Sixth Fragment | Anyone like pumpkin spice?

[earthshards]

Characters: Terra and anyone! Open post!
Setting: Cafeteria, mid-morning.
Format: [Action], but I'll follow your lead.
Summary: Surprisingly (except not), Terra has found the ingredients to make pancakes. ... and proceeds to go overboard in the kitchen because he can't be the only one that's missed proper food.
Warnings: ... Just a lot of pumpkin, if anyone's allergic to it.


[The start of a new month usually meant a switch to a different administrator. But for Terra, this was just another day, which meant another trip down to the cafeteria to see if the admins have decided to actually provide something beyond bottles of water.

He winds up staring at the kitchen's pantry with some form of disbelief. Yeah, there's food.

Pumpkins. Pumpkins everywhere, in all manner of shapes and sizes. But the massive amounts of pumpkin didn't stop with the multitudes of gourds.

Flour, spices--he recognizes cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, brown sugar--it almost looked like there was no end to the possibilities regarding pumpkin-based food stuffs.

It's practically a pumpkin lover's paradise.

... Unsurprisingly, given the time of day, Terra gathers the ingredients needed for pumpkin-based pancakes. What is surprising is that he's gathering enough to feed... a lot more people than just himself.

Cleary, he wants to try and feed the whole damn tower today. And who doesn't like pancakes?

Fifteen minutes later, and the smell of pumpkin pancakes drifts through the air into the cafeteria and the hallways and stairwells in the immediate vicinity. Another five, and a table is being set up as a... a buffet line?

A buffet line full of pancakes.]

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[pitiedthefool]

[Yu would have likely helped with that, but there was just one problem: He has had enough of these mother fucking monsters under their motherfucking beds. Seriously, what the hell, tower admins?

At least he's in one piece when he reaches the cafeteria, more than expecting the rest of the day to go to h--

Whoa. All of these pumpkin items. Don't mind him as he just stares a moment, not even noticing there is still a cut on his cheek. Seriously, he's fine other than the obvious surprise.]

[earthshards]

[It's a pumpkin paradise. Or hell, depending on how much you like pumpkin.

He looks up when he senses that (by now) familiar heart, and ... yep. Exactly who he thought it was.] I wouldn't go into the pantry unless you want to be buried in pumpkins.

[... dude, now seeing that cut and frowning.] Something happen on the way down, Yu?

[A very minuscule flicking gesture with his free hand, and the cut is gone, healed by a soft green glow.

Da fuq, did he just cast Dia?]

[pitiedthefool]

[We'll go with paradise for right now, because even if you don't like pumpkin? The scent will win 90% of the population. ...Usually. Yu blinks when he's automatically sensed, but thinks nothing of it. He probably had some sort of skill like Teddie or Rise. At least, his worlds' version of it.]

...Noted. [Dammit, now he's obligated to be careful. Stupid geass effect.] It's nothing, rea--

[holy shit dude. If he hadn't been used to seeing other world magic thanks to Riku and the others, he would have done a doubletake.]

-lly. Just a stolen identity and a rude wake up call.

[SHRUG. Lelouch would get paid back for it eventually.]

[earthshards]

[Point; nothing beats the smell of pumpkin-based anything while it's cooking. All those spices used to enhance the flavor are ridiculously aromatic.

It's just a thing Masters can do; best not to think about it.

But that reply has him raising an eyebrow.] Define 'rude'.

[And what did that Lelouch guy do while he was in your body, kitchen bro?]

[pitiedthefool]

[But kitchen bro, he can't help it; it's kind of A Thing with him since he's practically a beacon when not corrupted as hell (ha ha).]

Oh, just the admins making "there's a monster under my bed" a literal thing that happened to some.[Shrug.] Apparently a few people asked for Jason to be punched or other types of bodily harm during or after the body swap.

[That. In his name. :|a]

[chainsawn]

[ Urotsuki has mostly just followed the smell, really. Something smelled really nice.. but even if it had been a bad smell, she would have followed it all the same just to see where it'd lead. She's just too curious for her own good.

But instead right now she manages to find the pancakes, and she stares at them - maybe she's a little surprised, but it's difficult to tell with how blank her expression usually is. But yes, staring pretty obviously here.. ]

[earthshards]

[The smell of anything pumpkin-related tends to be fairly irresistible, so Terra isn't too surprised to find someone staring at the table he's putting all those plates of pancakes on when he comes out with a couple more plates.

