New Plan, Step One: Provide For My Community [open]

[summerdude]

Magnus needs something to change, so when a Mansion calendar helpfully informs him that it's International Falafel Day back on Earth, he goes to the library for some cookbooks, and then to the kitchen.

He lays out ten different falafel recipes. He gathers the ingredients they list, as best as he can understand them. He has canned chickpeas and fresh chickpeas and dried chickpeas and chickpea flour and box mixes of falafel that say 'just add water!'

Cripes.

"I can do this," he says, peering at the assorted recipes intently for a good ten minutes, and then takes the dried chickpeas over to the sink to rinse and soak.

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[lanselos_du_lac]

"Did it say how long? Perhaps there is a cookbook here that will tell us."

[summerdude]

There are like ten different cookbooks laid out around the kitchen. Magnus picks one at random and starts leafing through it, frowning.

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot takes up another book, leafing through as well. As he does, he says, "What about the other sorts of-- beans?"

[summerdude]

"It says to rinse them when you get them out of a can," Magnus says, of the cookbook he's looking at. "But falafel should come from dried."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Why?" He doesn't necessarily expect Magnus to know the answer, he's sort of pondering out loud.

[summerdude]

Magnus shrugs. "Heck if I know. I would ask Amir if I could phone home, but..."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"If we heat them... in the water. Would they soften more?"

Magnus, please know that Lancelot has very little idea what he's doing, and his "cooking" has typically consisted of: chopping things; fetching things; following specific instructions of someone who does know what they're doing.

[summerdude]

"Yeah..." says Magnus, thoughtfully. "It says they shouldn't be cooked but maybe a little extra help wouldn't hurt?" He jabs some summer at the chickpeas in the processor.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"It isn't really cooking them if they're just... warm."

[summerdude]

"You think?" Magnus assumes Lancelot has more experience cooking than he does.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Doesn't cooking need things to be hot? Hotter?"

[summerdude]

Magnus squints at the food processor bowl. "I'm pretty sure one of Aegir's daughters is a raw vegan," he says, thoughtfully. "So she'd definitely know. But I don't think I'd ask her even if I could. They all want to kill me, you know. That whole family."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Why would they want you dead?" Sure, Magnus can be A Lot. But he is a good person.

[summerdude]

"Oh. Ran -- Aegir's wife -- has a price on my head."

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot gives a surprised half-laugh, "What? Why?"

[summerdude]

"Ummmmmm," says Magnus, shooting more chickpeas with little flares of summer. "So you know how sometimes a guy just, like, threatens a goddess and her entire livelihood to get his sword back?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Errr, no."

[summerdude]

"What," giving Lancelot a shit-eating grin. "You mean that's not a classic universal experience?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"No," with a little roll of his eyes.

[summerdude]

"There was this whole thing," Magnus explains then. "Like, I dropped my sword when I died, and he went down the river into the ocean, and Ran is, like, a hoarder of all trash she can find in the ocean, so it got caught in her net. And I needed him back to keep Surt from getting him and starting Ragnarok. So I threatened everything she'd collected cuz I said I could call Jack and he'd cut through every bit of her net that he went past. Also she hates my grandpappy," he adds, thoughtfully. "So that didn't help. But it was, like, not the most auspicious first god to meet."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I have had many experiences," Lancelot says, "but have never had to threaten a goddess. So-- you have me there."

[summerdude]

"My general advice is don't," Magnus says. "Those guys can hold grudges forever. The only reason I can get near the ocean is sometimes my grandpappy is the god watching out, instead of Ran and Aegir and their daughters."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I would say I don't intend to, but," he puts on a faux-thoughtfulness, "there are more gods here than I have ever encountered before."

[summerdude]

"Uncle D is okay, for a god," Magnus says, thoughtfully. "But mostly my advice is to steer clear of 'em entirely."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Dionysus?"