[Open] Log & Network

[doubled_speed]

WHO: Tommy Shepherd, OTA
WHERE: Eli's Diner
WHAT: A message about a change of management and a request for help
WARNINGS: N/A

Network - Video
So I know I was annoying you all on your devices earlier but...

[There's a sigh. Long and drawn out. He looks tired. But he isn't on the island this time. He's in the no doubt familiar diner, though in the back, the kitchen area, trying to sort out items there and his communicator is clearly propped up on something as he works on cutting up some stuff.]

I need help. Apparently Eli never came back from Calibrations. A few other people he knew too. So I guess that means the diner hasn't been running. But I sorta owe the guy for some things, and I'm already working the greenhouse anyway and carrying supplies there so I'm gonna try and take over this too.

Trust me, speedster, I can manage it. I've got the hours in the day. 'Cept thing is, I am not the best cook. So if anyone knows how, please come teach me more than just this whole salad and 'lots of things in a pot' soup? And people who wanna help out here more or who were helping Eli already, please help me? I learn fast, but, like, someone's still gotta show me it?

Cooking Ain't Easy
Thirty hour days were already insane and something Tommy doesn't much know what to do with himself with. When you only need three to four hours of sleep and there are a number of people working in the greenhouse and it's sorta getting more and more in line... Well, Tommy needs more to do. Especially with losing even more people.

So here he was, in the kitchen of the diner, trying to figure out how to do this right. Today's goal for lunch: soup. Salads can be made to order, but soup... Tommy grumbles to himself under his breath as he works on peeling some of the tubers from the greenhouse. They're like potatoes, so you handle them like potatoes, right?

"I'm really starting to regret not accepting Rebecca and Jeff offering to teach me to cook," he grumbles to himself. "Especially noodles."

He needed more hands than his own to do this. And so much more smart people. Hopefully someone actually offered to help out.

Comments

Video

[wearingthestars]

I think like...60% of the time I can make eggs without messing it up. That's like the one thing Dad managed to teach me to make consistently that didn't come from a box. Otherwise I know some recipes and stuff so long as you don't let me anywhere near the actual preparation.

Re: Video

[doubled_speed]

Well, I don't know if we have eggs. So that's less useful than I'd hope for. But if you remember recipes I'll take those and figure out what I can substitute I guess.

Video

[wearingthestars]

Maybe we should hunt around and see if there's anything like chickens around this and work on raising them.

But yeah, I can write down what I remember, or magic up some cook books even if that would help?

[doubled_speed]

Oh man, aren't chickens really noisy? But feather pillows... Fuck, that's something to consider.

Think you can magic up an Agri cookbook.

[wearingthestars]

Ummm...probably? I'd guess smell might be the bigger concern? But yeah...either way, could be helpful.

Heh. Um, maybe? That's...probably a complicated one? I can try?

[doubled_speed]

Do chickens smell?

If you can do that, or at least something that I can substitute stuff into, I guess I can experiment som.

[wearingthestars]

I think they poop alot? I dunno. I went to a farm once on a field trip, I don't really know a whole lot.

I'll see what I can do.

[Video]

[rage_on]

Wish I could offer some advice, but Mikey was the one who handled most of the food. Me and my other brothers tried to take over once but that was a disaster. I'm thinkin' it'd just be even more complicated without the usual ingredients we'd be used to.

But hey, you want me to forage or somethin', I can do that much.

Re: [Video]

[doubled_speed]

I don't know how much foraging we need. But if you grab the Ag point you'll know what out there is edible I guess.

Unless you wanna hit the shore and grab me crabs. Tons of crabs.

[Video]

[rage_on]

I'll consider it. But I was thinkin' more like...non-plant stuff.

Crabs? Crabs, I can do.

Re: [Video]

[doubled_speed]

Cool. If you can get some, awesome. No clue if there are any. But there are these fat green lobsters that stroll along the shore. You wanna be careful of their claws. A pinch makes you SUPER itchy. But they're tasty as fuck.

[Video]

[rage_on]

Guess we'll see what I can find. And don't worry, I've dealt with stuff with claws before. Should be a breeze.

[doubled_speed]

Awesome. We don't, uh, have butter, but I can probably boil them up anyway. And I hear there's a guy here that has a cow. Maybe I can get some milk from him to make chowder. If my bro can get me the recipe.

diner

[theladyofwinterfell]

Sansa needs a project aside from being a mother all day and that's what brings her to the diner and helping Tommy. She's learned to cook a bit since being in both the Fleet and here in Temba and she has the advantage of knowing everything about how the plants can be used and which are edible.

When she shows up, she has James in his sling wrapped around her front. She can use her hands but not quite as well as she wants; if only there were an easier way.

"Tommy? I'm here to help you with the diner. I desperately need something to do and I can cook a bit."

[doubled_speed]

Something had gone wrong with Tommy and the Ag point, and he hadn't bothered to try and reinstall it or whatever. He got the knowledge to work the plants, to manage them, what they were for. But once something needed to be eaten more than raw, Tommy's knowledge was literally blank. So life was fun in the experimental kitchen project.

But he smiles to see her, moving immediately to offer Sansa a very gentle hug, trying hard not to squish baby James.

"Hey Aunt Sansa. So relieved, thanks. I hope you know more about cooking than I do. Gotta keep people fe.d"

[theladyofwinterfell]

"I do, actually. I had to learn how over the last few years," Sansa admits. "Because I had always had servants before and it's hard to adjust. I think I can help you with this place, though, because I would hate to see it close. I enjoy my time here."

Sansa thinks it's good for people to have a place to gather together and she's so happy Tommy seems to agree.

[doubled_speed]

"I figured," Tommy admitted. Was it wrong that he'd been so thoughtful about all of this? Probably not. Thinking about other people is probably a good thing.

"We're not going to see it close," he insists, voice firm. "We're going to make it work."

[theladyofwinterfell]

"Oh, no. It won't close. We need a place for people to gather and exchange news and ideas," Sansa says.

"Where I'm from, people do that in taverns. This is the closest thing to a tavern there is."

[doubled_speed]

Taverns. Man, she's really different from his world. Taverns weren't a thing anymore.

"We use the internet for it."

video;

[hulkintraining]

I wouldn't consider myself a culinary genius or anything, but I can make a mean grilled cheese sandwich. Which you know very well. And if you need general help around the diner, you know I'm available pretty much all the time.

Re: video;

[doubled_speed]

I mean, we're not exactly rolling in cheese. Or bread. But fuck man, if you've got anything, you should come help.

video;

[hulkintraining]

Yeah, I guess that wasn't the best example. But I'm pretty good at following recipes if the old owner left any behind.

[doubled_speed]

I'll search, but extra hands are always welcome, Teddy.

[hulkintraining]

I can always come by and help you look. Maybe wait on some tables if needed. How hard can it be?

[Famous last words for anyone entering the customer service business.]

[doubled_speed]

In the real world? Insanely from what I've seen. Here? We've got less than, like, forty people total. You'll be fine.

Get a short skirt. Billy will love it.