he asked questions, and then he added. "The places I've been, I've got copious notes. Not just from what I saw there and found there, but the things I brought back onto the train to study after the fact. I'm trying to see if there's any connection between the worlds aside from the train and the void itself, neither of which we understand yet."

He paused. "At least, those notes are in my head, I haven't written them yet. Kaiba did ask me to, I'm just preparing for the mission first, but I'll get on it really soon. I don't have nearly as many places as you though." If they ran out of conversation, he had questions about what Tidus said before, in regards to his connection to the world through the SCA. It made him want to tear apart his SCA, but there was a risk to that too, wasn't there?