[V-Day Open Class] Truffles! (Rojo)

[Smerdle]

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The temporary open class is located in one of the home economics rooms, and offers on the overhead, some amazing insight to the values and traditions of both Valentines and the human world!

Valentines 101

'In Valentines, they are renowned for their skills in chocolate making. In fact, out of all the worlds, their chocolates are of the highest quality and caliber, making them the most sought after candy on the market. However, due to trade regulations and taxes, it's often difficult to obtain these rare and decadent delights, which has caused a black market for the darker flavors. They even have a chocolate that is covered with edible gold, and reserved for only the most special of occasions.

For humans, it is much the same with certain foods and desserts. One such being the black truffle, a mushroom so rich and rare, they kill each other for it! Unlike halloween where we can simple pick truffles from sidewalks and various creeples who produce them naturally, humans have a limited truffle supply, which prevents them from sending each other these delicate morsels come the holiday. For you see, in the human world, giving expensive chocolates and food on valentines is a way to show you care for the well being of your fellow human, and giving them food ensures they will not starve the last few weeks of winter.
Today we will be making the best of all worlds, Black Truffle Delights!

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Stage 1: Picking a truffle
Each truffle, (mushroom) comes in a certain quality. They are all lumpy, black, and smell a lot like rot. but to the trained nose, you can just tell which is the superior truffle. Roll 3d6 to determine your truffle's base value. Each die represents one truffle, meaning yes, three truffles will have 3 different base values.

1- Top quality. Base Value is +2
2- Normal Quality. Base Value is +1
3- Low quality, Base Value is 0
4- Normal Quality. Base Value is +1
5- Low quality, Base Value is 0
6- Top quality. Base Value is +2

Stage 2: Getting your chocolate.
Rolling 6d6, take your chocolates and plan accordingly, it's all going to come together in the final round.
Matching numbers will offer certain bonuses. However, only one set of numbers will count towards your bonus count. IE: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4 will only offer 2 matching bonus, but a roll of : 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 4 will count as 3 matching.
2 Numbers matching: +1 Bonus
3-4 numbers matching: + 2 Bonus
5-6 numbers matching: +3 Bonus

For RP purposes the types of chocolate that match the numbers are as Follows:
1- Dark Chocolate
2- Milk Chocolate
3- White Chocolate
4- Strawberry Chocolate
5- Matcha (Green Tea) Chocolate
6-Sugar Free Milk Chocolate

Stage 3: Bring it all in
Your chocolates mixed together it's time to dip your truffles. For each truffle, roll it in your chocolate mixture, doing you best to make it presentable as possible.
Three times, roll 1d4.
The base from round one should be added to the bonus from stage 2, and in stage 3 you will get a final bonus.
1- Amazing dipping skills! (+2 Bonus)
2- That's.. well. Okay... just lay it on it's side, maybe they won't notice. (No bonus)
3- You need some practice but for your first time? not bad! (+1 Bonus)
4- Amazing dipping skills! (+2 Bonus)

Each truffle will have an individual score. In order to pass this course, two of you three truffles MUST have a score of 4 or higher. Passing this course grants you the learned ability.

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gaia_star Chocolatier
In RP, if you use this ability one item be it food, clothing, toy; organic or inorganic; it will taste like a rich creamy chocolate. It will not work on sentient beings and the effect wears off after an hour. It does not make the item into chocolate or smell like chocolate, just makes it taste that way. Can use once per day.

 

[Smerdle]

From what Rojo could tell, the next room he wandered into smelled of a peculiar mix of chocolate and corpses. Granted the skeleton's sense of smell wasn't all that sharp, but this odor seemed particularly distinct. He doubted he was interpreting it incorrectly. It left him to ponder a very valid question. Why? What did bodies have to do with Valentine's Day? While they were very nice individuals on the whole, unwashed zombies didn't seem like an appropriate first choice when it came to spokescreeple for human love. Just sayin'.

When he reached the first supply table and saw where the smell was actually coming from, he had even more questions.

"Humans call minipet poop 'truffles'?" he asked, prodding at one of the black masses with a finger bone. No one answered, which Rojo interpreted as a resounding yes. Good to know. Unlike the fruits of his successful card making, the results of this class would not be shared. Choosing three of the smaller truffles available, Rojo moved on.

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5- Low quality, Base Value is 0

 

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Now this was more like it. Every inch of the top of the next table was covered with one of many small porcelain containers of powdered chocolate. There were a handful of different types here, each tiny bowl labeled with what it was. Dark chocolate was easy enough to identify, but most of the others blended together. Bowls of the powder he was immediately drawn to—green tea—were few and far between, but Rojo took the time to find four of them. He bounced back to his table with his matcha chocolate, remarkably not losing a single one along the way.

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3-4 numbers matching: + 2 Bonus

 

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Upon returning to his desk, Rojo made an unmoving but thoroughly disdainful face at the trio of truffles awaiting him there. He'd heard a number of students near the chocolate extolling the virtues of these little turds, but he still couldn't see the appeal. He was fairly certain no one back home would either. Maybe he could send them to Chio, though knowing him, Sir Grossness would love them.

No. If they were a delicacy, he was just going to have to live with them himself.

The skeleton sighed, expelling no air as he did so. He carefully lined the pots of chocolate up, then as if responding to some silent cue, scooped up the first of the truffles and rolled it through the pale brown powder.

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4- Amazing dipping skills! (+2 Bonus)

Total: 4

 

[Smerdle]

It came away looking like a piece of minipet poop that was now covered in a fine layer of poop powder from a second, unrelated minipet. Rojo set it beside the chocolate. He honestly debated throwing it in the trash or at least across the room, but just as he reached out to grab it, a shifty-looking Trick or Treater approached, eyes wide with awe.

"That was a truly impressive display, young Knob," she said. You have the makings of a five star dessert guru."

The skeleton doubted that, but he had yet to meet a compliment he didn't like. "Thank you! Should I make another one?"

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3- You need some practice but for your first time? not bad! (+1 Bonus)

Total: 3

 

[Smerdle]

She nodded mysteriously as she backed away. Well, that was all the encouragement he needed. Rojo grabbed his second truffle a bit too hastily, practically throwing the fungus into the chocolate powder. It turned out all right, but he knew he could do better.

The third truffle was handled far more delicately, grasped, dunked, and set to the side with fewer thoughts of trashing it. Once he was done, Rojo raised his hand high above his head and waggled his fingers.

"I have dipped everything that I could!" he said, gesturing at his handiwork. "Have I passed?" With how awful they still smelled he honestly couldn't tell anymore. Rojo looked hopefully at the truffles. He watched them the whole time and they still disappeared before his eyes. He supposed he had... done well?

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1- Amazing dipping skills! (+2 Bonus)

Total: 4