The pup's arms were starting to get a little tired. For all his childish enthusiasm, he simply didn't have the muscle to keep doing anything for so long. Instead he reached out with little tendrils, and they took up kneading where his hands had left off.
Finally he gave the dough a tentative poke, it seemed very much like the example the professor was working with... Time to wrap it up! It seemed like almost a shame, he wanted to eat it right there and then.
WHAT YOU CAN DO, I CAN DO BETTER!
Character: Jove Used for claiming of Joy Stamps?: Yes
Total: 33 Final total?: Yes!
Dragain generated a random number between
1 and 2 ...
1!
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:53 am
OOC: PART 2 JOY STAMP PRIZES
To get on this list, you needed a minimum score of 30. If your score was between 30 and 38, but you do not see your name on this list, please PM me and I will give you an extra ticket in future Joy Stamp raffles. [A.V.] (Mayaa) was supposed to be included in the list, but had stated that she would not be claiming Joy Stamps; as such, I decided to raffle the last spot among the two people who got a score of 39 using Gaia's number randomizer...
Miidnight Melody (San) * 39 vampireluvr97 (Alice Marie LaToure) 39
"Now that your cookie dough is resting, I will show you how to shape the cookies!" She walked over to the fridge, and took out the dough she had prepared earlier. Unwrapping it from the plastic wrap, she lightly dusted the table top with flour, and then rolled the dough out using a rolling pin, "There should be enough dough for you to make one big cookie for yourself! If you don't want to do the cookie cutters, feel free to take a knife, and cut a shape out yourself!"
Around the students were various cookie cutters, although most of them had more Christmas than Halloween themes - reindeer, presents, Christmas trees, snowflake outline, ornaments, snowman, mistletoe, and of course, the traditional gingerbread man and woman shapes.
"Once you are happy with the shape, place them on the cookie tray, and pop them into the oven to bake!" She continued, transferring her cookie - in the shape of the great Santa Claus, except that instead of a red hat, it had what appeared to be a crown on his head - onto the cookie tray, and then (warily) putting it into the oven, "Remember to set the timer to 10 minutes!"
Jubilee played some music from Christmas Town as the cookies were baking (it was like being in a mall during December), and once the timer on her oven went off, she put on a pair of kitchen gloves, and took the cookie tray out. The Santa-shaped gingerbread was baked perfectly, and she beamed proudly as she moved it off the tray, and onto a cooling rack. It took a while for everyone's cookie to finish baking, so Jubilee led everyone in making royal icing - the best type of icing to go on gingerbread. By the time the royal icing was done, all the cookies were out of the oven and cooled, and ready to decorate.
"You have half an hour to do the decorating, so take your time, and do your best!" She cheered, making sure everyone had gone to work before she decorated her own cookie, giving it a white, fluffy beard with white icing, and filling in its "clothing" with red, white, and black icing. Then, she used red icing and edible glitter on the crown. Stepping back, she smiled at her own masterpiece, looking at it fondly.
By this time, the reaper had a hefty pile of sharpened candy canes, seemingly crafted out of boredom, since nothing else exciting was going on at the moment. She deposited the pile, carefully as to not poke herself, near Jubilee’s work station since she really had no where else to put them and then appeared behind the teacher to peer at her creation. “Oh, bitchin’! It is Sandy Claws! Here—“ She reached and plucked out a sharpened candy cane from the pile she made, and then place it into the cookie’s ‘hand’. “Ha! Now it is like a scepter, ya?” Hel grinned.
"Yes, very much so, Miss Hel!" Jubilee replied with a cheerful laugh, looking at the cookie once more... Huh? Wait... Huh...
She laughed nervously to herself, tucking her hair behind her hair; it must be all this Fear in the air, doing weird things to her Joy-filled brain. Or maybe she's just tired - a lot of things had happened, and now that the class was coming to an end, she was feeling pretty lethargic, and in need of a nice warm cup of peppermint chocolate, with tiny marshmallows floating on the top...
