voice;

[monolike]

Who: Sorey
Broadcast: Huntress only!
Action: Iskaulit & Huntress
When: 9/16

Huntress crew, this is your first mate, Sorey. ...due to certain circumstances, we are currently without a Captain. I'm acting as Captain now to fill the role, but if there are any interested parties, please contact me at your soonest convenience.

In the meantime, if there's anything that requires tending to, please don't hesitate to let me know. Any supplies we're short on, any concerns you may have about the status of the ship...I know we're at full capacity now, so if we start taking on extra passengers again we'll have to double up. And I'm also the ship's engineer, so please bring any technical problems you have to me.

...thank you...to everyone who has been looking after the ship for the past couple weeks.



[Sorey can be found both in engineering on the Huntress and at the Interfaith center on the Iskaulit. If your character can sense spiritual power and has run into him before, they may notice him lacking his usual protective/cleansing domain.]

Comments

[monolike]

Ahahaha, yes ma'am. [It's kind of nice to be following someone else's lead actually, and he falls into step behind her as easily as anything else.

If he still had the pact, would he be able to see into her heart? Well, he doesn't really need to. He's pretty sure he knows what he'd find.] What is mochi though?

[willynilly]

[She's never been here before, so hopefully she can actually find the kitchen in a reasonable amount of time. She's certainly acting like she knows where she's going.]

They're cakes! Made of rice paste and stuffed with whatever you want. Usually something sweet, like red bean paste or custard. Some people like to use fruits or jams, too.

[monolike]

Ohhh, that does sound good. We have synthetic rice, though I don't think we have red beans or the ingredients for custard. We can probably make jam, though. [Or something like it.] Is mochi pretty popular?

[willynilly]

Yeah, it doesn't taste right here, but it's still pretty good! All you need is sugar.

[oh hey conveniently she has found the kitchen, and now she's just sort of barging in and checking cupboards for stuff.]

It's a pretty popular sweet, yeah! You see them all the time in stores and bakeries. They just get fancier and more expensive during holidays.

[monolike]

Oh yeah, you said they get decorated and stuff. That sounds neat. Do they make them in different flavors for different festivals? [nevermind that this is his ship, he's just gonna park it nearby and watch her take command of the kitchen, chin in his hand.]

[willynilly]

Yeah! New Years is usually vegetable filling, in spring they're coloured pink and are full of sweets, and most of the other holiday mochi vary by the colours linked to that holiday. When it's not a seasonal thing, I like to get the animal mochi. They're soooo cute!

[She's content to just ramble on as long as he'll listen, collecting ingredients and working on cooking up a good batch of the synthetic rice stuff.]

[monolike]

[Rose would be over the moon, listening to this and devising all the ways she could market it back home.] Are they hard to make? I can help you out...though I'm not that good at making sweets. [He's Terrible, give him something simple.]

[willynilly]

They're not too hard, nope! You look pretty strong, so once the rice stuff is cooked I'll get you to mash it. We need to make a paste first, and then we can add the filling. Can you point me to where you keep your fruit flavours? Oh, and which do you like best?

[monolike]

Ah, iiiit's... [Sorey jumps up and leans over, reaching past her to slide back the cover on the dispenser.] Here's the flavors, they've got little pictures. I like orange and strawberry both, I'm not picky. It's this weird gelatin stuff though, I don't know if that'll work?

[willynilly]

Gelatin can work! Some mochi have kind of a jelly filling, though that's usually the cheap kind... but we're in space, so we gotta make do with what we have!

[She's used to the cheap stuff anyway, even mochi is a luxury when you're dirt broke.]

I like orange and strawberry. Let's make both!

[monolike]

Sounds good to me. [Sorey smiles a little at her enthusiasm and rubs his chin.] So what can we mash the rice in? You said it takes a lot of strength, right?

[willynilly]

Well, maybe just endurance. I don't know how hard it is with this stuff, I haven't tried before. But it's gotta be real thorough!

[She finds a flat-bottomed bowl and fills it with the synthetic rice from the machine, peering doubtfully at the contents for a moment before passing it to Sorey. Next, she tracks down a utensil with a big enough handle base to work for the task at hand and demonstrates how to make the paste from the rice.]

This is how you do it. You make this weird-looking white mush, and it doesn't look like much right now, but once they're done you'll be amazed, promise!

[monolike]

Oh wow. [Yeah that looks gross and tedious, he can see why a lot of places will make them now. It's always easier to sell something that's a pain in the butt to produce.] Okay, well! [He pointedly rolls up his sleeves!!! and gets started on mashing that rice into muck. Mmmm.]

So what animals should we make these? Which ones normally get done?

[willynilly]

[You wait, Sorey. Yooooouuuuu wait.]

Hmm... bunnies and kittens are popular, and pretty easy to do, I think! We can start there.

[Since Sorey's taking care of the rice, she goes about getting together the filling, tossing a handful of ingredients and flavouring into a pair of bowls.]

Unless there's one you'd rather do? I'm no pro or anything, but we can give it a shot.

[monolike]

Goats. Can we do goats? [mash mash mash. this is kind of soothing actually....]

[willynilly]

I've never done goats before! Let's try it.

[She'll have to ponder how to do the horns. In the meantime, this mixture needs more sugar. Ingredients are limited in space, but desperate times call for desperate comfort food.]

Do you like goats? We don't get them much in the city.

[monolike]

There were these herds... [Sorey fixes his sleeve when it starts to flop back down before getting back to work.] Generations of goats who would hang out just outside my village. If I was kind to them, they'd let me milk them so I could have cheese and butter. Sometimes they'd even look after me, when I was smaller, make sure I didn't roll off the mountain side or anything. They were kind of like, [pauses, then smiles to himself and decides why the heck not,] like my neh-eh-eh-nies.

[willynilly]

[There is a pause as that sinks in, then Ochako snorts, blowing a whuff of sugar across the table. The snort very quickly devolves into a round of giggles.]

N-n-neh-- that was pretty good...!!

[monolike]

[Sorey cracks a smile, still grinding the rice grains down.] Thanks. I have a good pun teacher.

[willynilly]

Sounds like she knows her stuff.

[A few beats. She's no pun expert, but jokes are fun, and a good way to cheer people up for sure!]

....You must run into some baa-aa'd puns sometimes, though!

[monolike]

Definitely. You wouldn't believe some of the ones I've herd.

[willynilly]

[She giggles again.]

Um, um-- you have to be careful they don't goat out of hand.

[monolike]

...okay, I'm out. You beat me, solidly. [Even on his good days where his brain's working to full capacity, he's usually only got one or two jokes at the ready. Definitely not now.

He lifts up the makeshift pestle to show Uraraka the paste.] How's that look? I guess there's no wrong way to grind something into paste, though.

[willynilly]

Yaaay, victory~!

[Ochako beams and bullies her way into his personal space, poking her finger into the rice. She looks satisfied as she examines the goop on her finger.]

Uh-huh, that'll work! Now we just-

[She slides two other bowls over, where she'd mixed some of the flavour powder with water- one orange, one strawberry. She gestures to each in turn.]

Split the rice into each of these bowls, and we'll mix them together. After that, we can add the filling, and then we'll leave them to bake! That's all there is to making lazy mochi. If you wanna get complicated, we can decorate them, too.

[monolike]

[Uraraka shoving into his space is actually kind of nice. It reminds him a little of Rose, minus the teasing.] Mix them into- [He points. Baking is not even close to his strong suit.] But I thought that was for the filling. It goes in with the rice also?