OPEN POST FOR SEPTEMBER (and perhaps even october)

[shotinhead]

Who: Perrin and Akira, Umemiya, and Firoza.
What: Quests, and other things!
Where: All around :3
When: September! [And beyond, if my energy levels are low--]
Warnings: None for now. Keep an eye on subject lines!

Comments

[fromsprouts]

"Not exactly ancient." He almost wishes he was a good enough student to estimate the timeline. But here, it doesn't really matter, does it?

Umemiya pauses to look at a plant that might be a type of grain. "Hey. What do you make of this one?"

[shotinhead]

He picks it up, beginning to press it between his claws. Carefully, gently. "Seems healthy to me, honestly. Probably th'sort that can be ground up."

Oddly, he doesn't sound as sure as he usually does.

[fromsprouts]

"Let's bring a good amount, then. Flour means bread. And pastries, if we're lucky. Might also be possible to use it for beer, for you adults."

Processing it will be a little work, but it ought to be worth it. Right?

[shotinhead]

A little snort. "You don't always need wheat for homebrew," he comments, but he then wiggles a little. "But pastries - they're good shit. Maybe it'd be nice to learn to cook that sort of stuff. But it seems complex compared to th'usual stuff I've cooked."

[fromsprouts]

"Back home, there was an amazing little bakery called Cactus, that did all kinds of pastry. I liked their curry bread and anpan."

He's talked to Laios about trying to figure out how to make anpan happen here, so someday perhaps he'll get to share that.

"And honestly, if nothing else, grain means porridge. I bet this could make something sort of similar to congee, with a little work."

[shotinhead]

"What's Anpan?"

It was a simple question, but he seemed excited to hear about it. All of this food, from across the world...

[fromsprouts]

"It's a bun filled with sweetened red bean paste."

Laios had also found the idea fascinating, so Umemiya's giddy to explain it again. If he can convince someone to help him make it, it might become the next big thing in town.

[shotinhead]

Oh! "That sounds tasty - we don't have anything like that back in the Mojave. Don't even have red beans."

he is going to become a foodie i swear. "We'll need to keep an eye out for ingredients, especially next Spring."

[fromsprouts]

"Speaking of ingredients, I might try to get a winter crop of broccoli and spinach and the like--the brassicas. I think there's a chance we'll be able to get a late harvest, with how the weather here tends to be."

He's already excited about the project.

"Probably grow it out at the outpost, give people a reason to go out there and keep an eye on things." Not a proper patrol, but enough traffic to keep things going.