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Post by Sierra on Nov 7, 2013 21:44:59 GMT
Naia looked down at the invitation she had received.
It read,
'Dear all, Come and join me for a traditional Earthen Thanksgiving dinner. You all know where to find me in HQ. It's tradition to bring something nice for the meal. I have turkeys, so don't worry about that. See you soon! Meyla'
Naia had spent the afternoon trying to decide what to take with her. Eventually she had settled on a dish she had fallen in love with on Earth. Potato Dauphinoise. A dish consisting of sliced potatoes in cream and garlic. She just hoped that Meyla liked it.
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After her trip to Christmas Town Meyla had become obsessed with the Earthen holidays. So much that she had decided to celebrate them herself, and drag her friends along for the ride. She had researched the holiday of Thanksgiving, which started in America, and decided that she would hold her own Thanksgiving dinner. Meyla had asked some of the staff at HQ for a couple of turkeys for her dinner, and was heading over to the portal room to await her delivery.
Meyla walked into the portal room and sat down to wait, though not long after she arrived, than the portal opened up and she could hear the strangest noise coming through. It sounded like a cross between a cockerel and something saying 'gobble'. Suddenly as the staff members came through, Meyla groaned. "What am I supposed to do with those?" she exclaimed. "You asked for them!" the woman replied, whilst the man just stood there, struggling to keep his turkey in his hands. "But they're alive!" Meyla cried as she took a step forwards. The woman sighed, "Well that's your problem, you didn't specify. Where do you want them?" Meyla grimaced and beckoned the pair to follow her, "To the kitchens I suppose."
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Post by Echo on Nov 8, 2013 14:02:32 GMT
Katara looked sceptically at her invitation. What had Meyla gotten her into now? Plus she had to bring something? What did that mean? Why in the worlds was Meyla so obsessed with Earth holidays? Earth wasn't even that interesting. Katara sighed. Maybe if everyone else brought food she wouldn't have to. But she couldn't turn up empty handed. She sat in her lab, pondering her predicament.
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Xani was excited. After that whole Christmas thing she'd been hoping for another holiday-related quest, but holiday-related dinner with friends was just as good. She wondered if Meyla would have cranberry sauce for the turkeys, she'd done some research and apparently this particular meal was incomplete without it, though she had no idea what it was. What was she going to bring? Meyla had said it was traditional to bring something. Some further research produced some interesting ideas.
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Post by Sierra on Nov 9, 2013 10:41:00 GMT
Meyla followed the pair to the kitchens as they led down the live turkeys. She sighed heavily and thought to herself, 'What am I supposed to with live turkeys?'
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Post by Echo on Nov 10, 2013 1:00:40 GMT
Katara sat amidst heaps of scrap she had pulled together on her workbench, a picture of people dressed in strange outfits surrounded by turkeys and pumpkins pinned to the board ib front of her. The heading on the picture read 'The Pilgrims and the Native Americans share the first Thanksgiving meal'. Katara had no real idea what that meant, but by Gods she was going to build the damn thing if it killed her. Well, maybe not if it killed her, but tradition said there had to be a centerpiece on the table and as she couldn't cook to save her life (with the exception of roasting raw meat on an open fire) she'd decided it would be best to stick to building something.
Meanwhile, Xani was feeling ambitious. She'd decided on some traditional vegetables, which would be simple enough, and a pumpkin pie for desert, which she would later discover was a lot trickier than she'd initially thought.
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Post by Sierra on Nov 11, 2013 20:43:00 GMT
When Naia made it to Meyla's rooms at HQ she found a very stressed out Meyla. Her hair was a mess and she was out of breath muttering to herself. "Those Gods damned turkeys." Meyla muttered, "I'd be better off getting my arrows."
"Hi Meyla," Naia said happily as she crossed the other woman's path. Meyla jumped back shocked as she saw Naia. "You're early!" Meyla replied, looking behind her for the turkeys. Her Tiger-ears pricked as she heard a quiet 'gobble' from down the hall.
"I brought potatoes." Naia smiled as she offered Meyla the dish. Meyla thanked Naia but smiled and ran off calling, "I'll be back in a minute..."
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Post by Echo on Nov 12, 2013 3:36:06 GMT
Elbow-deep in pumpkin, Xani was not happy. It was an interesting experience, no doubt about that, but it was messier than she'd have liked, and this stuff was just so bright! Bright orange couldn't possibly be its natural colour, could it? It seemed so unlikely...
Katara threw a pile of junk that had, until a moment ago, been some kind of warped bird-man-thing over her shoulder onto the steadily growing pile of discarded attempts in the corner of the room. Visualising and actually creating were two completely different things when she had to copy something, and it was getting frustrating.
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Post by Sierra on Nov 12, 2013 14:45:20 GMT
Naia watched the white-haired woman run away after something unseen. 'What could she be after?' Naia wondered to herself as she took her dish to the kitchen.
Meyla stopped and listened carefully for the sound of turkeys. She couldn't hear anything other than the footsteps of Naia headed to the kitchen. The two who had brought her the turkeys had left them in the kitchen and then disappeared, quite literally dissipating in front of her. As soon as they had gone, the turkeys had run off, causing Meyla to run around trying to find them. "Where are they?" she muttered to herself, before spying a glimpse of a tail feather being shaken just inside a near-by doorway. "Got you," she whispered as she stealthily made her way towards it.
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Post by Echo on Nov 13, 2013 2:21:37 GMT
Success! The first Pilgrim had a hat! One down, only what felt like a thousand to go...
Pumpkin pie was hard. At least the vegetables had been relatively easy, they'd just need heating up again later.
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Post by Sierra on Nov 13, 2013 18:01:00 GMT
Meyla jumped... and missed once more. The turkey ran from her, it almost seemed to be laughing at her as she looked up at it, slightly bedraggled.
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Post by Echo on Nov 13, 2013 19:04:51 GMT
Xani decided she could finish the cooking at Meyla's. She packed up her vegetables and pumpkin pie ingredients and left her rooms.
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