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.

Comments

[lanselos_du_lac]

With a very serious, though somehow still joking, air, Lancelot says, "Explain Boston."

[summerdude]

"Oh, it's the center of the universe," says Magnus, promptly.

[lanselos_du_lac]

Dryly, "That cannot be true. All eyes look to Camelot. Or Rome."

[summerdude]

"I dunno what to tell you, dude. The World Tree grows right up through Boston." Magnus pauses, sighs heavily, and allows, "Maybe in your time it hadn't migrated there yet. There has to be some reason the Norse started out in Norway."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"It is in America, is it not?"

[summerdude]

"Yep. East coast. That's the side closer to England." Magnus squints at Lancelot. "You know about the way the earth is round, right?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Yes. I read."

[summerdude]

If Magnus looks disappointed, it's only because he wanted to throw Lancelot for a total loop. "Oh," he says. "So anyway, yeah." Then he recovers -- here's some hammed-up faux shock! "On your own? Without my recommendation?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Aye, often," with a joking earnestness, "I have other people to impress."

[summerdude]

Magnus snorts. "If you say so."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"There is no need to impress you."

[summerdude]

"And yet you formed opinions on my first reading assignment, and you're gonna read and form opinions on comics, too, so."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I did not do that in order to impress you."

[summerdude]

"Yeah, yeah, I know," says Magnus. "I get it. It was a 'for eight thousand dollars a month I will stop'-ass move, or whatever."

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot laughs, bewildered, "What?"

[summerdude]

"It's a meme. Like, 'if you pay me a ton of money, I will stop doing things.' I'm implying that you read them to shut me up."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"If that is why I read them, it clearly did not work."

[summerdude]

Magnus hasn't called Lancelot sexist in, like, months, so he's pretty sure that Lancelot shut him up a little bit. "I'm like a bad penny," he says. "I keep turning up."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"That does seem to be the case."

[summerdude]

Magnus gasps, even as he dumps all of his dirty dishes into the sink and squirts soap over them. "Rude."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"It's a simple statement of fact," smiling slightly.

[summerdude]

"It's still rude," Magnus says, thrilled. It seems he likes when Lancelot gives as good as he gets? "I'm just a little guy, dude."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Just a little legendary, deathless warrior. Yes."

[summerdude]

"I don't know about legendary. Or deathless. Or warrior, for that matter."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I think it difficult to disclaim all three, when one has come here from Valhalla." He is definitely ribbing him, but he does come over to help with the dishes.