{ HADES KITCHEN SEMI-FINALS } ENDS DEC 11th @ 11:59 PM PST

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HADES KITCHEN THE COMPETITION CONTINUES:

Previously on Hades Kitchen:

The contestants started with their first team battle, as the red versus blue teams compete to see who could score the most points. One team is going home, the team with the lowest score. There is a lot to impress tonight, from chefs to angry and demanding customers. But the chefs surprised them all at the end as neither team went home, but instead, individuals that had simply failed to deliver.

Chef Hyde, famed for his advanced research in Moldecular Gastronomy, Vile Potions mastery, and the best-selling cookbook, You are what you eat: and that's disgusting.

Chef Gorgon Ramsay, who put the F in fear of food, with over 12 Devilin stars spanning all of Halloween, having even gone to the Human World to scare the best of the best in the culinary industry, there is nothing this chef doesn't know about food.

The evening started off promising, as the contestants were asked to prepare three dishes. Guest diners were invited to the prestigious Hades Kitchen dining hall and could order one of the three items off the menu: the panty crap ripsotto, the tea deer skellington, and for dessert, the strawberry tart treat blood pudding.

Some chefs had their own ideas of what was right and wrong:

Contestant 1: "Too much violence against innocent minipets!"

And some just did not know how to please their customers.

Contestant 2: "You. What do you want."

If that wasn't bad enough, admidst the chaos, the guests VIP guests get angry.

The camera shifts to a horsewoman grabbing a spoon and scooping some blood pudding, going so far as to shove the spoon towards a contestant's mouth. "Look at this! You could get a human world fraternity drunk off of this by the smell alone! Conquest's horns, if I were to make you eat this you'd probably get drunk and I'd be hauled off to jail for getting a minor smashed!" She threw the spoon down, then shoved the dish back into his hands. "Take it back and work on the next dish."

Tensions are high and the stakes higher as some chefs go home in disappointments and others remain, fighting tooth and nail to rise to the top.

Do the remaining chefs have what it takes to take the grand title as KING OF HADES KITCHEN and the prize of 250, 000 silver pumpkin seeds? Find out in this round what these remaining contestants have in store in this episode of HADES KITCHEN  

[Zoobey]

HADES KITCHEN ROUND 3

The lights dim as both the chefs enter the room. Everyone has been escorted into a large kitchen, a very very large kitchen, or rather, a series of sub-kitchens. Each contestant gets their own counter to work on, with a working sink, oven, stoves, every single haunted kitchen supply they would ever need, and of course, their own set of brand new Chilling Brand Best Grade Haunted Chef Knives. There is a box in front of all the chefs.

The light dims and focuses the center stage, with the two chefs standing.

"Wow," starts chef Gorgon Ramsay, "wow. Last night. What a disaster, yeah? I think we can easily say that both teams did terribly. We asked for chefs, not a circus out there. If it were up to me, there would be no winners at all."

There is a long moment of silence.

"So let's start over, and start a fresh new day today. Please promise not to mess up so badly today, at least. Now, in front of you, as you can see, is a box, the mystery box. You will be cooking with all the contents in the box, like you did yesterday. The difference today is that you'll get to choose what you want to cook."

"All right then," continued chef Hyde in his most professional TV voice,"we will be scoring your dish on taste and taste alone. Only the top five chefs with the highest scores will participate in the final round. Make this meal count. Everyone on the count of three."

He only said "three", but it was enough count for everyone as they raised their boxes to reveal -

- "That's right," Chef Gorgon Ramsay hollered, "you will be cooking today with invisible ingredients. You will need to cook and prepare from a variety of invisible minipets, invisible spices and garnishes, and plate and serve them on our standard plates. We did say that taste is everything today, and just because it is invisible doesn't mean it can't taste bad."

"For those of you more dim-witted, invisible means you can't see it, intangible means you can't feel it. Oh, you'll feel it all right." Chef Hyde sneered.

"Now, everyone has one hour to prepare their best invisible dish. Good luck."

The timer begins on exactly above the chef's head, signalling it was time to prepare for their lives and serve the greatest meal yet.  

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THE CHALLENGE:

Each chef must use only spices and the given minipet ingredients to make a fantastic dish! As everything is quite invisible, taste, and touch are key!

gaia_crown [ STEP 1 ] The contestant needs to identify what they want from the box. As everything is quite invisible (any of the possible minipets in the invisible minipet list other than SE pets), they will need to identify from touch and taste alone. All contestants can roll a max of 3 times. Each time they do, they identify something about what they are touching. They can then pick which one of the three they want to use, and try their best to figure out from touching what they are making.

