[MINGLE] Crab Boil

[markwatney]

WHO: Mark Watney
WHERE: 6I Inn front lawn
WHEN: 21 June 2018, afternoon/evening and onward
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
NOTES: A few thinsgs: You may assume your character helped set up; There are tubers in pot with the red salt, negating the warmth effect; The list of of potluck dishes is here; The list of local provisions is here

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The weather is great, the sun is starting to dip toward the horizon, and it's pleasantly mild. Time for an (extremely) old-fashioned low country boil.

We've got two small fire pits built out in front of the inn, each with a massive pot filled with loads of vegetables — corn, carrots, potatoes, onions — and of course the rainbow crabs Finnick and Annie discovered not long after we arrived here. We've even got salt, if you can believe it, although the red salt in this place is pretty spicy and usually makes me sweat, so I've only put it in the one pot, and then set a bowl of it out for garnishing.

Tables and chairs have been brought out from inside, a couple of them set aside specifically for piles of plates, bowls, cups and whatever potluck provisions the rest of the village brings.

Comments

[burn_with_us]

Katniss narrows her eyes a bit, annoyed, but she does stay by his side. It's nice to be annoyed about something perfectly normal about whether or not she's capable of stringing a fiddle than to be arguing about life or death things; have she and Peeta ever had such a luxury?

"Fine. But I'm not giving up on it," Katniss says. "I'm going to eventually have a way for us to have music the way we're used to here. Even if you don't think I can build my own fiddle."

[notbadcakeboss]

He grinned at her response, amused by her usual sour personality. Whenever anyone seemed to tell her "no", she went and did the opposite. "If you manage to make it sound good, you can enjoy telling me 'I told you so.'" She could do a number of things, but he didn't think either of them would make a good fiddle.

"I know that you'll enjoy that." He gave her a small nudge, trying to coax a smile from her. "I'll even try and make you your favorite bread. The one with the cheese on top?"

[burn_with_us]

"Are you saying you won't make me cheese buns if I don't make a fiddle? Because I think that's a pretty unfair thing to hold over my head." To Katniss, food is food for the most part but there's two things she lives for and that's lamb stew and cheese buns. The latter remind her of 12 and of wholesome things, things untouched by the Capitol. She wants to have them here, if she can.

"Maybe if we were talking about a dozen of them or something but you can't deny me the occasional cheese bun just because I haven't crafted a fiddle."

[notbadcakeboss]

"Well, there's a chance I won't be able to really make them here. The ingredients won't be the same." But it would still be better than the standard issued bread they got in their district. "But you know I'd make you cheese buns whether you can make the fiddle or not. I haven't been able to say 'no' to you yet." She always had a way with him.

"You're the one determined to make a fiddle. Think of it as incentive."

[burn_with_us]

Katniss huffs a little. "I know I can make one but I have no idea if anyone here knows how to play one so we probably can't even test if it sounds right."

Anything Katniss would play would sound horrible by default. "I guess we have nothing but time to learn, though. I never did develop a Victor talent."

[notbadcakeboss]

"The talent is just an excuse for them to keep probing into our lives." He shrugged it off, knowing that his had been a bit more easy to grow and share than hers had been. "Too bad you didn't think about gardening as a talent."

She knew plants better than anyone.

[burn_with_us]

"A little too close to home," Katniss says. "I didn't want them to have anything that really mattered."

And letting Cinna give her his talent meant he had a chance to do things under the Capitol's nose. Now, though, Cinna's gone and Katniss has nothing to remember him by.

"The things that matter are the ones I share with you."