[video] asking the important questions

[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka + you
Broadcast: fleedwide video
Action: you can find her on the starstruck if you want
When: idk now?

Hey guys! I have a bit of a weird question for you today.

Did anyone by any chance stock up on apples before we left the Starlight? Or... apple puree, maybe? Or, um. Apple-anything-not-in-a-protein-cube? It's important. I promise.

I'd be willing to trade you credits or food from the Starstruck in exchange. We have a lot of dried and frozen meat. Like. A lot.

On an unrelated-but-not-really note...

Does anyone know how to make apple pie?

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New broadcast, 5 minutes later: ... Apparently you need flour and butter too. Do we have any of those things?

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[nostraightlines]

Oh.

[ Don't ask why, don't ask why. Manners, Ramse. ]

Well I can try and help you. I remember a little bit.

[resnipstance]

Great! Peggy said she's going to help too. The more the merrier, right?

[nostraightlines]

[ Ramse nods; he likes Peggy. ]

Let's see if we have any of the stuff you need before running around to other ships. Did you find anyone with apples?

[ He's opening cabinets now, and pulling out flour, sugar, and vegetable oil because you can use that instead of butter, right? ]

[resnipstance]

Yep! A few people have volunteered some supplies along the apple family. We should be good.

Apparently we also need flour, sugar, salt, and oil? I don't know if we already have those things. Shall we go check?

[nostraightlines]

Yeah, let's go. We should have all of that.

[ Someone's done a full inventory of the kitchen just to know what there is besides the weird cubes. Not that he can really cook, but hey. ]

Where'd you get the idea for pie, anyway?

[resnipstance]

I saw it in a friend's memory.

[nostraightlines]

...sorry, you what? Like you can read minds?

[resnipstance]

Well... yes, but in this case no. The Atroma called us all back onto the Marsiva for a couple weeks. That's the ship where everyone first wakes up.

Every night, most of us would see things in our dreams that didn't belong to us.

[nostraightlines]

That's really freaky. They must have done something else, I didn't share anyone's dreams when I was stuck there.

Also, yes?

[resnipstance]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a special case.

[She knew that question was coming next, she didn't even need to read his mind to know it. She's ready when he asks.]

Don't worry, it's an active ability, not a passive one. Meaning-- I can't just pick up stray thoughts from whoever I'm talking to. I have to actively try, and most people can feel it when someone else is digging around for a thought in their head and resist it.

Besides, I would never try to enter someone's mind without their permission, anyway. It's wrong.

[nostraightlines]

What does it feel like..?

Heh. A lot of people do things that are wrong without caring about it. Not saying you would, just. [ Your moral code is admirable, friend. ]

[resnipstance]

Um. It feels like... like a pressure, I guess?

[nostraightlines]

Like a headache starting, maybe?

Not that it matters, I believe you. Just curious.

[resnipstance]

Stronger than a headache.

Anyway, you don't need to worry. There's no one here who would do that to you. And if there was, I'd totally beat 'em up.

[nostraightlines]

Ahsoka, defender of the unpowered.

[ He could definitely beat someone up himself, but he wouldn't. Even if they did go digging around in his head. ]

Come on, let's see about your pie. You didn't happen to see them making it in your dream, did you?

[resnipstance]

No, sorry. [She sounds a little sheepish.] Even if I had, I probably wouldn't remember it. I don't tend to pay too much attention to human food.

[nostraightlines]

I saw my mom make pie when I was a little kid. Maybe it'll come back to me.

Is all that meat in the kitchen yours, then?

[resnipstance]

Of course not! I don't need all of it. It's for everyone to share.

[nostraightlines]

You are my new favorite person. Where'd it come from, anyway?

[ Kitchen? Kitchen! Time to look for things. ]

[resnipstance]

Most of it came from Arslae. The planet we were on before stopping at the Starlight. There was loads of wildlife there, so Meathead and I both took advantage of it to go hunting. I came into a load of credits at the time too, so I spent most of it before we left on a stacking up with everything in the market I could get my hands on that was frozen or dried or canned. It turned out to be a good idea, since our accounts were frozen on the Starlight and no one could buy food there anyway.

[nostraightlines]

Stocking up when you can is always a good idea, take it from me. [ Survivor thinking. He's hauled around half a deer's worth of jerky before and just eaten it until they ran out. ] Having the cubes until I first got paid at the station did suck.

...also, Meathead? Who's nickname is that?

[resnipstance]

Oh-- you know. The guy with the beard? He won't tell anyone his real name. He just tells you to call him what you want. So I call him Meathead. You know-- 'cause he's stubborn, and he likes meat a lot. For a human.

[nostraightlines]

Oh, the guy who hit the dog. Yeah, he's... had a rough time. Seems like, anyway.

[resnipstance]

That's right.

He seems mean, but I think he's actually secretly a softie.

[nostraightlines]

He wasn't mean to me, just... laconic. Kinda gruff. Nothing bad.