Unlike previous sweeps, the scene for Cerise's booth is large and ostentatious, a giant banner proclaiming the event as CERISE'S SLITCHUTE NUTRITIONBLOCK. Bright lights shine down on a stage with several temporary nutrition block staples, with full cooking equipment stations and a well stocked pantry with a gate around it to keep out thieves. A table with three chairs and a "judges" banner is placed opposite the cooking stations, where Nahori Caviap and Frossa Fyrste are making their stay as judges for Cerise. In front of the stage, a smaller booth with a sign - HOT CHOCOS - displays free samples of creme-filled chocolates, and a warning that it "may be hot", and that more casual players may try to test their luck to win smaller prizes there if they aren't up to a real challenge.
"Step right up and try your fronds at a real cooking competition! Sabotage your competitors! Survive the culinary challenges! Become a better troll!" she yells at passerbys with a devious smile and a cocked hip. Her laughter fills the air, along with the smell of treats being cooked at the staged nutritionblock. "Cerise's Slitchute Nutritionblock is here at last! Hehehehe!"
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:51 am
==> Rules o1. Caima is watching! And eating your trash! No cheating. One roll per day per game, no deleting, etc. o2. You need to fill out your post to be eligible for the raffled ticket and the RP one! And also it's just best if you filled out your post. o3. A sentence written minimum is required to count! Just a real quick "Mule certainly cooked the meal very good." But longer posts and RP fun is more likely to win the RP ticket! Same goes for the mini-game, but that's just because empty posts aren't very attractive! o4. The game results are just flavortext so feel free to personalize and stylize your catastrophic cutthroat kitchen nightmare! Be creative! Have fun! If you and other participants agree, you can RP as though you actually have sent sabotages to one another and are competing in rounds. o5. If you want to play more than one troll for IC prizes only, be sure to note in your post! Only one post per day can be used for the raffle ticket. o6. All games reset at 9 am EST, regardless of if I'm there to formally close them or not. Any posts made after that point but before my new daily post will be disregarded.
==> How to Play (Cutthroat Kitchen) o1. Every day, you can roll 3d20 once. o2. Compare your rolls to the charts below! First number to Sabotage, second to Performance and third to Result. o3. Add the corresponding scores! So if you got +1, +3 and +2, your total score is 6 for the day. o4. Highest score of the day wins a ticket! If there's a tie, I'll roll between them for a winner. o5. The other two tickets will be given via a general raffle of all eligible participants, and one for the most entertaining post. o6. If you actually want to interact with Cerise during the booth, just quote me in your post and I'll make the effort to have her personalize some cooking insults. You can also quote to place a bakery order, or try and get in her good graces or whatever.
Sabotages:
Sabotage! You need to play a game to get your ingredients. This one is called "Dunk Your Donut Holes", and is very time consuming. (+2) Sabotage! You have to put on a very large, very embarrassing apron with the words "KI__ THE COOK", and matching oven mitts, and wear it the entire challenge. (+1) Sabotage! Cerise rolls out a tiny "Wrigglers First Nutritionblock" playset, though it appears to be fully functional. (+3 if youre a kid, otherwise 0 for teens/adults) Lucky! Somehow, you swept under the radar and no one threw you any sabotages this round! (+5) Sabotage! You're forced to only use canned ingredients for this challenge. (+1) Sabotage! You're banned from using seasoning. Good luck. (+1) Sabotage! Someone bans you from having free use of your hands, and now you have to try and cook with your hands tied together. (+1) Sabotage! You have to fight for your ingredients against Caima. Hope you have a weapon handy? (+0 for kids, +3 for teens/adults) Sabotage! Cerise takes away all of your tools and hands you a roll of aluminum foil. You have to make all of your tools out of foil now. (+1) Sabotage! You can't use your bare hands to cook anymore, and have to hold a fork and knife in each of your hands while you cook. (+1) Sabotage! One of the main ingredients needed for this recipe was taken from you and replaced with a low-quality, weird and hardly related ingredient. (+2) Sabotage! Cerise takes away all your tools and hands you a bag of junk. There's scissors, a screwdriver, all sorts of random objects. This is all you can use to cook with. (+3) Sabotage! You have only a tiny bunsem burner to use as your sole heat source during this whole challenge. Hope you didn't have a lot to cook... (+0) Sabotage! Cerise says it's Bloodfest, so you should play a game! You have to play ring toss to get your ingredients back. (+1) Sabotage! Caima is set loose on you, and now you have to deal with the host's very hungry and very unruly lusus crawling between your legs and begging for scraps. You better make sure to feed her too! (+2) Sabotage! You have to stop everything you're doing, mid-cook, until you complete some asinine task for Cerise. (+2) Lucky! Someone tried to sabotage you, not knowing that you desperately needed whatever they gave you. (+3) Sabotage! Where does Cerise get all these things from? She gives you oversized utensils and says you have to use them to cook. (+1) Sabotage! In order to get your ingredients, you need to pick them out of a giant block of ice with an ice pick. Gotta be fast and hope the mid-season heat makes it a bit easier! (+1) Sabotage! It seems like this round you were targeted by the fellow competitors as a threat, because everyone gives you a sabotage. (+0)
