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PrinceFigment rolled 2 10-sided dice:
9, 3
Total: 12 (2-20)
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 Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:57 am
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As he began the last little bit of work on his onions, the judge approached his table.
OOC "Stop," says judge Hyde, walking towards you. "You are finished." Just as you take your apron off he amends, "Your are finished using that knife. Go and get a sharper knife."
Grumbling, the serpent stabbed his old knife, embedding it deep into the tabletop. Near as he could figure the knife was still functioning just fine. His onions were cut into slivers, just as he'd been tasked to do. Apparently that just wasn't good enough.
Aron grabbed a new knife and turned back toward his table in time to see...
OOC Judge Hyde grabs a bowl full of sliced veggies and disposes of them. He stares at you with what might be smugness as you have to recut a whole bowl full of onions.
He stood in awe for a moment, watching the judge dump his veggies into the trash. Growling slightly, he bared his teeth and got back to work. Didn't matter what this pain in his tail did, he'd finish the task.
Staring down at his veggies, he started the process over again. At least he didn't have to start completely over.
OOC MY FINAL SCORE FOR THIS ROUND IS: 25
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yylaayl rolled 1 20-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:13 pm
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The ink demon was grabbing at anything that remotely resembled a tearjerker, usually the end of a tentacle, and threw them into his cart, minimizing contact between him and the vicious veggies. He then walked as fast as he possibly could to his table and began the task of defanging and declawing the onions. Quillan took them out of the cart by grabbing onto anything sticking out of the tangled tearjerker mess and quickly chopping off the claws. If he did it fast enough, it wouldn't even realize what was happening. But once it did, the onion would try to attack. The boil discovered an easy way to defang them - when they tried to attack, if he stuck his knife in it's mouth at an angle, when it tried to bite him, it would defang itself! He was pretty sure this wasn't the right way to do it but hey, it worked, right?
OOC STEP 1: Declawing and Defanging Your Onion CONTESTANT NAME: Quillan MINUTES LEFT: 58/60
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Face your demons rolled 1 20-sided dice:
15
Total: 15 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:30 pm
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The negative comment, given her score compared to other scores, did not affect Amarus' sense of self worth very much. In fact, it only served to make her preen internally. She aimed to be the best, and so long as the best was better than most of the others, she wouldn't be overly bent out of shape about anything.
The blindfold did not bother her overly much, though she was curious as to why they were being blindfolded. Part of her also hoped that it would be removed before she had to cook, so that she did not have to cheat-- yes, if faced with that decision, she would definitely try to cheat.
A loud boom and a thunk made Amarus deeply uncomfortable, and she could not help the defensive stance she assumed automatically, turning to the source of the sound. By the time she was able to relax and take off her blindfold, she was already exponentially more suspicious of this entire show.
The table was sparse, and the agony of the tearjerkers was not lost on her, though it didn't really bother her in any fundamental sense. The biting, as well, did little to dissuade her; she had been bitten by her own plants hundreds of times.
Her work ethic? How strange. Did that mean she couldn't attack the other chefs, or?...
Oh, no, it just meant she had to cut a lot of things very fast. She bit into her thumb again, for her lotus essence. Calm. As was her ritual, she folded her hands into a kuji-kiri before she began. Old habits.
Amarus approached the veggies. Perhaps because she was so immensely calm, perhaps because she was big on quality assurance, she took her sweet time gathering the tearjerkers. It took her fifteen minutes.
At one point, a tearjerker attacked her hand and would not let go. Her essence bled all over the place. She took advantage of her spectral flesh, rendered it intangible and let the tearjerker fall away. She took one of her ribbons off and bound her hand up, ignoring the bite as the natural numbing properties helped ease her pain.
OOC STEP 1: DECLAWING AND DEFANGING YOUR ONION. CONTESTANT NAME: Amarus MINUTES LEFT: 45/60
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Face your demons rolled 3 10-sided dice:
1, 9, 4
Total: 14 (3-30)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:40 pm
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Her hand bound by a ribbon, she was not entirely thrilled to be interviewed while she was busy but this was for entertainment she supposed. Amarus put on her best I am campaigning face, the one she had used as vice president, so that she could adequately come across as not a huge jerk.
The first question: WHY DID YOU TRY OUT FOR HADES KITCHEN? Amarus paused only for a moment; it was a pretty easy question. "I enjoy food preparation, I enjoy competition, and I love winning," she said, simply.
Question two made her grin in a not entirely harmless way. "It would only be appropriate to say: ex umbra, ex dolor, virtus immaculata." She did not translate.