1) You feel something with a long fluffy tail
2) You feel something with a lot of scales
3) You feel something with a tiny body
4) You feel something that seems to have an extra limb
5) You feel something that is covered in saliva
6) You feel something jangle as you touch it
7) You feel a slight jingle as you move the something.

gaia_crown [ STEP 2 ] Now it is time to cook the thing. This is where the scoring system comes in. You will now accumulate points depending on how well you did for this and the following steps. Don't forget to put it in your OOC quotes.

PREPARATION:
- You will need to declaw/defang/skin/ gut out/ etcetc whatever it is you are holding. As it is invisible, so are all it's insides. Work carefully!
- Roll 3d6 to see what your score is this round. The higher you roll, the better your performance (ie: 1 cool the lower you roll, the worse your performance. If you manage to roll less than a 5 your minipet runs away and you have to grab your second choice from what you "felt" in stage 1.
- Put your score for step 2 in your OOc.

gaia_crown [ STEP 3 ]
- Now you will need to cook the item. There is a small choice of invisible spices, but since they are all invisible, you have to taste each one. You are allowed to taste three of the spices. Roll 3d10 to see which 3 you get. If you roll repeats, yes you tasted the same thing twice. Now you will have to creatively improvise with the spice in your food. Each spice is worth a certain amount of points.

1) Something very sticky and sweet +1
2) Something sugary and cube-shaped +2
3) Something very, extremely spicy +0
4) Something moldy -2
5) Something salty, just salty +2
6) Something oily in texture +1
7) Something oily and thick, that melts to the touch +2
cool Something slightly spicy, just on the light side +2
9) Something blood-flavoured what is it ??? +1
10) Something minty fresh +1

Tally up your points and add that to your score you had from step 2. Ie if I had 18 from step 2, and I rolled 4, 4, 5, I now have 18-2-2+2 = 16 points total up to here. Make sure you rp out this post.

gaia_crown [ STEP 4 ] This is the final step and that is plating the item! Go ahead and do so, keeping in mind you are literally serving invisible things on a plate. Roll 1d6 to see how well you perform. This is also your score for this round.

1) CLANG. Something falls. Did you just drop everything?
2) You feel some things fall off, or something quite literally run off your plate. Is that normal?
3) You think you did an okay job, but you could have sworn your meal is still chirping
4) You think you did an okay job, and everything seems to be plated okay, but what is that smell?
5) You did pretty good! You can't really tell, but at least nothing is falling off.
6) You worked better than a sightless slime demon. You are the invisible chef extraordinaire. You feel the urge to pat yourself on the back.

Tally up your score you got from completing step 3 and then in BOLD RED in ooc post your FINAL SCORE. YOU ARE DONE!! CONGRATS. MAke sure in your final post you also explain what this dish is. The cameras are rolling, and they want to know. Good luck!

 

[Zoobey]

CONTESTANT TALLY SUBMISSION FORM :

*RP DICE/ROLL HERE*

[quote="OOC"][b]NAME OF CONTESTANT:[/b]
[b]STAGE:[/b] What stage
[b]Name of dish:[/b]
[b]TALLY TOTAL[/b] BOLD RED WHEN ON STAGE 4[/quote]

 

[Rikku Takanashi]

Mercifully they had been allowed to go home after the second round and Dormouse ghoul ended up ordering out that night and spending a good long time cuddling confused minis

The next day Camilla returned full of vim and vigor ready to take on the next challenge! she follows the staff patiently (though hyperly) as they are led into the same room as the day before... this made the Dormouse ghoul frown a bit in worry... 'We aren't going to be serving people again today I hope...' she thinks worriedly fortunately it turned out they weren't

The Dormouse frowns and puffs her cheeks up a bit as the head chief's belittle everybody's efforts the day before but obediently lifts the lid off her mystery box only to gasp a bit and stare in confuse at the empty box before her however it only took her seconds to realize what the ingredients were! She heard soft various cries and smelled various scents even though it appeared there was nothing there... Their minipet ingredients were invisible! This was confirmed shortly after by the head chiefs along with a revelation the Dormouse ghoul wasn't happy to hear...

Camilla pales little ...Taste... that was the one thing she hadn't done throughout the whole competition was taste her food... frankly she was surprised any of it come out alright as tasting one's food was imperative to cooking good food but she refused to eat minipet based dishes if she could help it... but it looks like she might not beable to avoid it this time...

Finally the chiefs finish explaining and start the timer she had a hour to do this and she had to get right to work! However instead of rushing or panicking the Dormouse ghoul takes a breath to calm down then closes her eyes and starts reaching for the plate she listened carefully to the different sounds the minis were making and finally got a hold of one

With mini in hand she brought it close enough to her face to smell it but not close enough that it could attack her it was small... very small and scaled... with fur too! "What are you...?" she mutters to herself then takes a good smell only to pale a bit as her eyes widen "Oh dear! Nope! I'm not cooking this!" she says quickly and puts the mini down she realized she had picked up a treat mini a dragon treat from the feel of it Camilla was rather fond of treat minis and had had a hard enough time the day before just picking the strawberries off frozen Tart treats... there was no way she could kill and cook a Dragon treat!