... and then he laughed a little at the obvious staring.] Go ahead and help yourself; I've barely put a dent in the pantry's stock.

[Yes. That is food. And yes, you're welcome to it.]

[chainsawn]

.. I can eat some, really?

[ Sure, she's used to randomly using things in her dreams, but.. that's hardly ever food, after all, so this is a little different! So she glances at him in surprise. ]

[earthshards]

Sure. [See this grin?] I'm trying to make enough for everyone.

[So go ahead. Grab a plate. There's a reason he's set up a table like a buffet line.]

[chainsawn]

[ A small smile appears on her face - very tiny though, she mostly still looks blank - as she helps herself to one. At first she only tries a tiny piece, but..

.. ah, judging from her expression, it tastes good. ]

[earthshards]

[Well. That's one of the best compliments any cook can get.

Feeling very good about this at-a-whim decision to feed the tower, he's going to get back to work in that kitchen.]

[myblueskies]

Romeo was happy that there was proper food as well, he entered the kitchen to see what there was; and if he would be able to make a cake for Sayaka now. When he saw the man and all the pumkins his eyes widened, he half recognised the vegetable from last year; but for most of October he had been a deer and hadn't been in the kitchen. They were huge!

He saw the pancakes next and grinned, "What are you making sir?"

[justabignobody]

[Riku's start into October has been... eventful. To say at least. (Usually he prefers to wait with dealing with monsters until after breakfast, but some things can't be helped and when have the admins ever listened to individual preferences anyways.)

Not that him being exhausted in the morning already is anything new, even though it usually has different reasons.

He blinks when he realizes the food theme of the month - they don't actually have pumpkins back home, but he still knows what holiday they are associated with.]

...Looks like Yu was right about the early Halloween.

[...Meaning they are probably in for a 'fun' month. Oh Joy.]

[fuhgeddaboudit]

What're ya doin'?

[A metal girl in a school uniform wandered over, a giant axe folded up and fixed to her shoulders like bladed wings. She looked curious, leaning forward and blinking scarlet eyes slowly.]

[divinitysoiled]

[After being caught with her sanity down, as it were, Catarina had been lying low. It had been embarrassing, having a vampire find her with the animal in control. That was something she had hoped never to do again, to build a facade that she was mostly succubus, and one that could control every part of her. She went to the cafeteria to see if the meat was back so she wouldn't have to hunt and-]

... oh my.

[-was taken by complete surprise by the amount of pumpkin pancakes everywhere]

[fashionfairy]

[Pumpkins are something of a novelty to Kanaya. They aren't a native plant to her world so, while they are rather pretty, she never expected they could smell that delicious when cooked. She follows the mysterious scent down to the cafeteria and her eyes widen in surprise at the spread.]

What is all this?

[Oh yes, and she's never seen or had pancakes before either.]

[earthshards]

Breakfast. [He's walking out of the kitchen section of the cafeteria with another couple of plates that each hold a decent-sized stack of pumpkin pancakes and heading right for that table.

So he got a little carried away...] Go ahead and help yourself if you're hungry.

[He might be a little bit unaware that you've never seen or had pancakes...]

[chronomancer]

[You know who likes pancakes? Scrawny alien children with wavy horns and stripes of jade in their heads. Eridan is more than enticed by the smell, though the pumpkin bit is a bit unfamiliar to him, it smells like food, okay. He likes food. He likes food that fits the bill of comfort food, too. Like pancakes.

He approaches the table, looking at Terra a little cautiously, somewhat nervously. He's still getting the grip of how to handle strangers, you know, between too reserved that makes people think he's a snob, or too overbearing that they find him obnoxious. Social interaction is hard, this is why trolls do most of this crap via computers, okay.]

Er.

[He clears his throat a little.]

Mind if I...?

[He motions a little helplessly, and only belatedly it occurs to him that maybe he's making this much food for a reason or something. Maybe. God, why does everything involve thinking?]

[earthshards]

Hm? [He's looking over his shoulder at the voice, blinking, and then grinning again.

Nope. Gray skin, horns, and and green stripes in black hair is still not the strangest thing he's ever seen.] Help yourself. I'm trying to make enough for everyone.

[Aka 'I got carried away and figured I'd just go with it.']

[chronomancer]

[Eridan is smiles a little at that.]

That's really nice 'a you.

[A small pause.]

After last week, I mean.

[Don't mind if he grabs a plate of pancakes, cradling it a little bit possessively.]