05: villa log is a go!

[paladaddy]

Who: People who are at the Villa for whatever reason
Where: The Villa
When: today, the 26th
Style: Whichever!
Status: Open

[This is an open Villa log for anyone who wants to do stuff at the Villa.

If you want something specific to go with, Shiro left dishes of booze all over to try to get Kuro to come home, so it's possible that someone might stumble across one of those. Shiro is trying to clean them all up, but he might have forgotten where he put them all.]

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[heartandsoul]

[And who happens to go stumbling right into one of the forgotten dishes but the ever-so-graceful daughter in law.]

Ahh--dammit!

[So eloquent, too.

But never mind that, dang, it's a thing she has to clean up. Good thing it was near the kitchen so she could immediately pick up a washcloth and deal with it.]

Ugh, it smells foul, who would even put this in their mouth?

[paladaddy]

[There's already three in the sink, and Shiro is carrying a fourth to the kitchen right as Maka is getting the washcloth.]

It's Kuro's favorite. Did you find another one?

[heartandsoul]

Kuro...

[Oh.]

You set those out? Uh...Kuro's not here anymore, he went back to your world.

[paladaddy]

Yeah, I know. That's why I've been cleaning them up.

[But he didn't get told about it until after he had set booze out, which is why they're still around.]

[heartandsoul]

[Wow this is super awkward, she's just gonna...flit off to clean up the mess and then bring the dish back into the kitchen to wash it.]

It has a really strong smell, what is it?

[paladaddy]

[He appreciates the help, really.]

It's sake, a really strong rice-based wine. It was always one of his favorites.

[He sounds pretty jovial while he talks, too. Despite having one of his good friends go home, he's in a good mood.]

[circumsutus]

[Stein's the most responsible, most mature adult in the villa.

This is why he's sneaking in the back door at like 10:30 at night. There might be blood all over his lab coat.]

[paladaddy]

[Those claims of maturity sound like lies.

Whatever the case, Shiro's room is on the first floor so he pokes his head out to see who's here when he hears the back door open. And wow what a sight Stein is!]

[circumsutus]

[It's not too much blood. He's not quite dripping all over the floor, it's just dramatic arterial splatters across his clothing.

He... might have a rented apartment and a makeshift lab somewhere.]

[paladaddy]

...Stein. What the hell?

[He's hoping for a reasonable explanation here, because he can think of a thousand unreasonable ones.]

[circumsutus]

Hmmmm?

[He looks down, taking in the blood all over his clothes with a slightly surprised expression. One hand goes up to pull off his glasses, cleaning flecks of blood off the lenses with the hem of his lab coat.]

Do you know if anyone's using the washer right now?

[keepsthefire]

[So how 'bout that deer meat?

The morning after Stein came sneaking in, Rin comes down to the kitchen for the usual morning ritual of getting breakfast and to put something out to thaw for dinner.

But the freezer is suddenly a lot fuller than he remembered it the night before. He stands there, blinking in obvious confusion as to why there's suddenly several large, unmarked brown packages sitting in there.

Wondering if he's just not awake enough yet and hallucinating or something equally strange, he closes the door, and opens it again.

... nope. Those are definitely real. And Rin is definitely confused.]

[circumsutus]

[Stein walks through, grabbing the kettle and starting tea.]

It's venison.

[keepsthefire]

Venison...

[Another blink.

Wait for it...

Waaaait for it...]

... deer meat?

[circumsutus]

Deer meat.

[keepsthefire]

[Rin reaches a hesitant hand in to the freezer, giving it a poke, though by now the outside at least is frozen.]

... 'kay.

[And then, after a lengthy pause.]

Why?

[keepsthefire]

[Welp. Rin is back in the kitchen. That's nothing new. But he seems to be working with some very large cuts of meat tonight, in particular working on a roast.

He's not very far on it so far, and he's got a cook book out, some ingredients already cut up, but he's run in to a small snag.

Everything he has for cooking is too small for the cut he current has.

He's standing there, muttering things to himself, tapping the tip of a chef's knife to his bottom lip.

This is the best time to pester him.]

[paladaddy]

[Shiro walks into the kitchen, totally intent on doing something else entirely. But he completely forgets what he was going to do when he sees that huge hunk of meat on the counter.

Normally he would be happy at the sight, because delicious dinner get. But things have happened recently.]

...

Did you get that from the freezer?

[keepsthefire]

Hm?

[Rin is obviously distracted, and he kind of nods in answer, but there's not much in the way of verbal confirmation.]

[paladaddy]

[OH GOD

Shiro barely turns away in time to hide the face he made right there. He's trying to keep it together but it's not easy.]

Right. Well. I don't mean to interrupt, so good luck. With the cooking, I mean.

[Yeah, he's failing at keeping it together.]

[keepsthefire]

[Okay, that got his attention. Rin blinks and looks up, staring at... well, Shiro's back since he's mostly turned away by now.]

... 'good luck'?

[Dad r u ok]

[spacecase]

[What's that?

Is that...meat?

Wow that's a whole lotta meat.]

Uh...Rin? Where the hell did all of that come from?

[Why yes, Jade did literally pop up next to him to investigate the weird smell.]

[keepsthefire]

[Jade you really shouldn't pop in next to people who are holding knives.]

FUCK! JADE! Don't do that!

[spacecase]

Jesus Christ, you don't have to scream like a little girl!

[keepsthefire]

I could have hurt you!

[Wait--]

And I did not scream like a girl!