[Open] Escapades With A Mad Genius

[10billionpercent]

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]

Comments

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Uh huh," Nita said flatly.

"It looks a lot easier for you to cut yourself by accident that way, for one. ... Is it as bad if you wear gloves or something?"

May as well make sure all precautions that can be taken here, are being taken.

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"It's just the chemical between the skin and the fruit." Senku explained. "I actually hadn't considered that when I started cutting it."

He considered her question. "In theory, if I had gloves and didn't come in contact with urushiol at all, then no I wouldn't have a reaction, but I'm very sensitive to it." He explained, rather needlessly.

"Now there's no point."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"... Can you handle taking a break for a bit? I can clean this up for- whatever you wanted to use it for."

Just get the rest of the urushiol handled.

"Definitely go to the Medical car, though - see if there's something for your skin."

She still sounded annoyed, but not so much now.

[10billionpercent]

"If you want, I was just peeling them, then if you rinse them they'll be fine."

Senku shrugged a little bit at her suggestion and washed his hands. "The swelling will go down in a couple of hours." He was uncomfortable, certainly but he wasn't going to give in and rub at the rash or anything. It wasn't the first time he'd had an allergic reaction.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"I figured that much."

Rinse and store; simple enough.

She gave him another Look.

"Can you breathe alright like that?"

Sure, he could talk, but even that wasn't necessarily a good indicator. If he was used to hiding his pain...

[10billionpercent]

It wasn't the kind of thing he could hide easily, considering how obvious it was that he was having a reaction.

"I don't get anaphylaxis, it's only dermatological." He answered, he could take over once she rinsed them if that made her feel better, he was content enough to hover, so it didn't look like he was going to hunt down an antihistamine.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Well, that was some relief.

"Gimme a minute here, then."

Though it'd be more like two; once Nita started rinsing she was very careful to be thorough.

[10billionpercent]

Senku waited patiently, the only thing he did was rub at his eyes because they were itchy and uncomfortable. It was fine.

"Sure. It's fine, I'm just making a compote."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Just for storage, or were you going to use it in something?"

Baking was nice, both as a way to pass the time and as something to share.

[10billionpercent]

"Storage for the moment. I'm planning on bringing it with us on the mission for use with the stollen I baked earlier this week." Senku answered, sounding slightly better, but he was still rather puffy.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Clever," Nita admitted.

"Better eating than trail mix and jerky, though we should probably bring some of those things too."

She gave him another once-over, hearing his voice improve, but her concern hadn't dissipated juuust yet.

[10billionpercent]

He still looked rather puffy and uncomfortable, and he would for awhile. He was just used to occasional allergic reactions.

"I made some wolf jerky too, for protein, the stollen has a lot of other nutrients in it. The two together will be fairly complete."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Sounds like a balanced meal," Nita said, managing to combine both wryness and sincerity.

"... Did Orange Team ever pick a Quartermaster? I know Glorfindel and Roland were talking about those, and the Arms Bands. Or are you just planning your own meals for now, and letting other people plan how to scale them up for the teams at large?"

By this point the fruit was safely decontaminated.

[10billionpercent]

He grabbed a paper towel to pat at the fruit to get the water off and he started cutting it up into small cubes.

"No idea." Senku answered with a shake of his head. "I'm not really up on how the team is run. We had a meeting but..."

He shrugged. It was Curufin and Eva who ran the meeting.

"I only had enough fruit to make a couple of loaves of bread, so it's essentially for me and the Mentalist, but I'm happy to share with anyone who needs it."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"There'll be another one before we land on the next planet," Nita said.

"Whether it'll be about the mission or just more outlining of who does what in general, I don't know."

Again, they'd lost a lot of structure these last two stations.

"... Might get some people bribing you to share, in that case."

[10billionpercent]

Senku looked a bit surprised by that. "They don't have to bribe me. I wouldn't let anyone starve." He was a bit aghast at the thought that he might withhold food from people.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita smiled. "Good to know. All the same, if you get the chance to make extra, I'd be glad to help."

With resources finite enough as they were, being able to share meant a lot.

[10billionpercent]

"I wish I had the supplies to make more, but I don't. We'll see after the mission if I can forage a little more than I did last time, especially if I'm going to be preparing something for more people." He didn't mind the work, it wasn't about that at least.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita nodded.

"Here's to worlds that have fruits and grains, then. - You had a jar in mind for this stuff? I know there were a bunch of them after Jema'grethy..."

She remembered the carrots, okay? Those had been memorable.

[10billionpercent]

He moved around to put a pan on the range and turned on the heat before sliding his cut up mango onto it.

"Yep, I have one of those jars. This would be the fourth use I've had for it. First it had berries, then alcohol, then fruit in alcohol, now it's empty."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"... If it wasn't for the berries, that sequence would almost tell a story by itself."

Oddly pictorial, that.

"And I'm guessing cooking isn't the hardest thing you've done while you've had that allergic reaction, huh?"

[10billionpercent]

"With an allergic reaction? Nah." Senku chuckled slightly.

"My usual trigger is lacquer, and when I have that out, we're usually in the middle of building something or other. It happens often enough. It's not usually when the project is done though, and I just keep going until it is."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"I've heard of exposure therapy, but that sounds a bit much," Nita couldn't help but snark.

But she kept up at the counter all the same, more bemused now than angry.

"You won't have to keep doing that here, anyway."

[10billionpercent]

"We don't have any medicine in my world that would do anything about it." Most of the swelling in his face at least was going down, but his hands still had a rash on them for now.

"It's not that high a priority for me, we've had other things to worry about. I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually."

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita made a face.

"Yeesh. I take it you're looking forward to reclaiming enough resources to recreate a regular lab?"

Speaking of 'eventually' and all...