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victory_road2021-01-16 01:24 am
indigo_league) wrote in victory_road2021-01-16 01:24 am
Bakers, start your baking!
Who: Everybody!
Where: Riegfried and Soy's mansion
When: January 15th; day time for the cooking part, evening for the mingle part.
Summary: Come one, come all to the newest contest hosted by Riegfried and Soy. Today's theme: cooking!
[Daytime - The kitchens]
Throughout the day, the kitchens will be open to all contestants, though any casual onlookers --human, pokemon, or otherwise-- will be shooed out to prevent any cheating.
Each contestant will be directed to a gleaming counter, where they will be able to find everything from your basic whisk and spatula to gleaming kitchen machinery fancy enough to make any cook feel faint with envy. Each counter comes complete with a small fridge (should you need to chill any of your ingredients), an oven, a stove, a microwave -- really, anything you can imagine and it is there. Riegfried and Soy clearly didn't want anyone to run into the issue of not having the right equipment for the job.
At the back of the room are the fridges: tall, imposing fridges made of gleaming metal stocked full of every sort of ingredient you could possibly think of. And next to the fridges, contestants can find rows and rows of shelves, each nearly bowing under the weight of the products placed on them -- from fresh fruit, to spices, to rice and noodles. If you need it, you can find it.
Riegfried and Soy will be flitting around the room like a pair of extravagant Butterfrees, happy to engage contestants in small interviews. Everything for the camera, baby! Because those are also there; they are clearly trying to stay out of everybody's way, but small, Rotom-powered cameras flit around the room for close-ups, while cameramen and women with heavy-duty equipment get the distance shots. Hopefully, you haven't got an issue with stage fright.
[Evening - The show]
And when all is said and done, and the last dishes have been cooked, it's time for the actual show. There is some time between the actual cooking and this part of the evening, during which contestants have a chance to change their clothing and freshen up, but before too long, the mansion's doors open to the guests, who are herded by the cheerful hosts to an enormous hall.
The hall itself is set up with all manner of comforts. There are some small tables and chairs for anyone who wants to sit down for a while. Long tables line the sides of the room, absolutely laden with all manner of refreshments. There is even a special table set aside where the dishes the contestants made (at least the ones that made it to this part of the evening) are displayed and ready for tasting.
The schedule for the night is rather straightforward.
After some meet-and-greet and time for every last guest to arrive, the day's events (cut and edited by a very exhausted camera crew) will be projected onto a huge screen for all to enjoy. The votes will be tallied afterward and awards and prizes will be handed out. The rest of the evening will give the winners a chance to celebrate, the losers a chance to commiserate, and everybody else to clear the buffet of everything edible.
Where: Riegfried and Soy's mansion
When: January 15th; day time for the cooking part, evening for the mingle part.
Summary: Come one, come all to the newest contest hosted by Riegfried and Soy. Today's theme: cooking!
[Daytime - The kitchens]
Throughout the day, the kitchens will be open to all contestants, though any casual onlookers --human, pokemon, or otherwise-- will be shooed out to prevent any cheating.
Each contestant will be directed to a gleaming counter, where they will be able to find everything from your basic whisk and spatula to gleaming kitchen machinery fancy enough to make any cook feel faint with envy. Each counter comes complete with a small fridge (should you need to chill any of your ingredients), an oven, a stove, a microwave -- really, anything you can imagine and it is there. Riegfried and Soy clearly didn't want anyone to run into the issue of not having the right equipment for the job.
At the back of the room are the fridges: tall, imposing fridges made of gleaming metal stocked full of every sort of ingredient you could possibly think of. And next to the fridges, contestants can find rows and rows of shelves, each nearly bowing under the weight of the products placed on them -- from fresh fruit, to spices, to rice and noodles. If you need it, you can find it.
Riegfried and Soy will be flitting around the room like a pair of extravagant Butterfrees, happy to engage contestants in small interviews. Everything for the camera, baby! Because those are also there; they are clearly trying to stay out of everybody's way, but small, Rotom-powered cameras flit around the room for close-ups, while cameramen and women with heavy-duty equipment get the distance shots. Hopefully, you haven't got an issue with stage fright.