Performance:
Bad shopping! You forgot an important ingredient, and no one sabotaged you to replace it! (+0) Cutthroat! You and your competitors dumped all your sabotages onto one troll, effectively ruining any chance they had to cook a proper meal. (+3) Accident! You set something on fire in the kitchen. Hope it wasn't important! (+0) Inspiration! You have a creative spin on the dish that really sets you apart from your competitors. (+3) Lucky! You dropped the ball hard when it came time to shop but, you lucked out and one of the challenges made you swap your station with someone better at this than you are. Nice! (+3) Bad shopping! You take too long and Cerise locks you in the pantry for five minutes, and then steals one of your ingredients. (+1) Cutthroat! You take all of one of the key ingredients to this challenge while shopping, severely disadvantaging your opponents. (+5) Bad shopping! You had no idea how to make the dish, and weren't quite sure what even went into it. (+2) Inspiration! You have a brilliant idea while you're cooking, and manage to work around one of your sabotages with ease. (+4) Accident! You are, just so incredibly clumsy. You spilled a pan and knocked your food to the ground, forcing you to start over or scrap it. (+1) Acceptance... You have made your peace with your sabotages and learn to roll with the punches. (+3) Heckled! Cerise comes up while you're cooking and seems to think you're doing very poorly. She has a few... not-so-nice comments, and it ruins your self confidence. (+1) Bad shopping! You mistook one ingredient for another, so now you don't have something you need desperately. (+0) Inspiration! Despite setbacks, you have a clever idea that tastes great. (+4) Lucky! Caima accidentally eats another competitor's meal, kicking them out of the game. Least it wasn't you. (+3) Heckled! Cerise taunts you while you cook, smelling your pans and making weird faces behind your back. (+1) Inspiration! Cerise takes pity on you and offers you a tip that saves your meal. (+4) Acceptance... You seem to take well to this sabotage, and in fact, it only seems to make you stronger? (+3) Accident! You cut yourself pretty bad during this challenge and need to be taken aside for medical attention. Hope someone has a spare support trinket. (+0) Cutthroat! You rip some real mean taunts on one of your competitors, thoroughly putting them in their place. (+4)
Results:
Looks good! Despite everything you were put through, somehow your food looks... pretty good? (+3) Garnish! What a dumb garnish you put on it at the end, which totally ruined the dish. (+1) Plating! You really rushed your plating, so it doesn't look super great. (+2) Yikes! The judge gagged a little while eating your dish... that doesn't forebode well. (+0) What is that? The judge can't tell what it's supposed to be, it doesn't remind her of the dish at all! (+1) Tasty! Who knows how, but the judge loves the taste of your dish. (+4) Garnish! Whatever that was you used to pretty up your plate at the end, the judge loves it. She licks your plate clean. (+3) Hmmm... Your dish is okay, but it doesn't stand out or anything. (+2) Yikes! Your dish just... looks bad. Is that goop? (+1) Garnish! Your brilliant idea to add expensive garnishes really backfired. The judge hates it and Cerise is bemoaning your idea to decorate with truffle oil and saffron. (+0) Plating! Despite sub-par food, you made such a pretty plate that the judge managed to let your dish slide. (+3) Tasty! The judge eats your entire dish, and begs Cerise to get the recipe from you. Well, can't beat that, can you? (+5) Yikes! The judge won't even touch your food... (+0) Hmmm... Something about your dish is off, and the judge doesn't have any strong opinions. (+2) Looks good! Your dish didn't look so hot while you were cooking, but at the end it was a pretty appealing dish! (+2) Hmmm... You try to pass off your dish as "deconstructed", but the judge really isn't buying it. (+1) Yikes! The judge makes a face while eating. Did... did you forget to season it? (+0) Tasty! You can tell by the look of the judge that she adores the dish. She has a hard time staying neutral while she tastes the other dishes because yours was the best by far. (+5) Looks good! Despite everything, your dish looks like something out of a 3-star restaurant, and gets a very warm reception from the judge. (+4) What is that? The judge picks out something weird from inside your dish. She's not very happy! (+1)
==> How to Play (Hot Chocos) o1. Every day, I'll roll a 1D12, and the resulting number is the number to try and get, because that means you didn't get an ultra-spicy chocolate! o2. You roll a 1D12, and you get one roll a day. o3. Everyone who rolls the same number gets a Special In-character Ticket (to clarify, not the game ticket you use for prizes), that can be used to help your troll purchase fun IC prizes, like bakery treats.
