So, the food here is good, but mostly in that it's stable and available and that very very occasionally someone gets a full meal. It's not, like, actually very particularly yummy. There's the food-food, which are basically always boring in nearly the same ways, and then there's the food that you're only supposed to nibble the teeeeeniest bit on, which are more interesting in general but still get pretty old after a while.
It's time to see what else is out there.
The food makes some mediocresounds.
More foods come into the kitchen.
They kind of surround it.
. . . Some of them are smaller, does it have enough clearance drift out over those ones' heads?
The ceilling isn't that high.
The first food, still making some mediocresounds, is slowly extending a hand forward.
It leeeeeeeans back and presses against the wall or the cupboards or whatever's behind it.
This will prevent it from being touched... for now!
They are all standing around making mediocresounds.
At least it has Sponge to comfort it in this trying time.
(The sponge rebecomes food-visible.)
The sounds abruptly become louder and higher pitched when the sponge reappears!
Foods are so mysterious (derogatory).
The sponge appears to contract and rerectangularprismize itself along finger-shaped indents.
Okay, now a food has grabbed a red cylinder and is doing things to it and is going to SPRAY WHITE POWDER ALL OVER IT.
It is dronked! - Drenched. Nearly all of the bits of white stuff invisiblize themselves on contact; a silhouette of something figureish is left on the wall behind.
They scream! They start tripping over each other to exit the apartment! The one holding the red cylinder throws the red cylinder at it!
Now THAT is a clonk for sure :( :(
The foods are well gone by the time it reorients. It will . . . poke at the ritual objects and see if that yields any revelations? All while holding sponge, of course.
The ritual objects are fairly inert. They're very light.
Oh, and it can get the this-objects to make the same clattering noises that the foods did if it drops them, that's nice. It plays around with that for a bit, as well as dropping the sponge in the same way, which turns out not to clatter. . . . Can the this-objects go in its mouth yes they can. They kind of clatter in there, too! It spits them out.
. . . Can it - no. No, it just got this sponge and it is not going to be very adventurous about it. If it finds another sponge maybe that one can go in its mouth.
Hm, are any of the smells-objects around still? What's up with those.
There are jars of spices left on the counter, and one of the small foods did not consume all of its lumps and there are still a few optimistically left behind on a plate on the table.
It'll poke and press at the lumps for a bit and then try putting one in its mouth.
To the tastebuds it was intended for, it's cheesy and garlicky and starchy!
Oh huh, kind of like smells but more. It spits them back out with somewhat more difficulty than the this-objects.
What about that red cylinder?
It is empty now and hollow; it makes a noise when tapped.
Huh!
Well, it has learned patience and there's plenty of poking and sponge-squishing and vocal training to be done here. Do the foods come back within the next while?
Nope.
This works fine. Across the hall, a food carrying a bag startles and drops the bag upon seeing the door open for no apparent reason.
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