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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 20, 2021 15:04:12 GMT -5
Time is now up for the first task. Here are the entries we have recieved. First up we have Kit's tits kick ticksPoisonless Breakfast by Anka
Part 1 - Oats with chia seeds, cinnamon, oat milk and homemade blueberry compote (I admit that the compote is homemade by someone else in their home, not me)
Part 2 - lightly toasted seeded sourdough bread and some yellow pepper
Part 2.2 - an apple
Part 3 - Tomato omelette (or tomelette if you are in that much of a hurry) with cheese and basil
I also recommend tea with your healthy breakfast. You don't need a picture of tea, you know what tea looks like.
R. has not contributed an entry to this task. Resemblance is next Violent BUN Fortuna, in our alphabetical list, with the last entry. Dear Taskmaster, I am pleased to present you with evidence of my breakfast. I may have played it slightly fast and loose with the term 'healthy', but I think it certainly fulfills the stipulation to be diverse. I began with grand intentions of healthiness, and went to gather grapes from my local branch of the Vineyard of Fragrant Drapes (see Figures 1 & 2 for evidence). Figure 1: Grapes spotted. Figure 2: Grapes acquired. After this, things became increasingly interesting, if not increasingly healthy. I made a chocolate milkshake using skinny oat milk (which tastes pretty much just like full fat oat milk but is much yellower) and hot chocolate powder. This was supposed to be the sum total of my breakfast, but then I was persuaded to have a slice of a raspberry jam tart which I had made the night beforehand, because if I didn't have it this morning I might not be able to have any until tomorrow. And it did all look very pretty together on the plate. So. Thus concludes my breakfast. It may not have been the healthiest meal in the end (unless one is taking healthy to mean 'hearty' rather than 'good for one's health'), but frankly, so long as none of it has been poisoned it's already leagues healthier than it could have been. Over and out, Bun I will now assess and judge these efforts. You will learn what the reward of your efforts is shortly.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 20, 2021 15:19:42 GMT -5
R. receives 0 points for 0 effort. Hopefully this won't be repeated again Resemblance has provided a decent meal, with an interesting mixture to of tastes to tease the pallet, but as it doesn't seem to be very diverse he only gains himself 2 points Kit's tits kick ticks definitely seems to have made a healthy and diverse meal, so 3 points. Violent BUN Fortuna has, however, managed to create meal that is both diverse and healthy (chocolate is healthy, right?), but mostly the best presented and prettiest looking of the bunch. 5 points. LeaderboardRoxy - 0 points Semblance - 2 points Anka - 3 points Violetbunfortunate - 5 points The next task will begin in 40 minutes.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 20, 2021 15:37:21 GMT -5
Oh gosh I wonder who made the blueberry compote.
(Congrats, Violet.)
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 20, 2021 15:40:02 GMT -5
I'm glad I didn't participate. My breakfast would be a picture of nothing. (Would you consider intermittent fasting healthy?)
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 20, 2021 15:46:32 GMT -5
Technically you would not have had to have eaten the breakfast, Jean, so you could have imagined yourself a delicious healthy meal and then not eaten it.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Sept 20, 2021 15:52:38 GMT -5
Thank you! I’d like to thank my breakfast for winning round one for me, truly couldn’t have done it alone.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 20, 2021 16:00:01 GMT -5
TASK # 2
In honour of Jean Lucio....not...taking part, I have decided that you should take part in something of which he likes to partake.
Create the most convoluted and outlandish theory about Lemony Snicket and/or his works.
Most interesting theory wins.
You have 24 hours to PM your theories.
Your time starts.......NOW.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 20, 2021 16:38:53 GMT -5
Thank you for that! It's been a while since I've read an interesting new theory... It'll be fun to read them.
I like theories that are created from sentences in the text and those from what the text can infer... Something that can be deduced between the lines... But, better than that, I think a good theory is one that can generate a good Fanfic.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 20, 2021 16:56:10 GMT -5
I see I will have to make much use of my Dante hat in the near future.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 21, 2021 15:55:19 GMT -5
Here are the entries for Task #2 I believe that Lemony Snicket disguises himself as characters, thought out the whole series. Some events have such detail, that could only be known if Lemony Snicket were there himself, and what if he was? He knew what Klaus poured on the wheels in TSS, I also wouldn't be surprised if he wrote about what way the wind blew, the amount of sips a Baudelaire took from a specific tea set, and which brand of silver ware they used to stir the tea, on a specific Sunday before Sunny was born. But how could he disguise himself as someone, when only Klaus and Violet were in the caravan? Obviously he disguised himself as Klaus, in fact, he could've been any of the Baudelaires, or even Count Olaf at some point. If the taxi driver in TPP is Lemony Snicket, the reason the Baudelaires thought they heard his voice was because they heard it from so many different people. What happened with the Hotel Denouement fire? We know that the MWBBNH and the WWHBNB had stolen the eagles from the firefighting side of VFD. But I found it unusual how the eagles were so uncommonly strong, to the point of carrying the two adults and an entire swarm of children with ease. VFD has been known to experiment with strange and futuristic technology, often inspired by animals, such as the Carmelita submarine. We also know from the cow disguises that VFD are capable of making things look realistically like animals. The eagles can be controlled by the whistle, and interestingly enough seem obedient to whoever is using it, unlike most trained animals who normally respond primarily to their trainer and could also spot an enemy. Therefore, it is strange that they immediately stopped their alliance to VFD when they were stolen. From all this, I have concluded that the eagles are actually robots made of some kind of metal, perhaps argon, for the purpose of transportation of both members and kidnapped “recruits”, as well as putting out fires from the air. When the MWBBNH and the WWHBNB summoned the “eagles” to escape from the fire, their programming responded to the smoke