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Camilla
STAGE: 1
INGREDIENT 1: Dragon Treat Invisible (not using)

 

[Rikku Takanashi]

The Dormouse ghoul sighs dreading what was to come but knowing she had to get her ingredients first...

Bravely Camilla reaches her hand into the fray and pulls out something much larger this time! It was furry... had a long snout... a long tail... It kinda reminded her of a rat... which made the Dormouse ghoul pale a bit until said tail curled around her hand "Hm? Rat tails can't do this..." she says running her hand over it's tail that's when a thought struck her curiously she reaches for it's belly and let's out a Ah ha! When she felt the pouch on it's stomach "Your not a rat! Your a Possum! Hm... judging by your size and lack of pompom on the end of your tail you must be... a Jambalawwa!" she says triumphantly

However she wasn't sure she wanted to cook a possum... And so the Dormouse ghoul puts the Jambalawaa off to the side and reaches for another

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Camilla
STAGE: 1
INGREDIENT 1: Jambalawwa Invisible (Possum)(not using)

 

[Rikku Takanashi]

When the Dormouse ghoul's hand wrapped around another mini a confused expression crossed her face "Wait didn't I just pick you up?" she asks the mini curiously then reaches over only to find the first Jambalawwa was still sitting where she'd left it "Huh? They gave me two? Hm..." she mumbles and thinks it over however she knew she didn't have long to think so finally she decided to go with the Mini in hand...

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Camilla
STAGE: 1
INGREDIENT 1: Jambalawwa Invisible (Possum)(using)

 

[Rikku Takanashi]

Next came the most dreaded part of this challenge... The prepping... The first thing the Dormouse ghoul did was grab as many of the invisible minis as she could and stuff them back in the box... she didn't want them seeing what she was about to do...

Once she was confident she had gotten most of them put away she retrieves the Jambalawwa she had trapped under a bowl then pickes up said bowl... it was a nice heavy metal bowl she could feel the poor mini cowering under her hand which causes Camilla to swallow hard "Sorry..." she whispers then swings the bowl down

The next part was even worse... the clean up... she first skinned and removed the insides before cutting the meat off the bone and cut it into reasonable sized pieces... it was gruesome work she had killed and skinned things before but never a minipet... it just felt... wrong killing and eating pet animals... but Camilla knew that these minis were breed and raised specifically for this and if she didn't do it someone else would... and they might not be as kind...

When she was finished Camilla disposed of all the scraps and such then washed up and sighs

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Camilla
STAGE: 2
TALLY TOTAL: 13 (Oh the irony...)

 

[Rikku Takanashi]

Now she had to decide what she wanted to make... Camilla closes her eyes and thinks back on all the recipe books from other countries she'd read trying to find something she might beable to modify for possum It took her a minute or two but she finally remembered seeing a recipe for possum... "Hm... I hope Possum minis taste like regular possums..." she mutters to herself before nodding and getting to work

Quickly the Dormouse ghoul grabs a few pumpkin mashers and starts peeling, de-eyeing, and cubbing them before throwing them in a pot of water and getting them started boiling the next thing Camilla had to do was gather her three special ingredients... it was kinda hard to tell what was what and this is where the tasting part came in...

Reaching around until she got a hold of a bottle she opens it and smells it "Hm... This is slightly spicy..." she mutters before dipping her finger in and tasting some "Hm... slightly hot pepper flakes of some kind..." she says softly before thinking on it and nodding a bit then grabbing another bottle this one smelled salty and upon tasting sure enough it was salt! But it tasted a little saltier then normal which told her it must be sea salt finally her hand hit some sort of cold package... she opens it and pulls out a small oily cube which smelled of various herbs that started melting in her hand "Ah! This must be one of those new sauce cubes!" she says excitedly she had been wanting to try these! She gave it a good smell first however "Hm... garlic... bay, some sort of cream... perfect!" she says then nods and returns to her counter

Now was time for the main bulk of the cooking quickly Camilla preheats her oven then gets to work on the Possum first she rubs some of the slightly spicy pepper flakes all over the cut up meat then throws the sauce cube in a saucepan and gets it melting before adding the cut up meat in and coating it thoroughly in the sauce then adding salt and pepper however she used the sea salt instead of regular salt when that was finished she added a few slices of bacon onto of the meat before adding a bit of water to the pan and transferring the whole thing to the oven

It wasn't long before the Mashers were done and Camilla decided to prepare them just as she had the day before (minus the peeling and de eyeing she'd already done that) she mashed the mashers and added the garlic making care the mashers were nice and fluffy like the should be

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Camilla
STAGE: 3
INGREDIENTS: Something slightly spicy, just on the light side, Something salty, just salty, And Something oily and thick, that melts to the touch
TALLY TOTAL: 19 (13 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 19)

 

[Rikku Takanashi]

Finally her meat was done and now came the plating... this was going to be tricky because... well... she couldn't see anything!