OOC INSTRUCTIONS
Describe + UNDERLINE OR BOLD the shape/decoration that your student had decided on for the cookie; for example, you could have them make the shape of a cat, dog, spider, train, car, horse, triangle, present, etc! No dice rolling! So easy! Much simple! Wow! You can be as descriptive as you like; you can also be straight to the point (the shape of a horse, decorated with pink stripes using royal icing, etc), and I'll be happy with it! OPTIONAL: You may draw it out/find a picture off the internet, but put it in spoiler tags to avoid stretching the page! In case you don't know what the code for spoiler tags is...
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Quote Dragain to get Jubilee's attention. Quote Lucyal to get Hel's attention.
THE JOY STAMP CHALLENGE
Keep in mind that you can only redeem Joy Stamps with ONE CHARACTER throughout the Christmas Event, so pick wisely! Joy Stamps can be redeemed here! In this class, there will be Joy Stamp Challenges every "part" for a shot at winning 1 out of 20. Remaining Joy Stamps will be distributed via raffle to all active participants (excluding those who already won one) at the end of each part.
This part's challenge: The Joy Stamps will be distributed as follows: - 5 winners: Top 5 Jubilee favorites - 5 winners: Top 5 Hel favorites - 3 winners: Top 3 GM favorite (DRAWN); internet-found pictures do not count! This is the only category that requires a drawing/craft/real life baking. - 7 winners: Raffled among all participants who did not win anything; if there is a lack of winners in other categories, prizes will shift here! As this will take some coordination between Al and myself, results will probably have a day's delay; please be patient while we sort things out! <3 For players with multiple students, please indicate which student you are using for the claiming of Joy Stamps with an OOC note since you can only claim with one student; if you had already won a Joy Stamp in previous rounds, I'm going with the student you claimed for [Vanya (Lolly), TK (Syu)].
YOU HAVE 48 HOURS TO COMPLETE THIS TASK!
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:53 pm
When his dough was ready, Jo prepred the doe much like the teacher had, then decided to use one of the cookie cutters in the shape of a Christmas tree to cut out his dough, then moved onto the next step. he also took much care in placing his dough into the oven, not wanting the dragon to cook his golem alive. But once that objective was done he calmed down and relaxed with the tunes that played through the class, listening to Jubilee instruct them on how to make the icing. He even managed to grab a pen (or a penstrictor in this case. He nearly freaked as it hissed at him but managed to control it enough to write), and recorded all the ingredients and their measurements used thus far. He could stash the paper in the haunted house once he had the chance.
Once the dough was cooked, he took it out and began to decorate the gingerbread. With nice even strokes along the middle he used different colors of red and green to make tinsel, then some little red blobs for the Christmas ornaments, and then made a little star with some yellow. Finally, he outlined the tree with some white to give it a more gingerbread look.
Once done, he stepped back to admire his handiwork.
Lihua got started on her cookies. She wanted to make and decorate something cute.
When she heard the ding that the oven was finished she went and pulled out her cookies and started to get started on decorating on them.
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:38 pm
This was the part he had been waiting for! Eagerly Tavi bounced around in his chair before picking up the present shaped cutter and pressing it firmly into his dough. While his newlypresent shaped spooky was baking the kitsune listened closely on how to make the royal icing and for himself made many colors to play with. On a cheerful squeak of glee he nudge San next to him before setting to work.
Tongue hanging from the left side of his mouth, he carefully inserted the presents candy eyes into the off grey frosting of the base. After the eyes were on he started on the base, coloring in bright strips of xmass lights and then towards the bottom making a rip. The rip was because he had heard many creeple peek into presents so the joke was when whomever had peeked did, well the present would be peeing back out at them. It was pretty brilliant, or so he thought as he giggled and finished the red eye up.
"Isn't is cool?" He waited with large hopeful teals, cookie presented to his friend.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, most likely, Tink's cookie was distinctively bell-shaped.
She labored for quite some time over her cookie, very deliberately with her tongue between her teeth and her brow furrowed in intense concentration, but given her natural clumsiness the end product wasn't exactly anything to write home about. It also suggested that perhaps the bells Tink was fond of weren't exactly Christmas bells.
