vatheon | ( closed ) things to be thankful for

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( closed ) things to be thankful for

Who: Sophie, Pascal, Malik Caesar, Hubert Ozwell, Asbel Lhant, Cheria Barnes.
When: Thanksgiving Daaaaay! (so, front-dated a little bit)
Where: ~~Grace's House~~ Graces House
Style: I'm starting in brackets, but y'all can do whatever you want ~
Status: Closed

[ Cheria had been extremely busy since the morning, preparing everything they would need for their feast that night. She'd worked so hard on all of this, and it was really starting to become obvious in how tired she was ... it would be worth it, though, right?

When Cheria had heard of this holiday, she immediately knew she wanted to try and do something for it. She and her family had been through a lot in the past year or so, regardless of whether or not it was in Vatheon or in their own world, and she felt that it was only appropriate to celebrate and be thankful for everything they had.

Plus, there was always a good reason to get everybody at the dinner table, right? Cheria tried to stick to the ordinary Thanksgiving traditions she'd read about, food-wise, but she tried to incorporate something that every individual person in their little family liked into the meal as well.

There was a lot of food still in the process of being made. Cheria leaned against a nearby wall, sighing tiredly and wiping her forehead with her sleeve. It was getting there, but there was still quite a bit left to do. ]

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[Malik pokes his head into the kitchen.]

There have been a lot of delicious smells coming from in here lately.

There are still a lot of cakes too. [ Hm. Seeing how tired Cheria was, Sophie wonders if they shouldn't have made so much. One of these days Cheria would learn she didn't have to do everything herself. :D ]

Cheria said it's for something called Thanksgiving. [ A glance to the Captain. ]

What is that?

Thanksgiving is apparently a holiday that's present in a lot of the worlds that people come from in this place. [ she responds from where she is at the wall, looking toward the Captain and Sophie with a smile. ]

I don't know the whole story, but I did do a little bit of looking into it. Basically, people spend a lot of time with their loved ones, and there's a feast. I saw some traditional thanksgiving feast items and thought I'd make some, and incorporate some favorites of our little family as well.

[ she smiles sheepishly. ]

Sorry, it was kind of a short-notice discovery ... I didn't have a lot of time to inform the masses.

But there's no bananas?

[Pascal, of course, has been at the periphery of the kitchen, occasionally disappearing when she otherwise might be asked to help.]

[What was that about bananas? Pascal, you should count yourself oddly lucky that Hubert actually still feels guilty about how he treated the you that was here before.

There's a knock on the door, Hubert coming over from his house (because he still hasn't moved back from there, no matter how much Cheria wants him to), carrying a grocery bag with random odds and ends that he offered to bring. Including bananas.]

[Malik smiles, happy to have Cheria explain it for him. He heads out of the kitchen to the door, speaking loudly so the others can hear him as he walks.]

It's another one of those holidays that seem to be from Earth. They seem to really like celebrating! Of course, this one seems to make a lot of sense. Halloween... was a little odd.

[Malik opens the door.]

Hubert! [He lays a solid hand on his shoulder.]

Glad you could make it. Come on in.

[Asbel had run out to get some bread from the store and had been missing for over 45 minutes. The bread was packed in one of the large brown bags which he had clutched to his chest as he walked up to the back door and into the kitchen. By his ruffled appearance one could tell that the trip wasn't an easy one.]

I managed to get the bread in time!

Edited 2012-11-23 22:19 (UTC)

Good afternoon, Captain.

[Hubert enters with a nod just as Asbel comes through the back door, earning a bit of a raised eyebrow for his flustered appearance. It passes, but not before an amused smirk comes and goes.]

You look a bit frazzled, for just getting bread.

Oh. I think I like Thanksgiving, then. [ Sophie's approval for the holiday notwithstanding, she does seem pleased that the 'family' so to speak is all together. She still wishes Hubert would stay with them, but at least she no longer thinks it's something she'd done. She just didn't know why he wanted to stay away! ]

Asbel, are you okay? [ Why so frazzled not dad? She trots over take the bag of bread from him, or at least one of the bags. ]

Sheesh, who'd ya have to fight for the bread, Asbel?

Hubert! You made it!

[ Of course, she had managed to contact Hubert about this when she started making the food. And she was glad to see that he'd brought a few things for everyone, too.

