Open | RIP Sebastian + catch all

[singlelogbridge]

CHARACTERS: Wei Wuxian, a giant dead crab, and you!
LOCATION: The kitchen/mess hall
DATE: September 17th
CONTENT: Eating crabs
WARNINGS: None at the moment



A

[The day after their return from Xrisora, Wei Wuxian can be found having taken over one of the stoves in the kitchen. Lying on the counter next to him are two crab legs—that is, two giant crab legs from a Titan Crab. How did he get them here? It is a mystery. Anyway, he’s taken over a part of the kitchen with his crab shenanigans and is slowly but surely beginning to cook one of the legs up. After a while, he makes the executive decision to freeze a leg and a half because there is absolutely no way they’ll be able to eat all of it.

Anyway, he is cooking so much crab.

At some point he is absolutely burning some of the crab. Maybe someone can supervise? Please come save the crab.]

B

[Somehow, most of the crab gets cooked without being burned or ruined in some other way, which means it is time to season it! Do you like your crab spicy? Obviously you do, why wouldn’t you? Who doesn’t like spice? Only crazy people, that’s who!

Thankfully, Wei Wuxian is friends with Itachi which means he’s aware that some people on the station can’t handle spice. This means that most of the crab is boring and only has some melted butter on it, and absolutely zero eye searing red flakes and spices.

Everyone should help themselves to crab. Their options are terrible, boring, (perfectly fine) normal crab, or delicious, stunning, wonderful (hope you didn’t need your tastebuds or your esophagus!) spicy crab.]

C
[And at some point, a text across the network.]

I’m making crab!

[That’s it, that’s the text, he doesn’t have time for this network nonsense, his pan is on fire!]

D

[Wildcard it! Crab related or other!]

Comments

[singlelogbridge]

[Sensing her desire to move on, and feeling the pleasant buzz of alcohol starting to numb some of the darker feelings that had started to creep in at his words moments before, he smiles and follows along, happy to move into safer waters.]

Weather magic! Now that sounds interesting and I'm sure very difficult!

[bindsthedead]

It's music- you have to be able to whistle to do it, and calling up a single wind is easy enough but-

[Sabriel gestures vaguely, and nearly spills some wine in the process.]

You can't make something from nothing and everything's connected. So if you try to make one thin happen, you can set off a chain reaction. Try to clear some clouds away and end up summoning a windstorm, that sort of thing. Or all the clouds clump up in the same place and you get a thunderstorm a few dozen leagues away from where you wanted to make clear skies.

[singlelogbridge]

[He nods at that, fascinated by it all.]

Mmmhmm. It sounds tricky. I bet it could go very poorly very easily. [Cause a drought or flood even.

And then] I can whistle! [He then proceeds to whistle a tune just to show her. Definitely feeling that buzz now.]

When I first started controlling resentful energy, that was all I had before I carved Chenqing from the rotted bamboo trees—that was my first flute. Before that I used whistling alone.

[bindsthedead]

[And because Sabriel has just enough of a buzz to not consider how things could go wrong- she whistles too. And a glowing mark slips from her pursed lips as she does so, as a strong breeze rushes into the room- not enough to tip anything over, but plates and silverware rattle.]

Really? Father brought panpipes for me to practice with, before he let me handle the bells. But... I got to study normal music in school. And Elli- my friends would sneak records in.

[singlelogbridge]

[His eyes widen in wonder at the glow and he follows it with his eyes, laughing quietly at the breeze.]

Sneak? Was music not allowed? [His eyes return to hers wide with curiosity.] Was it really strict?

[bindsthedead]

Well, not modern music. Not suitable for young ladies of quality, you see.

[Which of course, just made it even more tempting to listen to that music, and to sneak out to the cinema to see films at the cinema. Stern lectures only made so much progress against inventive girls who'd learned enough magic to both open and relock the padlocks the school kept on the doors.]

Well. There were rules, and you got in trouble for breaking them. But we found ways around the ones that weren't important.

[singlelogbridge]

Rules! [he yells, way too loud.] Sabriel, a girl after my own heart! Do you know I once lived in a place with three thousand rules?

[He throws his head back and laughs.] I broke so many of them! I never pictured you as a rule breaker! Tell me, tell me all about the ones you broke. Did they have rules about eating and sleeping? The Cloud Recesses was so strict! That's where they had the three thousand rules. It was awful!