unsheathedfromreality: (carry me on the winds of a storm)
Illarion Albireo ([personal profile] unsheathedfromreality) wrote in [community profile] unfinishedlibrary2026-04-01 09:38 pm

[log] Chopped: Link's Exploded Backpack Edition

Who: Anyone who wants to salvage the Unreasonably Large Food Pile left in the kitchen ... and elsewhere ... by Link's departure.
What: An Unreasonably Large Pile of delicious fresh food!
When: April 1st
Where: The kitchen and surrounding areas in the Lobby. The bugs and lizards might spread ...
Content warnings: Contains live insects!! Potential insect-eating. Should be pretty tame otherwise!

It starts with a hurried post on the bulletin board in Illarion's efficient script:

There is an enormous pile of food in the kitchen that needs to be saved.

Anyone who can prepare or preserve it welcome.


After an hour or two, a tidy little inventory appears beneath the initial message, along with an attempt to track -- by name or description -- who's taken what, and how it's been used. There are some inventive descriptions on there for the items Illarion doesn't recognize.

(It doesn't look exactly like this -- because Illarion doesn't know the names of everything in the pile, or everyone who stops by, and certainly wouldn't make a spreadsheet -- but the poor digital substitute will have to stand in for his glorious real list.)





Those who do respond to the urgent missive will find the kitchen exactly as described: Absolutely full to overflowing with fresh produce that could've grown in the Library's garden, alongside a veritable market wagon of fresh fish, meat, and more produce. (Along with ... rocks and wood?)

Oh, and there's also a minor infestation of live bugs and reptiles actively escaping into the stacks.

Illarion's right in the thick of it for hours, first tirelessly triaging the mass into what should be cooked or preserved first, what will store well in the icebox, and what can be kept around on the shelves. Then he turns his hand to preparing the meat and fish for drying (and saving the fat from the richest cuts).

Once he's certain the most perishable items are taken care of, he sets aside some of the fat, honey, and berries for himself. Then he goes out hunting, pursuing the bugs and lizards loose in the Lobby and stacks. He's got no shame whatsoever about chasing them under furniture or up bookshelves, and soon has his sabertache full of squirmy tidbits.

Then it's back to the kitchen, to render the fat and make crunchy insect pemmican from his prizes.

(He's enough of a magpie he can't resist making off with some of the gems. There's someone out there who will look stunning in rubies and amber...)

((OOC: Feel free to use this as a jumping-off point for whatever you wanna do with your top levels! No need to tag Illarion -- go wild.

The spreadsheet above is fully editable -- feel free to put in what your guys take on tab 2 & I'll eventually get some automation going to track the item inventory and tab 1 will do inventory for us. Have fun!!))
icanhearscreams: (ehhhh...)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2026-04-08 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know that. And I know that you can't know everything." Thinking otherwise is just stupid. "But when there's important facts missing it's annoying."

"But trying to take care of things... I don't even know what I could take care of." What does he even have left?
deinoswitch: (soft smile)

[personal profile] deinoswitch 2026-04-09 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Dionysus shrugs. "Well, what sort of things do you care about? If we wind up in a place that has a river nearby, could you look at it and find out if there's something that's harming the creatures there? Could you learn about what the animals of different places need? Could you encourage others to care for the world around them more?"
icanhearscreams: (eh?)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2026-04-09 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I don't know. I don't have a lot of training. But... I could try." Animals are easier to figure out than people, after all.
deinoswitch: (soft smile)

[personal profile] deinoswitch 2026-04-10 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"You might be able to learn some things from books. And perhaps some from others here; I'm afraid I don't know much about fish but I do try to take care of the natural world around me." This is an understatement, but Jun doesn't need to know that.
icanhearscreams: (listening)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2026-04-10 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Who knows, maybe there's some nonsense magic that lets me talk to fish." He can turn into a fucking wolf now, who knows what else is there?

He sighs and relaxes a little bit more. "Things here don't make sense, but... it's what I've got."
deinoswitch: (Default)

[personal profile] deinoswitch 2026-04-10 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe! That would be fun." Animals can be much better listeners than humans. Partially because they are very good at not overcomplicating things.

The witch chuckles softly. "They don't, but they don't need to all the time," he says, "Sometimes we just have to feel out what seems right."
icanhearscreams: (sad gaze)

[personal profile] icanhearscreams 2026-04-11 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
"... Yeah, I guess. I'm just not used to the... feelings thing. Other than being mad." He's good at being angry. He would like to sometimes have emotions that aren't just 'angry' or 'bored'. Being happy seems like it would be nice...
deinoswitch: (soft smile)

[personal profile] deinoswitch 2026-04-11 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
This poor child. Dionysus is definitely going to keep an eye on him. "Other feelings can be quite nice," he says with a smile, "I hope you are able to find them." He'll certainly try to help.