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:59 am
==> Prizes!
What everyone's here for! The coveted Bloodfest raffle ticket! Cerise will be giving one out to the highest score, best post and one random ticket raffled among eligible contestants.
A set of three real culinary knives, though they could be used for other... utilitarian needs. 15 pts. (Click for colors!)
A little plastic Caima, to vacantly stare at you from the comfort of your hive. 5pts.
A novelty apron, as seen in the game! This flirty "KI__ THE COOK" apron will surely make you feel desirable. Or targeted. Whatever. 10 pts.
If you build up enough points, Cerise will make you a CUSTOM three-tiered cake! In your blood color, designed with you in mind! How lovely! 25pts.
Bakery coupons! Cerise is offering coupons to winners of the Hot Chocos game. Comes in three types. (1) Ticket for 25% off, (3) tickets for 50% and (5) tickets for 75% off your next order at the bakery! OOCly, I'll make you a customized "treat" when I have the time, pixelled just for you! "Bigger" coupons mean more treats. P:
A box of 12 regular chocolates! Sweet and yummy, and none of the spice associated with the game. (1) Ticket, or 5 pts.
(perhaps more to be added?)
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 6:11 am
Scoreboard:
I'll keep track of ticket winners here, for your convenience wink
"Ahhh, sliders, everyone likes tiny sandwiches, don't you think? For tonight's challenge, I want you to surprise my judges with a tasty yummy itty-bitty sandwich! Now, sliders are typically hamburgers, but don't feel limited. Be creative! And maybe add a side too, while you're at it, because I'm hungry," Cerise giggled, steepling her fingers together. "This is an easy enough start, right?"
Sabotage! One of the main ingredients needed for this recipe was taken from you and replaced with a low-quality, weird and hardly related ingredient. (+2) Bad shopping! You had no idea how to make the dish, and weren't quite sure what even went into it. (+2) Looks good! Despite everything, your dish looks like something out of a 3-star restaurant, and gets a very warm reception from the judge. (+4) Total: 8
During Guo's first booth break, he immediately beelined for Slitchute. Because...slitting! Chutes! Well, not really. He wasn't an idiot. But it was enough to draw his interest. Cooking wasn't really his thing, not when he could just consume pure garbage, but he'd try anything once, if it had to do with knives. And boy were there knives. He wanted that culinary set prize, and would do anything to get it.
First challenge was...sliders. Oh, like what you get at Snow Citadel? Or packaged by them in the frozen section at CoCost? Cool. He could do that. Probably.
He grabbed basic stuff, burgers n' cheese n' a bun and such. But as he took his basket to his table, he was stopped and forced to swap for something. Instead of a bun, he got low-grade, stale, sourdough bread. Okay.
Not that what he had left was great. Guo grabbed a random cheese, not paying attention to what would taste good. The burger meat, too, turned out to be mushroom-based. This would be a weird burger.
But, a boy who had played plenty of video games, had the fortune of a burger flipping simulator. Based on that, he cooked the meat (well, 'meat'), then let the mystery cheese melt on top as it squished into the sourdough sorta-bun.
It was weird, but he put it in front of Cerise anyway. "How'd I do, Chef Red?"
Calida's eye was instantly caught by this booth. How could she not be itching to get in on some cooking competition? Well, her forte was baking and not so much regular cooking. So she'd have to just give it a try! And give it a try she did, but apparently she didn't exactly do a good job.
The sliders themselves were very lackluster and maybe being without spices was a lot more of a hindrance than she thought. But she held her head up high! she accomplished something!
Sabotage: 17-Lucky! Someone tried to sabotage you, not knowing that you desperately needed whatever they gave you. (+3) Performance: Cutthroat! You and your competitors dumped all your sabotages onto one troll, effectively ruining any chance they had to cook a proper meal. (+3) Results: 7-Garnish! Whatever that was you used to pretty up your plate at the end, the judge loves it. She licks your plate clean. (+3)
Total: 9 points
Tsarzi Ameroc
Seems that there'll be plenty of snacks available, if the odor of the festival was anything to go by. Tsarzi raised an eyebrow as she swept her eyes across of the setup. Competitive cooking? She mostly at meats and cheeses, sometimes stew, but usually nothing fancy. Just as she was ready to deem this booth worthless, her eyes caught on the glint of silver by the prizes.
An what a lovely silver it was. The knife sets gleamed under the festival lights, sharp and deadly like a siren's song.
Looks like Tsarzi was learning to make sliders, then.