But then Tink gazed at the professor's example, and her world was rocked by the realization that there was such a thing as edible glitter.
As established in her tree-decking class, Tink knew of only one strategy when it came to glitter. That was to dump it generously on the target object.
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:26 am
Monty did as the professor did rolling out the dough, without looking he reached over grabbed one of the cookie cutters and press it in. Out popped a Gingerbread man shaped blob of dough. he placed it on the rack and into the oven and waited. Once finished cooling he grabbed his cookie and sat down to decorate it.
He took the icing and made some icicle looking hair, then made two dots for eyes, and a little smiley mouth, and two little dots for some buttons. He took the glitter stuff and dumped the green all over the eyes, the red over the mouth, and a yellow looking one over the middle. He stood back looked at his cookie "hmm to plain." he muttered to himself as he looked over the table and picked the icing back up. He proceeded to make little glove/ boot looking things on the gingerbread mans arms and legs. "there." He said as he took more glitter and dumped it over the icing. After all he's found out usually more glitter there is on stuff the better other people liked it.
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(she is not an actual character, but quest) Lycania looked down at her creation and sighed on a laugh. Baking the actual cookie had been the easier part, it was the decorating that... had been somewhat of a challenge. The eyes were all wrong and it was a little messy, but something like this... it was homemade and she had really tried! Lyca wasn't a professional or anything nor did she claim to be. Taking her eyes off the derpydeer Lycania looked around for Hel as this deer needed to be shared! Lyca giggled to herself.
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:38 pm
They got to make their own shapes AND decorate it however they want? BEST. CLASS. EVER.
Mayaa knew exactly what she wanted to make, so she took the cutter, some sort of strange, rugged shape out of the dough, and when satisfied, stuck it in the oven, bouncing excitedly all the while it was baking.
When done, the first thing she did was make the face, but as it was still hot, the frosting ended up melting, and it took great patience to wait that extra 5 minutes until it was cool enough to decorate it.
Finally satisfied with her handywork, she stuck on 2 jube jubes and called it done.
But then the professor was talking about EDIBLE GLITTER and she was another student put a generous heaping on her cookie, so she did the same. It was beautiful.
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Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:59 pm
Kekeke. It was just that cocky attitude that Levi so enjoyed about the boil. He could be neck deep in a pit of poison and still refuse failure. Seem pretty damn sure'a yerself. I like that. Taking her dough back after the instructions were given, Levi went to work at her station.
Respectfully, the tatzel designed her gingerspookie to represent their professor. As was done previously when she'd made them with West, Levi sought out string to make the hanging noose for it to go on a tree. However, no string was in sight. What Levi did find was a bit of loose tinsel on one of the class' walls. Taking enough to knot up a makeshift noose, Levi held her finished product up by the tinsel's end to show Professor Jubilee with a big grin.Ya'like it? It's yew, Professor Jubilee! Scoring points directly with their teacher wasn't against any rules.
West's mention of a battle being preferred lingered in Levi's head up to this point. She could barely recall the last time they'd actually been in a battle together in the gym. Sparring outside, hiking in the woods or practicing indoors, yes, but not a formal gym battle. It slowly weighted on Levi and finally the words came up on their own. Ya know, that can be'arranged, boil. Just gimme tha' when n' where. Don't be thinkin' I got nothin' more ta'show yew.
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O_O How do you like it, Miss Jubilee?
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:59 pm
Jove was not so sure about his ability to decorate spookies, but he was ready to give it a try! Had he ever eaten a spookie that had icing and sprinkles and stuff on them? His tail wagged as he hovered by the table of supplies, peering at first one cutter and then the next, but soon realized his shape of choice was not amongst the pile.
A little half-whine, half-grumble came from his throat. Well, they never said making perfect spookies would be easy. He grabbed a knife, ready to freestyle it. Several shapes were soon cut out, and shoved into the oven with much enthusiasm.
