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~Cooking Festival~

Location: Town Square
Time: 10am - 5pm


Grab your oven mitts 'cause pots and pans are gonna be frying! Show off your cooking skills in this amazing battle of the chefs!


Past Winners:
Year 1

1st Place : Mystery Girl X
2nd Place : Haruka Koyama
3rd Place : Leroy Hunt & Joshua Pyre
Keith Leblanc and Conor Alvey

Year 2

1st Place : Alanis LeBlanc & Lucas Grey
2nd Place : Fleurette Starks & Maxwell Knight
3rd Place : Keith LeBlanc & Conor Alvey

Year 5

1st Place : Talna Hipp & Turner Hipp
2nd Place : Alanis LeBlanc & Lucas Gray
3rd Place : Keith LeBlanc & Quentin Alvey-LeBlanc




Rules:

1. There will be three rounds to the cooking contest. Appetizer, Entree and Desert.

2. The player will have to post at least twice while preparing each entree, one for cooking the food, another for display. Each post will have one dice rolled to determined the success, the number of sides of said dice depends on the skill level of the character.

3. We ask that you be nice and fair with your characters (we're sure you will be!) and choose a dice in all honesty.

Roll a 4-sided dice if your character is a poor cook.
Roll a 6-sided dice if your character is an average cook.
Roll a 8-sided dice if your character is an experienced cook.
Roll a 10-sided dice if your character is an expert cook.

4. Competitors can work in teams of up to two, one character works on display (rolls the display dice) and the other on cooking (rolls the cooking dice), but this is entirely optional. Single competitors are allowed!

5. Remember that every character, even if both are your owns, have a different ability at cooking. We like to see different dice rolls for different characters.

6. Take note, also, that everyone is not skilled in the same way. Keith, for example, good an excellent technique, so he will roll a 10sided for technique, but got only an average skill for presentations, rolling 6's for them. Varieties makes perfect entertainment!

Simple, no?






Theme: To be Revealed


Judges: Each Judges will also roll a 6-sided dice to judge the taste of the dish. However, they might just give you a bonus point or two if they were impressed by something else...

Gaston Sonata (Mayor. Everything is in the beauty!)
Gladice Leblanc (Town representative. It's all about technique!)
Tate O'Ballivan (Guess Judge... )




Current Contestant:

1. Keith Leblanc & Conor Alvey
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2. Alanis LeBlanc & Lucas Gray
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3. Eleanor LeBlanc & Wilhelm LeBlanc
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4. Alex Park & Freja Von der Bach
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5. Scholteheim Reinbach III & Walter Dolones
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6. John Alvey-LeBlanc & Eet Alvey-LeBlanc
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7. Talna Hipp & Turner Hipp
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8. Zhi Xiqui & River Park
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9. Jacob Waldroup & Zellinity Niami
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10. Benedictus Traiylor & Mitsuke Rameri
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11. Lilia Sonata & 'Florence'
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Winnie made sure to come to the cooking festival. She wouldn't miss out on it for the world. She would never compete, but it couldn't hurt to watch expert cooks do their thing. Winnie knew that she was a bad cook, all she could make was cinnamon rolls and pancakes. She had been surviving on that and take out for a while now, and was getting sick of it, especially the cinnamon rolls.
She had been in town for a while, but this was her first time out. School would start soon, so she had to get to know the townspeople. After all, she would be counseling most of their children about their problems, it was always nice to know if the parents had anything to do with it; so she would try to get to know the parents despite her shy nature. Maybe one could teach her how to cook, so she would stop gaining weight from all the carbohydrates she was consuming.

Missy peeked her head out of Winnie's leather bag, looking up at her. Winne petted her affectionately, and seemed to whisper something to her. She'd take her out at some point. She didn't want her to shed all over her clothes before she met someone. She had to keep impressions up. As much as she feared talking to people, because they would find out too much about her, and as much as she disliked forward men in general, at some point she would need friends, and maybe someday a family. That was another reason she would need to learn how to cook, she couldn't feed her future children pancakes for dinner.

She spotted the old woman across the square, and felt an immediate need to go speak to her. Maybe she could find a friend in her, after all, the elderly was less likely to judge. They'd all been through life and made their own mistakes, they wouldn't care much about hers.

She walked towards the woman, pulling her bag closer to her body as Missy whined and pulled herself farther in the bag. That was the one thing about the dog, she seemed to echo Winnie's true feelings about the situation at hand. If people realized this, Winnie had a hard time talking to them. She always tried to put on a stronger face, even when inside she was shaking.