What the heck kind of stupid was a slider. No one wants a piece of a sandwich, they want the whole thing. She could either serve a whole sandwich to made a point, or eat the rest of it herself and make a remark about the judge's intelligence. Yeah, that second one sounded good. She's not here to correct the judge's decision, just to pointedly make them self aware of their own stupid.
Tsarzi was staring down her spread of ingredients, considering how she could go about this. The biggest problem is that she usually cooked with Lupos's meat, not any of this other trash. It was nowhere near as nutritious and smelled kinda funky. Well. This sucked. Of course, just as she was concluding that she had a major problem on her hand, a bag of mushrooms was dropped on her table. Those she could work with.
After sending one of the participant's dishes down the metaphorical drain with a pile up of plain bad, Tsarzi's contribution being a handful of seaweed and someone else's a bottle of ketchup, she got to work.
Honestly, what she made wasn't something unusual, though she didn't eat it too often. She typically would look for mushrooms herself, not buy them, and getting enough good ones often took a little time. Still, the mushroom filling was fried in oil, garlic, onion, salt and peper with a ricotta cheese garnish. Maybe not the pretties, but practical and simple on a clean plat can go a long way.
Turns out a mild cheese garnish can go a long way when the judge is licking their chops after polishing off the dish. Still.
"Maybe you wouldn't be so famished if you asked contestants to make something more than bite sized portions," Tsarzi offered, rather abruptly, before turning heel and leaving. She'd earned some points playing the game today, hopefully tomorrow she'd have enough for a fancy new knife set.
Lucky! Someone tried to sabotage you, not knowing that you desperately needed whatever they gave you. (+3) Lucky! Caima accidentally eats another competitor's meal, kicking them out of the game. Least it wasn't you. (+3) Yikes! Your dish just... looks bad. Is that goop? (+1)
Total: 7
Cooking? Now THAT was more like it!
He sure didn't know what a slider was, but whatever it was sure sounded good! Mahmud was sure to enter the very moment he found out about the competition. "Alright! Lets do this!" As Cerise explained the food, Mahmud thought and thought about it. So sliders were little tiny sandwiches? That sounded easy enough, right?
Turned out it wasn't easy at all. Sure, he got given eggs (which was something he hadn't thought of grabbing before), and another competitor got taken out (badump-tsh), but for one reason or another his meat just would not stick together. Perhaps he put too many bugs inside? Bugs could be eaten fancy nutritionblocks, right?
Nonetheless he said nothing, but presented the dish silently to Cerise, hoping she would not judge him too hard.
Per the guide/rules of this shop, Mahmud is RPing this Bloodfest AS A TEEN. The guidelines can be found here! TY! : D
This redblood did something for Bloodfest every sweep, and she seemed to be going all out this time. Reemus, though, swore off cooking competitions after his last summer Bloodfest. Or at least any with open flames. He was almost disappointed that there wouldn't be anything to eat, but he caught sight of some truffles. She came through for him again!
Without thinking, he popped one in his mouth.
Oh.
Yeah.
The bad ones were always spicy.
And, as his tongue was telling him, this one was definitely spice hell. Wasn't there any milk this year?!
Mahmud quickly learned the fine details of "read the instructions before you do something". All he saw was that there was sweets, SWEETS, ready to be eaten and he wanted some. "Thank you..." he told the... nice seeming girl behind the booth, and popped one in his mouth.
Not nice. NOT NICE. NOT A NICE LADY, NOT A NICE CHOCOLATE OH GOG.
No amount of beverage cured his pain.
Per the guide/rules of this shop, Mahmud is RPing this Bloodfest AS A TEEN. The guidelines can be found here! TY! : D
Static Charge Sabotage! You can't use your bare hands to cook anymore, and have to hold a fork and knife in each of your hands while you cook. (+1) Accident! You cut yourself pretty bad during this challenge and need to be taken aside for medical attention. Hope someone has a spare support trinket. (+0) Garnish! Whatever that was you used to pretty up your plate at the end, the judge loves it. She licks your plate clean. (+3) Total 4
To be honest, Static didnt know how to cook much besides flapjacks and mac and cheese, but there was always time to learn, right? The blueblood hoped so. Hopefully tomarrow would be better.
Sabotage! Cerise says it's Bloodfest, so you should play a game! You have to play ring toss to get your ingredients back. (+1) Bad shopping! You take too long and Cerise locks you in the pantry for five minutes, and then steals one of your ingredients. (+1) Yikes! Your dish just... looks bad. Is that goop? (+1)
Total: 3
Ring toss? Hadn't he already played ring toss elsewhere - but now for cooking too?!
Honestly, it was a wonder that Kaldru Dajale didn't set the kitchen on fire; he knew almost nothing about cooking besides roasting and smoking meat. How he managed to make a pile of mush out of sandwiches was rather impressive on its own though, wasn't it?
