week 2

[stagemanagers]

WEEK 2
[From the day you arrived on the planet, and blinking, stepped into the sun. There's more to see than can ever be seen, and more to do than can ever be done. Yet, still, the whole thing seems...monotonous. Surely there must be some excitement, some showmanship, some sort of plot twist that could keep this show moving onward?

Welcome to week 2, gents.]


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KITCHEN

[dechagny]

[Raoul comes to breakfast a little too late to help with any egg-cooking - and he'd be miserable at it, so we're very lucky on that front - but when he sees Valjean and all the eggs he's made, he does feel a little bad, and...useless. He was lucky he didn't hurt himself when he made Macaroni and Cheese out of a box with Darla, and he has been learning about all these new technologies, but there is a part of him that does not trust them. And yet, Monsieur Valjean seems comfortable enough to cook not just for himself, but for everyone! After all, no one man would be able to stomach that quantity of eggs.

A little bashful, a little humble, Raoul knocks on the doorframe of the kitchen before entering, just so he doesn't catch Valjean off-guard.]

Ah, Monsieur...that is quite an impressive feat of egg cuisine, if I do say so myself.

[Look even if it's just a pile of scrambled eggs it looks impressive to Raoul]

[breakingbread]

[GASTON COULD EAT THIS MANY EGGS

But, uh. Regardless.]

It is no trouble! More a matter of quantity than quality, perhaps. [He's joking, he tried them and they're fine] This new oven is really very convenient, when you get used to using it.

[dechagny]

[Well he's roughly the size of a barge]

It must be! I...did attempt to use it earlier last week, and what I made was...edible, if not oddly colored.

[Why was the cheese an orange powder]

But, ah, I must confess, much of the rest of these marvels still have me baffled.

[breakingbread]

I have only learned to use the oven and the micro-wave. [it's one word valjean you don't have to say it like that] This thing here. It seems to make heat inside out of nothing.

[He can at least see the metal stovetop glow when it gets hot. There's energy coming from somewhere and heating it, fine. The microwave, though, is still a bit of a mystery.]

[dechagny]

[Oh is that how you say it? Raoul's been mistaken this whole time, gosh darn.]

Yes, the micro-wave...that is definitely a mystery to me. What sort of food can be made in it, do you know?

[breakingbread]

Anything that needs heat, I guess. The only thing I really know how to make in it is the hot pockets.

[HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS]

[dechagny]

The "hot pockets"? What sort of food is that?

[CALIENTE POCKETS]

[breakingbread]

They are like little cheesy sandwiches - here, I can show you.

[He gets the hot pockets out of the freezer.

HOT POCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS]

You put them in the microwave, and it heats them up and melts the cheese. [or something probably]

[dechagny]

But they are frozen...this micro-wave can properly thaw them?

[He has to see this shit]

[breakingbread]

Apparently. It doesn't take very long, either.

[let's do this let's fucking do this

he unpackages one, puts it on a plate, and puts it in the microwave]

These buttons with the numbers are used to tell it how long to cook for. It sounds an alarm when it is finished, like a kettle - I think you do not even need to watch it. [That's the logical conclusion, but he's been keeping an eye on the microwave when he's using it anyway, on the offchance it catches fire or something]

[dechagny]

[Yeah Raoul wants to watch it as well.]

And how long do we heat it for?

[breakingbread]

Only - [he says however long you heat a hot pocket for, like a minute or two? I'm not googling that we all know it's not that long. Anyway, Valjean types in the time and starts the microwave.]

It spins it around, too - to cook more evenly, no doubt.

[dechagny]

[Yeah I think it's like two minutes or so depending on the type.

Raoul kneels down to watch it, face perhaps a little too close, intrigued by the dim light and the spinning.]

Interesting...no doubt it needs to spin, in order to make up for its lack of power compared to an oven or a stove.

[Someone should show these two popcorn.]

[breakingbread]

Quite. The outside barely even heats.

[Which he'll demonstrate by putting his hand on top of it. It's warm, certainly, but much less so than it must be inside, to cook the frozen hot pocket.

When the timer goes off, he take it out and offers the plate to Raoul.]

And that is all! As quickly as that!

[dechagny]

[Raoul touches the microwave too - incredible! Not even terribly hot! And when the food is done, he takes the plate, examining the hot pocket with intrigue.]

Incredible...and you said it's like a sandwich, yes?

[So he can pick it up and eat it right he doesn't need a knife and fork]

[breakingbread]

Yes, there's meat and cheese inside. Though it is quite hot.

[Don't burn your mouth on the burning cheese liquid, Raoul, don't make his mistakes]

[dechagny]

Hotter than the outside? [He touches the hot pocket carefully, pulling his hand back.]

Ah - perhaps...it needs some time to cool off. Or, perhaps, holes for the heat to vent through?

[People did that with pies right? Where's a fork, he's going to poke holes in this.]

[breakingbread]

One or the other, surely.

[fork fork let's find a fork here's a fork

stab stab stab]

[dechagny]

[Let's stab the hot pocket it's the best thing to stab in this situation also whoa the cheese is leaking out let's not touch that.]

I must say, these foods are very unusual. You can freeze and reheat them without any additional cooking, or the additives come dried in packets...

[breakingbread]

[better than stabbing valjean]

Dried packets? [TEACH HIM TO MAKE KRAFT MAC AND CHEESE BEFORE HE DIES]

[dechagny]

[VALJEAN IS NOT DEAD he's still alive making hot pockets I believe this within the depths of my soul]

Yes, it was incredibly unusual! There was a box from which one could make "macaroni and cheese", and the cheese part came from a dry, orange powder rehydrated with milk and butter once the macaroni was cooked. It was not a cheese I would want served at home, but I do wonder if there is a way to make it more palatable...

[breakingbread]

How on earth did they dehydrate the cheese?

[Rhetorical question; he knows you won't know either.]

Perhaps if you added some ordinary cheese. There's several different kinds in the icebox.

[dechagny]

I am not sure.

[l o l]

That could work, but I wonder which type would be best. Probably something closest in shade to the orange...

[Which, eeeugh, no thank you, that doesn't sound good.]

[breakingbread]

Did they not name the type of cheese? That's odd...but that seems sensible.

[well this is gonna be vile]

[dechagny]

I can check, if there are still boxes...

[He goes to look in the cupboard, and yep, there it is. Macaroni and Cheese. He looks at the ingredients.]

...Ah...er...hm. Monsieur Valjean, I do believe...that this may not be the best thing to eat. Half of the things on this ingredients list I do not think I can pronounce.