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[The video opens on the ruins of the attempted brick oven. It does not shift to Tommy at any point, but rather circles the thing as he sighs.]

So, attempt one at a wood-fired brick oven to bring the wonders of pizza and really good grilled fish and the like went... Well, can we say 'poorly'? I was hoping to add some charms of home to the awesome shit that Radley's helping me make and that whole menu he's cooked up for the old place. Mostly that means 'those things are delayed while project is approached from another angle.' Or other business words.

Which means new project time. Come on, what other foods would you like to see? Maybe Radley can help me figure them out, dude's amazing in the kitchen. Honestly, the increased step up in food quality lately is all him, so applaud him if you see the guy around. Radley, if we had money, you'd be getting the biggest raise, not gonna lie.

Also, I'm thinking about making a patio area out here. I know there's other stuff going on, but damn, everyone talking about projects or doing stuff makes me want to build more things here for comfort when eating. You're all making me feel like I'm slacking off. And it's not like I can solve the storms or get the ships to take us into space when we want them to, or any of that stuff, so I need more work to do.

[Says the guy sleeping only four hours in every thirty, spending all his time harvesting and drying and smoking and preserving and all that other stuff.]

That's it. Message me if you have, like, foods you want us to try. I might be able to get the Agrii to get us supplies too, if we promise to try and give them tastes or something. And do you think a covered outdoor patio would be nice? I could line it with berry bushes or cyanana vines or something.

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[crystalmaster]

We probably all could. I'll get the ingredient lists ready and see if there's anything we need to replicate.

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Awesome. I'm talking to him more and he's referenced two different types and no preference.

[crystalmaster]

Great! We can start making them today, if you want.

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That's definitely a good goal. Keith deserves some.

[crystalmaster]

He does. Okay, I should be ready within an hour or less!

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Awesome. need me to fetch anything?

[crystalmaster]

Radley ponders the ingredient list he's making. "It might be good to replicate more flour...."

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I've still got some from what I did for pizza and naan making plans. We should use it.

[crystalmaster]

Okay, cool. Then we're probably set.

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Cool. I'm gonna make sure all the dishes and measuring shit is clean.

[crystalmaster]

Great. I'll be over soon!

[Radley makes sure everything on the ingredient list is there before heading out to the diner.]

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Cool. His other request I'm going to earmark for later. Harder to improv tacos. Damn I wish we had earth seeds.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley continues to chat on the communicator as he walks.]

Tacos, huh? We could make flour tacos. Corn tacos ... we can't get anything like corn?

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There's this stuff that grows, sorta like sugar cane, that takes like buttered corn. But we can't get actual corn sadly.

[Seriously, he'd bribe people for corn and wheat and strawberries.]

[crystalmaster]

"There's tortillas at home made with butter right in them. They're amazing! I'd like to try this stuff we have here." Radley is intrigued and hopeful.

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Tommy laughs.

"Sounds like a plan. Like, it's a Graq food I think, so I don't know if you got recipes for it. I don't. Get them from the datapoint like other people do. Something in the datapoints don't fully jive with my head."

[crystalmaster]

"Yeah, I don't do datapoints. But that's fine. I'll just experiment on my own."

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That's fair enough. If you're not sure things are poisonous or not, you ask me, okay?

[crystalmaster]

[Radley winces at that.]

Right. So you've already figured out what's edible?

[He definitely doesn't want to make a mistake.]

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I mean, yeah. The datapoint comes with that. And sure there's stuff I brought from Coruscant or Eorzea and planted, but those are things that were clearly food stuffs there, so that was already vetted.

[crystalmaster]

Ah, it sounded like the datapoint wasn't working so well for you, so I wasn't sure how helpful it was being.

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Oh no, it REALLY doesn't work as great for me. But mostly it seems like I got shorted on a lot more of the cooking aspects. It's why cooking's been so hard for me. But a lot of people have been trying to help over the years, teaching me things. It means that I can be better when they go, and I have more time to gather food and preserve it.

[He'd had to do a lot of trial and error with the preservation of foods too, he hadn't gotten that at all. Didn't even know the datapoint could tell you that stuff. The techniques he used to can and dry and all of that had been hard won skills.]

[crystalmaster]

You're definitely a good student! You're very handy with food.

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[Oh boy but does he ever radiate pride at that. Compliments get people very far with Tommy because he's rather unused to them. If Radley keeps talking like that, even as rare little crumbs, Tommy might have to protect the guy with his life or something.]

Thanks. I've been trying.

[crystalmaster]

It shows. I was impressed the first time I went into the diner.