Finally the timer rang, and Jove whipped the delicious spookies out of the oven with an excessive amount of haste. And then had to force himself not to eat one... Not until they were decorated! He took a couple different colours of icing, and with an expression of concentration (complete with tongue sticking out the side of his mouth), he began icing his little delectable masterpieces.
Little mushroom shaped spookies lay on his tray, decorated in subtle, mushroomy colours in icing. It was two of his favourite things mashed into one beautiful, warmly-scented edible, and it took all his willpower to sit still instead of harassing poor Mathias to come see.
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Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:45 pm
He met her praise with a universal grunt of approval then grabbed his own dough, pausing as he assessed his options. Since their teacher had seemed so disgustingly in love with Sandy Claws, maybe making another replica of Christmas Town's weirdo founder would be a good place to start.
West's spookie wasn't the most symmetrical thing he'd ever seen, but he managed to turn a couple of its unintentional brain tumors into a pretty fine hat, if he did say so himself. Much like Levi, he thought to attach the customary noose for easy tree hanging, but when he didn't see any good pieces of string lying around, he shrugged and moved on.
The boil almost made a joke regarding the tatzel's skill at asskissing until he realized his own spookie was just as bad.
"Nice work with the..." He could never recall what that stupid sparkly crap was called. "Tinstuff. An' if yer lookin' for a fight, don't get too comfy. You'll have one, after all this." He crossed his arms and grinned, the promise of a spar more than enough to get him through their current competition.
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Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:08 pm
This was probably where things were going to explode, Maple could sense it. So, each step to complete the spookies was done with apprehension and worry. Carefully she rolled it out the dough when it was ready to be cut into, and that was done with the upmost care as it was. Sharp things and her, wow. So sharp. But even then, didn't seem to be hurting herself so far. She even managed to manipulate the cutter enough (originally a snow man) to look a little more like a broom. ('cause she was boring and predictable, well it was a little creative. Better than doing a book like she originally planned. Doing a deer seemed like it would be a little too advanced for her).
Her eyes were nearly slowed when she plopped the tray into the oven and made a small sound of anxiety. This was where things could definitely blow up, the dragon could want its revenge for being confined in such a small area and go on a rampage. But a few minutes later, there was simply a soft ding and the evidence that the spookies were done. They were taken out (without much muss), left to cool and then decorated. Lamely.
Maple was actually rather... pleased with her efforts. Huh. Wasn't too bad. A small smile spread upon her lips as she looked down at her boring little gingerbroom spookies.
Neithan had been quite content relaxing against the oven till the class was ready to move on. Allowing him plenty of time to hear when Alamea began to speak to address him again, head cocking slightly to see her munching away on one of the ingredients. He hadn't bothered trying anything himself, though he wondered now if this was a mistake. Still, he nodded his acceptance to her offer. Though he didn't know the purpose for the giggle--the idea that she was laughing at him made the fire spark in a huff--he wasn't going to push aside a chance to possibly learn more about this... snow stuff. Because what else could she mean to instruct him on, saying he could be 'useful' with it around?
"Very well. It should be an... interesting experience," he added curiously, noting her shift in behavior. He kept his tongue, but couldn't deny the amusement to see her ears stand up like that.
Just like that, Jubilee began to prattle on again, and the balrog shifted his attention back. Shape? He watched her roll out the dough, slowly moving to grab his own batch. It took a moment of him scanning the rest of the classroom to get an idea of what she was really talking about--namely, he leaned slightly over to watch Tavi as he worked and cut the dough. Taking an idea from some of the decorations and new words being thrown around him, Neithan began to break apart the dough and roll it into particular shapes. After a moment, the rough shape of a snowman formed. It took him a moment longer to decide if he really had to use the oven--it was more convenient not to--but followed instructions regardless.
Making some smaller batches of icing, his inspiration took on a new little life of its own. Once the cookie was back out and ready for decorating, he worked carefully--and utilized his claws--to get each bit into the right place. Finally he drew back, a smirk cracking his stony face. He turned towards Alamea and gestured towards his creation. "Were you referrin' tae something like this?" Neithan was making a joke. Due to food. This was possibly a breakthrough. It certainly was a first for him.
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