Sokka the 17th - [Voice/Action]

[markofthewise]

[So after going around breaking hearts and fighting evil demons, Sokka has found a new hobby to get his mind off of how annoying Luceti can be. That hobby? Cooking!

Surprisingly enough, despite the fact he's used the smithy as his personal kitchen for the past few days, Sokka has managed to complete a batch of eel jerky (or rather, a dish of mán xiāng consisting of salt cured eel) that actually doesn't taste absolutely horrible. It's nothing exceptional, but it is rather tasty. He's set out a plate of the stuff in the smithy, along with some vinegar bowl in a display that looks nowhere near as nice as this picture. At the very least it looks edible. Anyone who for whatever reason decides to drop by the smithy today are more than welcome to try some of Sokka's latest cooking experiment. Otherwise he's going to be inviting people over the journal.]

Hey Sanji, Brook! I finished the eel jerky I told you about. If you want to drop by you can have some. Anyone else who wants some can drop by too, but it probably won't last long if everyone does, though.

Comments

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing they haven't always been that way?

[markofthewise]

Well those are the only two I've been here for, but I think they're always in the last two weeks of the month. My first month here, there apparently wasn't an experiment. But we did have three days that nobody could remember.

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

And what were the effects of that?

[markofthewise]

Like I said, none of us could remember. But it was pretty weird afterwards. Stuff had been moved around, some stuff had been messed up, most of our food was gone...

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

That would be... very disconcerting. I would think that finding out the effect that doing something like that would have could be its own experiment.

[markofthewise]

Maybe. Unless they did something so extreme that they didn't want any of us to remember.

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't put it past them, but what could something like that be?

[markofthewise]

For something like that... they must have slipped up. Something so important that it would have changed everything if we remembered it. Could have been anything, though, but I don't think it was meant to be a typical experiment.

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

I understand this has been going on for a very long time. A slip-up of that magnitude probably would have happened towards the beginning rather than so far in. I wonder if there was a power struggle within the Malnosso or one of them tried to sabotage it for some reason. My guess is that you're right, and they were covering their tracks.

[markofthewise]

Sometimes you make your biggest mistakes when you're at your most confident. Then again, with this whole war business, it could have been sabotage too.

[ooc: Fourth Wall event. So what happened? Basically everything.]

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[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the whole purpose of this experiment is to bring people that might be of some use in a war, or since all of us don't fight, maybe some kind of study on a dystopia. I'm genuinely curious to see how they're using and interpreting what results they're getting.

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[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Sokka. You've really given me something to take my mind off missing everyone back home.

[markofthewise]

[Oh. He didn't even realize he was doing that.] And here I thought I was just feeding you eel jerky.

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

No, I think we ended up a little bit off-topic. It was good eel jerky, too. I've never had that before. You'll have to teach me how to make it sometime.

[markofthewise]

Oh, do you cook?

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love to cook. It's my favorite thing to do. Did you cook a lot before you got here?

[markofthewise]

... not really, no. Katara generally does all the cooking. But there were two months without her here, so I dabbled a little.

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

Oh? How did it go? And is Katara a good cook?

[markofthewise]

... well Toph and I didn't starve at least.

And Katara is a great cook.

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

Haha, well, that's better than nothing. You must have improved during that time, especially if this eel stuff was anything to go by.

And is she? She didn't mention it when we were talking. Hm, maybe I'll have to try her food later~.

[markofthewise]

It it's meat, I can at least make it edible. Don't ask me to make anything else though. As for Katara, uh... maybe you could have dinner with us sometime. [Just wait until they get over ANGSTING next week.]

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? I'd like that a lot! Thanks, Sokka.

[markofthewise]

Just uh, let me run it by her first. [SHE WILL FIND A WAY.]

[foodovermystery.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Just let me know when you decide.

[markofthewise]

Sure thing. I was nice meeting you, Yako. I'd tell you to drop by anytime but... well, I'm not allowed to make food here anymore. Heh.