First Camilla piles a nice mound of mashers (invisible mashers no less...) on the plate and creates a small pit in the center she then takes the pan off the counter where she'd left it to cool and carefully starts spooning in the sauce and pieces of meat into the masher pit

Once done there she uses tongs to grab some pieces of meat and place them as artfully as she could then drizzled more of the sauce around the plate before stepping back and sighing... "I can't see any of it..." she mumbles nervously she could smell it and she had to admit it did smell good but she couldn't see it which worried her... what if the meat wasn't cooked enough or she put to much sauce on... Well... there was nothing for it she had done her best with what she had and now it was time to bring it to the judges... Calmly Camilla smooths out her cloths then grabs her plates and takes them to the judges

When she got to the room they were in she gives her most friendly polite smile and approaches them "Hi! My Dish today is called Possum and Mash! However despite the name it has little in common with Pie and Mash" she explains politely making sure they didn't think this was some strange take on pie and mash "Please enjoy!" she says as cheerfully as she could

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Camilla
STAGE: 4
Name of dish: Possum and Mash
TALLY TOTAL: 22

 

[Huni Pi]

Oh, oh jack, not this again. It wasn't bad enough that Ruth's first dish involved a jacking invisible ingredient but now she had to do it all over again?! She fixed a look of dismay on her face, a rare moment when her expression actually reflected what she felt. But she made a show of steeling her resolve and dove into the ingredients.

Her first attempt had her pick a minipet that had hmmm lots of scales. From what she knew of invisible pets, it was likely to be a dragon treat. Great, it had a lot of bits she would have to remove while working blind. She set it aside to attempt to get more ingredients, in case she ruined it.

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Ruth/"Blondie"
STAGE: 1
INGREDIENT 1: You feel something with a lot of scales: Dragon Treat Invisible

 

[Huni Pi]

Her second foray into the box alerted her to a sound. A very familiar sound because she'd handled this type of meat during her first dish! She debated on using a more modified version of the puree but decided to try to find one more minipet. Can't be too careful at this point.

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Ruth/"Blondie"
STAGE: 1
INGREDIENT 2: You feel something jangle as you touch it: Jambalawwa

 

[Huni Pi]

This was her last chance to find an ingredient that she could actually work with. She had no idea what the clinking and jingling of the invisible mini meant and decided rather arbitrarily that out of all the possible invisible minipets there were, this was a luck dragon. And Ruth knew very well she would need all the luck she can get to pass this round.

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Ruth/"Blondie"
STAGE: 1
INGREDIENT 3: You feel a slight jingle as you move the something: Luck Dragon

 

[Huni Pi]

Okay now came the tricky bit. Cleaning and gutting and deboning and declawing. It was unfortunate that she wasn't allowed to use anything to even give her an idea of the mini's size and condition. The flour trick was clearly a no-go, and the luck dragon apparently wasn't quite willing to give up the ghost. Her first attempt had her missing completely but once she pinned it down with her free hand, she managed to remove the scales and the tufts of fur and the horns and the claws. The insides were, ah, not as easily removed but she scooped out as much of the invisible squishy organs as she could.

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Ruth/"Blondie"
STAGE: 2
INGREDIENT: Luck Dragon Invisible
SCORE: 10

 

[Huni Pi]

And now came the spices, which of course wouldn't have labels or any helpful indications of what they could be. She took a deep breath and went about her blind taste testing, yielding saltiness in immediate succession and a pleasant spiciness on the third. Huh, yes, a good combination, she could work with this!

The salty taste was liquid, soy sauce in Ruth's best guess, the second saltiness was just that. Salt. While the third taste with its light spiciness was probably white vinegar. She could make something one of the cooks back home made now and again!

The dragon was cubed (or as cubed as she could shape them) and the spices were combined into a bowl. She left the ingredients to soak for a time before pouring the contents into a pot of water. Turning the heat on the stove up, she let it come to a boil and promptly lowered the flame to a simmer. Eventually, the liquid was reduced and the meat absorbed the spices.

As a final touch, she stir fried the meat.

OOC

NAME OF CONTESTANT: Ruth/"Blondie"
STAGE: 3
INGREDIENT: Luck Dragon Invisible
SCORE: 10 + 6