This tiny kitchenette is pretty useless, for most things, so it's not really workable for anything fancy (only got a two-burner mini-stove and a toaster-oven, but somehow I get by). I do wonder about immortal enhancement of mundane recipes and I was going to make red beans and rice today. Been soaking the beans for a couple days now, and they're ready to go. On the other hand, that Sky Shrub Salad sounds pretty exciting.

I'll bring a satchel of them over!

Please don't worry too much about the equipment - there's ways around that. 

You'll get some results out of something like that, but if you've already mostly prepared it...

Less so. 

Oh that's interesting. So the effects are built up throughout the process, then? It makes sense, when I stop to think about it.

Yeah, soaking the beans is about a third of the work. Plenty left to do, but plenty already done. It does seem better to try doing mortal-recipe-improvement properly rather than picking up in the middle.

I'm looking forward to checking out Sky Shrub leaves for the first time! I've got enough things to make a few different types of dressing for the salad, and I'm excited to learn how everything works.

smiles

Ok~! 

I'll check in with the seniors about getting you a basic method for all this...

Ooh, like a chef-specific technique? Thank you!

Actually... How does getting techniques work? Is this where those trades that got mentioned in the rules come in?

Yep! 

There's a lot of awkward things around legacy rules and conditions, plus technique suitability and just them genuinely being super duper valuable? There's also some awkward karma stuff to just give people that freely, and that's a whole another thing to handle... Not in a great position to, though I'm happy to be the vehicle of a fitting gift from the seniors! 

Still a little shy about gifts, especially if they're this valuable, but I suppose it's to the Seniors' benefit to acquire fresh new faces, keep the wheel turning?

Yep! 

Though it's a broader thing? 

It's about... keeping the traditions themselves going, to - giving them to people who would find the most useful and foundational and grow from there...~

Depending on how you count there might be like... 5 seniors inclined to give gifts like this, at least for now? Some go on walkabout or have other commitments or aren't in a great place to do things or have the physical interaction model for the gifting thing.

Should probably be something you should keep in mind. 

Wow. I definitely want to give back, keep all this going more properly. This is the first time I'm finding something actually good, something that's apparently not full of traps and lies, and I wanna do my part to extend it forward. Just gonna have to learn quick and keep going, I guess, and keep a lookout for ways to be a good junior?

There's options for an arrangement with me? But very understandable if you don't want to get contracted or into debt, now. 

And yeah, that's the spirit! 

Oh...

Do you want to get the security rant or should I just tell you not to worry about it? 

There's options for an arrangement with me? But very understandable if you don't want to get contracted or into debt, now. 

I'm not opposed, honestly, as long as the math looks like it works out that I'll be net-positive eventually and not just spiral. Debt's a tool, and all that.

Do you want to get the security rant or should I just tell you not to worry about it? 

Yes. Security rant, please. I'm so starry-eyed about this whole situation, and I need real concerns to stay grounded on.

I'm not opposed, honestly, as long as the math looks like it works out that I'll be net-positive eventually and not just spiral. Debt's a tool, and all that.

Basically the arrangement I have in mind would get you into my spot and get you to do some missions for... maybe a few months to a year, depending on how it goes? I'll pass on the technique, and you'll get some missions with a cut of the value and basically act as something like an apprentice to me? Details will have to depend on your affinities and the rest of the stuff that you get, though. Happy to talk more when that comes.

Yes. Security rant, please. I'm so starry-eyed about this whole situation, and I need real concerns to stay grounded on.

Ok so. 

Discord isn't exactly normally the most like paranoid suitable messaging service, but the short version is that TTT is good enough at formations and stuff for that to not be a problem? Getting you onto the server actually should protect against a wide variety of basic issues on your device, and even a bunch of analog gap attacks for spying on you, and yes there's no reason to worry about the site admins coming down on us for stuff in here. There's more to say, obviously, but that gets into cybersecurity things that I'm less an expert on. 

We can't really guarantee it against the strongest people out there - shaky at sixth realm and easy to brute force past as a Venerable, though I know that doesn't really mean anything...

And the actual divinatory protection on your end is only around Third Realm.

But really, don't worry? 

Stuff here is the safest thing that you have on offer, other then 'come other to my house', basically.

That arrangement sounds, frankly, perfect. I want to hear details, but it sounds like an excellent way to keep busy and learn bunches and still produce any value.

As for the security situation, that's frankly far less concerning than I was expecting. Though it does add an additional vote to plan "apprentice cookery".

As for the security situation, that's frankly far less concerning than I was expecting. Though it does add an additional vote to plan "apprentice cookery".

Mhm! It's good to have things already thought out for you :p

That arrangement sounds, frankly, perfect. I want to hear details, but it sounds like an excellent way to keep busy and learn bunches and still produce any value.

I'm ok with playing around with it - there's some semi-cultivated monster gardens that are a good place to go for some interesting resources and get basic combat training even if you turn out to not have a talent for the cooking or plant management? You can keep the amount of time you commit to working there low, but if you just want to spend a day a workday week doing stuff with or for me or something like that might mean alternative arrangements would have to be made? My place is already a pretty good spot to cultivate for someone starting out like you and having that be generally accessible as a job perk makes a bit less sense in that context? But normally, I'd just want to do the basics of confidentiality agreements, and have an understanding that you'd spend at least 40 hours a week doing something to make yourself useful, even if that's just cultivating and resting and eating, and that I'd get a say... 80% cut of the stuff you make for paying it off? 

Should get you through fairly quickly, if you want to go down that route.

Wow. Yeah, that sounds like a much better and faster way to get what I wanted from storm chasing, frankly — I want to travel, get swept up in the chaos of a storm, do useful things, and dare greatly. I love cooking during the quiet times, and other than that I need to be running and doing. Useful go-to options like that, cook or do a monster-garden run or cultivate when in doubt, make things a lot more straightforward for me.

Awwww~ <3

Glad I can offer help! 

Could you talk to me a bit about what you want out of your cooking skills? There's some variety there, too - even if I've kinda ended up being an all-arounder. 

Well, I love experiences — having them and creating them and sharing them. Cooking is is a way of giving myself or someone else an experience that's both intense and beneficial. I'm not sure what the axes of variance are for an Immortal Chef, but I don't think I could stay still long enough to maintain my own garden, really. So mimicking that aspect of your methods is probably out. I don't know much about the rest, though.

I have a technique for cultivating my garden in my Chakras? But that isn't the most scaleable thing, and that's a bit higher level...

There's a lot of styles and effects for cultivation to focus on? But I think that does make sense for just going for something generalizable...

Probably best to figure it out further once we know my affinities, I suppose?

Yep!

Anyways, see you soon with that test~!

She raps on her door, gently.