"Hello, ma'am!" she said,"Are you entering the festival?" Her voice was polite and sunny, the way it usually was when speaking to people she felt wouldn't judge her. Any other time it had a sullen quality.

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A strange looking woman was amongst the people willing to join. She had a slight familiar look to her, but still not recognizable too easily. She called herself "Mystery Girl X" and what does the X stand for, you ask? It stands for X's make everything sound cool! She was actually nearby the three rowdy band members, and simply approached and bonked them upside their head. Then walked away from them.

The young woman made her way towards the old lady, who she recognized as the mayor, and another young woman nearby the mayor. As she walked, she took out a small white board that she carried on her back, and a black marker, writing down something to ask. She stopped nearby them, not wanting to interrupt however.

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[Ohh, right. XD I feel silly now.]

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Mystery Girl X (who will now be called MGX for simplicity) turned around the whiteboard, as she took a few steps towards the old woman. On it was a message written in a very neat looking cursive. The main reason for this was to not be recognized through her rather easily to identity voice. Yes, she was that sneaky! She did not want to be well known in festivals, thus Mystery Girl X planned to enter all of them under this persona. So writing instead of speaking was one of the things she had to do. The whiteboard she held said the following:

'Hello ma'am, I happen to have noticed that you are a judge in this cooking contest. Could you please inform me when and where we will be able to enter the contest?'

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Hansel came with Una, he wanted to show off his German cooking, and Una came to help if she could. If not she would watch her Uncle and the others. Of course they didnt know what they were in for. They went past the ingredient table, Una was tempted to lift up the blanket and look at what they had to cook with. Hansel went up to the judges and adjusted his glasses.

There were alot of cute girls here. A blond, two brunettes - one that was with a band it seemed, and a redhead. It had the ex-military German feeling a bit nervous. Afraid to screw up while cooking and infront of all these beautiful Frauliens!

He approached the table with Galdice and held up a finger to try and politely intrude. "Ach Guten tag. Ztis ist vhere ve register fur cookingt?"

Una looked around, some of those.. okay all of those band members were cute. Was the one a guy or a girl though? She wasnt sure. She pushed some of her strawberry blond hair behind her ear and smiled to the old woman. She stood besides her Uncle.

"Vhat he means is, can ve register for the contest?" Una said with a smile. Her accent wasnt as thick, her English alot better than Hansel's. She also looked alot different then him.. well she sure has hell dressed differently. Gothic/punk clothing, and she looked young too. But she had such a sweet face.
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"I dont doubt your cooking.. i was just saying this seems kind of stupid to me." Vlad said to Dante, part of a long ongoing conversation the two had been having on the way to the festival.

"But i want to cook.. you can go mingle." Dante said gently as the twins approached the table with Gladice and the others. "We'd like to register if we could? Well i would." Dante smiled.

Meanwhile Vlad was already looking around at the girls. A cute brunette with a band.. might be a guy.. Dante kinda has the same face when he dresses up in Drag.. tough to tell. Eh not like it mattered.. he'd ******** it. And her.. and her... and no she is an old lady.. He is cute though. And so is his... dont tell me thats his daughter? Vlad thought to himself as his eyes went around the area.

There it was! His beautiful town square full of beautiful people in his beautiful town! Simply beautiful! He could write a sonnet – in fact, he would write a sonnet! And a play stationed right inside his town! A movie would be made.. who should he call? There had to be someone.. Oh, well. Gaston walked into the festival in his usual odd clothing, of which he would always consider to be in style no matter the looks he garnered from others. They were simply jealous they hadn't thought to wear this first.. Just like they would be jealous of Florence, who came lumbering beside him on a thin, golden leash attached to his strong harness. The panda turned his head this way and that, eying the people curiously as his owner guided him through to the end of the square, where Gladice and Bella stood dealing with that crowd of people. Hm. Wait in line or.. Ha! Did he even have to think that? Of course, he strolled right on by to the front, paused to give the old lady a scathing look – the one spot of ugliness in town.. Ugh, he hated the elderly. He thought he had made it illegal for them to.. Oh, well. Gladice was rather.. important, he supposed. Florence plopped himself down in front of the man and put his large paws together on his belly, watching the crowd quietly. He wasn't one for groups like this, but he had seen plenty of servants at home.. he could handle this.