AND THEN, ASBEL. She frowns, moving over to him and taking the bread from him gently, then reaching up and trying to pat his hair down a little bit. ]

Are you okay, Asbel?

Of course I did.

[He sets his bags on the counter, still watching his brother. What sort of mess did he get himself in to just trying to get bread? It was a rather curious situation.]

[He hands the bags off to Cheria and Sophie before facing the others. Pascal had it pretty spot on.]

These were so many of them and they all wanted the bread; these were the last three loafs. Even after I fought my way out of the store they still chased me for it.

[No serious injuries through, there was just a lot of shoving and grabbing involved.]

*Pascal pauses at that.*

Some kind of machine for making bread more efficiently could help with that...

... How would that have stopped them from chasing me?

Well if there's more bread, there's less fighting over the last loaf!

... I'm sorry to interject, but don't bread machines already exist here? I'm certain I've seen them before.

[ Cheria's just going to take the loaves of bread and get to work on them, half-paying attention to the conversation at hand. She takes another look at Asbel, though, inspecting him and making sure he didn't need some healing artes or anything. ]

I wouldn't be surprised. Technology in this place seems to be really advanced in comparison to some of the things we have on Ephinea.

Really Hubert?

[Bread making machines exist??]

You're right Cheria. The strangest thing I've noticed is that there isn't any Cryas here in Vatheon.

So how does all that stuff even work?

Oh that one's easy. Electricity just needs to be generated some other way!

The Amarcians had a few in our research annals, but none were nearly as efficient as cryas, so no one bothered with them.

I've heard talk that in certain worlds, "fossil fuel" is the most common source of energy. Others use other forms of mana or magic.

As for what Vatheon runs on, I imagine it would be water. It seems the most logical choice, given where we are.

[Way to go, Asbel. You've got the two brains in the room going.]

I haven't been questioning it. Everything works, right? Except for that one time, when the lights went out. But it came back a little afterward.

[ cooking, cooking, yay. ]

I get it, the water is kind of like Eleth and the Bubble is like a giant Cryas Valkines.

[He laughs a little, remembering that night.]

Yeah, you were pretty hopeless in the dark, Cheria.

That doesn't bode well.

[ You're right, Malik, it doesn't. Not for Asbel. ]

Excuse me?! I'd like to see you try to make dinner for everyone in total darkness, Asbel! It's not easy at all, I'll have you know! Augh!

[ She huffs, then turns back to the food, angrily continuing to prepare it. ]

Un-beliveable!

Nope. It definitely doesn't.

I wouldn't be able to do it. But I doubt the lights are going to go out right now, we'll be fine.

What else do we have besides bread?

Let's see ... turkey seems to be traditional for this holiday, so I have one in the oven. Other than the bread, which Asbel so kindly fought to bring us, we have ... mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing ... there will be a lot of food and plenty of leftovers.

[Hubert just sighs at his brother, quietly wondering how the boy could still be so damned oblivious at times. It was bordering on pathetic lately...]

It sounds delicious, Cheria. Do you need any further assistance?

[Malik nods, agreeing with Hubert. He closes his eyes imagining the feast.]

Mmmm. That does sound good.

[He opens his eyes, back from his taste-bud fantasies.]

I think this beats that Halloween holiday.

R-Right! Sorry, Cheria.

[Why was she getting so upset anyway?]

That does sound tasty.

[He turned to face Malik.]

I dunno, Captain. Halloween was a holiday with all you could eat candy.

[He beams, but he didn't even eat that much.]

I'll take a nice warm home-cooked meal over candy any day.

The costumes were what made Halloween awesome, if you ask me!

Did any of you dress up?

I didn't. It was interesting to see everyone who did, though.

[ focusing mostly on dinner, but still listening and putting in her own two gald every so often. ]

I did, Captain. I was Peachtaro, remember?

I wasn't able to get anything together in time. Poo.

[Asbel, you're ridiculous.]

I certainly didn't.

Asbel, did you do that 'trick or treating' thing that some of the younger children were doing, too?

[ She may have just called you a child in a roundabout way, Asbel. She loves you, really. ]

Oh, that's right Asbel. How could I have forgotten?

[He sidesteps Cheria's implication.]

One of the greatest heros of our time. Excellent choice.

Edited 2012-12-29 20:07 (UTC)

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