post palace hot pot party (week 7)

[townmusician]

[Yoon's Palace has faded away, but the fact the God of Conflict decided to show up and intervene again...

Well, that's! Not a good sign! To say the least! But there's nothing to be done about that right now, and Haruka isn't of the mind to really sit and wonder about divine conflicts and grandstanding and all of that, anyways. It's not his problem. The people who deal with that sort of thing on the regular can be in charge of all of that.

What he's in charge of (by virtue of being annoying) is... hot pot. Specifically rounding up everyone and dragging them out to a hot pot restaurant in the city.

He'll miss having money but... he'll just have to work hard to earn it back... Have fun, everyone. (Or maybe he can find a way to charge Mina for this?)]

Comments

[unweathered]

[ what the fuck why is she here help. who dragged her here and why??? she has a big family but weird group settings like this are...not it.

She's just staring at the food in front of her like ????

She needs a fork send help]

[emptyself]

Is there anything I can help you with?

[ look at this very helpful server! ]

[unweathered]

[ oh no ]

...hey, dead fish face boy.

[pointing at one of the more unusual ingredients]

What is that supposed to be and how are you meant to eat it?

[emptyself]

[ soujuurou blanks at the nickname, blinking a few times in confusion.

then he realizes that she is, in fact, talking to him. ]

I have a name, you know. [ he sighs, and then takes a look at the piece of taro root she's pointing at. ]

It's a piece of taro root. Something like...a potato, I guess. You just have to put it inside the pot for about 4 minutes or until it's tender.

[unweathered]

You do? [Does she remember his name...hm. Hmmmm. She hesitates, picking up the chopsticks... and promptly stabs it through.

Nailed it.]

I thought hotpot was all meat.

[emptyself]

Oh, um...

[ she watches her stab the taro root with her chopstick and he feels a sense of dread that he keeps to himself. ]

No, you can order vegetables too. It's basically like a big soup, from what I've seen. [ he stares at the poor chopstick, and then glances at schneider. ] Do you want an...um... what is it that Alice calls that again... a fork?

[unweathered]

[what the hell, they had one all along and didn't bring it out???]

... it's fine. It'd do poorly in soup. Just show me how to hold these properly.

[idealies]

[ Ai has dug in to the hot pot herself. As she sits back with a content sigh, she notices Schneider hasn't touched hers. ]

Are you not hungry?

[unweathered]

[aaarggghhh]

...it's hard to say. I don't know where to begin with this.

[Yoon's hotpot was so much easier to handle!!]

[idealies]

[ Schneider being stumped by hot pot wasn't on Ai's bingo board. She thought nothing could intimidate her! Ai gestures with her utensils. ]

Why not start with what you like to eat? There's meat and seafood and veggies... The ones in this pot looks cooked already, help yourself!

[ Or is it not the cooking part she's stumped with? ]

[unweathered]

[ Schneider doesn't also want to admit being dragged to such a communal meal that doesn't involve her sisters is... odd!!!]

What's your favorite to eat?