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.
Oh! Boring food did that sometimes too. It's more interesting when non-boring food does it.
The food does that, and also picks up a rectangle and aims it at a square, and - poof! the square lights up! and after a little confusion about what color its lights should be... it makes goodsounds!
:D! These goodsounds are definitely better than the ones the food made even though the food goodsounds are also good. But these ones are just so much more complicated, with so much more good per sound!
Goodsounds Via Square will continue with some blips into less good sounds here and there for the next hour.
The mediocresounds are fine it supposes but it's really delighted when the goodsounds come back so soon; that's almost as surprising as the square causing them in the first place. And then that cycle happens several times in a pattern?? How mysterious.
Eventually at a mediocresound interval the square goes dark and the food starts putting water and a non-water substance on the dishes and rubbing them with a squishy holey thing.
It kind of really wants to poke the squishy holey thing but because it is very smart it will wait until the food is interacting with something else.
Are there any other things around that look interesting to poke?
There is a dishtowel, and fridge magnets, and curtains, and a knitting basket. When the food is done with the dishes it moves to the knitting basket.
The knitting basket is definitely the most interesting of those but it doesn't really notice it until the food pays it attention, so that disqualifies it for pokehood. But now the sponge is free - oh! It's just as squishy as it looked! The sponge can come along with it to be squish-squish-squished as it goes to observe what the food does with the knitting basket.
The food starts knitting, enough to make it tantalizingly clear what knitting is fundamentally about... and then notices the floating sponge, squishing itself, and screams.
It was NOT nibbling goodfood AT ALL so clearly this must be about something else. It looks around to see if there's an obvious source to this behavior, spinning in place to check behind itself.
The food drops the knitting and bolts out of the house.
Oh, time to leave it guesses? Where are they going? Hopefully somewhere interesting.
(Another interesting thing is that even though it has Solved the Mystery of the sponge (it looked squishy, and: it's squishy), said sponge is still quite pleasing to squeeze. Squish squoosh fly fly follow follow.)
It's starting to get dark, but there's enough ambient light to notice a floating sponge, and a few passersby also scream and flee as it approaches.
It cares about them much less than goodfood. Follow follow follow follow.
The goodfood runs to another house and bangs on the door! A different food opens the door. They make mediocresounds.
Inside food spots the sponge and yelps, then grabs a small stone hedgehog from the doorstep and throws it hard at the sponge's vicinity.
Thonk! Why this. Truly does its life now contain both great joy and great turmoil.
(The foods see the hedgehog hit something and fall not quite straight down.)
The goodsoundsfood squirms into the house past the the throwing food and the throwing food, invigorated somehow by this result, continues throwing everything in reach. Umbrella, boots one after the other, a telephone book.
Well, once it knows what's coming it can try and dodge worsefood's projectiles. >:(
It'll try dodging into the house, how about; goodfood is in there and has never caused it to be bonked or clonked or thonked or onked of any kind.
When the sponge starts getting closer to the door the worsefood picks up a broom and starts thwacking wildly through the space around it.
The broom did successfully connect, though, so the worsefood will keep swinging.
See, this is why it doesn't like foods touching it. It tries to grab the broom or push it away or otherwise prevent worsefood from hitting it, kind of flailily.
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