🐺🚬 spring catch-all (closed for now)

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Who: bigby & dolly, kinger, maya, oko, parvati, umemiya
What: quests and other situations
Where: around town, the cliffs
When: april-june
Warnings: battling and related injuries


QUEST RESULTS
BITS AND BOBS (KINGER) | DITTO TO THAT (DOLLY) | 'MON MAKEOVER (PARVATI)

Comments

—AT THE GARDENS (UMEMIYA)

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[ With the head chef at Oran now out of commission, Bigby felt obligated to throw in most of his free time to keep the ship sailing. He's still not much of a cook, but he knows his way around, and that's something at least. Anything to help ease the transition over to someone who really knows what they're doing eventually.

But while minding a kitchen is one thing, putting together actual meals are another. Despite all the notes he's compiled so far, Bigby's diet is not varied enough to keep it nutritionally balanced for the rest of the guild. So off to the gardens he goes, not to help plant and harvest as he normally does, but in search of advice from an expert. ]

Hey, Ume.

[ Bigby approaches, paws in his pockets, seed dangling from the corner of his mouth. He looks tired as always, but not entirely exhausted. ]

Got a minute to show me around? Could use some help.

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For you, I've always got time.

[He tries to play the chill mature one, the peer to all the adults of the bay, but there's definitely a little bit of a tail wag under his green gakuran coat as Bigby approaches.]

What's up?

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[ Maybe he notices that little movement. Maybe he doesn't. Either way, his face does seem to brighten. ]

Good. Might be using a lot of it today.

[ He huffs a small laugh. ]

Need some advice on, uh. Vegetables. Trying to figure out a meal plan for the guild.

[fromsprouts]

Ooh! Okay, yes, you came to the right guy. I'm actually working on planning out spring planting. We've got a lot of preserved brassicas right now. Pickled brussel sprouts and something between a white kimchi and sauerkraut and stuff like that, but we'll start having asparagus as early as this summer, and we can also get some bean sprouts before we go for a full planting.

And if we can get some crates or something, I was thinking of doing potato towers instead of beds? Because starchy vegetables are important. And we could also get zucchini growing--with those, we could do, like, fried cheese-stuffed squash blossoms, in order to help ensure we don't end up buried under zucchini mountain.

Oh! And that's before we think about lettuces and herbs!

[He could go on like this for a while.]

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[ Bigby's eyes go wide once the onslaught starts. Umemiya might be more than the right guy for this. ]

O-okay. Okay. That's— ... it's good stuff. Let me just—

[ He probably should've gotten his little journal and pencil out for notes first thing. His brows furrow as he tries to quickly catch up. ]

Beans. Starch crates. Cheese-stuffed... herbs... [ That's plenty for him to scratch his chin over. ] Huh. Zucchini. You said we can grow a lot of those?

[ He glances up at Ume. ]

Might be good to start with the stuff we can get in big bulks. Lot of mouths to feed.