"I do not envision anything," she admitted, and it was true; Amarus focused only on the present, never on the future. That had always been how it was, and she had no plans on changing it this time. "Since I am in the present, I will not bother imagining the future; I will leave that to you," she said, with a bow.
Now she could get back to the work, right? And she could stop smiling like a drugged cat.
OOC STEP 2: Interview; 1) Why did you try out for Hades Kitchen? ; 9) If you could say one thing in front of live national TV what would you say? ; 4) Do you envision yourself winning the grand prize and what would you do with the money? CONTESTANT NAME: Amarus MINUTES LEFT: 45/60
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Face your demons rolled 3 20-sided dice:
7, 18, 9
Total: 34 (3-60)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:48 pm
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Face your demons rolled 2 10-sided dice:
10, 3
Total: 13 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:57 pm
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This show involved a lot more talking than food, she was beginning to learn. After the interview ate up a huge chunk of her time, now it appeared the judges were walking around and bothering the contestants. A waste of time, a useless distraction. She quietly kept to herself, and continued to chop her tearjerkers thin as anything.
In fact, she was not at all concerned that the judges were ignoring her at first. It was a welcome change, letting her relax and set into the groove of her task before they did come interrupt her.
She tried to be even more polite to these than she was to the interviewer, but honestly she did not see the point to all the talking. Hades' Kitchen was like 20% food, and 80% mouth movements accompanied by useless sounds. That's pretty much what she was thinking as Hyde approached.
Her thought adjusted itself as, instead of saying anything, Hyde merely tossed an entire bowl of her onions. She stared quietly, her expression becoming mirror-blank like it did when she was not sure how to respond or when she was particularly annoyed.
Silently, as though he had never been by, she cut up a new bowl of onions and stared at him, as if to say: Is that all you've got? and also That was incredibly childish.
OOC STEP 3: Cutting it close; unwanted critique. 10) You are blatantly ignored by both judges. Maybe they really hate you; 3) Judge Hyde grabs a bowl full of sliced veggies and disposes of them. He stares at you with what might be smugness as you have to recut a whole bowl full of onions. (Just RP it, no need to reroll!) CONTESTANT NAME: Amarus MINUTES LEFT: 11
OOC MY FINAL SCORE FOR THIS ROUND WITH AMARUS IS 11
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Face your demons rolled 1 20-sided dice:
9
Total: 9 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:09 pm
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yylaayl rolled 3 10-sided dice:
8, 2, 4
Total: 14 (3-30)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:10 pm
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Quote: 8.) If you had your own cookbook what would you base it off after? 2) Tell me a little about yourself, your backstory, who you are. 4) Do you envision yourself winning the grand prize and what would you do with the money?
Quillan had just chopped off the fangs of the last onion when he realized that the attention was on him. He froze, having never been on TV before and unsure of what to do. The boil was lucky that he was finished with the declawing and defanging or else he would be covered in bite marks by now.
The first question came as a total surprise to him. Honestly, he'd entered the competition for fun and didn't expect to win at all, but that wasn't something you could say on TV. What would he base a cookbook after? "If I had a cookbook, I would base it off of some of my favorite recipes from when I was a kid! The questions only got harder after that. " Uhh...I come from a family of writers, so they would be very surprised to see me here..." Quillan gave a sheepish wave to the camera. I love what I do, but cooking is a great break from writer's block!" The last question was about winning. "I would be rather surprised if I won since there are so many amazing chefs here, but that won't stop me from trying! What I would do with the money...hmmm..." He thought about it for a bit before saying, "I don't know yet but I'd probably keep a large portion of it and give some to help a charity or organization? Don't know yet..." Luckily, they left him alone after that because he wasn't sure he would be able to answer another question.
OOC STEP 2: The Interview CONTESTANT NAME: Quillan MINUTES LEFT: 58/60 |
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Face your demons rolled 3 10-sided dice:
10, 3, 8
Total: 21 (3-30)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:12 pm
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The next portion, as she finished cutting her onion and looked over to see a camera, appeared to be the interview. She set her knife down, slipped all of her cut onion into a bowl, and wiped her hands dry on her outer skirt as she turned to face the interviewer with a smile.
Speaking to groups was not a problem, speaking to one individual was even less so. The first question, however, seemed to be about other contestants. "Which contestant do you think is going home today?" they asked. She looked around the room.