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Kade had sprung right into the crowd without a second to lose, bright blue eyes darting around excitedly. Oh, he loved the cooking festival! Was Yoakim here? There was Gladice, but where was Kim?! Oh, that man! He thought he would be here bright and early for a cooking festival, what with how he engorged himself daily! He paused at the entrance and thought for a good long second – oh.. But, then, what if poor Kim was busy with work? All alone in that dark, scary mine?! Kade had been there once and just freaked at the entrance to that gaping hole, unable to move without the blacksmith there to.. walk on ahead of him without a care, but that was like Yoakim for 'come on, it's perfect safe, sweetheart!' So, Kade always took that moment as a gentle, romantic coaxing by his big burly man. ..Well.. Not man yet, but they were pretty darn close! Now, that aside, here he saw a whole slew of people! That Gaston fellow certainly had managed to get so many new people into town – look at them all! Ooh, that one was cute.. No, bad.. Bad slut urges! He was good in his relationship with Kim! He frowned at himself and turned his eyes up at the sky to keep them from wandering the crowd in appraisal. Yep.. This was total -

“Eek!” He squealed out as he bumped into a.. shorter redhead.. Oh, whoops! “Oh, my god, I'm so sorry! I didn't think you were – umm..” He stopped as he lowered his eyes to look at a pair of cold, annoyed, and overall cranky set directed at him. Kade bit his lip and giggled in a nervous manner. Oh, she looked pissed. And Romane was, extremely, but not completely at the hairdresser. Her mind had been on Paprika Pepper her whole time here supervising. High. Her first day of work had been spent baked with a group and it was all that disgusting woman's fault. She had never.. And the sheriff! Oh. The sheriff. She seethed for a moment more, all the while Kade looking at the grumpy cop nervously, wondering if he should.. She didn't do much but look at him – if she was even doing that – no words.. No sound.. Oh, this was nerve-wrecking. Uh. Escape! “Hey, look, a panda! Isn't that like so cool?” He said as he pointed over at Florence, his lips spreading in a wide grin, “Oh my god, that is a panda! SO cool! Bye bye! I'm gonna go get in line!” He waved her off as he went to skip into line, figuring it must be to see the animal rather than to get into the competition.

Haruka entered the square trying to wrestle Nanami off of her, but struggled against her mother's death grip. The two walked awkwardly, while Yuuto strolled casually a few steps behind them. He was both amused and a little tired of the pestering relationship the two had.

He looked around the square, recognizing people by faces, but knowing few names, even the mayor, who he only knew as... the mayor. He recognized Winifred Bloom, too, but that would be expected from a coworker... of sorts. He didn't initiate any conversation, however; he simply just watched his sister weigh down on his niece.

"Haruka, you should enter," Nanami said for the umpteenth time. Haruka frowned, taking a break from her struggling to pay attention to her walking. "Haruka, you should enter." And the thrashing resumed.

[[Ehh, crappy, lame-a** post.]]

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- Eleanor Vatonage, Blaire Vatonage, Rune Vatonage, Hayden Rusacanth, Rachel Fate, & Sophia Fate -
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Spread over in different areas of the festival where a few characters.

Ellie had Rune in her arms as she came to the square and began to walk around. She wasn't sure if she would enter just yet...

Though Blaire kept insisting one of them had to. And so she did as she followed her sister and niece around the festival. The two however ended up wandering near a familiar hairdresser.

Hayden had finally come out of his house. A slight yawn escaped the handsome man's figure as he glanced around and straightened himself. He had been distracted by his new sculpture, and forgot a few things... like buying food. So curiosity got the best of him, and here he was. What would he do though? Maybe there's be a cute-Hello beautiful ladies~

Now Rachel... She was practically staring at the panda, Florence. While Sophia pawed at the floor in front of Florence for a moment. Yes, she'd been a year working this island but... Florence was relatively new... considering Gaston. Still! How many times did she see the frigging panda this season!? Well- Okay so as an officer a few of times but... it was just so fluffy! Not that she'd admit out loud though. Not now anyways. So the blond simply smiled and shook her head slightly, before continuing her patrol. Soon enough she spotted a redhead she was sort of looking for. Her new partner. "Officer Bissette" called out the blond as she approached her "Everything all right?" They hadn't talked much had they? But it was her first festival here. Not that she didn't trust her but... Sophia, her playful husky was right besides the two officers, as lively as ever.