and they put out the blaze, saving everyone inside the hotel. OK so I’m going to preface this by saying that creating convoluted and outlandish theories is not my forte so … this will not bear up to ANY scrutiny; its sole purpose is to be somewhat ridiculous. My theory is this: ASOUE is not really about the Baudelaires at all. It’s about cooking. Lemony is actually a member of a secret organisation of chefs, and ASOUE is not really an account of the Baudelaires lives, but a series of coded documents detailing his attempts to track down the perfect horseradish sauce recipe. The Baudelaires simply happened to be involved in his search because VFD had themselves stolen the recipe he was hunting for in order to guard against the Medusoid Mycelium, and his mission to track it down ended up being closely involved with their own unhappy tale. Throughout ASOUE & ATWQ, and of course PFB, we see a great deal of emphasis placed on the culinary arts, and indeed a number of complete recipes are described to us. In an account which is purportedly documenting the lives of three very unfortunate children, it seems strange to place such emphasis on details which ultimately bear very little importance to the Baudelaires’ fate. Yet again and again Lemony goes into great detail when describing food. The reason is simple: he is speaking in code to his fellow chefs. It makes perfect sense to speak in such a manner; if he were in a secret society of chemists, he might make reference to elements such as nitrogen, argon, krypton, or gallium. If he were in a secret society of botanists, he might include references to daisies, flowering currants, poison ivy, and any number of other plants. He even makes a direct allusion to his own culinary code in The Grim Grotto (probably to throw suspicious parties off the scent), though of course he pretends it is the invention of the Baudelaires & Fiona. His obvious disdain for restaurants such as The Anxious Clown and the Café Salmonella speaks of a man embroiled in a bitter culinary war, one stretching back through many generations of chefs and sous-chefs, waiters and devious restaurant managers. And the source of that war, that kitchen-based schism? Horseradish. As the series progresses, Lemony’s desperation to discover a long-lost recipe for horseradish sauce becomes obvious: he can barely speak of anything else by the end of The End. And indeed, he must have found it (most likely concealed inside the sugar bowl, which he carried away in his taxi, weeping at the culmination of decades of effort), and The End was simply a coded message to the allied chefs of his organisation to let them know that the recipe was safe in his possession. He didn’t end the series because he couldn’t find out what exactly happened to the Baudelaires next; he ended it simply because he had no need to continue. He’d got his sauce recipe and was free to live an uninterrupted life of cooking (as seen by the relative peacefulness of his existence in PFB). I don't normally do theories, but I have a strong suspicion that Lemony Snicket did not actually eat poison for breakfast and is in fact still alive. One reason for this is that Poison for Breakfast is a book with over 150 pages. I have not read the whole book yet (don't look at me like that, I'm a busy adult with a job to do, a wedding to plan and a lawn to mow), but I have read the start of it, and it is very clear that at the start of writing Lemony Snicket would already have to have eaten the poison. I'm not a writer, but I'm sure it would take longer to write 150 pages of a book than for the poison to kill a person. And then you still have to get it published and all, but I guess that could be done by other people so that's not as much of a point. More importantly I believe that Mr. Snicket did not even eat any breakfast on that particular morning! Instead he had brunch. My colleague's sister's great-aunt's neighbour's friend saw him the day before and watched him buy enough flour to bake three loaves of bread, butter which can easily be put in little bowls, some jam, and chocolate which is particularly good for melting. He also purchased some pastries, including muffins, donuts and custard eclairs and vegetables to make quiche. I also heard some rumours that he asked his neighbour if he could borrow a tin for the quiche, because he only had one and he needed two. He also bought some smoked fish to put on a large platter, and fruit in the most suitable shapes to make a pyramid of, and three different kinds of juice. He did not buy coffee or tea, but if you know him you are aware that he normally always has those at home anyway. There is nothing you can do with all these ingredients except brunch. Judgement will shortly follow
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 21, 2021 15:58:53 GMT -5
TASK #3
In a confusing turn of events, Task three begins before task 2 is even finished. But that's because they have much in common.
Each contestant has been given a secret word to include in their theories. You must now find and locate the other three contestants hidden words.
You will receive 1 point for each word you correctly guess, and 5 points if nobody correctly guesses your own word.
You may only make 1 guess for each contestants word.
You have 24 hours to PM your guesses.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 21, 2021 16:08:05 GMT -5
My Judgement on Task 2; Violent BUN Fortuna 's theory is good, and probably the most interesting, but ultimately I find it to be the least convoluted of the four; 1 point Kit's tits kick ticks Again has a very interesting theory, but the definition between breakfast and brunch is hazy is enough that to confuse the two is not really convoluted; 2 points Resemblance has a solid idea behind the theory, but I felt like it could have been taken even further. Perhaps Lemony was *everybody* in the series. Now that would be outlandish. Also, I'm pretty sure that Lemony had thought out the whole series. 3 points R. has kept it simple and created a solid, interesting, convoluted, and outlandish idea. 5 points. Leaderboard UpdateAnka - 5 points Roxy - 5 points Semblance - 5 points Violetbunfortunate - 6 points
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Sept 21, 2021 17:23:22 GMT -5
Congrats Roxy! I have fallen so far, so fast. *Dramatic sigh*
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 21, 2021 17:24:16 GMT -5
How happy I am to read all this... I can say that from now on all VFD animals will look robotic to me... Maybe not bats. But that explains some peculiar behaviors. And it even explains what would be the use of fiber optic cables in the ASOUE universe.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Sept 22, 2021 9:19:00 GMT -5
Posting just to say that this game is absolutely brilliant in every way.
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