"I do not know, " Sigrun said. "The one who seems best prepared, I would imagine. There is a certain way that one who seems sure of everything falls much faster than those of us who seem to give doubt a moment of our time."
"What do you think about the other contestants here?" was the second question. Again? She really didn't know the other contestants at all, this was only their first challenge.
"I think I do not know much about any of them," she said. "It would be irresponsible to claim any other stance without taking the time to meet them. I cannot afford the diversion, at the moment, unfortunately."
"If you had your own cookbook what would you base it off after?"
Initially confused by off after, Sigrun finally answered: "Do you mean what recipes would I include, in general? Their theme? I would gather the foods preferred by my people," she said, with confidence. "Traditional dishes," she amended.
Nothing foreign they may have encountered since. That was not her goal. Synergy was a hideous word.
OOC STEP 2: The interview. 10) Which contestant do you think is going home today?, 3) What do you think about the other contestants here?, 8.) If you had your own cookbook what would you base it off after? CONTESTANT NAME: Sigrun Runa MINUTES LEFT: 51/60
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yylaayl rolled 3 20-sided dice:
9, 13, 9
Total: 31 (3-60)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:13 pm
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Face your demons rolled 3 20-sided dice:
14, 19, 10
Total: 43 (3-60)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:35 pm
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The timer, Sigrun had learned, did not stop while she was being interviewed. Sneaky. It was as if it was a military tactic used against them. Sigrun, in that moment, entered a space of tactical defense: everything that happened next, she would view as possibly hostile action.
And, ideally, react accordingly to strengthen her resolve.
In fact, the interview had taken 43 minutes, and she was irritable over this.
OOC STEP 3: Cutting it close, the timer. CONTESTANT NAME: Sigrun Runa MINUTES LEFT: 8/60
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Face your demons rolled 2 10-sided dice:
10, 3
Total: 13 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:37 pm
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During the last phase of preparation, Sigrun noticed that the judges were visiting everyone. At least, they seemed to be. They were very obviously ignoring her. Her pride was a little wounded, and she thought constantly: am I doing something wrong? Or something right?
Moments later, she realized that it did not matter. If they came to her, they came to her. If they did not, they did not. She would give it time. Everything in time.
Time did, in fact, bring Hyde to her. Hyde, who promptly and without explanation dumped a bowl of her onions out. She sighed, and thought: I was right to assume it is out of hostility they act.
"I will assume that this new bowl will be much better than my previous bowl, and merely be grateful for the opportunity to improve," she said aloud, to no one in particular, as she righted her affairs.
OOC STEP 3: Cutting it close, unwanted critique. 10) You are blatantly ignored by both judges. Maybe they really hate you. 3) Judge Hyde grabs a bowl full of sliced veggies and disposes of them. He stares at you with what might be smugness as you have to recut a whole bowl full of onions. (Just RP it, no need to reroll!) ... somehow i got the exact same roll with both characters, wtf. GO AWAY HYDE. CONTESTANT NAME: Sigrun Runa MINUTES LEFT: 8/60
OOC MY FINAL SCORE THIS ROUND WITH SIGRUN IS 8
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yylaayl rolled 2 10-sided dice:
6, 9
Total: 15 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 2:18 pm
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musicaloner7 rolled 1 20-sided dice:
17
Total: 17 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 3:49 pm
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musicaloner7 rolled 3 10-sided dice:
8, 3, 8
Total: 19 (3-30)
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 3:58 pm
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While she was focused, Ev wasn't oblivious to the numerous cameras that were surrounding her and her fellow competition. When one of them zoomed in on her, the demon was a bit surprised, but continued to wear her light, easygoing smile. A little bow of her head was even given, in respect. The first question was simple enough for her, head only tipping slightly in a thoughtful manner.
Quote: If you had your own cookbook what would you base it off after?
"If I had my own cookbook, I'd surely base it off of plant based foods. They are my favorites to indulge in, after all." simple enough, she thought.
Quote: What do you think about the other contestants here?
the following question made her pause to glance around her at the others scrambling to get their tests done, and also being swarmed by cameras. She... didn't know any of them. It caused her to remain silent awhile before she finally replied, "I don't know any of them, but I wish them the best in this challenge."
Quote: What do you think about chefs Gorgon Ramsay and chef Dr. Hyde?
Another tricky question, but the ghoul kept up her smile, "I find them to be quite amiable, and true artists when it comes to the culinary realm. I have plenty I could learn from them, and be inspired by."
OOC STEP 2: The interview CONTESTANT NAME: Ev MINUTES LEFT: 43/60
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