WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? OUR TALES RIVAL JUST TURNED INTO A ZOMBIE!

[bloodisthicker]

[...so, uh, that was a thing that happened. Tarrlok was completely ready to do the politician thing and come up with a speech or something for most of whatever the hell that excuse for a trial was, but everything got all confusing, baffling, and horrifying and completely inexplicably, he can't find the words.

Maybe he just... needs a day. Tomorrow will probably be fine. For now, though, Misa volunteered to make brownies, and he was going to make a Northern Water Tribe comfort food specialty.

...even if they only had shortening and not actual animal fat and it'd been a while since he'd made it, but it tasted... alright? Definitely not as good as the stuff back home, but it was hard to get that good, anyway.

...there's also the matter of setting things up in a location other than the dining hall, because even though that's cleaned up, it still feels pretty tasteless to hold a wake literal feet from the place you found someone's bloody corpse.

So, a little later on in the day, a lovingly personalized note will be slid under everyone's doors:



And if the Survivors choose to head to the library, they'll find a... well, okay, it's a bunch of boxes from the storage room of comparable size stacked up on each other to kind of resemble a table. The dining hall ones don't even seem like they'd fit in the library, so Team Afterparty clearly had to improvise. One side is filled with plates, bowls, and spoons, and the other is filled with brownies, cookies, and a big bowl of berry aqutak. There are also chairs dotted throughout the room in a sort of vague circle --- close enough together that if people want to talk, they can, but far enough apart that it'd be easy to drag it off for some privacy.]

Comments

[cherryblooded]

[Sigrun...]

Well, yes, technically it is leaf water. But the chemicals in it are good for relaxing people.

So we're both right.

[captainobnoxious]

[As you can see, she is the same as ever.]

I don't know the whole sciencey bit of it, but alright. I'll take your word for it -- and a cup, too.

[cherryblooded]

Just a moment.

[He'll disappear off to the kitchen, and shortly return with a teacup for her. At this rate he should probably just bring the teapot in here, but he'd rather keep it warm and do a little extra running around.]

Please enjoy.

[captainobnoxious]

Sure, thanks.

[Leaf water...... Can she drink this all at once? Is that what you do with it?

She's gonna down it oh that is hotter than she thought it'd be. wow. oh.]

It really goes down, huh. [It's....] Kind of reminds me of the wax bombshell made for me the other day.

[Fragrant, to say the least.]

[cherryblooded]

...you ate wax.

[He's distracted by how not the way you should drink tea that is by that revelation.]

[captainobnoxious]

I told him if he could make nice tasting candles, then I'd eat it for a meal a day. But the ball he gave me was really flowery.

[It was gross.]

[cherryblooded]

I can imagine it'd be hard to get it down...

You're not supposed to chug tea, by the way.

[captainobnoxious]

Actually, it went down really easy, it just wasn't to my tastes.

[Like, surprisingly easy. It softens up and just kind of goes down??]

And why not? There's not many drinks you don't chug.

[cherryblooded]

Really?

[That's news to him.]

You can enjoy it longer if you don't drink it all at once.

[captainobnoxious]

Really.

[..........]

Why would you want to enjoy it? It has a purpose and that purpose only works inside you.

[cherryblooded]

Because it tastes good...? It's the same as any other food.

[Why is this actually a discussion.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Because it's Sigrun "I'll eat a ball of wax if you ask me to" Eide.]

There's not enough in there to make it last. Make a bigger cup and it won't be thrown back so easily.

[cherryblooded]

That's the size of the teacups I have...

[captainobnoxious]

So... get a bigger cup? Or a stein.

[cherryblooded]

You don't drink tea from a stein.

[This is actually vaguely upsetting??]

[captainobnoxious]

[Um???]

You should? There's a lot more in there.

[cherryblooded]

That just encourages you to chug it and you're supposed to savor - it's wrong.

[captainobnoxious]

[Cherryblod.........]

But if there's a lot more, then you'll still be able to savor it! Just without taking dainty little sips.

[cherryblooded]

Teacups are traditional.

[He is surprisingly serious about this.]

1/2

[captainobnoxious]

[.......................]

[captainobnoxious]

Get me another cup and I'll savor it, I guess.

[cherryblooded]

Of course.

[And just like that everything's back to normal.

Off to the kitchen!]

[captainobnoxious]

[Note to self: Someone is gonna die if they don't follow proper proteadures.]

[cherryblooded]

[And back with another teacup, smiling like absolutely nothing happened.]

Enjoy.

[captainobnoxious]

[Psycho shrimp.]

Sure will, thanks.

[s... sip??? a dainty sip. the daintiest sip.]

... Would you kill me for saying it tastes just the same as if I'd thrown it back?