TIS THE SEASON FOR A GAME

[idolpro]

[A RINGING BELL LEADS YOU TO THE GAME TOWER and also like, y'know, your normal phone alert

Today, somehow, it's a winter wonderland! there's a few inches of soft powdery snow all around, a pond for ice skating, and...several cabins?? and kitchen booths and a crafts station?? There's also mistletoe, a living room set and tree. hm.

Your host's pre-recorded hologram is there as well! It's the sheep demon from before apparently, wearing an ugly sweater of a wolf wearing a wool ugly sweater, and sipping a hot cocoa]

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, baa-baa-baa-baa-baa-baaaaaa-baa-baa-baa-baa~!

Hello again, sweet idols! Thanks for that entertaining week, it's a shame all the guests are gone. . .

But on to the future~! It's time for the holiday special! What's that? It's only been-- Whatever, whatever, I'm being paid to host! I am being paid, right. . .?

Huuuuhuu. Anyway~! Today our dear idols will be showing us some classic holiday spirit! All idols may pick 1~ to 3 tasks, and act them out. It is rather free form; feel free to perform with a group, your team, one partner, however you choose.

And the scenes for picking, aaaare~!

~Cabin in the woods! Oh nooo, there's a blizzard outside, and only one bed and one blanket, what will you doooo?
~Mistletoe! Huhuhuuu did you get caught under it?
~A sweet surprise! Create and decorate a gingerbread house or christmas cake!
~Holiday dramaaaa. What's a holiday without a bit of spicy drama?
~Sweater time! Make some matching sweaters. Ugliest one gets a prize, maybe, I can't read the last part on this cue card.

Oh, and here's a fun part: at least one winning team will be determined by vote from the idols themselves! Isn't that just, lovely?

Now, jingle those bells, dears!

[also feel free to assume your idol outfits are magically more winter themed right now]

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Comments

[unbr8kable]

No Christmas where you're from?

[softlyfalling]

I’ve just been told it’s a cold-season gift-giving holiday since I’ve been here, but... ah, no, we don’t have it at home, I don’t think.

[unbr8kable]

But what about eating chicken and strawberry cake and and going on a Tokyo Disney date? That's what Christmas is all about!

[softlyfalling]

I don’t—I eat chicken occasionally, but is there... a special event where you do those things, or... what’s a Disney.

[unbr8kable]

Of course there is a special event, it's called Christmas.

See, Americans invented Christmas when Colonel Sanders decided to bring roast chicken to the pilgrims back in the 1900s. Today people celebrate with fancy cakes with the expensive strawberries on 'em unless you forgot to order one, and then you gotta make do with some Pocky or something, I guess. But you're an adult, so you should know better.

Disney owns everything that's not the government. They got a theme park.

[softlyfalling]

Oh. Okay.

[ none of those words made any sense at all. ]

I—

...should we get a strawberry cake?

[unbr8kable]

...Yes.

[pause]

...Do you even eat sweets?

[softlyfalling]

I—I do, you know, I'm quite fond of chocolate. Also fruit? Does fruit count?

[unbr8kable]

Fruit doesn't count...maybe if it's in gelatin. Chocolate does count. Unless it's shitty chocolate, shitty chocolate doesn't count.

We could have a chocolate Christmas cake, with strawberries. That'd be traditional, I think...?

[softlyfalling]

We could... do you know how to bake at all? It seems like they brought ingredients, anyway.

[unbr8kable]

I mean...put some stuff in a pan and stick in the oven, should be easy enough...right?

[softlyfalling]

...probably?

I mean, I'm a passable cook, at least, so probably at least as long as we follow directions. Let's... give it a go?

[unbr8kable]

Sure, might as well.

I haven't checked out the kitchen yet. Has it got directions? Uh...recipes, or whatever?

[softlyfalling]

Well, we can find out.

[ a trip to the kitchen later— ]

Well, these are recipes for a cake like you describe, I think, but it's not chocolate.

[unbr8kable]

Then what's the point?

[lots of people like yellow cake...?]

--Well, whatever. There ingredients around?

[poking around the cabinets?]

[softlyfalling]

It seems like they have everything we need and then some extras... I think I found the dry ingredients, anyway, they're up here. Flour, sugar... cocoa powder? We could just... guess, probably.

[ probably? ]

[unbr8kable]

I guess? Just need...eggs? And...milk...?

[Starts pulling things from the fridge, though perhaps she does nooot know much about how baking works]

i looked up the history of leavening agents for this tag,

[softlyfalling]

[ neither does she! ]

Maybe a small pinch of salt? I think there's usually just a tiny bit of salt. Does it say what to use for leavening? I don't see potash.

hardcore

[unbr8kable]

Who's Potash?

[finally thinks to look at the recipe,]

Says...soda.

[retrieves a coke along with the eggs and butter]

'Kay, so we just mix it all up and go?

[softlyfalling]

I... guess so?

I don't really make a whole lot of things like this, so your guess is as good as mine, but it's all got to go together eventually?

[unbr8kable]

I've only used an oven once, and Hurricane took care of the heavy lifting. But--whatever, if we do it, we'll find out what happens. See if you can find some spoons and measuring thingers, I'll look for some bowls and pans and stuff.

[softlyfalling]

Ah—all right, I can do that.

[ she starts rooting through the drawers for measuring implements, squinting at the numbers on them and placing the ones that match the recipe on the counter. ]

[unbr8kable]

[digs in the cabinets before unearthing a few glass bowls and a few sheet pans]

Think this might work?

[softlyfalling]

Probably...?

...do you think it matters what goes in first? Probably the dry parts?

[unbr8kable]

Why would that matter? ...You think the heaviest stuff has to go in first?