Week 4.

[trustharder]

WEEK 4 And as the third week in the Vault comes to a close and the fourth week begins, the Survivors are once again down by two. Mion Sonozaki died on her own terms, and Yato died fulfilling his duty as God of Fortune in the best way that he knew how; the shrine built in the game room on Saturday stands in their memory. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. But that doesn't mean the night was uneventful - it seems something else may have brought you some newfound clarity. Or perhaps not... Once again, that spiral staircase leads farther than you remember, clear up to a previously inaccessible fourth floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; even if the Kingmaker sounded a bit unhappy with you last weekend, the fact remains that you're still doing what you seem to have been brought here to do. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 21 SURVIVORS REMAINING: 20

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The text and calling posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

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kitchen

[penduli]

[ You know, Black has a lot of regrets. His life is full of them, actually, but he doesn't think he's felt a bigger one until now.

That's so much fondant. Is it possible to die from sugar overdose? Is he going to be the one to find out? What is with this robot and increasingly sweet things??

W...well... ]

You look like you're having fun. [ Making... whatever you're making... ] What's on the menu today?

[ratingspoint]

Well, look who it is - just the person I wanted to see, fantastic!

[So if he sends you into a sugar coma and you die, is it murder if he didn't force-feed you and you volunteered- ]

I haven't decided what this is for yet, but that doesn't mean you can't help me with it.

[penduli]

[ YOU TELL ME.

Also, he made a bunch of fondant without a plan?? This is a big fondon't. ]

Sure. [ He's getting himself into such a world of trouble-- ] Do you have any ideas, at least?

[ratingspoint]

[...okay listen you never know when you're going to need just, like

a metric fuckton of fondant

you never know]

A few. Don't worry too much! Things will come together. They always do!

[penduli]

[ you never need this much fondant ]

For better or for worse. [ HONESTLY... his optimism is stunning. please don't tell me they're going to make a cake out of fondant because that would be a mistake and you fucking know it. ] ...what can I help with, making sure you don't overdo it on the lavender?

[ And... vanilla... is this a soap-inspired sweet or something. ]

[ratingspoint]

[...tell me that "cake made out of fondant" is not a mettaton plan

that is exactly what is happening here and you know it]

That would be appreciated! Sigrun seemed to take offense to it last time I made her anything like this.

[I MEAN IT WAS ALSO WAX, BUT]

[penduli]

[ oh, my god. ]

If you put too much in, it gets really floral and practically inedible. [ ...even more practically inedible. ] I don't think Miss Sigrun's used to stuff like this either. She doesn't really seem the type.

[ ...it's girly as shit and Sigrun isn't girly at all. ]

Why these two flavors anyway? There's easier ones to work with. [ That won't make you feel like you're choking on flowers if you put in too much. ]

[ratingspoint]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sweetheart! I like the challenge, and besides, it's something to keep me busy today.

[You know, until tomorrow when somebody probably ends up hella dead.]

[penduli]

[ Well they probably ain't ending up hella alive. ]

Discovering the wonders of cinnamon might've been better. [ ...anyway, yes, let him join Mettaton over there and... hm... ] What about a cake?

[ratingspoint]

That's what I was thinking, actually! I tend to like those, though we probably do it a bit differently in the Underground. So it's good to have a human here!

[...This one won't end in chainsaw, at least.

...please stop him from making this thing entirely out of fondant]

[penduli]

[ ...he has to eat this, he is going to stop this from being entirely fondant.

MILK, EGGS, FLOUR, BUTTER... ...BAKING POWDER. Okay. He can do this. He helped his mom make cakes! ...sort of! This'll be fine. Cakes are easy. ]

How do you usually make them?

[ratingspoint]

Well, there's usually a lot more magic involved - fire magic tends to be how people prefer to cook things, and our food is different in general because most of that is magical as well.

[HE'S STILL SO BITTER ABOUT THE COLD THINGS, BLACK.]

There's also usually a lot more spectacle when I do it, but that's probably expected.

[penduli]

[ COLD IS GOOD COLD IS GOOD. LOOK AT THESE EGGS, LOOK AT THIS MILK. THEY'RE BETTER COLD. ]

You're usually performing for an audience, right? I'm not surprised at all. [ Hum hum hum... ] Your food never goes bad if it's magical, does it? ...does it get stale and taste weird if you leave it too long?

[ratingspoint]

Not at all! Why do you ask?

[...possibly the fact that this is a lot of fondant, mettaton- ]

[penduli]

Because that happens to not-magical food.

[ Real Food is so awful, Mettaton. 0/10. ]

[ratingspoint]

...Everything I've heard about human food is so inefficient. And sort of disgusting. It's usually that, too.

[...Why does it all suck so bad, Black.]

[penduli]

It tastes good enough, and there are some things that taste better the longer you let it sit... in a controlled, cool environment. Like wine. Cheese needs to be aged too, and there's even a kind that has maggots in it to give it a creamy texture and unique flavor.

[ ...this is so not cake-making conversation. ]

Some people even eat rotten fish--that's Swedish, I think. Norwegians--what Miss Sigrun is--have a fermented fish dish that's supposed to smell pretty horrible. [ ...and then there's like, infected corn and shark and look let's just not get too far into all the gross stuff humans go "yes, this is delicious, I'm going to consume it and share it with others" at. ]

But it's mostly just eaten fresh, so you don't have to worry about the taste... though day-old bread makes the best french toast.

[ratingspoint]

[...there is really only one thing to say to this.]

Sweetheart, how have you all not just died out...

[penduli]

Food is food and as long as it isn't coming back up the way it goes down, we'll survive?

[ Or... something...??? ]

I'm not really sure, to be honest, but we're all thriving. [ Some...how.... ] Beyondians eat weirder things though, like live pixie soup and face-biter stew. Their physiology tends to be a lot different than ours, so I guess that's understandable, but there are humans that go to those restaurants and have no problem sampling the food.

[ratingspoint]

"Beyondians"...?

[what the actual fuck is a beyondian]

Monsters of some sort, I'm assuming.

[penduli]

[ A very quick correction: ] They're not monsters, they're citizens.

[ ... ]

But they're... not human, yes. They're what populates the Alterworld, a world parallel to the one I come from. I won't bore you with the detail, but the long story short is that they're the majority of the population after what happened three years ago, and as a result their culture's sort of taken over the rest of the city.

I don't mind--I think they're interesting, and I work with a few that're the equivalent to our world's Casters--but a lot of people do. Especially big franchises that used to be popular; most of them moved out as soon as they realized the new populace was here to stay, and a lot of Beyondian eateries popped up in their place.

[ ...so. ]

[ratingspoint]

[...Oh, is this one of the worlds with the weird connotations - ]

Monsters are just nonhuman people, darling. At least where I'm from! There's nothing bad meant by it, anyway - after all, I'm one myself, and so is my creator and everyone else I know.

[...seriously, people here like to tell him not to talk like that sometimes? It's very confusing.]

I'm not surprised relations between them and humans isn't the greatest, though. That...tends to happen? At least one person I know seems to think that it's going to happen when we leave the Underground, too.

[penduli]

[ Oh.

...it has poorer connotations back in his world but he's not gonna sweat it if Mettaton's not gonna. ]

It probably will. Humans aren't the most forgiving--we even shun our own kind if they're not up to society's standards. [ It's pretty awful. ] There's more Beyondians than there are humans now, and nothing can get through the fog unless it goes by land... so humanity's stuck having to deal with it instead of getting rid of them like they'd usually try.