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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.]
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[personal profile] imjustaman 2024-10-16 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"How inane," Sephiroth frowns. "He doesn't really care about money then."
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[personal profile] imjustaman 2024-10-16 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"I wouldn't either," Sephiroth remarks. If he was still out of his mind, he would likely challenge such a person, arrogantly believing he would triumph. But he is sane and more cautious about such an encounter when he knows next to nothing about the person.

"How does he even acquire items from home?" he wonders. He must be a powerful sorcerer.
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[personal profile] imjustaman 2024-10-16 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"How disturbing. And he isn't breaking any actual laws, I suppose, so he can't be arrested or put out of business." Some people likely wouldn't want him to be.
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[personal profile] imjustaman 2024-10-16 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"It sounds like it." Sephiroth frowns in annoyance. He plans to join the enforcers, but it's irritating to learn he'll likely have to leave that person roaming free.

"Is there anything else like that I should be aware of here?"
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[personal profile] imjustaman 2024-10-17 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"It sounds like a nightmare," Sephiroth agrees. "But the people seem to have done well at making something good from it."