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Cecil Gershwin Palmer ([personal profile] lasthumanvoice) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-10-13 02:12 pm

[OPEN, Mingle] Yamsgiving

Who: Cecil and EVERYONE
What: Another Harvest Celebration
When: Beginning of Pumpkinfest
Where: Center of town
Warning(s): Discussion of the Gala and its attendant CWs may come up

1. Yes, we're happy as fish [Food Prep, Oak and Iron kitchen]
Cecil's made a point of seeking out the best known chefs in town to help him put everything together for this meal. While sweet potato dishes are the star, at least one available with every course, he's hoping to hit a broad variety so everyone can find something they like. He, of course, is peeling and chopping his eternal sweet potato to make sure there's enough to go around.

(Of course you don't need to worry about him with a knife! He's fine! Don't you know he was once a boy scout?)

If someone needs an extra hand for their dishes, though, he's happy to lend one. There's an attitude of camaraderie and cheer in the room, with Cecil even breaking out singing at one or two points in the evening.


2. And gorgeous as geese [The Meal; Festival Green]
Everyone's invited to the feast. That is, in fact, the whole point. Cecil's always been pointedly neutral in the town's tensions, working as the most unbiased media monkey he can. He's the Voice of Pumpkin Hollow, and that means not taking sides between Dahlia and Neil and the Temple and whoever else. But after the gala, he's made a choice to act, to try to foster goodwill and warm feelings. This isn't the stone stew he offered during January's famine, this is a Redwall-style feast.

So, between glasses of mead from Kasprak Farm and dandelion wine, everyone is invited to fill their plate with candied yams and zucchini bread, roast chicken and venison donated by one of the Enforcers. There's a homemade cranberry sauce with citrus wedges and dandelion-leaf salad with an apple cider vinaigrette and toasted acorns for garnish. There's pasta with a homemade pesto sauce and cheese. Desserts, too, are plentiful, some even flavored with...chocolate. But many are not, and feature sweet potatoes. Muffins, pies, etc.

Find a table with a friend or a stranger, and indulge. This is a warm-fuzzy type thing--feel free to use it as a mingle.


3. And wonderfully clean in the morning [Cleanup; Also Festival Green]
Cecil is, quite honestly, expecting to be the only person to stay and clean up. He's been up since about five in the morning and he's dragging a bit at this point. Oh, he did take the time to eat, so he's not starving, but like. He could use help putting the Green back to rights.


4. We've got everything, we're growing everything [Cecil Wildcards]
[You know how to find me to plot.]
impostor_syndrome: The head and shoulders of an old-fashioned diving suit tinted purple (humanoid | diving suit)

[personal profile] impostor_syndrome 2024-10-24 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Never know when you might have a pressing last-minute engagement at the bottom of the ocean." It's an old-fashioned diving suit, but that's the closest thing to any of those that the island's technology had to offer.

Not that the festival green is anywhere near the shore.
nothingbadeverhappensto: (huh)

[personal profile] nothingbadeverhappensto 2024-10-25 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Leon thinks about that response for a second or two before shrugging. "You know what, that's fair."

The island could flood again! You never know. He doesn't want it to, but it could happen.

"I'm Leon, by the way. Leon Kennedy. You new here?" He's pretty sure he saw this person at the gala, unless there's two people wandering around in diving helmets all the time - which is possible but not likely by his estimation. Before that, though, he's pretty sure he didn't notice anyone doing that.
impostor_syndrome: The head and shoulders of an old-fashioned diving suit tinted purple (humanoid | diving suit)

[personal profile] impostor_syndrome 2024-10-28 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Just call me Purple, it'll save you time." They eat a piece of katsudon. "I got here around a month ago. Maybe a little more? Right before the demons crashed the big fancy party. How about you?"
nothingbadeverhappensto: (chain)

[personal profile] nothingbadeverhappensto 2024-10-28 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, that's easy to remember," says Leon. "I showed up here in February, but kind of disappeared off the island and out of time for the whole summer?"

Which is still confusing, but sure, not much he can do about it now.

"So I've been trying to catch up on who's new around here and get my bearings again. So with that in mind - how are you settling in? You need anything?"
impostor_syndrome: Passport/ID style photo depicting the bottom half of an upside-down purple Among Us bean-person (bean | handstand)

merry backtagmas

[personal profile] impostor_syndrome 2024-12-29 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've had summers like that," they flippantly remark, not sure if he's being metaphorical or literal. It sounds kind of similar to how they left and came back after their day at the cucumber festival, except when they left the allegedly unleaveable island of dead people they just went back to their universe and got in more trouble. They didn't disappear out of time.

"I'm not doing too badly. I've got a job, I live in a house, some weird but friendly creatures seem to have decided they want to live there too. A big slimy anchor and an energetically haunted rock." They've yet to acquire their full menagerie of Pokémon.