[Evening - The show]
And when all is said and done, and the last dishes have been cooked, it's time for the actual show. There is some time between the actual cooking and this part of the evening, during which contestants have a chance to change their clothing and freshen up, but before too long, the mansion's doors open to the guests, who are herded by the cheerful hosts to an enormous hall.
The hall itself is set up with all manner of comforts. There are some small tables and chairs for anyone who wants to sit down for a while. Long tables line the sides of the room, absolutely laden with all manner of refreshments. There is even a special table set aside where the dishes the contestants made (at least the ones that made it to this part of the evening) are displayed and ready for tasting.
The schedule for the night is rather straightforward.
After some meet-and-greet and time for every last guest to arrive, the day's events (cut and edited by a very exhausted camera crew) will be projected onto a huge screen for all to enjoy. The votes will be tallied afterward and awards and prizes will be handed out. The rest of the evening will give the winners a chance to celebrate, the losers a chance to commiserate, and everybody else to clear the buffet of everything edible.
(frozen comment) Dimitri and Fried Bread and Fried Bread and Fried Bread and Rat
Pokemon partner: Hob the Raticate
Pokemon move used: Quick Attack, Tail Whip, and every variation of using Them Teeth she possibly can (Bite, Hyper Fang, Crunch)
Description: Dimitri approaches his cooking without any particular rush. This is because Dimitri isn't making anything, like.... particularly difficult. He's just...
He's just making variations of fried bread.
Lots, and lots of variations of fried bread.
Regularly fried bread, best eaten immediately warm for max comforting effect. Fried bread with chopped up veggies and different dressings or sour cream. Fried bread dusted with sugar and fruits. Fried bread stuffed with apples or nuts or whatever else he decided to experiment with. Fried bananas get tossed onto a couple of plates for various sweet options.
Again: you have him here for six hours. He's going to be idly experimenting a lot.
Hob the Raticate is helping as well! Her use of Quick Attack is mainly used for her to zip around the kitchen at lightning speed, fetching ingredients or tools as the need requires. Sometimes she shows off a little bit as well, twisting around people's feet, rolling when she doesn't need to and is sure she can get away with it.
When she's not running around, however, she's at Dimitri's side helping with the actual cooking process. And yes, she does in fact make sure to wash her little rat hands and feet as Dimitri lifts her up to the sink before ever touching ingredients for cooking time.
During those occasions, she helps with the preparation of the various ingredients. Certain dry ingredients get mixed up in plastic bags and are treated to Hob's Tail Whip to get them all mixed together. And for other ingredients...
So. The use of Hob's Hyper Fang for things like, say, watermelon and pumpkin are totally fine. Gotta crack those hard shells open somehow, right? But at some point, there's a moment where Dimitri can be seen idly trying to hook something up in Hob's wide open mouth and...
...So. Dimitri wants to use Hob's mouth for cutting and peeling. So what he's done. is that. he's hooked up a plastic bag to rest in her mouth. So that when she Bites or Crunches something, or they peel something along her teeth, it doesn't fall into her gullet, but is instead collected.
Are people down for eating that? Don't worry about it! Don't. Worry. About. It.. If anyone asks Dimitri about this particular cooking choice, he just stares for a moment as Things Happen inside his skull, before casually asking, "Is water from an aquatic Palien saliva or water, and would you drink it?"
And then he goes back to cooking while leaving that particularly question hanging in the air.
When he's not cooking, however, he does seem to keep going to fellow cooks he might recognize and the... camera crew? He keeps handing over early attempts at his fried bread, quietly explaining that they looked hungry and six hours is a long time.
Any interviewing attempts are rather plain and straightforward otherwise - this is what he's making, this is Hob - but he wakes up a little when explaining things such as how his maroon sweater and shield-shaped brooch are from people very close to him, and he wishes he could be feeding them as he cooks.
Also, he will at some point admit that Hob is trying to show off for another Raticate named Cofgodas, and impress her.
But otherwise? Get ready for so much fried bread, made by one man and his rat.