012 - Jingle Jangle (Backdated to late last night)

[silentrunning]

[It'd started quite innocently enough, actually. Chell had been hearing a lot about this Santa Clause fellow recently... And she'd been thinking. If some large man in a red suit could do it, then why couldn't she? It hadn't taken her long to figure out what to give every resident even... As far as she knows, most folks like cookies...

So, that said, she's been in the kitchen for most of the last two days, baking up batches of cookies, and mentally thanking everyone who had either taught her to bake or tried her first batches or had in any way helped.

But it's Christmas Eve, and she's done just in time.

She'd planned everything out, even how she was going to carry the cookies. Enlisting the help of the ice hotel's stafff, she wraps all the batches of cookies in colorful parcels, and tags them with her name. Then she sends the penguins off to deliver her presents and toddles exhaustedly off to bed.]

[OOC: Every resident of Para will get at least a batch of cookies. People Chell has CR with who have posted on the meme will get their presents and a batch of cookies... And happy holidays, whichever you celebrate.]

Comments

[eat_me_beat_me]

Hey, Chell! Thanks for the cookies!

[silentrunning]

[Chell's in the middle of finding a way to hang a certain painting on her wall when Nora's message reaches her. She writes back though, of course.]

You're welcome. I hope they were good, and less burned than the last ones you had? And thank you for the painting. I'm hanging it on the wall right now... Or trying to. How do you hang a picture on a stone wall?

[She ends the writing with a smiley face...wearing a Santa hat.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

They were! You've gotten a lot better. And, hey, feel free to use us as guinea pigs any time you feel like baking anything.

[She pauses, looking around at all of her pictures]

There are special nails you can use. I can help you if you want.

[silentrunning]

[Chell laughs to herself. She's not sure exactly what a guinea pig is but she likes the phrase. But she does write back.]

Sure! By all means. Besides, you haven't ever seen my room I don't think, though I have seen yours....

[An afterthought.]

Well, not when you weren't made of plastic anyhow.

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She laughs]

Alright now I have to come. Where do you live?

[silentrunning]

[Chell grins and writes carefully.]

Satis Tower...

[Then she adds in a room number.]

[Nora would notice a couple things when she arrived. The room was pretty much bare of things like furniture. There is, however, a desk, with a few things on it, and in a place of prominence, a water-stained sketchbook with most of the pages missing, a nutcracker painted to look like a cat, and a large stack of assorted media, stacked in a very unorganized manner.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[It takes her a few minutes to get there. She knocks softly before pushing the door open and stepping inside. She bites her lip as she looks around]

Oh man we definitely have to get you hooked up, here. You gotta have a better place than this. [She grins at her friend] This is gonna be fun.

[silentrunning]

[Chell's looking forward to this prospect. So much. She's never even heard of decorating, really. She only just has a few things she likes. She can always use more.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

Alright. To start with you need better furniture. Seriously, you've still got the stuff the castle gave you. How about a bigger bed? With a comfier mattress.

[lioneyed]

[Thamuris will leave her some baklava and sparkly gel pens, which he found in town]

Thamuris

[silentrunning]

[Chell writes Thamuris a message back, with one of those sparkly gel pens. :D]

Thank you! Both for the very delicious dessert and the sparkling pens! I've never seen pens like those and I think that was the best dessert I've ever eaten.

[Someone's never eaten baklava.]

[Ooc: And nor have I. I want to try some now.]

Chell

[lioneyed]

You're welcome - I was surprised, but glad to find the baklava here. And thank you for your cookies - they're delicious.

[OOC: Do, it's delicious. A lot of middle-eastern and Greek delis will have it]

Re: Chell

[silentrunning]

[She's grinning like a madman. A :D face may find itself in the journal, followed shortly by this.]

I'm so glad you liked the cookies. Several people here taught me to bake cookies one day, so I put my learning to good use.

[lioneyed]

It seems you did! I don't know much about baking myself - it seems rather tricky.

[silentrunning]

[She writes back with a flourish]

It's not too bad. I could teach you.

[lioneyed]

Really? I'd like that a lot, I think.

[silentrunning]

[She grins at her journal and writes back again.]

Sure. Just say the word, and I'll meet you in the kitchen. With recipes.

[lioneyed]

That would be lovely. When are you usually free?

[silentrunning]

[She's always free, dude. Her reply is quick though, no rustling schedules...]

I'm always free.

[lioneyed]

Same, mostly. I like spending time in the library, but I have a lot of free time.

[silentrunning]

[She doodles a little :D face into the journal before writing back.]

How about this evening then?

action y/n?

[lioneyed]

Certainly.

YESSSSSS

[silentrunning]

[And later that evening, she's standing in the kitchen, with the cookie ingredients spread out on the ocunter, waiting for Thamuris.]

[lioneyed]

[And this is one of the places he can find in this giant castle reliably, so not long after, he comes into the kitchen to. He gives Chell a shy sort of wave]

Hello.

[silentrunning]

[Chell waves and beckons him over. She doesn't say anything, but she starts working on the dry ingredients. Thamuris is a very smart man and probably knew this bit already, anyhow.]

[lioneyed]

[He comes over, and looks hesitantly over her shoulder at what she's doing. He's somewhat familiar with the theoreticals of cooking, but has never really done much himself.]

What recipe are you using?

[silentrunning]

[Chell grins and points with a flour-coated finger to the recipe spread out next to her, to the step where you add the sugar. And then she smiles at him. Hey. He's awesome company.]

[lioneyed]

[He smiles back, a little shyly. He's not really used to people, well, treating him like a friend. Other than Felix, and sometimes Felix's frienship baffles him.]

Oh, I see. Should I measure out the sugar, or did you do it already?

Chell

[sawadeertoday]

[ An unamused dictation pops up over the journal. ]

I really find your attempts at harassing me pitiful. Do you miss me that much? I could always find a way to test you here, you know.

[ Because she got those cakes and she did try them. Not like she would admit it... but she had devoured the one that didn't make her mouth go on fire. It is cake, after all! ]

Re: Chell

[silentrunning]

[Chell is so amused. So she'd tried her cakes, had she? Hmm.

She writes back, as follows.]

So...You did try the cakes? Good. I hope you enjoyed at least one of them. And I think the castle tests us both enough, don't you?

[forsometimenow]

The cookies were great. And... thanks for the nice note you left, too.

[silentrunning]

[Grinning, Chell writes Jennifer a message.]

Oh! I'm so glad you liked them and the note. I thought you deserved something extra special.

[forsometimenow]

I'm glad we met each other. Even though the first time we talked was after Ray disappeared... sometimes good things can come out of the bad.

[silentrunning]

[That deeply touches Chell's heart. There is a smile on her face as she writes back.]

I'm glad to have met you too. You're such a nice person.