pawnstorm | [Open] The Mapo Tofu affair

Who: Everyone! If you can smell it, you can find it!
When: 6/8-610
Where: Hall of Glory Parlour in Caissa
What: Caren found out she can make mapo tofu and is sharing with everyone. Heaven help us all.
Rating: So far none but will change when things happen.

THe Halls of Glory smell a little different today. Instead of the usual fare that the others might know from the weekly menu, there's a different scent. Something that may remind heroes of Airy, Ma Jiang dishes, or maybe, more simply, of home.

This was the result of Caren's cooking and some hunting on her part. And the results may be quite appealing. There are pots of rice, still steaming, and various bowls filled with the result known as mapo tofu. Some of them are spicer then others, and she hasn't seen fit to label which are very spicy, and which are quite mild. The only thing she has labelled, with a rim of green around the bowls, are the vegan variations, for those who can't, or do not, eat meat or meat by products.

Consider it a game of spice roulette. Because there are other bowls as well, with crushed cucumber-hot pepper salad, spicy tofu, and something that has spewed spinach and garlicy noodles within. But hey! You may be able to cool off with one of the pots of tea around the place-or with one of the rare tubs of ice cream of various flavors, kept chilled with an icy spell.

The cutlery and bowls are disposable, and there are trashbags to clean up after yourself. She's not going to do it for you!

But hey. Who can say no to free food?

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[she may be a new hero, but rin knows a suspected carrier when she sees one. if caren was counting on her heading in for the kill, so to speak, she'll be disappointed. the snake slips out into view and rin releases her grip, stepping back cautiously in case it decides to attack her.

also, how creepy.

yeah, she might just leave. outright deserting the area is starting to sound like a very appealing idea.]

What do you intend to broadcast...? I'm a new Hero, no one will care about your gossip.

[if it can even be called gossip. rin slinks backwards and now she's distant from the counter where caren stands.]

People will think you're heartless.

[Well where else would a snake go? It's warm against her body. Also don't worry Rin, it doesn't have venom. Caren found that out early when she showed it who was head snake around here.

Much better then sloppy balls.]

I was thinking of sending out a call of help for a new resident of the halls of glory, and how she has such a tragic back story.

[Her carrier takes its time coming down to twine its way down her arm.]

She needs a lot of help, you see. Someone to guide her, a teacher, certainly...friends. Because she's helpless on her own.

[cautiously alert, rin spends her time examining the snake once she judges she's suitably cut off from the pair of freak show and her reptile friend, pulling her withdrawal to a halt.

of course, as caren continues jabbering on like a daft idiot, the tension naturally ebbs out of her. when rin glares at caren again, she's wearing that usual regal, almost irritatingly queenlike expression.]

That sounds like a whole bunch of lies you just made up on the spot. I'm not some complete pushover, and people will realize that when they meet me.

[rin tilts her head.]

Could it be that you're jealous of me? I wonder.

[Caren has to give Rin a look as if she's the not so smart one of the pair. She said all of those things because she could and if she so felt like it would make Rin's life a misery.

God, she really just wants to just slap the ego out of her.]

There's nothing to be jealous of.

[Casually, she brings up her hand, her thumb pressing against her palm.]

For example: gießen.

[And just because she can, she uses German, not Latin so she can spray water right into Rin's dumb face.]

[caren are you reality

if she's looking to catch up with dear old dad, she has more than a few improvements to make. for one, rin isn't convinced caren could shape her life like that—what? will every other hero believe her? is she secretly some sort of precious darling in the group?

rin doubts it. she should strike harder with a tohsaka. (hard enough, perhaps, that they aren't breathing anymore.) as it is, rin has more than enough time to dodge the incoming spell, cast—as she notes—in a way and with a word mimicking her style.]

Good show.

[sarcasm is thick in her voice. clap, clap. caren receives the most apathetic golf clap.]

[ Yup, she's that all right. But yes, she could try it, but the fact that she said it so much...she's not going to do it. It's kinda boring. She'd have to do some acting and explaining and yeah. Too much effort.

Though she'll take her petty victories. Seeing how Rin wasn't taking her seriously, she pretended to act like any other person would be if foiled: her eyes narrowed, her mouth thinned, and she recites the spell a second, and a third time-as if clearly intending to get Rin wet, though it's too slow by half.

No. She's making sure the floor around her feet and on her feet is wet.]

[it doesn't matter that much to rin how she reacts to her; caren may have chosen anything at this point, and rin would still stare at her, dodging spells with fluid motions that do not even appear practiced.

she could walk forward. she could approach her, again, and threaten her some more. but rin isn't liable to tempt fate when the other girl is exceedingly stronger, despite the fact her skill with magic leaves something to be desired. caren might try to ruin her life or whatever petty, stupid hoax she's planning to amuse herself, but she has no control over that. she can't let it bother her. that's the thing about being beaten down by life: you become self-confident, enough to rely on yourself and your strength.

her linked hands lead into a halfhearted wave with one of them, and she prepares to exit the kitchen.]

Oh, well. I'm done with you. Have fun with yourself.

[she's not so perceptive that she's made sure the soles of her shoes are free of water, though.]

Edited (rephrased) 2016-07-03 18:42 (UTC)

[That's fine. She thought it might happen anyway, assured that she was safe in her own mental castle, that nothing would happen. Caren doesn't plan on trying to do what she said. Not with the message; it's too messy, and not in the kind that amuses her.

It'd get Rin too much positive attention in the end, and Caren would only lose. So she'll do what she can. Little things, before she figures out how to truly tear Rin apart.

So she'll settle for what she can. Her face settles back to neutral, her hands go by her sides. And her finger, intentionally, twitches.]

Fulmen.

[The spell is murmured, but a spark arcs from her finger, directed to the water puddle closest to Rin's shoes. And from there, hopefully, someone is going to get a painful shock.]

[rin is, at least, conductive to electricity.

the spark bounds across the floor, it hits the water, and—sure enough, like the zip of an electric charge through a wire—rin is shocked. she screams, her hair frizzing up on end. miss tohsaka is slightly fried. she doesn't die, but it hurts, and when her eyes zip to caren, she knows what just happened.

she's pissed.]

You bitch—!

[She raises her hand and offers a little finger wave. Classic misdirection as she moves the finger on her hand for the spell again. Bitch? Yup.]

Fulmen.

[She murmurs the spell again for another shock. Sorry Rin. Caren is having fun.]

[well, hopefully caren is indulging in a good show, then. the second spell rocking her body almost twists her, and it's plainly apparent rin is in pain—it's etched over her features, her eyes screwed shut and her teeth biting into her bottom lip as she jerks. if she has just as much of a taste for suffering as her father, she won't be disappointed.

each shock can only last for so long, of course. now that she knows the technique of the spell and caren's mercilessness, rin is even more determined to leave... quickly. it would be childish to upend one of the pots of mapo tofu to the floor, so she just stomps out, flattening her hair down while she goes. she'll dash away into a run as soon as possible.

but one thing is unmistakable. the fiery blue eyes that bore into caren before she disappeared were full of venom, and hate.]

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